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458 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1726.
Lib. X. of their Lands Contrary to the Faith and treaty with the said Indians the Honour of this Government and in Contempt of p. 153 the Laws in such Cases made and provided you are therefore hereby required to Summons the said John Parker John Par- ker junr and John Murray to be and Appear before the next General Assembly to be held at Annapolis on the second tuesday in Iuly next being the day of the same month to answer the said Complaint and thereof to fail not as they will Answer the Contrary at their Perill Superscribed Sign'd p Order To Francis Allen high Geo Plater Cl Concil Sheriff of Somerset County
At A Council held in the Council Chamber at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday the 20th of July in the 12th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George In the Elev enth year of his Lordship the Lord Proprietarys Dominion &c Annoq Dni 1726 Were Present The honble Charles Calvert Esqr Governor
Colo William Holland John Hall Esqr Colo Thomas Addison Colo Mathew Tilghman Ward Philemon Lloyd Esqr the honble James Bowles Esq John Rousby Esqr Benjamin Tasker Esqr Philip Lee Esqr Nicholas Lowe Esqr
His Excellency lays before this Board a Letter from the Governor and Council of Virginia which is Ordered to be recorded and is as follows vizt
Gentlemen Williamsburgh June the 25th 1726 According to what we had the Honour to write you last p. 154 month by your Messenger we now send you the Copys of three Laws now Subsisting for the Improvement of our Tobacco Trade and shall be glad if any of the Regulations thereby established prove Agreable to the dispositions and Circumstances of the people in your Province The Bill which in our last we mentioned to be then under Consideration in Assembly was rejected by the House of Burgesses and the chief Reason was because it had a restraint upon the People and Shipping of Virginia while those of your Province were at Liberty to supply the marketts at home at
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