436 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1748.

Lib. C. B.

Quantity of Indico Produced in, and exported from his
Majestys Plantations in America.
We Likewise send you inclosed an Act Passed in the 20^th
year of his Present Majestys Reign, Entituled "An Act to
extend the Provisions of an Act made in the 13^th year of his
Present Majesty's Reign Entituled An Act for Naturalizing

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foreign Protestants and Others therein mentioned as are Set-
tled or shall Settle in any of His Majestys Colonies in America,
to other foreign Protestants who conscientiously scruple the
taking of an Oath. So we bid you heartily farewell and are
Your very Loving Friends & humble Servants
T Pitt
Samuel Ogle Esq^r Deputy J Grenville
Governor of Maryland Dupplin

Whitehall June 8^th 1748
Sir
I am directed by my Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations to send you the inclosed heads of Enquiry and to
desire your Particular Answer thereto as soon as may be,
together with your Observations upon such Points as you
shall think necessary; and you are desired to make a Return
thereto every Six months, that their Lordships may be Apprized
of any Alterations which may happen in the Circumstances of
your Government
I am S^r
Your Most Obed^t humble Serv^t
Samuel Ogle Esq^r Lieu^t Tho: Hill
Governor of Maryland

Queries from the Board of Trade to Samuel Ogle Esq^r
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland

What is the Situation of the Province under your Gov-
ernment; the nature of the Country, Soil and Climate, the
Latitudes & Longitudes of the most Considerable Places in it,
or the Neighbouring French or Spanish Settlements? Have
those Latitudes and Longitudes been Settled by Good Obser-
vations, or only by common Computations and from whence
are the Longitudes Computed ?
What are the Reputed Boundaries, and are any Parts
thereof Disputed, what Parts and by whom ?

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What is the Constitution ?
What is the Trade of the Province, the number of Shipping
their Tonnage, and the Number of Seafaring men, with the
Respective Increase or diminution within Ten years Past?