188 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1739 / 40.

Lib. C. B.

bare promise to pay or procure such Fees as shall become due
to me for such Copies to be Satisfied. I am Sir,
Your humble Servant
Annapolis Decem: 21, 1739 Levin Gale
To M^r Griffith Beddoe Chief Clerk
of the Land Office

Read the Depositions of several Negroes in Prince Georges
County relating to a most wicked and dangerous Conspiracy
having been formed by them to destroy his Majestys Subjects
within this Province, and to possess themselves of the whole
Country; It is therefore the humble Advice of this Board to
his Excellency that he be pleased to issue a special Commis-
sion of Oyer and Terminer for the speedy Tryal of the said
Offenders; and that he would be pleased likewise to order
the Colonel of the said County to keep a Guard of 12 Men, to
be relieved daily, at the Prison of the Sheriff of the said
County, where some of the s^d Negroes are committed until
the Time of their Tryal, and if any of them should be con-
victed, until the Day of their Execution, which Order issued
accordingly.

At a Council held at the Governors in the City of Annapolis
on Wednesday the 23^rd Day of January in the twenty fifth
year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1739

Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r | Col Charles Hammond
The honble Edmund Jenings Esq^r | Col Levin Gale

Ordered that the Sheriff of the City of Annapolis do not
permit any Negroes to come into this City on Sundays with-
out Leave given under their Masters Hands, and if any be
found therein by him or his Deputys without such License,
that he order them immediately to depart, and upon their
Refusal to cause them to be whipped, which Order issued
accordingly

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Ordered by His Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly which stands
prorogued to the second Tuesday in february next be further
prorogued to the fourth Tuesday in April next and Proclama-
tions issued accordingly

At a Council held at the Governors in the City of Annapo-
lis on Thursday the 24^th Day of January in the 25^th year of his
Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1739