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formed and provided for And I do hereby strictly enjoyn and
require all Persons who have enlisted themselves in the
Service afd to obey such Order or Orders as they shall receive
from the person who enlisted them for repairing as aforesaid
to the said City of Annapolis as they will answer their dis-
obedience at their Peril Given at the City of Annapolis this
26th Day of July in the 26th year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1740.
At a Council held at the House of his Excellency Samuel
Ogle Esqr Governor in the City of Annapolis on Tuesday the
12th day of August in the 26th year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1740
Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor
Benjamin Tasker Esqr
Edmund Jenings Esqr
Col Charles Hammond
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The following Proclamation being prepared is read and
approved of and Ordered to issue
Maryland ss.
By His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of
Maryland
A Proclamation
Whereas I have been credibly informed that several evil
disposed Persons in View of obstructing his Majestys Service
have insinuated that such as have enlisted themselves in the
Troops to go to the West Indies may without danger desert,
and that there is no Law to punish them I have therefore
thought fit with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State
to issue this my Proclamation in order to undeceive any that
may have been deluded by such false Insinuations, to prevent
Others from falling into the Danger which they may be sub-
ject to for Desertion, and to remove all Pretence of Ignorance,
to notify that the Parts of the Act of Parliament for punishing
Mutiny and Desertion &c which subject Deserters, and such
Officers or Soldiers as shall correspond with his Majestys
Enemies to the Pains of Death, expressly extend to all his
Majestys Dominions, And that all who shall be legally con-
vict of any of the said Offences, and Every Person who shall
excite encourage or perswade any Person, who hath enlisted
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