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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> &amp;c. A PROCLAMATION Declaring the continuance of Ju&s;tices, Sheriffs, and other Officers.</HEAD>
<P>_FOr the continuance of the Admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice, pre&s;ervation of the pub|lick Peace, and the better carrying on the Affairs of the Commonwealth, we, being intru&s;ted with the care thereof, have thought fit to Publi&s;h, and Declare, and do hereby Publi&s;h and Declare, That all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, as on the fir&s;t day of <HI>October,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty nine, were Iu&s;tices of the Peace in any Counties, Cities, Precincts, Liberties, or Places, in <HI>England, Wales,</HI> or the Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> by Force and Vertue of any Commi&s;&s;ion or Commi&s;&s;ions, under the Great Seal of <HI>England;</HI> and had by &s;uch Commi&s;&s;i|ons, Power and Authority to Enquire of, Hear, and Determine Felonies, Tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, and o|ther Offences, and to do other things in the &s;ame Commi&s;&s;ions more at large expre&s;&s;ed: And all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, who on the &s;aid Fir&s;t day of <HI>October,</HI> by Force of any Commi&s;&s;i|ons or Letters Patents, under the &s;aid Great Seal, were Sheriffs of the &s;everal Counties, Precincts, and Places in <HI>England, Wales,</HI> and Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> be, and are hereby con|tinued Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Iu&s;tices of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> and Sheriffs re&s;pectively, of, and in their, and every of their &s;everal re&s;pective Counties, Cities, Precincts, Limits, Iuri&s;di|ctions, and Places re&s;pectively, from, and after the &s;aid Fir&s;t day of <HI>October,</HI> and &s;hall &s;o con|tinue, and be, until there &s;hall be new Commi&s;&s;ions and Letters Patents, or Commi&s;&s;ions un|der the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> for the con&s;tituting of Iu&s;tices of the Peace, and <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Ter|miner,</HI> and of &s;uch Sheriffs, of, and in the &s;aid &s;everal Counties, Places, and Precincts re&s;pe|ctively made, and duely publi&s;hed. And they, and every of them &s;hall have, and may law|fully V&s;e, Exerci&s;e, and Enjoy all and every the Iuri&s;dictions, Powers, and Authorities what&s;oever, which by the Laws and Statutes, Iu&s;tices of Peace of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> or Sheriffs re&s;pectively, may, or might lawfully V&s;e, Exerci&s;e, or Enjoy, and they, and every of them re&s;pectively, are hereby required and enjoyned to do the &s;ame. And all and every the &s;aid Sheriffs have hereby Power and Authority, and are enjoyned to execute and make re|turn, according to u&s;ual cour&s;e of all Writs i&s;&s;ued or to be i&s;&s;ued. And all and every Act, re|turn of any Writs, or other thing what&s;oever, Had, Made, Done, V&s;ed, or Exerci&s;ed, or to be Had, Made, Done, or Exerci&s;ed by the &s;aid Iu&s;tices and Sheriffs re&s;pectively, or by any o|ther Officers or Mini&s;ters, or other per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, by command or authority, by, or derived from, by, or under them re&s;pectively, is hereby Declared to be good and effectu|al. And all Commi&s;&s;ioners for the monethly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, Collectors, Receivers, and Re|ceivers General of the &s;aid A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, Auditors, and Receivers, and other Officers of the publick Revenue in the &s;everal Counties and Precincts, Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Cu&s;tomes and their Officers in the re&s;pective Ports, and Commi&s;&s;ioners of Exci&s;e, and every of them, and the &s;ubordinate Officers of them, and every of them, are hereby authorized and required to pro|ceed in the execution of their &s;everal and re&s;pective Duties, and to put in ure all and every the Powers and Authorities committed unto them, and every of them in their re&s;pective places; and to do all and every Act and Thing incident thereunto, as fully as they did, or might have done, on, or before the &s;aid Fir&s;t day of <HI>October.</HI> And all and every per&s;on and per&s;ons what&s;o|ever, are hereby required to conform them&s;elves in payment of their re&s;pective Duties of Cu|&s;tome and Exci&s;e, and of the &s;aid monethly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, and all other Revenues belonging to this Commonwealth accordingly, as they tender the pre&s;ervation of the publick Peace: and to the end that free Quarter, and other mi&s;chiefs and inconveniences that may happen by their neglect or failer therein, may be avoided.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the 31. day of <HI>October,</HI> 1659.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>ORdered, That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>William Robin&s;on,</HI> Clerk of the Committee of Safety.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to the Committee of Safety.</P>
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