344 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1716/17.

            C. P.  Thereupon the said John Beard takes the Severall Oaths

                   Appointed to be taken by the Act of Assembly of this Prov

                   ince, And Also An Oath for his due Execution of the aid

                   Office.

                    His Excellency Acquaints the Councill the Comission

                   Obtained by Mr Carroll Especially that for the Navall Officer

                   (he being a Papist) had given very great Offence to the

                   Country as they very well know

                    Wherefore to Satisfy the minds of the People he thought

                   fitt to let them know after what manner Mr Carroll had

                   obtained those Comissions And Comunicated to the board a

                   letter from the Right honble the Lord Guilford to him dated

                   the Eleventh day of October 1716

                    Wherein his Lordship is pleased to say that the Govern-

                   our's kind recomendation of Mr Carroll was one Principall

                   motive that induced the Ldships to imploy him at all. And

                   further Acquainted him that Mr Low affirmed to his Lordship,

                   and Mr Carrolls Comission had been drawn and (as he re

                   members) ingrosed the said Mr Carroll told him two or three

                   days before his departure that now his Lordship was restored

                   to his Government he must have the words Navall Officer

                   put into his Comission because his Lordship had now a right

                   to name him, whereupon he told his Lordship what Mr Carroll

                   had sayd not at all Imagining the Governours Authority

                   woud be lessened or Mr Carrolls Profitt raised thereby And

                   thereupon the words Navall Officer were inserted and his

                   Comission Sealed.

                    Whereupon his Lordship Observes to his Excellency that

                   the words Naval Officer were inserted thro' Surprize

                    As to the Incapacity of Papists Serving in Publick Imploy

                   ments his Lordship (declares he) pays the utmost deference

                   to the Law And by his said Letter Authorizes his said Ex

                   cellency to Appoint Navall Officers & Says he will do every

                   thing that shall be thought necessary to superseed that part

                   of Mr Carrolls Comission

                    Mr Lowe in the next Paragraph of his letter Observes to

                   his Lordship that he was intirely unacquainted with the nature

                   of the Offices of Surveyors & Navall Officers and the manner

                   of Conveying them And if there has been any error made

                   either in the disposall of the surveyors or Navall Officers

                   places the Governr must Attribute it to his friend Mr Carroll.

                    Then his Lordship the Lord Guilford Observes that as to

                   the Surveyors he shall Authorize his Excellcy to Appoint the

                   Severall Surveyors in the Counties dureing pleasure And in

                   the mean time he Comands his Excellency the Governour

                   to hear all disputes and Complaints that shall be made to the

                   Surveyor Generall.