116  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.




         Liber M M Caecilius &c. Haueing under his hand & Greater Seale At Armes
                 Bearing Date August the first in the xxxxth yeare of his said Lordpps
                 Dominion Annoq3 Doth 1671. Constituted & Appointed me Baker
                 Brooke Esq Surveyr genrall of the Province of Maryland to Exer
                 cise & Enjoy the same by my selfe or sufficient Deputy or deputyes.
                 with all thinges thereunto belonging, And I Reposeing Especial
                 Trust Care & Confidence in the Skill & Circumspeccön of you ffrancis
                 Jenkins gent. In the Layeing out of Lands, Doe by those prsents
                 Constitute Ordeine & appoint you the said ffrancis Jenkins my true &
                 Law full Deputy Surveyr. To Survey or lay out in any place in the
                 County of Dorchester within this Province all such Lands which
                 I my selfe might or Could doe by Virtue of my Comission aforesaid.
                 In as full and Ample manner to all intents & purposes as I the said
                 Baker Brooke Esq might or could doe if psonally present by Virtue
                 of the abouesaid Commission, Provided that you the said ffrancis
                 Jenckins doe from tyme to tyme & at all tymes hereafter dureing
                 the said Comission Comply with such InstruccOns as you the said
                 ffrancis Jenckins haue or shall hereafter Receive, And shall well &
                 truely pay or cause to be payd to the said Baker Brooke Esq. the
                 one Moyetie or half e of all such ifees Due Incident or belonging to
                 the said Office of Deputy Surveyr for what you the said ffrancis
                 Jenckins Doe or shall hereafter Survey by Virtue of this Commis
                 sion Given under my hand and seale this 24th day of march in ye
                 xxxxith yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honrble Caecilius &c
                 Annoq3 Doth, 167 2/3:
                   The abouesaid ffrancis Sworne before me the 24th day of March
                 Annoq Doth,                      Baker Brooke

               This bill bindeth me John Larkin of the County of Ann Arundell
                 in the Province of Maryland Inhoulder my heires Executors Admrs
                 or Assignes to pay or Cause to be well and truly payd unto Mr Wil
                 liam Seares of London Marchant or to his certeine Attorney his
                 Executors Administrators or assignes the full and Just quantity of
                 Two Thowsand five hundred pounds of good and sound Marchant
                 able Tobacco and Casque To be payd in some Convenient place in
                 the abovesayd County at or upon the Tenth day of October next
                 Ensueing the date hereof, and to the true pformance of this I doe
                 binde myself my heires Executors Admts & assignes firmly by these
                 prsents In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and scale
                 this i8th day of May in the yeare of our Lord 1669[?]
                 Signed Sealed & Delivered    John Larkin (sealed.)
                   in ptsence of Wm Burges
                   Henry Stocket, Wm Wheately.

                   Know all men by these presents That I Joseph Brough of st
                 maryes County in the Province of Maryland, haue & doe by these