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day next come sevennight being the eighteenth instant be
appointed for the said Lord Baltamore to appeare att this
Committee and that he have notice thereof given him in the
meane tyme.

P. R. O.

Domestic
Interregnui

By the Leive^t &c of Maryland

Liber A.
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Procl published eod

Whereas divers Licences or Warr^ts haue
beene heretofore granted since the last

gen^rall Assembly to severall Inhabitants of this Province for
killing of Wild Hoggs ymploying Indians to kill deere with
Gunnes, and some to fforreyners to hunt & kill deere within
this Province w^ch hath occasioned some inconvenience & hath
given great offence to divers of the Inhabitants of this Province
as I haue beene informed I haue therefore thought fitt and doe
hereby revoake annihilate & make voide all Licences or War-
rants before menconed whatsoever or by whomsoever granted
And doe declare that they nor any of them after the date
hereof shalbe noe longer in force Whereof all the Inhabitants
of this Province and all other persons who haue had any such
warrants or licences granted vnto them or any of them & all
others whom it may concerne are hereby required to take
speciall notice hereof & in all things to comply with & yeild
theire ready obedience vnto two severall Acts made in that
behaulf the last Assembly one of them intitled an Act touching
Indians and the other an Act touching Hoggs &c vppon pill
of such ffine penalty forfeiture or punishm^t as in them or either
of them is provided for Offenders against the same Given at
S^t Maries this 29^th day of Aprill Anno dni 1650
W^m Stone

Whereas I Cap^t William Stone Leiveten^ant &c of this Pro-
vince of Maryland by Comission from the right ho^ble the Lord
Baltemore Lord Proprietary of the same, having occasion to
bee for sometime absent out of this Province, doe by vertue of
& according to the power and authority, to mee granted by
the said Comission, nominate elect and appoint Thomas Hat-
ton gent (his Lo^pps Secretary) to bee his Lo^pps Leiveten^ant Gene-
rail, Chancellor or keeper of the Great Seale, Admirall, cheife
Justice Magistrate and Comander as well by Sea as by land of
this his Lo^pps said Province of Maryland and the Islands to the
same belonging duringe my absence out of this Province or
vntill his Lo^pps or his heires signify his or theire pleasure to the
contrary in as large and ample manner as his Lo^pp hath by the
said Comission authorized mee to governe for the p^rsent.
Witnes my hand this 22^th day of May Anno dni 1650
William Stone

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