Appendix. 589

Upon reading at the Board a Report f^m the R^t hon^ble the Lords of
the Com^tee for Planta" Affairs dated the 4^th of this Ins^t in the words
following

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" Your Majesty having been pleased by your Orders in Council
of the 17^th of March 1736/7 & the 21^st of July 1737 to referr unto
this Committee several Petitions from the President, Council &
General Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania, & likewise f^rn
the Gov^or & Council, & the Commissary & Clergy of the Province of
Maryland which petitions represent (amongst other things) that
great Disorders & Outrages have been Committed upon the Borders
of the s^d respective Provinces, & humbly Praying your Majesty's
Most Gracious Interposition & Commands for the preservation of
the Peace on the s^d Borders, until the Boundarys of the said Prov-
inces shall be finally settled & Adjusted.
" The Lords of the Com^tee of Council did, on the 29^th of the 3^d
month of July, take the matter of the s^d complaint into their Con-
sideration, & thereupon Reported to your Maj^ty what they thought
most advisable for Your Maj^ty to do, in order to prevent the farther
Continuance of the said Disorders, & to preserve Peace & Tran-
quility on the s^d Borders, until the Boundarys should be finally Set-
tled: And your Maj^ty having Approved of what was proposed by
the s^d Report, was pleased, by your Order in Council of the 18^th of
Aug^st 1737, to Direct as follows " viz.
NB. then follows a Copy of s^d order of the 18^th of Aug^st 1737
w^ch was transmitted to the Gov^r of Maryland the 2^d of September
following & of w^ch order herein is a Copy fol: 27 & fol: 28.
" That since the Issuing the s^d Order, y^r Maj^ty has been pleased
to Referr unto this Com^tee an Address of the Deputy Gov^r & of the
Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly of the Province of Maryland
relating to a continuance of the s^d Disorders, & also two petitions,
the One in the name of John Thomas & Ric^d Penn Esq^rs pro-
prietors of the Province of Pensylvania, praying your Majesty's far-
ther pleasure may be signified relating to y^r Majesty's afore-recited

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Order in Council, of the 18^th of Aug^st 1737. And the Other in the
name of the Agent of the s^d Province of Pensylvania, complaining
of fresh Disorders comitted by the Inhabitants of Maryland ag^st
those of Pensylvania. Whereupon the Lords of the Com^tee did,
on the 23^d of Feb^ry last, Proceed to take all the Papers relating to the
Complaints made by each of the s^d Provinces into their Considera-
tion, & were attended by Counsel on both sides, & likewise by the
Proprietors of the s^d provinces, & the Counsel desiring th^t some
reasonable time might be allowed the Proprietors to confer together,
in order to come to some Agreem^t amongst themselves, th^t so the
Peace & Tranquility of both Provinces may be preserved, until such
time as the Boundarys can be finally settled. The Lords of the
Committee thought proper to comply with such their request. And

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