It is the Opinion of this Board, that as Public Justice does
not require a Special Commission the Petition of the Party is
not a Sufficient Foundation for issuing it, and that he ought to
be left to the Common Course of Law.
Ordered that the Clerk of this Board make Application to
Mr Ghiselin to know what Sheriffs' Bonds for this year have
been returned into the Secretarys Office.
Ordered that the present General Assembly of this Province
which stands prorogued to the Ist Monday in March next, be
further prorogued to the Ist Monday in May next and Procla-
mations issued accordingly.
At a Council held at the Governor's on Thursday the 13th
day of February in the Fifteenth year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1766.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor.
The honble Benjamin Tasker, Danl Dulany and John Rid-
out Esqr
His Excellency was pleased to lay before this Board the
following Letters, in answer to those he had received from
General Conway and Chas Lowndes Esqr- which were Read
and approved of and were by his Excellency transmitted ac-
cordingly.
Annapolis in Maryland 12th February 1766.
Sir
A Duplicate of the Letter, you were pleased to address to
me the twenty-fourth of October last, having been brought
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