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that very Large Supplies will be wanted for the Troops that
are to Assemble on this Continent for Immediate Service, I
should Desire an Embargo on the Shipping, were I not Averse
to such a Measure, which might be attended with Several
Inconveniencies; and as I think the preventing any provisions
from being Exported, may answer the same End; I must
therefore Request you will be pleased to take such Steps as you
think best for Effectually prohibiting any kind of Provisions
from being Shipped at any of the Ports within your Province,
Except for the abovementioned Services.
I have made the same application to the Governors of the
Several Provinces nearest to this place, I have Likewise Ap-
pointed Persons to Buy up the Provisions at the Market Price,
for which Purpose I have Requested press Warrants to
Oblige the Merchants to Deliver what they have in Store at a
reasonable rate, that the King's Service may be carried on, and
may not Suffer for want of that most Essential Article.
I am with great Regard,
Sir,
Your most Obedient
Humble Servant
Jeff: Amherst

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Upon Consideration of the above Letter The Board tho
they are perswaded that no Trade has been carried on from
this Province as is said to have been done from the Northern
Colonies with his Majesty's Enemies nor Provisions exported
hence to any Places without his Majesty's Dominions, advise
that a Circular letter be wrote to the Several Officers of the
Customs within this Government requiring them to pay the
most punctual Regard to the Act of Parliament made in the
3Oth year of his late Majesty's Reign Entituled an Act to
prohibit for a limited time the Exportation of Corn Grain
Meal Malt Flour Bread Biscuit Starch Beef Pork Bacon &
other Victual (except Fish & Roots & Rice to be exported to
any part of Europe Southward of Cape Finisterre) and order-
ing them in Case they shall have the least Room to Suspect
that any Vessel which hath been laden or shall be laden in
their respective Districts was or may be destined for any Port
out of the King's Dominions to Communicate without Delay
Such their Suspicions to his Excellency. This is all the Board
think the Governor can do in Consequence of the General's
Letter unless a General Embargo was to be laid in the Several
Colonies on this Continent.
Read the Report of the Justices of a Special Court of Oyer
and Terminer held in Frederick County whereby it appears

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