330 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1657-1660.

Liber H. H.

respectively or the valeue thereof in such Comodities as His
Lo^p or his heires or his or theyr Officer or Officers appointed
from time to time to Collect & receaue the same shall accept
in discharge thereof. And provided also that there be not
aboue fifty pole of land layd out vpon any water side of euery
fifty acres to be assigned as aforesaid & so proportionally for
any greater quantity of land & the residue to be layd out
within the land next adioyneing: w^ch proporcon also his Lo^p
wills & requires his said Lieu^t & Councell to cause to be
observed in in surveying & setting forth all other lands claimed
by any person or persons by vertue of any of his Lo^ps Con-
dicons of plantacon or any other Warrant or Order heeretofore
or w^ch heereafter may be obtained from his Lop notwithstanding
particular mention be not made thereof in any such Warrant
or Order, for all w^ch this shall be his said Lieutennants
Warrant.
3. His Lordship doth heereby Authorise & require his Lo^ps
brother Philip Calvert Esq^r his principall Secretary of the said
Province of Maryland to administer in open Court there the
Oath of his Lo^ps Lieutennant of the said Province to Cap:
Iosias Fendall his Lordships present Lieutenant there.
Given vnder his Lo^pps hand & lesser scale at
Armes the 12^th of November 1656.
C: Baltemore

P. R. O.

Domestic
Interregnum,
Vol. 105,
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Order of the Councell of State
Wensday 17^th December 1656.

Upon reading a certificate from the Committee of Trade in
pursuiance of the Councell's order of 31. July last, whereby it
was referred unto them, to consider of the petitions of Richard
Bennet and Samuell Mathews, Agents for Virginia, and the
rest plantations in the Bay of Chesapiake, with the Represen-
tation of the Governor, Councell and burgesses of the Grand
assembly in Virginia, and a report from the Lord Com^r Whit-
lock and the Lord Com^t Widderington, upon the petition of
Cecilius Lord Baltimore made to the Councell in pursuiance of
a reference from his Highness, Ordered that the sayd certifi-
cate, and that whole matter, be referred to the Committee of
the Councell for foreigne plantations, who are to speake therein
with the parties, and to report to the Councell, what they shall
conceive fitt to be done upon the whole business; as also, to
consider of what was now proposed, by the Lord Deputy and
the Lord Deputy is added to the Committee.