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we will that you take into Consideration whether it may not be proper
to Limit the number of such provinciall Justices to five and we
further require that you place Edmund Jenings Esq^r as Chief Jus-
tice of the said Court when he shall Desire the same C B.
Given Under our hand & Lesser Seal at arms at London May
12^th 1742 By his L^dsp Order J Browning

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Additional Orders & Instructions To our Trusty & well Beloved
Tho. Bladen Esq^r our Lieu^t Govern^r of Our Province of Maryland.
As it may be proper to take some Notice to the Gentlemen of the
Councill of the Good Disposition & Steadiness they have shown in
Maintenance of my rights and priviledges & Honour & Dignity of
Government I think it adviseable You should in some Councill be-
fore the Meeting of Assembly, Assure them of the Just sence I have
of, & reall Value & Confidence I place on their Resolutions for my
Honour & the True Interest of the Countrey, and that as I have no
other aim, but to make the Province Happy, I make no doubt they
will Concure w^th me That no meashure can be more Affectuall then
a Proper Support of Government in all its branches.
I Require you to make Jn^o Cook High Sheriff of Prince Georges,
or any other County, he shall Desire on the first Vacancy, w^ch may
Happen after Your Arrivall
Given under our hand & Seal at London this Twenty Eighth day
of May in the Twenty Eighth year of our Dominion Annoq Domini
1742.

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Articles of Peace and Amity concluded and agreed Upon between
the Right Honourable Charles Absolute Lord and Proprietor of the
Province of Maryland and John Coursey and Chinehopper Chief of
the Chicacoan Indians on behalf of themselves and Indians under
their Subjection this 24^th Day of July 1742
Imp" It is agreed upon that from this Day forward to the Worlds
End there shall be an Inviolable Peace and Amity between the Right
hon^ble the Lord Proprietary of this Province and the Chiefs of Chi-
cacoan Indian Towns upon Articles hereafter in this Treaty agreed
upon and that all former Acts of Hostility and Damages whatsoever
sustained shall be buried in Perpetual Oblivion.
2^dly That if any Indian or Indians Subject to the said Chiefs shall
Assault beat or kill an English Man or Plot or conspire [to make
war] with the English Inhabitants the said Chiefs shall be Obliged
to deliver such Indians Up to the Governor of this Province to suffer
as the English should do for the like Offence
3^dly Forasmuch as the English cannot Easily distinguish one In-
dian from another that no Indian shall come into any English Plan-
tation Painted and that all the Indians shall be bound to call aloud
before they come within one hundred Paces of any English Mans

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