By &c.
Whereas an Act of Parliament hath passed this present Sessions entitled,
"An Act to restrain the Trade & Commerce of the Provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire & Colonies of Connecticut & Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation in North America to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, or other places therein mentioned under certain Conditions and Limitations"
We send you herewith Forty printed Copies of the said Act and do hereby require and direct you to cause the directions therein mentioned to be complied with as punctually as possible, so far as the same may depend upon you and the several Captains & Commanders of His Majts Ships & Vessels under your command. Given &c. the 5th April 1775.
Sandwich
J. Buller
Lisburne.
By &c. P.S.
By the Senegal
Duplicate signed, Sandwich ー J Buller ー C. Spencer sent 15th April by the Cerberus