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or to some Port in Great Britain; and the said Act may, by such 

 Practices, be rendered ineffectual to answer the Purposes thereby in- 

 tended ; " for Remedy whereof, be it further enacted by the Author- 

 ity aforesaid, That from and after the tenth Day of October, one 

 thusand seven hundred and sixty-five, the said Bond, with the Con- 

 dition in the said recited Act mentioned, shall be given for every 

 Ship or Vessel that shall set sail from any British Colony or Planta- 

 tion in America, whether any Goods shall be there laden on board 

 any such Ship or Vessel, or not ; and if any such Ship or Vessel, not 

 having taken any Goods on board as aforesaid, shall set sail, or pro- 

 ceed from any British Colony or Plantation in America, before such 

 Bond shall be given, such Ship or Vessel, with her Furniture, shall 

 be forfeited, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted in the 

 Manner directed by the said recited act of Parliament; any Thing 

 therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 



" XXV. And whereas, in and by the said recited Act made in the 

 last Session of Parliament, it is, amongst other Things, enacted, That 

 a Sufferance and Cocket shall be taken from the Officers of the Cus- 

 toms for all Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, of any Kind whatso- 

 ever, which shall be laden on board any Ship or Vessel in any British 

 Colony or Plantation in America, to be carried from thence to any 

 other Colony or Plantation, as in the said Act is expressed; And 

 whereas the requiring such Sufferances and Cockets for Goods of the 

 Growth or Produce of the said Colonies, which are not liable to any 

 Duty by any Act of Parliament made in Great Britain, nor prohib- 

 ited to be carried from the said Colonies, may lay an unnecessary 

 Restraint upon the Trade and Correspondence of his Majesty's 

 American Subjects, when such Goods are carried merely for the Use 

 and Sustenance of the said Colonies, in Boats or small Vessels with- 

 out Decks, which do not go to open Sea ; " for the Ease therefore of 

 his Majesty's American Subjects in this Particular, be it enacted, 

 That from and after the fifth Day of July, one thousand seven hun- 

 dred and sixty-five, the said recited Act shall not extend, nor be con- 

 strued to extend, to require any Person to take out any Sufferance or 

 Cocket for any Goods of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture, of 

 the British Colonies or Plantations in America, which are not, by 

 any Act of Parliament made in Great Britain, liable to any Duty 

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

 Colonies or Plantations, nor are prohibited to be exported from 

 thence, which shall be laden in any Boat, Flat. Shallop, or other 

 Vessel without a Deck, not exceeding twenty Tons Burthen, and 

 shall be carried within any River, Lake, or other Inland Waters, 

 within the said Colonies or Plantations, and shall not be carried out 

 to Sea farther than one League from the Shore; any Thing in the 

 said recited Act to the contrarv notwithstanding. 



" XXVI. And whereas by the said last recited Act, made in the last 

 Session of Parliament, one Moiety of all Seizures which shall be made 

 at Sea by the Commanders or Officers of his Maiestv's Ships or Vessels 

 of War, duly authorized to make Seizures, and of the Penalties and 

 Forfeitures recovered thereon, in any of his Majesty's Colonies or 

 Plantations in America, first deducting the Charges of Prosecutions 

 from the gro<=s Produce thereof, is to be paid to him or them who 

 shall seize, inform, or sue for the same: subject to such Distribution 

 as his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall think fit to order and 



