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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>ACT OF PRIVY COUNCIL, Di&s;charging the Export of Oy&s;ters forth of this Kingdom, for the &s;pace of three years.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>the fir&s;t day of <HI>December</HI> 1687.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas, by rea&s;on of the frequent Export of Oysters forth of this Kingdom, in great quantities, not only the Scalps of Oy&s;ters are like to peri&s;h, but exorbitant Rates are exacted off the Leidges, for &s;uch of them as are &s;old within this Kingdom: Therefore, the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council, Do hereby expre&s;ly Prohibit and Di&s;charge all Merchants, Skippers, Mariners and others what&s;omever, from Exporting Oysters forth of this Kingdom, for the &s;pace of three years after the Date hereof, under the pain of Confi&s;ca|tion of the Ship, Boat or Bark, in which any Oysters &s;hall be &s;o Exported, or payment of the value of &s;uch Ship, Bark or Boat for His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> u&s;e, be&s;ides what other puni&s;hment the Council &s;hall think fit to inflict upon the Contraveeners <HI>toties quoties.</HI> And further, The &s;aids Lords Do hereby Require and Command all Magistrats Collectors, Waiters, Customers, and others at Sea-ports, to take &s;pecial notice, that the &s;aids Prohibit Goods be not Entered or Embarqued, and in ca&s;e the &s;ame &s;hall be offered to be Entered, or &s;hall be Embarqued without their knowledge; Ordains them upon notice thereof, to &s;tave and de&s;troy, not only the Boats who &s;hall furni&s;h any Oy&s;ters to be Exported, but to &s;eize and &s;ecure the per&s;ons Owners of the Boats, until further Order from the Council, as they will be an&s;werable at their peril; and do hereby expre&s;ly Prohibit and Di&s;charge all and every of the Leidges, to furni&s;h Oy&s;ters to Forreigners for Export: Declaring hereby, that the per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o furni&s;hing, &s;hall be Fined as the Council &s;hall think fit, the one half of the Fine being to be applyed for His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> u&s;e, and the other half to the Informers, for their encouragement, and that <HI>toties quoties,</HI> as &s;aid is; And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Publi&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> by a Ma|cer of Council, and at all the other Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Head Burghs of the Shires of this King|dom, and Sea-Ports, that none may pretend ignorance.  Extracted forth of the Records of Privy Council, by me</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED> <HI>COL. M^cKEN&YOGH;IE,</HI> Cls. Sti.Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1687.</P>
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