Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1703.     163

     Proceedings of the several Courts of Chancery provincial &      Lib. X.

     County Courts within this Province & that the Commissary        p. 237

     General & Clerk of the Council do the like in respect of their

     Offices and that particular Orders be served on the said

     Officers

       Then read the right Honble the Earl of Nottingham her

     Majestys Principal Secretary of States Letter of the 20th of

     March last directing this Government to prohibit Trade &

     Correspondence with the French Settlements in America To

     which this Board do say that they have no Reason to believe

     any such trade or correspondence practicable by any Inhabit

     ants or Traders in this Province against which Proclamation

     has already been issued & all possible care will be used to

     prevent it

       Read his said Lordships her Majestys Secry of States

     Letter prohibiting any arms to be sold or supplied to the

     French or Spaniards now in war with her Majesty

       To which this Board do say they are sensible that they can

     have no such supply from this Province

       Read a Letter from the honble the Commissioners of her

     Majestys Customs desiring due care to be taken that no

     Bulkt Tobacco be shipped out of this Province unless in

     Chest & Cask pursuant to the Act of Parliament made there

     fore

       Ordered that the several Officers of her Majestys Customs

     be admonished to use their utmost circumspection that no

     such Tobacco's be shipped in this Province

       Then was produced and read his Excellency Nath Blakiston

     Esqr her Majestys Governors Letter to the Presidt & Council

     hereof Dated the 10th of February 1702

       And as to that part thereof relating to Mr Joseph Holt

     Rector of Wm & Mary Parish in St Marys County his ill Be-       p. 337

     haviour to the Great Scandal of his Function Ordered that

     the said Mr Holt be suspended ab Officio et a Beneficio until

     his Excellency Colo John Seymours arrival & that he make

     Application to his said Excellency to be restored if he shall

     think fit

       This Board taking especial notice of the great Character

     Governor Blakiston gives of the honble Colo John Seymour

     whom her Majesty has been pleased to appoint to be Gover

     nor of this Province very much rejoyce in the Great Expecta

     tion this Province may have under the Government of so

     worthy & noble a Gentleman

       That part of Colo Blakistons Letter desiring the General

     Assembly should meet between the Twenty fifth & twenty

     Eight of October next being taken into consideration Resol-

     ved that time will be very convenient for assessing and De