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 loaden on board the said Ship or Vessel to some other of the said British Plantations or to Great Britain, and that every Ship or Vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid Goods, until such Bond be given to the said Governor, or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom House of Great Britain, that such Bond hath been there duly given, shall be forfeited, with her Guns, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture, to be employed and recovered as therein is directed; And whereas by two Acts passed in the 3a and 4th years of the Reign of Queen Anne, the one, intituled "An Act for encouraging the Importation of Naval Stores from Her Majesty's Plantations in America" and the other, "An Act for granting to Her Majesty a further subsidy on Wines and Merchandizes imported" and by two other Acts, passed in the 8th year of the Reign of King George the First, the one intituled "An Act for Encouragement of the Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom, and for taking off several Duties on Merchandizes exported, and for reducing the Duties upon Beaver Skins, Pepper, Mace, Cloves, and Nutmegs imported, and for importation of all Furs of the product of the British Plantations into this Kingdom only; the other intituled, "An Act to prevent the clandestine running of Goods, &c., and to subject Copper Ore of the production of the British Plantations to such regulations as other enumerated Commodities of the like production are subject," continued by an Act passed in the 8th year of His said late Majesty's Reign; and still in force, all Rice (except under the regulations prescribed in the Acts of the 3d year of His late Majesty's Reign, and the fourth and fifth. years of Our Reign), Melasses, Furs, Hemp, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, and Copper Ore, and by an Act passed in the fourth year of Our Reign all Coffee, Pimento, Cocoa Nuts, Whalefins, Raw Silk, Hides

and Skins, Pot and Pearl Ashes, of the growth, production,

or manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in America, are under the like Securities and Penalties restrained to be imported into this Kingdom, as the other above-mentioned enumerated Commodities; And whereas by an Act passed in the 5th year of Our Reign, intituled, "An Act for more effectually preventing the Mischiefs arising to the Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland from the illicit & clandestine Trade to and from the Isle of Man" no Rum or other Spirits shall be shipped or laden in any British Colony or Plantations in America, but on condition that the same shall not be carried to or landed in the Isle of Man, under the like Securities, Penalties and forfeitures, and whereas by another Act made in the 6th year of Our Reign, intituled "An Act for opening and establishing certain Ports in the Islands of Jamaica and Dominica for the more free Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandizes; for granting certain Duties to defray the Expenses of opening, maintaining, securing and improving such Ports, for ascertaining the Duties to be paid upon the Importation of Goods from the said Island of Dominica into this Kingdom, and for securing the Duties upon Goods imported from the said Island into any other British Colony," all Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Fustick, and all manner of dying Drugs or Woods, Drugs used in Medicines, Hair, Furs, Hides and Skins, Pot and Pearl Ashes, Whale fins, and Raw Silk of the growth and produce of any foreign Colony or Plantation, shall, upon the exportation thereof from either of the said Islands of Dominica or Jamaica, be imported from thence directly into Great Britain, under the like Securities, Penalties and forfeitures, and by the said Act of the 6th year of Our Reign no Goods whatever, shall or may be exported from the said Island of Dominica to any part of Europe to the northward of Cape Finisterre, except to Great Britain, and such Goods shall be there

landed under the same Securities, Regulations and Restrictions, and subject to the like penalties and forfeitures; You are therefore to take particular care and give the necessary directions, that the true intent and meaning of all the said Acts be strictly and duly complied with.

6. You shall carefully examine all Certificates which shall be brought to you of Ships giving Security in this Kingdom to bring their Lading of Plantation Goods hither, as also Certificates of having discharged their Ladings of Plantation Goods in this Kingdom pursuant to their Securities; and whereas the better to prevent any of the aforesaid Certificates from being counterfeited, the Commissioners of Our Customs have thought fit to sign the same; It is therefore Our WILL and PLEASURE, that no such Certificates be allowed of unless the same be under the Hands and Seals of the Customer, Comptroller, and Collector of the Customs in some Port in this Kingdom, or two of them, as also under the hands of four of Our Commissioners of the Customs at London, or three of Our Commissioners of the Customs at Edinburgh, and where there shall be reasonable ground of Suspicion that the Certificate of having given Security in this Kingdom is false and counterfeit, in such case, you or the person, or persons appointed under you, shall require and take sufficient Security for the discharge of the Plantation Lading in this Kingdom, and where there shall be cause to suspect, that the Certificate of having discharged the Lading of Plantation Goods in this Kingdom is false and counterfeit, you shall not cancel, or vacate the Security given in the Plantations, until you shall be informed from the Commissioners of Our Customs in Great Britain, that the Matter of the said Certificate is true; and if any person or persons shall counterfeit, raze or falsify any such Certificate for any Vessel or Goods or shall knowingly or wittingly make use thereof, you shall prosecute such person for the forfeiture of the Sum of five hundred Pounds, according to a Clause

of the aforesaid Act for preventing Frauds and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade; and pursuant to the said Act, you shall take care, that in all such Bonds to be hereafter given or taken in the Colony under your Government, the Sureties therein named, be persons of known residence and ability there, for the value mentioned in the said Bonds, and that the Condition of the said Bonds be within eighteen Months after the date thereof, the danger of the Seas excepted, to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned, in one of Our Plantations or in this Kingdom, otherwise to attest the Copy of such Bonds under your hand and Seal, and to cause prosecution thereof: And it is Our further WILL and PLEASURE, that you do give directions to the Naval Officer or Officers not to admit any person to be Security for another, who has Bonds standing out and undischarged, unless he be esteemed responsible for more than the value of such Bonds.

7. AND you are also to give Directions to the said Naval Officer or Officers, to advise with the Collector of the Port or District in taking Bonds, and not to admit any person to be Security in any Plantation-Bond, until approved by the said Collector; And whereas Lists of all Certificates, granted in South Britain, for the discharge of Bonds given in the Plantations, are every Quarter sent to the Collectors of the Districts where such Bonds are given, the said Naval Officer or Officers is, or are to take care that no Bond be discharged or cancelled by him or them without first advising with the Collector, and examining the said List to see that the Certificate is not forged or counterfeited; And whereas the principal officers of Our Customs in America are directed to examine, from time to time, whether the Plantation Bonds be duly and regularly discharged, you are to give directions, that the said Officers be permitted to have recourse to the said Bonds, as well as the Book or Books, in which they are or ought to be entered, and to

examine, as well whether due Entry thereof be made, as whether they are regularly taken and discharged, and where it shall appear that Bonds are not regularly discharged, you are to order that such Bonds be put in Suit.

8. You are to understand that the payment of the Rates and Duties, imposed by An Act intituled "An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade" passed in the 25th Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, on the several Plantation Commodities therein enumerated, doth not give liberty to carry the said Goods to any other place, than to some of Our Plantations, or to Great Britain only: & that notwithstanding the payment of the said Duties, Bond must be given to carry the said Goods to some of the said Plantations, or to Great Britain and to no other place.

9. You shall every three Months, or oftener, or otherwise, as there shall be opportunity of Conveyance, transmit to the Commissioners of Our Treasury or Our High Treasurer for the time being, and to the Commissioners of Our Customs in London, a List of all Ships or Vessels trading in the said Colony, according to the Form and Specimen hereunto annexed, together with a List of the Bonds taken pursuant to the Act passed in the 22 and 23 years of King Charles the Second's Reign, intituled "An Act to prevent planting Tobacco in England, and for regulating the Plantation Trade;" and you shall cause Demand to be made of every Master at his clearing of an Invoice of the Contents and Quality of his lading, &c., according to the Form hereunto also annexed; and inclose a Copy thereof by some other Ship, or for want of such Opportunity, by the same Ship, under Cover, sealed and directed to the Commissioners of Our Treasury, or Our High Treasurer for the time being, and to the Commissioners of Our Customs in London, and send another Copy of the said Invoice in like manner to the Collector of that Port in this Kingdom for