Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 291

   are hereby Strictly Enjoyned & Comanded to make Procia- Lib. H. D.

   mation in the most publick & Convenient places wthin their

   Respective Counties And to give due Notice as well to such

   of his Mats Councill & Justices of the Provll Cort as do reside

   wthjn their said Respective Counties, as to all & Singular the

   Depties & Delegates by the ffreernen thereof thereunto Elected

   & Chosen, that all Excuses set apart they & every of them be

   & personally appear at the Port oi Annapolis aforementioned

   on the said 2d day of October next to do & consent unto those

   things, which then & there by the favour of God shall happen

   to be Ordained, for the Glory of God, his Mats service &

   intrest of is Countrey, & the Justices afd in Ordr to hold Cort,

   And the Sherriffes are hereby further Ordered to give Publick P. 207

   notice through out their severall & Respective Counties that

   all persons who have any Publick Claims to make to the

   Assembly, that upon proveing their Accots according to the

   Directions of the Law in that Case and sending up the same

    any one of the Burgesses of the house shall be deemed

   Sufficient for allowance of the Same, provi4ed such Accots for

   publick Services &ca put in, be not over charged, the regula

   tion of all wch matters is left to the Comittee thereunto

   Authorized and Appointed. Given at the Port of Annapolis

   vnder the Broad Seal of the Province this 19th day of August

   in the Seaventh Year of his Mats Reign &Ca Annoq Domi:

   1695

              God Save the King:    Fr: Nicholson

   & Coll Codd It being Represented that Coll George Wells of

   Ordrd their Baltemore County & Coll Snt Leger Codd of Kent

   appearance County two of his Mats Justices of the Provinciall

   to Answer

   &caCourt appointed have not as yet come to be sworne

   in Obedience to the said Comission, Ordcrcd thcrc

   upon that the Sheriffes of the said Countyes give Notice to

   each of them that all Excuses set a part they be and appear

   before his Exncy & Councill at the Port of Annapolis by the

   second day of October Next to shew cause (if any they have)

   why they did not give their Attendance accordingly.

   Clerke of Upon Complaint made by the Justices of the

   the provll     . .

   Court Ordrd Provinciall Court that there is want of an Assistant

   an Assistant to the Clerk of their Court, one person being

   thought insufficient to manage the whole business of that

   Court alone; Ordered thereupon that the honoble Thomas

   Brooke Esqr DeptY Secretary and Robert Mason Esqr Attorney

   of the honoble Sr Thomas Laurence Baront principall Secretary

   take care to provive an Assistant accordingly,