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486 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. III
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Plantations signified to me by Your Letter dated the 18th of
Octr there having been no Edition of the Acts of Assembly
which have been passed in this Province almost these fifty
Years, but a Gentn of Abilities has been some time employed
in making a Collection of the several Acts of Assembly that
have been made here at different times since the Settlement of
the Province & are now in force & I hope & expect that his
Copy will be ready for the Press in a few months. Be pleased
Sir to acquaint their Ldps with this Circumstance & to assure
them that I shall not fail to transmit three Copies of the afd
Acts under the Seal of the Province as soon as they shall be
published I am &c.
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Letter Bk. IV
p. 158
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
Annapolis the 28th Jany 1761.
My Ld
Being told that there is a Vessel just about to sail from
Choptank for London I thought it my Duty to dispatch this
on board & to recommend it to the Masters particular Care
that Your Ldp may be advised as soon as possible of my
having received the Instructions which you were pleased to
transmit to me the 30th of Octr last by the way of New York ;
Several Gentn of the Council being assembled at my House
the 23d Inst when the abovementioned Instructions & the
several Copies of Proclamations Declarations &c. were brought
to me by Express from Phila I laid the same before them &
we thereupon Resolved to proclaim His sacred Majesty King
George the Third in this City & County the Tuesday follow-
ing, conceiving that it would be right to postpone the Solemnity
so long, in order that the absent Members of the Council or
at least some of Them, the Magistrates of the County & the
Militia might have notice to attend the Ceremony; agreeable
therefore to the abovementioned Resolution & in Consequence
of the Notice that had been given, Several of the Gentn of the
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Council (who had met & together with myself had taken the
Oaths the Day before) the neighbouring Clergy, some of the
County Magistrates the Members of the Corporation & other
Gentlemen assembled at my House & we went thence in pro-
cession to the Council Chamber, before which (some Compa-
nies of Militia being there drawn up under Arms) We pro-
claimed His Majesty King George the Third with the usual
Solemnity & in the Form of Words which Your Ldp was
pleased to send me to be used on the Occasion, And after His
Majesty's gracious Declaration in Council upon his Accession
had been read, were also published The King's Proclamation
for continuing Officers & a proclamation for Altering the
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