Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667—75. 57

Lordships use in each County each Mannor to Contain six thou-
sand Acres a piece
Ordered that the Surveyor General do make out the North-
erly bounds of this Province as near as possible at the Degree
of forty and return his Observations to the Deputy Lieu^ts in
Council
Ordered that M^r William Brookes the Governors Steward
be desired to provide the Governors Sloop with men and

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victuals to Accommodate the Surveyor General up the Bay by
the twenty ninth of this instant October

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At a Council of the right Honble the Lord
Proprietary of this Province held at S^t Marys
the two and twentieth day of October One
thousand six hundred & sixty nine

Present
Philip Calvert Esq^r Chancellor

Ierome White
t Councillors
Baker Brooke Esq^rs

Was then read his Lordships Instructions bearing date the
28^th day of Iuly 1669 and According to his Lordships first
instructions his Lordships Nephew William Calvert Esq^r was
admitted one of his Lordships Council and Ordered that Notice
be Given to Samuel Chew of Herrington in the County of Ann

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Arundell Esq^r to appear at the next Provincial Court to take
the Oath of Iustice of the same Court & afterwards to take
the Oath of one of his Lordships Council
Ordered that the Land by the water side and three miles
into the woods above Piscattoway be reserved and not sur-
veyd until ten thousand Acres be laid out for his Lordships
use
Ordered that from the Whore kill to the degree forty North-
erly Latitude be erected into a County and called by the Name
of Durham County and that from the Hore kill to Mount Scar-
borough be likewise erected into a County & called as the
Lord Proprietary shall hereafter direct
Ordered that Notice be Given to the Sheriffs of Somerset
Dorchester Talbot & Baltimore Countys that what persons will
Seat any Land on the Seaboard Side and Deleware Bay from
the Bounds of Virginia to the degree forty Northerly Latitude
Shall for their Encouragement pay only one shilling Sterl rent
p Annum for every fifty Acres which he or they shall take up
upon Legal warrant and that the Surveyor General do Author-
ize some person that he shall think fit to survey the same and
according to his Lordships former Order to lay out for his
Lordships use two mannors in each County each Mannor to
Contain six thousand Acres at the least

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