Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1769-1 770. 313

May it please your Excellency
Mulatto Jack, the Slave of M^r Zachariah Offutt of Freder-
ick County, was Indicted this Court, before the Justices of
Prince Georges County, for a Burglary and a Rape, He
Pleaded not Guilty to each Indictment, and upon a fair and
legal Tryal was found Guilty of both Offences. The Evi-
dence seemed to us to be full and pointed and a Sufficient
Justification for his Condemnation. We have Ordered Tran-
scripts of the Proceedings to be sent to Your Excellency with
all Dispatch.
And are Your Excellency's most Obed^t humble Servants.
John Cooke Jo^s Sprigg
Jos^a Beall Ja^s Crow
W^m Lock Weems John Baynes
Alex^r Symmer Rich^d Ducket Jun^r

Ordered by His Excellency the Governor, with the Advice
of this Board, that a Death Warrant issue for the Execution
of the aforesaid Mulatto Jack, on Friday the 8^th day of Sep-
tember next, which issued accordingly.
Read and approved of by the Sheriff's Bond of Frederick
County.

Lib. C. B.
No, 20

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Tuesday the
12^th Day of September in the Nineteenth Year of Our Do-
minion Anno Domini 1769.

Present
His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor.

Benedict Calvert Esq^r John Beale Bordley Esq^r
The Honble John Ridout Esq^r George Steuart Esq^r
Walter Dulany Esq^r

Read the Transcript of the Conviction of Negro Pompey,
(the Slave of a certain Benjamin Davis Condemned at the
last August Court held in Charles County, for having at-
tempted to Poison a certain Leonard Burch of the said
County.

Ordered by His Excellency the Governor, with the Advice
of this Board that a Death Warrant Issue for the Execution
of the aforesaid Negro Pompey, on Wednesday the 6^th day
of October next, which issued accordingly.

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