448 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1 749.

Lib. C. B.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Thursday the
18^th Day of May in the 35^th year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Dni 1749
Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

The honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col George Plater
Edmund Jenings Esq^r

Col Charles Hammond
Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Benedict Calvert Esq^r

Read the following Remonstrance of the Justices of Calvert
County presented to his Excellency

November 15^th 1748
Sir
It was the design of every Magistrate of this Court to have
waited upon your Excellency at the last Provincial Court
where all of Us that was able were Obliged to Appear being
arrested as Criminalls and Ordered to be immediately brought
before their Honours for a Contempt of the Process of that
Court, In order to have Laid that affair before your Excellency
but as we was then disappointed beg Leave to Trouble your
Excellency with a Short but true account of that affair and
other the Behaviour of Our Clerk in his Office to the Court
and Government. In June Court a Bill was filed by Wardrop
& Graham against Samuel Harrison, but Omitting to file their
Account with the Bill as the Law directs they could not sup-
port their Action M^r Clarke their Attorney Observing the
mistake told them they must have a non pros Entered against
themselves and pay all Cost and bring their Action anew but

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Harrison Preceiving the Slip in their Proceedings sent an
Express to Annapolis for a Writt of Certiorari at the same
time Pretending to pay them immediately but before the Writ
of Certiorari was Produced to the Court the Entry aforesaid
was Ordered to be made and would been made had it not
been Samuel Harrisons own Action and his Actually forbiding
his deputy to make it however the Court Ordered it to be
made and the Writt aforesaid to be returned
Viz. that before that Writt was Legally Product to the
Court the Action therein mentioned was out of Court, But
that Gentlemen who had taken upon him to hinder his deputy
from Entering the Record of the Court Likewise forbid him
to make any Return on the Writt by means whereof on his
basely Complaining We had not done him Justice (when in
fact he was deceitfully Endeavouring to defraud his Just
Creditors) was the reason we were put to so much unneces-
sary trouble, had this Sir been the only Indignity and ill
Treatment he had offered to this Court We could Easily for-