MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 23

tain Information against the Pink Ann of Maryland John Blackmore Master
the Tenor of which Information followeth in these words.

To the Justices of their Ma^ts Provinciall Court for the Province of
Maryland.

Be it remembred that Edward Randolph Esq. who as well for our Said
Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen as for himself gave the Court
here to understand and be inform'd That whereas by a certain Act of [30]
Parliam^t made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second
Intituled An Act for the Encouragem^t and increasing of Sniping and Navi-
gation amongst other things it is therein contained, Viz^t And be it further
Enacted by the authority afore Said that for every Ship or Vessell which from
and after the Five and twentieth day of December in the Year of our Lord
One Thousand Six hundred and Sixty Shall Sett Sail out of or from Eng-
land Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon tweed for any English Planta-
tion in America Asia or Africa Sufficient Bond Shall be given with one
Surety to the Cheife Officers of the Custom house of Such Port or place from
whence the Said Ship Shall Sett Sail to the Value of One thousand pounds
if the Ship be of less Burthen then One hundred Tonns, And of the Summe
of Two thousand pounds if the Ship Shall be of greater Burthen That in
Case the Said Ship or Vessell Shall load any of the Said Commodities at any
of the Said English Plantations that the Same Commodities Shall be by the
Said Ship brought to Some port of England Ireland Wales or to the Port or
Town of Berwick upon Tweed and Shall there Unload and put on Shore the
Same the danger of the Seas only excepted And for all Ships Coming from
any other Port or place in any of the afore Said Plantations who by this Act
are permitted to Trade there that the Govern^r of Such English plantations
Shall before the Said Ship or Vessell be permitted to load on board any of
the Said Commodities take Bond in manner and to the Value afore Said for
each respective Ship or Vessell that Such Ship or Vessell that Shall Carry all
the afore Said Goods that Shall be loaden on board in the Said Ship to Some
other of his Ma^tt English Plantations or to England Ireland Wales or Town
of Berwick upon Tweede and that every Ship or Vessell which Shall load or
take on board any of the afore Said Goods untill Such Bond be given to the
Said Govern^r or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom house
of England Ireland or of the Town of Berwick that Such Bond have been
there duly given Shall be forfeited with all her Guns Tackle Apparell and
Furniture to be imployed as by the Said Act is directed which Act is Still in
full force and unrepealed. Notwithstanding John Blackmore Marriner
Commander of the Ship Ann belonging to this Province of Maryland not
regarding the Statute afore Said nor the penalties therein Contain'd any
wise fearing but altogether Slighting and Contemning the Same after the
making of the Said Statute to Witt the Tenth day of Jan^ry and divers times
before in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Six hundred Ninety and three