(Circular)

Whitehall Decr. 21st. 1781.

Sir,
I am directed by the Lords Commis-
sioners for Trade and Plantations, to transmit
to You SixCopies of Directions for
raising Flax," to be distributed in the County
of Middlesex , to which I have added
an Act passed in the last Sessions of Parliament
intituled, "An Act for rendering more Effectual
"so much of An Act Made in the tenth Year of
"His Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for
"Appropriating a Fund established by An Act
"Made in the seventh Year of the Reign of His
"present Majesty, for granting to His Majesty
"Additional Duties on certain Foreign Linens
"imported into this Kingdom, and for establishing
"a Fund for the Encouraging of the raising
"and dressing of Hemp and Flax , as relates to
"the distributing and paying the Proportion of
"the Fund thereby appropriated for the Encouragemant
"of

To the Clerk of the Peace for
the County of Middlesex}