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

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do therefore hereby Strictly Enjoin and require you, that you
do not upon any Account Signify your Assent to any Bill
whatsoever to be sent up to you from both or either of the
Houses of Assembly of our said Province whereby Our Sole
Right and Priviledge of granting Ordinary Licences, or any
other Licences whatsoever within our said Province to such
Persons and in such manner as we shall think fitting, shall or
may be in anywise invaded Impeached, or otherwise drawn
into Question, or whereby any Appropriation, Appointment
or Disposition shall or may be made by both Houses or either
House of Assembly within our said Province, of the Duties,
fines, penalties, and Forfeitures arising or to arise from such
Ordinary Licences or other Licences whatsoever at any time
heretofore granted, or hereafter to be granted within our said
Province otherwise than to our proper use and Benefit or to or
for such uses Intents and Purposes to which I shall have
.Signified to you or our said Assembly my Previous Assent
and Pleasure, or whereby any new Regulations, Mudcs of
Collection or other Innovations shall or may be established or
Introduced touching the same Licences or any of them, or
touching all or any of the Duties, fines Penalties or Forfeitures

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arising or to arise thereby Unless and without an Express
Provision to be inserted in every such Bill whereby, the Opera-
tion, Force, Validity, and Effect of every such Bill, and of
every Clause, Article, matter, and thing to be inserted in every
such Bill shall be suspended and remain in effectual for the
Space of Eighteen Months at least, to be Computed from the
day of your Assent to such Bill or untill such time as Our will
and Pleasure shall be Signified to you thereon.
Given under my hand and Lesser Seal at Arms at London
this seventh day of February in the Fourteenth year of my
Dominion of the said Province and in the year of Our Lord
One Thousand seven hundred and Sixty five.
By his Lordship's Order F: B.
Cecil^s Calvert Sec^y

The Consideration of the above Instructions is put off untill
Monday Morning.

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor, with the Advice
of this Board, that Dead Warrant issue for the Execution
of Negro Beck, Slave of Joseph Smith of Calvert County, on
Wednesday the fourth day of June next, which issued accord-
ingly.