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that your Excellency would be very attentive to the Detection
of any Frauds which may arise in this Branch of His Maj-
esty's Revenues, and in case it shall have happened that any
Chief Distributor residing in your Government, hath not
given Security for the due Execution of his Office, that your
Excellency will take Care, that he do forthwith execute his
Bond for the same, which Bond when executed your Excel-
lency is desired to return to the Stamp Office. My Lords so
much depend upon your Attention to the public Service, that
they can not doubt of receiving Information from your Excel-
lency in case any Remissness in the Execution of the Office of
the Chief Distributor within your Government, or other Mis-
managements or Abuses whatsoever shall appear to you
I am
your Excellency's
most Obedient humble Servant
Treasury Chambers Cha: Lowndes
11 th September 1765.

The above Letters being Read, and the matters contained
in them, being found to be of much Importance, and requiring
mature Deliberation, The Consideration thereof is defered
until the next Meeting.

Read the following Petition.

To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor of Mary-
land.

The humble Petition of John Granger of Dorchester
County Sheweth :

That M^r Robert How one of the Justices of this County,
(having bought a pretended Title to a Piece of Land, of which
your Petitioner and his Father before him, have for many
years been quietly and peaceably possessed (and to which your
Petitioner apprehends he has a just and legal Title) being
armed with loaded Pistols and other Dangerous Weapons, did
on the twentieth day of this Ins^t in the Absence of your Peti-
tioner forcibly and in a violent manner, enter into your Peti-
tioner's house which stood on the said Land, in order to get
into Possession thereof, and your Petitioner upon his return
to the House finding the said How in the House, and the Door
shut fast against him, did, notwithstanding the endeavours
of the said How to the Contrary, with some Difficulty get the
Door open and enter into the said House, upon which the said
How (having two loaded Pistols with him) fired one of them
at your Petitioner, and your Petitioner thereupon immediately
closed with the said How, who in the Scuffle that ensued be-

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.