506 Assembly Proceedings, July 11- August 8, 1732.

L. H. J.

bly, which if true your Committee Conceives to be a Greater Abuse
than those on this side, And submitts the Consideration of the House
whether it may not be proper to referr this Matter to the next Session
and to give Directions to have such Witnesses Examined and their
Examinations returned to this House then, to the End the Matter
may be brought in a Clear Light, and proper Measures taken to put
an End to Practises so Injurious to his Lordship and the people. All
which is Submitted to the Consideration of the House.
D Dulany Joshua George Peter Taylor
Phil. Hammond N. Goldsborough Francis Allen

The Deposition of M^r George Noble Surveyour of Prince Georges
County Deposeth

That M^r John Diggs brought a Land Warrant to this Deponent
(that as he Remembers was for Ten Acres) About four years agoe
and would not Lodge it with him unless he would Abate part of his
Usual fee which this Deponant refused upon which the said Diggs
got the Surveyour General to Direct it on the back of the Warrant to
be Executed by the Surveyour of Baltemore County, and since the
said Diggs has Claimed all the Vacant Land on Monocacy and its
Branches as well as the Branches of Susquehannah and said he
would Enter a Caveat against the said Patent Issueing of any Cer-
tificate I should return of the Lands on Monocacy till he was served
And this Deponent further saith that he see a Letter to a Certain
Joseph Hedge, Subscribed John Diggs that he beleives was the said
Diggs hand Writing wherein he tells the said Hedge (who had
settled on Monocacy) to Come to him & make him Satisfaction for
he had Settled within his Entry or to that purpose, And further saith
not.
Jur. cor me 28^th July Anno Dom. 1732. George Noble.
Dan^l Dulany.

I have heard it Reported that Several People went over to Vir-
ginia that would have Settled in Maryland if M^r John Diggs Entry
had been removed.

p. 427

Charles Carroll Esq^r Warrant 10000 Acres. Located as follows.
On the head of Pipe Creek on the Land called Hashawha or
where the Indian Cabin or Old feils are, as Also on a Creek called
Conawaga, which falls into Susquehannah and the Drafts thereof
and the Lands Contiguous also on a Creek called Cadoras and the
Drafts thereof and the Lands Contiguous & Opposite to Conostogo
Creek on Susquehannah As Also on a Creek called Thomas's Creek
and the Drafts thereof falling into Monockisie and at the Mouth of
the said Thomas Creek.