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Whitehall March 7^th 1757:
Sir
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations to send you the inclosed Act passed in the present
Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to prohibit for a
limited Time, the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Malt,
Flour, Bread, Biscuit, Starch, Beef, Pork, Ba^on, and other
Victual (except Fish, and Roots, and Rice to be exported to
any Part of Europe Southward of Cape Finisterre) from his
Majesty's Colonies, and Plantations in America, unless to
Great Britain or Ireland, or to some of the said Colonies, and
Plantations; and to permit the Importation of Corn and
Flour into Great Britain and Ireland in neutral Ships, and
to allow the Exportation of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Meal, and
Flour from Great Britain to the Isle of Man for the use of
the Inhabitants there.
I am Sir
Your most obed^t humble Servant
John Pownall

His Excellency acquaints the Board that the Right hon-
ourable the Lord Proprietary had appointed Daniel Dulany
Esq^r a Member of his Lordship's Council, and that he now
attends in order to be qualified

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Whereupon the said Daniel Dunlany Esq^r takes the Oaths
to the Government appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly,
and likewise the Oath of a Councillor and subscribes the
Abjuration and Test and takes his Place at the Board ac-
cordingly :

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Letter.

Chester Town May 9^th 1757..
May it please your Excellency
We the Subscribers Commanders of the Ships and Sailors
lying at Chester Town beg Leave to represent to your Ex-
cellency that upon the strictest Enquiry we could ever make
concerning the violent Attack on ourselves, Men, and Ships
on the second of April last in the Night by the Soldiers and
others in firing loaded Musketts at us we never understood
that either M^r James Nicholson or M^r Alexander Calder tho
unfortunately present as well as several others when the
Soldiers fired and we believe had imprudently resolved if
the Sailors had come on Shore to have assisted in beating
them because some young Men of the Town had been struck
by some of the Sailors in the Day Time when the young Men

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