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Lib. C. B.
No. 20
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Charges, and be assisting to Our said Officers in their Seiz-
ures, Informations and Tryals as well as in the Just discharge
of any other part of their Duty.
26. And whereas several Complaints have been made by the
Officers of Our Customs in Our Plantations in America that
they are frequently obliged to serve on Juries and personally
to appear in Arms whenever the Militia is drawn out, and
thereby are much hindered in the Execution of their Employ-
ment Our Will and Pleasure is, that he the said Robert Eden
take effectual care, and give the necessary directions that the
several Officers of Our Customs be excused and exempted
from serving on any Juries or personally appearing in Arms in
the Militia, unless in Cases of Absolute Necessity, or serving
on any Parochial Offices which may hinder them in the Execu-
tion of their Duty.
27. And whereas upon Appeals which have been made to
us in Our Privy Council in Cases of Error from the Courts
in several of Our Colonies and Plantations in America in
Civil Causes great inconveniencies have frequently arisen by
the immediate issuing of Executions notwithstanding such
Appeal unto us, where the Appellee hath become Insolvent, or
hath withdrawn himself, or his effects from such Colony, or
Plantation before Our Pleasure could be known on such Ap-
peal, and Our Orders for reversing the Orders and Decrees
appealed from and for making restitution of the Estates or
Effects, which have been so levied in Execution, have been
rendered ineffectual, and the Appellant left without any re-
dress; Now for the preventing that like mischief for the future
it is Our Will and Pleasure that Execution be Suspended, until
the final determination of such Appeal, unless good and Suffi-
cient Security be given by the Appellee to make ample Restitu-
tion of all that the appellant shall have lost by means of such
Judgment or Decree, in case upon the Determination of such
Appeal such, Judgment or Decree should be reversed and
Restitution awarded to the Appellant.
28. And Whereas by the Act passed in the Twenty first
Year of his late Majesty's Reign for encouraging the making
of Indico in the British Plantations in America, as the same
Stands continued and amended by an Act passed in the third
year of Our Reign, a Premium of four pence per pound is
allowed on the Importation of Indico of the Growth of the
British Plantations and there are likewise contained in the
said Act several Provisions to prevent Frauds by importing
foreign Plantation made Indico, or any false Mixtures in
what is made in the British Plantations, with a view to Re-
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