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point me so to do, and shall Signify the same unto me and
will not presume to put in Execution or Attempt to Execute
any Office Power or Authority Granted unto me by any of the
said Commissions after that his said 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 in this Province I will do equal Right
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 Province and in default thereof accord-
ing to my Conscience and best discretion and to the Power
Granted or to be Granted unto me by his said Lordships
Commission or Commissions I will not for Fear Favour or
Affection or any other Cause hinder or delay Justice 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 in to or over the said Province

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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
Convenient Speed to his said Lordship and I will in all things
from time to time as Occasion shall require faithfully Council
and Advise his said Lordship according to my Heart and
Conscience So help me God

His Excellency the Governor took also the following Oath

I Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor of his Lordships Province
of Maryland do Solemnly Swear that I will do my utmost that
every the Causes Matters and things contained in the following
Acts of Parliament of his Majestys Kingdom of Great Britain
viz. An Act entituled An Act for the Encouraging and En-
creasing of the Shipping and Navigation made in the twelfth
Year of the Reign of King Charles the second, The Act for
preventing Frauds and Regulating Abuses in his Majestys
Customs made in the fourteenth year of the said Kings Reign :
The Act for the Encouragement of Trade made in the fifteenth
year of the said Kings Reign The Act to prevent the Planting
of Tobacco in England and for regulating the Plantation Trade
made in the twenty second and Twenty third Years of the
said Kings Reign and continued by a Clause in the Act
against Clandestine Running of Goods and for the more
effectual Preventing of Frauds Relating to the Customs
made in the fifth year of the Reign of Our Late Royal Father,
The Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland