Edinburgh, March 24th 1696. At a meeting of the subscribers to the Company of Scotland, trading to Africa and the Indies Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. 1696 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A80262 Wing C5591 ESTC R230216 99896223 99896223 153874 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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At a Meeting of the Subscribers to the Company of Scotland , Trading to Africa and the Indies . The following Resolutions concluded upon . 1. THat a Committee be chosen by the Subscribers , of Twenty Persons out of their own Number , to be joined to these Nominate in the Act of Parliament , whereof Seventeen to be a Quorum , for making and laying down the needful Rules and Constitutions for the direction and Government of this Company with the Times , Ways and Manner of the choise of the Directors . 2. That every 100 lib. Sterling Subscribed for shall have one Vote . 3. That Wednesday the first day of April be the day for taking in the Votes . The place for giving in the Votes to be in the High Council . House of Edinburgh , from 9 in the Morning to 12. And from 2 in the Afternoon to 6 at Night . 4. That this Mark * be put to these Nominate in the Act of Parliament , that none of them through mistake be put into the Lists . 5. That any who shall Subscribe before the first of April though they cannot be contained in the Printed Lists shall have a Vote and may be chosed of the Committee . 6. The Method of giving in the Lists is , That every Subscriber for himself , or by His , Her , or their Deputations , or Missive Letter , shall give in the List of the Persons they Name for the Committee , Rolling it up . 7. That Friday the 3d of April at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon be a Day for a General Meeting for declaring the Scrutiny and Election , and other Affairs of the Company , in the Laigh Council-House of Edinburgh .