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such goods or commodities in manner aforesaid, shall be apprehended 

 and committed to prison, and, on due conviction before the court 

 of session, shall forfeit treble tne value of such goods or commodities 

 so purchased, or taken in barter or exchange, or procured to be pur- 

 chased, or taken in barter or exchange, or in the purchase, barter, or 

 taking of which in exchange, such person shall have been aiding or 

 assisting, and the same shall be levied of the offender's goods and 

 chattels, by warrant to be granted by the said court of session for 

 that purpose; and in case no goods upon which such distress can be 

 made shall be found, then it shall and may be lawful for the said 

 court to order such person or persons to be punished and dealt with 

 in the same manner as is herein before directed with respect to de- 

 serters or persons agreeing to desert. 



XVII. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall ex- 

 tend, or be construed to extend, to hinder or prevent Bread, Flour, 

 Indian Corn, and live Stock, from being imported into the said 

 Island of Newfoundland in certain British Vessels, in pursuance of 

 an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament. 



XVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 That the Sum for which the said Governor shall agree with the 

 Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command 

 of any Ship or Vessel, for the passage of any person or persons from 



the said island, to the place or places to which he or they be- 

 560 longed, shall in no Case exceed the Sum of forty Shillings 



for each person, and shall be paid to the Master of such Ship 

 or Vessel out of the Monies which shall arise from Forfeitures in- 

 curred for any offence committed against this Act, or the Acts herein 

 before recited, upon such Master producing to the said Court of 

 Session, a Certificate, under the Hand and Seal of such Governor, of 

 the Numbers and Names of the Persons respectively taken on board 

 by his direction, and of the Times they were taken on board respec- 

 tively, and the several sums agreed to be paid as aforesaid; which 

 Sums the Court of Session are hereby required to cause to be paid 

 to such Master, if sufficient funds for that purpose shall remain in 

 the Hands of the said Court. 



XIX. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if 

 no sufficient fund for the payment of any Sum or Sums, so agreed 

 upon as aforesaid, shall remain in the Hands of the said Court of 

 Session, then and in such case every such Master, or other Person 

 having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, 

 who shall have taken on board any Number of Persons by order of 

 the Governor, in Manner herein before directed, upon producing a 

 Certificate, under the Hand and Seal of the said Governor, in manner 

 herein before directed, and making an Affidavit at his return, set- 

 ting forth the Time during which he subsisted such Person or Per- 

 sons, and that he did not, during that Time, want any of his own 

 Complement of Men, or how many he did want of such Complement, 

 and for what Time, shall receive from the Commissioners of the 

 Navy for the Time being (who are hereby required to cause the same 

 to be paid) six Pence per Diem for the passage and Provisions of 

 such Person or Persons from the Day of their embarkation home- 

 wards to the Day of their Arrival in Great Britain, the said sum 

 of six Pence per Diem only being deducted for such Time and so 

 many Persons as he wanted of his Complement during his voyage. 



