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demnation instead of the time and place of building, with proof also 

 upon oath, that the entire property is English, before any such prize 

 shall be allowed the privilege of an English-built ship, according to 

 the meaning of this Act. 



XX. Provided also, That nothing in this Act shall be construed 

 to require the registering any fisher boats, hoys, lighters, barges, or 

 any open boats or other vessels (though of English or plantation 

 built) whose navigation is confined to the rivers or coasts of the same 

 plantation or place where they trade respectively, but only of such 

 of them as cross the seas to or from any of the lands, islands, places 

 or territories, in this Act before recited, or from one plantation to 

 another. 



XXI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 no ship's name registered shall be afterwards changed, without reg- 

 istering such ship de novo, which is hereby required to be done upon 

 any transfer of property to another port, and delivering up the 

 former certificate to be cancelled, under the same penalties, and in 

 the like method, as is herein before directed ; and that in case there 

 by any alteration of property in the same port, by the sale of one 

 or more shares in any ship after registering thereof, such sale shall 

 always be acknowledged by Indorsement on the certificate of the reg- 

 ister before two witnesses, in order to prove that the entire property 

 in such ship remains to some of the subjects of England, if any dis- 

 pute arises concerning the same. 



525 No. 1.1699: British Statute 10 <& 11 Wm. Ill, Cap. 25. 

 An Act to encourage the Trade to Newfoundland. 



"WHEREAS the trade of and fishing at Newfoundland is a benefi- 

 cial trade to this kingdom, not only in the employing great num- 

 bers of seamen and ships, and exporting and consuming great quan- 

 tities of provisions and manufactures of this realm, whereby many 

 tradesmen and poor artificers are kept at work, but also in bringing 

 into this nation, by returns of the effects of the said fishery from 

 other countries, great quantities of wine, oil, plate, iron, wool, and 

 sundry other useful commodities, to the increase of His Majesty's 

 revenue, and the encouragement of trade and navigation " ; Be it en- 

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

 and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in 

 this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. 

 That from henceforth it shall and may be lawful for all His Maj- 

 esty's subjects residing within this his realm of England, or the 

 dominions thereunto belonging, trading or that shall trade to New- 

 foundland, and the seas, rivers, lakes, creeks, harbours in or about 

 Newfoundland, or any of the islands adjoining or adjacent thereunto, 

 to have, use, and enjoy the free trade and traffic, and art of mer- 

 chandise and fishery, to and from Newfoundland, and peaceably to 

 have, use, and enjoy, the freedom of taking bait and fishing in any 

 of the rivers, lakes, creeks, harbours, or roads, in or about Newfound- 

 land, and the said seas, or any of the islands adjacent thereunto, and 

 liberty to go on shore on any part of Newfoundland, or any of the 



