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❧ By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. A PROCLAMATION Declaring the continuance of Justices, Sheriffs, and other Officers.  
FOr the continuance of the Administration of justice, preservation of the public Peace, and the better carrying on the Affairs of the Commonwealth, we, being entrusted with the care thereof, have thought fit to Publish, and Declare, and do hereby Publish and Declare, That all such person and persons, as on the first day of October, One thousand six hundred fifty nine, were justices of the Peace in any Counties, Cities, Precincts, Liberties, or Places, in England, Wales, or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, by Force and virtue of any Commission or Commissions, under the Great Seal of England; and had by such Commissions, Power and Authority to inquire of, Hear, and Determine Felonies, Trespasses, and other Offences, and to do other things in the same Commissions more at large expressed: And all such person and persons, who on the said First day of October, by Force of any Commissions or Letters Patents, under the said Great Seal, were Sheriffs of the several Counties, Precincts, and Places in England, Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, be, and are hereby continued justices of the Peace, justices of Oyer and Terminer, and Sheriffs respectively, of, and in their, and every of their several respective Counties, Cities, Precincts, Limits, jurisdictions, and Places respectively, from, and after the said First day of October, and shall so continue, and be, until there shall be new Commissions and Letters Patents, or Commissions under the Great Seal of England, for the constituting of justices of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and of such Sheriffs, of, and in the said several Counties, Places, and Precincts respectively made, and duly published. And they, and every of them shall have, and may lawfully use, Exercise, and Enjoy all and every the jurisdictions, Powers, and Authorities whatsoever, which by the Laws and Statutes, justices of Peace of Oyer and Terminer, or Sheriffs respectively, may, or might lawfully use, Exercise, or Enjoy, and they, and every of them respectively, are hereby required and enjoined to do the same. And all and every the said Sheriffs have hereby Power and Authority, and are enjoined to execute and make return, according to usual course of all Writs issued or to be issued. And all and every Act, return of any Writs, or other thing whatsoever, Had, Made, Done, used, or Exercised, or to be Had, Made, Done, or Exercised by the said justices and Sheriffs respectively, or by any other Officers or Ministers, or other person or persons whatsoever, by command or authority, by, or derived from, by, or under them respectively, is hereby Declared to be good and effectual. And all Commissioners for the monthly Assessments, Collectors, Receivers, and Receivers General of the said Assessments, Auditors, and Receivers, and other Officers of the public Revenue in the several Counties and Precincts, Commissioners of the customs and their Officers in the respective Ports, and Commissioners of Excise, and every of them, and the subordinate Officers of them, and every of them, are hereby authorized and required to proceed in the execution of their several and respective Duties, and to put in ure all and every the Powers and Authorities committed unto them, and every of them in their respective places; and to do all and every Act and Thing incident thereunto, as fully as they did, or might have done, on, or before the said First day of October. And all and every person and persons whatsoever, are hereby required to conform themselves in payment of their respective Duties of custom and Excise, and of the said monthly Assessments, and all other Revenues belonging to this Commonwealth accordingly, as they tender the preservation of the public Peace: and to the end that free Quarter, and other mischiefs and inconveniences that may happen by their neglect or failer therein, may be avoided.  
Given at Whitehall the 31. day of October, 1659.   

ORdered, That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Published.  
William Robinson, Clerk of the Committee of Safety.   

London, Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to the Committee of Safety.