arising between contending parties in land affairs
hitherto used to be heard and determined in the office
comonly called the land office, must naturally fall under your
cognizance; and I do hereby empower you the said
Philemon Lloyd to judge and determine in the said affairs as far as
legally you may according to right, reason and good
conscience."
LIBER P. L. No. 5, 364. Office of court of appeals,
Western Shore.
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C. BALTIMORE.
******* "Additional orders and instructions, powers and
*SEAL* authoritys to be observed and pursued by
******* Philemon Lloyd, Esq. deputy secretary of our
province of Maryland.
" Given by us att London, this 19th day of March,
anno domini, 1722."
" 1st. On consideration of Richard Tilghman, Esq. his
petition and your opinion thereon for supplying the defect and
omission of the date of the land warrant for seventeen
hundred acres of land called Adventure, lying in Talbot
county, formerly laid out for colonel Vincent Lowe, mentioned
in the certificate of William Bishop, deputy surveyor of the
said county on record, I have thought fit that the same
should be rectified, and do hereby empower and direct you
forthwith to amend and supply the said defect and omission,
according to the useage heretofore practised in the like cases,
and that you grant the said Richard Tilghman a patent
for the said lands, so that the legall estate may be vested in
him."
" 2. In case you take out any warrants yourself and
grants of any lands, thereupon it being not proper you should
signe and seal such warrants and grants yourself, Daniel
Dulany, my attorney general, and Nicholas Lowe, my
agent, are hereby empowered to signe and seal such warrants
and grants. C. B,"
LIBER C. C. 148.
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C. BALTEMORE.
******* " Additional Orders and instructions, powers and
*SEAL* authoritys to be observed and pursued by
******* Philemon Lloyd, Esq. our deputy secretary of our
province of Maryland.
" Given by us at London, this twenty-first day of
November, anno dom. 1724."
" 1st. You are hereby ordered, directed and empowered
to grant unto Mr. James Carroll, five thousand eight hundred
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