Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 123

Maryland ss^t
By his Excellency the Captain
General

Forasmuch as I have Granted Licenses to Several Persons
within this Province for the keeping of a publick Ordinary
which licenses were restrained to only a Years time to keep
Ordinary and then to be void and for that I am inform'd that
several Persons in the respective Counties of this Province do
presume to keep Ordinary Notwithstanding they have no
License or else their Licenses are void and out of date These

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are therefore to Command you that you make publick Procla-
mation through your Bailiwick that all Persons that keep any
publick Ordinary within the same either by virtue of any
License from me or without any License at all do personally
appear before me at my house at Mattapenny the tenth day of
January next and bring with them such Licenses as they have
by virtue of which they keep Ordinary or some testimonialls
from the Commissioners of the County where they live that
they are persons'fitting to keep Ordinary and so take out new
Licenses or else to proclaim that we do hereby vacate the said
Licenses to them formerly Granted and shall proceed against
them as Persons that sell drink and keep Ordinary without
License Given under my hand and Seal at Arms the eleventh
day of November in the two and fortieth Year of the dominion
of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini 1673

To M^r Iohn Allen high
T he like sent into every particu-
Sheriff of Charles County lar County

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Copy of a Bond of Navigation in Maryland.
Feb^ry 5^th 1673.

Know all men by these presents that we Andrew Wood-
berry master of the Ketch Swallow of Salem in New England,
& Robert Ellys of the County of Calvert in the s^d Province are
holden & firmly bound unto his Excellency Charles Calvert
Captain General of the s^d Province in the full & just Sum of
one hundred Pounds of good & lawfull Money of England, to
be paid to the s^d Charles Calvert, or to his Heirs, Executors,
Administrators, to which payment, well & truly to be made, we
bind ourselves, our heirs, executors & Administrators, & every
of them for the whole & in the whole joyntly & severaly firmly
by these presents, sealed with our Seals dated the fifth day of
February Anno Domini, 1673.
The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above
bounden Andrew Woodberry shall cause all such Tobacco as
he shall Lade on Board his s^d Ketch, this present Voyage, to

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