144 Assembly Proceedings, October 26, 1686.

Lib. W. H.

shall be legally due and payable for doeing Executeing or
pforming any matter or thing belonging to their Respectue
Office and all & euery lycensed Ordinary Keepers w^thin this
Province shall not refuse but are & euery of them are hereby
Oblidged to receiue & take after the rate of six shillings of
such advanced Coyne as aforesaid in Lue & instead of euery
hundred pounds of Tobaccoe as aforesaid due & payable th^t is
to say the said Officers for their fees & the said Ordinary
Keepers for their accomodacons provided the said soe advanced
Coynes in Moneys numbred be tendered & paid to such Officer

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or Officers at the very first Employing of such Officer or at
the takeing out of any process act or thing belonging to such
Officer and to the Ordinary Keepers at the time of receiueing
such Ordinary accomodacons but in case default of p^rsent pay
in such Coyne be made th^t then all such fees & Ordinary debts
as aforesaid shall be paid in Tobacoe as the same vsually
before the makeing of this Act was paid & satisfied This Act
to continue & be of force mediately after the end of this p^rsent
Sessions of Assembly provided th^t this Act nor any thing
herein conteyned shall any wise Extend to protested bills of
Exchange in any respect whatsoever this Act to endure for
three yeares or to the end of the next gen^rall Assembly.

Priuate Acts past

An Act for Naturalizacon of derick Browne
An Act for Naturalizacon of Paul Berte and Mary his Wife

Therefore we comand you that these Lawes & every Article
in them conteyned at the vsuall places in yo^r County you

cause to be Proclaimed & Published & firmely to be kept

Giuen at S^t Maries the 19^th day of Novemb^r in the Eleventh
yeare of his said Lopps dominion &c. Annoq dom. 1686
Vnder o^r great scale of o^r said Province of Maryland Witness
o^r trusty & well beloued Henry Darnall Esq Keep^r of the
great seale of o^r said Province &c.
Henry Darnall Keep^r