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cember last Wee Offered a Reward of Ten Pounds Current
money of this our Province to any of our Officers or Others
who should Apprehend Charles Jones, James Pattison, Alex-
ander McKey, John Capper, John Hart, John Pattan, James
Patten, James Pattison Junr John Trotter and William Mac-
manac being or pretending to be Inhabitants of Pensylvania
or Each or Either of them so that they or Either of them
should be by due Course of Law Convict of having Com-
mitted a Riot on the Twentyeth day of November last on the
Plantation of John Lowe of Baltimore County within this our
Province and not being as yet Able to Apprehend them or
Either of them And We being Obliged and Resolved to
Protect such of his Majesty's Subjects who are Our Tenants
in their Just Rights and to Use all the means in Our Power
to bring to Condign Punishment according to Law all who
shall presume to Violate those Rights We have thought fit to
Issue this our proclamation Strictly Charging and requiring
all our Officers to Apprehend the said Charles Jones James
Pattison Alaxander McKey John Capper, John Hart John
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Pattan James Pattan James Pattison Junr John Trotter and
William Macmanac or any of them or any other persons who
were Concerned in the said Riot or any of them who shall be
at any time found within this Our Province And We Strictly
Charge and require all our Tenants to Aid and Assist our
Officers herein And as a further Encouragement to Appre-
hend & bring to Justice the said Charles Jones, James Patti-
son, Alexander McKey, John Capper, John Hart, John Pattan,
James Pattan, James Pattison Junr John Trotter and William
Macmanac and the other persons Concerned with them in the
said Riot or any of them We promise and proclaim to any
of our Officers or Others who shall apprehend the said Charles
Jones, James Pattison, Alexander McKey, John Capper, John
Hart, John Pattan, James Pattan, James Pattison Junr John
Trotter and William Macmanac or any of them or any other
persons who shall be Convict by due Course of Law of hav-
ing been concerned in t'ue said Riot Fifty pounds Current
money of this our province for Each and Every of them,
And We do hereby Strictly Charge and require the Sheriff
of Our County of Baltimore to make this our proclamation
publick in the said County in the usual manner as he will
Answer the Contrary at his Peril Given at Annapolis this
ninth day of March in the Eighteenth Year of Our Dominion
Annoq Domini 1732
John Ross Cl Cone,
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