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

P. R. O.

Colonial
Entry Book,
No. 104.

9. What correspondency do you keep with your neighbours.
10. What arms, ammunition, & stores do you finde upon
the Place, or have been sent unto you since upon his Majesty's
accompt, when received, how employed, and what part of them
is remayning.
11. What monys have been paid or appointed to be paid by
his Majesty, or levied within your Governm^t for and towards
the buying of arms, or making or maintayning of any Forti-
fications or Castles, or for any other publique uses, and how
have the monys been expended.
12. What are the boundaries, longitude, latitude, and con-
tents of the land within your Government, what number of
acres, patented, setled or unsetled, and how much is manurable
land.
13- What are the Principal Townes, and Places of Trade
and what manner of Buildings are most used in your Colony,
as to the strenght, and largenes of them.
14. How many Parishes, Precincts, or Divisions, are within
your Government.
15. What Rivers, harbors and Roads are within your Govern-
ment, and of what Dephths, and soundings they are.
16. What Comodities are there of the production, growth
and manufacture of your Plantation, and of what value yearly,
either exported, or consumed upon the Place, and what materialls
are there already growing, or may be produced for shipping, as
also what are the comodities imported, and of what value
yearly.
17. Whether salt Peter is or may be produced within your
Plantation, and if so, in what quantity, and at what rates it may
be delivered in England.
18. What number of merchants and Planters, English or
Forreiners, servants and slaves, and how many of them are
men able to bear armes.
19. What number of English, Scotch, Irish of Forreiners have
for these seaven years last past, or any other space of time,
come yearly to Plant, and inhabit within your Government, and
also what Blacks or Slaves have been brought in within the
said tyme, and at what rates.
20. What number of Whites, Blacks or Mulattos have been
born and christened for these 7. years last past, or any other
space of tyme, for as many years as you are able to state an
accompt of.
21. What number of Marriages for seaven years last past
or any other tyme for as many years as you are able to state
an accompt of.
22. What number of people have yearly dyed within your
Government for seaven years past or any other tyme for as
many years as you are able to state an accompt of.