564 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752,

Lib. C. B.

things the property of a certain Joseph Chew of Prince Georges
County, were stolen from him as He has great Reason to
believe by a Certain Samuel Chew and Joseph Chew sons of
him the said Joseph Chew, and that He is very apprehensive
the said Samuel Chew and Joseph Chew together with his
son Henry Chew will soon return to this Province and deprive
him of all He has in the World In Order therefore that the
said Chews may be brought to Justice for the said Offence I
have with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State by this
my Proclamation thought fit to publish and declare that if any
Person or Persons will apprehend the said Samuel Chew
Joseph Chew and Henry Chew so as they be brought to Jus-
tice for the said Offence such Person or Persons so appre-
hending them shall receive as a Reward the sum of thirty
Pistoles for the same or in proportion for such of them as shall
be brought to Justice Given &c

Ordered that the Present General Assembly of this Province
which stands prorogued to the second Tuesday in October
next be further prorogued to the first Tuesday in December
next being the fifth Day of the same month and Proclamations
issued accordingly.

p. 504

Read the following Examinations of Stockett Williams and
John Ijams

Ann Arundel County ss. The Examination of Stockett Wil-
liams of the County af^d Planter taken before me the Sub-
scriber one of his Lordships Justices of Ann Arundel
County Court this 16^th day of September 1752

This Examinant Saith that last Spring Jeremiah Williams
came Several times to this Examinants Fathers house and
used many Arguments with this Examinant to take Goods out
of this Examinants Fathers Store and to let him the said
Williams have them telling him this Examinant that they
would not be missed, upon which this Examinant did accord-
ingly take out of his said Fathers Store two Remnants of
Check Linnen about nineteen Ells of Brown Oznabrigs three
Silk handkerchiefs a Pound & a half of Ozn^a Thread two or
three Scanes of Nims thread and a Remnant of White Linnen
which he this Examinant delivered to the said Jeremiah Wil-
liams, and in the Month of May last the said Jeremiah
Williams Came again to this Examin^ts Fathers house (when
this Examinants Father and Mother were from home) and
asked this Examinant to go home with him, which this Exami-
nant refused, that the said Williams went away from the said