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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 at Whitehall this Eleventh day of December 1691
John Lowther Your Loving friends
H Powle Camarthen P
H Goodrick
Secry of Maryland
Directed
To our Loving Friend S^r Thomas Lawrence
Baronet Secry of their Majestys Province
of Maryland
in
America

At the Court at Whitehall the 21^st of December 1691

Present
The Kings most Excellent Majesty in Councill

Whereas the right Honble the Lords of the Committee of
trade and Plantations have by their Report dated the 15^th
Instant represented that upon a memoriall of S^r Thomas Law-
rence Secry of Maryland, their Lordships humbly conceive
that the nominating and appointing Clerks for the ten County
Courts in that Province do properly belong to their Majestys

Liber K.

Secretary and that those places ought not to be sold but that
in consideration that the Secretary is to give 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 Gov-
ernor and Councill upon a vacancy, his Majesty in Councill is
thereupon this day pleased to order as it is hereby ordered that
the said places of the Clerks of the ten County Courts in Mary-
land be not sold but that as the nomination and appointment
of the said Clerks is belonging to the Office of their Majestys
Secretary the said Sir Thomas Lawrence and such as shall
succeed him in that Office be permitted to receive from each
of the Clerks in the ten County Courts in the said Province a
yearly Fee or Gratuity of the tenth part of one years Value of
each place and no more from such Clerks as shall be so nom-
inated and appointed by him the said value to be estimated
by their Majestys Governor and Councill of Maryland for the
time being according to the said Report Whereof their Maj-
estys Gov^r and Councill of Maryland and all others concerned
are to take due Notice
Richard Colinge

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