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           Lib. x.    & ease of the Country I disband & dismiss you from the

                present Command you have over the Rangers in Baltemore

                County as likewise the Men under you whereof you & every

                of you are to take due Notice Given under my hand & seal

                the day & Year above written Postscript

                  You or any of your Rangers will Come hither Mr Henry

                Denton Clk of his Majestys honble Council will give you a

                full Acct of your pay

                        To Captain John Oldton Commdr

                        of the Rangers in Baltimore County -

                        att the Garrison there          

                     April the 2d 1698 post merediem

                  The Council again Sate & were present as before

                  This Board taking into their Deliberation & serious Con

                siderations the matter about the piscattoway Indians forasmuch

          p. 20 as the house of Delegates have made no final Determination

                                therein Butt Left the same precarious have therefore for his

                                Majstys Service & the more ease & Security of the Countrey

                                thought fit to Order as also to Authorise appoint & Empower

                                the honble Collo John Addison to raise ten men & two Captains

                                to Command those Men who are to range by turns & Observe

                                and follow the same Instructions as the present Rangers who

                                are to be paid accordingly to Act of Assembly but it is

                                Ordered that Captain Brightwell be not one of those two

                                Officers which said Men and Officers are to be raised with all

                                Expedition possible & placed some where Convenient for

                                Strengthening the Frontier plantations as the said Collo Addi

                                son sees fit & most Serviceable to his Majesty & safety of the

                                Countrey it being thought Unessasary to keep them at the

                                Garrison now for their is a peace & no fear of any French or

                                other Indians attacking those parts besides the Return of the

                                Piscattoway Indians may now about this time be expected

                                thither if they Come at all yet it is thought necessary that the

                                Old Rangers be still Continued and Kept in Service & pay

                                until the New ones be rightly Equipped & Established but

                                afterwards be dismissed & disbanded which is ordered Ac

                                cordingly -

                                April the 3d 1698

                  The Council again Sate & were present as Yesterday

                  Produced and read a petition of William Piper Gilbert

                Norris & Nicholas Dumaresq Masters of Ships praying a

                Register of their Respective Ships