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carried out from the Port or Place where he takes in his Lading, take 

 out a Cocket or Cockets expressing the Quantity and Quality of the 

 Goods, and Marks of the Package, so laden, with the Merchants 

 JNames by whom shipped and to whom consigned; and if they are 

 Goods that are liable to the payment of any Duty, either upon the 

 Importation into, or upon the Exportation from, the said Colonies 

 or Plantations, the said Cocket or Cockets shall likewise distinctly 

 specify that the Duties have been paid for the same, referring to 

 the Times or Dates of Entry and Payment of such Duties, and by 

 whom they are paid; which Cocket or Cockets shall be produced 

 by the Master of such Ship or Vessel, to the Collector or other princi- 

 pal Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where such Ship or 

 Vessel shall arrive in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in 

 America, before any Part of the Goods are unladen or put on shore : 

 And if any Goods or Merchandizes shall be shipped as aforesaid 

 without such Sufferance, or the Vessel shall depart and proceed on 

 her Voyage without such Cocket or Cockets, or the Goods shall be 

 landed or put on shore before such Cocket or Cockets are produced 

 at the Port or Place of Discharge, or if the Goods do not agree in 

 all Respects therewith, the Goods, in any or eitHer of those. Caes, 

 shall be forfeited and lost; and any Officer of his Majesty's Customs 

 is hereby impowered to stop any such Ship or Vessel, bound as afore- 

 said, which shall be discovered within two Leagues of the Shore of 

 any of the said British Colonies or Plantations in America, and to 

 seize and take from thence all the Goods which shall be found on 

 board such Ship or Vessel for which no such Cocket or Cockets shall 

 be produced to him. 



" XXX. And whereas British Vessels arriving from Foreign Parts 

 at several of the Out Ports of this Kingdom, fully or in part laden 

 abroad with Goods that are pretended to be destined to some Foreign 

 Plantation, do frequently take on board some small Parcels of Goods 

 in this Kingdom, which are entered outwards for some British 

 Colony or Plantation, and a Cocket and Clearance thereupon granted 

 for such Goods, under Cover of which the whole Cargoes of such 

 Vessels are clandestinely landed in the British American Dominions, 

 contrary to several Acts of Parliament now in force, to the great 

 Prejudice of the Trade and Revenue of this Kingdom ; " For Remedy 

 whereof, Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from 

 and after the First Day of May one thousand seven hundred and 

 sixty-four, no Ship or Vessel shall, upon any Pretence whatsoever, 

 be cleared outwards from any Port of this Kingdom, for any Land, 

 Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory or Place to his Majesty be- 

 longing, or which shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession 

 or under the Dominion of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, in 



America unless the whole and entire Cargo of such Ship or Ves- 

 217 sel shall be bona fide, and without Fraud, laden, and shipped 



in this Kingdom; and any Officer of his Majesty's Customs 

 is hereby impowered to stop any British Ship or Vessel arriving from 

 any Part of Europe, which shall be discovered within two Leagues 

 of the Shore of any of the said British Colonies or Plantations in 

 America, and to seize and take from thence, as forfeited, any Goods 

 (except as herein after-mentioned), for which the Master or other 

 Person taking the Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall not produce 

 a Cocket or Clearance from the Collector or proper Officer of his 



