STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 865 



Court of Record in England or Wales, by Bill, Plaint or other Action; 

 wherein no Ession, Protection or Wager in Law, shall be allowed. 



II. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid y 

 That no planter or other person or persons whatsoever shall burn, 

 destroy or steal any boat, cask, salt, nets, or other utensils for fishing 

 or making oil, or other, goods or merchandize, left in any harbor in 

 Neiofoundland or Greenland, by English," or burn, pull down or de- 

 stroy any house built by English in Newfoundland or Greenland, to 

 live in during the fishing season, or stage built by them in either 

 of the said places for the saving or ordering of fish, or making of oil ; 

 (2) upon pain of the loss of double the value of what shall be by them 

 stolen, burnt or destroyed, to be recovered in any of His Majesty's 

 Courts in Newfoundland or Greenland respectively, or in any Court 

 of Record in England, by bill, plaint, or other action, wherein no 

 essoin, protection or wager of law shall be allowed. 



" III. And whereas upon the humble petition and complaint of the 

 merchants and salters of the City of London, it doth apear, That 

 some sorts of madder very useful for dyeing cannot be imported so 

 pure and clean, as by one Act passed the last Session of this present 

 Parliament (intituled, An Act for the importation of madder pure 

 and unmixed} is directed and appointed; " (2) Be it enacted, and it 

 is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Act, and 

 every clause and thing therein contained, be from henceforth 

 utterly void and repealed to all intents, purposes and constructions 

 whatsoever. 



No. 5. 1670, March 10: Order of His Majesty King Charles II in 

 Council approving of the Report of the Council of Plantations. 



At the Court at Whitehall, the 10th of March, 16H. 



Present : THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, His Royal High- 

 ness the Duke of York, His Highness Prince Rupert, Lord Keeper, 

 Duke of Ormond, Lord Great Chamberlain, Lord Chamberlaine, Earl 

 of Bridgewater, Earl of Sandwich, Earl of Anglesy, Earl of Craven, 

 Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Arlington, Lord Newport, Mr. Treasurer, 

 Mr. Secretary Trevor. 



Whereas in pursuance of an order of this Board of the llth Jan- 

 uary last, upon the petition of the merchants, owners, and masters 

 of shipps, and inhabitants of the western parts of this Kingdom, 

 adventuring to the Newfoundland in fishing voyages The 

 519 Right Honorable his Majesty's Council for foreign Plantations 

 did this day represent to the Board, that they have called 

 before them, and heard the petitioners and the other parties concerned, 

 and after due consideration of the best ways and means, of regulat- 

 ing, securing, and improving the fishing trade, in Newfoundland, 

 dp humbly offer unto his Majesty as their opinion and advice, That 

 his Majesty would be pleased to grant by way of addition to his 

 former charter an establishment of the powers, rules, and orders for 

 the government of the said fishery as followeth viz. 



That all the subjects of his Majesty's Kingdom of England shall 

 and may for ever hereafter peaceably hold and enjoy the freedom of 



