320 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1 744.

Lib. C. B.

Monies in your hands on the Ballance of the Account of 3^d for
Arms with the late M^r Robert Ungle Treasurer of the East-
ern Shoar of the Province of Maryland agreeable to the Ac-
count Current of the said fund sent to Sam^l Chamberlain
Esq^r And As he has accordingly drawn Six Setts oi Bills for
fifty pounds Each We desire you will pay the same & Charge
the s^d Account therewith
Cha Hammond Tho⁵ Bladen
Philip Thomas Benjⁿ Tasker
Dan. Dulany Edm^d Jenings

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board write to the Exec" of
the honble Col Levin Gale acquainting them, that their
Testator had received Orders from the Treasurers of this
Province for the sum of Two hundred and fifty Pounds
Sterling to be laid out by him the s^d Gale in the Purchase of
such Goods in England as he should think proper to be pre-
sented to the Indians at the ensuing Treaty at Lancaster
Town And as the said Goods are not sent in, that they as
Executors af^d do pay to the honble Col Charles Hammond

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as Treasurer of the Western Shoar the said Sum of 250 £ in
good Bills of Exchange, that the same may be replaced to the
said fund of 3^d p hh^d for Arms, out of which the Orders to the
honble Levin Gale were made payable & that the said Col
Hammond charge a Commission of 2 1/2 p Cent on receiving
the said Two hundred & fifty pounds
His Excellency lays before this Board the following Letter
rec'd by him from his Grace the Duke of Newcastle One of
his Majestys Principal Secretaries of State, as also the follow-
ing Declaration of War of his Majesty against the French
King, and his Majestys Proclamation for the distribution of
Prizes taken by his Majestys Ships of War, or Privateers

Whitehall March 31^st 1744
Sir
The French King having declared War against his Majesty
(as you will see by the inclosed Copy of his Declaration for
that Purpose (which is full of the grossest and most indecent
Misrepresentations and Representations upon his Majestys
Conduct) I am to acquaint you by his Majestys Command,
that on Thursday last the 29^th Instant a Great Council was
held at Saint James's where his Majesty approved and has
since signed a Declaration of War against the French King,
and ordered that the same should be Published on this day,
by the Heralds at Arms, in the usual Places and with the
accustomed Formalities on the like Occasions which has been