286 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1769-1770.

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Burthen; That in Case the said Ship or Vessel shall load any
of the Commodities therein enumerated, Viz. Sugar Tobacco,
Cotton, Wool, Indico, Ginger, Fustick, or other Dying Wood,
of the Growth Production, or Manufacture of any British
Plantation in America, Asia or Africa, at any of the said
British Plantations, the said Commodities shall by the said
Ship be brought to some Port of Great Britain, and be there
unloaden and put on Shore, the Dangers of the Seas only
excepted and for all Ships coming from any Port or Place to
any of the Plantations which by this Act are permitted to
trade there, that the Governors of such British Plantations
shall, before the said Ship or Vessel be permitted to Load on
Board any of the said Commodities, take Bond in manner and
to the Value aforesaid for each respective Ship or Vessel, that
such Ship or Vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods, that
shall be loaden on Board the said Ship or Vessel to some other
of the said British Plantations or to great Britain; And that
every Ship or Vessel which shall load or take on Board any of
the aforesaid Goods until such Bond be given to the said
Governor or Certificate produced from the Officers of any
Custom House of Great Britain, that such Bond hath been
there duly given shall be Forfeited with her Guns, Tackle,
Apparel, and Furniture, to be employed and recovered as
therein is directed; And Whereas by two Acts passed in the
Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Queen Ann, the one
intituled " An Act for encouraging the Importation of Naval
Stores from her Majesty's Plantations in America " and the
other intituled " An Act for granting to her Majesty a further
Subsidy on Wines and Merchandizes imported " and two other
Acts passed in the Eighth Year of King George the First
Entituled An Act for Encouragement of the Silk Manufac-
tures of this Kingdom, and for taking off several Duties on
Merchandizes exported, and for reducing the Duties upon
Beaver Skins, Pepper, Mace Cloves and Nutmegs imported
and for Importation of all Furrs of the Product of the British
Plantations into this Kingdom only The other intituled An
Act to prevent the Clandestine runing of Goods &c^a and to
subject Copper Ore of the Production of the British Planta-
tions to such Regulations as other Enumerated Commodities
of the like Production are Subject, continued by an Act passed
in the Eighth Year of his late Majesty's Reign, and still in

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force; All Rice (except under the Regulations prescribed in
the Acts of the 3^d year of his late Majesty's Reign and the 4^th
and 5^th years of Our Reign) Molasses, Furs, Hemp, Pitch
Tarr, Turpentine Masts yards, Bowsprits, Furs and Copper
Ore, and by an Act passed in the 4^th Year of Our Reign all