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thought fit with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State
further to prorogue the same and I do hereby further pro-
rogue the same, to Monday the 28th of this Instant March,
and to the intent that all Persons concerned may have due
Notice thereof I do hereby strictly charge and require the
several Sheriffs of this province to make this my proclama-
tion public in their respective Counties in the usual manner as
they will answer the Contrary at their peril. Given at the
City of Annapolis this 5th Day of March in the 6th year of his
Lordship's Dominion Annoque Domini 1757.
At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday
the 30th Day of March in the sixth year of his Lordship's
Dominion, Annoque Domini 1757.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esquire Governor, the
honourable Benjamin Tasker Esq. Col: Benjn Tasker, and
Benedt Calvert Esq:
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board a Re-
port made to him by the Justices of Ann Arundell County
Court, whereby it appears that they had passed sentence of
Death, upon Negro Tida the Slave of Ephraim Gover, for
feloniously attempting to poison her said Master, ordered
that dead Warrant issue for her Execution on Wednesday
the 6th day of April next, and also a Report made to him by
the Justices of Dorchester County Court whereby it appears,
that they had passed Sentence of death upon three Negroes
for Felony and House breaking (to wit) Negro Sampson
the Slave of Denwood Hicks, Negro Booze the Slave of the
said Hicks, and Negro Siladdy the Slave of Elizabeth Trippe
Widow, but forasmuch as it appears by the Representation
of several persons in favour of the above Negroes Sampson
and Siladdy that they are Objects of Mercy, it is the Advice
of this Board to his Excellency that he be pleased to order
pardons for the said Negroes, which issued accordingly and
dead Warrant was ordered to issue for the Execution of
Negro Booz on the 13th Day of April next.
Ordered by the Advice of this Board that the following
proclamation issue.
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