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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

At a Council held at the Governor's on Saturday the 13^th
day of June in the Seventeenth year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1767.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The honble Benjamin Tasker, John Ridout and Charles
Goldsborough Esq^rs

Read the Transcript of the Conviction of Levi Thompson
als Levi Game, als Levi Fortune Condemned at a Session of
Assize held for Somerset County, for the Murder of a certain
Jacob Aires and Negro Scipio.
Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice of
this Board that Death Warrant issue for the Execution of the
afs^d Levi Thompson als Levi Game als Levi Fortune, on
Wednesday the 8^th day of July next, which issued accordingly.
Read the Transcript of the Conviction of Thomas Hulme
of Dorchester County Joiner Condemned at a Session of As-
size held for said County, for breaking open the House of a
certain William Ennals of said County and Stealing from
thence Fifty Pounds of Sugar and fifty Pounds of Coffee the
Goods and Chattels of the afs^d William Ennalls. Ordered
therefore by his Excellency with the Advice of this Board
that Death Warrant be issued for the Execution of the afs^d
Thomas Hulme on Friday the 26^th day of this Instant June.
Ordered also that Death Warrant be issued for the Execution
of Negro Toby Slave of William Ennals, for whom Death
Warrant had been issued the 2^d day of April for his Execution
on the 6^th of May but His Excellency was pleased to Grant
a Reprieve on the 17^th of April until his further pleasure
should be known, it is now therefore Ordered that the afore-
said Negro Toby be Executed on Friday the 26^th day of this
Instant June.
Read the following Letters and Papers relative to the Peti-
tions of Sundry Inhabitants of Baltimore Town and County,
laid before this Board on the 15^th of April

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Baltimore Town 2^d May 1767.
Sir
In Answer to your Letter to Myself and the other Magis-
trates Complained against by Petitions to the Governor, shall
be much obliged if you will be pleased to let His Excellency
know that a year ago last February I wrote to inform him my
State of Health would not Permit me to serve any longer as a
Magistrate and therefore requested to be left out of the next
Commission of the Peace His Excellency should be pleased