286 Journal and Correspondence.

October 16
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 346

pounds, six shillings and eight pence — Peter Becraft three hundred
and four pounds, fourteen shillings and seven pence — The Honorable
John Rogers Esq^r eight hundred and ninety eight pounds, four
shillings and four pence and Nicholas Sewall forty two pounds,
eleven shillings and two pence specie agreeable to the "Act to adjust
the Debts due from this State " per Accounts and Certificates adjusted
& passed.
That the said Treasurer pay to Mary Prisley three Pounds specie
due her per Account passed. —
Commissions issued to William McLaughlin elected Sheriff of
Baltimore County — John Stevens Sheriff of Dorchester County and
Samuel Ridgeway Sheriff of Queen Anne County. —
William Goldsborough and William Townson of this State are ap-
pointed Ensigns in the Maryland Line, the Rank and Arrangement to
be settled hereafter. —
Benjamin Morgan, George Howell Leigh and Patrick Carberry
having been presented and fined at a County Court held for S^t Marys
County in November 1781 for suffering several people to game in
their houses, as appears by a Certificate from Timothy Bower Clerk
of said County, Benjamin Morgan and George Howell Leigh on one
presentment each and Patrick Carberry on two Presentments, repre-

p. 347

sent that they hearing and believing that the Act of Assembly to
prevent excessive and deceitful gaming had become a dead Letter
and that it has been in a great measure Virtually repealed and
being well assured that in the public houses in general through this
State gaming was allowed and no punishment inflicted on the owners
of the houses, they at the earnest Solicitation of their customers
permitted them to play at Cards in their houses, that their conduct
did not proceed from any contumacious inclination in them to violate
any Law of the Land, but from the causes aforesaid and produce a
Recommendation from seven Magistrates of the said County that
their Fines may be remitted. This Board taking the same into Con-
sideration do order and direct that Benjamin Morgan, George Howell
Leigh and Patrick Carberry be discharged from the Fines above
mentioned and that all proceedings on the said Presentments cease,
on their paying the legal Fees. —

October 17
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 347

Thursday 17^th October 1782

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Peter Smith
seven pounds, ten shillings — Andrew Buchanan ninety pounds — and
Jacob Long ten pounds, specie agreeable to the Act to adjust the
Debts due from this State per Accounts passed. —
That the said Treasurer pay to John Moore five hundred and
four pounds, seventeen shillings and seven pence specie agreeable to
the Act aforesaid due on a Certificate adjusted the 13^th Instant.