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late King to proceed in the Execution of their respective
Offices, and to take the Oaths to his present Majesty as
soon as convenient.

and desires their Opinion (he not having received any
regular Advice thereof) whether he should now proclaim
his present Majesty King George the third, who are of
Opinion that it would be better to delay the same for some
short Time, and it is ordered that Jonas Green Printer do
not insert in the next Paper of News published by him the
Account of the Death of his Majesty King George the second
in any Manner whatsoever.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Thursday
the first Day of January in the tenth Year of his Lordship's
Dominion Annoq Domini 1760.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The honourable Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Stephen Bordley
Esq^r and John Ridout Esq^r

The Conviction of Negro Tom and Negro Nace of Charles
County Slaves of a certain Hugh Mitchell of the said County
is laid before this Board, ordered the following Letter be
sent to the Clerk of the said County.

Sir
The Governor and Council upon hearing read the Copy of
the Conviction of Negro Tom for a Felony and also of
Negro Nace for a Felony in breaking open the Meat-House
of Catharine Price of your County sent up by you without
any Letter or Report from the Justices of the County who
were present at the Tryals how the Circumstances appeared
to them, you are therefore desired to enquire of them in
Relation to the same, and transmit their Answer to me by the
first opportunity in Order to lay it before the Council at their
next Meeting.
I am Sir your humble Servant
J Ross Cl. Conc.

Ordered that the Clerk of the Board write to the Clerk of
Talbot County to send a Copy of the Conviction of a Negro
Woman at the last County Court on Suspicion of poysoning.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.