Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 261

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday
the 15.. of March in the seventh year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Annoque Domini 1758..

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq. Governor.

The honourable Benjⁿ Tasker Esq. Col: Benjⁿ Tasker &
Daniel Dulany Esq.
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Letters which being read are ordered to be entered :

Whitehall 30: of December 1757..
Sir

The King having judged proper that the Earl of Loudoun
should return to England, and his Majesty having been
pleased to appoint Major General Abercromby to succeed his
Lordship as Commander in Chief of the Kings Forces in
North America with the same Powers and Authorities, I am
commanded to signify to you his Majesty's Pleasure, that you
do apply to and correspond with Major General Abercromby
on all Matters relating to the King's Service, & that you
do obey such orders as you shall receive from him in the
same manner as you were directed to do with Regard to the
several former Commanders in Chief in North America and
you will from time to time give M^r Abercromby all the As-
sistance and Lights in your Power in all Matters relative to
the Command with which the King has honoured him.
And I am particularly to signify to you his Majesty's
Pleasure that in Case Major General Abercromby or the
Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces shall at any

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Time apply to you to lay an Embargo on all Ships within
your Province, you do strictly comply with the said Request,
for so long a Time as the Commander in Chief shall desire.
The King having resolved to send a considerable Squadron
of Ships, the ensuing year to North America, I am further
to signify to you his Majesty's Pleasure that you do from
Time to Time transmit to the Commander in Chief of the
Kings Ships in North America all Intelligence relative to his
Departm^t in the same manner as you were directed to do by
my Letter of the 19^th of last Febry to Vice Admiral Hoi-
bourne, and it is also the Kings Pleasure that you do on any
Application from the Commander in Chief of the King's
Ships use all legal Methods to supply him with such a Num-
ber of Sailors and Workmen from your Province as he shall
at any Time require for his Majesty's Service.
I am Sir your most obedient humble Servant Deputy
Governor of Maryland W.. Pitt

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