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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

this Province to which Answer of M^r Graham's D^r Hamilton
on behalf of M^rs Smith, and M^r Waring for himself say they
are desirous the af s^d Negroes may be executed agreeable to
their Sentence.
Ordered Dead Warrant for the Execution of the said Ne-
groes on Wednesday the 20th day of June next, which issued
accordingly.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board a Letter
sent him from General Gage and also another from Col^o
Bouquett which are ordered to lye on the Table.

At a Council held at the Governor's on Tuesday the 10th day
of July in the Fourteenth year of his Lordship's Dominion
Annoq Domini 1764.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The honble Benjamin Tasker, Stephen Bordley, and John
Ridout Esq^rs

Ordered that the present General Assembly of this Prov-
ince which stands Prorogued to the 3Oth day of July next be
further Prorogued to the First Tuesday in October next and
Proclamations issued accordingly.
The following Letter from the Right honble the Lords
Commissioners of Trade and Plantations and a Copy of an
Address from the House of Commons to his Majesty being
laid before this Board by his Excellency and Answers thereto
being likewise prepared, were Read approved of and by His
Excellency transmitted accordingly.

Whitehall May 11th 1764.
Sir
We send you herewith a Copy of an Address from the
House of Commons to His Majesty of the 5th of the last
Month, and desire you will forthwith prepare and transmit
to us as soon as Possible the Account therein required, that the
same may be laid before that House the next meeting of Par-
liament. So We bid you heartily farewell
and are your very loving Friends and humble Servants,
Geo: Rice Hillsborough
Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Orwell Soame Jenyns
T. Dyson Ed. Eliot
Bamber Gascoyne E^d Bacon