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It was thereupon ordered by his Majesty in council, that the said 

 Attorney-General, with the assistance of his Majesty's council learned 

 do review the said clause, and consider of establishing a certain way 

 of judicature for the hearing and determining all such cases afore- 

 said, and the same to present to this Board with all convenient speed. 



JOHN NICHOLAS. 



No. 6. 1696: British Statute, 7 & 8 Wm. Ill, Cap. 00. 

 AN Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade. 



Whereas notwithstanding divers Acts made for the encouragement 

 of the navigation of this Kingdom, and for the better securing and 

 regulating the Plantation Trade, more especially one Act of Par- 

 liament made in the twelfth year of the reign of the late King 

 Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for increasing of Shipping 

 and Navigation, another Act made in the fifteenth year of the 

 reign of his said late Majesty, intituled, An Act for the Encourage- 

 ment of Trade, another Act made in the two and twentieth and 

 three and twentieth years of his said late Majesty's reign, intituled, 

 An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England, and for 

 regulating the Plantation Trade, another Act made in the twenty- 

 fifth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, intituled, An Act 

 for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, 

 and for the better securing the Plantation Trades, great abuses 

 are daily committed, to the prejudice of the English navigation, 

 and the loss of a great part of the Plantation Trade to this King- 

 dom, by the artifice and cunning of ill-disposed persons: For 



remedy whereof for the future, 



521 II. Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by 

 the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Par- 

 liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That after the 

 five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred and 

 ninety-eight, no goods or merchandizes whasoever shall be imported 

 into, or exported out of, any Colony or Plantation to his Majesty, 

 in Asia, Africa, or America, belonging, or in his possession, or which 

 may hereafter belong unto, or be in the possession of his Majesty, 

 his heirs or successors, or shall be laden in, or carried from any one 

 port or place in the said Colonies or Plantations to any other port 

 or place in the same, the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, 

 or town of Berwick upon Tweed, in any ship or bottom, but what is 

 or shall be of the built of England, or of the built of Ireland, or the 

 said Colonies or Plantations, and wholly owned by the people thereof, 

 or any of them, and navigated with the masters and three fourths of 

 the mariners of the said places only (except such ships only as are or 

 shall be taken as prize, and condemnation thereof made in one of 

 the Courts of Admiralty in England, Ireland, or the said Colonies 

 or Plantations, to be navigated by the master and three fourths of 

 the mariners English, or of the said Plantations as aforesaid, and 

 whereof the property doth belong to English men; and also except 

 for the space of three years, such foreign-built ships as shall be em- 

 ployed by the commissioners of his Majesty's navy for the time being, 

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