Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 279

After taking the several Oaths aforesaid, His Excellency
Subscribed the Oath of Abjuration and Test, according to the
Directions of the Act of Assembly aforesaid.
Advised Resolved and Ordered that a Proclamation be
forthwith Issued for the Publication of His Excellency the
Governor's Commission, and directing all Officers Civil and
Military to continue in the Execution and discharge of their
several Offices until his Excellency's pleasure shall be further
known and Signified therein, which Proclamation being pre-
pared is as follows :

Maryland ss :
By His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

A Proclamation

Whereas Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the
Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore,
by his Commission under his Great Seal at Arms, bearing date
at London the first day of August, Anno Domini Seventeen
hundred and Sixty Eight, has, with the Approbation of his
Most Sacred Majesty been pleased to Constitute and appoint
me, the said Robert Eden Governor and Commander in Chief
in and over this his Lordship's Province of Maryland, which
Commission was this day Published in the presence and hear-
ing of the Members of his Lordship's honourable Council, and
others the King's Subjects his Lordship's Tenants in this
Province, at the City of Annapolis, I have therefore, by and
with the Advice of his Lordship's Council of State, thought fit
to issue this my Proclamation, Notifying the same to all Sher-
iffs, Magistrates and others his Lordship's Officers in this
Province, And I do further will and direct that all Officers,
both Civil and Military, Execute and Discharge the several
Trusts and Duties in them reposed and enjoined, by the pres-
ent respective Commissions to them Granted until such time
as my further Pleasure and Directions shall be signified there-
in, And I do hereby Strictly charge and require the several
Sheriffs of this Province to make this my Proclamation Pub-
lic in their respective Counties, in the Usual manner as they
will Answer the Contrary at their Peril. Given at the City of
Annapolis this Sixth day of June in the Ninth Year of the
Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the third of Great
Britain &c. King, and in the 19^th year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1769.
Signed by order
U. Scott, Cl. Con.

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