STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 863 



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

 Court of Record, by Bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoin, 

 protection or wager of law shall be allowed. 



XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 for every ship or vessel, which from and after the five and twentieth 

 day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred 

 and sixty shall set sail out or from England, Ireland, Wales, or town 

 of Benvick upon Tweed, for any English plantation in America, 

 Asia or Africa, sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to 

 the chief officers of the Custom-house of such port or place from 

 whence the said ship shall set sail, to the value of one thousand 

 pounds, if the ship be of less burthen than one hundred tuns; and 

 of the sum of two thousand pounds, if the ship shall be of greater 

 burthen: That in case the said ship or vessel shall load any of the 

 said commodities at any of the said English plantations, that the 

 same commodities shall be by the said ship brought to some port 

 of England, Ireland, Wales, or to the Port or town of Berwick upon 

 Tweed, and shall there unload and put on shore the same, the 

 danger of the seas only excepted: (2) And for all ships coming from 

 any other port or place to any of the aforesaid plantations, who 

 by this act are permitted to trade there, that the Governor of such 

 English plantations shall before the said ship or vessel be permitted 

 to load on board any of the said commodities, take bond in manner 

 and to the value aforesaid, for each respective ship or vessel, that 

 such ship or vessel shall carry all the aforesaid goods that shall be 

 laden on board in the said ship to some other of his Majesty's English 

 plantations, or to England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick upon 

 Tweed: (3) And that every ship or vessel which shall load or take 

 on board any of the aforesaid goods, until such bond given to the 

 said Governor, or certificate produced from the officers of any Custom- 

 house of England, Ireland, Wales, or of the town of Berwick, that 

 such bonds have been there duly given, shall be forfeited with all 

 her guns, tackle, apparel and furniture, to be imployed and recovered 

 in manner, as aforesaid; and the said Governors and every of them 

 shall twice in every year after the first day of January one thou- 

 said six hundred and sixty, return true copies of all such bonds 

 by him so taken, to the chief officers of the Custom in London. 



[Confirmed by 13 Car. II, Stat. 1, c. 14.] 



No. 4. 1663: British Statute, 15 Charles II, Cap. 16. 



An Act for regulating the Herring and other Fisheries, and for Repeal of the 



Act concerning Madder. 



For the preventing of abuses in the packing and ordering of her- 

 rings, and bringing that commodity into credit in foreign parts 

 beyond the seas; (2) Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the 

 King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent 

 of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this 

 present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 

 That from and after the first day of August one thousand six hundred 

 sixty-four, no white or red herrings of English-catching shall be put 



