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the above named persons of the County of Chester, or any five of them, 

 are further impowered jointly to review the said high Eoad within the 

 List mentioned County, and to Report to this Board what aherations may 

 be necessary to be made therein, to suit the conveniency of carriages, 

 and for the better accommodation of the inhabitants of this Province. 



The vexatious question of the boundary line [1732-33] between Penn- 

 sylvania and Maryland, at this period began to involve Lancaster county 

 in serious difiiculties, the nature of which Avill be best understood from 

 the following documents : 



At a Council held at Philadelphia, January . 9th, 1732-33. 



PRESENT : 



The Honourable the Proprietary. 



The Lieutenant Governor. 



James Logan, Thomas Laurence, "] 



Isaac Norris, Ralph Asheton, | 



Samuel Preston, Samuel Ilazle, .' ^^ ^^^*' 



Ilenry Brooke, Clement Plumsted. J 



The Governor acquainted the Board, that some days since he had re- 

 ceived a letter from the Lord Baltimore, complaining of a riot committed 

 within his lordship's Province of Maryland by people of Pennsylvania, 

 but the circumstances not being mentioned, or any information given 

 from whence the matter might be clearly understood, he had thought 

 proper in a few lines, to acknowledge the receipt of his lordship's letter, 

 and to defer giving a particular answer till a due enquiry should be made 

 into the affair. 



That having gathered from the precept enclosed in his lordship's letter, 

 that the persons complained of were inhabitants of Lancaster County, he 

 had dispatched an express to the justices there, requiring them to furnish 

 him with an exact account of the whole; that the messenger being now re- 

 turned, had brought a letter from the justices together with several affida- 

 vits, all of which he thought highly proper now to lay before the Board, 

 whom he had called together to advise with on the answer to be made to 

 Lord Baltimore. 



The letter from his lordship being read in these words : 



"Annapolis, Deer, ye loth, 1732. 



" Sir : By the enclosed precept, founded upon informations given upon 

 oath to a magistrate here, you will see that a most outrageous riot hath 

 lately been committed in my Province by a great number of people call- 

 ing themselves Pennsylvanians. 



"It appears, by the same information, that some of your magistrates, 

 instead of preventiag or discouraging these violences, countenance and 

 abet the authors of them ; whether with or without the approbation of 

 your government, you best know. 



