Assembly Proceedings, Feb. — Mch. 1659/60. 387

anyways trenchinge any of the other Provisoes concerninge
the power of Assent contained in our said Commission to
our sayd Lieutenant there nor to any of our Rights or do-
minion over or in the sayd Province And hereby declare
that all such temporary Lawes soe to be assented unto our
name by our sayd Lieu^t there for the tyme beeinge and unto
from tyme to tyme by the major parte of the upper and
howse respectively of our Generall Assembly there, shall con-
tinue in force in our sayd Province during the tyme to bee re-
spectively in them limitted to continue unless wee or our heires
shall declare our or their disassent sooner unto them respectively
under our or their hand and seale at Armes and noe longer.
And wee doe alsoe heerby give power to the sayd Lieutenant
for the tyme beeinge till wee or our heires shall signifie our or
their pleasure to the contrary with the consent of the major
parte of the upper and lower house respectively of our Gen-
erall Assembly there from tyme to tyme to Repeale any Lawes
allready made or which heereafter shalbe made within our
sayd Province, exceptinge all and every the Acts or Lawes
heere unto annexed as aforesayd and all others which are or
shalbee annexed and assented unto by us or our heires by any
speciall writinge under our or their hand and seale at Armes,
and published within our sayd Province, none of which wee
will have repealed or altered without our or our heires speciall
and expresse assent there unto by som writinge under our or
their hand and seale at Armes with the consent from tyme to
tyme of the major parte of the upper and lower house respec-
tively of our Generall Assembly there. Given under our hand
and greater seale at Armes the sixt day of August in the nin-
teenth yeere of our Dominion over the said Province of Mary-
land Annoq. Dom. one thousand six hundred and fifty.

P. R. O.

Colonial En-
try Book
No. 53

Vpon reading of a Bill for customs to be propounded to the
Assembly together with a commission for repeale of an Act
formerly made at S^t Inigoes 1646. It was ordered that the
said Comission and Act be sent to the lower howse.

U. H.
Journal
1659-69
p. 72

Then was read an Act for setting vp of a Minte and sent to
the lower howse

This day came M^r Thomas Hinson and M^r Zachary Wade
Burgesses from the lower howse desiring the Governor to signe
a Warrant to press bote and hands to carry the said Zachary
Wade vpon a present imployment wherevpon (the buisnes
being not signified, vpon which the said Wade was to be im-
ployed) The Governor asked the opinion of the vpper howse,
whither the warrant should be signed yea, or noe, and resolved
in the Negative till the Cause were knowen, wherevpon the
Speaker came and said it was but for the Statutes of England.

p. 73