144 AUTHENTIC HISTORY 



Lord President, Earl of Ilaj, 



Lord Steward, Earl Fitz Walter, 



Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Lousdale, 



Duke of Bolton, Viscount Tonington, 



Duke of Devonshire, Lord Harrington, 



Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 



Earl of Scarbrough, Sr. Charles Wills, 



Earl of Granthum, Henry Pelham, Esq. 



Earl of Cholmondeley, Sr. Charles Wager. 



Upon reading at the Board a Report from the Right Honorable the 

 Lords of the Committee of Council, for Plantation Affairs, dated the 4th 

 of this instant, in the words following, viz : 



"Your Majesty having been pleased by your orders in Council of the 

 17th of March, 1736-7, and the 21st of July, 1737, to refer unto this 

 Committee several Petitions from the President, Council, and General 

 Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, and likewise from the Gov- 

 ernor and Council, and the Commissary and Clergy of the Province of 

 Marvland, which Petitions represent (among other things) that great dis- 

 orders and outrages have been committed upon the Borders of the said 

 respective Provinces, and humbly praying your Majesty's most gracious 

 interposition and commands, for the preservation of the peace on the 

 said Borders until the boundaries of the said Provinces shall be finally 

 settled and adjusted, The Lords of the Committee of Council did, on the 

 29th of the said month of July, take the matter of the said complaints 

 into their consideration, and thereupon reported to your Majesty what they 

 thought most advisable for your Majesty to do, in order to jDrevent the 

 further continuance of the said disorders, and to preserve peace and tran- 

 quility on the said Borders until the boundaries should be finally settled. 

 And your Majesty having approved of what was proposed by the said 

 Report, was pleased, by your order in Council of the 8th of August, 1737, 

 to direct as follows, viz : 



"That the Governors of the respective provinces of Maryland and 

 Pennsylvania, for the time being, do not, upon pain of incurring his 

 Majesty's highest displeasure, permit or suffer any tumults, riots or other 

 outrageous disorders to be committed on the borders of their respective 

 provinces, but that they do immediately put a stop thereto, and use their 

 utmost endeavors to preserve peace and good order amongst all his 

 majesty's subjects under their government inhabiting the said borders. 

 And as a means to preserve peace and tranquility on the said borders, 

 his Majesty doth hereby enjoin the said Governors that they do not make 

 grants of any part of the lands in contest between the proprietors res- 

 pectively, nor any part of the three lower counties, commonly called New- 

 castle, Kent and Sussex, nor permit any person to settle there, or even to 



