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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 91
and Enjoyed within our said province or any other our Plan- Lib. H. D. tacons in America vntill our Pleasure be further knowne or your Arrivall as aforesaid Lastly Wee doe hereby Declare Ordaine and Appoint that you the said ffrancis Nicholson shall & may hold Execute & Enjoy the Office & place of Cap tain Generall and Governor in Cheife in and over our province & Territory of Maryland together with all and singular the Powers & Authorityes hereby Granted vnto you for & during Our Will & pleasure In Witness whereof We have Caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Selves at Westminister the Tenth day of ffebruary in the ffifth yeare of our Reigne. E: Bute Per Breve de Privato Sigillo.
Afterwards Produced their Maties Comission Under the Seale of the High Court of Admiralty in England Dated the Whitehall ffifth day of March Anno 1693, Giveing ample power and Jurisdiction vnto the aforenamed ffrancis Nicholson Esq to Exercise Vse and Enjoy the Authority & Right of a Vice Admirall here within all the Limits & precints of the afore said Province.
The Comission Runes in these following Words, Vizt
Governor Gulielmus & Maria Dei Gratia Angliae Scotia Nicholsons . . . Comission ffranciae & Hiberniae Rex & Regina fidei defensores of Vice &Ca Dilecto nobis ifrancisco Nicholson Armigero Admirall Salutem ad Cognoscendum & Procedendum in
quibuscunq. Causis Civilibus & Maritimis atq. Querelis Con tractibus Delictis seu quasi Delictis Criminibus placitis Debitis Excambiis Computis Chartis partitis Conventionibus Litibus transgressionibus injuriis Extortionibus & Dernandis ac Negotiis Civilibus & Maritimis Motis seu Movendis quibus cunq. inter Mercatores aut inter Proprietarios Navium & aliorum Vasorum et Mercatores seu alios quoscunq. cum eisdem Dominis & Proprietariis Navium et Caeterorum Vas orum quorumcunq. infra Jurisdictionem Maritimam Admirali tatis Nostrae Provinciae et Territorii Nostrorum de Maryland in America Occupatorum ye! Vsitatorum seu inter quascunq. alias personas qualitercunq. habitis factis initis seu Con- p. so tractis pro aliqua Re Materia Causa vel Negotio seu injuria quacunq. infra Jurisdictionem Nostram Maritimam praedict. expeditis seu expediendis vna cum omnibus et singulis suis incidentibus Emergentibus dependen tibus Annexis & connexis Causis quibuscunq. Ubicunq. seu qualitercunq. hujusmodi Causae querelae Contractus & alia
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