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       accompting of and for our sd Revenues. Provided the same Lib. H. D.

       be not contrary to the Orders and Directions given unto you

       or to be given by Us or the Commrs of our Treasury or high

       Treasurer for the time being and provided also that you do

       not in any wise or any other by yor Ordr intermedle with the

       Moyety of the Two shilling p hhd the duty of 14d p Ton or

       the Quitt Rents belonging to the Lord Baltemore as Proprietr

       of our sd Province but that you leave the Same to be Collected

       and Received, by the sd Lord Baltemore or his Agents without

       any let or hindrance from you or your under Officers; Given

       at our Court at Whitehall the Eigth day of Janry 1691 : in the

       Third Year of our Reign.

                                By his Mats Command

                                     John Lowther

                                     R.   Hamsden

                                     Ste. ffox

                                     T.   Pelham

       Coppy Extract of a Letter from Coll Nicholson Govr of

        Maryland to the Councill of Trade & Plantations Dated the

        13th Iuly 1697.

        I had from the Rt Honble the Lords of the Admiralty a

       Cofilission for Vice Admirall of this his Matys Province &

       theire Ldshps were pleased to Impower me to apoint a Judge

       Register and Marshall of the Vice Admiralty here wch bears

       date the 2d of October 1695 And which I Received by our last

       Fleet from the Honble William Bridgeman Esqr Theire Lord

       shps Secretary And with humble Submission to your Lord

       shps I do not find tht any Ship or Vessell can be tryed by the

       Court of Admiralty for breach of any of the Acts of Trade

       and Navigation except a Ship or vessell that shall cary any of

       the enumerated Comodityes to any place but as directed by

       Acts of Parliamt particularly by one of the 22d & 23d of King

       Charles the Second Entituled an Act to prvent the planting of

       Tobb: in England & for Regulateing the Plantation Trade by

       Virture of wch Act the Ship or Vessell So offending is to be

       Tryed for the same in any of the Plantations in the Court of

       high Admirall &c. of England or any of his Vice Admiralls as

       in page 237 of the Book of Rates &c. Comonly so called. p. 191

       And by the late Act of the 7th & 8th of his most Sacred

       Majestys Reigne for prventing frauds &c. I don't see tht any

       power is given to try Ships or Vessells in the Court of

       Admiralty for the breach of That or other Acts of Trade &

       Navigation Except they are Impowered to do by a Clause in

       the sd Act page 497 Vizt In any of his Matys Courts of

       Records at Westminister or in any Court in his Matys Planta