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Orders & Instructions to our trusty & well beloved Samuel Ogle
Esq^r Governor of Maryland.
Baltimore. Whereas it may be proper for a Commission ap-
pointing a President of our Council who in case of your Death or
any other Inability may take upon him the Charges he is intituled to
by virtue of the said Office Our Will & pleasure is that yon do
cause a Commission to be drawn out, & that you do insert in the
said commission the name of such Person As you shall judge most
for the Interest of the Provinces who is in the cases aforesaid to Act,
as the President of the Council in such cases doth, until some other
person, be sent duely qualify'd to supersede him, & that such Com-
mission so fill'd up & sign'd be lodged in the hands of the Clerk
of our Council, seal'd up, & not to be open'd but in the cases afore-
said.
We do likewise out of our especial Confidence in your Zeal for the
welfare of the Province, give you full Power at all Times either to
displace any Person in office, or on Vacancys, to fill up such vacan-
cies, until our further Pleasure be known, & likewise to put any place
or places into Commission.
Sign'd & Seal'd this 12^th day of October 1737 at London & in the
21^st year of our Dominion.
By Command of his Ldsp Sign'd by William Janssen Sec^ry

Orders & Instructions to our trusty & well beloved Benjamin
Tasker Esq^re our Agent & Receiver General in our Province of
Maryland.
Baltimore. As to what Foreign whole Gold & Silver, which at
any time you may receive in Payments on our Accounts, tis our will
& pleasure.
I^st that you do not allow more than three Pounds seventeen
Shillings & Six pence sterling per ounce for said gold, nor more than
five shillings & three pence Sterling per ounce for said Silver, & you
are hereby order'd for the future to observe not to take any cutt
Gold or Silver at all in said Payments.
And whereas we have been inform'd that great waste has been &
continues to be made on our Manner adjoyning to Richard
Snowden's.
2^d 'tis our will & pleasure that you take especial care forthwith
to prosecute all such Offenders.
Given under our Hand & Seal at London this 12^th Day of October
1737 & in the 21^st year of our Dominion
C: B:
By Command of his Ldsp Sign'd by Will. Janssen Sec^ry