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   who had Administred unto them the Oaths Appointed by Act Lib. H. D.

   of Parliamt instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and supremacy

   as alsoe the Oath of Trade & Navigatn and Subscribed to the

   Test. And forasmuch as Mr Thomas Smithson the other

   Navall Officer Appointed is sicke soe tht he cannot Attend to

          take the S'd Oathes it is Ordered therfore that the

   Coll Pierce                        bi   d

   & Capt    Hull Hono e Sr Thomas Laurance and Edw Randolph

       Na- Esqr Administer the Same unto the s'd Smithson

   vail Officers fforme of a Navall Officers Cornission then pro

   duced at the Board and Read and Approved off it was Whitehall

   Ordered that the s'd persons be Comissionated accordingly.

   Order Abt Upon Representation of Capt John Cood that the

   Collection of Constable of St Clements hundred in St Maries

   Taxabls not County has not made A Just returne of the List of

   Inlisted Taxables of the same Vizt in Returning fewer than

   in the s'd Hundred is contained Ordered thereupon by Advice

   in Councill that the Severall & Respective Sheriffs of this

   Province take care to make diligent inquiry and Examine into

   the List of Taxeables by the severall and Respective Con

   stables Returned and where they doe find any such defect as

   Aforementioned that they leavey the same quantity of publick

   Tobo from every Tyathable person soe neglected to be

   Returned in as large and ample manner as if they had been

   Actualy Returned and the s'd Tobo Soe over and above col

   lected to secure and pay unto his Excency or Order.

   Capt Ilurles The Petition of Capt Jno Hurle read, therein

   Petn for humbly praying Allowance to be made him for the

   abtTryail Sume of 7 lb 2s 05 ster: being the ffiftht part as he p. 78

   ship prize Alledges due for the Expence and charges he has

   Whitehall - been at about the Tryall & Condemnation of the

   prize Ship and Appointing the goods thereof.

    To wch this Boad does Say that they can at present doe

   nothing therein Untill their Majties pleasure be knowne or

   advice Reced from the Rt Honoble the Lords of the Admiralty

   Coll Robo- Ordered that the Honoble Collonell George Robo

    tham be constituted Judge of the Court of Admiralty

  Appointed for the Eastern Shore and Colloneil Nicholas Green

    Judges of the Admralty bery for the Western Shore and that Henry Denton

          & Thomas Collyer be continued in their Comissions

   of Register & Marshall of the s'd Court on the Western Shore.

  Councill His Excency Recomends to the Gentlemen of the

   ordered to . . .                       .

   recomend Councill liveing on the Western Shore to sign ifie

   Rangers &Ca what persons will be proper to Appoint to Command

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   the Rangers and who will be fit Men for Souldiers pursuant

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