488 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1750.

Lib. C. B.

veying and Delivery of Edward Rumney to some of your
Magistrates in Order that he may be brought to Justice
I must acquaint you that we have had some Difficulties and

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Doubts in this Case as Rumney is in the Custody and Goal
of one of our Sheriffs upon Execution and other mesne
Process for Debt, And as we Apprehended such Debts or
Demands are not extinguished unless he should be executed
for a Capital Crime, but that he ought to be brought back and
redelivered to the Sheriff of Ann Arundel County in this
Province who has him now in Custody subject to those Pro-
ceedings at Law against him for Debt; If he should be either
Acquitted or Pardoned or otherways discharged by your
Judicature, I must intreat you that in such Case you will order
him to be Safely Reconveyed and Redelivered into the Cus-
tody of same Sheriff of Province in order to be brought back
again and Committed to the Sheriff of Ann Arundel County;
And I trust that should an Escape happen either in the Con-
veyance of him to Williamsburgh after a Delivery of him to
your Magistrate or in his return to this Province before a
redelivery to Some of our Sheriffs you will take such Measures
as not to Suffer his Creditors here to lose their Debts or any
of Our Sheriffs to be harrassed or made lyable to such Debts,
As I should take the Like Care if the Excape happened in
this Province after he had been delivered to any of Our Sheriffs,
I am S^r
Your most obedient humble servant
To the honble Thomas Lee Esq^r Sam^l Ogle.
President of Virginia

His Excellency was pleased to send the following Letter
relating to the Spanish Ship
27 Septem^r 1750
Sir
By the inclosed Copy of a Warrant issued by me, You'l
perceive what I have done in relation to a Spanish Ship that
was stranded on the 26^th of August last upon the Seaboard

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side within the Limits of this Province, and as I have received
Information that some Part of the Rigging Equipment and
Cargo of the said Ship has been taken into the Possession of
some Persons within your Govern' I don't doubt but you'l
think it necessary a strict Enquiry should be made where the
said Effects are in order they may be preserved either for the
Use of his Majesty, the Lord Proprietary of this Province, or
such other Persons to whom of Right they may appertain
I am
S^r Your most Obedient humble Servant
To the honble Thomas Lee Esq^r Sam: Ogle
President of Virginia.