336 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1716.

             C. P. shall otherwise be delivered by due Course of Law whereof

                 the Sherriffs & Magistrates are in no wise to faille And to

                 the end that all Persons whatsoever residing or being within

                 this Province, may have just & sufficient Notice hereof where

                 by the Tenor of this Proclamation, may be more effectually

                 executed: I do hereby Command the severall and respective

                 Sherriffs, of the sevrll and respective Countys, duly to publish

                 the same, at all Churches, Chappells and Court Houses, with

                 in their Severall Countys, and at such and all other most Fub

                 lick & frequented Places to make & Affix Sundry Copies

                 thereof, Attested by them Hereof let them not faile at their

                 Perills. Given at the City of Annapolis, this 14th day of

                 Februry in the first Year of the Dominion, of the Rt Honble

                 Charles, Lord Baron of Baltemore, absolute Lord & Proprie

                 tarie of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Annoq

                 Dni 1715.

                   Ordered that the respective Sherriffs of the Sevrll Countys,

                 in this Province, take an Account of the Names, of all Papists

                 or Roman Catholiques, in their Sevrl Countys, & returne the

                 same, on a fair List with an exact Number of those People,

                 residing in their respective Countys.

                               Vera Copia p W Bladen Cl Concil.

                   Copy of the Journall of the Council & of the Council in

                 Assembly from the 23d of April to the 25th 1716.

                 Maryland sst

                   Att a Councill held the Twenty third day of Aprill in the

                 first Year of his Lordps Dominion, And the second of his

                 Majesty's Reigne &c. Annoq Domi 1716.

                                  Present

                       His Excellency ths Governr &c.

                      Thomas Brooke Esqr Philemon Lloyd Esqr

                The Colo William Coursey          &

              Honrable Lt Colo Saml Young   Lt Colo Richd Tilgh man

                        Colo Thomas Addison

                   The honourable Colo Thomas Smith being appoynted one

                 of his Lordships Councill tooke the Oaths to his Majestye,

                 appoynted instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy,

                 as also the Oath of Abjuration, which he Subscribed, as like

                 wise the Declaratian commonly Called the Test. And then

                 took the Oath as one of his Lordships Councill. After which

                 he tooke his place at the Board.