By His Excellency John Eager Howard, Esquire, governor of the state of Maryland, a proclamation [electronic resource] : Whereas the General Assembly did, by an act passed at their last session, entitled, An act directing the time, places and manner, of holding elections for representatives ... Given in Council, at the city of Annapolis, under the seal of the state of Maryland, this twenty-first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine