the Legislature to annul and make void his Deed and totally
to restrain any kind of Alienation for the Nanticoke or Chop-
tank Indian lands for the future whether by Lease or pur-
chase for the frequent Complaints of the Indians to the Gov-
ernour and Councill as well as to the two houses of Assem-
bly have arisen either from Purchases Leases or other In
croachments made upon the Indians Limits the Source of all
our Late Differences with the Indians. For prevention
whereof and to put an End'to all those disputes which have
been a great Interruption to Business and A vast Charge to
the Publick of this province the Legislature Impowered the
Governour for the time being to appoint Commissioners to
ascertain the bounds of the Indian lands and for Determin-
ing all differences between the English and them in pursuance
whereof Philemon Lloyd Esqr Collo Richard Tilghman and
Collo Matthew Tilghman Ward in November 1721 did lay
out and Ascertain the Exteriour boundaries of the Choptank
Indian lands reserved to them by the Act of Assembly Anno
1669 marked A. A. and Considering how small a part of that
Large Tract of Land either by Sales Leases or other En-
croachments made by the English was then left to those
Indians to make Corn upon The Commission" aforesaid
thought it a part of their Duty and for the publick Service of
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