356 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

Liber K.

troubled and truly penitent for her miscarriage with serious

Promises and resolutions of amendment your Petitioners
very poor with a wife and severall small Children to maintain,
he humbly moves your Excellencys serious and compassionate
consideration of his condition so as to remitt the said extraor-
dinary and unusuall excessive fine or such part thereof as to
your Excellency shall seem meet
And shall pray &c^a

Which Petition was granted and thereupon endorsed as
foll⁵ Viz^t

By his Excellency the Governor and Councill
August 17^th 1737
The Petitioners fine is remitted to Five hundred Pounds of
Tobacco, and no more to be Levyed of him
Sign'd p Order
J LL Cl Councill

His Excellency informs the Board that for the better and
more effectual management and dispatch of Business he had
thought fit wholly to seperate and keep apart the Chancery
Office and Records from those of the Provinciall Court, where-
fore he thinks it reasonable, and moves the opinion and advice
of this Board in setling the fees belonging to the said Office
upon the Person who shall for the time being be employed or
empowred to manage and execute the same
which is unanimously allowed and approved of

P. R. O.

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
B. G.
p. 37

Colonel Nicholson's Proposal
for a general pardon.
It's humbly proposed that an Act of Oblivion be sent to
Maryland for all Offences done before the arrival of His
Excellency Governour Copley.

B. I. Vol. 2,
B. F.
p. 50

Colonel Copley's Answer to objections
and
His Proposals.
My Lord,
It is morally impossible for me or any person in my station
here to serve their Majesties without complaint made by the
Lord Baltemore Therefore what I think his Lordship or
Agents may at this tyme make cornp^lts of I object against
myselfe and answer as followeth
I^st objection. Colonel Darnell my Lord Baltemore's Agent
here preferred a Petition requiring many things to be deliv-
ered him.