304 Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699.

Original
Journal.

province (which was the 12^th of Sep^t 1693) there being then
no Liev' Governo^r or Comander in Chief for the time being in
the Country the Administracon of that Governm^t ought by
his Matys Comission to have divolved upon the Councill in
which the first Councillo^r nominated in Col Copley's Instruc-
tions ought to have p^rsided.
That S^r Thomas Laurence was the first Councillor so nomi-
nated, but at that time lay under a Suspencon which was after-
wards taken off and by her late Matys Order in Councill of

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the 28^th of Sep' 1693 declared to be illegall and Arbitrary,
That upon Col Copleys Death he was Admitted to sitt in
Councill But S^r Edmund Andros Comeing thither from Vir-
ginia and upon an ill Grounded pretence of a Comission which
did not reach the Case of that province att that time takeing
upon him the place of Comander in Chief for the time being
After a fortnights stay returned to Virginia and Constituted
Col Nicholas Greenbery the fourth Councellor in Nomination
in Col Copleys Instructions to be p^resident out of the Coun-
cill Excludeing S^r Thomas Laurence from that place which of
right would have belonged to him
And in the end of Aprill or begining of May, 1694 Some
while after Notice of her Late Matys [order] for the Annull-
ing the S^r Thomas Laurence and Suspention S^r Edmond
Andros Coming again to Maryland and staying ab^t a weeke
by Consent of the Councill took to himselve five hundred
pounds upon Acc^t of his Sallary as Comander in Chiefe and
directed one hundred and fifty pounds to be paid unto the
said Col Greenbery upon the ace' of his being p^rsident
of the Councill.
That Since the Settlement of that Governm^t, by his Matys
Comission in the hands of Col Francis Nicholson and by his
Arrivall there which was ab^t the end End of July 1694 the Assem-
bly to p'vent the dispute that might Arise from severall Judiciall
Acts past dureing S^r Edm^d Andros Administracon because of
some Debts ab^t the legality thereof Did by an Act or Law of
the province Confirme all those proceedings Excepting onely
his takeing and disposeing of the publick Revenue for the
supporte of the Governm^t and provideing that the Right and
Claim of the Assembly or any person w'soever unto the same
should not thereby be debarred.

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That in Consequence thereof S^r Edmund Andros did Vol-
untarily pay back the greatest part of what he had received,
and Col Greenbery has since given Caution to refund the
foremenconed Sume of 150^l when ordered by his Maty.
This being the state of that Matter we further humbly
reporte unto yo^r Ex^cy that we do not by his Matys Comission