116 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.

tary to License and Authorize Harman Cornellinson Merchant
to trade with any of the Indian or Christian Inhabitants of the
Counties of Somerset Dorchester and Worcester within this

Province for any Furrs Skins or other Truck usually traded for
with the Indians and the same to transport and sell at his
Pleasure Provided that he Obey and Comply with the Act of

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Assembly made touch^g Indian trade and this License to Con-
tinue in force one whole Year and no longer and in the mean
time if he the said Harman shall find any person trading
Actually without License with the Indians of the Counties
aforesaid their Truck and furrs to seize according to the said
Act of Assembly Provided he bring what he shall so seize to a
legal trial before the Iustices of the Provincial Court Given
under my hand & seal at Arms this 16^th day of December in
the fourty first year of the Dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq
Domini 1672

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Maryland ss^t
By his Excellency the Cap^t
General

Whereas Complaint hath been made unto me by Thomas
Kerey of Somerset County Planter that the said Kerey trans-
porting himself and family out of Virginia into this Province to
inhabit and for that reason had due unto him rights for three
hundred Acres of Land and you having at that time power to
prove rights and Grant warrants & Survey Land the said
Kerey applied himself to you for the same and having in
solemn manner proved such his rights before you and also
found out a parcell of Land untaken up at that time did
employ you to survey the same for him which you accordingly
perform'd & he paid you for your doing the same and the
Records for Land having been duly searched no such rights
nor Certificate of Survey can appear and also whereas the
said Kerey also Complains that you told him that his rights
and Certificate were upon record and received also pay of him
for the Pattents though the rights nor Certificate was never
entered to the great damage and utter ruin of the said Kerey
Contrary to the trust reposed you and the Oath you took at
that time when you received your Commission to be a deputy
Surveyor
These are therefore in the name of the right honble the
Lord Proprietary to will and Command you Geo Johnson of
Somerset County that all Business set apart & all Excuses

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ceasing you be and and personally appear before me and the
rest of his Lordships Iustices of the Provincial Court at the
City of S^t Maries the eleventh day of February next to answer