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quently be at liberty to go to any foreign market in Europe, without 

 coming to England, Wales or Berwick :" It is hereby further enacted 

 and declared, that notwithstanding the payment of the aforesaid 

 duties in any of the said Plantations, none of the said goods shall be 

 shipped or laden on board until such security shall be given as is 

 required by the said Acts, made in the twelfth, two and twentieth, 

 and three and twentieth years of the reign of King Charles the 

 Second, to carry the same to England, Wales, or Berwick, or to some 

 other of his Majesty's Plantations, and so toties quoties, as any of the 

 said goods shall be brought to be re-shipped or laden in any of the 

 said Plantations, under the penalty and forfeiture of ship and goods, 

 to be divided and disposed of as aforesaid. 



IX. And it is further enacted and declared by the authority afore- 

 said, That all laws, by-laws, usages or customs, at this time, or which 

 hereafter shall be in practice, or endeavoured or pretended to be in 

 force or practice, in any of the said Plantations, which are in any 

 wise repugnant to the before mentioned laws, or any of them, as far 

 as they do relate to the said Plantations, or any of them, or which are 

 any ways repugnant to this present Act, or to any other law here- 

 after to be made in this Kingdom, so far as such law shall relate to 

 and mention the said Plantations, are illegal, null and void, to all 

 intents and purposes whatsoever. 



u X. And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed by 

 Scotch men and others in the Plantation trade, by obtruding false 

 and counterfeit certificates upon the Governor and officers in the 

 Plantations appointed by His Majesty's Commissioners of the Cus- 

 toms in England, of having given security in this Kingdom to bring 

 the ladings of Plantation goods to England, Wales, or town of Ber- 

 wick upon Tweed, as also certificates of having discharged their 

 lading of Plantation goods in this Kingdom, pursuant to se- 

 523 curities taken in the Plantation, and also Cocquets or certifi- 

 cates of having taken in their ladings of European goods in 

 England., Wales, or Berwick; by means whereof they may carry the 

 goods of Scotland, and other places of Europe, without shipping or 

 lading the same in England, Wales, or Berwick, to His Majesty's 

 Plantations, and also carry the goods of the Plantations directly to 

 Scotland, or to any other market in Europe, without bringing the 

 same into England, Wales, .or town of Berwick upon Tweed:" It is 

 hereby further enacted, that in such cases where the Governor or of- 

 ficers appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs in the Planta- 

 tions shall have reasonable ground of suspicion that such certificates 

 are false or counterfeit (that is to say) that the certificate of having 

 given security in England is false, in such case the governor or of- 

 ficers appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs, shall require 

 and take sufficient security there for the discharge of the Plantation 

 lading in England, Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed: and in 

 such case where there shall be cause to suspect, that the certificate of 

 having discharged her lading of Plantation goods in this Kingdom is 

 false or counterfeit, the Governor or officers aforesaid shall not cancel 

 or vacate the security given in the Plantation, until he or they shall 

 be informed from the Commissioners of the Customs in England that 

 the matter of the said certificate is true ; and if any person or persons 

 shall counterfeit, rase or falsify any cocket, certificate, return or per- 

 mit, for any vessel or goods, or shall knowingly or willingly make 



