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

Lib. J. R
& U. S

Thomas Prather, upon a Note of hand for 534 Pounds of
Tobacco payable to M^r Prather, because we are told he appre-
hended that he could not give a Judgment for such a Sum of
Tobacco, notwithstanding the Constable Instructed him other-
wise, and it is the prevailing Opinion of his Neighbourhood
that, M^rs Warford Acts as Justice instead of him, for it is
said they fare best, who pay their Court first to her. We
beg Sir, that you will be pleased to lay this before his Ex-
cellency and the Honourable the Council. We forbear ex-
patiating upon those Gentlemen, but declare that we heartily
detest their Behaviour, and if his Excellency is not pleased to
remove them, We shall be extremely obliged, if he will by a
new Commission for this County at next Court, put it in Our
Power to Resign
We have the honour to be Sir
To your most Obed^t humble Servants
Upton Scott Esq^r Andrew Hugh Thomas Price
Clerk of the Council. Will^m Luckett Will^m Blair

As we the Subscribers were not present at last March Court
when the Petition above mentioned was prepared for His Ex-
cellency by the Members of Our Court, then present, we take
this Opportunity to Signify to his Excellency and his Lord-
ship's honourable Council, that it would be pleasing to us and
We are Convinced it would be so to every Member of this
Court, except the two Gentlemen whose Behaviour is Com-
plained of, if his Excellency will be pleased to leave Mess"
Shelby and Warford out of the next Commission of the Peace
for Frederick County.
Tho^s Beatty
David Lynn.
Frederick County to wit
The Deposition of Enoch Innis aged Twenty seven years,
or thereabouts being first Sworn on the Holy Evangels of
Almighty God Deposeth and Sayeth that one James Spencer
an Inhabitant of Maryland in the year 1764, Came before
him (he being a Justice of the Peace for the said County in
the Province of Maryland) and made Oath to the following
Purport, that he the said Spencer in the Month of August
in the year 1763 being present in an Engagement between
his Majesty's Troops and the Indians at a Place called Bushy
run did during the said Engagement Scalp an Indian that lay
Dead in the Field, which Indian Scalp he sometime after his
return home delivered to one Amos Nicholas and requested
he would take the proper Method to Recover for him the
Bounty offered by the Province of Maryland for Indian