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ACT Discharging Persons to Travel from Edinburgh with­out Passes.

Edinburgh, December 8. 1696.

THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council, for the better keeping and securing the Peace of the Kingdom, have thought fit to appoint, and hereby Appoint and Ordain, that none presume to travel from Edinburgh, to any part of the Kingdom without a Pass from one or other of their Lordships Number, bearing their Names, and the place to which they are designed to go; Certifying such as shal be found to contraveen this Act, that they shall be stopped till they be farder examined; And all Magi­strats, and other Officers Civil or Military are to take care that these presents be duely observed: And Or­dains these presents to be Printed, and Published, that none pretend Ignorance.

Extracted by me GILB. ELIOT, Cls. Sti. Concilii.

GOD save the KING.

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His Most Excellent Majesty, 1696.

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