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By his Excellency Thomas Sim Lee Esquire Governor of
Maryland
A Proclamation —
Whereas it is represented by the most unquestionable Authority,
that the Army of the United States is greatly distressed for want
of Flour and Forage and that they will infallibly disband unless
the most speedy and Extraordinary exertions are made by this State
to procure those Supplies for their relief And Whereas the General
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Liber C B
No. 23
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Assembly have enacted a Law entitled " An Act for the immediate
Supply of Flour and other Provisions for the Army " which requires
the utmost efforts of every worthy Citizen of this State, to carry
the same into full and speedy Execution. I do therefore most
earnestly intreat, conjure require and enjoin all Justices of the Peace,
Sheriffs and their Deputies Constables and all other the good Citi-
zens of this State by that Love of their Country, that Patriotic Zeal
and Magnanimity which have hitherto distinguished their Conduct,
in the present glorious Contest for Life, Liberty and property, to
exert themselves to the utmost of this Critical emergency in procur-
ing and furnishing Flour and other Provisions for the immediate
relief of the Army in their present Alarming distress and rendering
every Assistance to the Commissioners in carrying the said Law
into Execution
Given at Annapolis the Twenty ninth Day of December in the year
of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy nine Tho Sim Lee
By his Excellency's Command T. Johnson Jun'r Secy
God Save the State
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p. 94
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[Council to the Commissioners of the different Counties]
Gentlemen. The General Assembly reposing the most entire Con-
fidence in your Integrity Patriotic Zeal and Attachment to the com-
mon Cause, have appointed you Commissioners for — County to
carry into Execution the " Act for the immediate Supply of Flour
and other Provisions for the Army." The enclosed Copy of his
Excellency General Washington's Letter, manifests, in the strongest
Terms, the great Distress of the Army, and the urgent Necessity
of your most vigorous Exertions to procure and forward a sufficient
Supply of Flour and the other Articles enumerated in the Act. Your
own Discernment is sufficient to point out the manifold Evils that
would result from so calamitous an Event as the Disbanding the
Army and will suggest to you that the Happiness of yourselves and
Posterity, may depend on your Diligence and Activity in executing
the Law, and your Endeavours to dispose the People of your County,
not only to acquiesce in, but further the Measures of the General
Assembly in attaining so desirable an Object as the immediate Sup-
ply of our Army with Flour and other Necessaries. You may rely
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Liber C C
No. 22
p. 49
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