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the Master and three fourths of the Mariners at least are
English under the Penalty of the forfeiture and loss of all the
Goods and Comodities which shall be imported or exported in
any other ship or Vessell, as also of the ship or Vessell and, if
any goods shall be imported or exported contrary thereunto
you are to cause seizure to be made thereof, as also of the
ship or vessell importing or exporting the same, and direct
Prosecution thereof as in the said Act is provided: And for
your information as to foreign built ships, Wee refer you to the
Act made in the 14th year of the said late Kings reign for pre-
venting Frauds and regulating abuses in our Customs being
also conteined in the said book of Rates; And whereas it is
required that the Master and 3/4 of the Marriners at least be
English, you are to understand that any of our Subjects of
England, Ireland, or the Plantations are to be accounted
English, and no others; And that the number of Marriners
are to be accounted according to what they shall have been
during the whole voyage.
3. Whereas by the said Act of Navigation 'tis further enacted
that for every ship or vessell which from or after the 25th De-
cember 1660. shall set saile out of or from, England, Ireland,
Wales or Berwick upon Tweed for any English Plantation in
America, Asia or Africa, sufficient bond shall be given with one
surety to the chief Officers of the Custom House of such Port
or Place from whence the said ship shall set sail to the value of
£1000. if the ship be of less burthen than 100. tuns, and of the
sum of £2000. if the ship shall be of greater burthen, that in
case the said ship or Vessell shall load any of the Commities
therein enumerated at any of the said English Plantations, that
the same Commodities shall by the said ship brought to some
Port of England, Ireland, Wales, or to the Port or Town of
Berwick upon Tweed, and shall there unload and put on shore
the same (the dangers of the seas only excepted) And for all
ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the afore-
said Plantations, who by this Act are permitted to trade there,
that the Governors of such English Plantations shall before the
said ship or Vessell be permitted to load on board any of the
said Comodities take bond in manner and to the value afore-
said for each respective ship or vessell that such ship or vessell
shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that shall be loaden on board
the said ship to some other of our English Plantations, or to
England, Ireland, Wales or Berwick, and that every ship or
vessell which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid
goods until such bond be given to the said Governor, or Cer-
tificate produced from the Officers of any Custom House of
England, Ireland, Wales or Berwick that such bond hath been
there duly given shall be forfeited with the guns, tackle, ap-
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