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184 C. i8. Anno duodecimo CaroliII. A. D. i66o-.3| • All! fuch Shlpp^rig, and fo navigated ; (^) and all Currans and r«r^;' Commodities whlcji from and aft# 4 S;^ &ft Day oF September one thoufaAd llx hundred fixty-one Ihall be imported ,nto any the Places afoW- Sd, in any other than EngliA-hunt Shipping, and navigated as aforelaid, (5) Ihall be deemed Aliens Goods' anl pay accordingly to hisMajefty, his Heirs and ^ucceffors, and to the Town or Port into which m«-',T;*vent S' And^foi-Trevention of all Frauds which may be ufed in colouring or buying of foreign Ships be it Frauds in co- f^^ , j Authority aforefaid, and it is hereby enafted, That trom and and atter the fir t Day oUpr,/, n"'Sa '"'•" Xch ll3l be in the Year of our Lord one thouland fix hundred fixty-one, no foreign-bu.lt Ship or Vefle Ships." '" Xtfocver Ihall be deemed or pafs as a Ship to En^la-^d, Ireland Wales or £o^j^ oiBnwick or any ot V^- ^ Sm belono'hie, or enjoy the benefit or Privilege of fuch a Ship or Veffel until fuch Time that he or ^t^XW. they dainnng fie faid ^Wp or Veffel to be theirs, (hall make appear to the Chief Officer or Oncers of the fca:l; •. CuTlmi h" the Port next to the Place of his or their Abode, that he or they are not Aliens, and Ihall have .' .:■■ ' . tak n an Oath before fuch Chief Officer or Officers, who are hereby authorized to adnimifter the fame, The oatii .0 be that fuch Ship or Veffel was bona fide and without Fraud by him or them bought tor a valuable Confidera^ .dmin.fl«d. 4^J, ^ exm-effmg the Sum, as alfe the Time, Place and Perlons from whom it was bought and who are ^ 1,^, i^.n Ownefs fif he have any) ; (2) all which Part-Owners (hall be liable to take the faid Oath berore ■ cSrf Officer S Officers of he ^ufrom-houfe of the Port next to the Place otthe.r Abode, and that : no Foreigner direaiy or indireftly hath any Part, Intereft or Share therem ; and that upon fuch Oath he or they fall received Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the faid Clnef Officer or Otncers of the Port whe eS Perfon or Perfons fo making Oath do refide, whereby fuch Ship or Veffel may for the future oafs and be deemed as a Ship belonging to the faid Port, and enjoy the Privilege of fuch a Ship or Veffel ; Sd the faid Officer or Officers (halleep a Regifter of all fuch Certifacates as heor they l^^all fo give and murn a Duplicate thereof to the Chief Officers of the Cuftoms at i:.«^.«, for fuch as (hall be granted m EriZu!lVales, and Berivlcl, and to the Chief Officers of the Cuitoms at X>«W»/ for fuch as (ha 1 be given hi iXV together with the Names of the Perfon or Perlons from whom fuch Ship was bought and the Sum of Mone^y whiclwas paid for her, as alfo the Names of all fuch Perlons who are Part-Owners. of Officersofthe "xf St^i^furthcr enaaed by the Authority aforefaid That if any OfScers of the Cultoms (hall cuftomsnot'o 'from and after the faid firll Day oi April allow the Privilege of being n Snip or Veffel ^o Engand, Ireland .UowaryPrivi- ™ ^, -^^ oi BerwicK, Ix any of them belonging, to any toreign-built Ship or Veffel, until fuch eCbuIifstip CeScate be before them produced, or fuch Proof and Oath taken before them ; (2) or it any Officer of "n?nc^TS'^,e Sft^ the Privilege of an Engllfi-hx^iM Ship, or other Ship to any the afore- or Proof &c. ... p]„ _ beloneine, to any Englijh or foreign-built Ship coming into any Port, and making f'^lt% ,;. Entrfcfany (S ,^until ExLinf ti'on whetherihe Mailer and three Fourths of the Manners be MA fed. zx.' "■ S or fiiall allow to any' foreign-built Ship bringing in the Commodities of the Grow h of the Country where it was built, the Privilege by this Aft to fuch Ship given until Examination and Proof whetner .t be a Ship of the Builtof that Country, and that the Mailer and three Fourths of the Manners are of tha Country ■ (4) or if any Perfon who is or (hall be made Governor of any Lands, lAan^s Plantations or Territories in Africa, Afui or America, bv his Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, (liall fuffer any foreign- built Ship or Veffel to load or unload anv Goods or Commodities within the Precmdls of their Cxovern- • ■ ^ nients, until fuch Certificate be produced before them, or fuch as fliall be by them appointed to view the fame and Examination whether the Maftef and three Fourths of the Manners at kail be it.;^///.; (5; that SefoiigSe fuch Officer of the Cuftoms and Governors (hall be put out ot their Places, Ofhces or Provlfo for ^XlTSided always, That this Aa, or any Thing therein contained, extend not, or be meant to Goods of the reftrain and prohibit the Importation of any the Commodities or the Sreights or Levant-SMS, loadcn m Streights or • £w/^_btult Shippino-, and whereof the Malter and three Fourths of the Manners at leaft are Enghjki f-n P«repealed f omfhe ufcl pSi' Places for lading of them heretofore within the faid Streighis or Levant-Seas, thougj by 6 Geo. I, the faid Commodities be not of the veiy'GroWfh of the faid Places. j , u . * iT c. .4. „-^„ Provided alfo That this Ac^, or any Thing therein contained, extend not, or be meant, to r«  moS' ^°"'" ftrain the importing of any Eaft-Indla Commodities loaden in £«^//>-built Shipping, and whereot theMd ^ ' ft ? and three Fourths of [he kanners at lead are Englijh fi;om the ufual Place or Places tor lading of thej in any Part of thofe Seas, to the Southward and Eaftward of Caho bona Efperanza, although the faidPor«  be not the very Places of their Growth. ,-in ^ c t- i j t 7 am S>rov;f. for , XIV. Provi^ded alio. That it (hall and may be lawful to and for any of the People o^ ^igland IrehM Goods imported tj^.i,, Tjiands of Guernfeyor: JerQy, or Town cf Berwick upon Tiveed, in Veffels or Ships to them b^ ^S. -^ ■ Wng and wtS ffMaiera^ of the Manners at leafl are £«^/;y^, to load and bniji A^e! iaadera n from any of the Ports of 6>^/« or Portugal, or Weftern Illands, commonly called Azores or AladeraM orcana'ry Canary IaIas , all Sorts of Goods or Commodities of the Growth, Produdion or Manufadture of the, jnands. Plantations or Dominions of either of them refpec^ively. ProvifoforB.1. XV Provided, That this Ad, or any Thing therein contained extend not to Bullion nor yet » ofKcp.rral. f^SeSfhree^FoS^^^^^ having Comm&ion from his Majefty,- Provifo concern. ^x^I^'Provide'd'Sways; That this Aa, or any Thing therein contained (hall not extend or be con^ .>g Goods of ftrued'to exte-td to-lay Aliens Duties upon any Corn ot the Growth of Wrt^^,. or to any bait made ui ^''' S;? nS to 'an7Filli caught, faved and cured by the People of Scotland and imported direftly fr^ ^ tS in Scotch built Ships,%nd whereof the Mafter and three I ourths or the Manners ^re of his Ma- GoadsofRufi-H.,;! v's Subje61s ; (z) nor to any Seal-Oil of Rulfta, imported trom thence into England, Inland, Jf^ales