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ting Bills of Credit &c which appropriates the Money arising
thence to the payment of the Debt contracted by the prepara-
tions for the Canada Expedition wch Debt is not yet discharged
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With the Petition of the Naval Officers in which is set forth
the impossibility of conforming strictly to the Instruction that
forbids the Execution of that Office by Deputy I have inclosed
Colo Lloyd's Bond. An Indisposition which He has laboured
under these six Weeks has interrupted our Consultations con-
cerning His Ldp's Quit Rents, which shall be the Object of
our Care as soon as his Health will permit Him to venture
from home. We have as yet only agreed with the Farmers
for 15 p Ct for collecting Our farther Conclusion on That Ar-
ticle as well as the resolution of the Council on Kittsmillers
Affair I hope to send by the next opportunity. — During the
sitting of the Assembly one Mr Craddock thought proper in a
Sermon addressed to the Legislature to enlarge on the scan-
delous Lives of many of his Brethren & seemed to recommend
the Establishment of some superior Authority which might
take Cognizance of such Persons. The Tuesday followg the
Clergy Eleven in Number delivered Me a Remonstrance
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which I have transmitted & immediately five of them Messrs
Chace, Dean Cradock, McGuill & Brogden to shew the great
expectations they had from Me returned a Copy of the same
to the Committee of Aggrevances who thought that sufficient
grounds for bringing in a furious Bill against Roman Catho-
licks which the House thought proper to reject. Mr Tasker
informs me there were no Papers of Mr Ogles in the Executors
hands relative to his Ldp or his affairs but such as were en-
tered in the Council Records.
I have given Orders for surveying the several Manours, &
submit to his Ldp's consideration the Surveying some of the
Counties the Expence of which would be near 80£ Currency
each, & it is apprehended that Baltimore, Caecil, & Prince
George Counties in particular contain near one third more
Land than at present is pay'd for — The Proposals heretofore
made to the Discoverers of Escheat Lands has induced one
Demster apprehending His Land to fall under that Denomi-
nation to commence a suit with the Occupiers for a Tract of
Land in Caecil County called Savile containing 1513 Acres but
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by reason of some Error in his Declaration was nonsuited &
is too much reduced by that means to concern Himself farther
on his own account, if His Ldp pleases to engage in the affair
I beleive the Land might be recovered as the Grant to Philip
Calvert Esq: 1659. was prior to any other but He not making
any Improvements or settling People on it, other persons
taking out Patents for Land ran their Surveys on that Tract &
their Improvements to this time have devolved to their Heirs
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