272 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

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still be permitted to put the said 19.. Hogsheads on Board
the Ship New Cunliffe and that such Direction may be given
to the Collector and Naval Officer, as your Excellency shall
think needful and your Petitioner shall ever pray &c..

I^st April 1758: Upon reading the said Petition it is
ordered that the Collector and Naval Officer of the Port of
Oxford permit the same Tobacco to be shipped on Board the
said Ship New Cunliffe, by a Post Entry.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Tuesday
the eleventh of April in the seventh year of his Lordship's
Dominion, Annoq Domini 1758.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The
honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Samuel Chamberlaine
Esq.
Col: Benjⁿ Tasker
Richard Lee Esq.

Col: Henry
Col: W^rilliam Goldsbor-
ough
Daniel Dulany Esq :

Read the Petition of Christie of Baltimore County.
Upon reading the said Petition wherein it is set forth, that
the Petitioner has sold to M^r Clarke, one of the Agents
appointed to victual his Majesty's Forces, a large Quantity
of Pork which now lies in Virginia, and the said

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Christie having by his Petition prayed Permission for the
Sloop Betsey of the Burthen of ab^t thirty four Tons to go
to Virginia, and fetch Part of the aforesaid Pork; It is the
Advice of this Board, and his Excellency is pleased to order
that the Officers of the Customs on the River Potowmack
do clear out for Virginia the said Sloop called, the Betsey
John M^oCaul Master, any former Order to the Contrary
notwithstanding.

Read the Petition of John Hall of Baltimore County.
Upon reading the said Petition wherein it is set forth that
the Petitioner has a Vessel loaden with Pig and Bar Iron for
the Province of Virginia, and having by his Petition prayed
Permission for the Sloop James of the Burthen of twenty five
Tons to go to Virginia, it is the Advice of this Board that
the Officers of the Customs of the City of Annapolis do clear
out for Virginia the said Sloop called the James Michael
Webster Master, any former Order to the Contrary not-
withstanding.