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142 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1738.
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Opinion of this Board that such psons so refusing be pro-
ceeded against according to Law, and the said James Edmons-
ton is directed to certify to the next Justice of the Peace such
their Refusal, in Order that such further Proceedings may be
had therein as the Law directs
Ordered that the Clerk of this Board draw an Order on Col
Charles Hammond Treasurer of the Western Shoar payable to
Captain George Beale or Order for the Sum of Eleven Pounds
fifteen Shillings and four pence Currency being so much ex-
pended by him and Company in going back into the Woods
according to his Excellencys Directions to enquire into a
Murder committed by the Indians
At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Tuesday the
Eighteenth Day of July in the twenty fourth Year of his Lord-
ships Dominion Annoq Domini 1738
Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor
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Benjamin Tasker Esqr
George Plater Esqr
Edmund Jenings Esqr
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Col Charles Hammond
Col Levin Gale
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His Excellency produces to this Board an Instruction of the
Right honourable the Lord Proprietary, which is as follows
Baltimore
Orders and Instructions to Our trusty and welbeloved
Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor of Maryland
Whereas It may be necessary for a Commission appointing
a President of Our Council, who in Case of your Death or any
other Inability may take upon him the Charges he is intituled
to by Virtue of the said Office
Our Will and Pleasure is that You do cause a Commission
to be drawn out, and that You do insert in the said Commission
the Name of such Person as you shall judge most for the Inter-
est of the Province, who is in the Cases aforesaid to act as
President of the Council in such Cases doth, until some Other
Person be sent duely qualified to supersede him, and that such
Commission so filled up and signed be lodged in the hands of
the Clerk of Our Council sealed up, and not to be opened but
in the Cases aforesaid
2dly We do likewise out of Our especial Confidence in Your
Zeal for the Welfare of the Province, give you full Power at
all Times either to displace any Person in Office, or on Vacancys
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