300 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1715.

     Lib. W. B.  We for the Preventing the Inconveniencies tht may happen

                 thereby in our Princely Wisdom and Care of the State reserv

                 ing to Our Judgement hereafter the Reformation and redress

                 of any Abuses in Misgovernment upon due Knowledge and

                 Examination thereof are Pleased and do hereby Order Sig

                 nifye and Declare That all Persons tht at the Time of the

                 Decease of her sd late Majesty were duly and lawfully Pos

                 sessed of or Invested in any Office Place or Employment

                 Civil or Military in any of our Plantations, and which have

                 not been since removed from such their Offices Places or

                 Employmcnt3 shall be and shall hold themselves continued in

                 the sd Offices Places or Employments as formerly they held

                 and enjoyed the same untill our Pleasure be further knowne

                 or tht other pvision be made pursuant to her late Matys

                 Comissions and Instructions to her Govnrs and Officers of the

                 Plantations afsd And tht in the mean Time for the preservation

                 of the Peace and necessary Proceedings in Matters of Justice

                 and for the Safety and Service of the State all the sd Persons

                 of whatsoever Degree or Condition do not faile every one

                 Severally according to his Place Office or Charge to pceed in

                 the performance and Execution of all Duties thereunto be

                 longing as formerly appertained unto them while the late

                 Queen was living. And further we do hereby will and Com

                 mand all and Singular Our Subjects in the sd Plantations of

                 what Estate or Degree they or any of them be to be Aiding

                 helping and Assisting at the Commandmt of the sd Officers

          p. 31  in the Performance & Execution of the sd Offices and Places

                 As they tender Our Displeasure & will Answer the Contrary

                 at their Utmost Perills.

                   Given at Our Court at St James's the two & twentieth day

                 of Novbr 1714 in the first Year of Our Reigne.

                           God Save the King.

                   Which being read Advised and resolved that the same be

                 forthwith published in all Parts of this his Matys Province.

                   His Excellency was also Pleased to Communicate to the

                 Board a Duplicate of a Letter from the Rt Honble the Lords

                 of Trade and Plantations Dated the 11th of August 1714

                 Requiring him forthwith to Proclayme his Majesty our most

                 Gracious Sovereigne King George King of Great Britain &c.

                 without loss of Tyme & give Acct to them thereof, Which

                 having been aliready done in all Parts of this Province and

                 the Acct thereof sent to Great Britain to their Lordships is

                 thought to be a full Complyance with their Lordships Letter

                 Also in the sd Letter the following Clause was observed

                 remarquing to his Excellency that by the Act made in the