542 Appendix to Council Proceedings, 1696/7-98.

        P. 0. R.   Judges and Justices and all other persons that hold any office

              in our said Province by vertue of any patent under our Great

              Seal of England or the Publick Seal of Maryland.

               And that it may be the better understood what Acts and

              Laws are in Force in our Province of Maryland you are with

              the assistance of our Council to take care that all Laws now

              in Force be revised and considered and if there be any thing

              either in the matter or stile of them which may be retrencht or

              altered you are to represent the same unto us with your

              opinion touching the said Laws now in force (whereof you are

              to send a compleat Body unto Us) with such alterations as

              you shall think requisite to the end our approbation or dis

              allowance may be signified thereupon.

               You shall take care that the Members of the Assembly be

              elected only by Freeholders as being most agreeable to the

              custome of England to which you are as near as may be to

              conform yourself.

               And you are to permitt a Liberty of conscience to all persons

              so they be contented with a quiet and peaceable enjoyment of

              it not giving offence or scandall to the Government.

               You are not to pass any Act or Order within that our Pro

              vince in any case for levying money and inflicting Fines and

              Penalties whereby the same shall not be reserved to us for the

              Publick uses as by the said Act or Order shall be directed

              And we do particularly require and command that no money

              or value of money whatsoever be given or granted by any act

              or Order of Assembly to any Governor Lieutenant Governor

              or Commander in Chief of our said Province which shall not

              according to the stile of Acts of Parliament in England be

              mentioned to be given and granted unto Us with the humble

              desire of such Assembly that the same be applyed to the use

              and behoof of such Governor or Commander in Chief if we

              shall think fitt or if we shall not approve of such gift or

              application that the said money or value of money be then

              applyed and disposed of to such other uses as in the said Act

              or Order shall be mentioned and that from the time the same

              shall be raised it remain in the hands of the Receiver or

              Receivers of that our Province until our Royall Pleasure shall

              be known therein.

               And whereas we are willing in the best manner to provide

              for the support of our Government in Maryland by settling a

              Part sufficient allowance to such as shall be our Lieutenant

              Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being within

              the same Our Will and Pleasure therefore is that when it

              shall happen that you shall be absent from our said Province

              one full moyety of the Salary and all perquisites and Emolu

              ments whatsoever which should otherwise become due unto