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Advise them of all Failures, Neglects, Frauds and Misde-
meanours of any of the Officers of Our Customs in Our said
Province of Maryland and shall also advise them as Occasion
shall Offer, of all Occurrences Necessary for their Informa-
tion, relating either to the aforesaid Laws of Trade and
Navigation, or to Our Revenue of Customs and other Duties
under their Management both in Great Britain and the Plan-
tations.
19. If he shall discover, that any Persons or their Assigns,
claiming any Right or Property in any Island or Tract of Land
in America, by Charter or by Letters Patent shall at any time
hereafter alien sell or dispose of such Island Tract of Land
or Propriety Other than to Our Natural born Subjects of
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No. 20
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Great Britain, without the Licence or Consent of us, Our
Heirs or Successors, Signified by Our or their Order in Coun-
cil first had and obtained, he shall give Notice thereof to us and
to the Commissioners of Our Treasury or Our high Treasurer
of Great Britain for the time being.
20. Whereas by the aforesaid Act for preventing Frauds
and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade; it is provided
for the more effectual prevention of Frauds which may be
used to elude the Intention of the said Act by Colouring For-
eign Ships under British Names; That no Ship or Vessel shall
be Deemed or pass as a Ship of the Build of Great Britain, or
Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, or any of Our Plantations in Amer-
ica so as to be Qualified to Trade, to from or in any of Our
said Plantations until the Person or Persons claiming Prop-
erty in such Ship or Vessel shall Register the same in manner
thereby directed; He shall take care, that no foreign Built
Ship be permitted to pass as a Ship belonging to the Kingdom
of Great Britain, or Ireland, until Proof be made upon Oath
of One or more of the Owners of the said Ship before the
Collector or Comptroller of Our Customs in such Port to
which she belongs, or upon like Proof before himself with the
Principal Officer of Our Revenue Residing in Our aforesaid
Province of Maryland if such Ship shall belong to the said
Province; which Oath he and the Officers of Our Customs
respectively are Authorized to Administer in Manner thereby
directed; and being attested by him and then so Adminstering
the same and registred in due form according to the Specimen
hereunto annexed he shall not fail immediately to transmit a
Duplicate thereof to the Commissioners of Our Customs in
London, in Order to be Entered in a General Register to be
there kept for that Purpose, with Penalty upon every Ship or
Vessel trading to from, or in any of Our said Plantations in
America, as aforesaid and not having made Proof of her Build
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