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Aggrievance and that the proper way and Time to redress it
will be by making Application to the next Governour and that
in the mean Time the County Courts Commissions may be
Enlarged All which is Submitted to the Consideration of her
Majesty's honble Council and the House of Delegates
6. As to the 6th which relates to the Sheriffs and others
buying of Offices the Conferees agree It is a great Aggriev-
ance and It is the opinion of the Conferees that for the future
the Justices of the County Courts in March Courts before the
Sheriff's Time is expired nominate two or three Persons for
Sherriff Out of which the Governour & Coun shall appoint
one for Sheriff Signed p Order R Dallam Cl Con.

Major Gale and M^r Ungle came to see M^r Hunt a member
of this City sworn which was done
The Petition of the Inhabitants of Piscattaway Hundred in
Prince Georges County for laying out a Town recommended
to the Consideration of the House

U. H. J.

The Petition of the Inhabitants of the Lower parts of Charles
County praying for a Town at the Head of Trent Creek
referred to the Consideration of the House of Delegates
Thomas Attaways Petition referred to the House of Dele-
gates
Susannah Tracy's Petition read and recommended to the
House of Delegates
The four last Petitions sent to the House by Col Ennalls &
Col Greenfield with a Bill for removing John Egerton into the
Custody of the Sheriff of S^t Mary's County
M^r James Presbury commissionated & sworn Sheriff of
Baltimore County
The Board adjourned until nine of the Clock to morrow
morning

Fryday Novemb^r 4^th 1709

The Council Sate Present as yesterday save M^r Young
John Young's Petition read and recommended to the House
of Delegates
The Hon:ble Col Whittington acquainting the Board of the
continual Apprehension & Danger of Insults from Privateers
the Inhabitants of Somersett County have been Exposed to,
Several French Privateers attempting to Land there the last
Summer and the year before and of what Care he had taken
to secure the Inhabitants by ordering several Troops & Com-
panys to be in readiness upon any sudden alarm of which
Several had happened the last Summer) on which occasions
he got Considerable numbers of Men together in order to

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