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schools, have resolv'd that Col John Mackall Thomas Bordley

Esq^r M^r Rob^t Tyler M^r James Lloyd Col John Ward and
M^r Rob^t King be a Committee to join with such members of
your Honourable House as shall be appointed to confer of such

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Measures as may be thought necessary to the applying of all
such monys arising by that Duty now in the Hands of the
Treasurers of the Western and Eastern shores to the Intent
for which the same was rais'd who are ready to attend at such
Times as your Honours shall propose
Signed p order M: Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

The Question being put what would be a Reasonable Satis-
faction to Major Sewall for his Land included in the Indians
Bounds

Resolved by Majority of Votes that three Thousand p
hundred is a Sufficient and Reasonable Satisfaction for said
Land and the following Message is prepar'd thereon (viz)

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 31^st 1722

Gentlemen. In answer to your Message of the 25^th Instant
by M^r Benjamin Mackall and Cap^t Hooper we think it proper
to put you in mind of the Privileges of our House, which is
invested with a Right and equal share of Power in raising
and appropriating the publick money, and if it would not con-
sume too much of our Time at present, should lay before you
the evil Consequences of making such positive Agreements
as your House has lately done with Major Sewall without
having first conferred with our House thereupon in a Parlia-
mentary Way, by which means we seem to be excluded of our
Right of judging of the Equity and Justice of the several Sums
to be levied on the People, which Practice we hope you will
carefully avoid for the future.
As to what Relates to the value of the Lands, or to the
Execution of any Release therefore to the Publick by Major
Sewall we do not conceive the said Sewall to have any such
Right to that Land as will qualify him for the making any
such Release thereof, nor Entitule him to so great a Price as
Thirty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco agreed for by your
House: We therefore propose that three Thousand Pounds
of Tobacco p hundred Acres together with five hundred
Pounds of Tobacco Charges thereon be allowed to the
said Major Sewall for such Right as his Ancestors formerly
had unto the said Land before they were estopped therein
by the Act for the Continuance of Peace with and Protection
of our neigbour and Confederate Indians in Choptank River
(viz) that all that Land lying and being on the South side of

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