lution being the better carried into effect,
has graciously been pleased to add the following
articles, to be observed and obeyed
by all whom it may concern. These parts
are, the placard concerning throwing open the
Iceland trade, bearing date the eighteenth
of August, 1786, in its 13th §; the ordinances
concerning the liberties granted to
the trading towns, now forming in Iceland,
bearing date the seventeenth of November,
1786, in its 15 th and the before-mentioned
ordinance of the thirteenth of June,
1787, in its second chapter, 2 and 1 1 ;
several traders having taken advantage thereof,
to extend their trade to a far greater
degree than is expressed or specified in the
ordinances giv( l concerning the free trade
when taken in their proper intent and
meaning. In order therefore to prevent
such abuses, which, in process of time,
might be productive of the most dangerous
consequences to the commercial tradfe in
general, his royal majesty has been most
graciously pleased to ordain, that the privileges,
which are granted to the trading
towns, by the ordinance of the seventeenth
of November, 1786, in its 4th, 6th, and
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 Juner
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 (a) That what is contained in
third‘of ^Apruj the placard 15 th §, the ordinance
1 7 9 3 , § 1. concerning the privileges of the
trading towns, in its 15th §, and the second
chapter, 2nd and 1 1th 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