294 Records Illustrating the History of Maryland

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Maryland
B. I. Vol. 8.

Seal of England to grant unto you the Office and Place of

Secretary of their Majesty's Province of Maryland in America,
These are in His Majesties name and by His express com-
mands to direct and require you and the Secretary of their
Majesty's said Province for the time being to send unto Us a
particular Account of all things that shall pass or be transacted
within your said Office of Secretary and Copies of such Lawes,
Acts, of Government and publick Orders as shall be made
from time to time together with Copies of the Iournalls of the
Councill and of all such Papers as are or ought to be entred
and registered within your said Office, to the end We whom
His Majesty hath appointed a Committee of His Privy Councill
for Trade and Foreign Plantations may be the better enabled
to perform the Duty incumbent on us, which Accompts and
Copies are to be transmitted by You unto Us, quarterly or at
such times in the year as any opportunity shall Offer, As also
Duplicates thereof by the next succeeding Conveyance.
And that you and others whom it may concern may at all
times give due Obedience hereunto you are to make an Entry
of this Our Letter in the Books belonging to your said Office
of Secretary whereof you are not to fail And so we bid you
Farewell.
From the Councill Chamber, Whitehall 11^th Dec^r 1691
To Our Loving Friend, Your Loving Friends
Sir Thomas Lawrence, Carmarthen. P
Kn^t Secretary of their Iohn Lowther
Maj^ties Province of Hen: Powle
Maryland in H. Goodricke.
America.

Vol. 2,

B. F.
p. 17

To all whom it may Concern.

Decemb ^th 12: 91.
Being desired by S^r Thomas Lawrence to declare if I know
by whome the Clerks of the Countys places in Maryland are
disposed of.
I doe say That I have ever heard & doe believe They are
disposed of by the Secretary of the Province And that I doe
knowe the Clerks of the Countys places in Virginia are &
always have been disposed of by the Secretary of that Colony
& not by the Governor.
Effingham.
(Endorsed)
Effinghams Appeal relating to the
Determination of the Clerk of the
ten County Courts in Maryland
Read 15 Dec. 1691
These For S^r Thomas Lawrence