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

Lib. J. R.
& U.S.

To the Sheriff of Frederick County.
You are hereby required to Summons Philip Rodenpiller,
Michael Kirkpatrick, Jacob Sayler, Michael Creagar, Peter
Creagar, Valentine Cart, Isaac Colvin, Yost Blickenstaff,
Thomas Johnson Sen. Thomas Johnson jun. and Valentine
Madder that all Excuses set apart they make their Personal
appearance before the Governor and Council at the City of
Annapolis on Tuesday the eighth day of September next to
Testify the Truth of their Knowledge on behalf of Peter
Shuman and John Ferguson in a Matter in Question depend-
ing before them. Hereof fail not at your Peril.
Signed p order
Annapolis 13^th June 1767. Upton Scott Cl: Con :

To the Sheriff of Frederick County.
Ordered by His Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly of this
Province which stands prorogued to Tuesday the 28^th day of
July next be further prorogued to Tuesday the 8^th day of
September next and Proclamations issued accordingly.

Lib. C. B.
No. 20
p. 1

At a Council held at the Governor's on Monday the 13^th day
of July in the Seventeenth Year of His Lordship's Oominion
Anno Domini 1767.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.
The Honourable Benjamin Tasker Esq^r John Ridout Esq^r
and Walter Dulany Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay the following Letter from
Sir William Johnson before this Board and acquaint them
that there are eleven Indians who brought it waiting for an
Answer.
Johnson hall May 1^st 1767.
Sir
Immediately on receipt of the Answers to my Letters con-
cerning the Expence of Calling the Indians together, I dis-
patched Messengers to them, and have received an Account of
their being on their way, but that they have been greatly
retarded by the extraordinary floods, however I daily expect
to hear of their arrival at the Frontiers where I am to meet
them Altho' I sent only for the Chiefs yet I find that a Con-
siderable Number beside are on their Way.
This Letter is to go by the " Nanticokes " from " Otsiningo "
near the head of the Susquehanno River who go to your Gov-