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The following Remonstrance and Letters being laid before
this Board and the Board being informed that Copies of the
said Letters were delivered to the said Charles Carroll anp
Vachel Denton; It is their opinion, that the same together
with the Order of Council of the 11th of October last, be
Printed, that the Country may be fully apprized of everything
that has Passed relating to the Applications for Copies of any
papers out of the publick Offices
To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor of Maryland
The Remonstrance of Charles Carroll, Vachel Denton, Edward
Sprigg, Turnor Wootton, Osborn Sprigg, and John Magru-
der, Members of the House of Delegates of the said Province
appointed to take Copies of Records and transmit the same
to Great Britain &ca
May it please your Excellency
We are really concerned that any Act supposed to be Ours
should give Offence, being what by all means we desire to
avoid
Observing A Letter from Mr Stephen Bordley to Mr William
Ghiselin dated 19 June 1739, made part of the proceedings
of Council, as if the same had been from us, or by our Order,
obliges us to presume to set that matter in its proper Light
to your Excellency
That the said Letter was not wrote or sent by our Order,
or with our Knowledge we hope the paper hereto annexed
signed by Mr Bordley will satisfy your Excellency in that
point, as likewise that no use "was made of the Key of the
Assembly Office
If your Excellency shall be pleased to permit that Mr Wil-
liam Ghiselin be examined as to the Circumstances attending
that Affair, we humbly presume to say he will declare to the
same Effect, as we doubt not his Veracity
We humbly hope that no Transaction of ours executed by
Virtue of any order of the House of Delegates, will bear being
interpreted in any wise to Command any Persons whatever
or in the least to oppose Government.
With Regard to the Denomination of Committee, which
seems to have given Offence we humbly conceive it to be but
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