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and empower you to issue forth and grant Commissions of
Marque and Reprisal to any of Our Loving Subjects, or
Others, who shall apply to you for the same, and whom you
shall deem fitly qualified, in that behalf, for arming and fitting
out private Ships of War for the apprehending seizing, and
taking the Ships Vessels and Goods belonging to the King of
Spain his Vassals and Subjects, or any inhabiting within his
Countries, Territories and Dominions in the West Indies :
Provided always, that before any such Comission or Commis-
sions be issued forth, Security be given upon every such Com-
mission as hath been used in such Cases, and you shall insert
in every Commission, to be so granted by you, all such
Clauses, and give such Directions and Instructions to the Per-
son or Persons, to whom you shall grant such Commission, as
have been usual in Cases of the like Nature. And for so
doing This shall be your Warrant Given at Our Court at
Kensington the fifteenth Day of June 1739 in the thirteenth
Year of Our Reign
By his Majestys Command
To Our trusty and Welbeloved Holies Newcastle
Samuel Ogle Esq^r Deputy Governor
of Our Province of Maryland in America
Maryland

It is the humble Advice of this Board to his Excellency that
he be pleased to order a Proclamation to be drawn up notify-
ing the same, which Proclamation being prepared is read at
this Board and approved of and ordered to issue as follows.

Maryland ss.

By His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor & Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of
Maryland

A Proclamation

Lib. C. B.

Whereas I have received a Letter from his Grace the Duke
of Newcastle One of his Majestys Principal Secretarys of State
signifying that by the Convention concluded between His
Majesty and the King of Spain on the 14^th of January last
N: S: that the Sum of ninety five thousand Pounds Sterling
should be paid at London, within the Term of four Months,
to be reckoned from the Day of the Exchange of the Ratifi-
cations of the s^d Convention as a Ballance due on the Part of
Spain to the Crown and Subjects of Great Britain, And as the
said Term of four Months from the Exchange of the Ratifica-
tions of the Convention did expire on the twenty fifth Day of

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