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moted, wherefore we hope the Ill Consequences Charg'd (as
we think unjustly) on us will lye Rather at the Doors of
those who have too precipitately taken upon them to Commit
persons, who had already Suffered for Crimes formerly Com-
mitted, without being guilty of any New Transgression
Sign'd p Order Geo. Plater Cl Up: Ho :

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message viz :

By the Upper House of Assembly

Novem^r the 4^th 1725
Gentlemen.
Upon Considering Your Message Yesterday by Cap^t King
and Cap^t Hooper Relating to the Report of the Conferrees
upon the Subject of the Indian Lands, we do not find any
Paragraph in the Act of 1723 granting Indian Possession
which Relates to Cap^t Rider in particular he being upon the
same foot with others who had Lands Surveyed within those
Indian Limitts but if by Repealing a paragraph of the Late
Act, you Intend only that the Indian Possession by the Late
act should lye under the Like limitation as the same was here-
tofore limitted by a proviso in the Act for Ascertaining the
Bounds of a Certain tract of Land to the use of the Nanticoke
Indians &c: we shall acquiesce the Differences in the Limita-
tions to us appearing very small if any at all; for an Estate
to those Indians, and their Heirs and Successors for ever,
by the Act of 1698, with a Limitation only to the time of their
deserting and leaving the same appears to us to be little In-
feriour to the Estate granted by the Late Act for and during
the time they or any of them shall think fitt to use, and not
wholy and Totally desert and Quitt Claim to the same; But
inasmuch as many Complaints of Disturbance by the English
had been made to the Governour the Legislature in prudence
thought it not only Proper but very Necessary to Enact a free
peacable and uninterrupted possession of that Tract to those

L. H. J.

Indians, But if your House Think the Repealing of the Limi-
tation in the Late Act and Leaving the Nanticoke Indians
Right of Possession under the same Restriction and Limita-
tion it was after the time of making the Act of 1698 aforesaid
to be of Right to Capt Rider, we shall very willingly Gratify
you therein, But seeing that the Session seems to be upon the
Close, we propose the Repealing of the said Paragraph to be
Referr'd to the Next Sessions of Assembly.
Sign'd p Order. George Plater Cl. Up: Ho :
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