Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 169

Ordered that the Register of the Secretarys Office be di-
rected to make out a Commission as Prayed for John Hepburn
Esq^r and Mess^rs Francis Waring, John Contee, and John
Cooke Commissioners.

At a Meeting of the Council in the Council Chamber on
Monday the first day of December in the sixteenth year of
his Lordship's Dominion Anno Domini 1766.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The honble Benjamin Tasker, Richard Lee, Benedict Cal-
vert, Daniel Dulany and John Ridout Esq^rs

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letters from the Lords of Trade and Plantations and
from the Earl of Shelburne One of his Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.
Whitehall 1^st August 1766.
Sir
In pursuance of an Address of the House of Commons, to
His Majesty on the 27^th of March last and of His Majestys
Commands thereupon signified to us by His Grace the Duke of
Richmond in a Letter to us dated the i I^th ult. you are forth-
with to prepare, and as soon as Possible transmit to us, in
Order to be laid before the House of Commons in the next
Session a particular and exact Account of the several Manu-
factures, which have been set up and carried on within the
Colony under your Government since the year 1734 and of the
Publick Encouragements which have been given thereto.
You are also from time to time annually to transmit the
like account of any Manufactures which shall be hereafter set
up, and the Publick Encouragements which shall be given
thereto.
Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Lieu^t We are Sir,
Governor of Maryland your most Obedient Servants
Palmerston John Roberts
Dartmouth W^m Fitzherbert
Ed: Elliot
It is the Advice of this Board that His Excellency lay
the above Letter before the present General Assembly now
Sitting.
Whitehall 13^th Sept. 1766.
Sir
Advices having been received from His Majesty's Superin-
tendants for Indian Affairs, that the most unprovoked Vio-

Lib. J. R.

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