118 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

tween them, was unfortunately and accidentally killed, as your
Petitioner verily believes by the said How's falling on a Sword
that your Petitioner had in his hand. And your Petitioner
further sheweth that tho' he is innocent of having killed the
said How, yet he is now confined in close Goal for the same,
and as the sitting of the Provincial Court is so remote, and
your Petitioner will be obliged to lie in close Prison the whole
Winter, the Expences attending so long a Confinement, will be
more than your Petitioner, who is very poor, will ever be able
to discharge, and therefore he most humbly prays, that your
Excellency will be graciously pleased to grant a Special Com-
mission for the Speedy Trial of your Petitioner in this County,
and he as in Duty bound will ever pray
John Granger.

p. 404

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
M^r 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 I^st Monday in March next, be
further prorogued to the I^st 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 Esq^r Governor.
The honble Benjamin Tasker, Dan^l Dulany and John Rid-
out Esq^r

His Excellency was pleased to lay before this Board the
following Letters, in answer to those he had received from
General Conway and Cha^s Lowndes Esq^r- which were Read
and approved of and were by his Excellency transmitted ac-
cordingly.
Annapolis in Maryland 12^th February 1766.
Sir
A Duplicate of the Letter, you were pleased to address to
me the twenty-fourth of October last, having been brought