Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669—70.   499

    your warrt witnesse my hand and seale this sixteenth day of Decem- Liber JJ
    ber in the xxxviiith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq
    Domini MDCLxix.            The marke of
    To Robert Carvill gentt one of the John X Beale (sealed)
     Attorneys of the Provinciall Court
    Witnes John Blomfeild
          Thomas Wynne

      Wee underwritten Comissioners for Somerset County doe appointe
    and authorise mr William Stephens or his order to receive for the
    use of the County aforesaid the Sixteene Thowsand pounds of To-
    bacco, order'd by the Assembly to be paid to the Comissioners of
    the County aforesaid for the use aforesaid of that sheriff or sheriffs
    of any County or Countyes whatsoever within this Province that is
    order'd to pay the said Sixteene Thowsand pounds of Tobacco or
    any part thereof out of this yeares publique Tax Hereby giving him
    the said William steevens or his assignes, upon Receipt thereof full
    power and Authority to give discharge for the same Given under our
    hands this 29th of November 1669. Stephen Horsi
                                      George Johnson
                                      William Thorne
                                      John Winder
                                      James Jones
    June the 4th 1670
      Came Robert Large of St Maries County and desired his marke
    of Cattle to be recorded which is as followeth vizt the left care cropt
    and underkeel'd and a hole in the middle, and a hole in the right
    care.

      Whereas Uaecilius Lord and Proprietary of the Province of Mary-
        land Lord Baron of Baltamore &c By vertu of a Comission under [p.49]
        his Lordshipps hand and greater Seale at armes bearing date the
        ninth day of September in the xxxith yeare of his Lordshipps Domin-
        ion over the said Province hath constituted and apointed me Jerome
        White to be his Lordshipps Surveyour generall of all and singuler his
        LoPPs Castles, Lordshipps Mannors, Forrests, Chases, Parkes, Mes-
        suages, lands, Tenements, woods Rents Revennues Possessions and
        Heriditaments whatsoever within the said Province of Maryland, and
        also hath graunted to me the said White all vayles Fees Reguards
        advantages Proffits and allowances whatsoever to the said office be-
        longing, To have and to hold Exercise and Enjoy the aforesaid of-
        fice by myself my sufficient Deputy or Deputyes, and whereas I the
        said Jerome White being constrained by urgent ocasions to leave the
        Province this present yeare, intending (god willing) for England,
        and considering the great Necessity in my absence of leaving a Dep-
        uty Generall within the said Province, to the End that if any agreiv-
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