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     that Colonel Hammond acquaint the Committee that this Lib. X.

     Board were not willing to Raise any Tobacco but upon the

     said Committees Representation readily assent to the raising

     the said 60000 l of Tobacco being very unwilling the said p. 268

     Persons should go unsatisfied which may be the Occasion

     of Clamour & Discontent & an undervaluing the Publick

     Creditt

               Whitehall December the 3d 1700    Lib. H. D.

     Sr                                        p.275

       The Letters we have of late recd from you unto wch We

     have as yett returned no Answer are Dated the 12th and 24th

     of March 28th of May 5th of July and 6th Augt last

       We Observe the Reason you Alledge in your first of the

     Said Letters for not Sending an Acco of the Number of Plan

     ters and Inhabitants, and all Circumstances relating thereunto,

     and the Promise you make to take due Care that it be

     Exactly done and Transmitted to us for the future, We shall

     therefore Expect the Same.

       More Particularly we desire you to be mindfull of his Matys

     Instructions, for Sending home yearly Accounts of the Arms,

     Amunition and Stores remaining in his Matys Magazines in

     your Governmt and to take care that those Accounts be regu

     larly Transmitted, as his Maty has directed.

       As for the Division Line to be run between Maryland and

     Pensilvania Pursuant to the late King James's Order in

     Councill of the 13th of November 1685, We have Sent to the

     Lord Baltemore That he may give Instructions to his Agents

     in Maryland to Concurr therewith and according as we receive

     Answer from him, We shal Informe you.

       We Observe what you write in Several Letters about the

     Difficulty of getting together a Quorum of the Councill in p. 176

     Maryland when occasion requires it, And we have thereupon

     Represented to his Maty our Opinion That W Thomas Lau

     rence may be Constituted a Member of his Matys Said

     Councill, which his Maty has been pleased accordingly to

     direct, And We doubt not but his Father Sr Thomas Laurence

     will Transmitt unto him his Matys Order in Councill for that

     purpose. But, upon this Occasion, We find it necessary to

     desire you to Transmitt unto us frequently Lists of the Coun

     cillors that are residing upon the place, Expressing in each

     List the Changes that happen by the Death or Absence

     of any of them, And to send us also from time to time

     repeated Lists of the Names of Such Persons as you think

     fitt to Supply Vacancys in that Councill according to your