Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 145

At a Council held at the Council Chamber on Monday the
26^th day of May in the Sixteenth year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Annoq Domini 1766.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The honourable Benjamin Tasker, Cha' Hammond, Sam^l
Chamberlaine, Rich^d Lee, Rob^t Jenkins Henry, Daniel Du-
lany, Jn^o Ridout, Charles Goldsborough and Henry Hooper

Esq^rs

The Instructions which his Excellency was pleased to lay
before this Board on Friday last being again read, The hon-
ourable Dan^l Dulany, Rob^t Jenkins Henry Cha^s Goldsborough
and Henry Hooper Esq^rs were appointed a Committee to ex-
amine into the Right Lord Baltimore Claims of granting Or-
dinary Licences and to Report what appears to them on the
Occasion.

At a Council held at the Council Chamber on Tuesday the
27^th day of May in the Sixteenth year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Annoq Domini 1766.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

The honourable Benjamin Tasker, Dan^l Dulany, Sam^l
Chamberlaine, Benedict Calvert, Rich^d Lee, John Ridout, Cha^s
Goldsborough, Rob^t I: Henry and Henry Hooper Esq^r

The Committee appointed yesterday, to examine into Lord
Baltimore's Right to Ordinary Licences and to report thereon,
lay before this Board the following Report.
In pursuance of the Reference of this honourable Board
upon the Communication of his Lordship's Instructions to his
Excellency the Governor bearing date the 7^th February 1765,
we have Considered the subject matter of the said Instruction
and are of Opinion that his Lordship is not intitled either in
Virtue of the Charter of this Province or any Act of Assembly
to the Sole Right of granting, ordering and regulating the
Licences of Inn-Holders or Ordinary Keepers within this
Province.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

We conceive that any Person by the Common Law of Eng-
land might follow the Trade of an Innholder as well as any
other Trade without the Licence of the Crown. It appears
to us from Hutton's Reports 99 and 100 that this Point was
solemnly determined in the 22^d Jac: upon a Conference at

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