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

Liber A. M.

his security as well for his payment of the Imposition and Port
duties for such Tobacco as he should transport out of this
Province as also to be bound with him according to the Act of

Parliament for encrease of Shipping and Navigation and for
that Iohn Quigley Partner with the said Garret hath this
day on the behalf of the said Garret inform'd me that
the said John Litchington hath absented himself from the
said Ship and is gone into Virginia and as he supposes intends
to have the Ship brought thither after him and so never intends
to Clear in this Province whereby the said Garret Vansweerin-
gen may come to be liable to the penalty of the Bonds entred
into by him only out of Kindness to the said Litchington which
Bonds are for twelve hundred Pounds Sterling and should the
whole penalty come to fall upon the said Garret it would be
to his utter ruin for the speedy prevention whereof these are
in the name of the right honble the Lord Proprietary to will
and Command you immediately to go on Board the said Ship

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and to seize and secure the said Sayles & them cause by the
men of the said Ship to be Carried to such Place as you shall
think Convenient and there them safely keep until further
Order from me Given under my hand and seal at Arms the
eighth day of January in the 41^st Year of the dominion of
Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini 1672
To the Sheriff of Saint Marys Char^s Calvert
County or his deputy

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

These are to license Francis Hill of Saint Georges hundred in
the County of Saint Marys Planter to keep an Indian to fish
and hunt for him in any part of the said hundred and for his
doing this shall be his warrant Given under my hand and
Seal at Arms this 8^th day of January in the 41^st Year of the
Dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini 1672
To all Persons whom this Cha: Calvert
shall or may Concern Locus Sigilli

An Ordinance of his Excellency Charles Calvert Esq^r
Captain General and chief Governor of this Prov^o of
Maryland and the honble Council set forth and pub-
lished for the setling and establishing of a ferry Boat
to be Constantly kept over the river of Patuxent in the
County of Calvert

Whereas many Inconveniences have and do daily happen to
divers of the Inhabitants of this Province that have occasion to