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Revenue Give to all Intents and purposes both in Law &
Equity to the Persons Complying with the requisites afore-
said a full discharge from & against all purchase Money
and Arrearages of Rent whatsoever, that may be due & Pay-
able to us from the Respective dates of such Original Grants
for or by Reason of such Surplus lands as af^d any thing in
any former Proclamation or Instruction Contained to the
Contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.
And this Our Proclamation we have Caused to be Entered
on Record in our said Land Office and other offices of Our
Revenue there to Remain as a Rule and direction to Our
proper officers touching the Premises Witness Our trusty
and welbeloved Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor & Com-
mander in Chief of Our said Province this 17^th day of Jan-
uary in the fifth year of Our Dominion Annoq Domini
1756—

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Tuesday
the 23^d day of March in the fifth year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoque Domini 1756:

Present

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

the honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Colonel Hammond
Sam^l Chamberlaine Esq^r

Col: BenjaminTasker
Richard Lee Esq^r
Benedict Calvert Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Papers :

S^r
Within three or four Days I have received several Letters
from the Magistrates in different Parts of this province in-
forming me that those of his Majesty's Officers who have
been ordered hither to recruit have lately received your
positive Instructions to enlist without Exception or Distinc-
tion, all Apprentices and Servants they can perswade to
enter into the Service, that the Inhabitants having a great
part of their property vested in Servants, unanimously oppose
the Execution of such Instructions, that on such opposition
Violences have been committed, and that unless their Cause
of Complaint be speedily removed an Insurrection of the
people is likely to ensue, the Magistrates as well as myself
have and shall endeavour to prevent mischief, but as the
Officers are determined to persist, I cannot promise that the

People will be much longer restrained from expressing their
Resentment by Actions: I think it my Duty to make this
Representation to your Excellency, and hope you will not

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