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     cording to my Conscience and best Discretion and the power Lib. M.

     granted or to be granted unto me by his said Lordships Com

     mission or Commissions I will not for fear favour or Aflection

     or any other cause hinder or delay Justice to any but will truly

     Execute the said Office and Offices respectively according to

     his said Lordships Commission to me in that behalfe and to

     the true Intent and meaning thereof and not otherwise to the

     best of my understanding and Judgment I will not know of

     any Attempt against his said Lordships person or his right or

     Dominion into or over the said Province or the People therein

     but I will prevent resist or oppose it to the utmost of my

     power and make the same known with all Convenient Speed

     to his said Lordship and I will in all things from time to time

     as occasion shall require faithfully Counsel and advise his said

     Lordship According to my heart & Conscience.

                                 So help me God

       His Excellency the Governor took also the following Oath

       I Samuel Ogle Governor of His Lordships Province of

     Maryland do Solemnly swear that I will do my Utmost that p. 49

     every the Causes matters and things contained in the severall

     following Acts of Parliament of His Majesties Kingdom of

     Great Brittain (Vizt) An Act Entituled an Act for the En.

     couraging and Encreaseing of the Shiping and Navigation

     made in the Twelfth year of the Reign of King Charles the

     Second, The Act for preventing frauds and Regulating abuses

     in his Majesties Customs made in the ffourteenth year of the

     sd Kings Reign. The Act for the Encouragement of Trade

     made in the ffifteenth year of the said Kings Reign. The

     Act to prevent the planting of Tobacco in England and for

     Regulating the Plantation Trade made in the Twenty Second

     and Twenty Third Years of the said Kings Reign and Con

     tinued by a Clause in the Act against Clandestine Runing of

     Goods and for the more Effectuall preventing of ffrauds Re

     lating to the Customs made in the fifth Year of the Reign of

     our late Royall ffather; The Act for the Encouragement

     of the Greenland and Eastland Trades and for the better

     securing the Plantation Trade made in the Twenty fifth year

     of the said King Charles Reign; The Act for preventing

     frauds and Regulating abuses in the Plantation Trade in the

     Seventh and Eighth years of the Reign of King William the

     Third The Act for Incouraging the Importation of Naval

     Stores from her Majesties Plantations in America made in the

     Third and fourth Years of the Reign of her late Majestie

     Queen Anne so farr as it is continued & Explained by an Act

     giving further Encouragement for the Importation of Naval