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to be paid on Conviction, and desire Your Excellency will be
pleased to offer the said Reward.
Robt Lloyd, Speaker.
Whereupon His Excellency was pleased to issue the follow-
ing Proclamation.
Maryland ss. By His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Gov-
ernor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of
Maryland. A Proclamation.
Whereas it hath been represented to me that the Dwelling
House of James Calder of Baltimore County was on Tuesday
Night the of this Instant broken into by two Villains,
who after rummaging below, went up stairs into a Chamber,
where Mrs Calder and a young Lady were in Bed, whom they
treated in a most shocking and Barbarous Manner, first
whetting their Knives before them, then Seizing them by the
Throats, with many Motions as if they would Murther them,
unless they would give their Money, and kept them in that
miserable Situation for four or five Hours, having wounded
Mrs Calder in the Hand, and the Young Lady very terribly in
the shoulder; for the better discovering and bringing to Justice
the Perpetrators of this horrid Crime I hereby promise a
Pardon to any one of the Persons concerned in committing
the said Offence, on Condition that he discover his accomplice
so that he be apprehended and convicted thereof. And as a
further Encouragement I do hereby offer a Reward of three
hundred Dollars for the Apprehension of the said Villains or
One hundred and fifty Dollars for either of them, to be paid
on his or their Conviction.
Given under my Hand and Seal at the City of Annapolis
this 28th Day of May in the Eighteenth year of His Lordship's
Dominion Anno Domini 1768 Signed by Order
Upton Scott Cl. Con.
At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Monday the 6th
Day of June in the Eighteenth year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1768.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor.
The Honble, Samuel Chamberlaine, Benedict Calvert, Dan-
iel Dulany, John Ridout Walter Dulany and John Beale Bord-
ley Esqrs Read the following Petition of Colo William Ireland
of Calvert County
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