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That the said Treasurer pay to James Angell Nineteen pounds due him per Account passed
by the Auditor,

That the said Treasurer pay to Henry Ridgely Seven pounds, ten shillings for one quarter's
Salary as Clerk of the Senate due 1st February last.

In Council March 30th. 1793

Whereas it appears by the Petition of John Holmes of Montgomery County that he is at
this time and for several years has been, a Justice of the Peace for Montgomery County, that he,
after the passage of the Act of Assembly, entitled "An Act for the better administration of
Justice in the several Counties of this State" thinking that agreeably to the said Act he was
entitled to demand and take the sum of ten pence for administering the Oath in proving an
Account and for Signing a Certificate thereof, i e—four pence for the Oath and six pence for
the Certificate he did demand and take the said Sum of ten pence generally for that service, and
among other [p. 219] instances he did demand and take the fees in those two cases,
for which he has been prosecuted, and at March term last in Montgomery County aforesaid
was fined the Sum of Fifty pounds on each prosecution. The Chief Justice of the district and
one of the Associates of the said County of Montgomery having recommended a remission
of the fines, and the Board having inducements to believe that it was through a misconstruction
of the Law that the Offences were committed, do order that the said fines Amounting to one
hundred pounds be remitted upon payment of all Costs.

James Brice
John Kilty
Henry Ridgely
John Davidson

Monday 8th. April 1793

The Council met.
Present Mr Brice

Mr Kilty

Mr Davidson

Mr Pinkney

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Alice Sylvester mother and Adm'x of
Job Sylvester late a soldier in the Maryland line Ten pounds for balance of pay from 1st of
August until the 31st of December 1780 per Certificate of Auditor.

[p. 220] Tuesday 9th. April 1793

The Council met.
Present Mr Brice

Mr Kilty

Mr Davidson

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to John Green One pound, seventeen
shillings and six pence per Account passed by the Auditor.