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Parts of the Mariners at least Englishmen, and have delivered to such 

 Governor or other Person or Officer a true and perfect Inventory or 

 Invoice of her Lading, together with the Place or Places in which 

 the said Goods were laden or taken into the said Ship or Vessel; (3) 

 under the Pain of the Loss of the Ship or Vessel, with all her Guns, 

 Ammunition, Tackle, Furniture and Apparel, and of all such Goods 

 of the Growth, Production or Manufacture of Europe, as were not 

 bona -fide laden and taken in in England, Wales, or the Town of 

 Berwick, to be recovered and divided in Manner aforesaid; (4) and 

 all such as are Governors or Commanders of any the said Lands, 

 Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Territories or Places (Tangier only 

 excepted) shall before the five and twentieth Day of March one 

 thousand six hundred sixty and four, and all such as shall hereafter be 

 made Governors or Commanders of any of them, shall before their 

 Entrance upon the Execution of such Trust or Charge, take a solemn 

 Oath before such Person or Persons as shall be authorized by his 

 Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, to administer the same; to do their 

 utmost within their respective Governments or Commands, to cause 

 to be well and truly observed what is in this Act enacted, in relation 

 to the Trade of such Lands, Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Terri- 

 tories and Places, under the Penalty of being removed out of their 

 respective Governments and Commands; (5) And if any of them 

 shall be found, after the taking of such Oath, to have wittingly and 

 willingly offended contrary to what is by this Act required of them, 

 that they shall for such Offence be turned out of their Governments, 

 and be uncapable of the Government of any other Land, Island, Plan- 

 tation or Colony; and moreover, forfeit the Sum of one thousand 

 Pounds of lawful Money of England; the one Moiety to his Majesty, 

 his Heirs and Successors; and the other Moiety to him or them that 

 shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesty's Courts in any 

 of the said Plantations, or in any Court of Record in England, 

 wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed. 



IX. And it is hereby further enacted, That if any Officer of the 

 Customs in England, Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, shall 

 give any Warrant for, or suffer any Sugar, Tobacco, Ginger, Cotton- 

 wool, Indigo, Speckle-wood or Jamaica-wood, Fustick or other Dy- 

 ing wood of the Growth of any of the said Lands, Islands, Colonies, 

 Plantations, Territories or Places, to be carried into any other Coun- 

 try or Place whatsoever, until they have been first unladen bona fide 

 and put on Shore in some Port or Haven in England or Wales, or in 

 the Town of Berwick; That every such Officer for such Offence shall 

 forfeit his Place, and the Value of such of the said Goods as he shall 

 give Warrant for, or suffer to pass into any other Country or Place; 

 the one Moiety to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors; and the 

 other Moiety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in 

 any Court of Record in England or Wales, wherein no Essoin, Pro- 

 tection or Wager in Law shall be allowed. 



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XVI. And for the Encouragement of the Herring and North-Sea 

 Island, and Westmoney Fisheries, (2) be it enacted, and it is hereby 

 enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the first 

 Day of August which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand 

 six hundred sixty and four, no Fresh Herring, Fresh Cod or Had- 



