Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1739, 171

Your next (if you favour us with any) will conclude Us on
the Subject and are with great Respect
Sir Your most Obedient humble Servants
To Edmund Jenings Esq^r C Carroll
Secretary of Maryland V. Denton
This

The following are among several Others, Resolves & Orders
of the House of Delegates of the Province of Maryland 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

Lib. C. B.

Gassaway M^r Philip Hammond Major Edward Sprigg M^r
Turner 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 Matter 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

Sir
In pursuance of, and Obedience to, the foregoing Orders
we desire You will immediately and without Loss of Time
make out authentick Copies of such of his Lordship the Right
honourable the Lord Proprietarys Conditions of Plantations
from the first Settlement of this Province to this Time as are
lodged in the Office whereof you are Clerk on the Publick
Account of this Province according to the Tenor of the
foregoing Orders
We are Sir
Your humble Servants
Annapolis 29 June 1739 C Carroll
V. Denton

To M^r Griffith Beddoe Clerk of the Land Office. This

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