At a Council held in the Council Chamber, on Monday the
12^th day of June, in the Nineteenth Year of his Lordship's
Dominion, Anno Domini 1769.

Present
His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor.

Benedict Calvert Esq^r Walter Dulany Esq^r
Daniel Dulany Esq^r John Beale Bordley Esq^r
John Ridout Esq^r George Steuart Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Instructions which were Ordered to be Entered

George R.
Orders and Instructions to Our Right Trusty and well be-
loved Frederick Lord Baltimore of Our Kingdom of Ireland,
Lord Proprietary of Our Province of Maryland in America ;
in pursuance of several Laws relating to the Trade and Navi-
gation of this Our Kingdom of Great Britain, and Our Col-
onies and Plantations in America. Given at Our Court at
Saint James's the Thirtieth day of November 1768. In the
Ninth Year of Our Reign.
First. You shall give Directions, and take especial Care,
that Robert Eden Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of Our Prov-
ince of Maryland in America, do, in the first place inform
himself of the Principal Laws relating to the Plantation
Trade, and take a Solemn Oath to do his Utmost, that all the
Clauses Matters and Things contained in all Acts of Parlia-
ment now in Force or that hereafter shall be made, relating to
Our Colonies or Plantations, be punctually and bona fide
observed according to the true intent and meaning thereof.
2. And whereas by an Act made in the 7^th and 8^th years of
King William the Third, intituled An Act for preventing
Fraud and regulating Abuses in the Plantation "Trade" the
Officers appointed for Performance of certain things men-
tioned in an Act passed in the 15^th year of the Reign of King
Charles the Second intituled, " An Act for the Encouragement
of Trade," commonly known by the Name of the Naval
Officers, are to give Security to the Commissioners of Our
Customs in Great Britain for the time being or such as shall
be appointed by them for Our Use, for the true and faithful
Performance of their Duty, He, the said Robert Eden, shall

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