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Appendix. 519
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Therefore Your Petitioner humbly hopes that your Excellency
and Honours will in tender Compassion to this distressed Widow
and Seven Children take the Premises into Consideration, and if to
your Excellency and Honours it should seem meet that your Peti-
tioner should on Behalf of the Widow and Orphans reimburse the
said William Lyon, what he may have paid for the said Escheat and
order that the said Land and Improvements be exposed to publick
Sale to the best Bidder, and the Produce thereof (after deducting
the Money so advanced) may be deposited in the Hands of his Lord-
ships Commissary General for the Benefit of the Widow and Orphans
of the said Duchart. Your Petitioner will readily and willingly
submit thereto, or to such Directions, as you shall be Pleased to
give, and
Your Petitoner as in Duty bound
shall ever Pray &ca
[Endorsed on back] By the Upper house of Assembly 20 April
1757 Read and Rejected
Signed p Order J Ross Cl Up Ho
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Archives
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Black Book
No. 2
Paper 44
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V
THE DARNALL DEFALCATION
[CORRESPONDENCE, APRIL-JULY 1761, BETWEEN GOVER-
NOR SHARPE, ATTORNEY-GENERAL STEPHEN BORDLEY,
AND THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE LOAN OFFICE, BEARING
ON THE DARNALL DEFALCATION, WHICH LETTERS SHARPE
REQUESTED THE LOWER HOUSE TO ENTER IN THE JOURNAL
OF ITS PROCEEDINGS. AS THE HOUSE FAILED TO DO SO,
THESE FIVE LETTERS, TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER COR-
RESPONDENCE APPEARING IN THE JOURNAL, WERE ORDERED
PRINTED IN PAMPHLET FORM BY THE GOVERNOR AND
COUNCIL.]
Annapolis, the 28th April, 1761.
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Sir,
Being satisfied by a Report of the Committee for Inspecting the
Paper Currency, which the Upper House of Assembly presented to
me Yesterday in the Afternoon, and by a Petition which hath been
sent me by John Darnall and Charles Carroll, Esquires, that Mr.
Henry Darnall, the Naval Officer of Patuxent, hath been Guilty
of a great Breach of Duty, and hath failed to remit to the Trustees
in England, sundry Sums of Money which he ought to have remitted,
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Province
of Maryland
By Governor
and Council
1761
(printed
pamphlet
Md. Hist.
Soo.)
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