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 Esqr Governor
Col. Mattw Tilg" Ward George Plater Esqr
The honble\ Benjamin Tasker Esqr Edmund Jenings Esqr
Philip Lee Esqr Col Charles Hammond
Read the Case of the Administratrix of Philemon Lloyd
Esqr in the following Words.
The Case of the Administratrix of Philemon Lloyd Esqr
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 Mr 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 Mr Lloyd.
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