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shall appoint at the same time acquainting them with the
Number of Men to be drafted out of their respective Militia ;
and the Colonels, Majors, and Captains of each respective

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County, or the Majority of them shall out of their Militia
so met immediately proceed and draft double the Number
allotted by the Governour to be drafted (being unmarried,
and not servants imported, or by Indenture, actually executed
before the first day of February last) out of the Militia of
such County as aforesaid, from which Number so drafted
the Number allotted as aforesaid shall be ballotted, and there-
upon the several Persons so ballotted, shall be by the Sheriff
of the respective County, who is hereby strictly enjoined and
required to be then present safely conveyed, at the public
Expence without delay to the Sheriff of the next County and
so from Sheriff to Sheriff till they are conveyed to the Place
appointed for fixing the Fort aforesaid :
And Be it Enacted that every Officer aforesaid who shall
not appear on the Day appointed as aforesaid, having notice
thereof, and give his Vote in drafting the Number of Men
aforesaid shall forfeit, and pay the Sum of ten Pounds Cur-
rent Money; and every Sheriff having notice as aforesaid,
who shall not be present to take Charge of the Men who
shall be ballotted as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the like
Sum, and every Person capable of bearing Arms, who shall
not appear at the days respectively to be appointed as afore-
said shall forfeit and pay the Sum of five Pounds, like Money ;
all which Forfeitures shall be recovered by Action of Debt,
Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any Court of Record within
this Province, wherein no Essoin, protection, or wager of
Law shall be allowed; one half to the Informer, or him or
her that shall sue for the same, and the other half to be ap-
plied as herein after directed; and every Colonel who shall
neglect to give the several Officers, and the Sheriff aforesaid
Notice, within ten Days of the Day to be by him appointed
as aforesaid shall forfeit, and pay twenty Pounds Current
Money to be recovered and applied as aforesaid.

By his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor, and
Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

A Proclamation

Whereas by an Act of Assembly of this Province made
at the last session of Assembly, intituled, An Act for grant-
ing a Supply of £40.000: for his Majestys Service and strik-
ing £34015..6..0: thereof in Bills of Credit, and raising a
Fund for sinking the same, it is enacted, and ordained, that
for the Uses, and purposes, in the said Act mentioned, several

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