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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Order of the Privy Council of Great Britain concerning the appointment of Henry McCulloh as Secretary of North Carolina
Great Britain. Privy Council
June 21, 1754
Volume 11, Page 121

[B. P. R. O. Am: & W. Ind: Vol: 103.

At the Court of Kensington.
the 21st day of June 1754.
Present.
The King's most Excellent Majesty
in Council.

His Majesty having been pleased to approve of Henry McCulloch Esqre to be Secretary and Clerk of the Crown in the Province of North Carolina in America. The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations did this day lay before His Majesty at this Board (pursuant to His Majesty's order for that purpose) a Warrant to authorize and require the Governor and Commander in Chief of the said Province to cause letters patent to be passed under the seal of the said Province for constituting and appointing the said Henry McCulloch Esqre Secretary and Clerk of the Crown accordingly to hold and execute the said Offices during his Majesty's Pleasure and the Residence of the said Mr McCulloch within the said Province—and His Majesty in Council having been pleased to approve of the said Warrant doth hereby order that the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Robinson one of His Majesty's principal Secretarys of State do lay the said Warrant (which is hereunto annexed) before His Majesty for His Royal Signature.

W. SHARPE.