90 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.

to take the Probat of wills and sign warrants for Appraisers
but in that and all other Business where any doubt or scruple
shall Arise you shall apply your self wholly to his Excellency
and strictly follow such Orders Rules or directions as he shall
Give you in any Business whatsoever
Sixthly You shall once in every month wait upon his said
Excellency and give him an account of all Business that shall
be transacted by you and also pursue his Excellencys Com-
mands as well in doing the Business of the Office as in giving
him an Account of the fees or what else his said Excellency
shall please to intimate to you
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal
this fifth day of Iune in the nine and thirtieth year of the
dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini One thousand six
hundred seventy one
William Talbot
Signed Sealed and delivered
in the presence of
G: Vansweeringen
William Brooke

Maryland ss^l

p. 69

Locus Sigilli Whereas I did by a Commission under my
hand and Seal of Office bearing date the 23^d day of

Willm Talbot

december in the 39^th Year of the dominion of Cecilius
&c^a Empower and Authorize you William Stevens and Iames
Weedon of the County of Somerset Gent jointly or severally
to prove rights to Land grant Conditional Warrants or War-
rants for Land upon rights proved before you or either of you
as aforesaid of your Proceedings in which affairs you were to
transmit an account and a Copy of what you had so done by
every Convenient opportunity and for that several Complaints
are made that Land hath by warrants by you or one of you
Granted been surveyed and the Certificates already returned
to my Office the persons Concernd in the same desiring
Pattents for the said Land but for that you negligently have
neglected to send over an Account of what rights have been
so proved before you and what warrants Granted it being now
upwards of five months since you had and Received the said
Commission these are therefore in the name of the right
Honble the Lord Proprietary to will & Command you and
either of you that you speedily transmit over to my Office an
Acco^t of all your transactions by virtue of the said Commission
and for the future wholly to forbear to act by Virtue of the said
Commission I hereby revoking and superseeding the same to
all intents and purposes whatsoever of this you are not to fail
at your Perills Given under my hand and seal of Office this