Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 405

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
Report of the Justices of the Provincial Court relating to
James Horner for a Rape which is as follows

May it please your Excellency
We the Justices of the Provincial Court do humbly Repre-
sent to your Excellency That James Horner of Dorchester
County Labourer has been Indicted Tried and Convicted for
a Rape commited by him on one Mary Ann Satchell a Girl
of about fourteen years Old and Sentence of Death has
been pronounced against him this present Court. We are
sorry that there did not appear one favourable Circumstance
in the Course of his Tryal to induce us to Recommend him
to your Excellency for Mercy
We are with the highest Respect
Your Excellency's most Obedient & most humble Servants
Jn^o B rice, Rob^t Jenkins Henry, Geo: Steuart
April 17^th 1760.

Which being Read and Considered of It is the humble
Advice of this Board, that his Excellency be pleased to order
Dead Warrant for his Execution on Friday the Second Day
of May next.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Thursday
the 22^d Day of May in the Tenth year of his Lordships
Dominion &c: Annoque Domini 1760.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esquire Governor.
The Honourable Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Daniel Dulany
Esq^r Stephen Bordley Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter received from Governor Pownall relative to
the Fire at Boston.

Boston 24 March 1760.
Sir
On the twentieth Instant a Fire broke out in the Town of
Boston which raged in such a manner as to elude all Means
for Suppressing the same untill it had (according to the
best Information that can be obtained in the present Con-
fusion) destroyed one hundred and seventy four dwelling
Houses and as many Warehouses Shops and other Buildings
which with the Furniture and Goods therein amount at a
Moderate Computation to one hundred thousand Pounds

Lib. J. R.

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