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I am at the same Time to acquaint you that as it is abso-
lutely necessary for his Majesty's Service that an immediate
Embargo should be laid on all Ships in the different Ports of
the respective Provinces in North America, and as you have
already been forewarned, that whenever such Directions
should be transmitted to you by his Majesty's Commander
in Chief in these Parts you should without any the least
Difficulty comply therewith. I make no Doubt that upon Receit
hereof you will forthwith publish the said Embargo which is
to hold good until such Time as you receive Notice from me
to take off the same which you may depend on being trans-
mitted to you as soon as his Majesty's Service will allow of it.

I have nothing further to add but to desire that you will
give me the earliest Notice possible of the Success you meet
with in your Application to your Council & Assembly, and
what Resolutions they are or are likely to come to upon the
Subject of the Troops to be raised by them conformable to his
Majesty's Directions, especially as the Season is so far ad-
vanced, and there is no Time to lose.

I am with great Regard Sir, your most obed^t humble
P. S. The Embargo took Place in Servant
this Port Yesterday. James Abercromby.

Ordered that the following Letter be sent to the Officers of
the Customs in the several Ports within this Province.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Sir
It being recommended to me by the honourable James
Abercromby Esq. Commander in Chief of his Majesty's
Forces in North America as a Matter of the greatest Im-
portance that an Embargo should be laid in the sev^l Ports
within my Government you are therefore hereby required not
to clear any Ship or Vessel within your Port until you shall
receive my further Directions herein I am &c.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Thursday
the 23^d Day of March in the seventh year of his Lordship's
Dominion Annoque Domini 1758:

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq: Governor.

The honourable Benjⁿ Tasker Esq: Col: Cha^s Hammond,
and Col: Benj: Tasker.

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