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270 "Journal of the Council"
Justices of the said County, do order and direct that the fine aforesaid of twenty pounds be
remitted upon all Costs arising on the Presentment aforesaid being paid
Tho. S. Lee
James Brice
J. H. Stone
John Davidson
[p. 76] Friday nth. May 1792
The Council met.
Present the Governor
Mr Brice
Mr Ridgely
Mr Stone
Mr Davidson
In Council May nth. 1792
It appearing to this Board by a Certificate from the Clerk of the St. Marys County Court
that Thomas Valentine, Alias Valentine Murry, alias Valentine Murrain, who was fined by the
County Court of the said County at September term 1789 for selling Liquor contrary to Law
six pounds Current Money and for dealing with a Negro 2000 tn. of Tobacco amounting to
twelve pounds ten shillings, is the same person who was relieved the 17th October 1789 by the
name of Valentine Murrain of Eighteen pounds on his Petition setting forth that he was fined
that Sum for selling Spiritous Liquors without Licence. It is now Ordered that of the above
fines, twelve Pounds five shillings be remitted on Payment of all Costs.
Tho. S. Lee
James Brice
J. H. Stone
John Davidson
[p. 77] On the Petition of Jonathan Sellman jun'r and William Magruder stating that
they entered into Bond dated 10th September 1782 as Securities of Alexander Trueman in the
sum of Nine hundred and eighty pounds to the State of Maryland payable in Specie Certificates,
for the purchase of a Tract of Land containing 133 3/4 Acres lying in Frederick County on
Monococy Manor, that all the interest due on said Bond up to the 10th of September seventeen
hundred and eighty six was paid on the 8th of June 1789 amounting to two hundred and thirty
five pounds four shillings that he the said Alexander Trueman is become Insolvent, and has
removed out of the State, that William Magruder one of the Securities is worth little or no
property, hath a large family now depending on him for support, and that he is in actual con-
finement in Goal for debt that Jonathan Sellman the other Security by accidents and misfortunes
is reduced to a situation which renders him unable to discharge the aforesaid Bond; they also
state that there is now due for the rent of the said Land about Sixty pounds, and that it is in a
better situation than when purchased of the State, and therefore pray that the said Land may be
taken back on behalf of the State and the bond in which they are Securities Cancelled.
The Board believing the facts contained in the Petition to be true, and considering the
inability of the Securities to pay for the property, the inevitable [p. 78] ruin that it
would involve them and their families in by refusing the relief prayed for, and that the State by
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