364 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

      Lib. H. D. the aforementioned Tobacco due for taking vp the same; I

             have therefore (by advice in Councill) thought fit to publish

             & make known and I do hereby accordingly proclame &

             Ordr that all persons laying any Clame to any part or parcell

             of the aforementioned Land so as aforesd laid out & Valued

             that they forthwith proceed to ascertain their Title by a due

             course of Law, so that the takers vp may know to whom they

             ought to pay the purchase Tobacco; And to the end due notice

             hereof may be given, I do hereby Command the Sheriff of

             Talbot County to make proclamation hereof within the port

             & Town of Williamstadt aforesd and in all Churches & places

          p. 267 of publick Meeting therevnto adjacent to which all persons

             concern'd are to yield due obedience at their perill; Given

             vnder the Broad Seal of the provence this second day of

             March, in the Eigth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord

             King William the third &ca Annoq Domini, 1695/6

                         God Save the King   ffr: Nicholson

            Ordr for Vpon reading the Return of the Vestrymen of St

              prosecution of the Ves- Pauls parish in Talbot County, wherein was exprest

             trymen of St a certain Article of 5 p Cent allowed to Mr Wright

             Pauls parish in Talbot (one of the sd Vestrymen) for collection of 10000 lbs

             County of Tobo being referred to Mr Attorney & Solicitor

             Gen” for them to make Report whether the sd Allowance was

             legall or not, did Report that the same was illegall & against

             Law; Ordered that they make prosecution thereon agt the sd

             Vestrymen accordingly.

                           ffebry the 28th 1695/6

              Mr Attorney & Sollicitor Genlls Report vpon the Ordr of

             Reference yesterday made to them from this Board touching

             the Chancery business, being here produced & read was

             approved off; who being of Opinion that a new Commission

             must necessarily issue; Ordered therevpon that a new

       Whitehall Chancery Commission issue forth of the Secretaries Office

             accordingly, with a clause therein, to set forth the occasion

             thereof, Vizt the present indisposition of the honoble Coll Henry

             J owles (if that Clause can be inserted according to Law) and

             that the honoble Coll Nicholas Greenberry & the two former

             Commissionrs be inserted in the sd Commission for this terme,

             pretty much Business being now depending in the sd Court.

                          March the 6th 1695/6

            Commis- The honoble Coll Nicholas Greenberry, Kenelm

            slonrs in

            Chancery Cheseldyn Esqr & Majr Edward Dorsey had sever-

             Sworn &ca ally administred vnto them the Oaths appointed by