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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1724. 427
375£ which Poulson Secured to your Petitioner by a Bottom- Lib. X. ree Bond in 750£ Penalty and also by an Indorsement on the said Charter Party under his Hand whereby he agrees all Sums to grow due by virtue of the said Charter Party should remain and be Security for the more sure Paymt to your Petitioner of all sums to grow due on the said Bottomree Bond That the said Poulson having performed his Voyage on his Arrival at Maryland he delivered 131 Servants to your peti tioners Factors there the Victualing Wages for which amounted to 470£ That your petitioners Factors paid Poulson 116£ on his said Arrival which With the money before lent him by your Peti tioner overpaid the sd 470 ls (being all that Poulson could by any means pretend due to him) 39 ls, and your Petitioners Fac- P. 105 tors then put on Board him a Back lading out of hand and Ordered him to Sail directly for London but the said Poulson Contriving how to raise Great Sums to himself out of your petitioners Effects there and Confederating with those to in jure your petitioner in his Property who by virtue of their Offices ought to have Protected your Petitioner from all In jury he was encouraged to prefer a Petition the 3d of Iuly 1718 to the then Governor there setting forth that the said Victualling Wages Amounted to 470£ but that your Petition ers Factors refused paying him the same and Ordered him to Sail without giving him any thing to fit out his Ship and having no money or Credit to Supply his Ship with victuals and as the Freight of his Ship on her Arrival in the Thames would amount to Several hundred Pounds besides the said Sum due for Victualling Wages he therefore laid his Case before his then Excellency that if he Could find any method of Redressing his Wrongs he would be pleased to do it he declaring himself Ignorant and hopeless of any Relief unless by some Order from his Excellency which he declared he knows not how to pray for or propose but Submits whether any thing can be done for him and any favour that can be proposed by his Excellency should be very gratefully Ac knowledged by him That this Application to the then Governor is Conceived to be of a very extraordinary nature whereby Poulson owns himself to have neither money nor Credit and does not pray any particular Relief nor ask for Justice but favour promising a gratefull Acknowledgement for the same That however his then Excellency thought fit to Receive p. 106 his Extraordinary Petition and Referred it to the then Attor ney Gen' for his opinion how far it was in his Excellencys Power to Releive the Petitioner by virtue of his Comffin as Vice Admiral of the province who the very same day reported
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