Maryland ss^t

Be it remembered that on the Eleventh Day of July in the
seventh Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George
the second by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France
and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c and in the nineteenth
Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary Annoq Domini 1733 Appeared his Excellency
Samuel Ogle Esq^r and produced his Lordships Commission
constituting and appointing him the said Samuel Ogle Lieu-
tenant General and Chief Governor of the Provinces of
Maryland and Avalon in America, and also Commander in
Chief both by Sea and Land of all the Forces raised or to be
raised in the s^d Provinces, which being published and read is
ordered to be recorded in the Secretarys Office

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Not being a sufficient Number of the Gentlemen of the
Council in Town to make a Council; His Excellency took the
several Oaths to the Government appointed to be taken by
Act of Assembly of this Province, and also the Oath for the
due Observance of the several Acts of Trade and Navigation,
and subscribed the Abjuration and Test, before M^r Amas
Woodward One of His Lordships Justices of the Peace for
Ann Arundel County

Ordered by His Excellency the Governor that the following
Proclamation issue

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 Charles Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the
Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore
by his Commission under his Great Seal at Arms bearing Date
at Annapolis the twentieth Day of June has with the Appro-
bation of His Most Sacred Majesty been pleased to constitute
me the said Samuel Ogle Governor and Commander in Chief
in and over this His Lordships Province of Maryland, which
said Commission was published this Day, and read in the
Presence and hearing of many the Kings Subjects his Lord-
ships Tenants in this Province at the City of Annapolis I have

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