Edinburgh, the 17th, day of April, 1696. At a general meeting of the Company of Scotland, trading to Africa and the Indies My Lord Tarbat chosen præses. Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80259 of text R221846 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C5587). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A80259 Wing C5587 ESTC R221846 99896122 99896122 153873 2240922456

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A80259) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153873) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2385:5) Edinburgh, the 17th, day of April, 1696. At a general meeting of the Company of Scotland, trading to Africa and the Indies My Lord Tarbat chosen præses. Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : 1696] Reproduction of original in the Newberry Library. eng Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland eebo Edinburgh, the 17th, day of April, 1696. At a general meeting of the Company of Scotland, trading to Africa and the Indies. My Lord Tarbat chosen præs Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies 1696 1 298 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
EDINBURGH , The 17th , day of April , 1696. At a General Meeting of the Company of SCOTLAND , Trading to AFRICA and the INDIES . My Lord TARBAT Chosen Praeses .

THE Constitutions , Agreed upon , and presented by the Committee , being Read , were with some Amendments , Unanimously Approved of , and consented unto , by this General Meeting .

ORDERED , That the said Constitutions be forthwith Printed and Published .

RESOLVED , That upon Thursday , the 7. Day of May , next , At the High Town Council-House , of Edinburgh , from Nine , to Twelve ; and from Two a Clock in the Afternoon , to Six ; every Subscriber by himself , or by his , her , or their Deputations , or Missive Letter , shall give in a List , by Order of Alphabet of Twenty five Subscribers , to be Directors of this Company .

RESOLVED , That upon Tuesday , the twelfth day of May , following , there shall be a General Meeting of the Subscribers at the Laigh-Council-House in Edinburgh , for Declaring the Election and Scrutiny , and other Affairs of the Company .

RESOLVED , That the Government and Direction of this Company , shall be in the present Committee , untill the Directors be Chosen .

ORDERED , That Compleat Lists of all the Subscribers in Scotland , to Tuesday next , Inclusive , be forthwith Printed and Publish'd .

Those Concerned are to take Notice , that none of the Persons Nam'd in the Act of Parliament are to be Directors , unless they be Chosen .

And none can be Chosen in this Election , who are not Subscribers in Scotland .