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

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board make out a Copy of
the above Proceedings, relative to M^r Hughes, to be trans-
mitted to His Lordship the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, which being prepared was transmitted accordingly.

p. 17

At a Council held at the Governor's on Tuesday the 24^th
Day of May in the Eighteenth year of His Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1768.

Present

His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r John Ridout Esq^r
The Honble - Benedict Calvert Esq^r Walter Dulany Esq^r
Daniel Dulany Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to acquaint this Board, that he
has received Instructions, from His Lordship the Right Hon-
ourable the Lord Proprietary, to appoint John Beale Bordley
Esq^r a Member of his Lordship's Honourable Council, and of
the Upper House of Assembly of this Province, who, being
present, took the several Oaths to the Government, required
by Law, as also the usual Oath of Councillor, repeated and
Subscribed the Oath of Abjuration and Test, and then took
his Seat at the Board accordingly.
Read the Transcript of the Conviction of Cudjoe Fitzgerald,
Condemned, at the last Assizes held in Dorchester County,
for breaking into the Store House of a certain Clement Baily
of said County, and Stealing from thence sundry Articles of
Merchandize, the Goods and Chattels of the said Clement
Baily.
Ordered, by His Excellency the Governor, with the Advice
of this Board that a Pardon issue to the said Cudjoe Fitz-
gerald, on Condition of his leaving the Province within ten
days from the time of his Delivery out of Goal, and the Conti-
nent of America in two Months after, never to return again.

At a Council held at the Governor's on Friday the 27^th Day
of May in the Eighteenth year of His Lordship's Dominion
Anno Domini 1768.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The Honourable Benedict Calvert John Ridout Walter Du-
lany & John Beale Bordley Esq^rs