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persons in the said Countyes desireing the same, ffirst takeing
the parties bonds according to our conditions of plantation
for the time being payable to us in a yeares time, with a clause
also to fforfeitt the benefitt of the said warrant or warrants in
case the said Bond or Bonds be not punctually pformed by
the time prescribed therein: You are also to keepe an exact
Register of all warrants by you to be granted in the Counties
aforesaid, and of them to returne yearely true coppies attested
and examined into our Land Office at S^t Maries that due
record thereof may be there kept ffor all which this shall be
your warrant. To have hold and enjoy the power hereby
granted to you dureing our pleasure and noe longer. Given
under our hand and lesser Seale at Armes the nineteenth day
of March 1683:

Coll. Geo. Talbott Com^on to demand New Castle of
W^m Penn Esq^r

Charles &c^a To our Deare Couzen and Councello^r George
Talbott Esq^r greeteing. Whereas by his sacred Maj^ties Lett^rs
beareing date the second Day of Aprill 1681: positive com-
mand was given unto us to appoint one or more person or
persons to joine with the Agents of William Penn Esq^r Gov-
erno^r and Prop^ry of the Province of Pensylvania in enquireing
and finding out the ffourtieth Degree of Northern Latitude
and according thereunto to settle and ffix certain Land marks
betweene the Provinces of Maryland and Pensylvania, which
should for the future be the perpetuall bounds of the Prov-
inces aforesaid, pursuant to the express words in our Charter
of Maryland, and in the said William Penns Charter of Pen-

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Sylvania. To which Commands of our most gracious
Sov^raigne Wee have on our part exprest a most willing Obedi-
ence by sending (in the said Penns absence) our Agents to
meete with his full power and positive Instructions, to joine
with them in takeing observation and laying out the line
according to his Majesties commands, which meeteings have
not onely been disappointed by the Agents of the said William
Penn contrary to their pmises under their hands and Scales,
but his Maj^tics injunctions most notoriously and contemptu-
ously slighted; which actions of theirs have been since
approoved off by Prop^ry Penn, as may appeare by severall of
his Letters to us; Whereupon wee to manifest our most loyall
and Dutifull respect to his Maj^tie and how it was not through
any neglect of ours that his ord^rs concerning a joint observa-
tion were not in all respects punctually observed, caused two
observations to be taken at two severall times, and an East
and West line accordingly to be runn out and mark't at greate

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