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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Gentlemen
Having soon after the Conclusion of the last Session trans-
mitted to the Lord Proprietary the Report and Address you
presented to me the 27^th May last on Occasion of the Instruc-
tion I had then laid before you I was lately favoured with an-
other Instruction from his Lordship revoking the former and
he is pleased to assure me that such is his Confidence in your
Wisdom Zeal and Attachment to his Service that whatever we
shall recommend will at all times engage his ready Com-
pliance, and that we cannot give him greater Satisfaction than
by pointing out how he may give Satisfaction to Ourselves and
to the People of this Province.
13^th Nov^r 1766. Hor^o Sharpe.

At a Council held at the Council Chamber on Thursday the
20^th November in the sixteenth year of his Lordship's Domin-
ion Anno Domini 1766.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The honble Benjamin Tasker, Benedict Calvert, and John
Ridout Esq^rs

Read the folio-wing Petition of Ed-ward Owens of Fi edci ick

County.

p. 438

To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor of Mary-
land ,

The Petition of Edward Owens of Frederick County
humbly Sheweth.
That your Petitioners Servant William White on or about
the Seventh day of October last was Committed to the Custody
of the Sheriff of Prince Georges County for Stabbing a cer-
tain Benedict Wood of the said County, your Petitioner fur-
ther shews to your Excellency that the said Benedict Wood
by means of the Stabbing aforesaid languished until the sev-
enth day of November Ins^t or thereabouts on which day he
died; your Petitioner therefore prays your Excellency to grant
him an Especial Commission of Oyer and Terminer &c. for the
Tryal of the said William White as his laying in Goal until
the next Court of Assize for that County will be attended with
very great Loss and Damage to your Petitioner, and your
Petitioner as in Duty
bound will pray
20^th November 1766. Edward Owens.