and no longer;) We Do by these presents, and shall and will at all times hereafter, ratify, confirm and allow, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as we do hereby revoke all powers and authoritys at any time heretofore given by us to you the said Horatio Sharpe and to any other person or persons in our said province, touching or concerning the sale or other disposition of our said reserved lands, or any part thereof, more particularly our orders and instructions given to you the said Horatio Sharpe and to Benedict Calvert and George Steuart, Esquires, the judges of our land office, and to Edward Lloyd, Esquire, the receiver general of our said province, bearing date the                             day of January, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five. Given under our hand and lesser seal at arms at London, the twenty-first day of February, in the fifteenth year of our dominion of the said province, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six."                                                                 F. B. (L.S.)                 " By his lordship's command,                                         " HUGH HAMERSLY, Secretary."     LIBER W. S. No. 12, fol. 57. ¾ " Frederick absolute lord and proprietor of the provinces of     Maryland and Avalon in America, lord baron of Baltimore,     in the kingdom of Ireland¾To our trusty and well beloved     Horatio Sharpe, Esq. lieutenant governor of our said     province, the honourable Daniel Dulany, Esq. and John     Morton Jordan, Esq.     " Further instructions to be observed and pursued by you, touching the sale of the reserved lands in our said province, pursuant to our commisson bearing date the twenty-first day of February last past, and instructions of the same date¾ Whereas in and by the eleventh article of our instructions, bearing date the said twenty-first day of February last past, touching the sale of our said reserved lands, We did direct all purchase deeds or conveyances to be by you made of our said lands, should be by bargain and sale, to be enrolled in our land office, in the particular county where the lands lay, or in our general land office at Annapolis, and that all future alienations of such lands, should be by bargain and sale to be enrolled as aforesaid, and a proper covenant under adequate penaltys taken from the purchasers for that purpose.     " And whereas it has been since represented to us that our usual method of granting lands in our said province, hath been by grant under the great seal of our said province, and that the restriction of all future devivative conveyances