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that be must be in a very languishiug coudition, having received many 

 wounds and blows. That most of the persons who thus attacked the said 

 Sherift' and his assistants are unknown to the deponent, except these seven 

 following, to wit : Mark Evans, above named, Michael Rysner, Francis 

 Clapsaddle, Christian Croll, Bernard Weyman, Nicholas Kens and Mar- 

 tin Schutz, who all live on the West side of Sasquehannah Kiver, not 

 above one mile to the Southward of the house of John Hendricks. 



Jo'n. Powell." 



The deponent aforesaid being asked under what Government these 

 people owned themselves, 



" Answered that he knows they call themselves Marylanders, because 

 when he was some time ago over Susquehannah, he had taken a prisoner, 

 one Francis Clapsaddle, by virtue of a Writ for Debt from Lancaster 

 County, that one of the persons that rescued the prisoner in the deposi- 

 tion aforesaid mentioned, was one of the same persons who rescued the 

 said Francis Clapsaddle, and the same time presented a gun at the de- 

 ponent, and told him that they belonged to Maryland, and would not 

 suffer any Ofl&cer of Pennsylvania to come over the river; and that in 

 particular the man who presented the gun at the deponent when Clap- 

 saddle was rescued, calling himself a Marylander, and was one of the 

 persons who assaulted the Sheriff and this deponent, in the manner set 

 forth in the aforesaid deposition. 



"The foregoing Deposition, and Interrogatory and Answer thereunto, 

 were taken in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia 

 the 24th day of 7br, 1735, Daniel Dulany, Esq., Attorney General of the 

 Province of Maryland, being present, who being desired to cross-examine 

 the Deponent (if he thought fit,) declined the same. 



Jos'a. Laurence, pton." 



The Governor hereupon desired the advice of the Board, in what man- 

 ner it might be most proper to proceed in the present case, against the 

 rioters, most of whom though pretending to be inhabitants of Maryland, 

 are notwithstanding actually settled on lands lying I'ar within the unques- 

 tionable bounds of this Province. 



The Board expressed their just resentment on so heinous a provocation, 

 and observing that this procedure is of the same nature with many 

 others that of late have been countenanced and encouraged by the Gov- 

 ernment of Maryland, who seem inclined, notwithstanding all the strong 

 instances that have been made for preserving His Majesty's peace, to 

 continue in their violences, are of opinion that if the sheriff of Lan- 

 caster is detained by any officer of Maryland, within the limits of that 

 Province, a demand should be forthwith made, by letter to the Governor 

 of Maryland, for setting him at liberty, and that precepts be issued by 

 the Justices of the Supreme Court, before whom the examinations in 



