478 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

     Lib. H. D.  By his Exncy the Governr&ccaAugtthe 27th 1696.

             Ordr abt the Ordered that the Severall Ordinary keepers within

             Ordinary the Port of Annapolis give an Accot to his Exncy

                   (from time to time) of all Strangers Coming to their

             houses, whether by Land or water; and of all boats, Shallops,

             and Sloops, and to Signifye from whence they Come and

             whither they are going; to the End his Exncy may have notice,

             whcu he has Occasion to Send away dispatches to any parts of

             the province whereby a great Charge may be Saved to the

             Countrey in pressing mens horses &c. for the Carrying Such

             dispatches aforesd.

             A Comission Gulielmus Tertius Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae

            Constituting     . .

            Colloffranciae et Hiberniae Rex ffidei defensor &ca Dilecto

            Nicholas Nobis Nicholao Greenberry Armigero Salutem ad

            Greenberry         . .            .

             Judg of the cognoscendum in quibuscunq. Causis Civilibus &

             Vice Ad. Maritimis atq Quaerelis Contractibus Delictis seu

              quasi Delictis Criminibus Placitis Debitis Excambiis

             the Western Literis partitis Coventionibus Chirographis Onera

              ore tionum Navium omnibusq negotiis & Contractibus

             quae Nauta pro Navibus conductis & Locatis debita pecuniam

             trajectitiam et nauticum fcenus quovis modo tangunt seu

             aliquo modo concernunt Litibus transgressionibus injurijs

             Extortionibus & Demandis ac Negotijs Civilibus aut maritimis

             quibuscunq inter mercatores aut inter Dominos aut Pro

             prietarios navium aut aliorum vasorum & mercatores seu alios

             quoscunq cum eisdem Dominis & Proprietarijs navium et

             Qeterorum vasorum quoscunq Occupatorum Sive vsitatorum

             seu inter quascunq alias Personas qualitercunq habitis ffactis

             initis Sive Contractis pro Aliqua re Materia Sive Causa vel

             Negotijs Sive injuria quacunq tam insuper ye! per mare aut

             ifiumina publica Seu aquas dulces, Portus Rivos Crecas 2ut

             Loca Superinundata quaecunq infra fluxum & Refluxum maris

             & quae ad plenitudinem vel Super Littora aut Ripas quascunq

             eidem ye! Eorum alicui adjacentis Expedita seu Expediend.

             Una cum omnibus singulis Suis incidentibus Emergentibus

             dependentibus Annexis & Connexis Causis quibuscunq seu

             qualitercunq hujusmodi Causae Querelae Contractus & alia

             praemissa Supradicta vel eorum aliquod Oriri Celebrari con

             trahl vel fieri contingat Juxta Leges Civiles & Maritimas &

             Consuetudines Supremae Curiae Admiralitatis nostrae Angliae

             in omnibus Super Occidentale Littus Comitatibus ad magnum

             flumen Cheshopeak adjacentibus et Portubus Maritimis eorun

             dem quibuscunq infra Provinciam & Territorium nostra de

             Maryland atq. in quibusqunq Civitatibus Oppidis et Locis in

             partibus praedictis pro hujusmodi Causis & negotijs audiendum