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His Excellency is pleased to communicate to this Board by
the hands of the Clerk the following Letter and Proclamation
Whitehall 7th May 1748.
Sir
The Kings Plenipotentiary and those of his most Christian
Majesty and the States General of the United Provinces
having Signed at Aix la Chapelle on the 19th of April O. S.
Preliminary Articles for Restoring a General Peace, and in
Consequence whereof His Majesty has been pleased to Order
a Proclamation to be Published declaring a Cessation of Arms
as well by Sea as Land which I send you herewith Inclosed; I
am Commanded by his Majesty to Signify to you his Pleasure,
that you Cause the same to be Published in all the Proper
places under your Government to the End that all his Majestys
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Subjects there may Pay due Obedience to, and a Strict Obser-
vance of the same.
I am Sir
Your most Obedient humble Serv'
Governor of Maryland. Bedford
By the King
A Proclamation
Declaring the Cessation of Arms, as well by Sea as Land,
agreed upon between his Majesty, the Most Christian King
and the States General of the United Provinces, and enjoin-
ing the Observance thereof
George R.
Whereas Preliminaries for Restoring a General Peace were
Signed at Aix la Chapelle on the Nineteenth day of April
last O. S. by the Ministers of Us, the most Christian King and
the States General of the United Provinces; And whereas,
for the putting an End to the Calamities of War as soon and
as far as may be Possible, it hath been Agreed between Us,
His Most Christian Majesty and the States General as follows ;
that is to say,
That Hostilities should cease at Land within the Times,
and in the manner in the said Preliminary Articles for that
Purpose agreed upon; and at Sea from the Respective Times
and within the Respective Places herein after Particularly
mentioned
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