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Authority of the same that from and after the end of this present
General Assembly all goods wares & Marchandizes of the growth
production or manyfacture of Europe that shall be Imported into this
Province and Exported againe out of the same shall before such
Exportacon be duly and fairely Entred with the Naval Officer within
whose district the same shall happen to be Shipped of or Exported
and shall pay to the said Naval Officer or give good caution for the
payment of the sum of Tenn pounds for every hundred pounds Value
of goods & Merchandizes according to the true & real Invoyce thereof
sent out of England or in default thereof according to the real &
Intrinsick Value thereof in this Province so to be Exported and so
after the same rate for a greater or lesser quantity of goods Except
that the goods wares & Merchandizes of Europe be the proper goods
of any of the good People or Inhabitants of this Province and by them
Exported out of this Province bona fide without fraud, Provided
allwayes that any such person or persons Inhabitants of this Province
that shall at any time hereafter Export out of this Province any of the
goods Wares & Merchandizes of Europe do before his or their Ship-
ping of such Comodeties aforesaid make Oath upon the Holy Evan-
gilist that such goods & Merchandizes so by him or them Shipped
off to be exported or to be any ways carried out of this Province either
by Land or by Water are the proper goods Wares & Merchandizes
of him or them that shall export or carry away the same, and that
the same Oath shall be taken before the Naval Officer of such dis-
trict as aforesaid who hath full power & Authority given unto him
by this Act to take and exact the same in the form following; Viz :
I, A. B., do swear that the severall goods & Merchandizes which I
have now entred with the Naval Officer are by me intended to be
Exported out of this Province upon my own proper Risque & adven-
ture and that the same goods & Merchandizes are my own proper
goods and that no other person or persons whatsoever have any
Intrest or right in the same, but the same is by me entred & exported
bona fide without fraud covin or any dcccipt bvit according to the true
meaning & intention of the Act of Assembly in that behalf made so
help me God; And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by &
with the Advice & consent aforesaid that all Masters of Shipps or
other Vessells coming into this Province or into any of the Ports
Rivers Creeks or harbours thereof with their said Shipps or other
Vessells shall at his or their entry of such Shipp or Vessell with the
Naval Officer of the district wherein such entry shall be made, make
Oath before the said Naval Officer whether he hath Imported
any goods wares or Merchandizes in his Ship or Vessell into this
Province which are to be Exported out of this Province and which
were Shipped on board his Shipp for Pensilvania or any other parts.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by & with the
advice & consent aforesaid that all & every person & persons what-
soever as well the Inhabitants of this Province as others that shall
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Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts
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