180 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1739.

Lib. C. B.

May last, And the Payment of the said Sum of ninety five
thousand Pounds Sterling agreed by the said Convention has
not been made according to the Stipulation for that Purpose,
by which means the Convention abovementioned has been
manifestly violated and broke, and his Majestys Subjects re-
main without any Satisfaction or Reparation for the many
great and grievous Losses sustained by them; His Majesty
has thought himself obliged to take such Measures on his part
as are necessary for the Support of the Honour and Dignity
of his Crown, the Security of the just Rights of his Subjects,
and the Good and Safety of his Dominions, and has therefore
ordered the Ships and Effects of the King of Spain and his
Subjects to be seized and taken wherever they shall be met
with
And that his Majesty has commanded me to cause the same
to be made known in all Places under my Government, to the
End that his Majestys Subjects in these Parts may be upon
their Guard to prevent any Mischief they might otherwise
suffer from the Spaniards in Revenge for the Measures which
his Majesty is obliged to take to do himself and his Subjects
Justice, and that they may in their several Stations annoy the
Subjects of Spain in the best manner they are able, and to be
very rigorous and severe in preventing any Ammunition or
Stores of any kind from being carried to the Spaniards and to
use all proper Methods that may be most effectual for this

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Purpose; And His Grace has likewise sent His Majestys
Warrant under his Sign Manual authorizing & empowering
me to grant Commissions of Marque and Reprisal for arming
out private Ships of War for the apprehending seizing and
taking the Ships Vessels & Goods belonging to the King of
Spain his Vassals and Subjects or any inhabiting within his
Countries Territories and Dominions in the West Indies
Wherefore I have thought fit with the Advice of his Lord-
ships Council of State to issue this my Proclamation to the
End that all Persons within this Province may have due Notice
of his Majestys said Commands And I do hereby strictly
charge and require the Sheriffs of this Province to make this
my Proclamation publick in their said Cities in the usual man-
ner as they will answer the Contrary at their Peril Given at
the City of Annapolis this 24^th Day of August in the 25^th year
of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1739

Ordered that the Colonels of the several Counties of this
Province take Care to have all Persons not exempt by Law
enlisted in the Militia of their said Counties, and that they
direct the several Captains under their respective Commands
to repair on any Alarm with their Men armed, to such Place