286 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland,     1714.

          Lib. W. B. Likewise Advise that Proclamation Issue declaring all Per-

             P. 14 sons in Office to be continued therein during the Tyme Lymit

                 ted by Act of the 5th & 6th of Queen Anne & requiring them

                 to take the Oaths by that Act prscribed which being prpared

                 was read & approved of & this as follows Viz.

                   By His Excellency the Capt Genrll

                            A Proclamation

                  Whereas by an Act of Parliamt made in the Sixth year of

                 the Reigne of her late Maty Queen Anne Intituled an Act for

                 the Security of Her Matys Person & Governmt & of the

                 Succession of the Crowne of Great Britain in the Protestant

                 Lyne It was Enacted that no Office Place or Imploymt Civil

                 or Military within the Kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland

                 Dominion of Wales Towne of Berwick upon Tweed Isles of

                 Jersey Guernsey Alderney & Sarke or any of Her Maty Plan

                 tations shoud become Void by reason of the Demise of her

                 sd late Maty Her Heirs or Successors Kings or Queens of

                 Great Britain But that every Person & Persons in any of the

                 Offices Places & Employments aforesd should continue in their

                 respective Offices Places Employments for the space of six

                 months next after such Death or Demise unless sooner re

                 moved & discharged by the next Successor to whom the

                 Imperial Crowne of Great Britain was limited & Appointed

             p. 15  to go & remain & descend And that all Officers in any Offices

                 Places or Employmt who should be by that Act continued

                 shou'd take tht Oaths therein mentioned & do all other Acts

                 requisite by the Laws of Great Britain to Quallifye themselves

                 to be & Continue in such their respective Places Offices &

                 Imploymts within such Tyme & in such manner & under such

                 Pains Penalties & Disabilitys as they shou'd or ought to do

                 had they been newly Elected appointed Constituted & put in

                 to such Offices Places or Imployments in the Usual & ordin

                 ary way I do therefore by & Wth the Advice of His Matys

                 Honble Council within this Province Issue this my Proclama

                 tion hereby directing & requiring all Persons who at the Tyme

                 of the Decease of her sd late Majesty to witt the first day of

                 August last were duly & lawfully Possess'd of or Invested in

                 any Place or Imploymt Civil or Military within this Province

                 with the first opportunity to take the respective Oaths of

                 Office and all other Oaths as required by the sd Act And in

                 the meantyme that they do not faile every one severally

                 according to his Place Office or Charge, to pceed in the per

                 formance & Execution of all Duties belonging to their respect.

                 ive Offices And I do further in his Matys name hereby re