APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



as he shall appoint all that remains of his there that was formerly 

 sequestred or seized, or that belongeth to him, only of the Ordnance 

 or any other things that do properly belong to the Commonwealth, 

 You are to take a particular notice & Inventory, and unto the person 

 or persons in whose charge you shall leave the same, You are to give 

 strict directions that they take care the same be preserved and forth- 

 coming to the use of the Commonwealth. 



You are to receive and examine all such complaints as shall be 

 made unto you as well by strangers as others of any wrong or injury 

 done unto them by any person or persons whatsoever, and to certify 

 their particular Cases unto the Council. 



You are upon the close of this summer's fishery to return back into 

 England and to repair to the Council or the Supreme Authority, of 

 this Commonwealth and to give as well a just and true account of all 

 such money and profits as have come to your hands due to the Com- 

 monwealth or Adventurers, as of all your proceedings and in what 

 condition you left all things there at your coming away. 



[Annexed Laws and Ordinances.'} 



Laws, rules and ordinances whereby the affairs and fishery of New- 

 foundland are to be governed until the Parliament shall take 

 further order. 



1. That no ballast, prest-stones nor anything else hurtful to the 

 harbours be thrown out to the prejudice of the said harbours but that 

 it be carried ashore and laid where it may not do annoyance. 



2. That no person whatsoever either fishermen or inhabitants do 

 destroy or cleiace or any way work any spoil or detriment to any 



stage, cookroom, flakes, spikes, nails or anything else that 

 512 belongeth to the stages whatsoever either at the end of the 



voyage, when he hath done, and is to depart the country, but 

 that he or they content themselves with such stage or stages only as 

 shall be needful for them, and that for the repairing of such stages 

 as he or they take, they shall fetch timber out of the woods and not to 

 do it with ruining or tearing down of other stages. 



3. That according to the ancient custom, every ship or fisher that 

 first entereth a harbour, in behalf of the ship, be Admiral of the 

 said harbour, wherein for the time being he shall only reserve so 

 much beach and flakes, or both as is needful for the number of boats 

 that he shall use, with an overplus only for one boat more than he 

 needeth as a privilege for his first coming; and that every ship 

 coming after content himself with what he shall have necessary use 

 for, without keeping or detaining any more to the prejudice of others 

 next coming. And that any that are possessed of several places in 

 several harbours with intent to keep them all before they can resolve 

 upon which to choose shall be bound to resolve and send advice to 

 such after comers in those places as expect his resolution and that 

 within 48 hours if the weatner so serve, that the said after comers 

 may likewise choose their places and so none receive prejudice by 

 others' delays. 



4. That no person cut out, deface, or any way alter or change the 

 marks of any ooats or train vats whereby to defraud the right own- 



