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Maryland ss.
By His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqr Governor &
Commander in Chief in & over the Province of
Maryland
A Proclamation
Forasmuch As It appears by the Publick Records that in
all the Articles of Peace that have ever been concluded with
the Indians in this Province since it's Settlement by the Eng-
lish, It hath been agreed that the Privilege of hunting and
fishing should be preserved to them inviolably, And forasmuch
as several Complaints have been made to me by and on be-
half of sundry Indians on the Eastern Shoar, that many People
notwithstanding the Justice of this Agreement have debarred
the Indians of Exercising these Privileges and destroyed their
Traps when made to take wild Beasts I have therefore thought
proper by and with the Advice of his Lordships Council of
State to issue this my Proclamation, hereby requiring all
Officers Civil and Military and all Other Persons whatsoever
to use their utmost Endeavours to have the Articles of Peace
at present subsisting with the Indians complyed with, and that
they take particular Care that they be not obstructed in their
hunting fishing or making Traps for wild Beasts and Vermin
so long as they shall behave peaceably Given at the City of
Annapolis this 15th day of October in the 28th year of his
Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1742.
At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday
the 20th day of October in the 28th Year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoq Dni. 1742
Present
His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqr Governor
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