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Beddoe Clerk of the Land Office, by one Letter signed as before
directed to Levin Gale Esq^r who has the keeping of the Records of
the Land Office dated the 12^th July 1739 with their respective
Answers included in an Order of Council hereunto annext, dated the
I^st day of August 1739 whereby we were refused the Copies applied
for in pursuance of your Order, as by the said Order of Council will
appear.

We further Represent, That in hopes of being able to comply with
your Instructions we again applied for Authentick Copies of the
necessary Records and Papers to be Transmitted to support the said
Addresses, and offered Payment for the Copies and Authenticating
the same, as may appear by a Letter directed to M^r William Ghiselin
Deputy Clerk of the Provincial Court, dated the 6^th day of October
1739, and Signed C. Carroll and Vachel Denton, and an Assumption
of the same date, for the lawful Fees arising due thereon directed
to the said Ghiselin, signed C. Carroll, and the said Ghiselins Answer,
included in another Order of Council hereunto also annexed, dated
the 11^th October 1739 by which we were likewise refused the said
Copies notwithstanding our Conformity to the Terms of the first
denying Order of Council, dated the first of August 1739 in ten-
dring Payment for the said Copies; by all which means and Denials
we have hitherto been entirely prevented from complying with your
Instructions and Orders, whereby the said Addresses remain un-
presented

And that your Honourable House may be fully Satisfied of our
dutiful Conduct and Demeanour to his Excellency the Governor, the
said Officers and their under Clerks, we humbly pray that our
Remonstrance to his Excellency, and several Letters incerted in the
Orders of Council hereunto annexed may be Read and Approved or
Disapproved as they deserve whereby we may be acquitted of any
imputation of irregular Proceedings, ill Practices Opposition, Diso-
bedience, or Undutifulness to Government, which are Attempted
by the Order of Council hereunto annext to be laid to our Charge,
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your Honour-
able House

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 46

James Calder,

Edward Sprigg

John Magruder

C Carroll,

Tumor Wootton

V. Denton

Osborn Sprigg

Which was Read, and Ordered to lie on the Table, for Considera-
tion to morrow morning,
The House Adjourns to the Morrow Morning at nine of the
Clock

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