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ment I have therefore thought fit with the Advice of his Ldps
Council of State to publish this my Proclamation, notifying
the said Declaration to all his Majestys Subjects, and strictly
charging & requiring the several Sheriffs of the respective
Counties of this Province at the most publick Places in
their said Counties as soon as conveniently may be with all
Solemnity possible to proclaim and publish the same And I
do hereby further will and require the several Sheriffs of this
Province to give Notice to the Magistrates of their respective
Counties, as soon as possible to meet and appoint a Day for
publishing his Majestys said Declaration and this my Procla-
mation, and I do hereby Command the several Sheriffs and
all Others his Lordships Officers both Civil & Military as also
the Militia in the respective Counties to attend in the hand-

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somest Manner at the time so appointed for performing the
same Given at the City of Annapolis this 13^th day of June in
the 30^th Year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1744
Great
Seal

Ordered that fifty Copies of His Majestys Declaration of
War be printed and sent to the several Counties of this
Province with the aforegoing Proclamation, which were done
accordingly

30^tb June 1744

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor that the following
Proclamation issue

Maryland ss.

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

A Proclamation

Whereas Our most Gracious Sovereign has been pleased
to declare War against France, and to forbid all his Majestys
Subjects to hold any Correspondence or Communication or
to trade with the subjects of the French King; And whereas
the supplying the French with Arms Ammunition Provisions
or Other Goods or Merchandize may be of most dangerous
Consequence to his Majestys Subjects I have therefore
thought fit with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State
to issue this my Proclamation strictly forbidding all his Maj-
estys Subjects within this Province to ship off transport carry
or send to any of the Territories Lands Plantations or Coun-
tries belonging to the French King any Provisions Warlike