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The following Commission is ordered to be here Entered
F. Baltimore
Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces
of Maryland and Avalon in America Lord Baron of Balti-
more of the Kingdom of Ireland To Our trusty and wel-
beloved Benjamin Tasker George Plater Edmund Jenings
Charles Hammond Samuel Chamberlain Philip Thomas
Daniel Dulany Edward Lloyd Benjamin Young Benjamin
Tasker jun. Richard Lee and Benedict Calvert Esqrs Greet-
ing Know ye that We reposing Special Trust and Confidence
in Your Wisdom diligence and Experience have Assigned
and appointed you jointly and Every of you Severally to be
our Privy Council of State within our said Province of Mary-
land, and We do hereby Give unto you and Every of you full
Power and Authority from time to time and at all times here
after untill We or Our heirs shall Signifie Our or their
Pleasure to the Contrary to Assemble and Meet together
with our Lieutenant or Chief Governor of Our said Province
for the time being when and where he shall from time to time
direct and Appoint to Treat Council deliberate and Advise
of all Matters Causes and things which shall be discovered
unto you or brought before you as well concerning: the quiet
Government of the People of Our said Province as of the
Good and Safety thereof Witness my hand and Great Seal
at Arms. Given at London this Seventeenth day of March in
the Second year of Our Dominion and in the year of Our
Lord One thousand Seven hundred & fifty three.
By his Lordships Command
Cecils Calvert Secretry
On the Back of which Commission was this Endorced
Entered in the Office of the honourable Cecilius Calvert Esqr
Secretary of the Province of Maryland in America, residing
in England
Harman Verelst Assistant
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