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hands of the Persons or Agents appointed as aforesaid and
shall not be legally demanded within three Years, then such
Share or Shares so remaining in such Persons or Agents
hands shall go and be paid to the Use of Greenwich Hospital,
and to the end that all Persons who are or shall be entituled to
any such Share or Shares may have due Notice of the time of
Payment thereof, so as to make their Claims thereunto in due
time, We do hereby require that the Persons or Agents,
which shall be appointed to make such Sales shall give Notice
of the day and Place which shall be by them appointed for the
Payment of the several Shares to the Captors in the London
Gazette three several Successive times, And to the end the
Governors of Greenwich Hospital may know who are the Per-
sons or Agents employed to receive and pay the several
Shares of such Persons as were on Board the Ship and Ships
at the time of taking any Prize so as to demand the Shares of
such Captors, who shall not legally make their demand within
three Years, We do hereby direct that a true List of the
Names of such Persons as shall be so appointed Agents for
the Purposes aforesaid shall be forthwith Certified to the
Governor or Deputy Governor for the time being of the said

Lib. C. B.

Hospital by our high Court of Admiralty which is hereby re-
quired to take an Account of the Names of such Persons as
are or shall be so appointed Agents
Given at Our Court at Saint James's the 29^th day of March
1744 in the seventeenth Year of Our Reign
God save the King

The following Proclamation being read is approved of, &
ordered to issue with his Majestys Declaration of War an-
nexed, and sent to the several Counties of this Province

Maryland ss.

By His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor &
Commander in Chief in and over the Province of
Maryland

A Proclamation

Whereas I have received his Majestys Declaration of War
against the French King given at the Court of S^t James's the
19^th day of March 1744 in the seventeenth Year of his Maj-
estys Reign, A Copy whereof is hereunto annexed as also a
Letter from his Grace the Duke of Newcastle One of his
Majestys Principal Secretarys of State Signifying that It is
his Majestys Pleasure I should cause the said Declaration to
be proclaimed in the most publick Places under my Govern-

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