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tration of Justice during the Administration of the Government
by His Honour the President This Board doth advise consent
and desire his Honour the President when and as often as there
shall be Occasion to appoint proper Persons to be Magistrates
Sheriffs Coroners and other known Officers any way relating
to the ordinary Administration of Justice, and other known
inferior Ministerial Officers usually appointed by the Governor
of this Province for the time being.
His Honour the President having communicated to this
Board a Report made to him by the Justices of the Provincial
Court of their having passed Sentence of Death at April Term
upon a certain Thomas Hornebrook & William Grindey for
Horse Stealing, James Powell for a Felony and Burglary, and
George Wilson for Murder, and It appearing by the said
Report that the Evidence against Grindey did not appear clear
and Satisfactory to the Court to convict him of the Crime laid
to his Charge It is therefore the Advice of this Board that
his Honour be pleased to grant his Lordships Pardon to the
said Grindey upon his leaving this Province; And It is also
ordered with the Advice afd that George Wilson be hung
in Chains in St Marys County as near as may be to the Place
where the Fact was comitted and that Thomas Hornebrook
be executed in Baltimore County on Friday the 15th Instant,
and that James Powell be executed in Ann Arundel County
the same Day.
At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Thursday the
18th day of June in the 2d year of his Lordships Dominion .
Annnq Dni 1752.
Present
The honourable Benjamin Tasker Esqr President
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