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   appoint a Comissionr to be there on the first Wednesday of Lib. C. B.

   October next to Concert & agree with the other Comissioners

   from New England, Virginia & Pensilvania concerning the

   same; therevpon Moved in Councill whether anything had

   been done therein vpon which was made appeare by Receipt

   the transmiting of 300 t strl thither, but that the long sickness;

   & death of the late Governor obstructed sending a Comissioner

   and that now it was thought impossible to send by that time.

    Ordered, by advice in Councill, that the severall

   bring in & respective Collectors bring in their Accounts re

        of lateing to the 4d p Gallon Impost or of what other

   the 4d p Gall Im- publick Money belonging to the Countrey they have

   post in their hands, with all possible speed, for the per

   vseall of this board,

     Ordered, that the Ordr of Councill concerning the Rangers

   be produced here to Morrow Morning.

      Upon reading a Petition of Thomas Blands for

       &ca consideration to be had concerning an Information

          exhibited against him, to which, he set forth he was

   bound over to answer at the next Provinciall Court; it is the

   Opinion of this Board that the Petr is not properly relievable

   here, therefore is Referred to the Course of the Comon Law

   for his Reliefe therein.

     Adjourne till to Morrow Morning 8 Clock

                At the Court at Whitehall  P. R. O.

                                           Maryland

                the 28th of September 1693.    B. T., Vol.8,

     Present the Queens most Excellent Majesty in Councill.

     Whereas the Right Honble the Lords of the Committee of

   Trade and Plantations by their Report dated the 15th Instant

   have represented to her Majesty in Councill that upon reading

   severall Letters from the Governor and Council of Maryland

   to the Committee dated the 14th of October, 21st December

   and 1 1th of April last together with Articles of Impeachment

   against Sir Thomas Lawrence Secretary of that Province upon

   which Articles the Governor and Councill of Maryland ac

   quaint their Lordships they had committed and confined Sir

   Thomas Lawrence and had dismist him from being of the

   Councill and Judge of the Provinciall Court. These appearing

   to the Committee no grounds for such proceedings although

   the allegation contained in the said Articles were true but

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