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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

his Council of State within this Province and that he attends
in order to be Qualified, Who takes the Several Oaths to the
Government required by Law, and also the Oath of a Coun-
cillor and Repeats & Subscribes the Abjuration and Test, and
takes his place at the Board accordingly

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board a Return
of the Justices of Ann Arundel County Court whereby it
appears that they have passed Sentence of Death on Negro
Joe the Slave of James Weenies for the murder of Richard
Price his Overseer. Who Advise his Excellency that Dead
Warrant should issue for the Execution of the said Negro
Joe on Wednesday the 19^th Instant to be hung in Chains as
near the Place where the fact was committed as Conveniently
can be.

The following Members of the Council being met in the
Council Chamber prepared An Address to the Right honour-
able the Lord Proprietary of this Province and desired his
Excellency would be pleased to transmit the same to his Lord-
ship which is as follows.

The hon-
ourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col George Plater
Col Charles Hammond

Benedict Calvert Esq^r
Col William Goldsborough

To the Right honourable Frederick Lord Baltimore Lord
Proprietary of the Province of Maryland.

The humble Address of your Lordships Council
May it please Your Lordship

Your Lordships Exceptions to the Inspection Law having
been notified by his Excellency the Governor to the Lower
house of Assembly, and by the obstinate adherence of that
Branch of Our Legislature to every part of the Act, that most
convenient, useful, and necessary Regulation being in hazard
of Expiring, We presume to lay before your Lordship, with
all imaginable deference, some observations upon those
Clauses to which your Lordship has been pleased to Object

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and humbly hope, as we most ardently wish, with the assist-
ance of your Lordships Inclination to determine favourably
in a Case of so great consequence to the Peace and welfare
of your Province, that your Lordship will be induced to give
your final Sanction to the Act

To avoid perplexity we beg leave to State the Substance of
your Ldps principal objections and apply our observations
under the five following heads.