Their High Mightinesses the States General have this Day issued a Proclamation, of which the following is a Translation:

Proclamation

The States General of the United Provinces, To all who shall see, or hear these Presents read, Greeting:

Be it known that, as the Reasons, which induced Us heretofore to prohibit the Exportation of Ammunition to the English Colonies, still subsist, We have again thought fit absolutely to prohibit, and We hereby absolutely do prohibit, all Exportation of Ammunition, Gunpowder, Guns and Shot, by Ships belonging to the Dominions of Great Britain, for the further Term of a Year, on Pain, not only of Confiscation of the Arms and Ammunition, which shall be found there on board, but also of a Fine of a Thousand Guilders over and above, at the Charge of the Commander, whose Ship shall be answerable and liable to Execution for the same.

That We have further thought fit to enact, and We do hereby enact, that, during the aforesaid further Term of one Year, no Gunpowder, Guns, Shot, or other Instruments of War, shall be embarked on board any other Ships, whether Foreign, or belonging to this Country, to be transported abroad, without Consent and Permission of the College of Admiralty, under whose Jurisdiction the Embarkation shall be made, on Pain of Confiscation of the Arms, Gunpowder, Guns, Shot, or other Ammunition, which shall have been embarked without Permission, and of the Commander's incurring a Fine of a Thousand Guilders, on board of whose Ship the said Arms and Ammunition shall have been embarked, and his Ship be answerable and liable to Execution for the said Fine.

And that no one may pretend Ignorance hereof, We call upon and require the States, the Hereditary Stadtholder, the Committee of Council, and the Deputations of the States, of the respective Provinces, and all other the Officers and Justices of these Countries, to cause this our Proclamation to be forthwith promulgated, published, and affixed in all Places where the same is necessary, and where such Publication is wont to be made; And We further charge and command the Counsellors of the Admiralty, the Advocates General, and Commis General, together with all Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Captains, Officers and Commanders, to pay Obedience to this Our Proclamation, proceeding, and causing to be proceeded against the Transgressors thereof, without Favour, Connivance, Dissimulation, or Composition; for such have We found meet.

Given at the Hague, under the Seal of the State, the Signature of the President of Our Assembly, and the Counter-Signature of our Greffier, August 18, 1775.

By Order of the States General,
(Counter-signed) H. Fagel
To which was affixed the Seal of their High Mightinesses.