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at a Sessions begun and held at Annapolis in our said Prov-
ince of Maryland on the Second Day of October and ending
the seventeenth day of November in the third year of Our
Dominion over the said Province Annoq Domini 1753. " An
Act Entituled an Act to Empower the Several Courts within
this Province to order Commissions for the Examination of
Witnesses residing beyond Sea and for the more Easy Fore-
closure of Mortgages," Passed into a Law, on due Considera-
tion whereof we have thought fit to Dissent to the said Act
And do hereby declare the said Act Null Void and of no
Effect Given under Our hand & Seal at Arms at London this

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Tenth day of December in the fourth year of Our Dominion
over the said Province Annoq Domini 1754
[Seal]
By his Lordships Command
Cecil^s Calvert Sec^ry

F. Baltimore.
Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Province
of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c. To
our Right Trusty & Well Beloved Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Our
Lieutenant Governor of Our Province of Maryland And To
our Right Trusty and well Beloved the Upper and Lower
Houses of our Assembly there and to all others in our said
Province of Maryland for the time being Greeting Whereas
at a Sessions begun and held at Annapolis in our said Prov-
ince of Maryland on the second day of October and ending
the Seventeenth day of November in the third year of our
Dominion over the said Province Annoq Domini 1753. " An
Act Entituled an Act to Repeal an Act Entituled an Act for
the Confirmation of the Lands thereinmentioned to Richard
Bennett Esq^r" Passed into a Law, On due Consideration
whereof We have thought fit to Dissent to the said Act And
do hereby Declare the said Act Entituled " An Act to Repeal
another Act Entituled " An Act for the Confirmation of the
Lands therein mentioned to Richard Bennett Esq^r" Null
Void and of no Effect Given under our hand & Seal at Arms
at London this Tenth day of December in the Fourth year of
Our Dominion over the said Province Annoq Domini 1754.
[Seal]
By his Lordships Command
Cecil^g Calvert Sec^ry

Ordered that Proclamation issue publishing the said Dis-
sents, which being prepared issued accordingly
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board his Lord-
ships Objections to the Act for Amending the Staple of To-
bacco &c. and desires their Advice & opinion therein

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