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    advice of his Lordships Council of State thought fit to issue Lib. X.

    this my Proclamation Notifying the same to all Sheriffs Magis

    trates and others his Lordships Officers in this Province and

    I do further will and direct that all Officers both Civil and

    Military Execute and Discharge the several Trusts and duties

    in them reposed and Enjoyned by the present respective

    Commissions to them Granted until such time as my further

    Pleasure and Directions shall be signified therein Given at

    the City of Annapolis this third day of July in the thirteenth

    year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George and

    in the twelfth year of his Lordships Dominion &c Annoq

    Dni 1727

                    God save the King and his Lordship

     Great                     Test

     Seal                      Geo Plater Cl Concil

    Maryland sst

      At a Council held in the Council Chamber in the City of

    Annapolis on Tuesday the 11th day of July in the twelfth year p. 169

    of his Lordships Dominion &c Annoq Dni 1727

                         Present

         His Excy Benedict Leonard Calvert Govr

                Colo William Holland

               Philemon Lloyd Esqr

                Colo Richard Tilghman  Members of his

   the honble Colo M. T. Ward      Lordships honble

             Benjamin Tasker       Council

               Philip Lee    Esq

                Nicholas Lowe

      His Excellency the Governor laid before this Board a Letter

    from the President of Virginia as also a Hue and Cry under

    the Great Seal of that Colony requesting and desiring the

    Governor and other Officers and Ministers of Justice within

    this Province to be aiding and Assisting by their Authority to

    Apprehend Philip Hammond William Hammond and John

    Howard Inhabitants of this Province for a Robbery Commit

    ted on a certain Richard Thacker in that Colony in order to

    bring them to Iustice in the said Colony which were read and

    are as follows vizt

    Sir                      Virginia June 24th 1727

      Upon Application of Richard Thacker Complaining of a

    Robbery Committed upon him in this Government by Philip

    Hammond William Hammond and John Howard Inhabitants