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attempt to make a settlement thereon, till his Majesty's pleasure shall be 

 further signified. And his Majesty is further pleased to direct that this or- 

 der, together with duplicates thereof, be delivered to the Proprietors of the 

 said Provinces, who are hereby required to transmit the same forthwith 

 to the Governors of the said respective Provinces accordingly. 



" That since the issuing the said Order, your Majesty hath been pleased 

 to refer unto this Committee an Address of the Deputy Governor, and 

 of the upper and lower Houses of Assembly of the Province of Marv- 

 land, relating to a continuance of the said disorders, and also two Peti- 

 tions, the one in the name of John Thomas and Richard Penn, Esq'rs, 

 proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania, praying your majesty's 

 further pleasure may be signified, relating to your Majesty's afore-recited 

 order in Council of the 18th August, 1837, and the other in the name of 

 the agent of the said Province of Pennsylvania, complaining of fresh dis- 

 orders committed by the inhabitants of Maryland against those of Penn- 

 sylvania. Whereupon, the Lords of the Committee did, on the 23d of 

 February last, proceed to take all the papers relating to the complaints 

 made by each of the said provinces into their consideration, and were 

 attended by counsel on both sides, and likewise by the proprietors of the 

 said provinces, and the counsel desiring that some reasonable time might 

 be allowed the proprietors to confer together, in order to come to some 

 agreement amongst themselves, that so the peace and tranquility of both 

 provinces may be preserved until such time as the boundaries can be 

 finally settled, the Lords of the Committee thought proper to comply with 

 such their request. And being again this day attended by all parties, the 

 counsel acquainted the Committee that the proprietors of each province 

 had accordingly met and agreed to the following propositions, viz : 



"1st. That so much of his Majesty's order in Council of the 18th of 

 August, 1737, as orders the Governors of the respective Provinces of 

 Maryland and Pennsylvania for the time being, do not, upon pain of in- 

 curring his Majesty's highest displeasure, permit or suffer any tumult, 

 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 among all his Majesty's subjects under their government inhabit- 

 ing the said borders, do stand in force and be observed. 



"2d. That there being no riots that appear to have been committed 

 within the three lower counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex, on Del- 

 aware, it is therefore not thought necessary to continue the latter part of 

 the said order in Council as to the said three lower counties, but the same 

 former order in Council, so far as relates to the said three lower counties, 

 be discharged without prejudice to either of the proprietors, as if the 

 same had never been made. 

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