Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1739. 167

the following are the Letters mentioned in the aforegoing
Case.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday
the first Day of August in the twenty fifth year of his Lord-
ships Dominion Annoq Domini 1739.

Lib. C. B.

Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

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The
honourable

Col Matt. Tilghman Ward
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Philip Lee Esq^r
George Plater Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r

James Hollyday Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond
Col Levin Gale
James Harris Esq^r

The Secretary and Judge of the Land Office laid before the
Board the several following Letters

Sir
The following are (among several others) Resolves and
Orders of the House of Delegates of the Province of Mary-
land dated June the 9^th 1739. Viz.

"And forasmuch as it will be necessary for carrying on the
"said Addresses in Great Britain to send thither several
"Copies of Records from this Province and other necessary
Papers It is therefore Ordered by this House that M^r James
Calder Doctor Charles Carrol M^R Vachel Denton Captⁿ
Thomas Gassaway M^r Philip Hammond Major Edward Sprigg
M^r Tumor Wootton M^r Osborn Sprigg and M^r John Magruder
Members of this House or any two of them do prepare with
all possible Dispatch authentick Copies of all such Matters
they or any two of them shall think necessary for said Purposes.
Ordered that the Members of this House appointed to
negotiate the aforegoing Affairs, they or the Major Part or
any Two of them apply to the several Officers and Offices of
this Province and demand and take on the Publick Account
authentick Copies of any Acts of Assembly Conditions of
Plantation or other Matters or Papers whatsoever that to the
said Members the Major Part or any Two of them shall seem
necessary and requisite to be transmitted to Great Britain for
the Service of this Province and that the said Members as a
Committee of this House employ a Clerk.

In pursuance of and Obedience to the aforegoing Orders

We the Subscribers two of the Members appointed desire that
you will give Orders that Stephen Bordley the Clerk of the
said Committee be permitted to take from the Provincial
Records authentick Copies of the following Acts of Assembly

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