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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 409
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are now Considerably Increased and the number of regular
Troops greatly lessen'd, I think it my Duty Sir to give you
the Earliest Notice that it will be absolutely necessary for the
Support of his Majestys Rights on Lake Erie and the River
Ohio that the Province under your Command should furnish
at least two hundred Men with Officers and non Commis-
sioned Officers in proportion. This Sir is so Essential a
Service that I cannot in the least Doubt but you will use
your utmost Endeavours with the Council and Assembly of
your Province to induce them to comply with this so neces-
sary a Requisition. I have the honour to be
Sir
Your most Obedient and humble Servt .
To Governor Sharpe Robt Monckton
Which being Read Ordered with the Advice of this Board
that the Assembly be called on Monday the twenty Second
instant and Proclamations issued accordingly.
At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Monday the
twenty Second Day of September in the tenth year of his
Lordships Dominion &c Annoque Domini 1760.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor.
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The
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Benjamin Tasker Esqr
Colo Charles Hammond
Saml Chamberlaine
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Colo Benjamin Tasker
Benedict Calvert Esqr
Stephen Bordley Esqr
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Ordered with the Advice of this Board, that the Assembly
which stands prorogued to Monday the twenty second In-
stant be further prorogued to Tuesday the twenty third
Day of the same Month & Proclamation issued accordingly.
It is likewise the Advice of this Board to his Excellency
that he be pleased to order a Letter to be sent to James
Weems Esqr Chief Justice of Calvert County to enquire into
the Grounds of a Complaint against Capt John Cousins re-
lating to his Importation of some Negroes in the Brigantine
Edward into Patuxent River, which Letter being prepared,
was read, approved of, and issued as follows
Annapolis 22d September 1760
Sir
It having: been this Day represented to the Governor and
Council, that a Negroe called Capt Gray & three or four
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