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144 Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1666.
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P. R. O.
Colonial En-
try Book
No. 53
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three or more of thm be sent Commissrs from the Governor
sufficiently impowered to treate and conclude with the honble
Sr William Berkely and the assembly in Virga or with Commis-
sioners by the said Sr William Berkeley and the assembly afore-
said Sufficiently from them to be Impowered and wth the said
William Drummond Esqr. or Comrs from him and the assembly
of the Colonny vnder his Governmt sufficiently as aforesaid to
be impowered vpon a totall Cessacon from sowing setting
planting or Tending Tob. in their 3 Colonies as aforesaid and
of the meanes to see the said Treaty and Conclusion for a
Cessacon put into full and certaine Execucon.
And be itt further Enacted by the authority and assent
aforesaid that whatsoever the sd. Philip Henry Coursey Na-
thaniell Utye Thomas Notley Robert Sly and Thomas Brooke
or any three or more of them shall agree vpon with the Comrs
to be impowered by the honoble Sr Wm Berkely Wm Drummond
Esqr and the Respective Assemblys tending only to the
effectual Execucon of the Cessacon from planting tobacco in
the yeare aforesaid shall oblige all persons in this Province as
fully as if the same had been perticulerly distinctly & clearly in
Express words conteyned in this act
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To the Rt Honoble the Lord Proprys of Maryland
In most humble wise Complayning Humbly sheweth John
Jarbo of Dijon in the Realm of ffrance Augustine Herman of
Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia Ephraim Georgius and
Casparus Sonns to the said Augustine Anna Margarita Judith
and ffrancina his daughters Anna Hak George & Peter her
Sonnes That whereas the said John Parks was borne att Dijon
in ffrance and whereas the said Augustine Herman was borne
at Prague in Bohemia & that Ephraim Georgius Casparus
Anna Margarita Judith and Francina his Sonns & Daughters
were born at New York out of the Limitte of this Province
And tht Anna Hack borne at Amsterdam in Holland George
& Peter her Sonnes borne at Accomacke in Virgina have long
there Inhabited and now removed into this Province hath for
many yeares inhabited within this Province invited hither by &
Confidence of your Lops Declaracon of the 2d July 1649 where-
by you did impower your Governor from time to time to grant
lands vnto any persons of ffrench, Dutch, or Italian Dissent in
the same and as ample manner and vpon the same termes and
provisoes as they were thereby impowered to grant land to any
Person or persons of brittish or Irish desent and during their
said abode wthin this Province have been alwaies faithfull and
Obedient vnto yor Lops Laws Yett for that both hee and the
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