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Prince or State from any European Port, and such Ship
shall happen to be driven in by necessity and be in real distress,
the same may be supplied with what is absolutely necessary
for her Relief; but he shall not take, have or receive nor permit
or suffer any Person to take have or receive, any Negroes or
other the said East India Commodities in Payment or Satis-
faction for such Relief. That if any Officer of Our Customs
or other Officer employed by him or by the Commander in
Chief for the time being, in visiting searching or seizing such
Ships Goods Merchandize, or Negroes, be corrupt, negligent
or remiss in the discharge of his Duty therein We do hereby
require him to Suspend him from the Execution of his said
Office, and that he do by the first Opportunity send an Ac-
count of such Officer's behaviour to Us, by one of Our Prin-
cipal Secretaries of State, that care may be taken, that such
Officer be removed from his employment, and further Pun-
ished according to his demerit. And Our further Will and
Pleasure is, that he, the said Robert Eden, do constantly from
time to time, and by the first Opportunity that shall offer send
to us by One of Our Principal Secretaries of State, true full
and exact Accounts of his Proceedings, and of all other
Transactions and occurrences in or about the Premises or any
of them.
30. And Whereas, notwithstanding the many Good Laws
made from time to time for preventing of frauds in the Plan-
tation Trade, it is manifest that very great abuses have been
and still continues to be practiced to the prejudice of the same,
which abuses must needs arise either from the insolvency of
Persons who are accepted for Security, or from the remiss-
ness or connivance of such as have been or are Governors in
the several Plantations who ought to take care that those
Persons, who give Bond should be duly prosecuted in case of
Non performance; You are to take Notice, that We take the
good of Our Plantations and the Improvement of the Trade
thereof by a Strict and punctual observance of the several
Laws in force concerning the same to be of so great Import-
ance to the benefit of this Kingdom and to the advancing the
Duty of Our Customs here, that if we shall hereafter be in-
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formed, that at any time there shall be any failure in the due
observance of those Laws and of these present Instructions,
given you for the better guidance of the aforesaid Robert
Eden, by any wilful fault or Neglect on your or his part, We
shall esteem such neglect to be a breach of the aforesaid Laws,
tending to the forfeiture of the Letters Patent granted by
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