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<HEAD>At a Meeting of the <HI>Council-General</HI> of the Company of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Trading to <HI>Africa</HI> and the <HI>Indies.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD>Holden at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the <HI>5th</HI> Day of <HI>September,</HI> 1698.</HEAD>
<P>UPON a Repre&s;entation, made from the <HI>Court</HI> of <HI>Directors</HI> in Writ|ing, Containing an Ab&s;tract of the pre&s;ent State of the Company's Affairs; And giving al&s;o their Opinion, what they thought nece&s;|&s;ary to be done by the Company at this Juncture: The &s;aid Re|pre&s;entation was Read over, Article by Article. Upon due Con&s;ideration whereof.</P>
<P>RESOLVED <HI>(Nemine Contradicente)</HI> That the needful Preparations be made for a Supply of Provi&s;ions, and other Nece&s;&s;aries to be &s;ent to the Com|pany's intended <HI>Colony,</HI> upon the fir&s;t account that &s;hall be had of their Landing and Setlement.</P>
<P>RESOLVED <HI>(Nemine Contradicente)</HI> That the further proportion of <HI>Seven Pounds Ten &s;hillings sterl.</HI> of every <HI>Hundred Pounds</HI> Sub&s;cribed for, in the Com|pany's Books, &s;hall be called in from the Re&s;pective Sub&s;cribers, or pre&s;ent Pro|prietors of the Company's Stock; The one half thereof to be payed on the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> Day of <HI>November</HI> next, And giving Bonds at the &s;ame time, to pay the other half at <HI>Candlema&s;s</HI> thereafter: Certifying all &s;uch Per&s;ons, as &s;hall happen to fail in performing as afore&s;aid, before the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> Day of <HI>December</HI> next; That their Re&s;pective Shares &s;hall either be Rouped, Pur&s;uant to the Con&s;titutions, or that they &s;hall be otherwayes proceeded again&s;t upon their Sub&s;criptions, as the <HI>Council-General</HI> &s;hall think fit to Direct.</P>
<P>RESOLVED <HI>(Nemine Contradicente)</HI> That for the Encouragement of ready payment, And to the end, that all the Proprietors may as near as po&s;&s;ible, be put upon an equal footing, with re&s;pect to their Payments, the &s;ame being at different times, that all &s;uch Per&s;ons as have payed in the fir&s;t Fourth Part of their Sub&s;criptions before or upon the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> Day of <HI>June</HI> 1696. &s;hall have Intere&s;t for the &s;ame, from the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>June</HI> a&s;ore&s;aid, to the fir&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t: And all tho&s;e that have payed in the fir&s;t Fourth Part of their Sub&s;criptions after the &s;aid <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>June,</HI> &s;hall have Intere&s;t for the &s;ame from the Re&s;pective Days of their &s;everal Payments to the &s;aid <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and all to be deducted out of the fir&s;t Moiety of the <HI>Seven Pounds Ten &s;hillings sterl. per cent.</HI> abovementioned: And that all &s;uch Per&s;ons, as have not as yet payed in the fir&s;t Fourth Part of their Re&s;pective Sub&s;criptions, &s;hall be Lyable to pay Intere&s;t for the &s;ame, from the &s;aid <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> Day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t.</P>
<P>ORDERED, <HI>That the &s;aid &s;everal</HI> Re&s;olu|tions <HI>be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed in the u&s;ual manner, for Information of all Per&s;ons concern'd, to the end that none may pretend Ignorance.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>ANNANDALE <HI>J. P. C. G.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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