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Majesty's Customs, certifying that the said Goods were laden on 

 board the said Ship or Vessel in some Port of Great Britain. 



XXXI. Provided always, That this Act shall not extend, nor be 

 construed to extend, to forfeit, for want of such docket or Clearance, 

 any Salt laden in Europe for the Fisheries in New-England, New- 

 foundland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Nova Scotia, or any other 

 Place to which Salt is or shall be allowed by Law to be carried; 

 Wines laden in the Madeiras, of the Growth thereof; and Wines of 

 the Growth of the Western Islands, or Azores, and laden there; nor 

 any Horses, Victuals, or Linen Cloth, of and from Ireland, which 

 may be laden on board such Ships or Vessels. 



XXXII. And it is hereby further enacted, That if any Person or 

 Persons shall counterfeit, rase, alter, or falsify, any Affidavit, Cer- 

 tificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or Clearance, required or directed by this 

 Act, or shall knowingly or willingly make use of any Affidavit, Cer- 

 tificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or Clearance, so counterfeited, rased, 

 altered or falsified, such Person or Persons shall, for every such 

 Offence, forfeit the Sum of five hundred Pounds ; and such Affidavit, 

 Certificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or Clearance, shall be invalid and of 

 no Effect. 



[Sections 33 to 38 inclusive are printed in the Appendix to the 

 British Case at page 531.'] 



" XXXIX. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the sev- 

 enth and eighth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, in- 

 tituled, An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in the 

 Plantation Trade, all Governors or Commanders in Chief of any of 

 his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations are required to take a solemn 

 Oath, to do their utmost that all the Clauses, Matters, and Things, 

 contained in that Act, and several other Acts of Parliament therein 

 referred to, relating to the said Colonies and Plantations, be punc- 

 tually and bona fide observed, according to the true Intent and Mean- 

 ing thereof: And whereas divers other good Laws have been since 

 made, for the better regulating and securing the Plantation Trade:" 

 Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all the present 

 Governors or Commanders in Chief of any British Colony or Planta- 

 tion shall, before the twenty-ninth Day of September one thousand 

 seven hundred and sixty-four, and all who hereafter shall be made 

 Governors or Commanders in Chief of the said Colonies or Planta- 

 tions, or any of them, before their Entrance into their Government, 

 shall take a solemn Oath, to do their utmost that all the Clauses, 

 Matters and Things contained in any Act of Parliament heretofore 

 made, and now in Force, relating to the said Colonies and Planta- 

 tions, and that all and every the Clauses contained in this present Act 

 be punctually and bona fide observed, according to the true Intent 

 and Meaning thereof, so tar as appertains unto the said Governors or 

 Commanders in Chief, respectively, under the like Penalties, For- 

 feitures, and Disabilities, either for neglecting to take the said Oath, 

 or for wittingly neglecting to do their Duty accordingly, as are men- 

 tioned and expressed in said recited Act made in the seventh and 

 eighth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, and the 

 r-aid Oath, hereby required to be taken, shall be administered by such 

 Person or Persons as hath or have been, or shall be, appointed to 

 administer the Oath required to be taken by the said Act made in 

 the seventh and eighth Year of the Reign of King William the Third. 



