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498 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1728.
Lib. x. him by the due and known Course of the Common Law and to rely on the Statutes already mentioned and the Common Right he has as a free born Subject of Great Britain in bar of p. 211 any further proceeding on the said Representation and hum bly prays to be Dismist from the same Nicholas Sewall Iunr Exer of Henry Sewall
After which Mr Edmund Ienings and Mr Joshua George of Council for the Representor as also Mr William Beckingham of Council for the Respondent severally take the Oath of Attorney as also the Oaths to the Governmt and severally subscribe the Oath of Abjuration & Test according to the directions of the Act in that Case made & Provided Also Philip Lee Esqr and Mr Nicholas Sewall took the Clients Oath Upon hearing of Council on both sides it is the Opinion of this Board that the said Representation be dismissed for that it does not appear that the Subject matter thereof lyes before this Board His Excellency is pleased to Ask the Opinion of the Board what time would be most Convenient for the return of the writts of Election who are of Opinion that the first Tuesday in October next is the most proper time To which his Excellency Concurs
Lib. M. Maryland ss p.z At a Council held at the House of his Excellency in the
City of Annapolis on Saturday the 26th of October in the Fourteenth Year of his Lordships Dominion &c Annoq Dm. 7728 Was Present His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Governour Coll: Richd Tilghman Philip Lee Esqr Honble Coll Matthew T Ward Nicholas Lowe Esqr John Rousby Esqr Charles Calvert Esqr Benja Tasker Esqr Members of his Lordships Honble Council His Excellency lays before this Board a Seditious & Scan dalous paper which he is Informed hath been Dispersed in Prince Georges County Viz:
Country-Men “Tis past Doubt that the present State of & ffriends “the Country might with facility be reme “dy'd (that is by suing for a Tobacco Law) ‘tis Miserably
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