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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBURGH, <DATE><HI>The 17th, day of</HI> April, 1696.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD><HI>At a General Meeting of the Company of</HI> SCOTLAND, <HI>Trading to</HI> AFRICA <HI>and the</HI> INDIES.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>My Lord <HI>TARBAT</HI> Cho&s;en Prae&s;es.</DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THE Con&s;titutions, Agreed upon, and pre&s;ented by the Committee, being Read, were with &s;ome Amend|ments, Unanimou&s;ly Approved of, and con&s;ented unto, by this General Meeting.</P>
<P>ORDERED, That the &s;aid Con&s;titutions be forth|with Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<P>RESOLVED, That upon <HI>Thur&s;day,</HI> the 7. Day of <HI>May,</HI> next, At the <HI>High Town Council-Hou&s;e,</HI> of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> from Nine, to Twelve; and from Two a Clock in the Afternoon, to Six; every Sub&s;criber by him&s;elf, or by his, her, or their Deputations, or Mi&s;&s;ive Letter, &s;hall give in a Li&s;t, by Order of Alphabet of Twenty five Sub&s;cribers, to be Directors of this Company.</P>
<P>RESOLVED, That upon <HI>Tue&s;day,</HI> the twelfth day of <HI>May,</HI> follow|ing, there &s;hall be a General Meeting of the Sub&s;cribers at the <HI>Laigh-Council-Hou&s;e</HI> in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> for Declaring the Election and Scrutiny, and other Affairs of the Company.</P>
<P>RESOLVED, That the Government and Direction of this Company, &s;hall be in the pre&s;ent Committee, untill the Directors be Cho&s;en.</P>
<P>ORDERED, That Compleat Li&s;ts of all the Sub&s;cribers in <HI>Scotland,</HI> to <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> next, Inclu&s;ive, be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;h'd.</P>
<P>&para; <HI>Tho&s;e Concerned are to take Notice, that none of the Per&s;ons Nam'd in the</HI> Act of Parliament <HI>are to be</HI> Directors, <HI>unle&s;s they be Cho&s;en.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And none can be Cho&s;en in this Election, who are not Sub&s;crib|ers in</HI> Scotland.</P>
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