430 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 22, 1768.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

firmed and Approved by Sir William Johnson his Majesty's Super-
intendent of Indian Affairs for the Northern Department
And Whereas Robert Darnall and Sarah his Wife Henry Steele
and Anne his Wife and John Henry and Dorothy his Wife (which
said Sarah, Anne and Dorothy are the Coheiresses of Collonel John
Rider deceased) have by their Petition set forth to this General
Assembly That one Tract of Land called The Reserve Originally
on the fifteenth Day of May one thousand six hundred and sixty five
granted to a certain John Anderton for eight hundred Acres another
Tract called Handsell on the thirteenth Day of July in the same Year

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granted to a certain Thomas Taylor for seven hundred Acres and one
other Tract called Bartholomews Close on the tenth Day of Novem-
ber one thousand six hundred and ninety five granted to a certain
Thomas Hicks for one hundred and sixty four Acres lie within the
Boundaries of a large Tract of Land laid out for the said Indians
by Virtue of an Act of Assembly made in the Year of Our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and four entituled an Act for Ascer-
taining the Bounds of a certain Tract of Land to the use of the
Nanticoke Indians so long as they shall Occupy and live on the same
and that the said three small Tracts of Land became by Purchase
and Devise the Right of the said Collonel John Rider and the Rever-
sion thereof is now in the said Petitioners and prayed as the said
Lands had been heretofore taken from their Ancestors for the
Publick Account that the Publick Money might be now Applied to
Purchase a Release of the Indian's Claim to the same for their Use
which this General Assembly have thought reasonable to grant.
And Whereas the said Amos Ogden hath in behalf of the said
Indians Offered to take the sum of six hundred and sixty six Dollars
and two thirds of a Dollar for a release of Right and full Acquittal
of Claim of the said Nanticoke Indians as well to the aforesaid three
Tracts of Land as to three thousand Acres lying on Broad Creek
in Somerset County by an Act made in the Year of Our Lord seven-
teen hundred and eleven entituled An Act to impower Commissioners
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 which said three
thousand Acres having been paid for by the Publick when the said
Indians should Cease to Occupy is by the said last recited Act to be
disposed of as the General Assembly shall direct and Appoint.

[A com-
mittee of the
Assembly
impowered
to pay the
Indian Agent
for their
Lands, &c.]

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same That the Committee appointed this present
Session of Assembly to Inspect the Accounts and Proceedings of the
Commissioners appointed by Virtue of the Act for the Payment of
the Publick Claims for emitting Bills of Credit and for other Pur-