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and Persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty to 

 manage his Customs, and the Officers of his Majesty's Customs and 

 their respective Deputies, in the due Execution of all and every Act 

 and Thing in and by this present Act required and enjoined, and 

 all such who shall be aiding and assisting unto them in the due 

 Execution hereof, shall be defended and saved harmless by Virtue 

 of this Act. 



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 XXXVI. Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful to 

 export, from any of his Majesty's Dominions Fish into any of the 

 Ports of the Mediterranean Sea aforesaid, in any English Ship or 

 Vessel whatsoever, provided that one Moiety of her full Lading be 

 Fish only, and in such Case to import any Wares or Merchandize in 

 the same Ship for that Voyage without paying any other Rates or 

 Duties of Tonnage or Poundage for the same, than were heretofore 

 accustomed. 



No. 2.16G3: Extract from British Statute, 15 Charles 77, Cap. 7. 

 An Act for the Encouragement of Trade. 



" V. And in regard his Majesty's Plantations beyond the Seas are 

 inhabited and peopled by his Subjects of this his Kingdom of 

 England; for the Maintaining a greater Correspondence and Kind- 

 ness between them, and keeping them in a firmer Dependance upon 

 it, and rendring them yet more beneficial and advantageous unto it 

 in the further Imployment and Increase of English Shipping and 

 Seamen, Vent of English Woollen and other Manufactures and Com- 

 modities, rendring the Navigation to and from the same more safe 

 and cheap, and making this Kingdom a Staple, not only of the Com- 

 modities of those Plantations, but also of the Commodities of other 

 Countries and Places, for the Supplying of them; and it being the 

 Usage of other Nations to keep their Plantations Trade to them- 

 selves : " 



VI. Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted, That from and after 

 the five and twentieth Day of March one thousand six hundred sixty- 

 four, no Commodity of the Growth, Production or Manufacture of 

 Europe, shall be imported into any Land, Island, Plantation, Col- 

 ony, Territory or Place to his Majesty belonging, or which shall here- 

 after belong unto or be in the Possession of his Majesty, his Heirs 

 and Successors, in Asia, Africa or America, (Tangier only excepted) 

 but what shall be bona -fide, and without Fraud, laden and shipped in 

 England, Wales, or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and in English 

 built Shipping, or which were bona -fide bought before the first Day 

 of October one thousand six hundred sixty and two, and had such 

 Certificate thereof as is directed in one Act passed the last Sessions 

 of this present Parliament, intituled, An Act for preventing Frauds, 

 and regulating Abuses in his Majesty's Customs; and whereof the 

 Master and three Fourths of the Mariners at least are English, and 

 which shall be carried directly thence to the said Lands, Islands, 



