Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 9

F. Baltimore
1. With these my Instructions and Our Commission under
Our Great Seal at Arms constituting you Our Lieutenant
General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Province
and Dominion of Maryland in America You are on your
arrival and Landing in our said Province forthwith to call
together the Members of Our Council of State in form as
your Predecessors have done, and make known my Commis-
sion to them for that Purpose under Our Great Seal at Arms
bearing even date with these my Instructions; and you are
also with all due and usual Solemnity to cause and make
known to them my Commission to you under Our Great Seal
at Arms constituting you Our Lieutenant General and Chief
Governor of Our said Province of Maryland to be read and
published at the said meeting which being done you are to
Qualify yourself by taking the oaths accordingly as your
Predecessors have done, in respect to Acts of Parliament
and Acts of Assembly for that purpose and Our said Council
of State are in like manner to do the same; and you are also
to take the Oath required to be taken by Governors of Plan-
tations, to do their utmost that the Laws relating to the
Plantations be observed.
2. You are to Advise with our Council of State, and Act
Conformable as heretofore in such Case has been done about
Calling the Assembly; and as soon as with their Advice you

shall have so assembled, you are to make known to both

Houses of Assembly my Speech bearing Even date with these
Instructions; and you are to make Speech and deliver the
same in My Name to them, and if there be any Laws which
are expired and are Proper to be continued, you are on the
calling such Assembly under my Authority to recommend to
the Council and Assembly the forthwith Reenacting and Re-
newing- all such Laws; And you are to do and Execute all
such Publick Acts and other Necessary Transactions in con-
junction with Our Legislative Powers, as you and they shall
judge most Necessary & Expedient in like manner as has
been Practised and done before by your Predecessors under
the Several Powers granted to them from my late Dear
Father late Lord Proprietary and his Predecessors, and My

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

beloved Guardians during my Minority, and which are now
granted by me to you, with the usual Reservation lo me of
my Assent and Dissent to all such Proceedings of yours and
theirs, as I shall think and declare from time to time most
meet and fitting under my hand and Seal at Arms.
3. You are after your Arrival in Our said Province of
Maryland in Case of the Death of any of Our af^d Councillors

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