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by required not to clear any Ship or Vessel now lying within
your Port, until you shall receive my further Directions
herein. T am Sir

9^th March 1757. Your most humble Servant
To A: B: Collector of the Customs Hor^o Sharpe

At a Council held at Baltimore Town in Baltimore County
on Tuesday the fifth Day of April in the sixth Year of his
Lordship's Dominion Annoque Domini 1757:

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

The
honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Colonel Benjamin Tasker

Benedict Calvert Esq^r

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present general Assembly which was
this Day to have met, be further prorogued to Wednesday
the sixth Instant there not being sufficient Number of Mem-
bers of the Lower House met to make a House, and procla-
mation issued accordingly.

6^th April 1757:

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor by the Advice of
this Board, that the present General Assembly which was
this Day to have met be further prorogued to Thursday the
seventh Instant there not being a sufficient Number of Mem-
bers of the Lower House met to make a House, and Procla-
mation issued accordingly.

7^th April 1757:

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor by the Advice of
this Board, that the present General Assembly which was
this Day to have met be further prorogued to Friday the
Eighth Instant there not being a sufficient Number of Mem-
bers of the Lower House met to make a House, and Procla-
mation issued accordingly.

At a Council held at Baltimore Town in Baltimore County
on Friday the eighth Day of April in the seventh Year of
his Lordships Dominion Annoque Domini 1757.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

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The
honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col^o Charles Hammond
Col^o Edward Lloyd

Col. Benjamin Tasker
Richard Lee Esq^r
Benedict Calvert Esq^r