Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1729. 515

      At a Council held at the House of Peter Owerward in the      Lib. M.

    City of Annapolis on Saturday the 18th Day of October in the   p. 18

    fifteenth Year of His Lordships Dominion &c Annoq Domini

    1729

                           Present

          His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Govt

    The Hon-     Edward Henry Calvert Esqr    Coll Richard Tilghman

    ourable      Coll William Holland         Benjn Tasker Esqr

                 Coll M. Tiighnian Ward

              Members of His Lordship Honble Council

      Whereas several of the County Clerks of this Province have

    been dilatory in transmitting the Levys of their several

    Countys to the Clk of this Board; Ordered that the Clerk

    write to them to transmit them to him in due Time in Order

    to be laid before this Board for the Inspection of the Gover

    nor & Council which Letter was wrote & sent accordingly

      His Excellency the Governor having signifyed to this Board

    that he has nothing of Moment to lay before the Assembly

    which stands prorogued to the third Tuesday in Novemr next

    desires the Opinion of this Board, when is a proper Time fur

    ther to prorogue it to, who are of Opinion that the fourth

    Tuesday in March next being the 24th Day of the same month

    is the most Convenient Time, whereupon a Proclamation is

    ordered, issue in the following Manner

    Maryland ss

      By His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Govr & Com-

    mandr in Chief in & over the Province of Maryland

                     A Proclamation

      Whereas the present General Assembly of this Province

    stands prorogued to the third Tuesday in November next

    being the 16th Day of the same month, and whereas there

    is no Business of Moment which requires their Attendance at

    that Time I have therefore thought fit with the Advice of His

    Lordships Council of State further to prorogue the same

    And I do hereby further prorogue the same to the fourth

    Tuesday in March next being the twenty fourth Day of the

    same Month And to the Intent that all Persons concerned

    may have due Notice thereof I do strictly require and Com

    mand the several Sheriffes of this Province to make this my

    Proclamation publick in their respective Counties in the usual

    Manner as they will answer the Contrary at their Peril Given

    at Annapolis this 18th Day of October in the fifteenth Year

    of His Lordships the Lord Proprietarys Dominion &c Annoq        p. 19

    Domini 1729                        Great

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