Of Black-Beard.
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By his Majeſty’s Lieutenant Governor, and, Commander in Chief, of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia,
A Proclamation,
Publiſhing the Rewards given for apprehending, or killing, Pyrates.Whereas, by an Act of Aſſembly, made at a Seſſion of Aſſembly, begun at the Capital in Williamſburgh, the eleventh Day of November, in the fifth Year of his Majeſty’s Reign, entituled, An Act to encourage the apprehending and deſtroying of Pyrates: It is, amongſt other Things enacted, that all and every Perſon, or Perſons, who, from and after the fourteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord one thouſand ſeven hundred and eighteen, and before the fourteenth Day of November, which ſhall be in the Year of our Lord one thouſand ſeven hundred and nineteen, ſhall take any Pyrate, or Pyrates, on the Sea or Land, or in Caſe of Reſiſtance, ſhall kill any ſuch Pyrate, or Pyrates, between the Degrees of thirty four, and thirty nine, of Northern Latitude, and within one hundred Leagues of the Continent of Virginia, or within the Provinces of Virginia, or North-Carolina, upon the Conviction, or making due Proof of the killing of all, and every ſuch Pyrate, and Pyrates, before the Governor and Council, ſhall be entitled to have, and receive out of the publick Money, in the Hands of the Treaſurer of this Colony, the ſeveral Rewards following; that is to ſay, for Edward Teach, commonly call’d Captain Teach, or Black-Beard, one hundred Pounds, for every other Commander of a Pyrate Ship, Sloop, or Veſſel, forty Pounds; for every Lieutenant, Maſter, or Quarter-Maſter, Boatſwain, or Carpenter, twenty Pounds; for every other inferior Officer, ſixteen Pounds, and for every private Man taken on Board ſuch Ship,Sloop
