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9. You are to Suffer no Law Relating to Our Paper Cur-
rency to Pass without a Sufficient Clause that it shall not take
Effect until it has been Sent Over for my Perusal and my
Approbation thereof returned to the Province It being Abso-
lutely Necessary for the Trade of his Majestys Subjects here
to Consult with them on that head.
10. You are from time to time to fill up all Vacant Places
in our said Province of Maryland and appoint or continue
such Person or Persons in offices as my Commissions or In-
structions for such Purposes are mentioned; As to all other
offices not given so Particularly in Direction to you, you are
to Appoint and continue such Persons in such offices during
my Pleasure as you shall think necessary and grant them the
usual Commissions on your Arrival transmitting to me an
Account of all such Persons so put into Employments or
Places by you for my Consent and Approbation & in Case
after your Arrival as afd any office Place or Employment in
our said Province of Maryland shall become Vacant, you are
from time to time to fill up the Same provisionally only untill
you shall have Received my Consent & Approbation of the
Person or Persons you shall so Appoint to Supply such
Vacancy or Vacancys or my Appointment of others whom I
shall Approve of for that Purpose
11. You are hereby Directed that no Schoolmaster be
henceforth permitted to come from England and to keep
School within our said Province without my Licence, and
that no other Person now there or that shall come from other
Parts be Admitted to keep School without your Licence first
obtained, to Prevent any unqualified Persons Acting in that
Capacity as Prohibited by law
12. You Shall take especial Care that God Almighty be
Devoutly & duly Served throughout your Government, The
Book of Common Prayer as by Law Established read each
Sunday and Holliday, and the Blessed Sacrament be duly
administered according to the Rites of the Church of Eng-
land; you shall be Careful that the Churches already built
there, be well and orderly kept: And I hereby Require and
direct you that all Church Livings & Ecclesiastical Prefer-
ments which shall become Vacant shall be Notified by you to
me for my filling up and Appointing the Preceeding Incum-
bents thereto; By which means I shall have an opportunity
of obliging deserving Persons and thereby knowing those
that are Sent over to Our said Province in so good a Char-
acter.
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