68 Assembly Proceedings, October 11-27, 1720.

L. H. J.

fit, to entrust the Administration of the Government, That in
Case of Forreign Invasion, Insurrections, Famine, or further
Instructions from Great Britain, the Peace of the Province
will be duly maintained, and every man's Property Protected.
4^thly As soon as Conveniently may be, after the receipt
thereof, our will is, That these our Instructions be laid before
our Council Solemnly Called together to be Entred on their
Journals, And the person first named of our Councill taking
upon him the Administracon of the Government Dureing the
Absence of the said John Hart our Lieu^t Governour, to whom
we have Sent a Duplicate hereof, is hereby empowered to do &
Execute the Several Powers and Instructions now and form-
erly sent or hereafter to be sent, as Occasion and his Duty
shall require.
Baltemore
Guilford.

Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly.
On due Consideration of the Act of Assembly Intituled an
Act, for Ascertaining the bounds of Land within the Prov-
ince. Wee find it Absolutely Necessary to Recommend to you
to explaine or Reenacte the said Law, That whilst you are

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Endeavouring to Secure & Quiet Men in there Possession
You do not so bind them Down to the Determination of Com-
missioners to be Appointed by Vertue of the s^d Act as to make
their Sentence final, without Appeale (Except Conditionally
to his Majesty in Council as by the s^d Act is Provided to whose
Sacred Person every may ought to be at Liberty to Address
themselves without our Intermeddling therewith by Acts of
Assembly) whereby in a manner you even shut up the Courts
of Justice which can never Correspond with the Liberty of a
free People or be Deem'd Consonant to the Laws of Great
Britain The Standard by w^ch we are Obliged to Govern our
Councils.
Among the several Laws made at a Session of Assembly
in May Last we have thought fit to Dissent to the Act In-
tituled an Act for Relief of John Beale of Charles Town
Gent: and Richard Beale a Minor and do hereby declare the
same Null, Void & of no Effect for as much as the Legislature
of Great Britaine never interferes to Dispose of property
without the Consent of all Parties Leaving every Mans
Right to be Ruled by the known Laws of the Land.
And as we can never more certainly demonstrate the Real
Confidence we have in the good people of Maryl^d than by truely
Comunicating our Sentements on the proceedings of you their
Representatives, wee now Signifie that altho, we have not yet