Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 161

Whitehall 19^th June 1766.
Sir
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations, to transmit to you a Printed Copy of each of the
several Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament which
relate to America
I am Sir
your most Obed^t and most hble Servant
To Horatio Sharpe Esq^r John Pownall.
Lieu^t Governor of Maryland.

The following Proclamation being Read and approved of,
His Excellency, with the Advice of this Board, was pleased to
Order, that Copies thereof, together with the Acts of Parlia-
ment thereunto annexed, be transmitted to the several Sheriffs
requiring them to publish the same in their respective Coun-
ties. Ordered also that M^r Green be directed to Print a Suffi-
cient Number of Copies of the said Acts to annex to the Proc-
lamations and also to publish in the next Maryland Gazette the
Act Entitled, An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and
the Assurance; and for amending so much of An Act of the
Seventh year of her late Majesty Queen Ann, entitled, An Act
for the Improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms, as
after the time therein limited, requires the delivery of certain
Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of
High Treason or Misprision of Treason.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Maryland ss.
By his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

A Proclamation.

Whereas I have received a Letter from His Grace the Duke
of Richmond One of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
State bearing date the 23^d of May last, and another from the
Secretary to the Right honourable the Lords of Trade and
Plantations dated the 10^th of June last wherein they inform me
that the following Acts of Parliament had passed the Legis-
lature of Great Britain viz^t " An Act for allowing the Importa-
tion of Corn and Grain from his Majesty's Colonies in Amer-
ica into this Kingdom, for a limited time free of Duty; An
Act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's Do-
minions in America An Act passed in the present Session of
Parliament Entitled, An Act for punishing Mutiny and De-
sertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their
Quarters; An Act to continue several Laws therein mentioned
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