STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 943 



XX. "And whereas it is enacted, in and by an Act passed in the 

 fourth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for 

 granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in 

 America; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual, an Act 

 passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King GEORGE 

 the Second, intituled, i An Act for the better Securing and Encourag- 

 ing the Trade of Ilis Majesty^ Sugar Colonies in America' ; for ap- 

 plying the produce of such duties, and of the duties to arise by virtue 

 of the said Act, towards defraying the expenses of defending, pro- 

 tecting, and securing the said colonies and plantations; for explaining 

 an Act made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King CHARLES 

 the Second, intituled, ''An Act for the Encouragement of the Green- 

 land and Eastland Trades, and for the better Securing the Plantation 

 Trade' ; and for altering and disallowing several drawbacks on ex- 

 ports from this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clan- 

 destine conveyance of goods to and from the said colonies and plan- 

 tations, and improving and securing the trade between the same and 

 Great Britain ; that if any British ship or vessel shall be found stand- 

 ing into, or coming out from, either of the islands of Saint Pierre 

 and Miquelon, or hovering or at anchor within two leagues of the 

 coast thereof, or shall be discovered to have taken any goods or mer- 

 chandises on board at either of them, or to have been there for that 

 purpose, such ship or vessel, and all the goods so taken on board 

 there, shall be forfeited and lost, and shall and may be seized and 

 prosecuted by any officer of His Majesty's customs; and the master, 

 or other person having the charge of such ship or vessel, and every 

 person concerned in taking such goods on board, shall forfeit treble 

 the value thereof: And whereas the provisions of the said recited 

 Act may not be sufficient to effectuate the good purposes thereby in- 

 tended, or to prevent the export or sale of ships, vessels, and boats, 

 and of all other the goods and commodities herein before enumerated 

 and prohibited to be sold to the subjects of any foreign State, or the 

 purchase ,and import of the goods and commodities of such foreign 

 States ; " be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it 

 shall and may be lawful for all and every officer or officers, having 

 the command of any of His Majesty's ships stationed at the Island 

 of Newfoundland, to stop and detain all and every ship, vessel, or 

 boat, of what nature or description soever, coming to, or going from 

 the said island, and belonging to, or in the service or occupation of 

 any of His Majesty's subjects residing in, trafficking with, or carry- 

 ing on fishery in the Island of Newfoundland, parts adjacent, or on 

 the banks of the said Island of Newfoundland, which he shall have 

 reason to suspect to be going to, or coming from, the islands of Saint 

 Pierre or Miquelon, for the purposes before mentioned, in any place 

 within the limits of their station, and to detain, search, and examine, 

 such ship, vessel, or boat; and that if, upon such search or examina- 

 tion, it shall appear to such officer or officers that there is reasonable 

 ground to believe that such ship, vessel, or boat, or any tackle, ap- 

 parel, or furniture, used, or which may be used, by any ship, vessel, 

 or boat, or any implements or utensils used, or which may be used 

 in the catching or curing of fish, or any fish, oil, blubber, seal skins, 

 fuel, wood, or timber, then on board of such ship, vessel, or boat, was 

 or were intended to be sold, bartered for, or exchanged, to the sub- 

 jects of any foreign State, or shall be discovered to have been so 



