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Plantations, which will at the End of the said six Months
become void we for preventing the Inconveniencies that may
happen thereby in our princely Wisdom and Care of the
State (reserving to our Judgment hereafter the Reformation
and Redress of any Abuses in the Execution of any such
Offices, Places and Employments upon due Knowledge and
Examination thereof) have thought fit with the Advice of
our Privy Council to issue this our Royal Proclamation, and
do hereby order, signify, and declare, that all Persons that
at the Time of the Decease of our late Royal Grand-father
King George the second of glorious Memory were due and
lawfully possessed of or invested in any Office Place or Em-
ployment Civil or Military in any of our Plantations and
which have not been since removed from such their Offices,
Places and Employments as formerly they held and enjoyed
the same, until our Pleasure be further known or other
Provision be made pursuant to the Commissions and Instruc-
tions of our said late Royal Grandfather to his Governors

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and Officers of the Plantations aforesaid, and that in the
mean Time for the Preservation of the Peace, and necessary
Proceedings in Matters of Justice, and for the Safety and
Service of the State; all the said Persons of whatsoever
Degree or Condition do not fail every one severally accord-
ing to his Place Office or Charge to proceed in the Per-
formance and Execution of all Duties thereunto belonging
as formerly appertained unto them during the Life of our
said late Royal Grandfather. And further we do hereby
will and command all and singular our Subjects in the said
Plantations of what Estate or Degree, they or any of them
be to be aiding helping and assisting of the Commandment
of the said Officers in the Performance and Execution of
the said Offices and Places, as they tender our Displeasure
and will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils :
Given at our Court at Saville House, the twenty seventh
Day of October one thousand seven hundred and sixty, in
the first Year of our Reign.
God save the King.

George R.,
Instruction to our trusty and well beloved Horatio Sharpe
Esq^r Deputy Governor of our province of Maryland in
America, or to the Commander in Chief of the said Province
for the Time being, Given at our Court at Leicester House
the 31^st Day of October 1760: in the first year of our Reign.
Whereas we have been pleased by our Order in Council
of 27^th of October Inst., (a Copy whereof is hereunto an-
nexed) to declare our Pleasure that in all the Prayers, Lit-

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