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P. R. O.
Maryland
B. I. Vol. 8.
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be transmitted unto Us as above directed which he is duly to
perform upon pain of incurring the forfeiture of his Place.
You shall not displace any of the Iudges, Iustices Sheriffs
or other Officers or Ministers within our said Province with-
out good and sufficient Cause to be signified to Us and our
Committee of Plantations nor shall you execute yourself or by
Deputy any of the said Offices nor suffer any Person to execute
more Offices than one by Deputy.
You shall not erect any Court or Office of Iudicature not
before erected and established without our especiall Order
and you are to transmit unto Us with all convenient speed a
particular accompt of all establishments of Jurisdictions, Courts,
Offices and Officers, Powers, Authorities, Fees and Privileges
Granted or settled within our said Province to the end you
may receive our especiall direction therein. You shall like-
wise take especiall Care with the Advice and Consent of our
said Councill to regulate all salaries and Fees belonging to
Places or paid upon emergencies, that they be within the
Bounds of moderation and that no exaction be made upon any
occasion whatsoever.
And that God Almighty may be more inclined to bestow
his blessing upon us and you in the welfare and improvement
of that our Province you shall take especiall care, that he be
devoutly and duly served within your Government, the Book
of Common Prayer as it is now established Read each Sunday
and holiday and the blessed Sacrament administred accord-
ing to the Rites of the Church of England. You shall take
care that the Churches already built there shall be well and
orderly kept and more built as the Colony shall by God's
blessing be improved and that besides a competent main-
tenance to be assigned to the Minister of each Church a con-
venient house be built at the common charge for each Min-
ister. You are not to preferr any Minister to any Ecclesias-
ticall Benefice in that Our Province without a Certificate from
the Right Reverend the Bishop of London of his being con-
formable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of Eng-
land and of a good life and conversation, And if any Person
already preferred shall appear to you to give scandall either
by his doctrine or manners you are to use the best means for
the removall of him and to supply the vacancy in such manner
as we have directed. And you are to give Order forthwith if
the same be not already done, that every Orthodox Minister
within your Government be one of the Vestry in his respective
Parish and that no vestry be held without him except in case
of sickness or that after notice of a vestry summoned he absent
himself And you are to Enquire whether there be any Minister
within your Government who Preaches and Administers the
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