His Excellency acquaints this Board that his Lordship the
Right honourable the Lord Proprietary had appointed Henry
Hooper Esqr a Member of the Council and the Upper House of
Assembly and that he attends in order to be Qualified who
takes the several Oaths to the Government Subscribes the
Abjuration and Test and takes the Oath of a Councillor and
thereupon takes his place at the Board accordingly.
At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Friday the
27th day of September in the Fifteenth year of his Lordship's
Dominion Annoq Domini 1765.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor
The honble Benj: Tasker, Saml Chamberlayne, Edwd
Lloyd, Richd Lee Robt Henry Dl Dulany, John Ridout, Chas
Goldsborough and Henry Hooper Esqrs
Read the Report of the Justices of Prince Georges County
relating to the Convictions of Negro Charles Slave of Thomas
Lancaster and James Slave of Robt Tyler whereby it appears
that they had in August Court last passed Sentence of Death
on the said Negroes for feloniously breaking open the Meat
House of a certain Benjamin Harwood and Stealing from
thence a large Quantity of Bacon the Goods and Chattels of
the said Benjamin Harwood.
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