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to join the Virginia Fleet at Kiquotan aforesaid before the
said 20^th day of April
I am Sir
2^d March 1740 Your Excellencys
Most humble Servant
James Blair

This Board taking the said Letter into Consideration, are
of Opinion that there is no Necessity of laying an Embargo
at present upon the Ships in this Province, and are pleased to
order that the Clerk acquaint the several Naval Officers there-
with, desiring them to inform the Masters of the several Ships
bound for Great Britain within their respective Districts of the
Contents of the aforesaid Letter.
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Letter

May it please Your Excellency
1 have in my Custody a Deleware Indian committed for the
felonious taking away by Force, and robbing one Edward
Starkey of a Gun, of which I thought proper to advise, not
knowing (as he is a foreigner) but your Excellency might
think the Affair worthy the particular Notice of the Government
I am
Your Excellencys most obliged
and most Obedient Servant
Queen Anns County Edw: Tilghman
6 March 1740.

Upon considering the aforegoing Letter this Board are of

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Opinion, that if the Felony was committed in Queen Anns
County and that Starkey has received his Gun again, or any
Satisfaction for it, or that the Indian will now make him Sat-
isfaction for the same, that the said Indian be released, but il
the Felony was comitted in another Government, and that
the Indian was pursued and taken in this Government, This
Board is then of Opinion that the said Indian should be
delivered to the Custody of One of the Sheriffs of that Gov-
ernment where the Offence was committed; of all which the
Clerk of this Board is directed to give the Sheriff of Queen
Anns County Notice that he may act accordingly.

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