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Calvert
Paper
No. 278

Additional Orders and Instructions powers & Authoritys to be
Observed and pursued by Nicholas Lowe Esq^r Our Agent and
Receiver General in our Province of Maryland.

C: Baltimore

Whereas you were heretofore Instructed and directed to pay
Charles Calvert Esq^r our late Governor one thousand pounds Sterling
p^r Annum; You are now to pay Our Dear Brother Benedict Leonard
Calvert Esq^r Our present Governor the said thousand pounds p^r
Annum, Out of the monys or Bills of Exchange arising by the Duty
on the Exportation of Tobacco at such times & in such proportions
as he shall Call for the same to be Computed from the first Day of his
Arrivall in the Province, to which time you are to pay our Late

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Governeur. And in case of the Death or Absence of our said
Brother the sum of five hundred pounds to the first person of our
Council taking upon him the Administration of our Government.
2 And Whereas I have Charged my said Brother with many par-
ticular things relateing to my private as well as publick Interest, in
which by my Instructions to him you will find your Advice and As-
sistance Desired, You are hereby directed and required to hold a free
and open Conversation with him in every thing that relates to my
Service, either immediately under your Management by Virtue of
your Offices or otherwise as Occasion may require.
3. You are upon direction from our said Brother to permitt a
Pattent to pass for five hundred Acres of Common Warrant Land,
or Surplus Land to Charles Calvert of S^t Maries County Esq^r or to
Gerrard Slye on his Account, or to any other person to whom my
said Brother shall order it, without your takeing any Fine for the
same but Subject never the Less to all other my present Conditions of
Plantations.
4 And whereas I have directed M^r Philemon Lloyd to make out
a Pattent to M^r Richard Willis for the two hundred Acres of Land
Called the Land of promise provided the said Lands are not Granted
to any Body Else, upon the Equity you and he Certified upon the
Back of the Survey He the said Willis seemed to have, your are
to permitt the same to pass without receiving any Fine, But Subject
to all other my present Conditions of Plantation
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By his Lordships Command
Charles Lowe