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     means & that Mr Atty General make Report what charge said Lib. X.

     Clark Sly & Mason ought to pay & the rest of the Tobacco

     to be divided proportionably & paid by whom it appears to

     be due

       Ordered that Mr Atty General make Report whether Popish

     Priests Quakers &Ca may marry people without their Banns

     published or License Granted & whether Such persons are

     not obliged to register their Births Marriages & Burials &ca

     according to the Act of Assembly

       Whereas there is this last Assembly Enacted a Law Im- p 191

     powering the Several Vestry to tax their parishioners yearly

     the Sum of 10 l Tobacco p poi for repairing Churches &

     buying of Books &Ca

       Ordered that the Several Vestrys take care that all the Laws

     relating to them be fairly Transcribed and that they be Com

     plied with & that Books &ca be bought as the law directs

       Ordered that the Trustees of the Cool Springs see the Act

     lately made relating thereto be put in Execution

       His Excellency is pleased to say that he will go and see the

     Land laid out & a proper place to build the Tenements in

       Ordered that Mr Atty Genl take care about the Navigation

     Bonds Scire facias issue to receive the Judgments but that

     the executions be Suspended

       Robert Handcocks Petition read & being matter of Law

     is referred to Mr Atty Gen'

       Ordered that when the publick Revenue & the several

     Accots are Stated that warrants be drawn for his Majestys

     Receivers to pay what is due to his Excellency the Governor

     according to his Majestys Royal Instructions & the Act of As

     sembly

       Ordered that the Clerk of the Provincial Court give his

     Majestys Atty General a full Accot of all fines & Forfeitures

     & Amerciaments who is to take care to have them Levied

       Ordered that George Plater & George Muschamp Esqrs his

     Majestys Receivers return fair Transcripts of all Accots to the

     Right Honourable his Majestys Auditor General

       [Bond of Philip Clarke and Michael Miller.]

     Maryland ss

       Know all men by these prsents That we Philip Clarke of St

     Maryes County Gent and Michaell Miller are holden and

     firmly bound unto our Sovereigne Ld the King in the full

     Sume of five hundred pounds Sterl to be paid to the sd Ld the

     King his heirs & Successors to the which paymt well and truly

     to be made we bind our Selves our heirs Exrs and Admrs Jointly