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and to our Com^rs for Trade and plantaons and the like Inven-
tary afterwards yearely
15 You are to take Especiall care that fitt Storehouses
be settled throughout that our Province for receiueing &
keeping of armes, Ammunition and other Publick Stores
16 You shall likewise take care that a generall Survey be
made of all our said Province, and of each County in it, and
that an Exact Mapp, or Mapps be drawne, and transmitted
as af^d
17 You shall cause a Survey to be made of all the con-
siderable landing places, & harbours in our said Province,
& w^th the advice of our Councill, there Erect any of them,
and such fortifications, as shall be necessary for the security &
advantage of th^t our province, which shall be done, att the
publick Charge, in w^ch wee doubt not of theire cheerfull con-
currence

P. R. O.

18 You are to Endeavour with the Assistance of the
Councill to provideing [sic] for the raiseing of Stocks, and
building publick worke houses, in Convenient places for poor
& indigent people.
19 You are to propose an act to be passed in the Assem-
bly whereby the Creditors of persons, becomeing bankrupt
in England & haueing Estates in Maryland may be relieued
& satisfied the Debts oweing to them
True coppy from the originall In^o Seymour

Explanatory observations upon the clause in Coll Seymours
instructions, relateing to the reviseing the laws of Maryland
& transmitting a compleat body thereof
Collonell Blakiston late Gov^r of Maryland did with his
letter of the sixteenth of August sixteen hundred ninety nine,
transmitt to the Com^rs for trade and plantaons, a collection
of the revised acts of that Province in two Books, the one
entituled perpetuall Laws, without Limitaon, the other Laws
made in July 1699, intimateing withall, that Sev^ll former acts,
were thereby continued and others altered
In the said booke of Laws made in July 1699 there is an
act for ascertaineing the Laws of that Province, by w^ch the
act, past that Sessions, together with such former acts whereof
a List is there inserted, are declared & Enacted to be the
onely Laws of th^t Province, and all others formerly made are
thereby repealed
This method has been judged irregular because the vallidity
of all the Laws of the Province, are thereby made to depend
upon this one Single act, whereas Each of them ought to
have been Enacted Separately, that soe they might haue been
Singly either confirmed or Disallowed by her Majesty as

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