352 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1745/6.

Lib. C. B.

I am further directed by the Governor and Council to advise
you of my having renewed that Bill by another Draught on you
for 62: 13: 10 payable to Charles Car roll Esq^r which they
hope will not meet with the same fate as the former
There are Bills for 300£ out of M^r Ungles Ballance & also
a Bill for 60£ payable to the Governor drawn by me on you
by Order of the Governor & Council, and as they have not
heard anything about them, they doubt not but they are paid
I am S^r Y^r Most h^ble Servant
John Ross

The above Letter is wrote by Order of the Gov^r & Council
Benj. Tasker, President

21^st January 1745

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor that the following
Proclamation issue

Maryland ss.

By his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Gov^r & Com-
mander in Chief in & over the Province of
Maryland

Whereas I have received Information that the French
Indians intend to pass through the Back Parts of this Province

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in Order to attack the Catawabee Indians (who are in Amity
with his Majesty's Subjects) and will, as It is said, attempt to
plunder and annoy as many of the said Subjects as they can
I have therefore with the Advice of his Lordships Council of
State issued this my Proclamation to acquaint the Back In-
habitants of this Province of the mischievous Designs of Our
Enemies to warn them to be upon their Guard and strictly to
charge and require all his Lordships Officers to use their ut-
most Endevours to oppose distress and destroy the said Indians
and to that End to arm and Assemble together the Inhabitants
when and as often as there shall be Occasion and from time
to time to give me the Earliest and most speedy Intelligence of
the Motions and Proceedings of the Enemy And I do hereby
strictly charge and require the Sheriff of Prince Georges
County to make this my Proclamation publick in the said
County in the usual manner as he will answer the Contrary at
his Peril Given at the City of Annapolis this 21^st Day of
January in the 31^st year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq
Domini 1745

The like proclamation issued to Baltimore County.