430 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1724.

             Lib. x.   Order to be duly Observed as he or they will Answer the

                  Contrary at their Perill And that your Majesty will be pleased

                  to Give such further and other Directions as will be Effectual

                  to Cause such Restitution to be duly made to your Petitioner

                  or his said Agents for your Petitioners relief in the Premises

                  as your Majesty in your Consummate Wisdom shall think

                  proper

                              And your Petitioner shall ever pray &c

                   At the Court at Kensington the 4th day of July 1724

                             Present

             p. 110The Kings most Excellent Majesty

                     Lord Chancellor   Lord Bishop of London

                     Lord President    Lord Carteret

                     Lord Privy Seal   Mr Vice Chamberlain

                     Lord Chamberlain  Mr Chancellor of the Excheqr

                     Earl of Cadogan   Lt Genl of the Ordinance

                     Lord Visct Townshend  Sir Robert Sutton

                   Upon reading this day at the Board a Report from the

                  right Honourable the Lords of the Committee for hearing

                  Appeals from the Plantations dated the 17th of June last in

                  the words following vizt

                   In pursuance of an Order in Council of the 21st of Febru

                  ary last referring to this Committee the humble petition and

                  Appeal of Jonathan Forward of London Merchant against

                  Gilbert Poulson from Maryland their Lordships appointed

                  this day for Considering the same and do find the said peti

                  tion sets forth (int alia) that on the 5th September 1717 The

                  Apellant entred into Charter Party with the said Gilbert

                  Poulson Master of the Ship Dolphin for the Freight of the

                  said Vessel for Transportation of 131 Servants to Maryland

                  or Virginia and to bring a homeward bound Cargo back from

                  thence to the Apellant within ten days after Delivery of which

                  Homeward bound Cargo in the Thames the Apellant was to

                  pay the said Poulson after the rate of 50 ls p month for each

                  month his Ship should be out in the said Voyage and accord

                  ing to which Agreement the said Poulson delivered the said

                  Servants in Maryland but thô no Part of the Ships Freight

                111    became due ‘till the Ship arrived in the Thames, and thô the

                  Appellants Factors had shipp'd a back Lading on board

                  Poulson & directed him to sail for London & molested against

                  him for not doing so, and thô the Appellants Factors there

                  had paid the said Poulson a Considerable Sum of Money yet

                  the said Poulson brought an action in the Provincial Court