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great Satisfaction it gives me that his Majesty has done me
the Honour to Shew this his repeated Approbation of my
Choice of you for my Governor of my Province of Maryland
by Granting you his own immediate Commission as an Officer
fit and proper to be employed in so great & National under-
taking, and out of the regard I have for you and from a
Sincere. Inclination to promote your welfare, I do hereby
Signify my desire, that you do forthwith proceed to pay all
due and punctual Obedience to his Majestys Royal Commis-
sion according to the Tenor and true Intent and meaning
thereof, and in Case his Majestys Service in consequence of
the said Commission shall require your Temporary Absence
from my said Province I do further Declare my free leave
and Assent thereto, and that such your Absence from my
said Province in Obedience to his Majestys said Commission
shall not in any respect invalidate your Commission as my
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Provided, that you re-
turn to my said Province to resume the Government thereof
when and as often as his Majestys Service shall permit you
so to do. And it is my further Will and Pleasure that during
your Absence out of the Province upon this Great necessary
and National Service, the Powers of Government over my
Province of Maryland be exercised by the President or
Senior Member for the time being of my Council whom you
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are to Authorize and Commissionate for that purpose, when
and as the same shall become necessary agreeable to the
Instructions already Received or which shall hereafter be
received from me. And I do hereby require you forthwith
to Signifie or Cause to be Signified to the Council of State
and to both houses of Assembly within my said Province of
Maryland as well the Royal Commission with which his
Majesty has been most graciously pleased to invest you upon
this Important Service as this my Leave of Absence hereby
Granted to you from my said Province, And in a more par-
ticular manner I do require and enjoin you that you do in
the most Serious & earnest manner recommend it to the Good
People of my said Province, That they do in furtherance of
his Majestys Royal Intentions, and in manifestation of their
own just Abhorence and Resentment at the unprovoked
Insults & Attempts of the Invaders, most heartily co-operate
with his Majesty & their Neighbouring Governments by
Granting such effectual Supplys and prosecuting such vigor-
ous Measures against the common Enemy as shall demon-
strate to all future ages the distinguished Zeal and Loyalty
of this my Province of Maryland to their Sovereign and the
Cause of their Country. Given at London under our hand
and Greater Seal at Arms this Sixth day of July in the
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