TABLE OF CONTENTS.* 



(Part III Is In this volume; Parts 1 and 2 tn volume 4.) 



PART III STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS &(X 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



No. 



Date. 



Description. 



Page. 



1653. June3 



1660. January 26.. 

 1660 



1663... 



1670. March 10. 



1699. 

 1705. 



1709. 



1718. December 19. 

 1736... 



1763. 



1763. October 7. 

 1773... 



15 



1774. 



Instructions to John Treworgie, Commissioner for Newfoundland, 

 with Annexed Laws and Ordinances. 



Star Chamber Rules of Charles I and additions by Charles II 



Statute: 12 Charles II, Cap. 18. An Act for the Encouraging and In- 

 creasing of Shipping and Navigation. 



Statute: 15 Charles II, Cap. 16. An Act for regulating the Herring 

 and other Fisheries, and for Repeal of the Act concerning Madder. 



Order-in-Council: Charles II 



Statute: 7-8 Wm. Ill, Cap. 22. An Act for preventing Frauds and 

 regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade. 



Statute: 10-11 Wm. Ill, Cap. 25. An Act to encourage the trade to 

 Newfoundland. 



Statute: 4 Anne, Cap. 20. An Act for the better enabling the Master. 

 Wardens, and Assistants of Trinity House, to rebuild the Light 

 House on the Eddystone Rock. 



Statute: 8 Anne, Cap. 17. An Act for explaining and making more 

 effectual an Act for the better enabling the Master, Wardens, and 

 Assistants of Trinity House to rebuild the Light House on the Eddy- 

 stone Rock. 



Report: The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to His 

 Majesty relating to the Newfoundland Trade and Fishery. (Ex- 

 tract.) 



Statute: 9 Qeo. II, Cap. 35. An Act for indemnifying persons who 

 have been guilty of offences against the Laws made for securing the 

 revenues 01 Customs and Excise, and for enforcing those Laws for 

 the future. ( E xtract. ) 



Statute: 4 Qeo. Ill, Cap. 15. An Act for granting certain duties in 

 the British Colonies and Plantations in America; for continuing, 

 amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in the sixth year of 

 the reign ol His late Majesty, King George the Second, (intituled, An 

 Act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of His Majesty's 

 Sugar Colonies in America), for applying the produce of such duties; 

 and of the duties to arise by virtue of the said Act toward defraying 

 the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the said colonies 

 and plantations; for explaining an Act made in the twenty-fifth 

 year of the reign of King Charles the Second, (intituled, An Act lor 

 the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland trades, and for the 

 better securing the plantation trade); and for altering and disallowing 

 several drawbacks on exports from this Kingdom, and more effec- 

 tually preventing the clandestine conveyance of goods to and from 

 the said colonies and plantations, and improving and securing the 

 trade between the same and Great Britain. (Extract.) 



Proclamation. (Extract) 



Statute: 13 Qeo. Ill, Cap. 72. An Act to permit the free Importation 

 of cod-fish, ling, and hake, caught and cured in Chaleur Bay, or any 

 other part of the Qulf of Saint Lawrence, or on the coast of Labrador. 

 (Extract.) 



Statute: 14 Geo. III. Cap. 83. An Act for making more Effectual pro- 

 vision for the Government of the Province of Quebec In North 

 America. 



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*The page references are to the pages of toe original publication, which are shown inset in this publi- 

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