394 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1747.

Lib. C. B.

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice of
this Board that the following Proclamations issue to the several
Counties of this Province

Maryland ss.

By his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor & Com-
mander in Chief in & over the Province of

Maryl^d

A Proclamation

Whereas It has been signifyed to me by his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle that his Majesty had thought fit to order
a Number of Rebel Prisoners who petitioned his Majesty for
Pardon on such Terms as the King should think proper to be
transported to his Plantations, & that a Pardon had accordingly

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passed the Great Seal, upon Condition of their being trans-
ported to some of his Majestys Colonies or Plantations in
America during their Natural Lives and their serving the
Contractors or their Assignees during the time aforesaid;
And also that It was his Majestys Pleasure, that I should use
my Authority to inforce a Complyance with those Terms from
any of them who should land in any Port or Place under this
Government, several of whom have accordingly been trans-
ported and landed in this Province; And Whereas I have re-
ceived Information that some Doubts have been raised and in-
dustriously endeavoured to be encouraged (which can have no
other Tendency than to disturb the Publick Peace and prejud-
ice the Property of the Purchasers of such Persons) concern-
ing the Sale and Servitude of them agreeable to the Terms
of the said Pardon I have therefore thought fit with the Advice
of his Lordships Council of State to publish and make known
the Terms and Conditions upon which his Majesty has been
pleased to extend his Mercy to those Persons so transported
into this Province as aforesaid and I do require all Magistrates
and Officers of Justice within this Province to be aiding and
assisting in obliging the Persons so transported hither as
aforesaid to comply with the Terms of their Pardon so far as
may be necessary for the respective Times of Service for which
They have been or shall be sold; And to the Intent that all
Persons concerned may have due Notice thereof I do strictly
charge and require the several Sheriffs within this Province to
make this my Proclamation publick in their respective Coun-
ties in the usual manner as they will answer the Contrary at
their Peril Given at the City of Annapolis this 16^th Day of
September in the thirty third year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1747.