By the honorable Thomas Dunn, esquire, president of the Province of Lower Canada, and administrator of the government of the said province, &c. &c. &c., proclamation
Subtitle: whereas by an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, made and passed in the seventh year of the reign of His late Majesty, King George the first, intituled, "An act for the further preventing His Majesty's subjects from trading to the East Indies under foreign commissions, and for encouraging and further securing the lawful trade thereto ...".
Contributors: Dunn, Thomas, 1729-1818
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1811
Place of publication: Quebec
Language: eng
Notes: Broadside.

Signed and dated at end: Given under my hand and seal at arms, at the Castle of Saint Lewis, in the city of Quebec, in the said province of Lower Canada, this ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the fifty-first year of His Majesty's reign, Thoms. Dunn, president; by his honor's command, Jno. Taylor, Dep. Sec'y."

The proclamation continues that it is enacted "that from and after the four and twentieth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and twenty one, no commodity of the growth, product or manufacture of the East Indies, shall be imported or carried into [Great Britain or under territory under the control of Great Britain] ... but such only as shall be bona fide, and without fraud, loaden and shipt in Great Britain ..."