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

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Estate upon it. I can't tell on what they build their Opinion

and I have not Conversed with one Man of Sense in the

County but what says they are wrong. I thought it my Duty
to inform Your Excellency of it and assure you that I think it
my Duty and that it is my Inclination to act in this Affair and
all others in such a Manner as will be agreeable to Your
Excellency
I am Sir. Your most Obed^t Humble Serv^t
Isaac Coulbourn.

On Consideration of the above Letter it is the Advice and
opinion of this Honourable Board that M^r Isaac Coulbourn
Sheriff of Somerset County be recommended to pay the 30 per
Poll to M^r Reade that became due during his Officiating in
Coventry Parish on the said Read's giving Security to Indem-
nify him.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Extract of a Letter which he lately received from
Hugh Hamersley Esq^rs
M^r William Hunt who was Joint Trustee with M^r Capel
Hanbury for the Affairs relative to the Paper Currency being
dead, the latter has recommended M^r Osgood Hanbury his
Partner to be joined in the Trust with him with an Intimation
that the amount of the Commission for transacting the Busi-
ness is not large and that he and his late Partner have received
no more than £397..9..4 from it in all since the 28^th April 1750.
His Lordship was unwilling to exercise his Power of Appoint-
ment if it be vested in him without knowing your Excellency's
Sentiments whether it will be agreeable to you or you think it
will be so to the Province the rather as the Unity of the Power
seems to Confine the Execution of the Trust to one Person
only and without thinking of any other Person from himself
he has permitted M^r Capel Hanbury to Act alone till he hears
from the Province and will then be glad to adopt the Person
they propose or at least whom they approve.
It is the Humble Opinion of this Board that M^r Osgood
Hanbury mentioned in the above Extract is a very proper
Person to Succeed M^r Hunt as a Trustee residing in London
for the Service of this Province.

p. 10

Ordered that the present General Assembly of this Province
which stands Prorogued to Monday the 16^th Day of May next
be further Prorogued to Tuesday the 24^th day of the same
Month and Proclamations issued accordingly.