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tick Copies of any of his Lordships Conditions of Plantation, or
other Papers or Entries, Recorded in the said Office, which he shall
be directed to do under our Hands, by Virtue of the foregonig Order,
for the Use and on Account of the Publick of the Province of Mary-
land, We pray your Answer hereto in Writing: And are with great
Esteem, Sir
Your most obedient humble Servants
C. Carroll V. Denton
To Levin Gale Esq^r This

Gentlemen
I received your Letter yesterday by M^r Stephen Bordley; but shall
part with no Copies of Records out of the Land Office, without some
Person engages to pay the usual Fees: And on those Terms the
Clerks have Orders to make out any Copies that shall be called for.
I am Gentlemen
Your most humble Servant
Levin Gale

L. H. J.

Lib. No. 46

To Doctor Charles Carroll,
and M^r Vachel Denton, Psent.
By the Answers of the said Honourable Gentlemen herein before
incerted, it may appear, that we were refused Transcripts or Copies
and view of the Papers mentioned in your Order, All which is
humbly submitted to the Consideration of your Honorable House
V. Denton C. Carroll

Which being Read, the House unanimously Resolved that the
said Vachel Denton and Charles Carroll have Executed the Order of
this House so far forth as they were able, and have been refused the
view of the Papers & Journals required, and Copies of Records, as
appears by the aforegoing Report.
And it is also further Resolved, that the Records, Enrollments,
Publick Registrys and Offices of this Province, wherein all or any
the Laws, Acts, Proceedings and Journals of Assemblies, Judgments
and other Proceedings of Courts, Patents, Deeds, Writings, and
other Public Matters and Things, relating either to the private
Estates and Properties of the People, or Public Administration of
the Government of this Province, are entred, enrolled, kept or
reposited, are the Right and Property of the People of Maryland
and that the Clerks Registers, and other Officers, having the Custody
and Care of such Records, Enrollments, Registrys and Offices, are
invested with that Charge Care and Custody, in Trust and for the
Use and Benefit of the same People, and others interested therein,
and not otherwise And that all and every Person and Persons what-
soever, hath and have an unquestionable Right to call for, have.

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