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Excerpt from Archives of Maryland: Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, April, 1684 June, 1692 The present volume Continues the Proceedings and Acts of the Assembly from April, 1684, to June, 1692. The continuity is broken by the revolutionary outbreak Of 1689, no journal Of the Associators' Assembly having been preserved. To fill this gap to some extent we have inserted copies Of documents preserved in the Public Record Office, London; but for fuller details the Council Records must be consulted. This revolutionary Assembly, which handed over the Province to the King, was succeeded by one elected under the new order Of things, and presided over by Lionel Copley, the first royal governor, which, among other fundamental changes, repealed all existing statutes in mass, and promulgated a new code, which is here given in full. The sources for the session Of 1684 are the original journals of the two Houses, small unbound cahiers; that Of the Lower House being in a damaged condition, but missing words have been supplied from a later Copy. Of the session Of 1686 no journal Of either House has been pre served, and we print the Acts only. Of the session of 1688 we have no Lower House journal, and for the Upper House only a Copy made in the last century. The Acts Of these three sessions are preserved in Lib. Wh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such h