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pleased to take his Case into Consideration and put such a
Stop to any further Proceedings against your Petitioner as to
Your Excellency and Honours shall seem proper
And he'l pray
V Denton

This Board taking the said Petition into Consideration do
humbly advise that no Judgment be prayed by the Attorney
General on the said Verdict, but that a Noli prosequi be en-
tered in the said prosecution of which the Attorney General is
to have Notice and to act accordingly
Ordered by his Excellency the Governor that the present
General Assembly which stands prorogued to the third Tues-
day in Novem^r next be further prorogued to the second Tues-
day in March next, and Proclamations issued accordingly
The Sheriff of Queen Anns County appearing according to
an Order of this Board at their last Meeting on the 26^th of

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Septem^r and acquainting them, that his Under Sheriff who
received the Letter directed to the Clerk of this Board from
the Sheriff of Talbot County, was sick & not able to attend,
but that upon Enquiry he found the said Undersheriff had
neglected to forward the same, it is therefore by this Board
recommended to the said Sheriff of Queen Anns County that
he employ the aforementioned person to act no longer as his
Undersheriff
Ordered that the following Letters received by his Excel-
lency and his Answer thereto be here entered

Whitehall 20^th May 1 740
Sir
In pursuance of an Address of the House of Commons to
his Majesty, on 25^th April 1740, and of his Majestys Com-
mands signified to Us by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, in
his Letter dated 30^th April you are immediately to prepare,
and, as soon as possible transmit to Us, in Order to be laid
before the House of Commons at their next Meeting, An
Account of the Tenour and Amount of the Bills of Credit
which have been created and issued in your Government, that
are now outstanding, with the respective Times when such
Bills so outstanding, were issued, with the Amount of the said
Bills in Money of Great Britain, both at the time such Bills
were issued, and at the time of preparing your Account
You are likewise to send therewith your Opinion what will
be the most easy and effectual manner of sinking and dis-
charging all such Bills of Credit, with the least Prejudice to
the Inhabitants of your Government and Interruption of the
Commerce of this Kingdom

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