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the freemen of our said Province or their deputies and in case
the said freemen or their deputies or the Major part of them
in any such General Assembly within our said Province shall
within twelve months after the date hereof give their Consent
that all and every of the said Acts or Laws jointly Contain'd
in the said three Sheets of Parchment hereunto annexed shall
be enacted for Laws within our said Province by us or our
Lieu^t there for the time being in our name in such manner and
form as they are there written or drawen ............
without any alteration addition or diminution to them or any
of them We do in that Case & not otherwise hereby declare
Our Assent also, th^t all & Every of the s^d Acts & Laws may &
shall be enacted And we do in that Case and not otherwise
hereby Enact them for Laws within our said Province and do
also in that Case and not otherwise declare our disassent to all
and every Law or Laws which have been at any time heretofore
Enacted or shall be enacted for Laws or Ordinances in our

Liber C. B.

name or otherwise within that our said before the publishing
of our Commission there for the making and Constituting of
the said William Stone our Lieu^t of Our said Province excepting
nevertheless any Act or Acts Law or Laws whereby William
Clayborn now or late of Virginia was or is by that or any other
name attainted or Condemned of any Capital or other Crime
or Crimes or misdemeanors all and every of which Act or Acts
Law or Laws concerning any such Attainder or Condemnation
of the said William Cleyborn we will have still to Continue in
full force and Virtue any thing herein to the Contrary in any
wise notwithstanding Given under our hand and Greater Seal
at Arms at Bath the 12^th day of August in the seventeenth year
of our Dominion over the said Province Anno Dni 1648

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A Commission annexed to the

Conditions of Plantation

Anno 1648

Cecilius &c^a to our trusty and well Beloved William Stone
Esq^r our Lieutenant of our Province of Maryland Greeting
whereas we have thought fit for divers Reasons to Revoke our
former Conditions of Plantation for our said Province of Mary-
land and to propose other Conditions of Plantation for the
future within the said Province which we send you herewith
written in parchment under our hand and Greater Seal at
Arms bearing date the twentieth day of Iune last past and
hereunto annexed and whereas we have likewise herewith sent
you certain draughts or forms of Grants the one of a Manner
and the other of a Freehold under our hand and Greater Seal
at Arms bearing date with these presents ............ and

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