74 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1735.

Lib. M.

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor of Mary-
land and the honble Members of his Lordships Council for
the same Province.

The Petition of Peregrine Ward Sheriff of Cecil County
Humbly Sheweth
That a Writt of Distringas issued out of his Lordships
Provincial Court directed to your Petitioner bearing Test the
twentieth Day of October Anno Dom seventeen hundred
thirty and three whereby your Petitioner was commanded to
distrain John Campbell late Sheriff of the same County by all
his Lands and Chattels so that he nor any for him should lay
hands on them until your Petitioner should have another
Writt thereof from the same Lord Proprietary as by the same
Writt now in the Provincial Court more fully appears
That your Petitioner in Obedience to that Writt did distrain
and seize nine hundred eighty and five Acres of Land and
ninety nine thousand seven hundred and ninety four pounds
of Tobacco besides sundry other Effects in a Schedule which
is hereunto annexed particularly mentioned
That in a Proclamation lately published by the Right Hon-
ourable the Lord Proprietary for regulating Officers fees there
are no fees ascertained for the Execution of such Writs as is
above mentioned, and that by a Clause in the same Proclama-
tion the several Officers are required to apply to his Lordship
or his Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chiei and
Council for the time being for the Regulation of such fees as
should be omitted in the List of fees published and regulated
by the same Proclamation.
May it therefore please your Excellency and your Honours
the Premises considered to regulate and ascertain what fees
your Petitioner shall charge and recover upon the Execution
of the Writt of Distringas af^d and your Petitioner as in Duty
bound shall ever pray
Peregrine Ward Sheriff

Upon consideration had of the aforegoing Petition, It is
Ordered that the same fees be taken upon a Writt of Dis-
tringas as are allowed to be taken upon Executions by Writts
of Fieri facias
Ordered that the Clerk of this board draw an Order on
Col Samuel Young Treasurer of the Western Shoar payable
to M^r Charles Slye or Order for twenty pounds Sterling being
his half Years Salary as Adjutant of this Province ending 8^th
of February last to be paid out of the money raised from the
Duty of 3d p hh^d for Arms before 8^th of August 1732; And it
is likewise ordered that the said Charles Slye be continued