STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 857 



tions or territories, as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and 

 whereof the Master and three fourths of the Mariners at least are 

 English; (3) under the penalty of the forfeiture and loss of all the 

 goods and commodities which shall be imported into or exported out 

 of any the aforesaid places in any other ship or vessel, as also of the 

 ship or vessel, with all its guns, furniture, tackle, ammunition and 

 apparel; one third part thereof to His Majesty, his heirs and suc- 

 cessors; one third part to the Governor of such land, plantation, 

 island or territory, where such default shall be committed, in case 

 the said ship or goods be there seized, or otherwise that third part 

 also to his Majesty, his heirs and successors ; and the other third part 

 to him or them who shall seize, inform or sue for the same in any 

 Court of Record, by Bill, Information, Plaint or other Action, 

 wherein no essoin, protection or wager of law shall be allowed; (4) 

 and all Admirals and other Commanders at sea of any the ships of 

 war or other ship having commission from His Majesty or from his 

 heirs or successors; are hereby authorized and strictly required to 

 seize and bring in as prize all such ships or vessels as shall have 

 offended contrary hereunto, and deliver them to the Court of Admi- 

 ralty, there to be proceeded against, and in case of condemnation, 

 one moiety of such forfeitures shall be to the use of such Admirals 

 or Commanders and their companies, to be divided and proportioned 

 amongst them according to the rules and orders of the sea in case 

 of ships taken prize; and the other moiety to the use of his Majesty, 

 his heirs and successors. 



IT. And be it enacted, That no alien or person not born within the 

 allegiance of our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors, 

 or naturalized, or made a free denizen, shall from and after the first 

 day of February, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand 

 six hundred and sixty-one, exercise the trade or occupation of a mer- 

 chant or factor in any of the said places; (2) upon pain of the for- 

 feiture and loss of all his goods and chattels, or which are in his pos- 

 session ; one third to his Majesty, his heirs and successors ; one third 

 to the Governor of the Plantation where such person shall so offend ; 

 and the other third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the 

 same in any of his Majesty's Courts in the Plantation where such 

 offence shall be committed: (3) And all Governors of the said lands, 

 islands, plantations or territories, and every of them, are hereby 

 strictly required and commanded, and all who hereafter shall be 

 made Governors of any such islands, plantations or territories, by 

 his 'Majesty, his heirs or successors, shall before their entrance into 

 their government take a solemn oath, to do their utmost, that every 

 the afore-mentioned Clauses, and all the Matters and things therein 

 contained, shall be punctually and bond -fide observed according to 

 the true intent and meaning thereof: (4) And upon complaint and 

 proof made before his Majesty, his heirs or successors, or such as shall 

 be by him or them thereunto authorised and appointed, that any the 

 said Governors have been willingly and wittingly negligent in doing 

 their duty accordingly, that the said Governor so offending shall be 

 removed from his Government. 



III. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no 

 goods or commodities whatsoever, of the growth, production or manu- 

 facture of Africa, Asia or America, or of any part thereof, or which 

 are described or laid down in the usual maps or cards of those places, 



