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use thereof, such person or persons shall forfeit the sum of five 

 hundred pounds, to be recovered and disposed of as aforesaid, and 

 the cocket, certificate, return or permit so counterfeited, raised or 

 falsified, shall be invalid, and of no effect. 



XI. And for the better executing the several Acts of Parliament 

 relating to the Plantation trade, be it enacted by the authority afore- 

 said, That the Lord Treasurer, Commissioners of the Treasury, and 

 the Commissioners of the Customs in England for the time being, 

 shall and may constitute and appoint such and so many officers of the 

 Customs in any city, town, river, port, harbor or creek, of or belong- 

 ing to any of the islands, tracts of land and proprieties, when and as 

 often as to them shall seem needful ; be it also further enacted, That 

 upon any actions, suits and informations that shall be brought, com- 

 menced or entered in the said plantations upon any law or statute 

 concerning His Majesty's duties, or ships or goods to be forfeited by 

 reason of any unlawful importations or exportations, there shall not 

 be any jury, but of such only as are natives of England or Ireland, or 

 are born in His Majesty's said plantations, and also that upon all 

 such actions, suits and informations, the offences may be laid or 

 alleged to be in any Colony, province, county, precinct or division of 

 any of the said plantations where such offences are alleged to be com- 

 mitted, at the pleasure of the officer or informer. 



XII. Provided always, That all places of trust in the Courts of 

 Law, or what related to the Treasury of the said Islands, shall, 

 from the making of this Act, be in the hands of the native-born 

 subjects of England or Ireland, or of the said Islands. 



" XIII. And whereas by the said Act made in the two and twentieth 

 and three and twentieth years of the rein of his said late Majesty King 

 Charles the Second, the bonds required to be given in the plantations 

 by virtue of the said Act, for encouraging and increasing of shipping 

 and navigation, are altered, and the word Ireland to be left out of 

 the condition of all such bonds; and by the said Act it is enacted and 

 provided, That for such ships or vessels coming from other ports or 

 places, to any of the said plantations, which by the said Act for 

 encouraging and increase of shipping were permitted to trade there, 

 the Governors of such English plantations should, before the said 

 ship or vessel should be permitted to load on board any of the com- 

 modities in the said Act particularly mentioned, take bond in man- 

 ner and to the value mentioned and directed in the above mentioned 

 Act for encouraging and increase of shipping and navigation, for 

 each respective ship or vessel, that such ship or vessel shall carry all 

 the aforesaid goods, that should be laden on board in the said ship, 

 to some other of his Majesty's English plantations, or to England, 

 Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed: But because no provision 

 hath hitherto been made for the returning and producing certifi- 

 cates within some reasonable limited time, of the landing and dis- 

 charging such goods, according to the condition of the said bonds, 

 and also because many times it hath happened, that the sureties taken 

 in the said bonds have been persons not resident in the said planta- 

 tions, but of uncertain and unknown abodes, the said bonds have 

 proved ineffectual to the good purposes intended by the said Acts ; " 

 Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid. That in all such 

 bonds, to be hereafter given or taken in the said plantations, the 

 sureties therein named shall be persons of known residence and 



