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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Pleasure that the like publick Thanksgiving be Solemnized
throughout all his Colonies in North America In Obedience
therefore to his Majesty's Commands I do hereby with the
Advice of his Lordships Council of State Appoint the third
Monday in March next being the seventeenth Day of the
same Month to be observed in this Province as a Day of
general Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his Abundant
Goodness manifested to the British Nation for the Signal
Successes with which he hath lately blessed his Majesty's
Arms both by Sea & Land particularly on this Continent And
for the better & more Religious & orderly Solemnizing the
same I do hereby direct & require the several Ministers of the
Gospel in this Province to compose a Form of Prayer suit-
able to the Occasion to be used in their respective Churches
& Chappies & other Places of Publick Worship and that
hereof they give Publick & timely Notice throughout their
respective Parishes And I do hereby strictly Charge & Com-
mand that the said Day of Publick Thanksgiving be Re-
ligiously Observed by all his Majesty's Subjects of this
Province And I do hereby likewise Command the several
Sheriffs of this Province to make this my Proclamation pub-
lick in their respective Counties in the usual manner as they
will Answer the Contrary at their Peril. Given at the City
of Annapolis this 25^th Day of February in the ninth year of
his Lordships Dominion &c.. Annoque Domini 1760.
J Ross Cl Con.

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At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Saturday
the I^st Day of March in the ninth year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoque Domini 1760.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

The Honourable Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Stephen Bordley
Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Letters received by him from the Right Honorable
William Pitt Esq^r Secretary of State and Jaffery Amhurst
Esq^r

Whitehall 7 January 1760.
Sir
His Majesty having nothing so much at Heart as to
improve the great & Important Advantages gained the last
Campaign in North America and not doubting that all his
faithful & brave Subjects there will continue most chearfully