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or Plantations in Asia, Africa or America, or shall be laden in
or carried from any one Port or Place in the said Colonies or
Plantations to any other Port or Place in the same or to Our
Kingdom of Great Britain in any Ship or Bottom, but what is
or shall be of the Build of Great Britain, or Ireland, or of the
said Colonies, or Plantations, and wholly Owned by the People
thereof, or any of them and Navigated with the Master and
three fourths of the Mariners of the said Places only, except
such Ships only as shall be taken Prize and Condemnation
thereof in One of the Courts of Admiralty in Great Britain
Ireland or the said Plantations, to be Navigated by the Master
and three fourths of the Mariners British or of the said
Plantations as aforesaid and whereof the Property doth be-
long to British Subjects, on Pain of Forfeiture of Ships and
Goods, And Whereas by another Clause in the said Act for
the more effectual Prevention of Frauds which may be Used
by colouring Foreign Ships under British Names, it is further
Enacted that no Ship or Vessel whatsoever shall be deemed or
Pass as a Ship of the Build of Great Britain, Ireland, Guern-
sey Jersey or any of Our Plantations in America so as to be
Qualified to Trade to from or in any of the said Plantations
until the Person or Persons claiming Property in such Ship
or Vessel shall Register the same in manner thereby appointed.
You and he the said Robert Eden shall take care, and give in
Charge that these Matters and Things be duly observed
within Our said Province of Maryland according to the True

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Intent and meaning of the said Acts, and the Offences and
Offenders prosecuted according to the directions thereof, and
where it is required, that the Master and three fourths of
the Mariners be British, You and he the said Robert Eden,
are to Understand, that the true Intent and Meaning thereof
is that they shall be such during the whole Voyage, unless in
Case of Sickness, Death or being taken Prisoners in the
Voyage to be proved by the Oath of the Master or other Chief
Officer of the Ship, and none but Our Subjects of Great Brit-
ain Ireland or the Plantations are to be accounted British.
5^th Whereas by the said Act of Navigation as the same
stands amended and altered by the aforesaid Act for Regulat-
ing the Plantation Trade it is enacted that for every Ship or
Vessel that shall set Sail out of, or from Great Britain for
any British Plantation in America Asia or Africa sufficient
Bond shall be given with one Surety to the Chief Officer of
the Customs of such Port or Place from whence the said Ship
shall set sail, to the Value of One Thousand Pounds, if the
Ship be of less Burthen than One hundred Tons, and of the
Sum of Two Thousand Pounds if the Ship shall be of greater

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