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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

the said Hugh Ross and causing him to give Sufficient Sure-
ties Residents in this Province for his appearance at the
Provincial Court to Answer to what may be Objected against
him; And It is reccommended to the said William Keene to
bring an Ejectment in the Provincial Court against Hugh
Ross for the Recovery of his Right to the said Land

Read the Petition of Several Insolvent Debtors in Queen

Anns County Goal which is as follows

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor of Mary-
land

p. 31

The humble Petition of Several Debtors now confined in
Queen Anns County Goal Humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioners has been here confiened this long time
and it is not our Confinement alone that is so bad, but the ill
usage that we meet with for we are almost Starved by the
Cruelty of the Goaler, for we have a man now a dying by
means of Some Victuals that was not fit for a Dog to Eat,
for as to Meat we never have a bit but once in Six days and
then what they bring Stinks the Rest of our Living is Mush
& Beer and Bread and Sometimes Stinking Fish or any
Stinking Pork or Beef that he can buy from on Board Ship

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Begs that you
will Rectify and Cause us some other living or Else your
Poor languishing Petitioners must Actually Starve

And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray
(Signed by the Petitioners)

Ordered that a Copy of the said Petition be Sent to the
Sheriff of Queen Anns County and It is likewise Ordered
that he return an Answer with all convenient speed.

Ordered upon the Complaint of Indian against M^r
Pye of Charles County that the said Pye threatens to turn the
Indian off his Land, that the said Indian and M^r Pye attend
this Board on Thursday the 18^th Day of July next.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday
the third Day of July in the fourth year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoq Domini 1754.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor
The honble Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Col Hammond Benedict
Calvert Esq^r