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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752. 577
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At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday
the 15th Day of November in the second year of his Ldps
Dominion Annoq Dom. 1752
Present
The honble Benjamin Tasker Esqr President
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Lib. C. B.
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The honble
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Col George Plater
Edmund Jenings Esqr
Col Cha. Hammond
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Daniel Dulany Esqr
Col Benja Tasker
Benedict Calvert Esqr
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Ordered that the Present General Assembly of this Province
which stands prorogued to the first Tuesday in December next
be further prorogued to the last Tuesday in February next
being the 27th Day of the same Month and Proclamations
issued accordingly
His Honour the President lays before this Board a Report
made to him by the Justices of Baltimore County Court of
their having passed Sentence of Death upon a Certain Negro
Harry the Slave of Major Charles Ridgeley of the said County
for ravishing and carnally knowing Sabina Cole a Widow
Woman of the same County, and It appearing by the said
Report that the Negro had been always an orderly Fellow,
that He went to the House of the said Sabina Cole where He
had a Wife, and that in their Judgment the Evidence was not
sufficient to convict him, and therefore recommend him as an
Object of Mercy; It is therefore the Advice of this Board that
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His Honour be pleased to order His Lordships Pardon to
issue to the said Negro Harry which issued accordingly
His Honour the President communicates to this Board a
Letter received by him from Henry Darnall Esqr Attorney
General which being read is ordered to be entered.
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I embrace this Opportunity to let you know that I returned
home from York County yesterday—where I flatter myself
I have discharged my Commission agreeable to the Orders I
had received
Inclosed is a Copy of the Memorial or rather Petition which
I preferred to the Court, and which I hope you will Approve
of; I had first drawn it by way of Memorial, But having Some
doubts that the Court would Refuse to receive it in that Shape
I changed it into the form of a Petition, in the manner you
will observe in the Rasures in the Title or Preamble
Upon Presenting this the Court were in Some doubts &
appeared to be in some Confusion, it was Publickly Read by
their Clerk. I Prayed it might be filed in the Proceedings of
their Court, which was Granted, & it was accordingly filed,
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