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required the said Armourer taking a Receipt upon such
Order for the same.
Ordered that the present General Assembly which stands
prorogued to Monday the 24^th Day of June next, be further
prorogued to Monday the 24 Day of July next, and Procla-
mations issued accordingly.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis Wednesday
the fifth Day of July in the eighth year of his Lordship's
Dominion Annoque Domini 1758.

Present

The Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Col: Benjamin Tasker
honourable Col: Cha^s Hammond J Daniel Dulany Esq^r

Ordered that the present General Assembly of this Prov-
ince which stands prorogued to Monday the 24^th Day of
this Instant be further prorogued to Tuesday the 29^th Day
of August next, and Proclamations issued accordingly

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Monday
the seventh Day of August in the eighth year of his Lord-
ship's Dominion Annoque Domini 1758.

Present

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

The
honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col: Charles Hammond
Col: Benjamin Tasker

Benedict Calvert Esq^r
Daniel Dulany Esq^r

Read the following Letter from the Governor to the hon-
ourable Benjamin Tasker Esq^r

Fort Frederick the 28.. July 1758.
Sir

I beg the Favour of you to lay the enclosed Transcript
before the Council, and if you and the other Gentlemen ap-
prove thereof I would have M^r Ross make out a Warrant
for the Execution of Charles Butler the Slave and Criminal
therein mentioned. I hope the Letter which you wrote to
Col: Ireland requiring him to enforce my Orders to Captain
Broome will have the desired Effect, but if both that Com-
pany and the Company that is ordered hither from Cecil
County should refuse to march, T must desire you and the
other Gentlemen of the Council to advise me how to act and
what Measures to take for the Defence and Protection of the
Frontier Inhabitants during the rest of the Summer. When

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