150 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1738.

Lib. C. B.

last September Assize, and the Clerk of the Assize himself in
setting down the Grand Jury folding up and drawing the
Ballots of the Petit Jury have been guilty in the Opinion of
this Board of great Carelessness and Irregularity, if not Cor-
ruption, in their several Duties and are justly lyable to Censure.
It is therefore the humble Request of this Board to his Ex-
cellency that he be pleased to censure them accordingly.

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At a Council held at the house of his Excellency the Gover-
nor in the City of Annapolis on Monday the twenty seventh
day of November in the Twenty fourth Year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoq Dom 1738.

Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

Col. Matt^w Tilg" Ward George Plater Esq^r
The honble\ Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Philip Lee Esq^r Col Charles Hammond

Read the Case of the Administratrix of Philemon Lloyd
Esq^r in the following Words.

The Case of the Administratrix of Philemon Lloyd Esq^r
deceased late Deputy Secretary of Maryland.

The Secretary of Maryland has a Right to nominate the
County Clerks and to a tenth Part of their Fees and Perqui-
sites and hath always taken a Bond at the Appointment of
Every new Clerk payable to the King or the Lord Proprietary
with Condition that the Clerk should faithfully discharge his
Duty and pay the tenths yearly to the Secretary and render
him an Account upon Oath of the Fees and Profits.
James Knowles was appointed by M^r Lloyd to be Clerk of
Queen Anns County who past a Bond in usual Form in two
hundred Pounds Penalty wherein Major John Hawkins and
William Turlo deceased were Sureties, and continued Clerk
'till the Time of his Death, and was very negligent in the
Office and neither rendered any Account of the fees or paid
any Part of the Tenths to M^r Lloyd.

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M^r Lloyd petitioned the late Governor & Chancellor for an
Assignment of the said Knowles's Bond, obtained the same,
and commenced an Action thereon against Col Ernault Haw-
kins deceased Executor of the said Major Hawkins and
obtained Judgm^t but died without having issued any Execution
or receiving any Satisfaction, and the Judgment remains yet
unsatisfied and the Administratrix of M^r Lloyd demands the
Money of M^rs Hawkins the Exec^r of Col Arnault Hawkins