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Monday in February next and Proclamations issued accord-
ingly.
Ordered that Pardon issue to Patrick Cane Mullin on Con-
dition of his giving good Security to the Sheriff of Baltimore
County that he will transport himself to Pensacola or some
of the West India Islands and not to return again.

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No. 20

At a Council held at the Governor's on Monday the 4^th Day
of January in the Seventeenth year of His Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1768.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The Honble Daniel Dulany John Ridout and Walter Du-
lany Esq^rs

Ordered that the present General Assembly of this Prov-
ince which stands Prorogued to the first Monday in February
next be further Prorogued until the third Monday in May
next and Proclamations issued accordingly.

At a Council held at the Governor's on Wednesday the 6^th
Day of April in the Seventeenth year of His Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1768.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The Honble Benjamin Tasker, Benedict Calvert, Daniel
Dulany and John Ridout Esq^rs

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter from the Sheriff of Somerset County desiring
their Opinion thereon.

Somerset County March 26^th 1768.
Sir

Last Week at our Court M^r William Alien forewarned me
to pay the 30 per Poll without the Vestrys Order and told
me that if I did I should be sued he had two of the Vestry
James Gunby and Abraham Outten with him at the same time
and called on several to take Notice as Witnesses, he told me
that if I would not pay it the Vestry would give me a Bond
with good Security to keep me Indemnified, he told me that
the Matter should not rest here when I was Sued for that he
would carry it to England, and that he would Spend all his

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