Lib. C. B.

228 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1740.

Deserters on Pain of being prosecuted with the utmost Rigor
of Law And also commanding all Officers as well Civil as
Military as well as all Other his Majestys Subjects within this
Province to use their respective Endeavours to apprehend the
said Deserters, and when so apprehended to carry them or
any of them to the Sheriff of the County where any of them
shall be so apprehended to be held and detained by such
Sheriff until such Deserter or Deserters shall be delivered by
due Course of Law And Every Sheriff to whom any of the
said Deserters shall be brought is hereby strictly charged and
required to receive and detain such Deserter or Deserters as
af^d And I do hereby strictly charge and require the several
Sheriffs of this Province to make this my Proclamation publick
in their respective Counties in the usual manner as they will
answer the Contrary at their Peril Given at the City of An-
napolis this 18^th Day of Septem^r in the 26^th year of his
Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1740

At a Council held at the House of his Excellency the
Governor in the City of Annapolis on Saturday the 20^th Day
of September in the 26^th year of his Lordps Dominion Annoq
Domini 1740
Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

The
honourable

Major General Ward
Benj^a Tasker Esq^r
George Plater Esq^r

Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond
Col Levin Gale

p.110

Several of the Inhabitants of the Sea Board side in Somerset
County having informed the honourable Col Levin Gale of
the defenceless State of that part of the said County; It is
ordered at the Request of the said Col Gale that a Quarter
Barrel of Gunpowder and fifty Cw' of Ball be delivered to
Captain Fausett of the said County out of the publick
Magazine in this City
The following Address being prepared is read and
approved of

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty

The humble Address of the Council of the Province of
Maryland

May it please Your Majesty
We your Majestys most dutiful and Loyal Subjects the
Council of Your Province of Maryland, being acquainted with