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Liber A. M.
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be put to the Trouble of Coming over to my Office at the
City of Saint Marys therefore as well in Obedience to his
said Lordships instructions and to advance the seating and
setling of the places aforesaid as desiring the Convenience of
the Inhabitants of the said County of Somerset and being
very well Assured of your Care Fidelity and Circumspection
& faithfulness have deputed Constituted and appointed you &
either of you Iointly and Severally my deputies for the proving
rights to Land and Granting warrants thereon to all such
Persons as shall take up Lands in the County of Somerset
aforesaid and the whole Seaboard Side on the Eastern Shore
according to his Lordships Instructions aforesaid and you or
either of you under either or both your hands to direct to any
Surveyor for the laying out of such Lands as by the said
warrants shall be Enjoyned you reciting under each warrant
that you shall so sign that it is by my Order and Appointment
and also that you shall make all such warrants returnable at
my Office at the City of Saint Marys aforesaid and also that
you or one of you shall keep a fair Book of all Entries of such
warrants as afores^d or of such rights proved before you as
aforesaid of which as oft as Conveniently you may you shall
transmit a Copy over to my said Office there to be Recorded
and shall Charge no Fees belonging to my Office for such
entries or warrants as af^d to have and to hold the said Power
and Authority for doing and performing the same to you the
said William Stevens and James Weedon and either of you
Iointly or severally during Pleasure Given under my hand
and Seal of my said Office the 23^d day of December in the
39^th Year of the Dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini
1670

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Charles Calvert Esq^r Lieutenant General & chief Governor
of the Province of Maryland To Iames Weedon of the County
of Somerset in the said Province Gent Greeting Whereas the
right honourable Cecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of
the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Balti-
more &c^a hath by his Commission under his hand and Greater
Seal at Arms deputed and appointed me his Lieutenant Gen-
eral and chief Governor of this said Province and Given me
full Power and absolute Authority upon any Emergent Occa-
sion to Constitute and appoint any Officer Civil or Military
within this Province as to me should seem expedient and for
that his said Lordship hath by his instructions of the 21^st of
March 1669 required my self and Council to use our utmost
endeavours for the seating and inhabiting of the Seaboard Side
on the Eastern Shore and on Deleware Bay within the fortieth
degree of Northerly Latitude and particularly the Whorekill