536 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Continu-

This Act to be in Force during the Continuance of the above
recited Act, and no longer.

ance.]

14. th May 1756 On behalf of the Right 14 May 1756
Read and assented to Honourable the Lord Read and assented to
by the Lower house of Proprietary of this Prov- by the Upper house of
Assembly ince I will this be a Law Assembly
Signed p order Hor.^o Sharpe Signed p order
MMacnemara Cl lo ho. JRoss Cl Up Ho.

| The Great Seal |
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No. 13

p. 272

An Act for preventing Indians disaffected to the British Interest in
America from coming into this Province as Spies, or on any other
evil Design.

[Preamble.]

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that Indians,
not in Friendship or Alliance with his Majesty's Subjects, and espe-
cially some of those Nanticoke Indians, who some Years ago left
their usual Place of Residence, and went to the Westward, have
lately fixed Cabbins, under Pretence of hunting in different Places
of this Province, where they have behaved very insolently, and have
even intimated that they have been active in some of the horrid
Cruelties committed last Summer by the Savages on the Frontiers
of the neighbouring Provinces. And as it is apprehended that no
strange Indian would, at this Time of open War, come into this
Province, unless with a View to get Information, and give Intelli-
gence to our Enemies, or on some other ill Design: In order, there-
fore, to discover any such who may be lurking about hereafter.
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,

[Constables
to take an
exact List of
the Names,
&c. of all
Indians
within their
Hundreds.]

by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That the several Constables of the respective Hundreds
wherein any Indian Town, within this Province, doth lay, shall,
before the twentieth Day of June next, and so Yearly and every
Year, go to the Indian Town or Towns, within his Hundred, and
require the chief Indian or Great Man of the said Town, to give him
an exact Account of the Names both Indian and English, Sexes, and
Ages of all the Indians, belonging to the said Town; and the said
Constable, from such Account, shall make a fair List, distinguishing
each Sex and Age by different Columns, that is to say, Men, Women,
Boys, and Girls, and their respective Ages, and the same shall deliver
to the Clerk of the respective County, who shall enter the same among
his Land-Records without Fee or Reward. And if the chief Indian
or Great Man of the Town, shall, upon Application of the Constable,
refuse, or delay to give an Account as aforesaid, the Constable shall
immediately inform the Chief Justice of the County wherein such
Town shall lay, who shall issue his Warrant to the said Constable