Papers relating to the Associators' Assembly, 1689. 241

An Ordinance for regulating of Officers Military and Civill
and other necessary affairs for the present settlement of
this Province.

Whereas this present Generall Assembly having taken into
their most serious and deliberate consideration the great neces-
sity of the settlement of all affairs military and civill within this
Province finding themselves obliged by their allegiance and
duty to our soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queens
most excellent Majesty King William and Queen Mary and
out of the great care they have for the religion, lives, libertyes
and propertyes of their Majestie's Protestant Subjects of this
Province Have ordained constituted and enacted and doe
hereby ordain constitute and enact for the present settlem^t of
affairs in the said Province till their Majesties' further pleasure
be made knowne, these following respective regulations to-
gether with the powers and authorityes hereby given and
granted to the Officers and persons hereafter by this present
Ordinance appointed
That for regulating the affairs of the Militia in S^t Marys
County
Capt: John Coode Commander in chiefe who is by this
Ordinance impowered to raise and command a troop of horse
as he shall see convenient, Major John Campbell for S^t
Georges Poplar Hill, Newtowne S^t Clements bay hundred,
Capt: Edward Greenhald for S^t Marys, S^t James, S^t Inegoes
and S^t Michaels hundreds, Capt. Thomas Attaway for S^t
Clements hundred, Capt: John Dent for Chaptico hundred,
M^r Nehemiah Blackistone Capt: of a troope of horse for S^t
Georges, Poplar hill Newtowne and the other hundreds on the
east side of S^t Marys river in the said County and the said
Troope of horse to consist of fifty horsemen.
That for regulating the affairs civill in S^t Marys County
M^r Kenelme Cheseldyn, M^r John Dent, Capt: John Coode, M^r
Nehemiah Blackistone Justices of the Quorum Major John
Camball, M^r Richard Clouds, M^r John Llewellin, M^r John Wat-
son and M^r Edward Greenhalgh Justices, M^r John Watson,
M^r Elias Beech and M^r Nehemiah Blackistone Coroners, M^r
Robert Carse Sheriffe and M^r William Taylard Clerk
That for regulating the affairs of the Militia in Kent County
Mr John Hinson Capt: of a foot Company in Easterneck and
Swann Creeke hundred, M^r Cornelius Comegis Capt: of a
Company of foot in Chester & Langfords bay hundred, Capt.
W^m Lawrence Comp^a foote upon Kent Island.
That for regulating the affairs Civill in Kent County. M^r
W^m Frisby, M^r John Hinson, M^r Cornelius Comegis, M^r Hans
Hanson Justices of the Quorum, M^r Daniel Norris, M^r W^m
Harris, M^r Simon Wilmore, M^r Thomas Osbourne, M^r John

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