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Notion & noise of great & heavy Taxes of a hogs head or more

a head, whereas the Same appears to a frivolous idle Complaint, not

but that the Levies are Some thing large through arrears ever

Since the Revolution But hope in God will be now Satisfied this

year. So that the Levies will become as easily & light as formerly

however the foregoing matters tending to the great disturbance

of the Peace & Quiet of his Maties good People here, I have ( for

Prevention of the Same as near as may be for the future) thought

fitt by & with the advice of his Maties hon^rble Councel) and at y^e

Special instance & request of the Wor^ll the house of Burgesses

in Assembly now Sitting,) to publish and declare, and I doe hereby

accordingly publish, Proclaime & Declare, that any Person or Persons

hereafter comeing from these parts of Carolina or Pennsilvania

aforementioned, & are or shall be discovered to entice away

or discourage, his Maties liege People & Inhabitants of this

Province to remove home by or through means of the Specious

large Character by them given of these parts from whence they

Come, Such Persons shall be lyable (upon Complaint of y^e Same

made & proved before a Justice of the Peace) to be Comitted

to Prison, and answer the Law, as a Comon disturber of y^e Peace)

or Divulger of false news. &a. And any Person or Persons –

bringing an Evil Report upon y^e Country by malitiously

and falsely Spreading abroad, a Noise of great Taxes &a shall

in like manner upon due proof of the Same made as a foresd

by lyable to be Comitted & prosecuted as afd.And I doe hereby

further publish & declare , that this Proclamacon is not any

wayes intended to debarr or hinder any Person or Persons =

whatsoever from Removeing out of the Province themselves

or families to any part or place they shall best like or fancy

it is Notwithstanding hereby advised that all Such Persons

doe well Consider what they are going about least they come to

be Sory for their Change when it may prove to late; And to

the end all Persons may have due notice Hereof. I doe hereby

Strictly charge & Comand the Severall Sheriffs of the Province

to make Proclamacon hereof in all publick places & meetings

within their respective Counties, to which all persons are to

yield all due and read is obedience as they & every of them

will answer the Contrary at their peril, Given at y^e Port of

Annapolis under the broad Seal of the Province this 17^th day

of October in the 7^th year of his Maties Reign &ca an^o Dom 1695

                        God Save the King                  ffra: Nicholson

   True Coppy from of y^e Originall passed the broad Seal.

                                                Hen Denton. Clrll Conus