Onus probandi.

General Issue.

Treble Costs.

Proviso for East

and effect for the Purposes aforesaid, as if the said Act, and the several Clauses therein contained, were particularly and at large repeated and set down in the Body of this Act.

IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Question, Dispute, or Doubts shall arise, whether any of the Goods or Commodities to be imported by virtue of this Act be of the Growth, Produce or Manufacture of Persia, or not, or were imported contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, and the same shall for that Reason be seized as forfeited, the Proof thereof shall be incumbent on the Importer or Claimer, and not upon the Officer or Informer; and the Commissioners of the Customs, if they see sufficient Cause, shall and may direct the Officer of the Customs who made the Seizure, to proceed in the Prosecution thereof, or not; and Judgment thereupon shall be given for Recovery of the Forfeiture.

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for any Thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act, and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by Authority of this Act; and if it shall appear so to have been done, then the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his Action, after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same, as Defendants have in other Cases by Law.

VI. Provided also, That any thing in this Act contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to hinder India Company. or deprive the Corporation of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, from

Public Act.

having and enjoying all and every such Powers, Privileges, Franchises, Benefits, Matters, or Things as do or shall belong to them, or which they could or might enjoy in any Manner of wise, if this Act had not been made; any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this shall be adjudged and deemed to be a public Act, and shall be judicially taken Notice of as such, by all Judges, Justices, and other Persons, without specially pleading the same.

Bounty to
Widows of Sea-
men killed in
Service.

Proviso.

An Act for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen, and for the better and speedier manning

His Majesty's Fleet.

II. AND it is hereby further enacted, That if any Seamen, under the Degree of a Warrant or a Commission Officer, entering voluntarily into the Service of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall be killed or drowned in the said Service, and shall leave a Widow, to whom he was lawfully married; every such Widow sending or producing to the Commissioners of the Navy a Certificate under the Hands of the Minister, Churchwardens, and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish wherein she resides, that she is the real Widow of the said Seaman so killed or drowned, shall receive such Sum of Money, by way of Bounty, as shall amount to and be equivalent with One Year's Pay or Wages of such Seaman, computing the same according to the Rate of the monthly Wages or Pay he served for, or was entitled to, at the Time of his Death: And the Commissioners of the Navy for the Time being are hereby authorized and required, upon producing such Certificate at the Navy Office, to order and direct the Payment of such Bounty Money accordingly.

V. Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to extend to any Contracts or Agreements for the Hire of any Seaman, or Persons employed as such, in Voyages from any Parts beyond the Seas, to any other Parts beyond the Seas, or to Great Britain.

12 Ann. stat. 2. 6.15.

Anno 14° Geo. II. A. D. 1741.

CHAP. XXXIX.

An Act for surveying the Chief Ports and Head Lands on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Islands and Plantations thereto belonging, in order to the more exact Determination of the Longitude and Latitude thereof.

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WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for providing a Public Reward for such Person or Persons as shall discover the Longitude at Sea; the Commissioners therein named, or any Five or more of them, have full Power to hear * and receive any Proposal or Proposals that shall be made to them for discovering the said Longitude; and

* în case the said Commissioners, or any Five or more of them, shall be so far satisfied of the Probability of any such Discovery, as to think proper to make Experiment thereof, they shall certify the same under their Hands " and Seals to the Commissioners of the Navy for the Time being, together with the Persons Names who are * Authors of such Proposals; and upon producing such Certificate, the said Commissioners are thereby autho* rized and required to make out a Bill or Bills for any Sum of Money not exceeding Two thousand Pounds, as the said Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude, or any Five or more of them, shall think necessary for making the Experiments, payable by the Treasurer of the Navy to such Person or Persons as ' shall be appointed by the Commissioners for Discovery of the Longitude, to make those Experiments: And * for a due and sufficient Encouragement to any such Person or Persons as shall discover a proper Method for finding the said Longitude, it is thereby further enacted, that the Authors or Discoverers of any such Method ' shall be entitled to the respective Sums therein mentioned, if it determines the said Longitude according to "the respective Degrees of Exactness in the said Act described; and that a Moiety of such Reward or Sum shall be due and paid when the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, agree that such Method 'extends to the Security of Ships within Eighty Geographical Miles of the Shores, which are Places of the greatest Danger: And whereas it is absolutely necessary for making such Discovery useful at Sea, and for the Security of Ships approaching near the Shores, that the Chief Ports and Head Lands on the Coasts of Great • Britain and Ireland, and the Islands and Plantations thereto belonging, should be first surveyed, and the Longitude and Latitude of such Places determined more exactly than has hitherto been done: And whereas 'some Doubts have arisen whether by the Words of the said Act of Parliament the said Sum of Two thousand Pounds appointed for making such Experiments, or any Part thereof, can be applied for such Survey, or 'fixing the Longitude or Latitude of such Places:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Commissioners for discovering Commissioners the Longitude, or any Five or more of them, shall have full Power to apply such Part of the said Sum of Two empowered to thousand Pounds mentioned in the said Act, as has not already been laid out in Experiments, as they shall think apply such Part necessary for the making such Survey, and determining the Longitude and Latitude of the Chief Ports and Head Lands on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Islands and Plantations thereto belonging; and that such Sum or Sums, Part of the said Two thousand Pounds, which the said Commissioners, or any Five necessary. or more of them shall think necessary, shall be paid immediately by the Treasurer of the Navy, to such Person or Persons as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude, to make such Survey, and determine such Longitude and Latitude out of the Money that shall be in the Hands of such Treasurer unapplied, for the Use of the Navy. (')

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of 2,000l. herein
mentioned as

they shall think

Anno 15° Geo. II. A. D. 1742.

CHAP. XXII.

An Act to exclude certain Officers from being Members of the House of Commons.

FOR further limiting or reducing the Number of Officers capable of sitting in the House of Commons, be it
enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That Officers not ad-
from and after the Dissolution or other Determination of this present Parliament, no Person who shall be Com-
missioner of the Revenue in Ireland, or Commissioners of the Navy or Victualling Offices, nor any Deputies or

Clerks in any of the said Offices, or in any of the several Offices following; that is to say, the Office of Lord
High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of the Treasury, or of the Auditor of the Receipt of His Majesty's Ex-
chequer, or of the Tellers of the Exchequer, or of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or of the Lord High
Admiral, or the Commissioners of the Admiralty, or of the Paymasters of the Army or of the Navy, or of His
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or of the Commissioners of the Salt, or of the Commissioners of the
Stamps, or of the Commissioners of Appeals, or of the Commissioners of Wine Licences, or of the Commis-
sioners of Hackney Coaches, or of the Commissioners of Hawkers and Pedlars, nor any Persons having any
Office, Civil or Military, within the Island of Minorca or in Gibraltar, other than Officers having Commissions
in any Regiment there only, shall be capable of being elected, or of sitting or voting as a Member of the House
of Commons, in any Parliament which shall be hereafter summoned and holden.

mitted to sit in

Parliament.

II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person hereby disabled or declared to be Returns void.
incapable to sit or vote in any Parliament hereafter to be holden, shall nevertheless be returned as a Member to
serve for any County, Stewartry, City, Borough, Town, Cinque Port, or Place in Parliament, such Election
and Return are hereby enacted and declared to be void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and if any Sitting or voting
Person disabled, and declared incapable by this Act to be elected, shall, after the Dissolution or other Determi- after disabled by

as

Commis

See further, 26 G. 2. c. 25. 2G.3.c.18. Commissioners appointed by this Act may receive Proposals for discovering the Longitude at Sea, 5 G. 3. c. 11. 10 G. 3. c. 34.; but 14 G. 3. C. 39., except so far relates to the Appointment and Authority of sioners, repealed, 14 G. 3. c. 66. § 1. See 43 G.3. c. 118. 46 G.3.0.77. 55 G.3.0.75., and further on this Point, and as to finding a Northern Passage, 58 G. 3. c. 20.; and see I & 2 G. 4. c. 2.

this Act,

:

Penalty.

Incapacity.

Proviso for the
Secretaries of

nation of this present Parliament, presume to sit or vote as a Member of the House of Commons in any Parlia ment to be hereafter summoned, such Person so sitting or voting shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds for every Day in which he shall sit or vote in the said House of Commons, to such Person or Persons who shall sue for the same in any of His Majesty's Courts at Westminster; and the Money so forfeited shall be recovered by the Persons so suing, with full Costs of Suit, in any of the said Courts, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in which no Essoign, Privilege, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed, and only One Imparlance, and shall from thenceforth be incapable of taking, holding, or enjoying any Office of Honour or Profit under His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors.

III. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend or relate to, or exclude the Treasurer or Comptroller of the Navy, the Admiralty, the Secretaries of the Treasury, the Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or Secretaries of the Admi

&c.

ralty, the Under Secretary to any of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or the Deputy Paymaster of the Army, or to exclude any Person having or holding any Office or Employment for Life, or for so long as he shall behave himself well in his Office; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. (1)

7 & 8 W. 3. C.22. §17.

5 & 6 Ann. c. 8.

art. 5. 18.

Masters of Vessels registered,

to account upon

Oath, &c.

Anno 15° Geo. II. A. D. 1742.

CHAP. XΧΧΙ.

An Act for further regulating the Plantation Trade; and for Relief of Merchants importing Prize Goods from America, and for preventing collusive Captures there; and for obliging the Claimers of Vessels seized for Exportation of Wool, or any unlawful Importation, to give Security for Costs; and for allowing East India Goods to be taken out of Warehouses, in order to be cleaned and refreshed.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Third, for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade, and by another Act of the Fifth Year of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, for the Union of the Two • Kingdoms of England and Scotland, no Ship or Vessel whatsoever shall be deemed or pass as a Ship of the • Built and Property of Great Britain, Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, or any of His Majesty's Plantations in America,

or a Prize Ship made free, so as to be qualified to trade to, from, or in any of the said Plantations, until the
• Person or Persons claiming Property in such Ship or Vessel shall make Oath and register the same in the
• Manner therein directed; and in case any Ship's Name so registered shall be altered, or any Transfer of Pro-
perty to another Port, such Ship is thereby directed to be registered de novo, upon delivering up the former
• Certificate of the Register to the proper Officers to be cancelled; and in case of any Alteration of Property
⚫ in the same Port by the Sale of One or more Shares in any Ship, after registering thereof, such Sale is to be
⚫ acknowledged by Indorsement on the Certificate of the Register before Two Witnesses; notwithstanding
• which, the Certificates of the Register of several Ships have been frequently sold to Foreigners, and such
• Certificates delivered to the Purchasers, and the Ships of Foreigners, under Colour thereof, have been admitted
⚫ to trade from and to the said Plantations (though of Foreign Property) contrary to Law, to the Prejudice of
• the Navigation of Great Britain, and the Plantations;' For the Prevention thereof for the future, may it please
Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Twenty fifth Day of December One
thousand seven hundred and forty two, no Ship or Vessel required by the said recited Acts to be registered, and
carrying any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes to or from any of His Majesty's said Plantations in America, or to
or from one Plantation to another, shall be permitted to trade or be deemed qualified for that Purpose, within
the Intent of the said recited Acts, until the Master or Person having Charge of the said Ship or Vessel, shall
upon Oath (or in case of a Quaker, upon his solemn Affirmation), before the Governor or Collector of the
Customs of every of His Majesty's said Plantations where the same shall arrive, give a just and true Account of
the Name and Burthen thereof, and of the Place from whence she same, and of the other Particulars according
to the Form following; that is to say,

A. B. maketh Oath (or if a Quaker, solemnly affirms) that the Ship or Vessel called the • whereof he this Deponent (or Affirmant) is Master, or hath the Charge or Command during this present Voyage, being of the Burthen of and that she is, as he • verily believes, the same Ship or Vessel described, meant and intended in and by the Certificate now produced ⚫ by him; and that the same does now, as he believes, belong wholly to His Majesty's British Subjects, • and that no Foreigner has directly or indirectly any Share, Property, or Interest therein, to his Knowledge

And in case any Ship or Vessel shall load or unload any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes, in any of His Majesty's Loading, &c.
Plantations in America, before such Proof shall be made; that every such Ship and Vessel shall be forfeited and before such
lost, and shall and may be prosecuted, recovered, and divided in like Manner as if she had not been registered Proof,
in pursuance of the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth of King William the Third.
Penalty.

II. And whereas by the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of His said late Majesty King William 7 & 8W.3.
⚫ the Third, it is enacted, that no Ship's Name registered shall afterwards be changed without registering the c.22. $21.
• same de novo, which is by the said Act required to be done upon any Transfer of Property to another Port,
' and delivering up the Certificate of the first Registry to be cancelled: And whereas Masters of Ships have
frequently lost or mislaid Certificates, to the great Prejudice of the Owners, who have thereby lost their
• Voyages, and been deprived of the Benefit of registering their Ships de novo, and such Losses have happened
'at great Distances from the Port proper for the registering the Ship de novo: Be it further enacted by the
Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty fifth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and Oath of Certifi-
forty two, if any Ship or Vessel duly qualified to trade to, from, and in His Majesty's said Plantations, shall cate lost or
happen to be in any of the said Plantations, and the Certificate of the Register thereof shall be lost or mislaid, mislaid.
the Master or other Person having Charge of the said Ship or Vessel may make Oath, or being a Quaker a
solemn Affirmation, before the Governor or Collector of the Customs, in the Port where the Ship or Vessel shall
happen to be, in the following Form :

A. B. being Master (or having the Charge) of the Ship or Vessel called the does swear (or Oath. 'solemnly affirm) that the said Ship or Vessel has been, as he verily believes, registered according to Law, ' to qualify her to trade to, from, and in His Majesty's Plantations in America, and that he had a Certificate ' thereof granted at the Port of but that the same is lost or mislaid, and that he cannot find the same, ' and does not know where the same is or what is become thereof, and that the same hath not been nor shall be, with his Privity or Knowledge, sold or disposed of to any Person or Persons whatsoever; and that he 'this Deponent (or Affirmant) and Three Fourths of the Mariners navigating the said Ship or Vessel are His Majesty's British Subjects, and the said Ship or Vessel does now, as he believes, belong wholly to His Majesty's British Subjects, and that no Foreigner has to his Knowledge or Belief any Share, Property, or 'Interest therein.' (')

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registered, and

that no illegal Use made of Register, if

And the said Master or other Person navigating the said Ship or Vessel shall also give good and sufficient Security that
Security in the Penalty of Five hundred Pounds, if the Ship or Vessel be of the Burthen of One hundred Tons Ship was duly
or under, and so in proportion for every Ship or Vessel of a greater Burthen, to the Collector of the Port where
the said Ship shall be, in His Majesty's Name, and to His Majesty's Use, with Condition that the said Ship or
Vessel was duly registered according to Law, for qualifying the same to trade to, from, and in His Majesty's Plan-
tations in America, and that the Certificate of the said Register, if found, shall be delivered up to the Commis- found, &c.
sioners of the Customs to be cancelled, and no illegal Use has been or shall be made thereof, and that the same
has not been or shall be fraudulently disposed of, and that the said Ship or Vessel does wholly belong to His
Majesty's British Subjects, and that no Foreigner has any Share, Property, or Interest therein; and upon Certificate
making such Oath or Affirmation, and giving such Bond as aforesaid, the Governor and Collector of His thereof without
Majesty's Customs shall freely and without Fee or Reward give the said Master or other Person having the Fee.
Charge of the said Ship or Vessel, a Certificate under their Hands and Seals, of his having given such Bond

lost.

and made such Oath or Affirmation, and thereupon the said Ship or Vessel shall have Liberty to trade for that Liberty to trade
Voyage only, in the same Manner as if the original Certificate had been produced, and the first herein-before for One Voyage
mentioned Oath or Affirmation had been taken, and no otherwise; and the said Certificate so to be given shall after Register
have the same Force and Effect during the said Voyage only, as the original Certificate of the Register if pro-
duced, and taking the said first mentioned Oath or Affirmation would have had, and no other; and the Officers
taking the said Oath and Bond, shall transmit an Account thereof to the Commissioners of His Majesty's

Customs.

Certificate.

III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if the Certificate of the Register of any Ship Directions for or Vessel shall be lost, and the Master or Person having Charge of the said Ship or Vessel, and One or more of registering a Ship the Owners shall make Proof to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, in case the de novo, after Owner or Owners or any of them shall reside in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey or Jersey, or of the Governor Loss of first or Collector of the Customs, residing in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, in case she was registered in such Plantation, and none of the Owners shall reside in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey or Jersey, upon Oath, or in case of a Quaker, upon solemn Affirmation of the Loss of such Certificate, and likewise of the Name, Burthen, Built, Property, and other Particulars required by the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth of 7 & 8 W. 3. King William the Third, in the same Manner, and before the same Persons, as by that Act are required upon c. 22. original Registers; and shall likewise give good and sufficient Security, in the Penalty of Five hundred Pounds, if the Ship or Vessel be of the Burthen of One hundred Tons, and so in proportion for every Ship or Vessel of a greater Burthen, to the Collector of the Port to which such Ship or Vessel shall belong; and that the original Certificate hath not been, nor shall be fraudulently disposed of, or used contrary to Law; and that the same when found, shall be delivered up to the Commissioners of the Customs to be cancelled; in such case it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and the Governor and Collector of the Customs residing at the Plantations respectively; and the said Commissioners, Governor, and Collector, are

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Duplicate.

7 & 8 W.3.

c. 22. § 13.

Condition of

Plantation Bonds.

lading Rice at Carolina or Georgia by Licence, under

hereby required to permit the said Ship or Vessel to be registered de novo; and the proper Officers shall deliver a Certificate thereof to the Owner or Owners registering the same, in the Manner directed by the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth of King William the Third, and therein mention the Name by which the Ship or Vessel was formerly registered, and that such Certificate of a new Register is granted in pursuance of this Act, instead of a former Certificate, which appears by such Proof as this Act requires to be lost; and that such new Register and Certificate shall have the same force and effect as if the same were an original Register and Certificate, and no other; and a Duplicate thereof shall be transmitted by the Officers who shall grant the same to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs.

IV. And whereas by the before recited Act of Parliament made in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade, it is ' enacted among other things, that in all Bonds (commonly called Plantation Bonds') that are given in the • Plantations, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles ⚫ the Second, for encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation, and another Act made in the Twenty • second Year of His said Majesty's Reign, to prevent planting Tobacco in England, and regulating the Plan'tation Trade, the Governors of the Plantations, before they permit any Ship that by Law is to trade there, to ⚫ load on board any of the Commodities enumerated in the said Act last mentioned, are to take Bond in the • Manner and to the Value expressed and directed by the said Act, that such Ships or Vessels shall carry all ' the aforesaid enumerated Goods that shall be laden on board the said Ship, to some other of His Majesty's • British Plantations, or to Great Britain; and that the Condition of the said Bonds shall be within Eighteen 'Months after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce Certificates of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned, in one of His Majesty's said British Plantations, or in Great Britain, ⚫ otherwise such Bonds to be in full force; but there being no Provision made in any of the said Acts, or any ' other Law, for returning and producing Certificates within any limited Time of the landing and discharging ' such Goods for such Ships as give Bond in Great Britain, in pursuance of the Directions of the said Acts 'made in the Twelfth and Twenty second Years of King Charles the Second;' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and forty two, that in all Bonds, commonly called 'Plantation Bonds,' which shall be hereafter taken or entered into in Great Britain, in pursuance of the said Act, or any other Law since made, whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great Britain, such Bonds shall be with Condition, that within Eighteen Months from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certificate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall be delivered, that they have been there landed and discharged, otherwise such Bonds shall be forfeited, and the Penalty thereof shall and may be sued for in

Proviso for Ships His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively; provided that this Act shall not extend or be construed to extend to Bonds given for Ships which lade Rice at Carolina or Georgia, by virtue of a Licence granted by the Commissioners of the Customs to be carried to some Part of Europe, to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, pursuant to an Act passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty's Reign(1), or for Ships lading Sugars in any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America, by virtue of a Licence granted by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, to be carried directly to any Foreign Part of Europe except Ireland, pursuant to an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty.

3 G. 2. c. 28.

and Sugars,

under

12 G. 2. c. 30.

13 G. 2. c. 4.

§ 12.

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V. And whereas by an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, for the more effectual securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's British Subjects to America, and for the Encouragement ⚫ of Seamen to enter into His Majesty's Service, it is declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that nothing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any Ships, Goods, Wares, or

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• Merchandizes which shall be taken as Prize, and brought or imported into this Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, from the Payment of any Customs or Duties, or from being subject to such • Restrictions and Regulations, to which the same now are or shall hereafter be liable, by virtue of the Laws ' and Statutes of this Realm: And whereas during the present War with Spain, several Goods and Commodities ' of the Growth and Production of Foreign Plantations, not belonging to His Majesty, and other Goods and • Commodities, being the Product of other Countries, have been already, and may be taken in America, which may by the Laws now in force be subject to Forfeiture, or liable to the Payment of High Duties to His Majesty, as not coming directly from the Places of their Growth, or from the Ports or Places where the said • Goods can only or usually have been first shipped for Transportation, which will not only be a Discouragement to the Captors and Importers thereof, but put them under a Necessity to send such Goods for the future • directly to Foreign Markets, which will be a Loss to His Majesty's Revenue, and tend to the Prejudice of the • Trade of this Kingdom: For Remedy whereof be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Goods and Commodities of the Growth or Product of Foreign Plantations, not belonging to His Majesty, or any of His Subjects which have been already taken, or shall be taken in America during this present War, and have been or shall be condemned as Prize as aforesaid, and shall be imported into this Kingdom in any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or in British Shipping duly navigated, and for which the Duties due to His Majesty have not been paid or secured to be paid, upon producing such Affidavits and Certificates thereof as are herein-after mentioned, shall pay such Customs and Duties only as the same would have paid, if the said Goods had been of the Growth and Product of the Plantations, Islands, or Colonies, subject to the Crown of Great Britain; and that all other Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes whatsoever, which have been or shall be taken and condemned as Prize in America as aforesaid, and which shall be imported into this Kingdom from any of the said Plantations, Islands,

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