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twenty fifth Day of July, and the twenty fifth day of Feb-
ruary in each Year and shall account with and pay unto
the said Commissioners of the Loan Office from time to time,
all such Sums of Money which they shall respectively receive
by virtue of this Act, retaining to his, and their own use, a
Commission of two Pounds, ten Shillings p. Centum and no
more, which shall be in full for all the Services aforesaid,
and the Commissioners of the Loan Office, for the time

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being, shall, and are hereby directed and required to keep
seperate and distinct Accounts of all such Sums of Money,
which they from time to time shall receive by virtue of this
Act.

And Be it further Enacted, that the Office Bonds of the
several and respective County Clerks, and their securities in
such Bonds, shall be answerable for & put in Suit for any
Breaches of their Duty committed against this Act.

11^th August 1756
His Excellency having received his

By his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esquire
Governor and Commander in chief in and
over the province of Maryland.

A Proclamation

Whereas I have received his Majesty's Declaration of War
against the french King given at the Court of Kensington
the 17^th Day of May 1756: in the 29^th year of his Majestys
Reign, a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed and also a
Letter from the Right Honourable Henry Fox Esquire one
of his Majesty's principal Secretarys of State, signifying
that it is his Majesty's pleasure, I should cause the said
Declaration to be proclaimed in the Places under my Govern-
ment, I have therefore thought fit with the Advice of his
Lordship's Council of State to publish this my proclamation
notifying the said Declaration to all his Majesty's Subjects,
and strictly charging & requiring the several Sheriffs of the
respective Counties of this province at the most publick places
in their said Counties as soon as conveniently may be with
all solemnity possible to proclaim and publish the same, and I
do hereby further will and require the several Sheriffs of this
Province to give notice to the Magistrates of their respective
Counties as soon as possible to meet and appoint a Day for
publishing his Majesty's said Declaration, and this my Proc-
lamation, And I hereby also command the several Sheriffs
& all others his Lordships Officers, both civil, and military,
as also the Militia of the respective Counties to attend in the