Council of Maryland, 1783-1784. 527

Tuesday 18^th May 1784.
The Council met
Present as on Yesterday
Adjourned 'till to morrow morning 10 ^oClock

May 18
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 494

Wednesday 19^th May 1784
The Council met

Present the Honorable Gabriel Duvall— John Davidson & Charles
Wallace Esquires. —

Adjourned 'till to morrow morning 10 ^oClock.

May 19
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 494

Thursday 20^th May 1784
The Council met

Present as on Yesterday and His Excellency.
Commission issued to John Browne, James Bordley, James
O'Bryan, John Fischer, Clement Sewell, Vincent Benton, Vachel
Downes, Edward Downes, John Sayer Blake, Benjamin Sadler, Jacob
Ringgold, Thomas Marsh Foreman, Arthur Emory, and George
Baynard appointed Justices of the Peace for Queen Anns County. —
The Council adjourned 'till tomorrow morning 11 ^oClock.

May 20
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 494

[W^m Paca, Council, Annapolis, to The Hon'ble Tho^s M^cKean &
Jacob Rush Esq^rs, Judges of the Supreme Court
Pennsylvania.]

We have the Honor to acknowlege your's of the 7^th Instant, in-
forming Us that our's of the 29^th April addressed to the President
of your State was received, and referred by the Council to you as
Judges of the Supreme Court to take Measures to bring M^r Carbury

into your State for Prosecution and Trial for the Offences with

which he is charged to have there committed : in consequence of this
Act of Council you have addressed Us and requested that we should

May 20
Liber No. 78
p. 460

order M^r Carbury to be sent to the Goal of the City and County of
Philadelphia.
As soon as we were made acquainted with M^r Carbury's Affair
we took Measures to give your Executive Power the earliest infor-
mation of it, conceiving that by the Articles of Confederation they
only could nationally interfere and demand him out of the Hands
and Jurisdiction of this Government : the 4^th Clause of the Confed-
eration is plain and explicit and we still think no Authority in your
State competent to demand M^r Carbury but the Executive.
It does not appear from your Letter that you were Commissioned
and Authorized to demand M^r Carbury: you address in your judi-

p. 461