To Charles Lawrence Esqr. Govr. of Nova Scotia.

Sir,

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to send you the inclosed Act past in the present Session of Parliament Entituled an Act to prohibit for a limitted time the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Malt, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, Starch, Beef, Pork, Bacon, and other Victual (except Fish and Roots and Rice, to be exported to any part of Europe Southward of Cape Finisterre) from His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America unless to Great Britain or Ireland or to some of the said Colonies and Plantations, and to permit the Importation of Corn and Flour into Great Britain and Ireland in neutral Ships, and to allow the Exportation of Wheat, Barley, Oats Meal, and Flour from Great Britain to the Isle of Man for the use of the Inhabitants there.

John Pownall.

Exd.