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           Lib. H. D.     appointed by the Governors for performance of certain things

                 menconed in the aforesd act for the Encouragement of trade

                 coflionly known by the name of Navall Officers are to give secu

                 rity of the Comrs of the Customs in England for the time being

                 or such as shall be appointed by them for his Majties use for

                 the true and faithfull performance of their duty. You shall

                 take care that the persons by you so employed do not only give

                 such security to the sd Comissrs of the Customs but be approved

                 of by them in manner as thereby is enjoyned.

                   Thirdly. Whereas by the said Act of Navigation no Goods

                 or Comodities wtsoever are to be Imported into or exported

                 out of any of the Colonies or Plantacons in any other Ships &

                 Vessels wtsoever but in such as doe truly & without fraud

                 belong only to the people of England or Ireland or are of the

                 built of and belonging to any of the Lands Islands or Tern

                 toreys as the proprietors and right owners thereof and where

                 of the Master and 3 fourths of the Marriners at least are Eng

                 lish under the penalty of the forfeiture and loss of all the Goods

                 and Comodities wch shall be imported into or exported out of

                 any of the sd Places in any other Ship or Vessell, as also of

                 the Ship or Vessell with her Guns furniture &ca And whereas

                 by a clause in the aforesaid act of frauds no forreign Built

                 Ship (that is to say) not built in any of the Dominions of Asia

                 Aifrica or America, or other then such as shall bona fide have

                 been bought before the first of October 1662 and expressly

                 named in the list thereby appointed to be made of all forreign

                 built Shipps in all the Ports of England shall enjoy the Priv

                 ilidge of a Ship belonging to England or Ireland altho own'd

                 or mann'd by English (Except such Ships only as shall be

                 taken at Sea by Letters of Mart or Reprizall & Condemnation

                 made in the Courts of Admiralty as lawfull prize) but all such

                 Ships shall be deem'd as aliens Ships and be liable to all

                 duties that aliens Ships are liable by virtue of the aforesaid

                 Act for the Encourageing & increasing of Shipping &

                 Navigation. And whereas by a clause in the aforesd Act

                 for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in the Plantation

                 trade ‘Tis Enacted tht after the 25th of March 1698 No

                 goods or Merchandizes wtsoever shall be imported into or

                 exported out of any of his Majtes Colonies or Plantacons in

                 Asia Aifrica or America or shall be laden in or carryed from

                 any one Port or place in the said Colonies or Plantations to

                 any other Port or place in the Kingdom of England, Domin

                 ion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in any Ship or

                 bottom but what is or shall be of the built of England or of the

                 built of Ireland, or of the said Colonies or Plantations and

                 wholy own'd by the people thereof or any of them & Navigated

                 wth the Master & 3 fourths of the Marriners of the said places

              p.     153 only (except such Ships only as shall be taken prize & condem