A PROCLAMATION,

Publishing the Rewards given for apprehending or killing Pirates.

WHEREAS, by an Act of Assembly, made at a Session of Assembly, begun
at the capital in Williamsburg, the eleventh day of November, in the
fifth year of his Majesty's reign, entitled, An Act to Encourage the
Apprehending and Destroying of Pirates: 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 pirate, or pirates, on the sea
or land, or, in case of resistance, shall kill any such pirate, or
pirates, 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 pirate, and pirates, before the Governor and Council,
shall be entitled to have, and receive out of the public money, in
the hands of the Treasurer of this Colony, the several rewards
following: that is to say, for Edward Teach, commonly called Captain
Teach, or Black-beard, one hundred pounds; for every other
commander of a pirate ship, sloop, or vessel, forty pounds; for
every lieutenant, master, or quartermaster, boatswain, or carpenter,
twenty pounds; for every other inferior officer, fifteen pounds; and
for every private man taken on board such ship, sloop, or vessel,
ten pounds; and that for every pirate which shall be taken by any
ship, sloop, or vessel, belonging to this colony, or North Carolina,
within the time aforesaid, in any place whatsoever, the like rewards
shall be paid according to the quality and condition of such
pirates. Wherefore, for the encouragement of all such persons as
shall be willing to serve his Majesty, and their country, in so just
and honourable an undertaking as the suppressing a sort of people
who may be truly called enemies to mankind: I have thought fit, with
the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council, to issue this
Proclamation, hereby declaring the said rewards shall be punctually
and justly paid, in current money of V