IX. Provided always, and be it hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the prevention of the great frauds daily used in colouring and concealing of aliens goods, all wines of the growth of France or Germany, which from and after the twentieth day of October one thousand six hundred and sixty shall be imported into any the ports or places aforesaid, in any other ship or vessel than which doth truly and without fraud belong to England, Ireland, Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and navigated with the mariners thereof, as aforesaid, shall be deemed aliens goods, and pay all strangers customs and duties to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, as also to the town or port into which they shall be imported; (2) and that all sorts of masts, timber or boards, as also all foreign salt, pitch, tar, rosin, hemp, flax, raisins, figs, prunes, olive-oils, all sorts of corn or grain, sugar, pot-ashes, spirits commonly called Brandy-wine, or Aqua-vitæ, wines of the growth of Spain, the islands

of the Canaries or Portugal, Madera or Western Islands; (3) 516 and all the goods of the growth, production or manufacture of

Muscovy or Russia, which from and after the first day of April, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty-one, shall be imported into any the aforesaid places in any other than such shipping, and so navigated; (4) and all currans and Turky commodities which from and after the first day of September one thousand six hundred sixty-one shall be imported into any the places aforesaid, in any other than English-built shipping, and navigated as aforesaid, (5) shall be deemed aliens goods, and pay accordingly to his Majesty his heirs and successors, and to the town or port into which they shall be imported.

X. And for prevention of all frauds which may be used in colouring or buying of foreign ships, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That from and after the first day of April, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty-one, no foreign-built ship or vessel whatsoever shall be deemed or pass as a ship to England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick, or any of them belonging, or enjoy the benefit or privilege of such a ship or vessel, until such time that he or they claiming the said ship or vessel to be theirs, shall make appear to the chief officer or officers of the Customs in the port next to the place of his or their abode, that he or they are not aliens, and shall have taken an oath before such chief officer or officers, who are hereby authorised to administer the same, that such ship or vessel was bona fide and without fraud by him or them bought for a valuable consideration, expressing the sum, as also the time, place and persons from whom it was bought, and who are his part-owners (if he have any); (2) all which part-owners shall be liable to take the said oath before the chief officer or officers of the Custom-house of the port next to the place of their abode, and that no foreigner directly or indirectly hath any part, interest or share therein; and that upon such oath he or they shall receive a certificate under the hand and seal of the said chief officer or officers of the port where such person or persons so making oath do reside, whereby such ship or vessel may for the future pass and be deemed as a ship belonging to the said port, and enjoy the privilege of such a ship or vessel; and the said officer or officers shall keep a register of all such certificates as he or they shall

so give, and return a duplicate thereof to the chief officers of the Customs at London, for such as shall be granted in England, Wales, and Berwick, and to the chief officers of the Customs at Dublin, for such as shall be given in Ireland, together with the names of the person or persons from whom such ship was bought, and the sum of money which was paid for her, as also the names of all such persons who are part-owners of her, if any such be.

XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any officers of the Customs shall from and after the said first day of April allow the privilege of being a ship or vessel to England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick, or any of them belonging, to any foreign-built ship or vessel, until such certificate be before them produced, or such proof and oath taken before them; (2) or if any officer of the Customs shall allow the privilege of an English-built ship, or other ship to any of the aforesaid places belonging, to any English or foreign-built ship coming into any port, and making entry of any goods, until examination whether the master and three-fourths of the mariners be English; (3) or shall allow to any foreign-built ship bringing in the commodities of the growth of the country where it was built, the privilege by this Act to such ship given, until examination and proof whether it be a ship of the built of that country, and that the master and three-fourths of the mariners are of that country; (4) or if any person who is or shall be made Governor of any lands, islands, plantations or territories in Africa, Asia, or America, by his Majesty, his heirs or successors, shall suffer any foreign-built ship or vessel to load or unload any goods or commodities within the precincts of their governments, until such certificate be produced before them, or such as shall be by them appointed to view the same, and examination whether the master and three-fourths of the mariners at least be English; (5) that for the first offence such officer of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their places, offices or governments.

XII. Provided always, that this act, or anything therein contained, extend not, or be meant, to restrain and prohibit the importation of any the commodities of the Streights or Levant-Seas, loaden in English-built shipping, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English, from the usual ports or places for lading of them heretofore within the said Streights or Levant seas, though the said commodities be not of the very growth of the said places.

XIII. Provided also, That this act, or anything herein contained, extend not, or be meant, to restrain the importing of any East-India commodities loaden in English-built shipping, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English, from the usual place or places for lading of them in any part of those seas, to the southward and eastward of Cabo bona Esperanza, although the said ports be not the very places of their growth.

XIV. Provided also, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the people of England, Ireland, Wales, Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, in vessels or ships to them belonging, and whereof the master and three-fourths of the mariners at least are English, to load and bring in from any of the ports of Spain or Portugal, or Western Islands, commonly called Azores, or

Madera or Canary Islands, all sorts of goods or commodities of the growth, production or manufacture of the plantations or dominions of either of them respectively.

XV. Provided, That this act, or anything therein contained, extend not to bullion, nor yet to any goods taken, or that shall be bona fide taken, by way of reprisal by any ship or ships belonging to England, Ireland or Wales, Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English, having commission from his Majesty, his heirs and successors.

XVI. Provided always, that this act, or anything therein contained, shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to lay aliens duties upon any corn of the growth of Scotland, or to any salt made in Scotland, nor to any fish caught, saved and cured by the people of Scotland, and imported directly from Scotland in Scotch-built ships, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners are of his Majesty's subjects; (2) nor to any seal-oil of Russia, imported from thence into England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, in shipping bona fide to some of the said places belonging, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English.

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XVII. Provided also, and it is hereby enacted, that every ship or vessel belonging to any of the subjects of the French king, which from and after the twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty shall come into any port, creek, harbour or road of England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and shall there lade or unlade any goods or commodities, or take in or set on shore any passengers, shall pay to the collector of his Majesty's Customs in such port, creek, harbour or road, for every ton of which the said ship or vessel is of burthen, to be computed by such officer of the Customs as shall be thereunto appointed, the sum of five shillings current money of England: (2) And that no such ship or vessel be suffered to depart out of such port, creek, harbour or road, until the said duty be fully paid: (3) And that this duty shall continue to be collected, levied and paid, for such time as a certain duty of fifty sols per ton, lately imposed by the French king, or any part thereof, shall continue to be collected upon the shipping of England lading in France, and three months after, and no longer.

XVIII. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of April, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty-one, no sugars, tobacco, cotton-wool, indigoes, ginger, fustick, or other dying wood, of the growth, production or manufacture of any English plantations in America, Asia or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed or transported from any of the said English plantations to any land, island, territory, dominion, port or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland, or principality of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, there to be laid on shore, (2) under the penalty of the forfeiture of the said goods, or the full value thereof, as also of the ship, with all her guns, tackle, apparel, ammunition and furniture; the one moiety to the King's Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety

to him or them that shall seize. inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record, by Bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoin, protection or wager of law shall be allowed.

XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for every ship or vessel, which from and after the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand. six hundred and sixty shall set sail out or from England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, for any English plantation in America, Asia or Africa, sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to the chief officers of the Custom-house of such port or place from whence the said ship shall set sail, to the value of one thousand pounds, if the ship be of less burthen than one hundred tuns; and of the sum of two thousand pounds, if the ship shall be of greater burthen: That in case the said ship or vessel 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: (2) And for all ships coming from any other port or place to any of the aforesaid plantations, who by this act are permitted to trade there, that the Governor of such English plantations shall before the said ship or vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said commodities, take bond in manner and to the value aforesaid, for each respective ship or vessel, that such ship or vessel shall carry all the aforesaid goods that shall be laden on board in the said ship to some other of his Majesty's English plantations, or to England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed: (3) And that every ship or vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid goods, until such bond given to the said Governor, or certificate produced from the officers of any Customhouse of England, Ireland, Wales, or of the town of Berwick, that such bonds have been there duly given, shall be forfeited with all her guns, tackle, apparel and furniture, to be imployed and recovered in manner, as aforesaid; and the said Governors and every of them shall twice in every year after the first day of January one thousaid six hundred and sixty, return true copies of all such bonds by him so taken, to the chief officers of the Custom in London. [Confirmed by 13 Car. II, Stat. 1, c. 14.]

No. 4.-1663: British Statute, 15 Charles II, Cap. 16.

An Act for regulating the Herring and other Fisheries, and for Repeal of the Act concerning Madder.

For the preventing of abuses in the packing and ordering of herrings, and bringing that commodity into credit in foreign parts beyond the seas; (2) Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of August one thousand six hundred sixty-four, no white or red herrings of English-catching shall be put

to sale in England, Wales, or in the town of Berwick upon Tweed, but what shall be packed in lawful barrels or vessels, and which shall be well, truly and justly laid and packed; and shall be of one time of taking, salting, saving or drying, and equally well packed in the midst and every part of the barrel or vessel, and by a sworn packer; and the vessel or barrel marked or branded by such sworn packer, with a mark or brand denoting the gage of the barrel or vessel, and the quantity, quality and condition of the herrings packed therein, and the town or place where they were packed; (3) and the Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth for the time being, and the Mayor, Bailiffs, or other head officer for the time being of every port, haven or creek, out of which any vessels or ships do proceed to fish for herrings, are hereby authorised and required before the first day of July in the year one

thousand six hundred sixty-four, and before the first day of 518 July in every year after, to appoint for their respective haven,

port or creek, a competent number of able and experienced packers, to view and pack all such white or red herrings of English catching, as shall be brought into their port, haven or creek, and well and truly to mark and brand the barrels or vessels in which they shall be packed, with such mark or brand as is above directed, and to administer to them yearly an oath, (which oath they are hereby authorized and appointed to give to them) for the well and true doing thereof according to this Act: (4) And in case the said Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth, or the Mayor, Bailiffs, or other head officer for the time being of any such port, haven or creek, shall not appoint and swear such packers before such time in every year, as is by this Act required, they shall for every default forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds of lawful money of England; one moiety to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record, by bill, plaint or other action, wherein no essoin, protection or wager in law shall be allowed: (5) And for the better regulating of the Island and Westmony fisheries, and preservation of the spawn of fish there, be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the five and twentieth day of December one thousand six hundred sixty-three, no ship or vessel shall proceed upon a fishing voyage for Island and Westmony out of any port, haven or creek in England or Wales, or out of the Port of Berwick upon Tweed until the tenth day of March in any year, upon pain of the forfeiture of every such ship or vessel with all her furniture, tackle and apparel, and of all the fish caught in such ship or vessel: (6) and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person or Persons whatsoever do collect, levy or take, or cause to be collected, levied, or taken in Newfoundland, any Toll or other duty of or for any Cod or Poor-John or other fish of English catching; under the Pain of the Loss of double the value of what shall be by them levied, collected or taken, or caused to be collected, levied or taken: (7) and that no Planter, or Other Person or Persons whatsoever, do cast or lay any seine or other net in or near any harbour in Newfoundland, whereby to take the spawn or young fry of the Poor-John, or for any other Use or Uses, except for the taking of bait only; (8) upon Pain of the Loss of all such Seines or Nets, and of the Fish taken in them, or of the value thereof, to be recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts in Newfoundland, or in any