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    that he was but newly arrived he did not know what construc-   Lib. X.

    tion the people might put upon such adjournment & that for

    those reasons he had wrote to the Governor of Virginia that

    Major Dent could not then wait upon his Excely being so        p. 216

    Concerned for his Majesty & others as aforesd

      Elis Excellency acquaints the Board that he had Ordered

    Major Smallwood to acquaint those Indians that if they would

    come in here & quietly set down they should be kindly dealt

    with but has not as yet heard from the said Major Smallwood

      His Excellency says he is informed that there are three

    Ships now trading in this Province wholy owned by Scotch-

    men & that one of the Masters vizt Captain Lathrop being

    questioned had produced Edwd Randolph Esqr his Majetsys

    Surveyor Genl on the Continent of America his Letter in his

    Favour signifying that Liberty of trading into these Provinces

    is now allow'd to Such Scotchmen & laid a copy of the said

    Letter before the Board which was read as also his Excel

    lencys Instructions dated the 4th of October 1698 relating

    to that affair which this Board having considered likewise the

    several Acts of Trade & Navigation are of Opinion that in

    regard neither his Excellency nor any of the Officers of his

    Majestys Customs here have received any such Notice on

    Advice of such Toleration from the honble the Commsrs

    of his Majestys Customs or the Right honble the Lords of

    the Council of Trade no regard ought to be had to the said

    Letter but that the acts of trade & Navigation should be put

    in force

      His Excellency acquaints the Board that he has lately rec'd

    two Letters from the night Honble James Vernon Esqr his

    Majestys Secry of State the one directing him to use his

    utmost Care & Diligence to apprehend Captain Kidd the

    Pirate & his crew in case any of them should come into this

    Province upon Which Occasion he had issued particular War-      p. 217

    rants to every County in the Province

      The other Letter directing his Excellency to prohibit any

    Supply of Arms or Provisions from this Provs to the Scotch

    Settlement at Darien whereupon he had issued his Proclama

    tion to prohibit any such supply from this Province

      Produced & read a Letter from Mr Walter Lane & Mr

    Rowland Bevine complaining of one John Parker who had

    intruded upon & built an house within the Bounds of the

    Land laid out for the Indians in Somerset County of which

    the said Indians complain & the said Gentlemen further ac

    quaint his Excellency that they fear some disturbance may be

    occasioned thereby

      His Excellency with the advice of the Board does thereupon

    order that Mr John Rounds one of his Majstys Justices of the