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

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

and Property as by the aforementioned Act is directed, that
she shall be liable to such Prosecution, and Forfeiture, as any
Foreign Ships (except Prizes Condemned in Our high Court
of Admiralty) would for trading with Our Plantations by the
said Law be liable unto; with this Proviso, that all such Ships
as have been or shall be taken at Sea by Letters of Marque or
Reprisal, and Condemnation thereof made in Our High Court
of Admiralty as Lawful Prize shall be specially Registered,
mentioning the Capture and Condemnation instead of the time
and place of Building, with Proof also upon Oath, that the
entire Property is British, before any such Prize be allowed
the Privilege of a British built Ship according to the meaning
of the said Act, And that no Ship's Name Registered be after-
wards changed without Registering such Ship de novo, which
by the said Act is required to be done upon any transfer of
Property to another Port, and delivering up the former Cer-
tificate to be Cancelled, under the same Penalties and in the
like Method; And in Case of any Alteration of Property in the
same Port by the Sale of One or more Shares in any Ship after
Registering thereof, such Sale shall always be acknowledged
by Endorsement on the Certificate of Register before two
Witnesses in order to prove, that the entire Property in such
Ship remains to some of Our Subjects of Great Britain, if any
Dispute shall arise concerning the same.

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21. Whereas by the Act passed in the tenth Year of the
Reign of King William the Third, to prevent the Exportation
of Wool out of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland into
Foreign parts And for the Encouragement of the Woollen
Manufactures in the Kingdom of England, It is amongst other
things therein enacted that no Wool, Woolfels, Shortlings,
Mortlings, Woolflocks, Worsted Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes,
Druggets, Cloth-Serges, Shalloons or any other Drapery,
stuffs, or Woollen Manufactures whatsoever, made or mixed
with Wool or Woolflocks, being of the Product or Manufac-
ture of any of the British Plantations in America, shall be
laden or laid on Board in any Ship or Vessel in any Place or
Port within any of the said British Plantations upon any
pretence whatsoever, And also that no such Wool or other the
said Commodities being of the Product or Manufacture of any
of the said British Plantations, shall be Loaden upon any
Horse, Cart or other Carriage, to the Intent and Purpose to
be exported transported, carried or Conveyed out of the s^d
British Plantations to any other of Our Plantations, or to any
other place whatsoever upon the same and like Pains Penal-
ties, and Forfeitures to and upon all the Offender and Of-
fenders therein within all and every of Our said British