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<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI><DATE><HI>April</HI> 3d. 1696.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>At a General Meeting of the Company of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Trading to <HI>Africa,</HI> and the <HI>Indies.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>My Lord <HI>BELHAVEN</HI> Cho&s;en <HI>Prae&s;es.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THE Minutes of the <HI>24th. March</HI> la&s;t, being Read, and it be+ing moved, whither the making, and Laying down the need|full Rules, and Con&s;titutions, for the Direction, and Go|vernment of this Company, with the Times, Wayes, and Manner of the Choice of the Directors mentioned in the fir&s;t Paragraph, of the &s;aid Minutes, is &s;o to be under&s;tood, As if the Rules and Con&s;titutions to be made by the Committee be unalterable, or are to be Sub|jected to, and Alterable by the General meeting.</P>
<P>Re&s;olved, That the Rules and Con&s;titutions. To be made by them, be propo&s;ed to the fir&s;t General meeting, to be approven, or altered as they &s;hall think fit.</P>
<P>Conform to the la&s;t days Minutes, A Report being made that the Li&s;ts were given in by the &s;everal Sub&s;cribers, and thereafter a Scrutiny made, the following Twenty Per&s;ons were found to be Cho&s;en for a Committee, who with the Nominees mentioned in the Act of Parliament, are to Concert the Rules and Con&s;titutions conform to the fir&s;t Article of the la&s;t days Minutes, which Election after Reading over the Per&s;ons cho&s;en were Unanimou&s;ly approven of by the Meeting.</P>
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<HEAD>The Names of the Committee.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>James</HI> Earl of <HI>Panmure</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John</HI> Lord <HI>Hay</HI> of <HI>Yester</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord <HI>Ba&s;il Hamiltoun</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George</HI> Vi&s;count of <HI>Tarbat</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>David</HI> Lord <HI>Ruthven</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Hay</HI> of <HI>Drumeliar</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Hugh Dalrymple</HI> Advocat</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Archibald Hope</HI> of <HI>Rankillor</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lieut. Collonel <HI>John Ere&s;kine</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Iohn Shaw</HI> of <HI>Greenock</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Francis Scot</HI> of <HI>Thirleston</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Robert Dick&s;on</HI> of <HI>Sornbegg</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Fletcher</HI> of <HI>Saltoun</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Haldan</HI> of <HI>Gleneagles</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Archibald Mure</HI> of <HI>Thorntoun</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Baillie</HI> of <HI>Jerveswood.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Pringle</HI> of <HI>Torwoodlie</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Drummond</HI> of <HI>Newton</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr, <HI>William Dunlop</HI> Principal of the Colledge of <HI>Gla&s;gow</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Wat&s;on</HI> Merchant in <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Re&s;olved that the &s;aid Committee do meet upon <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> next, the <HI>7th</HI> In|&s;tant, for the fir&s;t time, At 3 in the Afternoon at the <HI>Laigh Council Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Edin|burgh:</HI> And thereafter to Adjourn them&s;elves to &s;uch Times and Places as they &s;hall judge convenient.</P>
<P>A Report being made that there is already upwards of 300000 Pound <HI>Sterling</HI> Sub&s;cribed for, and that there was &s;till &s;everal Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Royal Burghs, who live at a di&s;tance from this Place not yet come in, occa&s;ioned part|ly for want of Timeous Adverti&s;ement, and through the badne&s;s of the Weather.</P>
<P>Therefore, a Motion was made for enlarging the Sub&s;criptions to four Hundered Thou&s;and Pound Sterling.</P>
<P>Re&s;olved, that the &s;ame be done accordingly, and that the Books continue Open, for receiving Sub&s;criptions, until the &s;um of Three Hundered, and fifty Thou&s;and Pound Sterling thereof be Sub&s;cribed for, and thereafter that the Books &s;hall be clo&s;ed for &s;uch time as the Committee &s;hall think fit, That the Remote&s;t Places of this Kingdom may have due Notice, before the other fifty Thou&s;and Pound be Sub|&s;cribed for&punc;</P>
<P>The times appointed for Receiving Sub&s;criptions hereafter, is to be upon e|very <HI>Tue&s;day,</HI> and <HI>Thur&s;day,</HI> in the week in the former place from 10. in the Morn|ing to 12 And from 2 in the Afternoon till 4 until the &s;aid &s;um be compleated.</P>
<P>The Minutes above are ordered to be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed</P>
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