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enemies, and shall be so adjudged, deemed, and taken in all courts 

 of Admiralty, and in all other courts whatsoever. 



II. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared 

 by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall extend, or 

 be construed to extend, to such ships and vessels as shall be actually 

 retained or employed in His Majesty's service, or to such ships and 

 vessels as shall be actually retained or employed in His Majesty's 

 service, or to such ships and vessels as shall be laden with provisions 

 for the use of His Majesty's fleets, armies, or garrisons, or for the 

 use of the inhabitants of any town or place garrisoned or possessed by 

 any of His Majesty's troops, provided the masters of such ships and 

 vessels respectively shall produce a licence in writing, under the hand 

 and seal of the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain for the time 

 being, or of three or more commissioners for the time being for 

 executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, or of the 

 commanders of His Majesty's fleets or armies, or of the governor, 

 lieutenant governor, or commander in chief of an} r of His Majesty's 

 colonies or provinces not herein before mentioned, specifying the 

 voyage in which such ship or vessel shall be employed, and express- 

 ing the time for which such licence shall subsist and be in force, and 

 also expressing the quantity and species of the said stores and pro- 

 visions on board : and if any goods, wares, or merchandises, other 

 than stores and provisions for His Majesty's use, or provisions for the 

 use of the inhabitants of any town or place garrisoned and possessed 

 by His Majesty's troops, shall be found on board such ships or vessels 

 (the necessary stores for the ship's use. and I he baggage of the pas- 

 sengers, only except ed), in any or either of those cases, the said 

 goods, wares, and merchandises, shall be forfeited, and shall and 

 may be seized and pro ecuted in the manner herein after directed. 



" III. And, for the encouragement of the officers and seamen of 

 His Majesty's ships of war." be it fur her enacted, That the flag 

 officers, captains, commanders and other commissioned officers in His 

 Majesty's pay, and also the ^enmen. marines, and soldiers on board, 

 shall have the sole interest and property of and in all and every such 

 ship, vessel, goods, and merchandise, which they shall seize and take 

 (beir" first adjudged lawful prize in any of His Majesty's courts of 

 Admiralty), to be divided in noh r>r">por ions, and after such man- 

 ner, as His Majesty shall tbink fit to order and direct by proclama- 

 tion or proclamations hereafter to be issued for those purposes. 

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" XLIT. And whereas pn Act wa passed in the fourteenth year of 

 the reign of bis present Majesty (intituled, art Art to discontinue, in 

 such manner, and for such f.'we. a* are therein mentioned, the landing 

 and ditrharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchan- 

 dise, at tJic toirn and u-'/ll. 'n the harl our of Boston, in the prorince of 

 Massachusetts Bny, in North America): and also an Act passed in 

 the last session of Ppr'ip.ment (irt 'tilled, an Act to restrain the trade 

 and commerce of the provinces of Massnrhu c et's Bay and New Hamp- 

 shire, and < 'Conies of r"onnrrt5c:it. and Tvhode Island, and Providence 

 Plantation, in North Nmerioa to Treat Britain. Ireland, and the 

 British island^ in the ""Vst Trd'os' nd to prohibit such provinces 

 and colonies from carrying on any -fishery on the banks of Newfound- 

 land, or other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and 

 limitations} ; and also another Act passed in the same session (in- 



