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    good Acquaintance and Friendship that hath always been Lib. x.

    betwixt myself and them since I have been an Inhabitant here

    Jam                Sir

                       Your Excellency most Obliged &

                       most Obedient humble Servant

                              John Bradford

    P S.

        Sir

      The great duty on furrs and 5kins here is the Reason a

    Trade with the Indians cannot longer be maintain'd and that

    Trade is not only lost but in a Great measure our Acquaint

    ance with it therefore if the Lord Proprietor or the Country

    would purchase Indian Goods to the Value of 200' Sterling

    first Cost and place the same with some Careful honest man

    for Sale, it would be a great means to keep Friends with the

    Indians without Charge (if the Returns did no more then keep

    up the first Stock) and Bar the Pennsylvanians from trading

    here, who have been the Occasion of this Uneasiness, and per

    haps may create much more, I hope your Excellencys Good

    ness will pardon this freedom having no other design but his

    Lordships Interest and Safety of his Tenants

                                   Sir

                                   Yours as above

                                         I.B.

      At a Council held at the House of Mr Hugh Kennedy in

    Annapolis April the 7th 1722

                         Present

 The honble Charles Calvert Esqr Governor       p. 39

                 Thomas Brooke Esqr

                    Colo Samuel Young

        the honble                   Colo Richard Tilghman Councillors

                  Colo M. Tilghman Ward

                 John Rousby Esqr

      Upon his Excellencys desire to know the Opinion of this

    Board whether it may not be Convenient to dissolve this

    present General Assembly three years since their election

    the usual time of their sitting being almost expired

      Resolved that it is the Opinion of this Board that it is Con

    venient to dissolve the same and that Proclamations issue for

    that purpose when his Excellency shall think fit To which

    Resolution his Excellency Concurs

      Upon his Excellencys further desire to know the Advice of

    this honble Board what time may be most proper to call a

    new Assembly

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