Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 55

Provincial Court in the said Province Provided that they take
the Oaths belonging to the said Offices in Open Court before
they enter into the said Employments which Oaths his Lord-
ship does hereby Require his said Lieutenant or his said
deputy or deputies to Cause to be Administred unto them
and his Lordships further Pleasure is that his said dear Nephew
William Calvert do take his place in the Provincial Court and
Council next to the Chancellor
2^dly That according to his Lordships former directions no
Land be Granted hereafter from his Lordship in his said Prov⁵
for a less Rent then two Shillings Sterling yearly for every
fifty Acres and that Special Care be taken that the Surveyor
General do speedily set out ten thousand Acres of the best

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Land up in the freshes of Potomack River for his Lordships
use & also that no inchroachments be made by any other
Persons upon any Lands already reserved or that shall here-
after be reserved for his Lordship as also that no Lands what-
soever formerly Granted and since Escheated or forfeited to
his Lordship be Granted away upon Rights of Plantation or
otherwise without special warrant under his Lordships hand
and seal
3^dly That you use all means Possible to procure that some
persons be seated upon the Sea board side on the Eastern
Shoar and on Deleware Bay within the Degree forty Northerly
Latitude and particularly the Whore kill and for the Encour-
agement of Planting in those parts it is his Lordships pleasure
that Lands be Granted there to such persons at the rent of one
Shilling Sterling yearly for every fifty Acres according to the
former Conditions of Plantation and if any shall presume to
oppose you in it you are to maintain his Lordships right by
force if Need be which his Lordship will justify you in it is
likewise his Lordships further pleasure that the Surveyor
General do set out for his Lordship at the Whorekill and Sea-
board Side of the Eastern Shoar of the best Land and in the
most Convenient places to be found in those parts two
Mannors in every County each Mannor Containing six thou-
sand Acres at the least
4^thly Whereas his Lordship Granted to his Son a power
during his being of the said Province to suspend any
person of the Privy Council Officers and to add to the
number of the said Privy Council such persons as
thought fit his Lordship thinks fit hereby to declare that he
intends not that his Sons deputies should have any such power
nor any such Authority without special warrant for the
same under his Lordship hand and seal Given under his
Lordships hand & Lesser Seal at Arms this twenty eighth day

of Iuly One thousand six hundred sixty nine
C Baltimore

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