172 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1 739.

Lib. C. B.

Sir
We sent a Letter, whereof the above is a Copy,. to your
Deputy Clerk of the Land Office and received from him the
following Answer Viz.

Gentlemen
In Answer to Yours of the 29^th of June last, that 1 have no
particular Instructions from Col Gale who is my Employer to
deliver or let your Clerk take any such Copies as you therein
demand, he is expected in Town this Week, the farthest at the
Provincial Court, as soon as he comes, shall acquaint him with
Your Demands & according to his Directions shall do every-
thing in the Power of Gentⁿ
Your most humble Servant
G. Beddoe

5^th July 1 7 39. To D^r Ch^s Carrol & M^r Vachel Denton. These

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Not having a Line from you on the Occasion We do in
Pursuance of, and Obedience to, the foregoing Orders desire
you will give Directions to your Deputy Clerk of the Land
Office to make out Authentick Copies of their Lordships the
Lords Proprietaries Conditions of Plantations from the first
Settlement of this Province to this Time as are recorded in
the Land Office or such of them or any other Records or
Papers of the said Office which the s^d Committee or any Two
of them shall order under their Hands for the Use and on
Account of the Publick
If your Clerk cannot be spared to make out such Copies
We desire you will permit Stephen Bordley Clerk of the
Committee af^d appointed to take the same
We request the favour of your Answer hereto in Writing
and are with much Esteem Sir
Your most Obedient Servants
Annapolis 12 July 1739 C Carroll
To Levin Gale Esq^r V Denton
These

Gentlemen
I received Yours this Day by M^r Stephen Bordley and have
given Orders to the Chief Clerk of the Land Office without
delay to make out Authentick Copies of all Records in that
Office that any of your Committee shall order and engage to
pay the usual Fees for
I am obliged to you for Your Offer to let M^r Bordley make
the Copies you want, but there is so little Business in the
Land Office that the Chief Clerk and his Two Assistants may