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Our Council there to all intents and purposes and to have the
like Powers and Authoritys as if they and Every of them had
been nominated in our said Commission for our said Council
or by any other particular warrant under our hand and seal at
Arms for that Purpose and so To Continue till we or our heirs
have notice thereof and shall think fit to discharge again them
or any of them respectively by any warrant or writing under
our or our said heirs hand and Seal at Arms from being of our
or their Council there any Longer any thing herein Contain'd
to the Contrary notwithstanding provided nevertheless that
every one of the said Persons so to be nominated by the said
William Stone to be of our Council there as afores^d shall

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respectively take in open Court within our said Province the
same Oath of a Councillor to us and in the same manner as
we have appointed it to be taken by the rest of our Council in
our said Province before he shall be admitted to be of our
Council there which Oath shall be administred unto every
such Person by our Secretary there for the time being unto
whom we do by these Presents give Power and Authority to
administer the same accordingly Given under our hand and
Great Seal at Arms at Bath the sixth day of August in the
seventeenth year of our dominion over our Province of Mary-
land Annoq Dom 1648

The Oath of the Lieutenant or
chief Governor of the Province of
Maryland

I AB do swear that I will be true and faithful to the right
honourable Cecilius Lord Baron of Baltimore the true and
absolute Lord and Proprietary of this Province of Maryl^d and
his heirs and him and them and his and their rights Royal Ju-
risdiction and Seigniory all and every of them in to and over
the said Province and Islands thereunto belonging will at all
times defend and maintain to the utmost of my Power and will
never accept of nor execute any Place Office or Employment
within the said Province any way Concerning or relating to
the Government of the said Prov^e from any Person or Author-
ity but by from or under a lawful Authority deriv'd or to be
deriv'd from time to time under the hand and seal at Arms of
his said Lordship or his heirs and Assigns Lords and Proprie-
taries of the said Province I will faithfully serve his said Lord-
ship as his Lieutenant of the said Province and in all other

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Offices Committed to my Charge by his said Lordships Com-
mission or Commissions to me and will willingly yield up the
said Commission & Commissions again and all Offices Powers
and Authorities Granted or to be Granted by them or any of

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