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bation, and as offices become Vacant you are to fill up the same
Provisionally only until you shall have received Our Consent
and Approbation.
11^th You shall take Especial Care that God Almighty be
devoutly and duly served throughout your Government, the
Book of Common Prayer, as by Law Established, Read each
Sunday and Holiday, and the Blessed Sacrament be duly
Administered according to the Rights of the Church of Eng-
land. You shall be careful that the Churches already Built
be well and orderly kept and we do hereby Require and Direct
you that all Church Livings and Ecclesiastical Preferments
which shall become Vacant shall be Notified by you to Us for
Our filling up and appointing the Succeeding Incumbents
thereto, by which means we shall have an Opportunity of
Obliging Deserving Persons and thereby knowing those who
are sent over to Our said Province.
12^th If any Emergency of Government shall arise not pro-
vided for by these Instructions, you are in all things to act
according to your best Discretion and Judgement with the
Opinion and Advice nevertheless of Our Council transmitting
to us or Our Secretary of Our said Province the earliest
Accounts of such Your Proceedings.
13^th You are to Conform yourself to all such Orders and
Instructions as have been sent to former Lieutenant Govern-
ors as you shall find them Entered in the Council Books of Our
said Province so far as the same are not altered or varied by
these present or former Instructions or such other Instruc-
tions as you may receive from us and you are upon all Occa-
sions to send to us or Our Secretary of Our said Province
in England to be laid before us a particular Account of all

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your Proceedings and of the Proceedings of the Assembly,
and of the Condition of Affairs within your Government.
14. In Case of your Death or Absence from our said Prov-
ince and no other Person shall be resident on the place Com-
missionated or appointed by us to be Our Lieutenant Gov-
ernor, the Eldest Councillor whose Name is first placed in Our
Commission appointing the Council and who shall be at the
time of your Death or Absence residing within Our said
Province shall take upon him the Administration of the
Government but not to Assent to or Pass any Act but what
may be immediately necessary for the Peace and Welfare of
Our Province.
15^th You are to Cause these Instructions to be entered in
the Council Books.
Given at Baltimore House Westminster this 29^th Day of
August in the Year of Our Lord 1768 and in the 18^th year of
Our Dominion F. B.

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