98    Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1700.

         Lib. X   I do straightly prohibit all persons whatsoever within this

                  Province from entertaining any of them in their houses or

                  otherwise counselling aiding Concealing or assisting them in

                  any manner whatsoever as they will answer the contrary at

                  their peril & expect to be prosecuted unto the utmost severity

                  of the Law and that all Persons may have due notice hereof

                  I Command the several Sheriffs to make publick this my

                  Proclamation Given under my hand & the Great Seal of

                  this his Majstys Province the 15th day of January 1699

                                                   N Blakiston

                   God save the King

                         By his Excy the Capt Genl

                              A Proclamation

          p. 256  Whereas the General Assembly of this Province was upon

                  the 22d day of July last prorogued until the 28th of October

                  Instant but forasmuch as no emergent affairs now happen

                  whereby to occasion the meeting thereof at that time I have

                  thought fit & do by & with the advice & Consent of his

                  Majestys honble Council of this Province hereby further

                  Prorogue the said General Assembly until the 9th day of

                  February next ensuing & do Also Publish & give notice to

                  the several Members of his Majestys honble Council as also

                  of the house of Delegates that if it shall be thought advisa

                  ble for his Majstys Service & the welfare of this Province that

                  the Gen' Assembly should be convened & sit on the said 9th

                  day of February they shall have notice given them by the

                  Several & Respective Sheriffs of this Province who are hereby

                  commanded to publish this my Proclamation Given under

                  my hand & the Great Seal of this Province the 4th day of

                  October in the 11th year of his Majestys Reign &Ca Annoq

                  Dni 1699

                   God save the King               N Blakiston

                         By his Excy the Capt Genl

                              A Proclamation

                   Whereas I have received his most sacred Majys repeated

                  Commands to me by the honble Sr James Vernon Knight one

                  of his Majestys principal Secretarys of State to prohibit any

                  Correspondence to be had with or any Ammunition Arms or

                  other necessary Supplies of Provisions to be carried to the

         p. 257   Scotch who have taken Possession of the Bay of Cairat near

                  the Bay of Darien between Cartagena & Porto Bello &

                  fortified themselves in violation of the treatys now subsisting

                  between his Majesty & the Crown of Spain I do therefore by