186 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1739.

Lib. C. B.

Ghiselin, and not finding him) in the Provincial Office hastily
write a note to the said Ghiselin, the effect whereof might for
ought that he remembers to the Contrary, be as set out in the
Council proceedings, and delivered the same to the said M^r
Ghiselins Servant, one of the then Writers or under Clerks in
the said Provincial Office, and desired him as soon as Possible
to give the same to his said Master, soon after which the said
Servant brought the Key of the Assembly Office to the Sub-
scriber at his own House, and said his Master bid him demand
a Receipt for it, which the Subscriber refused to give, and
told him that he did not want to keep the Key, whereupon
Doctor Charles Carroll who was then also present at the Sub-
scribers House demanded of the said Servant where his Master
was, who informed him, that he was at M^r Ramsay's, and being
desired to request his Master to walk over, he accordingly
left the Key, and went to the said M^r Ramsays House, and in
a few minutes after his departure, his said Master the said M^r
Ghiselin came into the Subscribers House, where the said
Doctor Carroll and the Subscriber still Continued, upon whose
coming in, the Subscriber told him he did not want to keep
the Key any longer than to get some papers out of the Office
and that if he would give the Subscriber the papers he wanted
'twould do as well and thereupon immediately returned the
Key, and the said M^r Ghiselin answered, you may have any
papers out of the Assembly Office which you want; But the
Subscriber averrs there was no use made of the Key while
it was in his possession; and tho' he was directed to get
papers out of the Assembly Office to Copy as aforesaid, yet
he owns he had no particular Orders or directions from any
person to write the said note, nor had any of the Persons
mentioned in the afores^d Order of the House of Delegates,
any notice of the said notes being wrote or intended to be
wrote, until after the same had been sent; And he also averrs,
that he had no other Intention in Writing the said note than
to prevent to himself a further needless and fruitless Trouble,
in going up and down in quest of the said M^r Ghiselin, and
also, as in all appearance a more speedy method of Obtaining
such papers to be Copied, as might be necessary to be trans-
mitted to Great Britain, and which as the Subscriber was in-
formed required the utmost dispatch
T. Bordley

p. 58

Gentlemen
I have received yours and you may perceive by the within
Copy of An Order of Council, I am restrained from taking
any notice or paying any Obedience to, your Command as A
Committee of the Lower House of Assembly; but am ready