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your Consideration and do therein what to your Great
Wisdom shall seem meet
And your Petitioner shall ever pray &c^a
W Govane

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board send Caswall a Copy
of the said Petition, and give both Parties Notice to attend
with their Witnesses on Friday the fourth of May next, at
which time this Board will enter into the Consideration of the
said Petition

Lib. C. B.

At a Council held at the House of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor in the City of Annapolis on Tuesday the 20^th Day of
March in the twenty fourth year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq. Domini 1738
Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor
The Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Edmund Jenings Esq^r
honourable George Plater Esq^r Col Charles Hammond

His Excellency having communicated to this Board a Copy
of the Record transmitted him from S^t Marys County Court
signed by several Justices of the said Court of the Conviction
of a certain Negro Pompey and Negro Indey two Slaves be-
longing to the honble George Plater Esq^r for conspiring
to poyson the Overseer Clerk and Gardiner of the said M^r
Plater; It is the humble Advice of this Board to his Excellency
that he be pleased to order Warrants to issue for their
Execution on Friday the 30^th of this Instant March.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Friday the
4^th of May in the twenty fifth Year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Dom. 1739
Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

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The
honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Philip Lee Esq^r
George Plater Esq^r

Edmund Jenings Esq^r
James Hollyday Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond

Mess^rs Richard Caswall and William Govane appearing this
Day with their Evidences according to Summons issued

from this Board, and the said William Govane by his Council

attending to make good the Allegations of his Petition
preferred on 22^d of february last the said Caswall and Govane
were called in, and the Evidences on both sides being examined,
and having heard what was said on behalf of the Parties the
Judgment of this Board thereon is deferred until another Day.

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