486 



A. D. 1 66c 



' therein. Of all which a certificate fliall be produced, and a rcgifler 



* kept *.' 



X) * This acl fhall not extend to merchandize from any place within. 



* the flraits of Gibraltar, if they be brought from the ufual ports there, 

 ' though not from the place of their growth, produdion, or manufac- 

 ' fadure, fo as the (hip and crew be qualified as above. The like as to 



* all Eaft-India commodities brought from any place call of the Cape of 

 .' Good Hope. Moreover, Englifli lliips, navigated as above, may im- 

 ' port from Spain, Portugal, the Canaries, Azores, and Madeira, all 



* forts of goods of the plantations of Spain or Portugal.' 



XI) ' Bullion, prize-goods, corn, and fait, and fifli from Scotland, in 

 ' Scotch-built fliips, and three fourths of the mariners the king's fub- 

 ' jecis, are excepted out of this ad ; and feal oil from Rulfia, in Eng 



' HHi fillips, with three fourths Englifli mariners.' 



XII) ' French fliips in our ports fliall pay 5/ per ton, fo long as Eng- 



* lifli fhips in French ports pay 50 fols per ton f .' 



XTIl) ' No fugar, tobacco, cotton-wool, indigo, ginger, fuftic, or 

 ' other dying woods of the growth or manufadure of our Afian, Afri- 

 ' can, or American, colonies, fliall be (hipped from the faid colonies to 

 ' any place but to England, Ireland:}:, or to fome other of his majefly's faid 

 ' plantations, there to be landed ; under forfeiture as before. And to 

 ' make eflx^dual this lafl claufe, (for the folc benefit of our own naviga- 

 ' tion and people) the owners of the fhips fhall give bonds, at their fet- 

 ' ting out, for the due performance thereof.' [12 Car. II, c. 18.] 



Thefe were called enumerated commodities ; and by the ads of the 

 15th, 2 2d, and 23d of this reign (the firft for the encouragement of 

 trade, and the others for preventing the planting of tobacco in England, 

 and for regulating the plantation-trade) the enumerated commodities in 

 the firfl; ad were exprefsly prohibited to be carried to Ireland till 

 firfl landed in England. By the 3d and 4th of Queen Anne, rice 

 and melafles are made enumerated commodities ; but by the 3d 

 of King George II, rice is again rendered unenumerated. By the 8th 

 of King George I, for encouraging the filk manufadure, beaver, 

 and other peltry of America, are made enumerated. And by the 2d of 

 King George II, pitch, tar, turpentine, marts, yards, andbowlprits, from 

 our plantations are alfo made enumerated commodities ; and all other 

 plantation goods are called unenumerated. And by the 8th of George 

 I, f. I 8, copper ore of the plantations was made an enumerated commo- 

 dity ; i. e. fuch a one as mufl be firll landed in England before it can be 



* Ever dice this aft paffcd, there is an of- council of trade affirm in their report in 1701) 



ficer ellabh'flied at tlie cullom-houfe, caWcA the fur- fince that duty, which before produced from 6 to 



■veyor oj the ,iff of navigation, who keeps a regifter 700,000 livres, now ( 1 701 ) produces but 1 00, COO. 



of all Britilli-built vefTels. ^. J. 



f The Dutch were exempted fiom this impofi- \ Ireland is left out in all fubfequent afts, and 



tion of 50 lols per tun by the treaty uf Ryfwick, exprefsly excepted in that of 22, 23 Car. II, c, 2.6. 



niuch to the damage of France, (as the French y/. 



