Robert Carter, having become the president of the Council of the colony of Virginia, and having succeeded to the administration due to the death of the lieutenant governor, Hugh Drysdale, issues a proclamation August 1, 1726, to continue all office holders in their duties.
Virginia
L. By
the Honble the President of his Majesty's Council
of this Dominion
A
Proclamation
for Continuing of Publick
Officers in
the
Execution of their Several Trusts and offices
Whereas his most sacred Majesty by
Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain in the
first Year of his Reign did constitute and appoint the right Honable George Earl of Orkney
to be Lieut
and Governor General of this his Majesty's Colony and dominion of
Virginia And by the said --
Commission hath (amongst other things) been Gatiously pleased to declare his Royal Will And
--
pleasure That if upon the Death or Absence of the said George Earl
of Orkney out of the said Colony
And there be no person upon the place Comissioned or appointed by
his Majesty to be Lieut. Governr.
or Commandr. in Chief that the
Eldest Counsellor whose name is first placed in his Matys [Instructions ?]
to the said Earl of Orkney who Shall be at the time of such Governrs. Death or Absence residing
within this colony, shall take upon him the Administration of the
Government and Execute his
Majesty's Said Comission and Instructions and the Several powers and
Authorities therein contained
in the Same maner and to all Intents and
Purposes as any other Governr or
Commander Chief
should or ought to do until his Majesty's Pleasure be known therein
And Whereas
it hath
pleased God to call out of this Transitory Life the Honble Hugh Drysdale his Majesty's
Governr. and Commander in Chief
whereby and by the Suspension of Edmund Jenings
Esqr from
being a Member of his Majesty's Council Administration of the
Government is desolved on
me as president of the Council To the End
therefore that the peace of this his Majestys
Dominion may be the better preserved and the Ordinary Course of
Justice continued without --
Interruption I have thought fitt by and with
the Advice of the Council to publish and [proclaim ?]
That all Magistrates and Officers both Civil and Military are
continued in all and Singular
their powers Authorities and jurisdictions until further order be
taken therin whereby requiring
them and every [one ]
of them to proceed in
the Execution of their Several Duties, And all his Majest's
Subjects within this colony are hereby Commanded to be aiding and
abiding to them therein and to
Yield all due Obedience to this Proclamation
Given
at the
Council Chamber in Williamsburgh this
first --
Day of August 1726 In the
Thirteenth Year of his Majestys Reign
God
Save the King
Robert Carter