862 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Madera or Canary Islands, all sorts of goods or commodities of the 

 growth, production or manufacture of the plantations or dominions 

 of either of them respectively. 



XV. Provided, That this act, or anything therein contained, ex- 

 tend not to bullion, nor yet to any gooas taken, or that shall be bona 

 fide taken, by way of reprisal by any ship or ships belonging to 

 England. Ireland or Wales, Islands or Guernsey or Jersey, or town 

 of Berwick upon Tweed, and whereof the master and three fourths 

 of the mariners at least are English, having commission from his 

 Majesty, his heirs and successors. 



XVI. Provided always, that this act, or anything therein con- 

 tained, shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to lay aliens duties 

 upon any corn of the growth of Scotland, or to any salt made in 

 Scotland, nor to any fish caught, saved and cured by the people of 

 Scotland, and imported directly from Scotland in Scotch-built ships, 

 and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners are of 

 his Majesty's subjects; (2) nor to any seal-oil of Russia, imported 

 from thence into England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick upon 

 Tweed, in shipping bona fide to some of the said places belonging, 

 and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least 



are English. 

 517 XVII. Provided also, and it is hereby enacted, that every 



ship or vessel belonging to any of the subjects of the French 

 king, which from and after the twentieth day of October in the year 

 of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty shall come into any 

 port, creek, harbour or road of England, Ireland, Wales, or town of 

 Berwick upon Tweed, and shall there lade or unlade any goods or 

 commodities, or take in or set on shore any passengers, shall pay 

 lo the collector of his Majesty's Customs in such port, creek, harbour 

 or road, for every ton of which the said ship or vessel is of burthen, 

 to be computed by such officer of the Customs as shall be thereunto 

 appointed, the sum of five shillings current money of England: 



(2) And that no such ship or vessel be suffered to depart out of 

 such port, creek, harbour or road, until the said duty be fully paid : 



(3) And that this duty shall continue to be collected, levied and paid, 

 for such time as a certain duty of fifty sols per ton, lately imposed 

 by the French king, or any part thereof, shall continue to be col- 

 lected upon the shipping of England lading in France, and three 

 months after, and no longer. 



XVIII. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 from and after the first day of April, which shall be in the year of 

 our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty-one, no sugars, tobacco, 

 cotton-wool, indigoes, ginger, fustick, or other dying wood, of the 

 growth, production or manufacture of any English plantations in 

 America, Asia or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed or 

 transported from any of the said English plantations to any land, 

 island, territory, dominion, port or place whatsoever, other than 

 to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty, his 

 heirs and successors, or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland, or 

 principality of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, there to be 

 laid on shore, (2) under the penalty of the forfeiture of the said 

 goods, or the full value thereof, as also of the ship, with all her 

 guns, tackle, apparel, ammunition and furniture; the one moiety 

 to the King's Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety 



