A DECLARATION AND ORDER OF HIS HIGHNESS' COUNCIL IN SCOTLAND, Requiring all Persons to give due Obedience to the JUSTICES of Peace In Execution of the Powers and Authorities given them by the INSTRUCTIONS hereunto annexed.  
Wednesday the eight day of December,, 1655.  
At His Highness' Council in Edinburgh, ORdered, That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published.  
EMANUEL DOWNING, Cl. of the Council.  
PRINTED at Edinburgh, and Reprinted at Aberdene, by JAMES BROWN, 1656.   

A DECLARATION and Order of his Highness' Council in SCOTLAND, Requiring all Persons to give due obedience to the Justices of Peace, in Execution of the Powers and Authorities given them by the Instructions hereunto annexed.  
THE said Council having taken into their serious consideration how much it may conduce to the peace and good of this Nation, That justices of Peace should be settled and reestablished in every County and Shire thereof; And finding that by several Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, the said Office hath been found needful, and was appointed and established for preserving of the public Peace, and suppressing and punishing of sundry Misdemeanours, have found it necessary for the good Government of this Nation, to appoint certain Persons of Ability and Fidelity in every County and Shire in Scotland to be justices of his Highness the Lord Protectors Peace; Which being accordingly done: The Council have thought it fit hereby to declare, That they have given Commissions to such persons to be Commissioners and justices of his Highness' Peace in the said Counties respectively, and authorised them to put in execution all the Powers and Authorities committed to them by certain Instructions which were agreed on by the Council, Printed by their Order, and are hereunto annexed. And as the Council do expect that the Persons entrusted, as aforesaid, be careful in the good discharge of the Trust reposed in them for the Peace and happiness of the Nation; so the Council will upon all occasions give them all due Countenance and Encouragement therein: And the Council do hereby strictly require all People of this Nation, whom it may concern, to take notice and be observant of the said Instructions (in what to them respectively appertaineth) as the Contemners or Contraveners thereof will answer the contrary at their perils. And to the end that that no person may pretend ignorance of them, The Council do hereby Order, That this Declaration, with the said printed Copies of the said Instructions, be forthwith Published at the Marcate Cross of Edinburgh, and in the head Burgh or Town of each Shire in Scotland, by the respective Sheriffs of the said Shires.  
Given at Edinburgh the Twelfth day of December, 1655. Wednesday, the 12 day of December, 1655. At His Highness' Council in Edinburgh. ORdered, That the above Declaration be forthwith Printed and published. EMANUEL DOWNING, Cl. of the Council.