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forme & keepe the same to their utmost skill and power, as
they will answer the contrary at their perill. And all Officers
civill and military within this Province, and others the good
people of the same are hereby willed and required as also
charged and commanded to take diligent care, and use their
utmost endeavour, for the apprehending and binding over to
answer, of all and every the offend^r or Offendo^rs herein within
their severall and respective precincts and habitations or
places of abode. Hereby also chargeing and Commanding all
and singular the Sheriffes of this Province, forthwith upon
receipt hereof) to make publick Proclamation hereof, in the
most publick and convenient places within their severall and
respective Counties, To the end that the same may the better

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be published and made knowne, and consequently noe person
pretend ignorance therein
Given at the City of S^t Maries under the greate Seale of
this Province the third day of October in the tenth yeare of
the Dominion of the R^t hon^ble Charles &c^a Annoq Dmi 1685:

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At a Councill held at the City of S^t Maries the Sixth day of
October Anno Dmi 1685:

Present
Coll Thomas Taillor
Coll Vincent Lowe
The hon^ble Coll W^m Digges
Coll W^m Stevens
Maj^r Nicholas Sewall

Coll Stevens mocon conc: the Act for Encour. of makeing
Cloth &c.

At the motion of the hon^ble Coll W^m Stevens touching the
act for Encouragem^t of makeing Linnen and woollen Cloths
within this Province; from what time the same should com-
mence, and take place;