860 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



IX. Provided always, and be it hereby enacted kj the authority 

 aforesaid, That for the prevention of the great frauds daily used in 

 colouring and concealing of aliens goods, all wines of the growth of 

 France or Germany, which from and after the twentieth day of 

 October one thousand six hundred and sixty shall be imported into 

 any the ports or places aforesaid, in any other ship or vessel than 

 which doth truly and without fraud belong to England, Ireland, 

 Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and navigated with the 

 mariners thereof, as aforesaid, shall be deemed aliens goods, and pay 

 all strangers customs and duties to his Majesty, his heirs and succes- 

 sors, as also to the town or port into which they shall be imported; 

 (2) and that all sorts of masts, timber or boards, as also all foreign 

 salt, pitch, tar, rosin, hemp, flax, raisins, figs, prunes, olive-oils, all 

 sorts of corn or grain, sugar, pot-ashes, spirits commonly called 

 Brandy-wine, or Aqua-vitae, wines of the growth of Spain, the islands 



of the Canaries or Portugal, Madera or Western Islands; (3) 

 516 and all the goods of the growth, production or manufacture of 



Muscovy or Russia, which from and after the firt day of 

 April, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hun- 

 dred sixty-one, shall be imported into any the aforesaid places in any 

 other than such shipping, and so navigated; (4) and all currans and 

 Tiirky commodities which from and after the first day of September 

 one thousand six hundred sixty-one shall be imported into any the 

 places aforesaid, in any other than English-built shipping, and navi- 

 gated as aforesaid, (5) shall be deemed aliens goods, and pay accord- 

 ingly to his Majesty his heirs and successors, and to the town or port 

 into which they shall be imported. 



X. And for prevention of all frauds which may be used in colour- 

 ing or buying of foreign ships, be it enacted by the authority afore- 

 said, and it is hereby enacted. That from and after the first day of 

 April, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hun- 

 dred sixty-one, no foreign-built ship or vessel whatsoever shall be 

 deemed or pass as a ship to England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Ber- 

 wick, or any of them belonging, or enjoy the benefit or privilege of 

 such a ship or vessel, until such time that he or they claiming the 

 said ship or vessel to be theirs, shall make appear to the chief officer 

 or officers of the Customs in the port next to the place of his or their 

 abode, that he or they are not aliens, and shall have taken an oath 

 before such chief officer or officers, who are hereby authorised to 

 administer the same, that such ship or vessel was bona fde and with- 

 out fraud by him or them bought for a valuable consideration, ex- 

 pressing the sum, as also the time, place and persons from whom it 

 was bought, and who are his part-owners (if he have any) : (2) all 

 which part-owners shall be liable to take the said oath before the 

 chief officer or officers of the Custom-house of the port next to the 

 place of their abode, and that no foreigner directly or indirectly hath 

 any part, interest or share therein; and that upon such oath he or 

 they shall receive a certificate under the hand and seal of the said 

 chief officer or officers of the port where such person or persons so 

 making oath do reside, whereby such ship or vessel may for the fu- 

 ture pass and be deemed as a ship belonging to the said port, and 

 enjoy the privilege of such a ship or ve-sol : and the said officer or 

 officers shall keep a register of all such certificates as he or they shall 



