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366 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1746,
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the Money in your hands, which I hope you'l transmit to me
by the Bearer; Upon this Assurance that I now give you of
bearing you harmless in the Payment, but at the same time
you must by no means omit leting me know the particular
Sums claimed against any Soldiers enlisted in your County
After This I am willing to suppose your Loyalty will get
the better of your Scruples, and not give Occasion to bring
that publickly into Question, if the Troops should mutiny, or
any Delay or Detriment happen to his Majestys Service by
your Behaviour
If you should still persist in keeping the Money, let me
have a particular Account of the Debts claimed, and by
whom, as well as the Soldiers Names from whom the same is
due, that I may settle the Mens Accounts before their
Embarkation
I am Sir
Your humble servant
T Bladen
The following Order was sent to Mr Robert Norrest Wright
a Magistrate of Queen Anns County
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You are hereby Ordered to cause a Certain Abell Bell of
Queen Anns County Planter, who is as It is alledged a Soldier
enlisted by Barnett Colins a Serjeant in Captain Daniel Camp-
bells Company now raised in this Province to be apprehended
and delivered to the said Bernard Colins to be conveyed to
Annapolis to the Company to which he belongs.
Ordered by his Excellency the Governor that the following
Proclamation issue
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By his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqr Governor & Com-
mander in Chief in & over the Province of
Maryland.
A Proclamation.
Whereas by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the
18th Year of his present Majestys Reign Entituled An Act for
punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment
of the Army & their Quarters, It is among other things En-
acted and declared, that all Persons who shall enlist in his
Majestys Service are exempted from any Arrests for Debts
under Ten Pounds Sterling, but subjected in their Goods if
they have any; and which said Act of Parliament by express
Words extends to these his Majestys Plantations: To the End
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