Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 397

Ordered that the Attorney General proceed at Law in the
Provincial Court against the Transgressors by Information
of Intrusion.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Thursday
the 6^th Day of December in the ninth year of his Lord-
ships Dominion Annoque Domini 1759

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor
The Honourable Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Col^o Benjamin
Tasker, & Stephen Bordley Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Report

May it Please your Excellency
At a Session of a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General
Goal Delivery held for Baltimore County before us his Lord-
ships Justices thereof by Commission on the sixth Instant
One George Street Mariner was Tryed and found guilty
upon an Indictment of Murder by full & Clear Evidence and
Judgement of Death is thereon passed a Record of the Pro-
ceedings in that Case your Excellency will receive herewith
We are May it please your Excellency
Your most Obedient hum^l Serv^ts
Baltimore County 8 Novem^r 1759.
John Hall
Tho^s Franklin
W^m Young.

Which being read & Considered of It is the humble Advice
of this Board that his Excellency be pleased to Order Dead
Warrant for his Execution on Wednesday the 19^th Instant.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Monday
the 31^st Day of December in the ninth year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoque Domini 1759.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.
The Honble Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Daniel Dulanv Esq^r
Benjamin Tasker J Stephen Bordley Esq^r

Ordered with the Advice of this Board that the present
General Assembly which stands Prorogued to the first Tues-
day in February next be further Prorogued to the Second

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