570                 Appendix.
         
          Prov. Ct.   Mayor or Recorder respectively shall cease & be voyd And wee
          Liber F F   hereby authorize & appoynt that another Major or Recorder re-
          No.3    spectively be within one month next after elected & chosen in mannr
          p. 649   aforesd as if ye sd Mayor or Recorder soe misbehaveing him or
               themselves & so as us our heires or Leiutennt or any of us directed
               or appointed to be removed were actually dead Given att St Maries
               under our greate Seale of ye sd pvince ye Third day of November
               in the Seaven & thirtyeth yeare of our Dominion Ovr Maryland
               annoq domini One thousand six hundred sixty eight Wittness
               our Leiutenant of ye said Province Charles Calvert
         
                 The fforme of ye Oath to be taken & to be given & Administered
               unto ye Mayor Recorder & Aldermen of ye Citty of St Marys in ye
               County of St Mary's in Maryland
         
                 You shall sweare yt you wilbe true & faithfull unto ye Rt honbte
               Caecilius Lord Baltemore Lord and Proprietary of this pvince of
               Maryland & ye Islands thereunto belonging & to his heires Lords &
               Proprietarys of ye same & to his Leiutennt or cheife Govrnor here
               for ye tyme being & shall not att any tyme discovr anything to ye
               pjudice of his sd Lop or of his heire or to his or their Govrnmt
               as itt is established in this pvince of Maryland you shall well &
               truely execute ye office of Mayor within ye Citty of St Mary's Citty
               & ye pcincts & libties thereof according to ye best of your Skill
               knowledge & power
         
                                        So help you God &c