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       Lib. H. D. proper Oath for the same and the Oaths appointed by Act of

             Parliamt to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and

             Supremacy & subscribed to the Test, the which the sd Majr

             King is hereby Empowered to Administer as also to take yor

             Bond of one thousand pounds and Security for yor due per

             formance of yor sd place & saving harmless & indemnifying

             me the sd ffrancis Nicholson in all Points by reason of this

             Commission; Given under my hand and Seal at the Port of

             Annapolis this Ninth day of October in the Eighth year of the

             Reign of our Soveraign Lord King William the Third &ca

             Annoq Domini 1696.

                                             ffr: Nicholson

                     October the 10th 1696.

       The Councill again Sate and were prsent as before.

                     October the 10th 1696.

              The sd Lt Coll: Richardson appearing & asking Pardon of

             his Exncy & Councill for his rude behaviour at this Board is

             thereupon Remitted his sd Offence and Restored as before.

             Ordr to the Lievtent Coll Richardson comes and informs this

             Bal Co. to Board how that one Anthony Drew of Baltemore

             Sumons Mr County did publickly declare in the hearing of Mr

             Anthony  John Hall and Majr James Maxwell of the sd County

             Drewhow that it was Treason or petty Treason to draw

             up a Company of Soldiers in the ifield without a Commission;

       Whitehall Ordered thereupon that the Sherriffe of the sd County Cause

             the sd Anthony Drew to be and appear before his Exncy in

             Councill the ffirst Tuseday of December next and that he

             Sumons Mr Hall to be then and there present to give in Evi

             dence &cca

             Mr Hoskins Vpon producincr a New Provinciall Commission,

             inserted in . .

             the provll it being Represented that some person wants to be

             Commission put in the sd Commission instead of W John Stone

      Whitehall  of Charles County; Mr Philip Hoskins of the sd County was

             by Ordr inserted in his Stead and the sd Commission Signed

             by his Exncy and passed the broad Seal of the province.

             The honrble Ordered that if the honrble Thomas Tench Esq has

       Whitehall Thomas Tench Esqr ffinished his business in the Commissaries Office in

             admitted in relation to Govr Copleys Estate, that he be there

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             Councill upon admitted into the Councill next December

             Court.