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with such Commodities as he shall have with him without Let
Obstruction or hinderance whatsoever Provided always that
this License to trade or any thing therein Contained shall not
extend to Empower the said Iohn Lederer to trade with any
of the Neighbour Indians or Borderers upon the said Province
of Maryland nor with any Nation of Indians that inhabit within
two hundred Miles of the said Province and further this License
to Continue in force for the space of fourteen Years from the

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date hereof and no Longer Given under my hand and Lesser
Seal of the said Province of Maryland the fourth day of March
in the nine and thirtieth Year of the dominion of Csecilius &c^a
Annoq Domini 1670

Locus Sigilli Charles Calvert Esq^r Captain General and chief
Governor of the Province of Maryland under the
Right Honourable Cecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of
the same Lord Baltimore &c^a to Baker Brooke of the County
of Calvert in the said Province of Maryland Esq^r Whereas
his said Lordship under his hand and Greater Seal at Arms
Bearing date the ninth day of September in the One and thir-
tieth Year of his Lordships Dominion over his said Province
of Maryland hath Constituted and appointed Ierom White Esq^r
to be his said Lordships Surveyor General of all and singular
his Castles Lordships Mannors Forests Chases Parks Mes-
suages Lands Tenements Woods Rents Revenues Possessions
and Hereditaments whatsoever within the said Province of
Maryland and also hath Granted unto him all Vails fees Re-
gards Advantages Profits and allowance whatsoever to the
said Office belonging or in any ways appertaining and whereas
the said Ierom White Esq^r hath for some time left this Province
and is at present in the Kingdom of England by which ab-
sence of the said Surveyor Generalls from this Province his
Lordships Business and the respective Business of divers of
the Inhabitants of this Province have been much Impeded and
Retarded both to his Lordships and their respective Prejudices
And whereas his said Lordship hath fully impowred me upon
any Emergent Occasion as I shall think fit either to suspend or
create new Officers in the said Province as to me shall seem
expedient and for the redressing the Grievances before Re-

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cited and preventing of them for the future and and being very
well assured of your Care Honesty and Circumspection and
Great Skill Iudgment and Understanding in the Art of Sur-
veying and Laying out of Lands have thought fit and do here-
by empower you the said Baker Brooke to be his Lordships
General Surveyor of his said Province of Maryland in as full
and ample manner as the said Ierom White or any other
former General Surveyor by any Commission or Commissions

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