By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas by an act of General Assembly of this province, passed in this present year, it is, among other things, provided and enacted, that if any person or persons, settled upon any lands within the boundaries of this province ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight ...