The Earl of Dartmouth one of his Maj principal Secretaries of State attends
Representation to His Majesty was signed representing that Thomas McGwire and Willie Jones Esquires may be appointed of
the Council of North Carolina in the room of Marmaduke Jones Esq & Sir Nathaniel Duckenfield who have resigned.
Their Lordships read & considered thirty four Acts passed in the Province of North Carolina in Jany 1773 together with Mr Jackson's Report thereupon and it was ordered that the Draught of a Representation to His Majesty [five p. 39] should be prepared proposing the disallowance of several of the said Laws [p. 38] which was read and approved March 28th and signed March 31st.