54 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1733.

Lib. M.

29^th January 1733

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 & over the Province of
Maryland.

A Proclamation

Whereas His Lordships Tenants, by the Tenour of their
Grants or Patents, are obliged to pay their Quit Rents at
Saint Marys, which is very remote from, and inconvenient to
almost All the Inhabitants of this Province, except those of
S^t Marys County; And therefore for the Ease of the People

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in this Particular, I have with the Advice of his Lordships
Council of State thought fit to issue this my Proclamation to
notify that Persons are or shall be appointed to receive the
Quit Rents in some One or more convenient Place or Places
in Each respective County to whom all Persons owing any
Quit Rents may pay the same at such Place and Places as
shall be appointed for that purpose; And to publish and de-
clare, And it is hereby published and declared that such paym^t
shall be deemed as full and ample a Complyance with the
Tenour of any Grant or Patent as if made at Saint Marys, and
shall avail the Parties paying accordingly And I do strictly
require and Command the several Sheriffs of 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 Annapolis this twenty ninth Day of
January in the nineteenth Year of His Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1733
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