514 Journal and Correspondence.

January 20
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 484

Given under the great Seal of the State of Maryland this twentieth
Day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and Eighty four, and in the Sovereignty and Independence of the
United States of America the Eighth. W^m Paca.
By His Excellencys command
T Johnson J^r Sec^y.
God save the State —
The Council adjourned 'till to morrow morning 1 1 ^oClock.

January 21
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 484

Wednesday 21^st January 1784.
The Council met.

Present The Honorable, Gab^l Duvall, John H Stone, John David-
son & Charles Wallace Esq^rs
The Board agree to allow M^r William Hyde seventeen shillings
and six pence per Day for acting as Assistant Clerk to the Council
from the 23^d January 1783 to the 10^th of April 1783. —
The Council adjourned 'till tomorrow morning 11 ^oClock. —

January 22
Liber C. B.

No. 24
p. 484

Thursday 22^d January 1784
The Council met

Present His Excellency William Paca Esquire Governor
The Hon'ble Gab^l Duvall, John H Stone, John Davidson & Charles
Wallace Esquires
Commission issued to Theophilus Hanson appointed Surveyor of
Charles County in the room of Thomas McPherson, deceased, —
The Council adjourned 'till tomorrow morning 11 ^oClock. —

January 22
Liber No. 78
p. 458

[W^m Paca, Council, to John Callahan.]

In answer to your Letter requesting our Advice on the Subject
of it We are of Opinion that those Patents which have been improp-
erly and unwarrantably signed by Sir Robert Eden since his return
to this State, are void and ought not to be recorded — With regard
to such of them as you have recorded before you had knowledge of
the above Circumstance with respect to the signing, we think the
Affair must be submitted to the Interposition of the Legislature who
alone are competent to direct those Patents to be crazed from the
Records.
We have written to Sir Robert on this Business whose Answer
and the whole Transaction we shall lay before the General Assem-
bly: he informs us that the Patents which remain in his Possession