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Ordered That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to Daniel Scott
Two pounds, ten shillings Current Money due him per Account
passed by the Deputy Auditor the 1st. September last,

That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Smith late a Soldier in
the Sixth Maryland Regiment Ten pounds Current Money Ballance
of five Months pay per Certificate of Deputy Auditor,
[p 297] Ordered That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to
Bristow Cross (a free Negro) ten pounds, five shillings, specie
agreeably to the "Act to adjust the Debts due from this State" due
him the 1st. September last as per Account passed by the Dep'y.
Aud'r.

His Excellency William Smallwood Esquire attended.

The Honorable Benjamin Harrison Esquire absent.

In Council February 28th. 1788

This Board being informed by William Harwood Esqr. Clerk of
the House of Delegates that a Bill entitled "An Act respecting the
Securities of public Debtors," passed both Branches of Legislature
last Session, but being mislaid was not engrossed, signed and sealed
by the Governor. It is ordered that the said Bill be printed and
published among the Laws of said Session, and that it stand in the
order in which it was passed, and that it be lodged with the Clerk of
the General Court to be by him recorded, and further, that the Printer
note in the Margin of said Act that the above Circumstances of en-
grossing, signing and sealing were not complied with and that the
Clerk of the General Court in the Margin of the Record of the said
Act make a similar note.

Commission issued to Richard Wells appointed Inspector of An-
napolis Warehouse in Anne Arundel County.

In Council February 28th. 1788

Whereas it appears by the Petition of Philip Waters and James
Waters of Baltimore County together with a transcript from the
records of the County Court of the same County, that at January
term last the said Philip Waters was fined on two several Present-
ments as follows, Twenty pounds for Assaulting Nathan Griffith, and
Thirty pounds for assaulting Anthony Mann, and the said James
Waters was fined on one Presentment Ten pounds for Assaulting
Anthony Mann, amounting in the whole to sixty pounds, and the
said Petitioners having by their Petition represented that the persons
assaulted received no Personal injury therefrom, that Philip Waters
at the time of committing the assault, was much intoxicated, and
James Waters the son of the said Philip, interfered in Defence of his
father, and praying to be relieved from said fines. The Board taking
the same into Consideration, do order and direct that ten pounds part