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Coasts or Settlements in the West Indies; And you may
assure such as are able Pilots for the said Coasts, that their
Service shall meet with all suitable Encouragement
10. And that Nothing may be wanting on Our Part towards
the promoting and compleating of this important Design, We
have thought fit to appoint Our trusty and Welbeloved Major
General Alexander Spotswood to be Quarter Master General
of all Our Forces in this Expedition & to take upon him the
Command, Conduct, Discipline, Disposition & Embarcation
of Our American Troops, so soon as they shall be raised; You
are therefore from time to time to correspond, conferr and
advise with the said Major General Alexander Spotswood in
all Matters that may tend to the promoting these Levies, &
the Completion of Our Design
11. We have also thought fit to dispatch Our trusty & wel-
beloved Colonel William Blakeney from hence, whom We
have appointed to be Adjutant General of all Our Forces to
be employed in the present Expedition with Samples of
Cloaths, & also with Arms, Ammunition and Other Neces-
saries for the Use of Our American Troops, and whatever
may be farther wanting shall be sent them, either before their
Embarcation, or shall meet them at the General Place of
Rendezvous in the West Indies; And as We repose especial
Trust and Confidence in the said Colonel Blakeney, It is Our
Pleasure, that you should admit him also into all your Con-
sultations, relative to these Our Instructions, whenever He
shall be within your Precincts
12. We depend upon your punctual Complyance with these
Our Instructions; We recommend the several Matters therein

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contained to you Our Deputy Governor, to Our Council, to
Our Assembly, & to all Our Good Subjects in Maryland, so
far as may concern them respectively, and We do expect, that
you should by the first, & by every other Occasion that may
offer, send Us a full and clear Account of Your Proceedings
herein by Letter, directed to One of Our Secretarys of State.
G: R:

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 & ordered to issue as follows

Maryland ss.
By His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor & Com-
mander in Chief in & over the Province of
Maryland
A Proclamation
Whereas His Majesty by his Royal Instructions bearing
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