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nominated and appointed by any such persons or proprietors, who 

 shall be intitled to make such nomination, shall be allowed and ap- 

 approved of by His Majesty, his heirs and successors, as aforesaid, 

 and shall take the oaths in joined by this and any other Act to be 

 taken by the Governors or Commanders in Chief in other His 

 Majesty's Colonies and Plantations, before their entering upon their 

 respective governments, under the like penalty, as His Majesty's 

 Governors and Commanders in Chief are by the said Acts liable to. 



XVII. And for a more effectual prevention of frauds which may 

 be used to elude the intention of this Act, by colouring foreign ships 

 under English names; be it further enacted by the authority afore- 

 said, That from and after the five and twentieth day of March, 

 which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred 

 ninety-eight, no ship or vessel whatsoever shall be deemed or pass as 

 a ship of the built of England, Ireland^ Wales, Berwick, Guernsey, 

 Jersey, or any of His Majesty's plantations in America, so as to be 

 qualified to trade to, from or in any of the said plantations, until the 

 person or persons claiming property in such ship or vessel shall register 

 the same as followeth, that is to say, If the ship at the time of such 

 Register doth belong to any port of England, Ireland, Wales, or to 

 the town of Berwick upon Tweed, then proof shall be made upon 

 oath of one or more of the owners of such ship or vessel, before the 

 Collector and Controller of His Majesty's Customs in such port; or 

 if at the time of such register the ship belong to any of His Majesty's 

 Plantations in America, or to the islands of Guernsey or Jersey, 

 then the like proof to be made before the Governor, together with the 

 principal officer of His Majesty's Revenue residing on such planta- 

 tion or island, which oath the said Governors and Officers of the 

 Customs respectively are hereby authorized to administer in the 

 tenor following, viz. 



JURAT, A. B. That the ship [Name] of [Port] whereof 



[Master's Name] Is at present Master, being a [Kind of Built] 



of [Burthen] Tuns, was built at [Place where] in the 



Year [Time when] and that [Owner's Name] of and 



of, dc. are at present Owners thereof; and that no foreigner, directly or 



indirectly, hath any share, or part, or interest therein. 



XVTII. Which oath, being attested by the Governor, or Custom 

 Officer respectively, who administered the same, under their hands 

 and seals, shall after having been registered by them, be delivered to 

 the Master of the ship for the security of her navigation, a duplicate 

 of which register shall be immediately transmitted to the Commis- 

 sioners of His Majesty's Customs in the Port of London, in order to 

 be entered in a general register, to be there kept for this purpose, with 

 penalty upon any ship or vessel trading to, from or in any of His 

 Majesty's Plantations in America, after the said five and twentieth 

 day of March, and not having made proof of her built and property, 

 as is here directed, that she shall be liable, and she is hereby made 

 liable, to such prosecution and forfeiture as any foreign ship (except 

 prizes condemned in the High Court of Admiralty) would for trad- 

 ingwith these plantations by this law be liable to. 



XIX. Provided always, That all such ships as have been or shall 

 be taken at sea by Letters of Mart or reprizal, and condemnation 

 thereof made in the High Court of Admiralty of England as lawful 

 prize, shall be specially registered, mentioning the capture and con- 



