110 Assembly Proceedings, August 11-16, 1737.

U. H. J.

Lib. No. 33

Quantities of Land far within the Descriptions Bounds and Limits

of the Province of Maryland as comprized in the Royal Charter
or Grant
This Truth may it please your Majesty is so notorious that the
Government o;f Pennsylvania ever despairing to justify their frequent
Incroachments by a Denial thereof have endeavoured from time
to time to insinuate that some Limit was set by a Lord Baltimore to
himself many years ago whereas they must be sensible there is little
Reason or Justice to rely on that Assertion or the strength of that
pretended Limit for even after the supposed time of fixing thereof
an Order was made by the late King James the second in Council
on the particular Application & greatly in favour of M^r Penn without
any Regard to that Limit of M^r Penns mentioning the same or so
much as pretending there ever was one; but extended Lord Balti-
mores right as far to the Northward as was Comprized within his
Charter and which Order we most humbly Presume M^r Penn would
not have so earnestly contended for and his Heirs would not have
since so much & only replied thereon i!f that pretended Limit to the
Southward of the Bounds expressed in the Charter could have been
sufficiently supported

p. 496

But your Majestys Subjects the Inhabitants on the Northern
Borders of this Province have on too many Occasions lamentably
experienced the little Knowledge or Opinion the Inhabitants or
persons pretending to Act under the Authority of Pennsylvania
have of any Limit or Bound to their violent & Intruding disposition
which always hurry them to extend the Authority of the Govern-
ment of Pennsylvania by Incroachments to the Southward of every
Limit they at any time before thought proper to set to themselves
under these circumstances the Lord Baltimore our Proprietary was
prevailed in the Year 1732 to hearken to Overtures made by the
Proprietaries of Pennsilvania for the fixing and ascertaining some
certain Limits and Bounds between the Provinces of Maryland and
Pennsylvania and Accordingly Articles of Agreement were entered
into & Commissioners were appointed by the Lord Baltimore and
the Proprietors of Pennsylvania (for that purpose in which Articles
a time was Limited for Carrying them into Execution and a Provi-
sion made that if they were not executed in the time so limited they
should be void which Articles partly from the Difficulty of the
execution and partly from the Unreasonableness objections and de-
mands of the Commrs of Pennsylvania and the different construc-
tions put upon the Articles themselves were not Executed yet those
concerned in the Gov^t of Maryland who have ever been careful to
slip no Opportunity or omit any Pretence to incroach into Maryland
pretended that tho the said Articles were never carried into Execution
and that the time for so doing was actually elapsed yet that they were
Equally Binding as if really Executed and even went so far as to