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stances whereof I give you Notice, to the End that you may
give Advise of all such as may have Come to your knowledge
in order to their being reclaimed Supposing they have not of
their own accord made Restitution without any such Applica-
tion on your part
I acquaint you of the Premises in order to your Complyance
therewith and at the same time, inform you that the like
Orders have been given to the other Governors & Royal
Officers of the Indies.
Moreover, 'tis his Majestys Pleasure that the Ships Pros-
perity and Sally, taken the one the 3^d & the other the 7^th of
September upon the Coast of Virginia in North America, be
restored to the English with all their Rigging Stores Cargo

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&c. the Ministers of London at this Court having reclaimed
the same, wherefore you are to take due Notice, to the end
that in case said Ships have been Carried into that Port, and
were really taken after the said 9^th day of August, you may
take Care to see them restored; And it is further more his
Majestys Pleasure that in case said Ships their Cargo, Rigging
Stores or any part thereof has been Sold the same be immedi-
ately restored to the Owners without giving Room for any
new Instance on their Part or any further Application on that
of the Court of England on this behalf as you will Answer it
at your Peril. Of the receipt of these Presents & of what has
been done in Conformity thereto, You'l please to give me
Advice for his Majestys Information
I am &c. Aranjuez 2I^st May 1749.
Signed
Marquis de la Ensenada

Which being read It is the humble Advice of this Board to
his Excellency that He be pleased to order Proclamations to
issue publishing the same, which being prepared issued as
follow

Maryland ss.

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

A Proclamation

Whereas His Majestys Commands have been signifyed to

me by his Grace the Duke of Bedford One of his Maj^tys Prin-
cipal Secretarys of State by his Letter dated at Whitehall the
4^th of August last directing that in the most Publick Places
within my Government I should give Notice of his Catholick
Majesty's General Order signed 21^st of May 1749 and sent to

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