Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 135

Our said Province as well Cultivated as Uncultivated to all
and every Person or Persons who shall be Willing to purchase
the same for such Considerations and Prices respectively upon

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such Terms and Conditions and under such Rents and Reser-
vations and in such manner and form as by Our Orders and
Instructions under Our hand and Seal bearing even date with
these Presents Are and is in that behalf Specified and De-
clared Which Orders and Instructions We have directed to be
Entered in the Council Books of Our said Province and do
declare to be of the same force and Validity as if inserted in
these presents And for the Purposes aforesaid We do hereby
Authorize and Empower you and the Survivors and Survivor
of you to Seal and as Our Act and Deed in due form of Law
to Deliver All Proper Deeds Conveyances Assurances Con-
tracts and Agreements also to receive the Consideration or
Purchase Money to be thereon paid and to Sign Receipts and
give Acquittances for the Money to be so received and paid
which shall be Sufficient Discharges to the Persons Paying the
same for the Money to be so received And Generally to do all
such Acts which shall or may be Requisite and Expedient in the
Premisses in as full and ample manner to all Intents and Pur-
poses as We Ourselves might or could do if Personally present
And whatsoever you the Horatio Sharpe Daniel Dulany and
John Morton Jordan or the Survivors or Survivor of you shall
lawfully do or Cause to be done in the Premisses during the
Continuance of these presents (which We will to be for the
Space of two years from the Day of the Date hereof and no
longer) We do by these presents and shall and will at all times
hereafter Ratify Confirm and allow to all Intents and pur-
poses whatsoever Revoking as We do hereby Revoke all
Powers and Authorities at any time heretofore given by us to
you the said Horatio Sharpe and to any other Person or Per-
sons in Our said Province touching or Concerning the Sale
or other Disposition of Our said Reserved Lands or any part
thereof more particularly our Orders and Instructions given
to you the said Horatio Sharpe and to Benedict Calvert and
George Steuart Esq^rs the Judges of Our Land Office and to
Edward Lloyd Esq^r the Receiver General of Our said Prov-
ince bearing date the day of January One Thousand
seven hundred and Sixty Five. Given under Our hand &
Lesser Seal at Arms at London this Twenty first day of
February in Fifteenth year of Our Dominion of the said
Province and in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven
hundred and Sixty Six
By his Lordship's Command F. B.
Hugh Hamersley Secretary.

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