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be then Absolute. If Revoked notice thereof shall be im-
mediately given And the Money Advanced returned to the
Purchaser with the usual Interest of the Province and Com-
pensation also made for all Sums of Money which shall bona
fide have been laid out for Clearing Improving or Building
on any part of the Lands Contained in such Sale to be Ascer-
tained by Arbitration
16^th You are to Observe that these my Instructions and the
Commission on which they are attendant are to be executed
by or under the Authority of all my Commissioners jointly
and not otherwise. But in Case any one of my three Commis-
sioners shall Die or Depart the Province before the Authority
thereby Delegated shall have been fully and compleatly Car-
ried in Execution Then It is my Will that the President of the
Council of my said Province for the time being shall succeed
to and be invested Jointly with the two Surviving or Remain-
ing Commissioners in all the same Powers and Authoritys as
are thereby given to such Dying or Departing Commissioner
together with the two Commissioners therein named and that
as fully and amply as if he had been Originally named therein.
17^th That these Presents and my Commission of even date

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be and remain in full force for Two years from the day of the
date of these Presents and no longer.
Given nunder my hand and lesser Seal at Arms this Twenty
first day of February in the Fifteenth year of my 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.

At a Council held at the Governor's on Monday the 5^th day
of May in the Sixteenth year of his Lordship's Dominion
Annoq Domini 1766.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

The honourable Benjamin Tasker Sam^l Chamberlaine Rich^d
Lee, Benedict Calvert Dan^l Dulany John Ridout and Henry
Hooper Esq^rs

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly which was
this day to have met be further prorogued to Tuesday the 6^th
day of this Instant and Proclamation issued accordingly.