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of Our Plantations, or to England, Wales or Berwick, and to
no other place.
5. And for preventing the many Frauds, Mischiefs and
inconveniences in granting Certificates to Ships giving Bond
in England, Wales or Berwick, the Commissioners of Our
Customes have caused Certificates in Blank to bee sent to the
Customer, Comptroller, and Collector of each Port in this
Kingdom, with directions to grant the same as occasion shall
require, And you are to cause all such Certificates of Bond
given in England, Wales, or Berwick to Ships arriving within
Our Province of Maryland to bee produced as well to the Col-
lector of Our Customes there, for the time being or his
Deputy, as to the Officer appointed by you to receive the
same, And the better to discover the Truth of Certificates of
Bonds given in Maryland, the said Commissioners of Our
Customes did formerly deliver to you a sufficient number of
Printed Certificates in Blanks of severall sorts, and you are to
give Order and take care, that your Secretaryes or Navall
Officers do joine with the said Collector of Our Customes or
his Deputy for the time being in granting the said Certificates,
and that they do not grant any other Certificates than those
before mentioned, nor them, without the hand and Seal of the
said Collector, or his Deputy, nor accept of any security upon
Bond given in Maryland, without the privity and approbation
of the said Collector or his Deputy, or of any Certificates in
discharge of such Bonds without the like approbation.
6. Whereas by the aforesaid Act of Trade made in the 15^th
year of the Reigne of the said late King, and the said late
King's Proclamation pursuant thereunto of the 24^th of Novem-
ber in the 27^th year of His Reigne no Comodities of the
growth, production, or manufacture of Europe (except Salt for
the Fishery of New England and Newfoundland, Wines of the
growth of the Maderas, or Westerne Islands, or Azores, Ser-
vants or Horses from Scotland, or Ireland, and all sort oi
Victuall of the growth and production of Scotland and Ireland)
shall bee Imported into any of our Colonies or Plantations, but
what shall bee bona fide, and without fraud laden and shipped
in England, Wales or Berwick, and in ships duly qualifyed;
you are to use your utmost endeavours for the due observance
thereof, And if contrary hereunto any ship or Vessell shall
Import into Maryland any Comodities of the growth produc-
tion, or manufacture of Europe, (but what are before excepted)
of which due proof shall not bee made, that the same were
Shipt or Laden in some Port of England, Wales or Berwick by
producing Cocquetts or Certificates under the hands and
Scales of the Officers of Our Customes in such Port or Place
where the same were laden, such ship or vessell and Goods

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