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of doing any thing that is disagreeable to you: As I intend to make
the Province a Visit in the Fall, I shall not be more prolix at present.
Happyness to you & yours Y^r Friend & humble Serv^t
Baltimore
p. S. You are to send 5o£ a year out of y^r office to Mess^rs Hyde
& Comp^y for my Order & use.

p. 45

Additional Instructions to our Right Trusty & well Beloved
Charles Lord Baltimore of our Kingdom of Ireland Proprietor &
Governor of our Province of Maryland in America or to the Com-
mander in Chief of our said Province for the time being. Given at
our Court of St. James's the 5^th day of May 1732 in the Fifth year
of our Reign. Sign'd George R.

p. 46

Whereas Complaint has been made to us, by our Merchants of the
City of London, in behalf of themselves & Several others of our
good Subjects of Great Brittain trading t'o our Plantations in
America, that greater Dutys & Impositions are laid on their Ships
& Goods, than on the Ships & Goods of persons who are Natives
& Inhabitants of the s^d Plantations; It is Therefore Our Will &
Pleasure, that you do not upon any Pretence Whatsoever, on pain of
our highest displeasure, give your Assent for the future, to any Law,
wherein the natives or Inhabitants of Maryland under Your gov-
ernment, are put on a more advantageous footing than those of this
Kingdom. It is further Our Will & Pleasure, that you do not, &
you are hereby expressly forbid to pass any Law, by which the Trade
or Navigation of this Kingdom may be any ways affected. Hereby
Declaring it to be our Royal Instruction, that no Dutys shall be laid
in the Province under your Government, upon British Shiping, or
upon the Product or Manufactures of Great Britain, upon any
pretence whatsoever G. R.

Black Book
No. 11

At the Court at Kensington the 21^st day of July 1732 Present.

The Queens most Excellent Majesty Guar .... Kingdom of
Great Britain and .... Lieutenant within the same
Lord Chancellour Earl of Burlington
Lord President Viscount Falmouth
Lord Chamberlain Lord Raymond
Duke of Kent M^r Chancellor of the Exchequer
Duke of Newcastle S^r Charles Wills

Whereas there was this day read at the Board the humble Me-
morial of Charles Lord Baltemore Lord Proprietor of the Province
of Maryland Setting forth that His Majesty had been graciously
pleased by His Order in Council of the I^st of July 1731 to Approve
of Samuel Ogle Esq^r whom the Memorialist had Nominated and
Appointed Lieutenant Governor of the said Province and that the
said Ogle before his Departure for that Province had given the