Commission shall require your temporary Absence from my
said Province I do further declare my free Leave and Assent
thereto. And that such your Absence from my said Province
in obedience to his Majesty's said Commission shall not in any
respect invalidate your Commission as my Lieutenant Governor
of Maryland, Provided, that you return to my said Province to re-
sume the Government thereof when and as often as his Majestys
Service shall permit you so to do. And it is my further Will
& Pleasure that during your Absence out of the Province upon
this great, necessary, and national Service, the Powers of
Government over my Province of Maryland be exercised by
the President or Senior Member for the time being of my
Council whom you are to authorize and commissionate for
that purpose, when and as the same shall become necessary,
agreeable to the Instructions already received or which shall
hereafter be received from me. And I do hereby require you
forthwith to Signify or cause to be signified to the Council of
State and to both Houses of Assembly within my said Province
of Maryland as well the Royal Commission with which his
Majesty has been most graciously pleased to invest you upon
this important Service, as this my Leave of Absence hereby
granted to you from my said Province; And in a more par-
ticular manner I do require and enjoyn you, That you do
in the most serious & earnest manner recommend it to the
good People of my said Province, That they do in furtherance
of his Majestys Royal Intentions, and in manifestation of their
own just Abhorrence and Resentment at the unprovoked
Insults, and Attempts of the Invaders, most heartily co-operate
with his Majesty and their neighbouring Governments, by
granting such effectual Supplys and prosecuting such vigorous
Measures against the common Enemy as shall demonstrate to
all future Ages the distinguished Zeal and Loyalty of this my
Province of Maryland to their Sovereign and the Cause of their
Country.
Given at London under our Hand & greater Seal at Arms
this sixth day of July in the twenty eighth year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord King George the second and in the fourth
year of our Dominion over the said Provinces, Annoque
Domini one thousand seven hundred and fifty four
By his Lordships Command
Caecil^s Calvert Secretary