in the Years 1691-92. 295

Memd^m upon S^r Thomas Lawrence his Memoriall
about the Clerks of the Ten Countie Courts.

My Lord President is desired by the Lords of the Com-
mittee of Trade and Plantations to represent to His Majesty
that upon a Memoriall from Sir Thomas Lawrence Secretary
of Maryland Their Lordships humbly conceive that the nom-
inating and appointing of the Clerks of the Ten County Courts
in that Province does properly belong to their Majestys Sec-
retary and that those places ought not to be sold. But that in
consideration that the Secretary is to give sufficient Security
for their good behaviour it may be fit that the Secretary be
allowed to receive yearly a Fee or Gratuity of the Tenth part
of one years value and no more of each place from such Clerks
as shall be nominated by him the said value to be estimated
by the Governor and Councill upon a vacancy.
Councill Chamber
the 15^th of Decem^b 1691.

P. R. O.
Col. Entry
Book,

Vol. 52,
p. 235

To the Kings most Excellent Ma^tie
The Humble Petition of Charles Lord Baltemore
Sheweth.
That your Petitioner hath not received the one shilling
Impost and Port dutys of the Commanders of such shipps and
Vessells as Traded in the Province of Maryland the yeares
1689, and 1690, although by your Ma^ties Royall Letter of the
first of February 1689, and since that by an Order of her Ma^tie
in Councill bearing date the 26 of February 1690 Your Peti-
tioner had Leave to Receive the same, and your Petitioner
having now no Hopes left him of Receiving it of the severall
Commanders before their Return for Maryland.
Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly prays your
Ma^ties Order that the severall Commanders and Masters
of shipps and Vessells who did not pay to your Peti-
tioner the one shilling Impost and Port dutys for those
two yeares past may not at their Return at any time to
Maryland, be cleared there, Untill they shall have first
satisfied unto your Petitioners Agents there the one
shilling Impost and Port dutys for the said two yeares
last past as well as for the time to come,
and your Petitioner shall &c.

(Endorsed)
Lord Baltemores Petition
Recd 16 Dec 1691.

P. R. O.

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
B. F.
p. 19