Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1724. 429

     Honble the Lords of the Committee for Plantation Affairs on Lib. X.

     their Lordships Report thereon the Lords Justices by their

     Order in Council dated the 11th of August 1720 Ordered that p. 108

     upon your Petitioners Giving such Security as the Governor

     and Council of the said Province should think Sufficient to

     Answer the said Poulsons demands your petitioners Goods

     which had been Seized and Remained in Specie should be

     restored to him and in Case they were Sold that your Peti

     tioner should be paid the money arising from the Sale thereof

     and that thereupon the Provincial Court should proceed to

     hear and determine the Cause or Causes with Liberty for

     either party to Appeal

       That accordingly the 2d December 1720 Security was given

     on your Petitioners Behalf in 1200 ls and approved by the sd

     Governor and Council and thereupon your Petitioners Council

     moved for Restitution of your petitioners Goods or the Pro

     duce thereof pursuant to the said Order in Council with which

     the Court Ordered the said Poulson to be acquainted who

     Returned for answer that what he had got he had Got by Law

     and that he had neither the Money nor Effects to Restore

       That notwithstanding the said Order in Council your Peti

     tioner hath not been able to get the same performed or any

     Restitution made him under the same

       Therefore and as the Proceedings against your Petitioner

     have been of so very Extraordinary a Nature and as it is so

     very Clear the Admiralty Court had no Iurisdiction in this

     Case nor were the Premises Cognizable there and as your

     Petitioner hath been so Great a Sufferer thereby not only in

     the Great Value of his Goods and Effects seized there but in p. 109

     his Credit as a Merchant in Consequence of such Seizures

     which is Irreparable and as the said Poulson over and above

     what of your petitioners Effects he has already got into his

     hands by the Unjustifiable means aforesaid is really Indebted

     to your Petitioner on the Ballance of Accounts

       Your Petitioner humbly prays your Majesty that in Consid

     eration of the hard and unprecedented Circumstances of this

     Case your Majesty would Graciously be pleased to enforce

     the said Order in Council of the 11th of August 1720 by di

     recting speedy restitution to be made Your Petitioner of such

     Part of his said Effects that may be remaining in specie and

     of the money that arose from such Part thereof as were sold

     and that your Majesty will be pleased to Limit some time

     in which the said Court who Pronounced and issued such

     extraordinary Sentence Attachments and Executions shall

     Cause such Restitution to be made Your Petitioners Agents

     in Maryld and Give directions to the Deputy Governor there

     or whom Else it may Concern to Cause your Majestys said