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     Aequinoctial line or Aequator, as well in the Ocean and Medi- Lib. H. D.

     terranean Sea, as elsewhere; And lastly, after the tenth of

     March next ensuing beyond the said Line throughout the

     whole World without any exception or distinction of time or

     place, and without any form of Process, shall immediately,

     without damage, be restored to the Owner, according to the

     said treaty. And hereof all his Majesties Subjects are hereby

     Required to take notice, and to conform themselves thereunto

     accordingly.

       Given at the Court at Whitehall the 18th day of October,

     1697, in the ninth year of his Majtys Reign

                                God Save the King.

     A Commission for Adminis- William the third by the Grace of God of Eng- p. 150

     tring an land Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender

     to the Gov- of the faith &ca

     ernor of the                        —

     Province of To our trusty and welibeloved Sr Thomas

     Maryland. Laurence Barontt Edward Randolph: Henry

     Iowles:   George Robotham: Iames ffrisbey, John Addison:

     Thomas Brookes Edward Chilton George Muschamp and

     Phillip Clarke Esqrs or any five or more of the members of

     the Council in our Province of Maryland for the time being

     Greeting. Whereas by one clause in an act of Parliament,

     made in the eighth and ninth years of our reigne Entituled an

     Act for making good the deficiencies of severall funds therein

     mentioned and for enlarging the Capital Stock of the Banck

     of England and for raising the publick Creditt. It is recited.

     That Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the seaventh

     & eighth years of our Reigne Intituled an act for preventing

     frauds and regulating abuses in the Plantation trade It is

     amongst other things therein enacted That all the present

     Governours & Comanders in chief of any English Collonies

     and Plantations shall before the five and twentieth day of

     March 1697, And all who shall be made Governours or

     Cotnanders in chief of the said Collonies or Plantacons or any

     of them before the entring into their Governments shall take

     a Sollemne Oath to doe their utmost that all the clauses

     matters & things conteined in one act of Parliament made in

     the twelfth year of the reigne of the late King Charles the

     second. Intituled an Act for encouraging and increasing of

     Shipping and Navigation, And one other act made in the

     fifteenth year of his sd late Majtys reigne Intituled an act for

     encouragement of trade and also the said act made in the 7th

     & 8th years of our reigne Intituled an act for preventing

     frauds and regulating abuses in the Plantation trade be

     punctually and bona fide observed according to the true

     intent & meaning thereof so farr as appertaines to the said