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Colonies, should you receive a Letter or Orders from him
you are to advise me thereof by Express and to render your-
self without Delay to such Post as he shall order, and either
act in Conjunction with the regular Troops that are under
his Command, or as a separate Corps according to the Orders
that he might think proper to give you. That you may not
be retarded for want of Provisions on such an Occasion, I
send you inclosed two Warrants which will impower the
Press Masters to furnish you with every thing that you can
stand in Need of. I shall send Col: Stanwix a Copy of these
Instructions, and let him know how to direct a Letter to you
if he should stand in Need of your Assistance
To Colonel I am Sir
Commander in Chief of the Your most humble Servant
Militia of County.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday
the eighteenth Day of May in the seventh year of his Lord-
ship's Dominion Annoque Domini 1757..

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

The honourable, Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Col: Cha^s Ham-
mond, & Col: Benj: Tasker..

Lib. J. E.

& U. S.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Petition
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor of Mary-
land.
The humble Petition of Alexander and Andrew Symmer.

Sheweth
That your Petitioners have a Vessel loaded with Wheat,
Flour, and Bread for Dublin, now ready for sailing but is
detained by the Embargo, that the said Vessel was clearing
out in the Office at the Time the Restraint was laid on as
appears from a Certificate from the said Office herewith sent.
Your Petitioners therefore pray your Excellency will be
pleased to grant them Permission to send the said Vessel
away, as the Cargo is in Danger of heating from being so
long on Board.
These may certifie all whom it doth concern, that on the
ninth Day of March last Captain James Hamilton Com-
mander of the Snow Alexander made Application to me for
clearing a Quarter of an Hour before the Embargo was laid
or took Place, which would have been done had I not began

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