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