■Chap.

1734.

Proclama-tion for tieEncourage-ment of Sea-men •

VI from the I. of George I. to the leas 17^4.. inci .

House of Commons, in a Grand Commit-tee, resolved that twenty ThousandMen should be employed for the Sea-Service, for the Year 1734. at four Poundsper Man per Month, for thirteen Months.The fifteenth of February, they resolved,that there should be granted to His Ma-jesty two Hundred and two Thousand,six Hundred and seventy Pounds, fiveShillings and nine Pence, for the Ordi-nary of the Navy, and the fourth ofMarch following, twelve HundredThousand Pounds, towards paying offthe Navy Debt.

About a Week before, was published,by Authority, His Majesty’s RoyalProclamation, for Encouraging Sailorsto enter on Board His Majesty’s Ships ofWar, by which His Majesty was graci-ously pleased to offer his Bounty oftwenty Shillings per Man, to every ablebodied Seamen, and fifteen Shillings toevery Land-man, who should volunta-rily enter themselves on Board the saidShips, or who should voluntarily enterthemselves for that Service, before anyof His Majesty’s Justices of Peace, be-fore the eleventh Day of March thenensuing. And, at the same Time waspublished, His Majesty’s Proclamation,requiring all British Sailors, in any Fo-

For Establishing the Colony.

For the religious Use thereof

And for encouraging and improvingBotany and Agriculture in Georgia.

That they had applied for and to-wards Establishing, and Settling, in thesaid Colony, 376 British, and 115 Fo-reigners, making, in all, 491 Persons.

For the religious Use of the Colony(the Society for Propagating the Gospelmaintaining the Minister, until Glebe-Land is cultivated for him.)

And for encouraging and improvingBotany and Agriculture in Georgia.

reign Service, to return forthwith to theirNative Country, under the highest Pe-nalties.

The Beginning of February broughtthe melancholy Account of several ofour Merchant-ships having been taken,and their Men carried into Slavery, bythe Sallee-Rovers, (p)

The fourteenth of March were solem-nized the auspicious Nuptials of HisSerene Highness, the Prince of Orange,with Her Royal Highness, Ann, Prin-cess of Great Britain, eldest Daughterto Their Majesties.

The twenty-first, died AdmiralMighells, Comptroller of His Majesty’sNavy.

The same Day, being the Anniver-sary Meeting of the Trustees for Estab-lishing the Colony of Georgia, and of theAssociates of Doctor Bray , for the Con-version of Negroes, the Reverend Dr.Hales, one of the said Trustees and As-sociates, preached a Sermon suitable toboth Occasions, at the Parish Church ofSt. Brides, Fleetfireet, at which Meet-ing of the said Trustees, their Accountsbeing laid before them, it appeared, thatthey had received since the Date of theirCharter, viz.

I. s . d. I. Si cl.

14,414 6 7

202 15 8

205 lo o

14,822 12 3

8013 4 3

2 20

187 10 o

8202 16 3

Then remained unapplied 6619 16 o

Besides those Persons sent on theCharity, there are one and twenty Ma-sters, and a Hundred and six Men Ser-vants gone at their own Expence, whereby the whole Number of Persons em-bark’d, to settle in that Colony, amountsto six Hundred and eighteen, whereof,three Hundred and twenty Men, a Hun-

dred and thirteen Women, a Hundredand two Boys, and eighty-three Girls.

This Colony seems to have the surestand most rational Foundation of any hi-therto establish’d ; And what must re-commend this Charity, before any other,is, that no Man is to be supported by st,in Idleness, or Laziness, nor are the

Benefactions

(p) They were soar Ships laden with'Fish forSpain and Portugal-, And the-unfortunate Com.

panies of these Ships made up the Number of fix-ty-two Erittfh Slaves in Barbary,

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Ships takenby the SalletrRovers.

Nuptuals ofthe Princeand Princessof Orange.,

Death ofAdmiralMighells.

Some Accountof the Geor-gia Settle-ment,