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with every instruction necessary to proceed on whatever you
think should be done

We hope your Speedy answer, and in the mean time are
with due respects

Your Excellencys Most Obed^t hble Servants
John Veasey
M^r Earle

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board write the following
Answer thereto

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Gentlemen
Your Letter in Relation to large Quantities of Arms sup-
posed to be in your County was by his Excellency the Gov-
ernor laid before the Council, whose Opinion and Request is
that you endeavour to get the best Information you can and
in the privatest Manner where there are any such Quantities
of Arms lodged, and if any such are found together in a house
supposed to be suspected, then to cause them to be seized, and
that you examine any Persons as you believe can give you
Information thereof.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Saturday
the I4th Day of September in the fourth year of his Lord-
ships Dominion Annoq Domini 1754.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

The honbie Benjamin Tasker, Esq^r Col Benjamin Tasker
Benedict Calvert, Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board a Report
made to him by John Brice Esq^r of his having passed Sen-
tence of Death upon Three Negroes named Pompey Sambo
and Jack for feloniously breaking and entering an Outhouse
belonging to Nathaniel Dare of Ann Arundel County and
stealing from thence fifty Pounds of Bacon and Ten Gallons
of Rum, and It appearing by the said Report that Negro
Sambo is a youth and the Son of Negro Pompey and might
be influenced by the Authority of his Father It is the humble
Advice of this Board to his Excellency that a Pardon should
issue for Negro Sambo and Negro Jack, and that Dead War-
rant should issue for the Execution of Negro Pompey on
Friday the 20^th of this Instant September

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