7th §§, compared with the placard bearing date the eighteenth August, next preceding, in its 12th §, on which the parts beforestated are founded (namely the 13th § of the placard; the ordinance concerning the privileges of the trading towns, in its 15th §; and the ordinance of the thirteenth of June, in its second chapter, 2nd and 11th §§), do not refer to others than such as keep bed and board in the trading towns, and carry on a constant trade there; and likewise, that the country traders, agreeably to the ordinance of the thirteenth of June, 1787, in its second chapter, 12th and 13th §§, shall likewise be under the obligation of carrying on the trade, as well in winter as in summer, the result whereof is :

See the placard

third of April, 1793, § 1.

(a) That what is contained in. of date twenty- the placard 15th §, the ordinance concerning the privileges of the trading towns, in its 15th §, and the second chapter, 2nd and 11th §§, concerning such citizens, is not to be otherwise understood, than regarding such as have established themselves in the trading towns, and as carry on trade there both in winter and summer, either by themselves, or by their

acknowledged factor, except what is otherwise mentioned in the last-cited four places, viz. that they may trade to or with whatever foreign place they will, cannot, if meant to be out of the district, be otherwise understood, than as merely applicable to the special trade of the ships, which shall have lain four weeks, without having commenced any trade with the country; either by having thrown up some sheds, or by having there erected some building; and they shall likewise be allowed to lie and carry on trade, but only in the proper trading towns, or in such out-ports as are either permitted by the liberation of the trade, or may hereafter be erected, with the approbation of our chamber of taxes and interest.

See placard of
twenty-third
April, 1793,
§ 1 and 2.

(b) That no man, who shall have established himself in any trading town, or in the district belonging to it, and shall have taken his burghership there, either personally, or by his factor, shall establish any trade in any other trading town, or in the district thereunto appertaining, under the plea of having, either by himself, or by his factor taken his

burghership at such place; or under the pretext of the last-mentioned carrying on trade there on his own account; and therefore he shall be obliged (in case of the' magistracy finding his assertion of carrying on trade there for his own account, to be liable to suspicion), to make deposition. upon oath before the court, that all the goods in which he means to trade, as well import as export goods, are to him solely belonging, and not to any person in any other district.

See placard of twenty-third April, 1793,

(c) That such persons, belonging to Denmark, Norway, or the

1, 2, and 3 §§. provinces, who are inclined to carry on a trade in the country, shall likewise form an establishment in the trading towns, raise buildings, and there take burghership, or at least so do by their factor, who in such case shall keep his house and office, and carry on trade, both in winter and summer, without doing which, he may not trade with any inland town, excepting as a special trader, for the space of four weeks; and consequently he must not employ any other factor in his

stead, and have such a person made a burgher, and still less shall he employ any farmer in carrying on trade for him during the winter.

According whereto, all persons concerned have to govern themselves.

Chamber of Taxes and Interest, 1st June, 1792.

(Signed.)

REVENTLOW.

НОЕ.

HANSEN.

COLBIORNSEN.

KOLLE. SCHIONNING. HANSEN. WORMSKIOLD. BUDT. M. VON ESSEN. MANKE. HAMELEFF. JOHANSEN. VORNDRAN. WADRIN.

GUNDELACH.

SULDEN.

23rd April, 1793.

PLACARD,

Whereby sundry passages in the Placard of the 1st of June, 1792, are more particularly explained, for prevention of the establishment of any prohibited trade in Iceland, and of other misuses in trade, which have there taken place.

We, his royal majesty's, the king of Denmark and Norway, &c., &c., appointed

president, deputies, and assessors in the chamber of taxes and interest, do herewith certify, that his royal majesty having, by his resolution of date the thirtieth of May last year, which was made public by the chamber of taxes, &c., in a placard of the first of June next following, been graciously pleased to give a more full explanation concerning some passages, both in the ordinance of the thirteeenth of January, 1787, concerning the commerce and navigation of Iceland, and also in sundry other regulations thereunto appertaining, which have in part been misunderstood, for the prevention of fraud and deceit on the part of the traders; his majesty has now again thought proper, in order that the intent of the said most gracious resolution may the better be accomplished, to give the following articles, bearing date the seventeenth of this month, for the observation and notice of all concerned.

. 1, That, exclusive of what is ordained in the foresaid placard, letter a, it shall be strictly prohibited to expose goods for sale to the farmers, or any others whomsoever,