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or other Person having the Charge of any such Ship or Vessel as 

 aforesaid, shall produce a Certificate, under the Hand and Seal of 

 the Governor or Commander in Chief of the Province of the Massa- 

 chusetfs Bay, setting forth, that such Ship or Vessel (expressing her 

 name, and the Name of her Master, and describing her Built and 

 Burthen) is the whole and entire Property of his Majesty's Subjects 

 of the said Island of Nantucket, and was the property of one or more 

 of them on or before the twenty-fifth Day of March, in the Year one 

 thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and that she was cleared 

 out with Materials on Board in order to proceed upon the Whale 

 Fishery only ; any Thing in this Act to the Contrary thereof in any 

 wise notwithstanding. 



XI. Provided also, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, 

 That nothing in this Act contained, respecting the Fisheries carried 

 on by his Majesty's Subjects in North America^ shall extend, or be 

 construed to extend, to any Ship or Vessel, being the Property of 

 any of the Inhabitants of the Townships of Marsh-field and Scitu- 

 ate, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, employed in or carrying 

 on the Mackerel, Shad, and Alewife Fisheries only, if the Master, or 

 other Person having the Charge of any such Ship or Vessel, as afore- 

 said, shall produce a Certificate, under the Hand and Seal of the 

 Governor, or Commander in Chief, of the Province of the Massa- 

 cliusefs Bay, setting forth, that such Ship or Vessel (expressing her 

 Name, and the Name of her Master, and describing her Built and 

 Burthen) is the whole and entire Property of his Majesty's Subjects 

 of the said Townships of Marshfield and Scituate, and was the Prop- 

 erty of one or more of them, on or before the twenty-fifth Day of 

 March, in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, 

 which Certificate or Certificates such Governor or Commander in 

 Chief is hereby authorised and required to grant. 



XII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the River which 

 emptieth itself into Passamacadie or Passamaquadi Bay, on the 

 Western Side, and is commonly called and known by the Name of 

 Saint Croix River, be held and deemed, for all the Purposes in this 

 Act contained, to be the Boundary between the Provinces of Massa- 

 chusefs Bay and Nova Scotia. 



" XIII. And whereas it is the intent and meaning of this act, that 

 the several prohibitions and restraints herein imposed upon the trade 

 and commerce, and fisheries, of the said provinces and colonies 

 should be discontinued and cease, so soon as the trade and commerce 

 of His Majesty's subjects may be carried on without interruption ; " 

 be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that whenever it 

 shall be made appear to the satisfaction of His Majesty's governor 

 or commander in chief, and the majority of the council, in the 

 provinces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay respectively, 

 that peace and obedience to the laws shall be so far restored within 

 the said provinces, or either of them, that the trade and commerce of 

 His Majesty's subjects may be carried on without interruption 

 within the same ; and that goods, wares, and merchandise, have been 

 freely imported into the said provinces, or either of them, from 

 Great Britain, and exposed to sale, without any let, hindrance, or 

 molestation, from or by reason of any unlawful combinations to pre- 

 vent or obstruct the same; and that goods, wares, and merchandise, 

 have in like manner been exported from the said provinces, or either 



