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<HEAD>ACT Di&s;charging any Per&s;on to go Aboard of, or Corre&s;pond with <HI>French</HI> Privateers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>Augu&s;t <HI>3, 1697.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council be|ing informed, that notwith&s;tanding the Laws and Acts of Parliament against &s;uch as Corre|&s;pond with His Majesties Enemies; and par|ticularly the Act One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred ninety three, Intituled <HI>Act again&s;t Corre&s;ponding with</HI> France: Yet upon the occa&s;ion of <HI>French</HI> Privateers, and others His Majesties Enemies coming upon the Coa&s;ts of this King|dom, &s;everal Per&s;ons have either been en&s;nared, or have pre&s;umed to go on Board of them, or otherways to Corre|&s;pond with them, albeit Enemies, and in actual Ho&s;tility as &s;aid is: Therefore the &s;aids Lords of Privy Council have di&s;charged, and hereby di&s;charge all and every one of His Maje&s;ties Leidges to go on Board any of the &s;aids Pri|vateers, or otherways to Corre&s;pond with them in any &s;ort, or to have any manner of dealing with them, without ex|pre&s;s Licence obtained for that effect from the &s;aids Lords of Privy Council, under the pains in the &s;aids Acts. And the &s;aids Lords of Privy Council do hereby Ordain, that all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies and their Deputs, and other Magi&s;trats what&s;oever, be careful that the&s;e pre&s;ents be due|ly ob&s;erved, as they will be an&s;werable: As al&s;o, that they be Printed and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edin|burgh,</HI> and other places needful.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1697.</P>
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