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

Liber A. M.

each of them having a visible seated Plantation of fifty Acres
of Land at the least or a Visible personal Estate of Forty
Pounds Sterling at the least within your said County and you
shall Give Authority to each of them severally and Respec-
tively by four several and respective Indentures under their
hands and seals to be deputy and Delegate for your said
County and to appear and serve as Deputy and Delegate for
your said County at the next General Assembly in case he
shall be thereunto summoned by a particular writt for that
Purpose to be directed to him from the Lieutenant General
of this Province for the time being and to do and Consent to
those things which then by the favour of God shall there
happen to be Ordained by the Lord and Proprietary or his
said Lieutenant with the advice and Consent of the Great
Council of the said Province concerning such Occasions and
Affairs as shall Relate to the Government State and defence
of the said Province which said Indentures shall be between
you the Sheriff on the one part and the said freemen electing
on the other part and shall bear date the same day upon which
the said Election shall be made and shall mention the time and
place of such election and the Person so Elected and Shall be
signed and Sealed each part of them as well by the said Sheriff
as by the said freemen by whom the said Election shall be

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made and that upon such election you the said Sheriff shall so
soon as Conveniently may be certify and transmit to the
Chancellor of this said Province for the time being one part of
the said several and respective Indentures close sealed up
under Your hand and seal and directed to the Lieutenant
General of this said Province and also to the said Chancellor
and the other part of the said Indentures you the said Sheriff
are to keep for your Justification Given under my hand and
Seal this 18^th day of December in the 39^th Year of the dominion
of Cecilius &c Annoq Domini 1670

[Plantations on the Delaware.]

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Maryland ss^t

By the Honourable the Governor
and Council

Whereas the Right Honourable Cecilius Absolute Lord and
Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord
Baron of Baltimore &c^a hath by his instructions bearing date at
London under his hand and Seal the 21^st day of March 1669
Commanded us to publish and declare to all People that shall
have a desire to seat on the seaboard side on the Eastern
Shore or on Deleware Bay within the fortieth Degree of
Northerly Latitude and particularly at the whorekill his Lord-