Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752. 551

Ordered by his Honour the President with the Advice of
this Board that the following Proclamation issue notifying the
same

Maryland ss.

By the honble Benjⁿ Tasker Esq^r President & Commander
in Chief of the Province of Maryland.

A Proclamation

Whereas by Order of the Right honble the Lords Comm^rs
for Trade and Plantations there are transmitted to me Copies
of the four following Acts of Parliament passed in the two
last Sessions of Parliament wherein the British Plantations are
concerned Viz. " An Act for regulating the Commencement
" of the Year and for correcting the Calendar now in Use "
" An Act for continuing the Act for encouraging the Growth
" of Coffee in his Majestys Plantations in America, and also
" for continuing under certain Regulations so much of an Act
" as relates to the Premiums upon the Importation of Masts
"yards and Bowsprits Tar Pitch and Turpentine :
"An Act for avoiding and puting an End to certain Doubts
"and Questions relating to the Attestation of Wills and
" Codicils concerning real Estates in that Part of Great Britain
" called England, and in his Majestys Colonies and Plantations
" in America.
" An Act to amend an Act made in the last Session of
" Parliament entituled an Act for regulating the Commence-
" ment of the year and for correcting the Calendar now in use "
In Order that the same may be made publick in the usual

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manner within this Government I have therefore thought fit
with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State by this my
Proclamation to publish the same that All Persons concerned
in the several Matters contained in the said Acts of Parliament
may duly observe the same And I do strictly charge and
require the several Sheriffs of this Province to make this my
Proclamation publick in their respective Counties in the usual
manner as they will answer the Contrary at their Peril Given
at the City of Annapolis this 30^th Day of July in the second
year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Dni 1752.

His Honour the President communicates to this Board the
following Letter

S^t
Your Letter in Answer to mine of the twenty fourth of last
Month, came not to my hands till the fourteenth Instant, to

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