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       not to assent to an Act or Bill passed in an Assembly held in P. 0. R.

       Maryland in the year 1692 by Col: Copley late Governor

       there, entituled An Act for securing the Rights of severall

       Persons, where by the Petrs right and property to his Lands

       in that Province will be taken away, and utterly destroyed, and

       that no person be permitted to survey or hold any of the Petrs

       Lands without the same be first surveyed by his Surveyors,

       and afterwards granted under the hand and seals of the Peti

       tioner as formerly. It is Ordered by His Majesty in Councill,

       That the consideration of this Petition be, and it is hereby

       referred to the Right Honble the Lords of the Committee for

       Trade and Plantations who are to report their opinion there

       upon to this Board what may be fit for His Majesty to do

       therein.

                                     John Nicholas.

                Whitehall the 24th Febry 1693/4

       Sir,

         The Lords of the Comitee of Trade and Plantations having

       received the Petition of my Lord Baltimore praying that the

       Act passed in Assembly of Maryland in the year 1692, entit

       uled An Act for securing the Rights of severall persons may

       not be Confirmed by His Majesty their Ldps are pleased to

       order the enclosed Copy of the Lord Baltimore's Petition to

       be sent to you for your consideration thereof, together with

       the said Act which has been already sent you with the Laws

       of Maryland with a former reference from their Lordships, and

       you are desired to report your opinion upon the whole matter

       of the Petition of the Committee.

                             I am,

                              Sir

                   Your most humble servant.

         At the Committee of Trade & Plantations At the Councill

       Chamber at Whitehall the 5th of March 1693/4

         Upon reading a Memoriall from Col: Nicholson Governor in

       Chief of Maryland the Lords of the Comittee agree to move

       His Majesty in Council that directions may be given that Col:

       Nicholson with his servants may have passage to this Govern

       ment at Maryland on board one of their Majties Frigates now

       ready to saile for those parts, And that his servants may be

       victualed on board during the voyage and that his household

       goods may be likewise transported thither.

         That Directions may be given that the Govr of the Planta

       tion's before they receive there dispatches for their respective

       Governments be sworn in Councill for the due observation of

       the Acts of Trade and Navigation as has been usuall