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I am sorry It is not in my Power to comply with this Demand

without such Application, but This Government has no Fund
to answer such Services without their Assistance
I am S^r
y^r very humble Servant
To Spencer Phipps Esq^r S^r Ogle

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Thursday the
13^th Day of September in the 36^th year of his Lordps Domin-
ion Annoq Domini 1750
Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

The honble

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

Philip Thomas Esq^r
Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Benedict Calvert Esq^r

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice of
this Board that the present General Assembly of this Province
which stands prorogued to the second Tuesday in October
next be further prorogued to the second Tuesday in May next
being the 14^th Day of the same Month, and Proclamations
issued accordingly.
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter from the President of Virginia

6^th August 1750
Sir
The Occasion of this Express is to inclose this Paper from
the Sheriff of Baltimore, and I hope for your Justice, both
against him and the Justice, there seems to be no Occasion
for other Proof
The Person, the Justice in the Plenitude of his power
thought fit to imprison, was a Messenger, sent by me on the

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Kings especial Service, so noted on the Letter with my Name
and Seal If Expresses under these Circumstances are so used
and fees exacted from them I shall not get any to go, and the
Kings Service will suffer
I am with all possible Respect
Sir Your Excellencys most
Obedient humble Servant
Thomas Lee

Memdm 2I^st July 1750 I hereby certify that John Barnett
was yesterday committed to my Custody by Captⁿ Charles
Ridgeley on Suspicion of being runaway, and upon examining