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   should be cleared to go, without giving Sufficient security to Lib. H. D.

   go with the same to Newfoundland (for Supply of his Majtes

   Land and Sea forces there under the Comand of the Rtt

   Honoble Coll John Gibson) or to the Rtt Honoble Willm Stough

   ton Esqr Lieutent Governr and Comandr in Chiefe of his

   Majestes Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England

   in Order to be sent thither &ca And forasmuch as it hath been

   represented unto me in Councill from the Honord his Majtes

   Justices and the Grand Inquest for the body of this Province,

   how tht the sd Ordr proves very detrimentall to the Island

   Trade managed here, and for that (in the Neighbouring

   Colony of Virginia) there is no such prohibition, have for the

   same & other reasons requested that the sd Ordr may be dis

   annulled and sett aside. I do, by advice of his Majests honoble

   Council and upon the representation & request aforesd made

   as also upon the Satisfactiün of severall advices lately recd

   from New England how that that Province has (God be

   thanked) had a Plentifull harvest this year, and tht Newfound

   land has recd supplyes of Provission from New Yorke & those

   parts) think fitt to disannull & sett a side the sd Order so farr

   as the same restraines the clearing such Shipps and Vessells,

   and the same is hereby disannulied and sett a side accordingly.

   But for the Encouragement of all Masters and Owners of such

   Shipps & Vessells belonging to this Province or any other of

   his Majesties Governments as will undertake to purchase &

   load with Provisions here, giving security to go with the same

   to the end & purpose aforesd I do (for his Majtes service)

   hereby promise to pay all duties and Impositions payable

   upon Exportation of Beefe & Porke and give them my own

   dues and will also pay what fees are due to the Collectors &

   Navall Officers for entiring & clearing thereof who are hereby

   Ordered not to take any of those Impositions or fees but send

   the accounts of the same unto me, as by the sd former Order

   was directed. Lastly I do hereby Command the severall

   Sherriffs of the Province to publish this in all Churches Chap

   peils & other pub!ick places of meeting within their respective

   Counties and to give the Collectors and Navall Officers (where

   resident in their Balywick) immediate & speedy notice of the

   same; Given at the Town & Port of Annapolis under the

   Broad Sea! of the Province this 22nd day of October in the

   ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the

   third &Ca Annoq Dom 1697

                                   ffr: Nicholson

        God save the King.

    On the back of the said Proclamation was writt as follows

   Vizt This is to signify that it is agreed & Order'd tht the Pro-