506 Journal and Correspondence.

January 13
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 478

taking the same into Consideration, and it appearing from the Cer-
tificate of two of the Justices of Baltimore County Court that the
Case of the said John Cockey Owings was truly Stated in the Peti-
tion aforesaid, are of Opinion that the aforesaid fine should be re-
mitted and do therefore remit the same. —
Commissions issued to Nicholas Worthington, Elijah Robesson
Samuel Harrison, Allen Quynn, Samuel Harrison of Rich^d, Richard
Harrison of Rich^d, Thomas Tongue, William Hyde, John Burgess,
Elisha Warfield, Francis Fairbrother, John Brice, Benjamin Gallo-
way, Thomas Worthington, James Kelso, Andrew Ellicott and
William Hammond appointed Justices of Ann Arundel County &
Nicholas Worthington, Allen Quynn, Samuel Harrison of Rich^d,
William Hyde, Francis Fairbrother, John Brice and Benjamin Gallo-
way Judges of the Orphans Court for Ann Arundel County. —
The Council adjourned 'till to morrow Morning 11 ^oClock

January 13
Liber No. 78
p. 458

[W^m Paca, Council, Annapolis, to Sir Robert Eden.]

We are informed by the Register of the Land Office, who has ap-
plied to us for our Advise and Direction that a considerable number
of Certificates and Patents, and also a Number of Certificates which
are indorsed Patented have been delivered him by your Orders since
your late return from Great Britain, and we have reason to think
that you have in your Possession the Patents of those Certificates
which are indorsed Patented and that they have been signed by you
since the Revolution. In order to ascertain the Authenticity of those
Papers It becomes our Duty to enquire in whose hands they have
been kept 'till your delivery of them to the Register, and whether you
have still in your Possession any papers purporting to be Patents or
Grants to Citizens of this State — and for the like purpose of ascer-
taining the Legality of those Papers or others we must desire you
explicitly to inform us whether since your return you have done any
Matter or Thing whatever to give Sanction or Validity to those
Papers, or any others, under a mistaken Notion of any Subsisting
Power or Authority as Governor or under any other Idea or Suppo-
sition of a rightful Power. We are Sir &^ca

January 14
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 478

Wednesday 14^th January 1784.
The Council met

Present His Excellency William Paca Esquire Governor
The Honorable Gab^l Duvall, John Davidson & Charles Wallace
Esquires
Daniel Dulany Executor of Ann Tasker exhibits an Account on
Bond against the Reverend Jonathan Boucher, which Amounts with