598 INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES [eth.ann. 18 



Rivers, Waters, Mines, Minerals, Quarries, Riglits. Liberties or Privileges, of or be- 

 longing unto any such Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, without the Order or 

 Direction of the Proprietary or Proprietaries of this Province, or of his or their 

 Proprietary Commissioners or Deputies, authorised and appointed, or to be author- 

 ised and appointeil for the Management of the Proprietary Affairs o'f this Province, 

 for and in Behalf of the Proprietary or Proprietaries thereof for the Time being; and 

 that every Gift, Grant, Bargain, Sale, written or verbal Contract or Agreement, and 

 every pretended Conveyance, Lease, Demise, and every other Assurance made, or that 

 shall be hereafter made, with any of the said Indian Natives, for any such Lands, 

 Tenements or Hereditaments, Herbage, Trees, Rivers, Waters, Fishings, Mines, Min- 

 erals, Quarries, Rights, Liberties or Privileges whatsoever, within the Limits of this 

 Province, without the Order and Direction of the Proprietary or his Commissioners 

 as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby declared and enacted to bo null, void, aud of none 

 effect, to all Intents, Constructions and Purjioses in the Law whatsoever. And that 

 as well the Grantee, Bargainee, Lessee, Purchaser, or Person pretending to bargain, 

 or to have bargained or agreed with any Indian Native as aforesaid, contrary to the 

 the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, as all and every Person or Persons entering 

 iuto and taking Possession of any Lands within the Province of PennsijU-ania, not 

 located or surveyed by some AVarraut or Order from the Projirietary or Proprietaries, 

 his or their Agents or Commissioners as aforesaid, to the Person or Persons pos- 

 sessing said Lands, or to some Person or Persons under whom they claim, and upon 

 reasouable Notice and Request, refusing to remove, deliver up the Possession, or 

 to make Satisfaction, for such Lands, shall aud may be proceeded against in such 

 Manuer as is 'prescribed by the several Statuets of that Part of the Kingdom of 

 Great Britain, called England, made against forcible Entries and Detainers ; aud that 

 no Length of Possession shall be a Plea against such Prosecution.' 



Ill April. 17G0, an act was passed " to prevent the hunting of deer 

 aud other wild beasts beyond the limits of the lauds purchased of the 

 Indians by the Proprietaries of this Province, aud against killing deer 

 out of season." 



Trouble having been brought upon the colony by the encroachments 

 on the Indians' lauds, and war from other causes having been carried 

 on against the western settlements of the province by the Delawares 

 and Shawuees, soon after peace was restored the foUowiug law was 

 passed, October 1-t, 1768 : 



AN ACT to prevent Persona from settling on tlie Lands, within the Boundaries of this Province, 

 not purchased of the Imiians. 



Whereas many disorderly Persons have presumed to settle uj)on Lauds not pur- 

 chased of the Indians, which has occasioned great Uneasiness and Dissatisfaction 

 on the Part of the said Indians, and have been attended with dangerous Conse- 

 quences to the Peace and Safety of this Province; For Remedy of which Mischief 

 in future. Be it Enacted by the Honorable John Penu, Esq; Lieutenant Governor, 

 under the Honorable Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esquires, true and absolute 

 Proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New Castle, Kent aud 

 Susses upon Delaware, V)y and with the Advice and Consent of the Representatives 

 of the Freemen of the said Province, in General Assembly met, and by the Author- 

 ity of the same. That if any Person or Persons, after the Publication of this Act, 

 either singly or iu Companies, shall presume to settle upon any Lands, within the 

 Boundaries of this Province, not purchased of the Indians, or shall make or cause 

 any Survey to be made, of any Part thereof, or mark or cut down any Trees thereon, 

 with Design to settle or appropriate the same to his own, or the use of any other 



' Acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1775, pp. 157-158. 



