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trade in Somerset County and to them to give a License to
trade and of them to take Bonds according to Acts of Parlia-
ment and Assembly in that Case provided and the same
Vessels to Clear and discharge and receive the Imposition
Money Port duties and Secretaries fees for the entry and
Clearing of every such Vessel and for the same to be Account-
able and make Payment unto me or my Assigns upon demand
provided always that you presume not by virtue of this to
enter or Clear any decked Vessels whatsoever and always
Provided that you Return unto me with all Convenient speed

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the several Bonds of Navigation You shall take from the
respective Vessels you shall so enter and Clear as aforesaid I
hereby allowing you for your Care and Pains in the execution
of the Premises ten p^r Cent Out of the Imposition money Port
duties and Secretaries fees Given under my hand and Seal
at Arms this 11^th Iuly in the 41^st Year of the dominion of
Cecilius &c^a Annoq Dom 1672
To Captain Thomas Iones Cha Calvert
high Sheriff of Somerset
County These Locus Sigilli

July 12^th 1672
Letters of denization issued under the Great Seal of this
Province unto Mary Mills Daughter of Peter Mills of Saint
Marys County

Maryland ss^t
Whereas his Excellency the Captain Gen^l hath Erected the
Horekeil and Seaboard side into a County by the name of
Worcester County and there being no Clerk as yet appointed
for the Attending of the Commissioners of the said County
and Keeping the Records thereof and Sir William Talbot
Baronet Principal Secretary of Maryland having empowred me
fully for the deputing and Empowring all Clerks within this
Province and being willing that the publick Business should
not in any manner of ways be retarded or delayed for want of
a Clerk and my self being wholly unacquainted with the In-
habitants of those Parts do hereby Authorize and Empower
you Thomas Jones Gent one of the Iustices of the same County
to depute & Appoint such Person as to you shall seem meete

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to be Clerk of the same County until I shall signify the Con-
trary under my hand and Seal and to the same Person that you
Administer the Oath of Clerk hereunder written and present
him to the Iustices of the said County the first Court they hold
as their Clerk and for your proceedings herein this shall be