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thought fit by and with the Advice of his Lordships Council

of State to issue this my Proclamation And I do hereby in his
Lordships Name command & require the Sheriffs of the sev-
eral Counties of this Province to make due Publication hereof
and of the same Dissent in their respective Counties in the
usual manner as they will answer the Contrary at their Peril
Given at the City of Annapolis this 27^th day of June in the
29^th year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1743.
Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly which stands
prorogued to the second Tuesday in July next be further pro-
rogued to the Second Tuesday in September next being the
13^th day of the same Month, and Proclamations issued accord-
ingly

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Monday I^st
day of July in the 29^th year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq
Domini 1743
Present

His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor

Lib. C. B.

Th honble | Benjamin Tasker Esq^r | Col Levin Gale
Col Charles Hammond | Philip Thomas Esqr

Ordered that the Treasurers of the Western and Eastern
Shoars draw an Order or Orders on the Merchants in London,
in whose Hands the Duty of 3^d p hh^d for Arms is lodged by
them, payable to the honble Levin Gale Esq^r or Order, out of
the said Duty for the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds
Sterling to purchase such Goods in England as shall be
thought requisite by him the said Gale, in order to be pre-
sented to the Indians at the intended Treaty at Lancaster
Town betwixt them and the Commissioners appointed on
behalf of this Province
M^r Chase having laid before this Board his Account of Ex-
pences and travelling Charges on his Journey to the Six
Nations of Indians by Order of the honble Samuel Ogle Esq^r
It is ordered that the honble Col Levin Gale lend the said
M^r Chase out of the Money advanced him by the Trears for

the purchase of the Indian Goods the sum of twenty Pounds
Sterling; and that He take his the said Chase's Note for the
same.
16^th August 1743

Ordered by His Excellency the Governor that the present
General Assembly which stands prorogued to the second
Tuesday of September next be further prorogued to the first
Tuesday in November next being the first day of the same
Month and Proclamations issued accordingly

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