370 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



Matter, in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon ; and that the 

 same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act : And if 

 it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the De- 

 fendant or Defendants: And if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or 

 discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants shall have 

 appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or De- 

 murrer against the Plaintiff; the Defendant or Defendants shall re- 

 cover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as De- 

 fendants have in other Cases by Law. 



No. 8. 1769: British Statute, 9 George III, Cap. 28. 



An Act to permit the Inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey to export directly from 

 thence to Newfoundland, or the British Colonies in America, Goods necessary 

 for the Fishery, under certain Restrictions; and to import from thence Non- 

 enumerated Goods (except Rum) and to land the same in the said Islands. 



" WHEREAS by an Act made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign 

 of His late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for 

 the Encouragement of Trade, it is, amongst other Things, enacted, 

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

 Europe, shall be imported into any Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, 

 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, (except as therein is 

 excepted) but what shall be bona fide, and without Fraud, laden and 

 shipped in England or Wales, or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, 

 under the Penalties in the said Act mentioned : And whereas by an 

 Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, 

 any Officer of His Majesty's Customs is impowered to stop any Brit- 

 ish Ship or Vessel arriving from any Part of Europe, which shall be 

 discovered within two Leagues of the Shore of any of the British 

 Colonies or Plantations in America, and to seize and take from thence, 

 as forfeited, any Goods (except such as in the said Act are men- 

 tioned) for which the Master or other Person taking Charge of such 

 Ship or Vessel shall not produce a Cocket or Clearance from the 

 Collector or proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs, certifying that 

 the said Goods were laden on board the said Ship or Vessel in some 

 Part of Great Britain: And "whereas the Fishing Trade car- 

 223 ried on by the Inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey at New- 

 foundland, and other of the British Colonies and Plantations in 

 North America, is highly beneficial to this Kingdom, in the employ- 

 ing great Numbers of Seamen and Ships, and in the Use and Con- 

 sumption of great Quantities of British Manufactures; and it is 

 therefore expedient, for the Encouragement of that Trade, to permit 

 the said Inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey to export directly from 

 thence such Articles as are necessary for their carrying on the said 

 Fishery: May it therefore please Your Majesty, that it may be en- 

 acted ; " and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by 

 and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- 

 poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by 

 the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for any 



