26 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 23-Nov. 3, 1711.

U. H. J.

for a Slighting your House and leading you and your Pos-
terity into very great Inconveniencys
And 'tho we shall always shew a great regard for the Wel-
fare of this Province (In which we have as great an Interest
as any) and to you their Representatives, yet at the same time
you must give us leave to assert our Duty to her Majesty the
Honour of this Board & our own Reputations
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl Coun.

Sent by Col Coursey Col Ennalls M^r Young Col Green-
berry and Col Whittington
It being moved at the Board that there are two Criminalls
in the County Coale and that the Charge of their Prison fees
would be burthensome to the publick should they lye there
until the next Provincial Court in April
Ordered that a Special Commission of Oyer & Terminer
& Goal Delivery be directed to the Honble Col W^m Holland
L^t Col Charles Greenberry & Cap^t Richard Jones to trye the

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s^d Criminalls & deliver the Goale of the City of Annapolis on
the 27th Inst^t
The House of Delegates resolve of the 25th of October last
upon M^r Joseph Lamberts petition being considered & debated

This Board do say they cannot concur therewith and there-
fore the said Petition is rejected

Upon the Petition of Susannah Pinkham a Molatto woman
under Sentence of Death for the Murther of a Bastard Child
born of her Body
She being represented by the Honble the Judges of the
Provincial Court as an object of her most Sacred Majestys
royal Clemency as only Convict by the Provision of the Stat-
ute Advised & Resolved that she be reprieved until her
Majestys Pleasure be known therein
Col Smithson and five other members from the House
bring up the following Message Viz

By the House of Delegates
Novem^r 3^d 1711

We are Sorry your Honours misconstrue our address and
may well be ignorant of your having Commands not to dis-
place any Justice without Cause Shewed to her Majesty you
never having communicated to us the same
We presume her Majesty knows not that any of them are
as well ministerial as Judicial officers nor that the ministerial
office is executed without any oath taken. Certainly if the