for putting the sd Act for a Cessacon in execution, & to establish
such rules & orders as might prevent or remove all jealousies
of each other in the performance of the injunctions in the sd Act
conteyned or to be conteined. This Act being passed as aforesd
in Maryland by the Lt Genll & the Chancellor of that Province
imediately Transmitted to the Govr of Virga & was by him as
joyfully received, & an Assembly called at James Citty on the
5th of Iune at the opening whereof hee communicated to them
the Maryland Law for a Cessacon & desired their concurrence
with it, which they most readily & cheerfully granted by a Law
intituled an Act for a Cessation & nominated and impowered
Commissors as the Assembly of Maryland had done to meete
& treate as aforesaid and accordingly the said Comrs wth the
Governor and Surveighor Genll of Albemarle County in the
Province of Carolina, nominated & impowered by the said
Province did make & treate at James Citty in Virga on the
12th of Iuly 1666. The results whereof was a full confirmacon
of the said Lawes to bee executed by such meanes & under
such penalties as are expressed in the said Articles, wth a
Proviso that the said Province of Carolina did make the like
Acts, & being made should transmitt the same authentique
coppies thereof to the Govrs of Virga & Maryland before the
last day of September next after the date of the said Acticles,
but that government being soone after invaded by the Indians
was enforced to imploy a great p' of the inter-mediate time in re-
pelling those Barbarians, & consequently their Act for a cessacon
could not come to Maryland before the 5th of October the lapse
of which five daies occasioned by the Invasion aforesd was at
Maryland thought to be a breach of the Treaty at Iames Citty
(so tender & scrupulous were some persons in the greatest
concernment of their happiness or unhappiness, & enforced us
to treate againe at St Mary's in Maryland on the 11th of De-
cember 1666. Where at last wee had the good fortune to
connrmed all the former Acts & Treaties & to returne well
satisfied with each other, & to bring back with us the Certainty
of a CessacOn in Virga Maryland & Albemarle County in
Carolina during the yeare 1667 wch did in an instant as it were
by a miraculous effect cause us to despise & forget our former
miseries, & filled us wth the contemplacon of future happiness
& prosperitys. But may it please yor most sacred Matie & the
Lds of yor most Honble Privy Councell, wee had not long pleased
ourselves wth the opinion that by the aforesaid Transacons wee
had fully & effectually obeyed yor Royall commands sufficiently
provided against our present misfortunes, & secured our repu-
tacons from the censure of posterity for neglecting ourselves
and them when an Instrument under the signature & Seale at
Armes of the Lord Baltemore in Absolute & Princely Tearmes,
prohibiting the Execution of the sd Act & Articles for a cessacon
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No. 65.
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