348 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

      Lib. H. D. So we Expect you will particularly take Care that noe Ships

         P.” or Vessells be permitted to Import or Export any Goods or

            Commodities to or from your Governmt but shall be duly

            quallifyed and Navigated as thereby is Directed having a more

            particular Eye & Reguard to those places which are most

            Conveniently Scituated for the Scotch and other Illegall

            Traders to load & Discharge at.

              And withall let none be accepted or taken as Security with

            Masters of Ships but such as shall be persons of Sufficiency

            and Value and inhabitants on the place. It Remains only

            further that We Remind you of the Act of Trade made in the

            15th year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, which

            provides that no European Goods (except what is therein

            Excepted) Shall be Imported into any of his Mats Plantations

            but such as shall be loaden and Shipped in England Wales or

            Berwick and in Ships and Vessells quallifyed and Navigated

            as therein is Directed, under the penalty of forfeiture of Ship

            and Goods, and every person or persons Importing any Goods

            or Commodities whatsoever into any of the plantations, is by

            the sd Act to Deliver to Each respective Governr or the Person

            Authorized by him within Twenty four hours after such Im

            portation, their Names and Sr Names, and a true Inventory

            and particular of all Such Goods, together with the place or

            places in wch the sd Goods were loaden or taken in Under the

            like penalty's of fforfeitures. We are

                                Yor Very humble Servants

            Custom House Londo             P Ward

            9 of JanrY 1695.               Robert Southwell

                 Copia                     Ja: Chadwicke

              To the Lords Spiritual and Temporall in Parliament

            Assembled.

            The Comrs May it Please Yor Lordships. In Obedience to

            of his Mats

            Customs Re. Your Lordships Commands Signifyed by an Ordr of

            port unto the the 19th Instant Requiring the Comrs of his Mats

             Customs to Lay before this honrble House in Writing

            porll in Par- what they Conceive may be the proper means to

            liamt Upon the Scotch Remedy the Inconveniency's Arising by the late

            Act &cca Act of Parliamt made in Scotland for Establishing

            an East India Company there, We doe humbly Observe to

            your Lordships in Generall, That the Act for Encourageing

            of Shipping and Navigation in Scotland in the year 1661

            being by this late Act rescinded and Despenced with for Ten

            Years and a ffreedome therby Granted to this Scotch Com

            pany, from all manner of Customs and other Dutys imposed

            or to be imposed by Act of Parliamt or otherwise dureing the

         p. 12  Space of 21th years must in Consequence have a very fatall

            Influence upon the Trade and Navigation and Revenue of