264 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

     Lib. H. U. is provided. You shall likewise take care that no Ship or

            Vessell comeing from England Ireland Wales or Berwick

            shall Load any of the enumerated Comodites Vizt Sugar,

            Tobacco, Cotton,Wooll, Indico, Ginger, Fustick, or other dying

            Wood before Certificate be produced from the Officers of some

            Custom House of England Wales or Berwick that Bond hath

            been there given with one Surety to the vallue of one thousand

            pounds if the Ship be of less burthen then One hundred

            Tunns, and of the Sum of two thousand pounds if the Ship

            shall be of greater burthen, that in case the said Ship or

        p. 169  Vessell shall load any of the said Commodities at any of the

            English Plantations that the same commodities shall be by the

            said Ship or Vessell brought to some Port of England or

            Wales or to the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and be there

            unloaden & put on Shoare the danger of the Seas only

            excepted. And in like manner that no other Ship or Vessell

            wch by law may trade in any of their Majte Plantations be per

            mitted to load on board any of the said Commodities comeing

            from any other Port or place untill Bond be given to the

            Governr in manner and to the vallue aforesd, that such Ship or

            Vessell shall carry all the said goods loaden on board to some

            of their Majtes English Plantations or to England Wales or

            Barwick And if any such Ship or Vessell shall load or take on

            board, any of the said Comodities untill such bond be given

            to the Governor or Certificate producd from the Officers of

            some Custom house of England Wales or Berwick that such

            Bond hath been there duly given or wch contrary to the tenor

            of such Bond shall carry the sd goods to any port or place

            wtsoever then such other English Plantations or to England

            Wales or Berwick and there lay the same on Shoare every

            such Ship or Vessell shall be forfeited wth her Gunns Tackle

            and apparrell and you shall doe your outmost endeavor to find

            out seize and prossecute the same accordingly.

              3dly If any Ship or Vessell wch by law may trade in any of

            their Majtes Plantacons shall Ship and take on board any of the

            aforesd Comodites or cacoe and that Bond shall not be first

            given with one sufficient surety to bring the same to England

            Wales or Berwick and to no other place and there to unload

            and put the same on shoare (the danger of the Seas only

            excepted) there shall be answered & paid for so much of the

            said Comodities as shall be laden and put on board such Shipp

            or Vessell the severall rates and dutyes mentioned in the said

            Act to be leveyed collected & paid at such places and to such

            Collectrs & other Officers as shall be appointed to collect leavy

            & receive the same before the unlading thereof and under

            such penalties both to the Officers and upon the goods as for

            non payment of or defrauding their Majtes of their Customs in