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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1736. 97


humbly submitted to your Excellency and honourable Council
hoping that such Measures will be taken for the Good and
Welfare of your Petitioners that this will be the last Petition
of this Nature as Your Petitioners do most humbly pray

James Staton Francis Watson, Edward Alford Jacob Pattison.

Ordered that Peter Taylor have a Copy of the said Peti-
tion, and that he be ordered to attend at the Provincial Court
to be held in October next.

26th August 1736

Ordered by His Excellency the Governor that the General
Assembly which stands prorogued to the third Tuesday in
September next, be further prorogued to the third Tuesday in
December next and Proclamations issued accordingly.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Thursday
the 21st Day of October in the Twenty second year of his
Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1736.

Present
His Excellency Samuel Olge Esqr Governor

Lib. M.

The honourable

Col Richd Tilghman
Benj. Tasker Esqr
[Michael Howard Esqr

George Plater Esqr
Edmund Jenings Esqr
Col Charles Hammond

Whereas it appears to this Board by the Depositions of
several Witnesses, when part of the Militia of Baltimore
County were assembled at Spencers Old Field in the said
County by Order of the Government in Order to assist the
high Sheriff of the said County in the due and legal Execu-
tion and Discharge of his Office, Charles Worthington of the
said County Gent being summoned to attend the said Service
appeared at the said Place, and not only obstinately and con-
temptuously refused to aid and assist the said Sheriff after
repeated Admonitions so to do, but also endeavoured all he
could to excite all Others then present being a Great Number
of the Inhabitants of the said County who were also summoned
and attended on the same Occasion, to the like contemptuous
Disobedience calling them Fools, and other opprobrious
Names if they obeyed the said Sheriff or any Other, and
declaring his own Resolution to disobey the said Sheriff, if it
cost him the said Charles all he was worth, in manifest Con-
tempt of the Laws and Government of this Province, and to
the evil Example of Others; Upon Consideration of which


 

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