under the penalty of forfeiting his demand on the com- 

 pany as Caterer for the day; any thing herein contained 

 to the contrary notwithstanding. 



Lastly — This act shall commence immediately upon the 

 publication thereof at the colony's court house, and shall 

 continue in force for the space of one year, and from 

 thence to the next election day, and no longer. 



Signed by order of the House, March 29th 1760. 



SAML. MORRIS, Junr. Speaker, 

 pro ENOCH FLOWER. 

 Let this ^ictpass, March 29, 1760. 



THOMAS STRETCH. 



JOSEPH STILES, Secr'v. 



fSchuylkil, 

 4 L. s. 



I 1732. 



Jurisdiction was always claimed and exercised over the 

 adjacent woods, waters and their inhabitants. 



It is said traditionally, that some Indian Chiefs of the 

 Leni Lenape or Delaware tribe, with whom William 

 Penn made his celebrated treaty at Kensington on the Del- 

 aware, attended a council of the Colonists held in the 

 Forest, where the Court House afterwards stood, and in 

 the name of the tribe and by their authority, granted to 

 the Colonists and their successors forever, the right and 

 privilege to hunt in the woods, and fish in the waters of 



