
    JUNE TERM, 1709.
    Lib. P. L. No. 2. folio 586.
    Thomas Bordley against Philemon Lloyd.
    UPON motion made by Thomas Bordley, that whereas he being discharged by the Secretary of this Province, from being clerk of Anne Arundel County Court, prayed this Court to be restored to the said office. Whereupon all and singular the premises by the Court here, seen, heard, and fully understood by both parties, It is the opinion or this Court, that the said Secretary had power to dis= charge him without shewing cause, it being usual by all former Secretaries so to do, the commission given the said Bordley, for the said office, being only during pleasure. Motion being moved by the said Thomas Bordley, for an appeal from the judgment of this Court, it is by this Court rejected, there being no regular proceedings to ground the same on.
   Memorandum. Upon the hearing of the above controversy the Hon. Col. Thomas Smyth, one of the Justices of the Court, withdrew himself from the bench, as also Philemon Lloyd.

Ordered that mandamus issue, directed to Thomas Bordley, late clerk of Anne Arundel County Court, to deliver the records and seal of Anne Arundel County Court, and all things thereto relating, to the Secretary of this Province, returnable next Court.  