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468 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1727.
Lib. x. Lordship or his heirs or Assigns Lords and proprietarys of the said Province shall repeal them or any of them respectively and that the said Repeals be published within this province I will do equal right and Justice to the poor and to the rich within this Province to the best of my Skill Judgment and Power according to the Laws and Ordinances of the said prov ince and in default thereof according to my Conscience and p. 164 best Discretion and the power Granted or to be granted unto me by any of the said Commission or Commissions I will not for fear favour or Affection or any other Cause hinder or delay Iustice to any but will truly Execute the said Office and Offices respectively according to his said Lordships Commission to me in that behalf and to the true Intent and meaning thereof and not otherwise to the best of my understanding and Judgment I will not know of any attempt against his said Lordships Per son or his right or dominion into and over the said province or the People therein but I will prevent resist or Oppose it to the utmost of my Power and make the same known with all Con venient speed to his said Lordship and I will in all things from time to time as Occasion shall require faithfully Counsel and Advise his said Lordship according to my heart and Conscience So help me God
His Excellency the Governor also took the following Oaths Appointed by the Acts of the Twelfth of King Charles the Second and the seventh and Eighth of King William the third in the following words vizt
I Benedict Leonard Calvert Governor of his Lordships Prov ince of Maryland do Solemnly swear that I will do my utmost that every the Clauses matters and things Contained in the several following Acts of Parliament of his Majestys Kingdom of Great Brittain (vizt) an act intituled an Act for Increasing Shipping and Navigation made in the twelfth year of the Reign of the late King Charles the second another Act made in the fifteenth year of the Reign of his said late Majesty In titule an Act for Encouragement of Trade another Act made p. 165 in the twenty second and twenty third years of his said late Majestys Reign Intituled an Act to prevent planting Tobacco in England and for Regulating the plantation Trade another act made in the twenty fifth year of his said late Majesty in tituled an act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades an Act made in the Seventh and eighth years of the reign of the late King William the third intituled an act for Preventing Fraud and Regulating abuses in the plantation Trade an Act for the Encouraging the Importation
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