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their respective Hands, and with all Convenient speed cause
the same to be read at the several Court Houses of the respec-
tive Counties, and to be set up and affixed at the several

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Church Doors, Chappels Court Houses and Other the most
Publick Places in their several & respective Counties Given
at the City of Annapolis this thirtieth Day of June in the
twenty sixth Year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini
1740
His Excellency is pleased to ask the Advice of this Board
whether it may not be proper to call the Assembly together
before the time they are prorogued to, which is in November
next, in order to lay before them His Majestys Instructions to
him, who are of Opinion, it would conduce to his Majestys
Service to call the Assembly to meet on 7^th of July next,
whereupon His Excellency ordered a Proclamation to be pre-
pared, which being done, is read at the Board, and approved
of and ordered to issue as follows

Maryland ss.

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

A Proclamation

Whereas the present General Assembly of this Province
stands prorogued to the second Tuesday of November next,
And whereas His Majesty has been graciously pleased by his
Royal Instructions to me dated at his Majestys Court at S'
James's the second Day of April last past among other things
to signify that His Majesty had thought fit to dispatch Col
William Blakeney (who is actually arrived in New York) from
Great Britain with Samples of Cloaths and also with Arms
Ammunition & other necessaries for the Use of his Majestys
American Troops, and that whatever may be further wanting
shall be sent them either before their Embarcation, or shall
meet them at the Place of General Rendezvous in the West
Indies And that his Majesty trusts and expects that his
Majesty's Assembly of this Province will provide Victuals
Transports & all other Necessaries for the Troops to be raised
in this his Majestys Province, except Cloaths Tents Arms
Ammunition and Pay 'till their Arrival at the Place of General

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Rendezvous in the West Indies I have therefore thought fit in
Obedience to His Majestys Royal Commands with the Advice
of his Lordships Council of State by this my Proclamation to
notify and publish that the General Assembly of this Province
meet and be held at the City of Annapolis on Monday the
7^th Day of July next And that all the Members of Both Houses