what after his death he has lawfully done by virtue of our letter to him: And this our commission, and the powers hereby granted, to continue in force during our pleasure, and no longer. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and greater seal of our said province. Dated at London, this twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and fifteen.                                         BALTIMORE.                                         GUILFORD.     Intrato in officio, secretar         customar, decimo         sexto, die Aprilis, 1716.                     JNO. MANLEY." ********* * THE      * * GREAT * * SEAL.   * *********     LIBER T. P. No. 4. folio 282: Office of the court of Appeals for the Western Shore. ¾     " Orders and instructions, powers and authorities to be observed and pursued by Thomas Beake and Charles Lowe, our secretaries of the province of Maryland, or by their sufficient deputy. Given by us, this 16th day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventeen.     " You are hereby impowered and directed, by yourselves or your deputy, to grant warrants for taking up any waste, cultivated, uncultivated, or surplus lands within the said province, and grant the same lands to such person as shall obtain such warrants, and their heirs and assigns, according to the conditions of plantations following, or which shall hereafter be by us declared within our said province; hereby giving you full power to finish such grants according to the usual form, so as to make out the grantees an estate in fee simple to the lands specified in such grants, you taking to yourselves all legal fees due to you for so doing, and accounting to our chancellor for the whole fee due to him for affixing the great seal to the said grants.     " 2d. You are to reserve upon every hundred acres of land so granted, the usual annual sum in money as has been lately accustomed to be reserved.     " 3d. For every hundred acres of land so to be granted, our receiver general, for the time being, is to receive for our use, as a fine, the sum of forty shillings, sterling money, or take caution for it, and when he has so done, you are to proceed to make out the patent for the same, and not before."     LIBER, T. P. No. 4. folio 486: Office of the court of Appeals for the Western Shore. Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA SC 5165-1-1.