492 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1728.

              Lib. x.  mand the several Sheriffs of this Province to make Immedi

                  ate Publication hereof in the most Publick & Convenient

                  places within their respective Countys to which all Persons

                  are hereby required to Yield all due and Ready Obedience

                  as they will Answer the Contrary at their perill Given at the

                  City of Annapolis this sixth day of April in the thirteenth

                  year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Dom 1728

                   Which Proclamation Issued accordingly

              p. 201 It having been Observed by this Board that the Seal of

                  the Provincial Court as well as most of the seals of the sev

                  eral County Courts have his Majesty Royal Arms thereon

                   Resolved that the Using of his Majestys Royal Arms to

                  any Process or Precept Issuing out of his Lordships Courts

                  in his Lordships Name in this Province is altogether Improper

                  and Inconvenient

                   Thereupon it is Ordered that the several Justices of the

                  said Courts take due Care as soon as conveniently may be to

                  Provide a new Seal with his Lordships Arms and the Stile of

                  each Court Circumscribed thereon and that the Clerk of this

                  Board Transmit a Copy of this Order to the several Justices

                  of the said Courts

                   Ordered that the Treasurer of the Western Shoar send to

                  England by the first Opportunity for one hundred and twenty

                  Quarter Barrels of Gunpowder for the use of the publick and

                  in Case the small Books of Horse and foot Exercise formerly

                  sent for be not Come that the said Treasurer send for one

                  hundred of them by the same Opportunity and that the Clerk

                  gerve the said Treasurer with this Order

                   Whereas this Board hath been inform'd that some Masters

                  of Ships have lately pretended to refuse the Payment of the

                  fourteen pence p Ton due to his Lordship Ordered that the

                  several Naval Officers take due Care that his Lordships said

              p. 202   duty be punctually paid as usual Several Sheriffs Bonds were

                  presented to this Board by Mr Vachel Denton Clerk of the

                  Secretarys Office which were Approved of and Ordered to

                  be so endorsed

                   If there Appears no Immediate Cause of the Assemblys

                  meeting in Iune next it is the Advice of this Board to his

                  Excellency that the same be dissolved

                               Maryland sst

                   At a Council held at the House of his Excellency Benedict

                  Leonard Calvert in the City of Annapolis on Saturday the