Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 65

By His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

A Proclamation,
for a Day of Public Thanksgiving

Whereas Our most Gracious Sovereign, judging it proper
that a public Thanksgiving to Almighty God, should be ob-
served by all His good Subjects, Throughout His extensive
Dominions, for the Blessings of Peace, Between, Great Brit-
ain, France, and Spain, lately restored, hath caused his pleas-
ure to be Signifyed to me, by a Letter from the Right Hon-
ourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations :
in Obedience therefore to His Majesty's Commands, and that
all His Loyal and good Subjects within this Province, may
have an Opportunity of Expressing, in a public and Solemn
Manner, their Thankfulness for the Happy Conclusion of
Peace, between His Majesty Our most gracious Sovereign,
and the Most Christian and Catholick Kings, and of Adoring
with humble and gratef ull Hearts, the Divine Goodness which
makes Wars to cease :
I Do by the advice of his Lordship's Council of State, ap-
point Tuesday the Twenty third Day of August next, to be set
apart, and Observed throughout this Province, as a Day of
public praise and thanksgiving; and I do hereby recommend
it to the Several Ministers of the Gospel within this Province,
to Compose proper Addresses to the Divine Majesty, to be
used in their Respective Churches and Chapels on that Day,
and likewise Sermons Suitable to the Occasion; and I more-

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over require all such Ministers to publish this my Proclama-
tion in their Several Congregations, during the time of Divine
Service, on the Sunday next preceeding the said Day of
Thanksgiving.
Given at the City of Annapolis This Twenty sixth Day of
July, in the Thirteenth year of His Lordship's Dominion,
Annoq Domini 1763.
John Ross Clk. Con. Horatio Sharpe.
God Save the King.

To The Kings most Excellent Majesty

The humble Address of the Lieutenant Governor and Coun-
cil of the Province of Maryland.

Permit Us most Gracious Sovereign with all humility to
offer Our most cordial Congratulations on the happy Comple-
tion of your Majesty's benevolent and early Desire the Re-
establishment of Peace, and to express Our grateful Sense of
the Benefits We with the Rest of Our Subjects derive from
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