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P. R. O.
Maryland
B. I. Vol. 8.
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and the Test, as the Oath for the due execution of their Places
and Trust.
You are to communicate unto our said Councill from time
to time such and so many of our Instructions as you shall find
convenient for our service to be imparted unto them.
Our Will and Pleasure is that the Members of our Councill
shall and may have and enjoy Freedome of Debate and Votes
in all things to be debated of in Councill.
And although by our Commission aforesaid we have thought
fit to direct that any three of our Councillors make a Quorum,
It is nevertheless our Will and Pleasure that you do not act
with a Quorum of less than Five Members unless upon extra-
ordinary Emergencies.
And that we may be alwaies informed of the Names and
characters of Persons fit to supply the vacancies of our said
Councill, You are to transmitt unto Us, by one of our prin-
cipall Secretarys of State and to the Lords of our Privy Coun-
cill, appointed a Committee of Trade and Plantations with all
convenient speed, the names and characters of Twelve Per-
sons inhabitants of our said Province whom you shall esteem
the best qualified to succeed in that Trust and so from time to
time when any of them shall dye, depart out of our said Prov-
ince or become otherwise unfit, you are to nominate so many
other Persons to Us in their stead. And in the choice and
nomination of the members of our said Councill as also of the
principall Officers, Iudges, Assistants, Iustices and Sheriffs
you are always to take care that they be men of Estate and
Ability and not necessitous people or much in Debt and that
they be persons well affected to our Government.
You are not to suspend the Members of Our Councill with-
out good and sufficient Cause and in case of suspension of
any of them you are forthwith to transmit unto Us as aforesaid
and to Our Committee for Trade and Plantations, your reasons
for so doing together with the Charges and Proofs against the
said Persons and their answers thereunto.
You are from time to time to send unto Us and to our
said Committee, the Names and Qualitys of any Members by
you put into our said Councill by the first conveniency after
your so doing.
You are to transmit Authentick Copies under the publick
Seale of all Lawes, Statutes, and Ordinances now in Force or
which at any time shall be made and enacted within our said
Province unto Us and our Committee for Trade and fforeign
Plantations within three months or sooner after their being
enacted together with duplicates thereof by the next convey-
ance upon pain of our Highest Displeasure and the forfeiture
of that years, wherein you shall at any time or upon any pre-
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