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with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State thought fit
to issue this my Proclamation notifying the same to all Sheriffs
Magistrates and others his Lordships Officers in this Province
And I do further Will and direct that all Officers both Civil
and Military execute and discharge the several Trusts and
Duties in them reposed and enjoyned by the present respec-
tive Commissions to them granted until such time as my
further Pleasure and directions shall be signified therein
Given At the City of Annapolis this 23^d day of August In
the Sixteenth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George
the Second and in the twenty eighth Year of his Lordships
Dominion &c^a Annoq Domini 1742
J Ross Cl Cone.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber at the City of
Annapolis on Saturday the 28^th day of August in the twenty
Eighth year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1742

Present
His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor

Lib. C. B.

The honble-

^rBenjamin Tasker Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col James Hollyday

Col Charles Hammond
Col James Harris
Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r
Philip Thomas Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to acquaint this Board that His
Lordp desires to assure them of the just Sense He has of, and
real Value & Confidence he places in their Resolutions for
his Honour, and the true Interest of the Country, and that as
He has no other Aim but to make the Province happy, so He
has no Doubt but that They will continue to concur in every
Measure conducing to so good an End, and that None can be
more effectual than a proper Support of Government in all
It's Branches.
His Excellency having communicated to this Board a Re-
port made to him by the Justices of Charles County of their
having passed Sentence of Death upon two Negro Men,
named James & Zeno belonging to M^r Henry Hawkins for
Felony, and also a Recommendation of the said Justices to his
Excellency, that the abovementioned Negroes are Objects of
Mercy, they not having before this Instance been charged
with any Felony; It is the humble Advice of this Board that
his Excellency be pleased to order Pardons to issue for the
said Negroes James & Zeno, which by his Excellencys direc-
tions issued accordingly
Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice of
this Board that the present General Assembly which stands

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