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       Ordered that Copys of the above Examination be sent to Lib. X.

     the several Countys of this Province to be published whereby

     it may appear how the Country is abused Particularly in that

     of Ordering Allowances for Committee Rooms at publick

     houses when such Rooms are on purpose Contrived in the

     new Stadt house for those Uses which his Excellency shewed

     to the Speaker at the first opening of the Assembly Observa

     tion being likewise made how that Mr Clark receives the Profit

     of his mans allowance for Officiating in those two Committees

     as Clerk notwithstanding other Pretences

       Mr William Bladen being Called Came and as to Mr Philip

     Clark he gave the following acct to which he made Oath

     before his Excellency & this Board vizt that On Saturday p. 28

     Night being the 2d of April Instant as this Deponent was

     walking in the State house Mr Philip Clark entred into dis

     course with him and said he wondred that his Excellency did

     not keep Old Randolph with him for that the said Randolph

     was a good Scholar & further told him that if his Excellency

     had advised with him he might have had any thing done in

     the Assembly he proposed to prescribe & that that Sessions

     might have been ended long before. Mr Bladen Saith that the

     Purpose of what he now Saith he told to Major Iohn Ham

     mond Mr Wm Hensly and several other Members of the house

     of Delegates.

       Major Iames Maxwells Deposition about Amos Nichols read

     & Sworn to by the said Major Maxwell in Council Ordered

     that the said Deposition together with Thomas Brown's for

     merly taken thereto be Referred to his Majestys

     Lawyers to Consult & advise what is proper to be done &

     whether it may not be Convenient that the Governor of

     Pensylvania be sent to about it

       Ordered that the Iournals of the Committee of Laws &

     Committees of Aggrievances be produced at the meeting of

     the Council next week

       Henry Smith of Baltimore County his Petition for Remit

     tance of a Fine Referred to his Majestys Lawyers & Geo

     Plater Esqr the Kings Receiver Genl to do therein as they see

     proper

             At a Council held at the Port of

               Annapolis April the 14th 1698

                          Present

               His Excellency the Governor &ca   p. 29

              Sr Tho Lawrence Bart Secy

     the honble Collo Henry Iowles &ca

              Thomas Tench Esqr

       Thomas Master of the Ship Adventure of Lancaster