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Province soe far forth as relates to the Revenue ariseing here
and that the same may be left to the management of the said
Heath and his Deputies. Dated in Maryland June 2^d 1690.
Jam: Heath.

The Answer and Result of the Gent^l
or Comand^r in Cheif of the Comittee
met at Talbot Court house the 18^th
day of June 1690. to the within sever-
all proposalls of M^r James Heath viz^t

1. That all Bills and Bonds passed and made payable to his
Lordsp remaining in the Land Office or elsewhere for Lands
or otherwise relateing to his Lordships private Estate be deliv-
ered to his Lordsps Agent excepting only for such Lands
whereof no Certificates have been returned and recorded the
Collection whereof are to be suspended untill such time as the
consideration of the said Bill and Bonds be complyed with by
making a good and firm title to the same.
2. Mattapony House and Plant^a being a Garrison inforted
and by the late Government under his Lordsp surrendered
upon Articles to his Maj^tyes use, it is not thought fit or con-
venient to alter the property thereof untill such time as his
Maj^tyes pleasure therein be known and his directions accord-
ingly given, but as for the Stock (as it hath not been denyed
soe) it is not the design of the present executive power to
obstruct his Lordsps Agent to make the best advantage
thereof Noe part thereof having been otherwayes employed or
made use of by any of this present power or by their order
more than what was necessaryly expended for their Maj^tys
service in the reduceing of the said late Government and is all
there in being for anything known to the present authority
save what Mad^m Darnall and Mad^m Sewall may have taken
and applyed to uses best known to themselves.
That the said Agent have the use of the Plan^ta for the
Benefit of his Lordsps Stock thereon the Cropp of Corn &c:
thereon growing to be and enure to the use of person there
resideing who planted the same.
3. This Article included and answered in the last conclusive
part.
4. All papers matters and things any wayes relateing to his
Lordsps private estate (in whose hands soever) to be delivered
up to his Lordsps Agent.
His Lordsps said Agent from henceforth to collect and
receive by such wayes and meanes as he shall think fit the
moyety of the 2^s p hh for every shipp or vessell hereafter to
arrive and enter within this Province and that for the rest of

P. R. O.

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