376 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1769-1770.

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Instructions to be given to and observed by Thomas Jenings
Esquire Attorney General and especially constituted to assert
his Lordship the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary his
jurisdiction in and over the River Potowmack.
I^st You are with all convenient Speed to repair to the City
of Williamsburgh in Virginia and wait on Lord Bottetourt
Governor thereof and after having delivered his Excellency
Governor Eden's Letter you are to make known to his Lord-
ship the Commission with which you are Charged.
2^nd In Case the Vessels or any of them Seized on the River
Potowmack by Sir Thomas Adams Baronet Commanding
Officer of the Boston Frigate shall be Libelled or prosecuted
in the Court of Admiralty of Virginia you are to assert his
Lordship's Right to the local Jurisdiction in the Premisses by
Claiming the same before the Judge of the said Court and
requiring such Claim to be entered among the Proceedings
thereof.
3^dly and Lastly. You are to make a full and distinct Report
to his Excellency the Governor of the Manner in which you
shall execute the Commission with which you are Charged on
Behalf of his Lordship the Lord Proprietary.
Annapolis Signed by Order
17^th of July 1770. U. Scott Cl: Con.

The following Proclamation being Read and approved of
was Ordered to Issue to the several Sheriffs within this
Province directing them to Publish the same in their respec-
tive Counties.

Maryland ss^t By his Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Lieuten-
ant General and Chief Governor in and over the Province of
Maryland.

A Proclamation.

Whereas John Pownal Esq^r Secretary to the Right Hon-
ourable the Earl of Hillsborough one of his Majesty's princi-
pal Secretaries of State hath Transmitted to me the following
Act of Parliament Viz. An Act to repeal so much of an Act
made in the Seventh year of his Majesty's Reign entitled An
Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and
Plantations in Amercia for allowing a Drawback of the Duties
of Customs upon the Exportation from this Kingdom of
Coffee and Cocoa Nuts of the Produce of the said Colonies
or Plantations for discontinuing the Drawbacks payable on
China earthen Ware exported to America and for the more
effectually preventing the Clandestine Running of Goods in
the said Colonies as relates to the Duties upon Glass Red