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Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

The honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond

Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Benedict Calvert Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letters received from the President of Virginia

20 August 1750
Sir
I am to beg the Favour of your Excellency to order some
proper Measures to be taken to send back to this Colony one
Edward Rumney formerly a Tavern Keeper in Annapolis, he
is accused of being in Concert with One Lowe Jackson of
Nansemond County who is supposed to have coined a great
Number of Double Doubloons of base Metal gilt, many of
which this Rumney has uttered and is Supposed to be returned
to Maryland It is a Practice of Mischievous Consequence to
the Community, and very proper measures here will be taken
to Prevent its Progress, I am with great Regard and Esteem
Sir
Your Excellencys Most Obed' & Most Humble Serv'
Thomas Lee

August 21. 1750
Sir
I am obliged to trouble your Excellency again about those
Coiners and their Accomplices, the inclosed Proclamations &
the Depositions will Shew your Excellency the whole matter
as I know it: I beg you will be Pleased to forward some of
the Proclamations to the Northern Governments, it is a case
that may Affect every one more or less.

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Rumney is I Suppose gone by Land to Maryland the Jack-
sons Excaped in a boat in the Night while their house was
beset in order to take them. I am with all Imaginable respect
Sir
Your Excellencys Most Obed^t & Hum^l Servt
I have sent a Proclamation Thomas Lee
in Mine to M^r Peters.

The aforesaid Letters, and the Depositions & proclama-
tions being read, It is the Advice of this Board that his Excel-
lency be pleased to order a Warrant to be prepared directed
to the Sheriff of Ann Arundel County to deliver Edward
Rumney, now in his Custody under Execution for Debt, to
the Sheriff of Prince Georges County, who is to convey the