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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1684-89. 561
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Att a Councill held at the Citty of St Maryes the 21st day of
Septr 1687.
Present
Coll. Vincent Lowe
Coll. Wm Digges
The Honble Coll. Wm Stevens
Maj: Nicho Sewall
Mr Clement Hill
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Liber B.
P. R. O.
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Order procl; to
prorogue Assemb:
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Ordered that Proclamation issue for pro-
rogueing the Assembly untill the first Tuesday
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in 8ber 1688 provided that there be no emergent business
sooner to call them the which issued as followes viz:
Maryland ss./ By the Deputyes Lieuts
A Proclamation
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p. 116
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Procl: to prorogue
Assembly.
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Whereas the generall assembly of this
Province was prorogued untill the first Tues-
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day of 9ber next and for that noe occasion relateing to the state
or welfare of this Province at present offers that requires the
sitting of the said Generall Assembly upon the said first Tues-
day in gber next we the said Deputyes Lieut? with the advice
of his Lordsps Councill have thought fitt to prorogue the said
Generall Assembly is hereby prorogued untill the first Tuesday
in October which shall be in the year of our Lord 1688,
(unless anything unexpected concerning the welfare of this
Province happen to intervene and that then notice shall be
given to the Deputyes and Delegates of the severall Countyes
by Proclamation) and the severall and respective sheriffs of this
Province are hereby strictly required and comanded to make
publick Proclamation hereof in the most publick places of their
Countyes and to give notice to the Deputyes and Delegates of
the severall and respective Countyes that all excuses sett apart
they and every of diem be and personally appear at the Citty
of St Maryes upon the said first Tuesday in 8ber which shall be
in the year of our Lord 1688 then and there to doe and consent
to such things which shall by the favour of God happen there
to be ordeined and enacted. Given at St Maryes aforesaid the
21th day of Septr in the XIIth yeare of the Dominion of the Rt
Honble Charles &c. Anno. Dom: 1687.
Henry Darnall Keeper
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Coll. Henry Darnall
entred & took his place
at the Board.
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To his Lops honble Councill sitting at
St Maryes in Councill.
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The humble Petition of Tho: Smith of Calvert County.
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