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MSS Calvert
Papers
No. 693
Md.HistSoc.
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Require You, That you do not upon any Account Signify Your
Assent to any Bill whatsoever, to be sent up to you from both or
either of the Houses of Assembly of our said Province, whereby
Our Sole Right and Priviledge of Granting Ordinary Licences, or
any other Licenses whatsoever, within our s.d Province, to such
Persons, and in such Manner as we shall think fitting, shall or May
be in any wise Invaded, Impeached, or otherwise drawn into ques-
tion; or whereby any Appropriation, Appointment, or Disposition
shall or may be made by both Houses or either House of Assembly
within our said Province of the Dutys, Fines, Penalties, and For-
feitures, arising, or to arise from such Ordinary Licences or other
Licences whatsoever, at any time heretofore Granted, or hereafter
to be Granted within our said Province, otherwise than to our
proper use and benefit, or to or for such Uses Intents & purposes
to which I shall have Signified to you or our said Assembly My
previous Assent and pleasure; or whereby any new Regulations,
Modes of Collection, or other Innovations shall or may be Estab-
lished, or Introduced, touching the same Licences or any of them,
or touching all or any of the Dutys Fines Penaltys or forfeitures
arising or to arise thereby — Unless without an express Provision to
be incerted in every such Bill whereby the Operation Force Validitiy
& Effect of every such Bill & every Clause Article matter and thing
to be incerted in every such Bill, Shall be Suspended and remain
In Effectual for the space of 18 Months at least to be computed
from the day of your Assent to such Bill, or untill such time as
our Will and Pleasure shall be signified to you therein.
Given at London under our hand and Lesser Seal at Arms this
7th day of Feb.ry in the 14.th Year of our Dominion and in the
Year of our Lord 1765.
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By His Lord.ps Com.d
Caecil.s Calvert Secy
of Maryland
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[INSTRUCTIONS OF FREDERICK, LORD BALTIMORE,
DATED JANUARY 16, 1765, TO GOVERNOR HORATIO SHARPE
ASSENTING TO THE LAWS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY AT
THE MARCH-APRIL 1762, AND AT THE OCTOBER- NOVEM-
BER 1763, SESSIONS. THE LAWS THUS ASSENTED TO BY
TITLE AND NUMBER CORRESPOND WITH THE ACTS LISTED
AS HAVING REEN PASSED AT THE 1762 AND 1763 SESSIONS
IN VOLUME LVIII OF THE ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND, AND
ARE THEREFORE NOT RELISTED AGAIN HERE.]
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