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bonds shall be given, with one surety, to the value of one thousand 

 Pounds, if the ship be of less burthen than one hundred tons, and of 

 the sum of two thousand Pounds, if the ship be of greater burthen, 

 that the same commodities shall be brought by such ship or vessel to 

 some other British plantation, or to some port in Great Britain: and 

 whereas, by several other Acts of Parliament which are now in force, 

 no commodities of the growth, product, or manufacture of Europe 

 (except salt for the fisheries, wines of the Madeiras and Azores and 

 Western Islands, and victual and linen cloth from Ireland, under the 

 restrictions in such Acts particularly mentioned), can be imported 

 into any plantation, colony, territory, or place, belonging to His 

 Majesty, in Asia, Africa, or America, but what shall be bona fide, 

 and without fraud, laden and shipped in Great Britain, and carried 

 directly from thence: and whereas, during the continuance of the 

 combinations and disorders, which at this time prevail within the 

 provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, and the colonies 

 of Connecticut and Rhode Island, to the obstruction of the commerce 

 of these kingdoms, and other His Majesty's dominions, and in breach 

 und violation of the laws of this realm, it is highly unfit that the 

 inhabitants of the said provinces and colonies should enjoy the same 

 privileges of trade, and the same benefits and advantages to which His 

 Majesty's faithful and obedient subjects are intitled; " be it therefore 

 enacted 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 and after the first day of July one thousand seven hundred 

 and seventy-five, and during the continuance of this Act, no goods, 

 wares, or merchandise, which are particularly enumerated in and 

 by the said Act made in the twelfth year of King Charles the Second, 

 or any other Act, being the growth, product, or manufacture of the 

 provinces of Massachusetts Bay, or New Hampshire, or colonies of 

 Connecticut, Rhode Island, or Providence Plantation, in North Amer- 

 ica, or any or either of them, are to be brought to some other British 

 colony, or to Great Britain; or any such enumerated goods, wares, or 

 merchandise, which shall at any time or times have been imported 

 or brought into the said provinces or colonies, or any or either of 

 them, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed, or transported, from any of 

 the said provinces or colonies respectively, to any land, island, terri- 

 tory, dominion, port or place whatsoever, other than to Great Britain, 

 or some of the British Islands in the West Indies, to be laid on shore 

 there; and that no other goods, wares, or merchandises whatsoever, 

 of the growth, product, or manufacture of the provinces or colonies 

 herein before mentioned, or which shall at any time or times have 

 been imported or brought into the same, shall, from and after the 

 said first day of July, and during the continuance of this Act, be 

 shipped, carried, conveyed, or transported, from any of the said 

 provinces or colonies respectively, to any other land, island, territory, 

 dominion, port, or place whatsoever, except to the kingdoms of Great 

 Britain or Ireland, or to some of the British islands in the West 

 Indies, to be laid on shore there; any law, custom, or usage, to the 

 contrary notwithstanding. 



II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that 

 from and after the said first Day or July, before any ship or vessel 

 shall lade, or take on Board any Goods, as aforesaid, in any or either 



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