Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1747. 409

" Place of Rendezvous as also for replacing the said Sum and
" for the better regulating Ordinarys and Ordinary Keepers
" and for other purposes therein mentioned" folio Nine
22^d June 1747 Read & assented to & signed by Order of
the house p Edward Sprigg Speaker.

The Governor communicated to M^r Speaker the following
Answer to the Address of this house presented to his Excy
yesterday

Gentlemen of the Lower house of Assembly
I shall not fail according to your Address to do everything
in my Power, to procure a reasonable Allowance for the Arms
taken out of Our publick Magazine for the Use of the Forces
raised here for his Majestys Service Sam: Ogle

29^th Decem^r 1747
Province of Maryland

Then Came Michael Macnemara Clerk of the Lower house
of Assembly of the said Province and made Oath on the holy
Evangels of Almighty God before me the Subscriber One of
his Ldps Justices of the Provincial Court that the aforegoing
are true Extracts from the Journals of the Lower house of
Assembly lodged in the Assembly Office of the said Province
Jn^o Brice

Extracts from the Council Book of the Province of
Maryland
Maryland ss

By his Excell^y Thomas Bladen Esq^r Gov^r & Comm^r in
Chief in and over the Province of
Maryland

A Proclamation

Whereas his Grace the Duke of Newcastle One of his
Majestys Principal Secretarys of State has signifyed to me his

Lib.C. B.

Majestys Royal Intention to employ Forces for the immediate
Reduction of Canada, and also his Pleasure that I should
forthwith make the necessary Dispositions for raising Men
within this Government to be employed in Concert with his
Majestys regular Forces on that important Service, which Men
to be raised in this Province with Others in some of the
neighbouring Colonies, are to be formed into One Corps, and
commanded by the honourable William Gooch Esq^r Lieuten-
ant Governor of Virginia; I have therefore thought fit to issue

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