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FREDERICK ABSOLUTE LORD AND PROPRIETARY OF
THE PROVINCES OF MARYLAND AND AVALON IN AMER-
ICA LORD BARON OF BALTIMORE IN THE KINGDOM OF
IRELAND.

F. Baltimore
Orders and Instructions to be observed and pursued by Our Trusty
and well beloved Horatio Sharpe Esq.^r Our Lieutenant General and
Chief Governor of Our Province of Maryland.
Upon your Notifying to me Loss by the Death of Stephen
Bordley Esq.^r late of Our Provincial Council and Commissary
General of Maryland. I accept of your recommendation of Colonel
Hooper the late Speaker of Our Lower House of Assembly for
his moderate Conduct and by reputation a just Magistrate of Our
Civil Government and a true Leige Subject of Our Souvereign
Lord the King, these his Qualifications are Estimable to me; I
therefore do approve and you are to appoint the said Henry Hooper
Esq.^r to be of Our provincial Council, and you are to appoint him a
member accordingly.

I approve of Charles Goldsborough Esq^r of Our Council on the
vacancy of Commissary to be Commissary General of Our Said
Province by your appointment and conformable of him by my
Instructions to you dated the Eighth of October 1761.
And I do hereby confirm all Church Benefices by you Given and
all other my provincial preferments and offices Lawfully done by
you and under and by my Authority Given to my Beloved Uncle
the Honourable Caecilius Calvert Secretary of Maryland for and
on my Behalf during my absence late from England abroad in
foreign Parts.

Given under My hand Lesser Seal at Arms at London the 26.^th of
February in the 14^th Year of my Dominion in the said Province
and in the Year of Lord 1765.
By his Lord.^ps Com.^d

III

LETTER FROM CECILIUS CALVERT, SECRETARY OF
MARYLAND IN ENGLAND, TO FREDERICK, LORD
BALTIMORE, DATED MARCH 28, 1764.

[THIS LENGTHY AND INCOMPLETE LETTER FROM CE-
CILIUS CALVERT, SECRETARY OF MARYLAND IN ENG-
LAND, TO HIS NEPHEW FREDERICK, LORD BALTIMORE, IS A
REPORT TO THE LORD PROPRIETARY ON VARIOUS MARY-

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