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Coffee Pimento Cocoa-Nuts Whale Fins, Raw Silk, Hides and
Skins, Pot and Pearl Ashes of the Growth Production or
Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation are under
the like Securities and Penalties restrained to be imported into
this Kingdom as the other abovementioned enumerated Com-
modities.
And Whereas by an Act passed in the 5th year of Our
Reign intituled An Act for the more effectually preventing the
Mischiefs arising to the Revenue and Commerce of Great
Britain and Ireland from the illicit and Clandestine Trade to
and from the Isle of Man No Rum or other Spirits shall be
Shipped or Laden in any British Colony or Plantation in
America, but on Condition, that the same shall not be Carried
to or Landed in the Isle of Man, under the like Securities,
Penalties and Forfeitures.
And Whereas by another Act made in the Sixth year of
Our Reign intituled An Act for opening and establishing cer-
tain Ports in the Islands of Jamaica and Dominica for the
more free Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and
Merchandizes, and for granting certain Duties to defray the
Expences of opening maintaining and improving such Ports,
for ascertaining the Duties to be paid upon the Importation of
Goods from the said Island of Dominica into this Kingdom
and for securing the Duties upon Goods Imported from the
said Island into any other British Colony. All Wool Cotton
Wool, Indico, Cochineal, Fustick, and all manner of Dying
Drugs or Woods, Drugs used in Medicine, Hair, Furs, Hides
and Skins, Pot and Pearl Ashes, Whale Fins, and Raw Silk
of the Growth and Produce of any foreign Colony or Planta-
tion shall upon the Exportation thereof from either of the
said Islands of Dominica or Jamaica be imported from thence
directly into Great Britain under the like Securities Penalties
and Forfeitures And by the said Act of the Sixth Year of Our
Reign no Goods whatever shall or may be exported from the
said Island of Dominica to any Port of Europe to the North-
ward of Cape Finisterre, except to Great Britain and such
Goods shall be there landed under the same Securities Regu-
lations and Restrictions, and Subject to the like Penalties and
Forfeitures, you and he the said Robert Eden, are therefore
to take particular care, and give the necessary Directions, that
the true Intent and meaning of all the said Acts be Strictly and
duly Complied with.
6th He the said Robert Eden, shall carefully Examine all
Certificates which shall be brought to him of Ships giving Se-
curity in this Kingdom, to bring their Ladings of Plantation
Goods hither, as also Certificates of having discharged their
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Lib. C. B.
No. 20
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