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be remitted, upon the Petitioners paying for the time they continued to sell without licence,

and on payment of all Costs.

Tho S. Lee
James Brice
H. Ridgely
J. H. Stone
John Davidson

[p. 96] In Council June 18th. 1792

Samuel McPherson by his Petition sets forth that he was bound in a recognizance for the
appearance of a certain James Carroll of Pennsylvania at last November Court held for
Frederick County to answer to a charge of petty larceny, at which said Court an Indictment
was found against the said James Carroll for the aforesaid Offence, and in consequence of the
Petitioners not producing the said James Carroll, and also because it then appeared to the said
Court that there was no probability of his being produced in a reasonable time, if ever, as he,
it was generally said, and commonly believed in this State, was gone on an Expedition against
the Indians, for which reasons the Recognizance of twenty five pounds Current Money was
forfeited, that the Petitioner became bound for the said James Carroll to exempt him from the
rigours of a close and hard confinement and not with any design to enable him to elude Justice.
The Chief Justice before whom the Recognizance was forfeited represents that he has no reason
to suppose that the Petitioner hath been consenting or aiding to the said James Carroll in
making his escape, on the contrary from the Character of the Petitioner and his conduct in
this transaction, he had no doubt [p. 97] but that the Representation given by the
Petitioner is a true state of the Case, and therefore recommends a remission of the forfeiture.
Ordered that the said forfeiture of twenty five pounds Current Money be remitted upon all
Costs being paid.

Tho. S. Lee
James Brice
J. H. Stone
John Davidson

Tuesday 19th. June 1792

The Council met.
Present Mr Brice

Mr Ridgely

Mr Stone

Mr Davidson

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Capt. William Campbell Twelve pounds,
ten shillings to be delivered over to General Thomas Sampler Attorney for Adam Keephart
late a soldier in the Maryland line, it being for his pay from the 1st of August until the 31st
of December 1780—per Certificate of the Auditor.

Whereas William Sinclair of Baltimore County on the 16th of September 1785 [p.
98] entered into Bond with John Norris his security in the sum of thirty seven pounds,
thirteen shillings and four pence payable to the State for the purchase of certain confiscated
property, and the said William Sinclair by his Petition sets forth that his Father has a lease