Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1745. 35 1

this Province to make the same publick in their respective
Counties in the Usual Manner as they will answer the Con-
trary at their Peril Given at the City of Annapolis this i I^th day
of October in the 31 ^st year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq
Domini 1745.

At a Council held at the house of his Excellency the Gover-
nor in the City of Annapolis on Wednesday the 20^th of Novem-
ber in the 31^st year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Dni 1745

Present
His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor

Lib. C. B.

The honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r

Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Benjamin Young Esq^r

The Clerk of the Council lays before this Board an Order
of his drawn by Order of the Governor and Council of the
26^th of february last payable, out of the 3^d p hh^d for Arms
lodged in M^r Hydes hands by the late Col Young to M^r Richard
Tootell or his Order for 54: 05: 8 Sterling and which said
Order M^r Hyde did not pay, but answered " that he would
"pay the said Bill as soon as he had Advice that the Drawer
"had Directions to draw such Order by Directions of the
"Governor & Council" Which Answer not being satisfactory,
the said Order was protested and delivered to the Clerk of
this Board by Charles Carrol Esq^r to whom the same was
Endorsed, in Order to be renewed
Ordered that the Clerk of this Board renew the same with
the Damages payable to Charles Carrol Esq^r by an Order on
M^r Hyde payable out of the Duty of 3^d p hh^d for Arms lodged

in his hands by Sam^l Young Esq^r ate Treasurer of the Western
Shoar, and that he write to M^r Hyde the following Letter

20 Novem^r 1745
Sir
The Bill of 54: 05: 8 payable to Richard Tootell which I
drew on you by Order of the Governor and Council being re-
turned protested I am directed by that Board to inform you,
They could not suppose you was unacquainted with my hand
Writing since I have drawn several Bills on you by their Direc-
tions payable out of the Monies in your hands in the Disposal
of the Governor and Council, and therefore they were sur-
prized you gave an Opportunity to protest that Bill, which
must be attended with an Additional Expence to the Publick
it charged to that fund, and perhaps with some Reflection on
the Governor and Council, especially as that Bill has fallen
into the hands of Pensilvanians

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