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Province for the time being having signified His Majesty's pleasure that five members of the Council for this Province should repair to Providence in Rhode Island Colony to settle the boundaries of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay and the said Colony and having also transmitted the heads of the Commission under the broad seal of Great Britain for the above purposes I have communicated the same this day in Council and exhorted them as I am commanded by the said Lords Commissioners to conform themselves to His Majesty's will and pleasure, and as by the Constitutions of the Civil Government at this time most of the Members of the Council are in Military Posts belonging to this Garrison it has been advised in Council that you should be acquainted with the purport of the said Lords Commissioners dispatches.
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Signed P. Mascarene
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Alexander Cosby Esq
Lieut Govr of the Garrison,
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By the Honble Paul Mascarene Esq President of His Majesty's Council for the Province of Nova Scotia and Cömmander in Chief of said Province for the time being.
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Whereas it has been represented particularly by the Honble Admiral Vernon to some of his Majesty's Governors in the British plantations that the ex- portation of provisions from any of His Majesty the King of Great Britain's Provinces, Colonies or Settlements in America, may be of great detriment to His Majesty's Service and the common weal of his subjects unless due care be taken to prevent the provisions that may be exported out of each Province, Colony, or Settlement, from being landed or imported unto any other ports or places than what belongs to his Britannic Majesty.
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Which being laid before His Majesty's Council for this Province for consideration I do therefore by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's said Council strictly prohibit the exportation of provisions of any kind or specie from His Majesty's said Province of Nova Scotia by any owner or masters of vessels or others whomsoever before bond is first given that the said provisions the dangers of the sea excepted shall be landed or imported without fraud unto some of His Majesty the King of Great Britain's Dominions to be vouched and duly proved by proper certificates from the Officers of His Majesty's Customs in these parts under penalty of being prosecuted for their said bond and obligation and such other penalties as the law in such cases may require. Given at Annapolis Royal in His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia by and with the advice of His Majesty's said Council this fourth day of April one thousand seven hundred and forty one and in the fourteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
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