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An Act for Publication of all Laws within this Province, Passed
and Assented to.

Your Committee further find, in the Journals of this House in
the Year 1715, as follows, to wit,

Friday Afternoon, 29^th April, 1715.

John Hall, Esq; from the Honourable Council, delivers Mr.
Speaker the following, viz.

Copies of Two of the Royal Instructions to his Excellency the
Governor of Maryland.

You are to transmit authentic Copies of all Laws, Statutes, and
Ordinances, that are now made, and are in Force, which have not yet
been sent, or which at any Time hereafter shall be made and enacted

L. H. J.

Liber No. 31

April 29

within our said Province, each of them separately, under the Public
Seal, unto Us and our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations,
within Three Months, or by the first Opportunity after their being
enacted; together with Duplicates thereof, by the next Conveyance,
upon Pain of our highest Displeasure, and Forfeiture of that Year's
Salary.

And that it may be the better understood what Acts and Laws
are in Force, in our said Province of Maryland, you are, with the
Assistance of our Council there, to take Care, that all Laws now in
Force be Revised and Considered; and if there be any Thing either in
the Matter or Stile of them, which may be retrenched or altered,
you are to represent the same to us, with your Opinion touching
the said Laws now in Force; whereof you are to send a compleat
Body unto Us, and our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations,
with such Alterations as you shall think requisite, to the End our
Approbation or Disallowance may be signified thereupon.

Signed p Order, Wm. Bladen, Clerk Council.

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly, April
29th, 1715.

His Excellency the Governor, with the Advice of this Board, has
thought fit to communicate to the House of Delegates the Two
above written Royal Instructions.

Signed p Order, Wm. Bladen, Clerk Council.

By the House of Delegates, May the 6th, 1715.

The Two Royal Instructions sent us by John Hall, Esq; on the
29th of last Month, being considered; In order to effect what is
therein mentioned, and that we may the better understand what
your Excellency and Honours take to be our Duty in that Affair,
desire some of the Honourable Members of your Board may be

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