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me and I hope with reward to himself. My Dismission of him
from that Employ I should not require was it not from circum-
stances and in Policy of Affairs incompatible for him to hold
two Offices, id est the Naval Office and Clerk of the Council:
I therefore do by this My Instruction desire you will appoint
Walter Dulany Esq^r into the Naval Office of the Port of
Patuxant he giving his security as usual. If he refuses accept-
ance, continue M^r Ross in that scituation, untill you hear
further from me thereon.

Given under My Hand and Lesser Seal at Arms at London
this sixteenth day of January in the Fourteenth year of my
Dominion of the said Province and in the Year of Our Lord
1765 FB.
By His Lordships Com^d
Caecil^s Calvert Sec^y
of Maryland.

[Baltimore to Sharpe.]

Frederick absolute Lord and Proprietor of the
Provinces of Maryland and Avalon in America
Lord Baron of Baltimore in the Kingdom of Ireland.

Orders and Instructions to be observed and pursued by
Our Trusty Well-beloved Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Our Lieutenant
General and Chief Governor of Our Province of Maryland,
And to Edward Lloyd Esq^r of Our Council and Agent and
Receiver General of Our said Province, And to Benedict
Calvert Esq^r of Our Council and one of Our Judges of Our
Land Office, And to Daniel Dulany Esq^r of Our Council and
Deputy Secretary of Our said Province, And to George Stuart
Esq^r a Judge of Our Land Office in Our said Province, And
to M^r E^d Key Attorney General in Our said Province of Mary-
land We send Greeting Viz.

F. Baltimore
Whereas, the following ManOrs and their Lands have been
Surveyed and Run and Ground Plots partly of description of
their Limits and Boundaries, and Quantities of Lands are
marked by the Surveyors of my Land Office and Estimated
by them as to Quantity of Acres, incerted by Arithmetick
numbers expressed by figures and Cyphers on each seperate
Surveys, charted by them the said Surveyors, and transmitted
by you my Lieutenant Governor to me, as from the said Sur-
veyors and issued forth from my Land Office in Maryland,
Viz.

Original.