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     pointed, & Doe by these prsents Constitute Assigne and appoint Our     Liber W. C.
     trusty and welbeloved Councellor Coll Thomas Tailler, Our trusty
     and welbeloved Coll Vincent Lowe Esqr Surveyor Generl of Our
     said Province of Maryland, Our trusty and well-Beloved Coun
     cellor Henry Darnall Esqr Our Trusty and well beloved Councellor
     William Digges Esqr Our trusty and well beloved William Steevens
     Esqr Our Trusty and well beloved William Burges Esqr Councellors
     and our trusty and well beloved Thomas Truman Esqr to be Jus
     tices of Our said Court for the holding the pleas aforesaid and for
     Determineing of matters of Equity aforesaid Dureing Our Pleasure,
     Willing and by these presents Assigning and constituteing and
     appointing that our said Cheife Justice and our said Justices or
     any foure or more of them (of which Our said trusty and welbeloved
     Councellors Henry Coursey Esqr Thomas Tailler Esqr Vincent Lowe
     Esqr or one of them Alwayes to be one) shall be a sufficient Court
     for the Determineing the pleas and matters of Equity aforesaid
     Wee Doe hereby require and Comand you and every of you in
     and upon ye ifaith and fidelity which you owe and in which you
     stand bound and holden unto us firmely Enj oyning that in all things
     touching the Office and Offices of Justice and Justices aforesaid
     and to the Conservation of us our Peace and the peace of our said
     Province you be fully and wholly obedient and Assisting unto our
     said Cheife Justice & Justices Respectively Witness our Self at our
     Citty of St Maryes the Eight & Twentyeth Day of March in the
     Eighth yeare of our Dominion over our said Province of Maryland
     &ca Annoq Doni One Thousand Six hundred Eighty Three.

     March ye 28th 1683:
       Then was Major Thomas Truman Sworne one of the Justices
     of the Provinciall Court: and tooke his place in Court accordingly:

    Eod: Die:
       Was. William Cocks sworne Clerk of the said Court according
     to the usueall oath of Clerk of the Provinciall Court:

     March ye 29th 1683
       Ordered by the Court that the Attorneys of this Court for the
     future, shall for every Deft they appeare for, Enter their appear
     ance with the Clerke of this Court in the Morning of the first day
     of every Provinciall Court before the Court sitts or pay for a ffyne
     to the Right honoble the Lord ProptY for every Default thereof the
     Sume of One Thousand pounds of Tobacco without Sufficient rea
     son showne to the Contrary:

     Eod Die:
       Wm Smithson Sheriffe of Dorchester County not haveing re