438 Appendix.

Ms. Hall of
Records
Black Books,
IX, 147
Calendar
entry 1474.

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

SEAL

Maryland.
Rob^t Eden
Whereas by a late act of Assembly of this Province entitled "An
Act to prevent Infection from y.^e Ship Chance." it was among
other things enacted that y.^e Shff of A A Co.^ty should take into his
Custody the s.^d Ship Chance et.^c et.^c until such time as the Gov.^r or
Comd. in Chief for the Time being should give him Orders for her
Delivery; And Whereas it appears to me by sundry Depositions that
there is not at present any danger of Infection from the said Ship
I do therefore hereby Command the Shff of A A Co.^ty to deliver
The sd Ship Chance unto Rob^t Campbell the Commander thereof
who is no longer withheld from removing the Same from her present
Moorings and if within six Days from the Date hereof no new
Symptoms of any contagious disorder should appear he is at liberty
to dispose of his Servants having first had them examined by some
Practitioner of Physic in the Neighbourhood where he proposes
to take in his lading whose Deposition taken before some Magistrate
is hereby directed to be lodged at the nearest Naval Office previous to
the said Rob.^t Campbells disposal of or landing of the said Servants
and such a Naval Officer is hereby required to transmit such Deposi-
tion or a Certificate thereof to me or to the Clerk of the Council by
the first convenient Opportunity
Given under my hand and Seal at the City of Annapolis this 14^th
day of April Anno Domini 1774.
Signed by Order of his Excell.^cy

James Brook Clk
[Endorsed on back] Papers relative to the Ship Chance
Chance

Chancery Jn^o Courts Jones
14.^th April 1774 —
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Ms. Hall of
Records,
Black Books,
IX, 148
Calendar
entry 1475.

Michael Wallace of the City of Annapolis Physician being first
duly Sworn Deposeth and saith that he went on board the Ship
Chance by his Excellency the Governors permission and on Examin-
ing the People found none of them dangerously 111, the most of them
much recovered and recruiting daily, and that he verily believes the