114 Assembly Proceedings, March 1641/2.

Liber M C

12^th January 1641

Whereas I have appointed to hold a General Assembly at
Saint Marys Fort on monday being the fourteenth day of
March next these are therefore to will and require you that
you repair personally to the said Assembly at the time and
place appointed there to consult and advise touching the im-
portant Affairs of this Province Given at Kent Fort the day
& Year above said
Signed
To M^r Giles Brent Gent Leonard Calvert
Councillor of the Province

17^th January 1641

The like writt to Captain Tho^s Cornwaleys Esq^r
M^r Fulk Brent Gent
M^r John Lewger Secretary
M^r Thomas Greene Gent
M^r John Langford Gent
M^r Tho^s Gerard Gent
17^th January 1641

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These are to will and require you to assemble all the free-
men as you may of each of the of Saint Marys, Saint Michaels,
Saint Georges & Conception alias Mattapanient hundred at a
certain time and place by you to be prefixed in each of the
said several hundreds to make such election of one or more
Burgess or Burgesses as they shall think fit for the next
Assembly to be held at Saint Marys on the 2 I^st of March
next and to signify such their election under their several
hands and make return of the several elections so to be made
by the said freemen of each several hundred on or afore the
said 21^st day of March where there shall be need to signify
the said several elections to the several Persons so elected to
the end they may be at the said Assembly at the time and
place aforesaid whereof fail not this shall be your warrant

To the Sheriff of Saint Marys

By the Lieu^t Generall

Whereas the house of Assembly stands Prorogued until the
twentieth of March next at which time most of the Laws now
in force will determine and expire and that it is necessary afore
the said expiration to assemble to assemble the freemen for
the enacting of new laws and other important affairs of the
Province these are therefore to publish & proclaim to all Per-