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The following Petition being delivered in to this Board is
ordered to be read
To His Excellency Saml Ogle Esqr Governor of Maryland
& the honble his Ldps Council
The Petition of Vachel Denton
Humbly Sheweth
That in pursuance of an Order made by your Excellency
and Honours in Council in the Year 1735 An Information was
exhibited before his Lordships Justices of the Provincial Court
against your Petitioner charging him with a Neglect to enter
up Part of the Proceedings of the said Court during the time
he was Clerk. That a tryal was had upon the said Informa-
tion at the Assizes held for this County in September 1738
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and Your Petitioner obtained a General Verdict of Acquittal
thereon. That notwithstanding the said Acquittal, Upon
Motion of his Lordships Attorney Genl in October Provincial
Court 1738 the said Verdict was set aside, and a new tryal
ordered, altho' your Petitioner hoped, and was advised by his
Council that the said Verdict was sufficient for your Petitioners
Acquittal in the Premises.
That in pursuance of the said Order a new Tryal was
accordingly had before his Lordships Justices of the Provincial
Court in October 1739 and a special Verdict found in the
Cause which yet remains before the said Justices unde-
termined; But your Petitioner humbly conceives that altho'
Omissions of not entring up the said Records may appear by
the said Verdict, yet that such Omissions cannot be interpreted
to proceed from any Criminal Intentions of your Petitioner
That your Petitioner during the Continuance of the Prose-
cution afd and even before the first Tryal of the Information
afd had at his very great Expence procured the Records
and other Proceedings afd to be compleatly made up &
entered by which means no Person whatever could suffer,
And forasmuch as the End. of such Prosecution is (as he hum-
bly presumes) effectually answered thereby And that Your
Petitioner has been at a vast Expence in the Premises He
most humbly hopes Your Excellency and Honours will be
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