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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1735. 73
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You to obtain some Remedy of their insupportable Grievances
Wee have too much Reason to apprehend that some Men ot
Interest in Pensylvania do not stick to create Jealousies be-
tween Us and some of the neighbouring Indians, which may
in Case of a Rupture with the French be fatal to themselves
as well as Us.
Sam: Ogle
Jno Hall
M. T. Ward
Benjn Tasker
Philip Lee
M. Howard
Geo: Plater
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His Excellency acquaints the Board that Vachel Denton of
the City of Annapolis during his Continuance as chief Clerk
of the Provincial Court neglected for some Years the entering
and making up the Judgments therein rendered contrary to
the Duty of his Office and the Trust reposed in him, and in
Violation of his Oath of Office to the great Prejudice of all the
Suitors concerned in the said Judgments, and which said
Judgments are not yet entered up
Advised that the Opinion of the Attorney General be had
whether an Information in the Provincial Court will lye
against the said Denton for the Offence afd
Daniel Dulany Esqr Attorney Genl attending acquaints
the board that it is his Opinion an Information will lay against
the said Denton for such an Offence; It is therefore advised
resolved and ordered that the said Attorney General exhibit
in the Provincial Court with all convenient Speed an Infor-
mation against the said Vachel Denton for his Neglect in not
making up and recording the Judgments rendered in the
Provincial Court for some Years during his the said Demons
Continuance as Chief Clerk of the said Court contrary to the
Duty of his Office and the Trust reposed in him, and in
Violation of his Oath to the great Prejudice of all the Suitors
concerned in the said Judgments.
Ordered that the Justices of the several County Courts of
this Province lay before this Board with all convenient Speed
the State and Condition of the Records of their several
Courts, and in Case any Defects appear therein that they
certify in whose time and by what Clerk the same were made,
and that they also certify the State & Condition of the several
Original Papers Dockets Entries and Minutes of Proceedings
of their said Courts; which Order issued to the sevl Justices of
the County Courts accordingly
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