PRESENT,

The KING's most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council of the 19th of October last, for prohibiting the Exporting out of this Kingdom, or carrying Coastwise, Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition, will expire the 19th Day of this Instant April ー And whereas it is judged expedient that the said Prohibition should be continued for some Time longer ー His Majesty doth therefore, by and with the Advice of His Privy-Council, hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no Person or Persons whatsoever (except the Master-General, Lieutenant General, or Principal Officers of the Ordnance, for His Majesty's Service) do, at any Time during the Space of Six Months, to commence from the said 19th Day of this Instant April, presume to transport, into any Parts out of this Kingdom, or carry Coastwise, any Gunpowder, or any Sort of Aims or Ammunition, or ship or lade any Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition on Board any Ship or Vessel, in order to transporting the same into any Parts beyond the Seas, or carrying the same Coastwise, without Leave or Permission in that Behalf first obtained from his Majesty, or His Privy-Council, upon Pain of incurring and suffering the respective Forfeitures and Penalties inflicted by an Act passed in the Twenty-ninth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An Act to impower His Majesty to prohibit the Exportation of Salt-petre; and to inforce the law for impowering His Majesty to prohibit the Exportation of Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms and Ammunition; and also to impower His Majesty to restrain the carrying Coastwise of Salt-petre, Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition." And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General of the Ordnance, and His Majesty's Secretary at War are to give the necessary Directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.