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Whereupon the said Memoriall or representation was sent
to the house of Dell with the following Message Viz.

By his Ex^ncy the Gov^r & Councill in Assembly
Aprill I^st 1707.

His Ex^ncy is pleased to Send the Inclosed Memoriall and
recomends You to Consider well thereof that Some Sufficient
ans^r may be given the Lord Baltemores Agents to his Lord^ps
Complaints and that the house will appoint a Select Comittee
to consider thereof this being an Affair of great moment to
the Inhabitants as well as Posterity, and report whether it be
not reasonable that the Lord Proprietors Surveyors should be
under Oath and good Security for the faithful discharge of

Original
Journal.

heir Offices in reguard the Interest of her Maj^tys Subjects here
may be much Prejudiced by their mistakes and Neglects as
well as deceipt. Signed p order W Bladen Cl Concil.

The aforegoing Message Sent by Coll Hamond Coll Lloyd
& Col Holland
The Board Adjourned till to morrow morning Eight a Clock

Wednesday Ap^ll 2^d 1707

The Councill Sate Present as Yesterday.
His Ex^ncy Proposed and the Board did Unanimously agree
that a Small Vessel should be manned out with about half a
Score men and sent to North Carolina to the Gov^r there with
a Letter from his Ex^ncy demanding Rich^d Clarke and his accom-
plices to be delivered to this Government in order to Answer
for their Crimes.
Then was Read the representation of the Grand Jury in
S^t Marys County complaining of a great Agrievance in that
their County Court is held at S^t Marys Towne at an End and
not in the Center of the said County.
The said Grand Juro^rs Presentment Ord^red to be Sent to the
house with the following Message, which was Sent to the house
of Dellegates by M^r Cheseldyn & M^r Sanders Viz.?

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By his Ex^ncy the Gov^r & Councill in Assembly
Aprill 2^d 1707.

This Board having been severall times Importuned by divers
Petitions from the County of S^t Marys to have the Court house
of the said County appointed in the Center thereof the holding

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