436 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98.

            Lib. x.    to Geo Plater Esqr to make Answer thereto & when any thing

                 Recovered to see the Petitioner Satisfied

                   Read a Duplicate of a Letter from the right honble their

                 Lordships the Lords of the Council of trade & foreign

                 Plantations to his Excellency the Governor of the 2d of

                 September 1697 wherein they Require that the Laws of this

                 Province be fairly Transcribed for their Perusall & his Majestys

                 Royal Approbation.

              p. 48    Thereupon Ordered by this Board that the honble Collo

                 Henry Iowles Chancellor Thomas Tench Esqr & Majr John

                 Hammond take care to Employ Clarks and have the said

                 Laws fairly Transcribed upon the Large Ruled Paper Lately

                 sent by their Lordships for publick Business to be writt upon

                   Recommended to the said Gentlemen that they observe

                 what Acts of Assembly of this Province are agst Pyrates

                   This Board observing their Lordships in their said Letter

                 take Notice of several imperfect returns sent them do say

                 that the reason thereof is the incapacity of the Officers here

                 not Experienced nor heretofore used to make such Returns

                   Also upon reading the aforesaid Letter of their said Lord-

                 ships Ordered by this Board that the Severall Sheriffs of the

                 Province do Straightly pursue his Excellency the Governors

                 Proclamation upon his Grace the right Honble Charles Duke

                 of Shrewsbury Letter to his Excellency Concerning Pyrates

                 and Sea Robbers that they may be Detected & punished

                   His Excellency representing to the Board that he had

                 lately received Advice of several East India Goods late

                 Brought to New York for which a Ship was now under Seiz-

                 ure no legal Coquets from England Appearing for the said

                 Goods

                   Ordered therefore that his Majestys Collectors & Surveyrs

                 & the Several Naval Officers within the Province do take

                 Care & straightly Examine the several Ships that Come into

                 their Districts for the Discovery of Such Goods

                   George Muschamp Esqr Captain Richard Clouds & Cap

                 tain Edmund Payne appear before this Board & being asked

                 what they knew of Mr Sly, Mr Good Mr Clark & Mr Mason

            p. 49 in Relation to their indirect And evil Practices against this

                 his Majesty Governmt

                   Captain Clouds says that he being lately at Mr Slyes house

                 in St Marys County in a Room where was the said Mr Sly,

                 Mr John Cood Sent & some other persons the said Cood did

                 pull out of his Pockett a written Paper Book and said such an

                 one as that made a Devil of One Government & he did not

                 doubt but that would do the same by this & that he had

                 waited four days for an horse to wait upon the Governor at

                 Annapolis