210 Assembly Proceedings, Mar. 16, 1701/2-Mar. 25, 1702.

Original
Journal.

And it being found upon Enquiry that the Officers of the
Militia in Ann Arundel County had not yet taken the said
Oaths nor that they had ever been proposed to them
Ordered that the Commanders in chief in every County

within this Province being Justices of the Peace tender the

said oaths to the officers of the Militia under their Command,
and return to his Excellency An Account of their Proceedings
thereon
His Excellency acquaints the Board that for the Credit of
the Country and that we may be the more capable of Express-
ing our Duty and Affection to his Majesty on his Birth day
Coronation Day &c and otherwise of Saluting any Ships or
Strangers that may Come to this Port he had procured four-
teen Guns and caused them to be mounted on the State
house hill which was very well approved of to be creditable
& Necessary
The Board adjourned for 2 hours

Post Meridiem
The Councill again Sat present as in the morning.

Came Major Dent and M^r Philemon Lloyd from the house
& bring the Petition of John Needles Elizabeth his Wife; John
Sherwood and Lucy his Wife, and Mary Mann Spinster,
Praying an Act for the Confirmation of a certain deficient
Testam^t of Edw^d Mann late of Talbot Co^ty Gent, dec^d (Father
of the s^d Eliz^th Lucy & Mary) with the Report of the Com-
mittee of Laws thereupon Which being read was well ap-
proved of

p. 194

His Excell^cy & the Council are willing a Bill should be
brought in to confirm the s^d deficient Testament as prayed for
The Board adjourned till 8 of the Clock to morrow morning

Wednesday March the 18th 1701

The Council in Assembly Sate Present as yesterday
Ordered that the following Message be sent to the House.

By his Excellency the Governeur and Council in
Assembly March the 18th 1701

Herewith is sent you the right honourable the Lords Com-
missioners of Trade & Plantations Letter to his Excellency
the Governour of the 22^d of July last requiring his Excel-
lency to get the best Information he can relating to the Con-
duct of the Proprietary Governours & Governments upon