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a Term & imports no more than Agents, Commissioners or
Managers, and without some Persons to Act the end (which
is allowed to be lawful) cannot be attained to wit, the address-

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ing the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, or if need be
his most Sacred Majesty
The great Regard we have to Government, and the Duty
we owe to your Excellencys Authority, derived to you from
his Lordship the Lord Proprietary, and approved by his
Majesty, induces us to assure you, that it is very remote from
us to have the least Intention of opposing the same, but on
the Contrary we shall pay due Obedience thereto, and
demean our selves as loyal and dutiful Subjects.
We humbly pray that your Excellency will not be displeased
with us, nor that the modest Discharge of our Duty in the
Trust reposed, be imputed to Us as a Crime. We really de-
sire your favourable Countenance and Opinion and are with
dutiful Respect
Your Excellency's
Most Obedient
Most humble Servants
Annapolis 25^th Sepf 1739 C. Carroll
V. Denton
Edward Sprigg
Turnor Wootton
Osborn Sprigg
John Magruder

The Subscriber hereof having received directions from some
of the Persons mentioned in an Order of the House of Dele-
gates dated the 9^th June last, to get several papers out of the
Assembly Office (then in the Custody of M^r Ghiselin as Clerk
Assistant to M^r Macnemara Clerk to the said House of Dele-
gates) in order to Copy the same for the use of the publick ;
he the Subscriber, did accordingly, in pursuance of such
directions, at several times, go up into the Provincial Office
(whereof the said M^r Ghiselin was also at that time Clerk)
and likewise to the Assembly Office, at the usual Office Hours,
in expectation of finding him at one or other of the said Offices,
to acquaint him with the aforesaid directions and to obtain
several papers out of the said Assembly Office which were
thought requisite and necessary to be Copied in order to be
transmitted to Great Britain for the use of the publick; but he
not having at any of the aforesaid several times found the said
M^r Ghiselin in the said Provincial Office, nor either himself or
any of his Clerks in the said Assembly Office, he the Sub-

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scriber did on the 19^th day of June last (when also he went
thither for the Purposes aforesaid, to speak to the said M^r

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