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At a Council held at the Council Chamber on Saturday the
1st day of November in the sixteenth year of his Lordship's
Dominion Anno Domini 1766.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor.
The honble Benjamin Tasker, Daniel Dulany, John Ridout,
Chas Goldsborough and Henry Hooper Esqrs
Daniel Dulany Esqr and the Clerk of this Board take and
Subscribe the Oath of Abjuration directed to be taken by the
late Act of Parliament.
Mr Joseph Warford being called in and Examined in Rela-
tion to the Complaint preferred against him by the Magis-
trates of Frederick County, This Board in Consideration of
his being very illiterate and keeping an Ordinary is of Opinion
that he is not a Person properly Qualified to be a Magistrate
and recommend to his Excellency that he be left out of the
Commission.
Capt Evan Shelby presents to this Board the following Pe-
tition.
To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr and the honourable
the Members of his Lordships Council.
The Petition of Evan Shelby of Frederick County.
Sheweth.
That Whereas several Magistrates of Frederick County
have laid a Complaint against your Petitioner before your
Excellency and Honours, which was to have been examined
into at this time, your Petitioner humbly prays that a longer
time may be given and that the Evidences according to the
List annexed may be summoned to attend, for tho' your Peti-
tioner will not presume to exculpate himself entirely from
every private failing or Public Indiscretion they have accused
him with yet he hopes to make it appear that they are not of so
deep a dye as they have represented them.
And your Petitioner as in Duty bound will Pray &c.
List of Evidences Evan Shelby.
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