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Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Thomas Johnson jun'r. One hundred
pounds for six Months Salary as Clerk of the Council due the 1st. instant.

That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Johnson jun'r. Twenty four pounds, eleven
shillings and six pence part of an Account passed by the Auditor General the 9th. instant.

That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Johnson jun'r. Twenty six pounds balance of an
Account passed by the Auditor General the 9th. instant

The Council adjourned 'till tomorrow morning.

Tuesday rath. May 1789

The Council met.

Present as on Yesterday.

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Mordeica [sic] Price Two pounds, two
shillings for the like sum paid into the Treasury [p. 72 sic] for Caution on a Land
Warrant, taken out in the name of Mary Cole per Warrant produced.

In Council May 12th. 1789

By the Petition of Benedict Sanders of Charles County and by a transcript of the Court
Record accompanying the Same, it appears that he has been fined the sum of twenty pounds
Current Money for assaulting and beating Smallwood Thompson a constable in the execution
of his duty—The Petitioner represents that he was led into the Offence by a prevailing opinion,
that a person might lawfully repel the attempt of an Officer to serve a process for Debt, after
having warned him to keep off at his Peril—He further represents that the said Smallwood
Thompson has commenced a civil action against him for Assault and Battery, and that to pay
the said fine together with the Costs arising, will be the ruin of his family—And four
Magistrates with a number of other respectable Inhabitants of the said County having
certified the truth of the facts, and his low Circumstances, the Board in consideration of his
poverty do direct that of the above fine the Sum of fifteen pounds be remitted.

J. E. Howard
James Brice
John Davidson
J. Kilty
The Council adjourned till tomorrow morning.

Wednesday 13th. May 1789

The Council met.
Present as on Yesterday.

Order that the western Shore Treasurer pay to Solomon Wright Esquire Fifty pounds
for one Quarter's Salary as one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals due the 1st Instant.
The Council adjourned 'till tomorrow morning.

[p. 69 sic] Thursday 14th. May 1789

The Council met.

Present as on Yesterday.

The Council adjourned 'till tomorrow morning.