The Petition of Edward Taylor and Jacob Pattison of Dor-
chester County preferred to this Board in May last against
Peter Taylor Sheriff of the said County being read; and upon
hearing and considering the Evidences in support of the
same; It is the Opinion of this Board that the facts contained
in the said Petition are not proved; and It is therefore ordered
that the said Petition be rejected

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Saturday the
23^rd Day of October in the twenty second Year of his Lord-
ships Dominion Annoq Domini 1736.

Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

The honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esqr Philip Lee Esqr Michael Howard Esqr

George Plater Esqr Col Charles Hammond

The honourable

Col Richard Tilghman Benjamin Tasker Esqr Philip Lee Esqr Michael Howard Esqr

George Plater Esqr Edmund Jenings Esqr Col Charles Hammond

His Excellency having communicated to this Board the
Reports made to him by the Judges of Assize of the Eastern
and Western Shears, of the Malefactors condemned by them
at their several Circuits in September last, and the Crimes of
which they were convict; & It appearing to this Board by the
said Reports, that the Persons so condemned, are not Objects
of Mercy, but notorious Offenders,

It is therefore the humble Advice of this Board to his Ex-
cellency, that he would be pleased to issue his Warrants for
the Execution of the said Offenders,

Several Sheriffs Bonds, being brought by the Clerk of the
Provincial Court to this Board for Approbation of their Secur-
ities, and being examined, are all approved of and found
agreeable to the Words in the Act of Assembly, excepting
the Bonds taken for the Sheriffs of Somerset and Kent Coun-
ties; It is therefore ordered that the Clerk of this Board write
to the Justices of the said Counties of Somerset and Kent
acquainting them of their Mistake in taking the Bonds of