50 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1647.

Liber F.

of the Enemy, or, Suppression of Mutinies and Insolencies, as
our s^d Lieutenant Shall think most Commodious for the
preservation of our Said Province, And to doe all Such things
as doe belong or appertain, to the Office of a Generall,
Admirall, Captain or Commander To have hold Execute and
Administer the Same with Such power and Authority as any
other, Lieutenant, Governor General Admiral, Captain and
Commander, of any other Province may might or ought, by
the Law of Arms to doe, untill we Shall Signifie our pleasure
to the Contrary And therefore We doe hereby further Ordain
and Command All Captains and Soldiers, as well by Sea as
by Land whome it may concern, and all Such as are and Shall
of our Councell, within our Said Province, All our Officers
Receivers, Bailiffs, Marshalls, Magistrates, Gentlemen, and all
other Inhabitants of our Said Province, of what quality or Con-
dition Soever, That they and every of them doe acknowledge
the Said Leonard Calvert in the quality of Lieutenant General,
Admiral, Chief Captain and Commander, of all our fforesaid
Province and the Islands and members of the Same, And doe
honour respect and obey him as they ought to doe, upon pain
of Such punishment to be inflicted upon them and every of

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them, as Such a high contempt shall deserve And to the end
that no man there Shall pretend Ignorance, We doe Command
this our Ordinance to be proclaimed and published within our
Said Province, at the places accustomed to proclaim and
publish our Edicts or Ordinances, Commanding him our Said
Lieutenant to proceed with rigour against all Contemners and
Neglecters of the Same, according to the Order of punishment
before menconed without favour or
And We doe further by these p^rsents make constitute and
Ordain and Establish the Said Leonard Calvert to be our
Chancellor, Chief Justice, and Chief Magistrate within our Said
Province, untill We or our heirs Shall Signifie the Contrary
under our hand and Seal, and from time to time to appoint
and Constitute Officers and Ministers, for the preservation of
the peace, Administration and Execucon of Justice, and for
doeing and Executing of all other things whatsoever, w^ch belong
to the Establishing and Govern of a good and happy
Comonwealth within our Said Province, And We doe further
give and Grant to him our Said Lieutenant, Chancellor, Chief
Justice, and Chief Magistrate, full and absolute power and
Authority to Assemble the ffreemen of our Said Province or
their Deputies, at S^t Maries within our Said Province upon the
five and twentieth day of January next ensueing the date
hereof, and then and there to Signifie to them that We doe
dissassent unto all the Laws by them heretofore or at any time
made within our Said Province, as We doe hereby declare