Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.      389





    then assembled from time to time the Said Paines Penalties and Liber P C
    fforfeitures to bee Raised by Distress and Sale of the Goods of
    Such Persons Soe offending and to bee Employed for the Publique
    Benefitt of the Said Citty att theire Discrecon wch By Lawes and
    orders Shall be alsoe Repealeable or Liable to bee Mittigated or
    AItred att the Will of our Selfe our heires or our Lieutenant Re
    spectively And further wee Doe Graunt Give ffull Power Licence p. 10
    Priveledge and Authority to the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and
    Comon councill of the Said Citty for the time Being and theire
    Successors for Ever to Send two cittizens or Delegates to Every our
    Assembly or Assemblies hereafter to bee Held or att any Time or
    Times hereafter to bee called to bee Held for this our Said Province
    of Maryland to bee Elected and Chosen by the Said Mayor Recorder
    Aldermen comon Councill and ffree citizens of the sd citty or the
    Major part of them then prsent by Vertue of our writt or writts of
    Eleccon to bee Sent to them for that Purpose wth Said writt or writts
    wee Doe hereby Graunt shall bee Issued out and sent unto them
    when and Soe offten as occacon Shall bee and when hereafter there
    shall happen any Gennl Assembly to bee held according as writts
    are sent to the Severall and Respective Counties for Eleccon of
    deputies or Delegates for theire severall and Respective Counties
    in this Province of Maryland and wee ffurther Graunt that the said
    citizens and Delegates by them Soe as afforesd Elected and sent
    Shall have ffull and ffree Votes or voyces in all and Every our Gennl
    Assemblies Touching or concerning all matters or Thinges there to
    bee Discussed and Handled as other the Deputies or Delegates of the
    Severall and Respective Counties fformerly have had now have or
    hereafter Shall have And further wee Graunt and give Likewise
    to the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Comon Councill of the Said
    citty for the time Being and theire Successors for Ever To have and
    to hould one market weekely within the Said Citty on Every Saturday
    in the weeke in Some Convenient Place to bee by them appointed
    wthin the precincts of the Said Citty and alsoe one ffaire Yearley to p. 11
    bee Kept on the three and twentieth day of ffebruary in Every Yeare
    for the Sale and Vending of all manner of Goods cattle merchandize
    and all other comodities whatsoevr and to sett such a Reasonable

    Toll uppon such Goods cattle Merchandise and other comodities as
    shall bee Sould Therein Respectively as shall bee thought fitt by our
    Selfe our Heires or our Lieutenant of our sd Province for the time
    Being And shall and may alsoe have and hould a court of Pypowdry
    Dureing the said ffaire for the Determinaëon of all Controversies and
    Quarrells which may Happen Therein according to the usuall course
    in England in the like cases and wee Graunt unto them all Proffitts
    and Perquisites Due insident & Belonging to the Said Market ffaire
    and Court of Powder Provided alwaies that if the Said Mayor or