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to be dealt with according to law; hereof the said officers are not to fail 

 at their peril. Given under my hand and Seal, at Annapolis, this Four- 

 teenth day of December, in the Eighteenth year of his Lordship's Do- 

 minion, Anno Domini, 1732." 



The Governor's answer to his Lordship's said Letter, is as follows : 



"Philadelphia, Decemr. 23d, 1732. 



"My Lord: It gives me no small concern that the first letter I have 

 the honor to receive from your Lordship, should be on so disagreeable a 

 subject as a complaint against any of his Majesty's subjects under my 

 Government, for disorders committed in the Province of Maryland ; and 

 I must assure your Lordship you have been exceedingly misinformed if 

 you can imagine it possible that I should countenance an outrage of such 

 a sort as your letter seems to represent it, for I believe I shall be fully 

 capable to satisfy your Lordship that my conduct in relation to your 

 Province, since I had the honor to serve the Proprietors of Pennsylvania 

 as their Lieutenant Governor, has demonstrated a very different disposi- 

 tion. 



"To the matter of the complaint I am very much a stranger, and as 

 jour Lordship was not pleased to transmit copies of the information, or 

 anything else that might sufficiently enable me to judge of it more clearly, 

 I shall therefore immediately, notwithstanding the distance and rigor of 

 the season, dispatch a message to the Magistrates of the County of Lan- 

 caster, requiring them without delay to make a full enquiry, and furnish 

 me with everything for the perfect understanding the state and cir- 

 cumstances of the whole aftair; and I have no reason, from the past 

 conduct of those gentlemen, to believe but that it will be found much 

 dift'erent from what has been represented to your Lordship. These when 

 received shall be forthwith communicated, and then I may have occasion 

 to make some further observations on your Lordship's letter, and the 

 nature of these unhappy disputes which, notwithstanding all possible 

 caution to the contrary, may arise for want of the Division Lines being 

 actually run, whereby every inhabitant might distinctly know what Ju- 

 risdiction he lives under. 



"This being all I am at present able to say on the subject till the re- 

 turn of my messenger, I am. My Lord, 



"Your Lordship's 



"Very humble Servant, 



"P. Gordon." 



Addressed thus, 



"To the Eight Honourable 



"The Lord Baltimore, Proprietor of Maryland." 



Then was read the letter of John Wright and Samuel Blunston, Esqrs., 

 to the Governor, in the following words: 

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