Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1693 94.  11

    seale was transmited to the severall Counties of the Province Lib. C. B.

    according to Order, the tenoT thereof running as follows, Vlzt

    Maryland ss           By his Exncie a Proclamation.

    Proclama- Whereas the Generall Assembly of this Province

    tion declare

    ing the begun and held at the City of St Maries the Tenth

    Assembly day of May Anno Domini 1692 by Writ from his

    dissolved                .             a

           Exncie the late Governor Lionel Copley Esq dec hath

    been by severall Prorogations & adjournmts continued to the

    20th day of this instant September: And the Chiefe Command

    & Governmt of this Province being now divolved vpon me Sr

    Edmond Andros Knt by the death of the said Lionel Cop!ey

    and the absence of Captain ffrancis Nicholson their Majties

    Lievetenant Governor of this Province, by their Majties Royall

    Comission to me directed for that purpose: I doe by & with

    the advice of their Majties Councill of this Province, Proclame,

    publish and make knowne that the said Generall Assembly is

    dissolved, and the same is hereby in their Majties Names

    declared and pronounced accordingly to be dissolved, whereof

    I doe straightly Charge & Comand all & singular the respective

    Sherriffes of the severall & respective Counties of this Province

    to make pub!ick Proclamation in the most publick & conve

    nient places within their respective Counties aforesd for the p. 7

    Generall Information of all & singular their Majties loveing

    Subjects within this Province, and to the End that all persons

    concerned may take due Notice thereof & conforme them

    selves accordingly.

      Given at the City of St Maries the 26th day of September

    Anno Dornini 1693 in the ffifth yeare of the Reign of our

    Soveraign Lord & Lady King William and Queen Mary.

                                       E Andros.

           God save King William & Queen Mary.

    Kings Ordr His Majties Order in Councill March 2d 169 2/3 Upon

    169 2/3 Upon Sr Thomas Laurences Petition, complaining of some

    Sr Thomas hardships he lay vnder here in Relation to his Office

     Laurence of Secretary, and the Report of the Lords of the

           Comittee of Trade & Plantations thereon, being pro

    duced by Sr Thomas was read and Ordered to be Recorded

    in the Journall of this Board, and the Contents thereof to be

    duely observed & complyed with in all Respects, where the

    same is Required: To which End it was alsoe Ordered that

    the Booke of Laws, wherein is contained the Acts for Regu

    lateing Ordinaries &ca: and for settleing the Navall Officers

    flees to which the said Petition & Order have Relation be pro

    duced to this Board in the Afternoon.

      Adjourne till then 3 Clock.