By &ca
Whereas an Act of Parliament hath passed this present Sessions entitled.
"An Act to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, 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 thereinmentioned to be complied with as punctually as possible, so far as the same may depend upon you and the several Captains & Commanders of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels under your Command. Given &ca 15th April 1775.
By &c. P.S.
Sandwich J Buller C: Spencer
(By the Cerberus)
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/99, 347, NYHS Transcript.
