738 Assembly Proceedings, September 23-October 26, 1723.

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Copy to the Sheriff of the County, in order to collect such
Fines and Forfeitures; and on Refusal of Payment thereof,
the Sheriff is hereby impowered to levy the same by way of
Execution, in the same Manner as the Public and County
Levies of this Province have usually been levied and collected,
and render an Account thereof to the Justices of the respec-
tive County Courts, to be applied to the Uses aforesaid.

Chap.
XVIII

An Act for quieting the Possessions of the Indians inhabiting
on Nanticoke and Choptank Rivers.

Whereas the Indians inhabiting on Nanticoke and Chop-
tank Rivers, have complained to this General Assembly, of
several Incroachments made into the ancient Bounds and
Limits of their Lands heretofore granted them by the Lord
Proprietor, and confirmed by several Acts of Assembly of
this Province: For Remedy whereof, and to prevent Com-
plaints of like Nature for the future,
II. Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lord-
ship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of As-
sembly, and the Authority of the same, That the Nanticoke
Indians, and their Descendants, shall have, hold, occupy, pos-
sess, and enjoy a free, peaceable and uninterrupted Posses-
sion, of all that Tract or Parcel of Land, lying- between the
North-west Fork of Nanticoke River and Chicucone Creek,
for and during such Space of Time as they, or any of them,
shall think fit to use, and shall not wholly and totally desert
and quit Claim to the same, according as the same is Butted
and Bounded by an Act of Assembly of this Province, made
in the Year of our Lord Sixteen Hundred Ninety-eight, en-
titled, An Act for ascertaining the Bounds of a certain Tract
of Land, to the Use of the Nanticoke Indians, so long as they
shall occupy and live upon the same. And that the said In-
dians shall not at any Time hereafter, sell, dispose of, or lease
for Term of Years, any Part or Parcel of the aforesaid Land,
to any Person or Persons whatsoever. And that the Chop-
tank Indians, and their Descendants, so long as they shall
occupy or claim, and shall not totally desert the same, shall
hold and possess, quietly and peaceably, all that Tract of Land
lying in Dorchester County, on Choptank River, according to
the Metes and Bounds thereof, surveyed and returned by the
Honourable Philemon Lloyd, Esq^r Colonel Richard Tilghman,
and Colonel Matthew Tilghman Ward, Commissioners ap-
pointed by his Honour the Governor to ascertain and lay out
the same, pursuant to an Act of Assembly of this Province,
made in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and