Order of the King, in Council

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At the Court of St˙ James' s, the 19th day of October, 1774: Present, the King' s most Excellent Majesty in Council, Earl of Rockford, Earl of Dartmouth, Earl of Suffolk, Lord Viscount Townshend, Lord Mansfield, Lord North.

Whereas an Act of Parliament was passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Second, entitled, "An Act to empower his Majesty to prohibit the importation of Saltpetre, and to enforce the law for empowering his Majesty to prohibit the exportation of Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms and Ammunition; and also to empower his Majesty to restrain the carrying coastwise of Saltpetre, Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition;" And his Majesty judging it necessary to prohibit the exportation of Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition out of this Kingdom, or carrying the same coastwise for some time, doth therefore, with the advice of his Privy Council, hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no person or persons whatsoever (except the Master General of the Ordnance for his Majesty' s service,) do at any time during the space of six months from the date of this Order in Council, presume to transport into any parts out of this Kingdom, or carry coastwise any Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, or ship or lade any Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition on board any ship or vessel, in order to transport 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 the aforementioned Act. 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.

G˙ CHETWYND.