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day the 15^th day of this Instant there not being a Sufficient
Number of Members of the Lower House met in Town to
make an House, and a Proclamation issued accordingly.

Wednesday 15^th November 1769

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor that the present
General Assembly of this Province which was appointed to
have been held at the City of Annapolis this day be Prorogued
until Thursday the 16^th day of this Instant there not being a
Sufficient Number of Members of the Lower House met in
Town to make an House and a Proclamation issued accord-
ingly.
Thursday 16^th November 1769.

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor that the present
General Assembly of this Province which was appointed to
have been held at the City of Annapolis this day be Prorogued
until Friday the 17^th day of this Instant there not being a
Sufficient Number of Members of the Lower House met in
Town to make and an House and a Proclamation issued ac-
cordingly.

Lib. C. B
No. 20

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Monday the
20^th day of November in the 19^th year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Anno 1769.

Present
His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor.

Daniel Dulany 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 George
(the Slave of Thomas Wright of Ann Arundel County) Con-
demned at the last County Court held in and for the said
County for breaking into the House of a certain Catharine
Knowsley and Stealing from thence Sundry Things the Goods
and Chattels of the said Catharine Knowsley.
Read also the following Representation of the Justices
relative to the said Conviction.

May it please your Excellency.
We beg leave to represent to you that at the County Court
now held for Ann Arundel County one Negro George the
Slave of a certain Thomas Wright has been indicted arraigned
and found Guilty of Burglary at two different Times and

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