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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
May 27
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should occupy and live upon the same; a tract of land lying in Dor-
chester County, on the north side of Nanticoke River was laid out
and described by certain boundaries in the said act mentioned, for
the use of the Nanticoke indians under the proviso contained in the
said act; and by another act made in the year 1723, entituled an
act for quieting the possessions of the indian inhabitants on Nanti-
coke and Choptank Rivers the said land is confirmed to the said
indians, and their descendants for and during such a space of time
as they or any of them shall think fit to use, and shall not wholly
and totally desert and quit claim to the same: And by another act
of assembly made in the year 1711 entituled an act to impower com-
missioners to appoint and cause to be laid out three thousand acres
of land, on Broad Creek in Somerset County for the use of the
Nanticoke indians, so long as they shall occupy the same; a tract
of land was directed to be surveyed and laid out for the use of the
said indians so long as they should occupy the same, as by the said
several acts will more at large appear. That in pursuance of the last
recited act, two thousand five hundred acres of land, lying on Broad
Creek in Somerset County, and five hundred acres lying on the south
side of the said Broad Creek, were actually laid out and surveyed
for the said indians; and were, by a jury summoned for that purpose,
valued as follows: To wit, the two thousand five hundred acres at
fifty thousand pounds of tobacco, and the five hundred acres at ten
thousand pounds of tobacco, as by a certificate of the said survey
and valuation, made in pursuance of the said act, and returned into
the secretarys office and there recorded in liber T. p. folios 110, 111,
112 more fully appears. That by the journal of accounts of the
assembly in October sessions in the year 1712, and by the journal
of the committee appointed in that session for laying the public levy,
it appears that the said several sums of fifty thousand, and ten
thousand pounds of tobacco were allowed and assessed to and for
the owners and proprietors of the said three thousand acres of land,
and the further sum of eight thousand eight hundred and eighty
pounds of tobacco, for improvements made on part of the said land,
and for expences in surveying and valuing the said land &c.a was
also levied and assessed. That it appears to your committee from
the papers mentioned in his excellencys speech, which have been laid
before your honorable house, that the heirs of col.o John Rider, late
of Dorchester County deceased, do claim the quantity of one thou-
sand six hundred and sixty four acres of land within the bound-
aries of the said tract laid out by virtue of the law made in 1704 as
being surveyed and granted before the making of that act; and
which ought, as they alledge, to revert to them whenever the said
indians shall desert or leave the said lands, by virtue of the proviso
in the said act contained; for which quantity of one thousand six
hundred and sixty four acres of land, it does not appear to your
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