approved by the said house or by the Major part of the Persons
assembled and afterward assented unto by the Leiutenant
Generall in the name of the said Lord proprietarie and shall
be adjudged and established for laws to all the same force and
effect as if the said Lord proprietary and all the freemen of
this Province were personally present and did assent to and
approve of the same Which Bill being read and passed by all
the Gentlemen and freemen present they did consent it should
be underwritten by the Secretary in these words.
[The freemen have assented to this Bill
that it be engrossed and published under
the great Seale]
Then the Leiutenant Generall Leonard Calvert Esq. being
demanded by the Secretary whether he did assent to the said
bill for and in the name of the Lord Proprietarie; answered
yea, and willed that his assent should be underwritten to it in
these words
[The Leiutenant Generall in the behalf of the
Lord proprietarie willeth that this be a Law]
And it was published under the great Scale the twelth of
March 1638
At a sessions of Generall Assembly at St Maries on the 19th
March 1638 To the Honour of God and the wcllfare of this
province was Enacted as followeth
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