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is to be for no longer time than He and I shall Mutually think fit to Continue the Same C: B: Additional Orders and Instructions Powers and Authoritys to be Observed and pursued by Nicholas Lowe Esqr Our Agent & Receiver General in Our Province of Maryland. C: Baltimore

Calvert Paper No. 278

	I Having Considered the case of those Proprietors of Land within my mannor on Choptank River which were Pattented before the said Mannor was laid out, My Will is that they should Quietly Enjoy them (as by Law they Ought) without any Interruption or Disturb- ance whatever And being Desireous that the Proprietors of those Lands within my said Mannor, which have been Pattented by my Grandfather, since the Reserve thereof should be Quietted and Con- firmed in their possessions, I have directed Mr Philemon Lloyd my Deputy Secretary to Grant them new Pattents, or Patients of Con- firmation for the same under the Conditions my other Lands are now Granted, upon your Signifying unto him, that you have received such a Fine for the Same, as I have herein after Ordered you to Agree for, But as to that part of the said Mannor which has not been hitherto Pattented at all, I would have no Grants made thereof, till my further Order. You are therefore hereby Authorized & Directed that in Case the Proprietors of the aforesaid Lands which were Pattented by my Grandfather since the Reserve of the said Mannor, are willing to pay forty Shillings pr hundred Acres for
	what they now hold to accept the same (without taking any Ad- vantage of their Improvemts) And upon the receipt of the mony you are to make it known to Mr Lloyd, Who is to Grant them their Pat- tents accordingly. But in Case the said Proprietors of those Lands should think forty Shillings p hundred acres too much, and you and Mr Lloyd should both be of Oppinion that Twenty Shillings is sufficient you are hereby Authorised and impowered to accept of Twenty Shillings pr hundred Acres and to proceed accordingly. And you are to make in your Account a Distinct Article of the Money Arising thereby. 2 You are hereby directed to give Orders to the Severall Naval Officers to make up their Accounts Yearly and sign them and send to my Governor as soon as they have Cleared all the Ships for the year (over and besides their making them up with you) which I will direct them to Transmitt to me. C: B:	p. 8