Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1738. 153

Governm^t of this Province and the same to exercise in as full
and ample Manner to all Intents and Purposes as any Presi-
dent hath heretofore done in the Absence of a Governor, and
to have and enjoy all Rights Priviledges Immunities Superi-
orities and Advantages of Every Nature and Quality as any
President of the Council hath had or by Law ought to have
although not herein specially mentioned Provided always that
the said shall take the respective Oaths to the
Government and qualify himself in all other Respects accord-
ing to Law before he enters upon the Execution of his said
Office To have and enjoy the said Office with all Rights Privi-
ledges Immunities Superiorities and Advantages thereunto
belonging until some Other Person shall be sent duely quali-
fied to supersede him In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my Hand and caused the Great Seal of this Province to
be affixed this Day of in the Twenty
fourth Year of his Lordships Dominion Anno Domini One
thousand Seven hundred and Thirty Eight

Lib. C. B.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before the Board the follow-
ing Letter directed to him from the Vestry of Christ Church
Parish in Queen Anns County.

May it please Your Excellency
We the Vestry of Christ Church Parish in Queen Anns
County have thought it Our Duty to inform Your Excellency
of the State of the Parish aforesaid as to the Church and
Glebe, as also the Amount of the forty Pounds of Tobacco p
Pole in the said Parish
The Church is of Brick twenty five feet wide and forty feet
long, the Altar and Stairs want repairing, with some other
small Repairs; The Glebe has a new Dwelling House half
finished, One Tobacco house, and One old House almost
useless
The Amount of the forty Pounds Tobacco p Pole for the
Year 1738 is fifteen thousand four hundred and Eighty
And lastly We humbly beg Leave to present to Your Ex-
cell^y M^r Ralph Elstone the Bearer a sober and discreet Person
for a Reader in the Parish Church af^d which We most humbly
beg your Excellency to license for the Office af^d
Signed p Order
14 Novem. 1738. Matthew Browne Clk

Which Representation being read It is the humble Advice
of this Board to his Excellency that he be pleased to license
the said Ralph Elstone as Reader in the af^d Parish; and

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