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Breach of the Laws, & as Captain Lovey labours under a
manifest Hardship by the Detainer of his Register and Ceriifi-

Lib. C. B.

NB. the Reg^r since delivered
by Rousby the Certif
stopt by M^r Plater

cate and may be stopt here for
Want thereof so I humbly hope
Your Excellency will interpose

your Authority & order the Delivery of the Certificate which
this Remonstrant takes to be his indubitable Right by all the
Laws of England and that he is accountable for this Entry and
obliged to render a true Account thereof to your Excellency,
his Lordships Agent and the Country for all Fees and Duties
arising on the Ship George; This being the Case would it not
be the height of Injustice for Captⁿ Lovey to be obliged to
pay double fees &c which must be the Consequence if the
Officers of Patuxent claims should be deemed legal, such
treatment as this as it will be a great Discouragement to
Trade, so it will not fail of being complained of by the Owners
which may greatly injure the Interest of Your Remonstrant
and Partners, who humbly hope your Excellency in your great
Wisdom will seriously deliberate on this Affair, and do therein
as to your great Judgment shall seem meet and for which
Your Remonstrant will ever pray
Philip Lee

Please NB that the Owners have positively ordered the
Masters to enter in my District as by Letter to me will appear
in favour to
Philip Lee.

To his Excellency the Governor of Maryland

The humble Answer of George Plater Esq^r Naval Officer
of the Port of Patuxent to the Remonstrance of
Philip Lee Esq^r Naval Officer of Patowmeck

This Respondent acknowledges that on the Arrival of
Edward Lovey Master of the George Galley, with a Cargo of
Negroes in Patuxent River, which was the very first Port into
which the said Ship came, after its Arrival in Chesapeak Bay
(as the said Lovey acknowledged to this Respond^t), this Re-
spondent required the said Lovey to enter his Ship, notwith-
ing the said Lovey shewed this Respond^t a Certificate of an
Entry made at Patowmeck: which this Respondent humbly
conceives was what he was by the Oath and Duty of his Office
obliged to do, and humbly submits to your Excys Considera-
tion, whether the coming to an Anchor off Cedar Point in the
Ships Way into the Port of Patuxent (if the fact had been
really so) could have justified the Remonstrant in Encroaching

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