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<HEAD>AT EDINBURGH, <HI>The</HI> 9^t^h <HI>Day of</HI> July, 1696.</HEAD>
<P>_THE COURT OF DIRECTORS of <HI>The Company of SCOTLAND Trading to</HI> AFRICA <HI>and the</HI> INDIES, Finding that the nature and cour&s;e of their Trade, will always Require con&s;iderable Sums of Money to be in their Demand; And con&s;idering how profitable, ea&s;ie and convenient it will be to the Pro|prietors of the Joynt-Stock, as well as beneficial to the Trade, Credit and Im|provements of the &s;aid COMPANY, to have the greate&s;t part of the Money Advanced by the <HI>Proprietors</HI> thereof, to be unto them a quick and living Stock, and always at Command; The &s;aid COURT OF DIRECTORS do hereby Re&s;olve, Agree and Declare, That the &s;everal <HI>Proprietors</HI> of the &s;aid Joynt-Stock, upon their Re&s;pective Bills or other Obligations payable in Three Months, &s;hall always have Credit upon their re&s;pective Stocks in the &s;aid COMPANY, for any Sum not exceeding Two third Parts of the Money &s;everally pay'd in by them, paying only for the &s;ame an Intere&s;t at the rate of Four <HI>per Cent. per Annum:</HI> And &s;uch Sums may be Repay'd to the COMPANY, in part, or in whole; and the Intere&s;t thereof, &s;hall only be reckon'd for the Days that &s;uch Sums, or Parts thereof &s;hall happen to remain Unpay'd, and for no longer time.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Publi&s;hed by Order of CO&V;RT,
<HI>ROD. MACKENZIE,</HI> Sect^r^y</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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