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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74432	An act for increase of shipping, and encouragement of the navigation of this nation. Thursday the ninth of October, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Thomason E1061_58; ESTC R209326	3,046	8

AN ACT FOR Increase of Shipping And Encouragement of the NAVIGATION OF THIS NATION Thursday the Ninth of October 1651. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament of England 1651. AN ACT FOR Increase of Shipping And Encouragement of the NAVIGATION OF THIS NATION FOr the Increase of the Shipping and the Encouragement of the Navigation of this Nation which under the good Providence and protection of God is so great a means of the Welfare and Safety of this Common-wealth Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and the Authority thereof That from and after the First day of December One thousand six hundred fifty and one and from thence forwards No Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Asia Affrica or America or of any part thereof or of any Islands belonging to them or any of them or which are described or laid down in the usual Maps or Cards of those places as well of the English Plantations as others shall be Imported or brought into this Commonwealth of England or into Ireland or any other Lands Islands Plantations or Territories to this Commonwealth belonging or in their Possession in any other Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but only in such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the People of this Commonwealth or the Plantations thereof as the Proprietors or right Owners thereof And whereof the Master and Marriners are also for the most part of them of the People of this Common-wealth under the penalty of the forfeiture and loss of all the Goods that shall be Imported contrary to this Act as also of the Ship with all her Tackle Guns and Apparel in which the said Goods or Commodities shall be so brought in and Imported The one moyety to the use of the Commonwealth and the other moyety to the use and behoof of any person or persons who shall seize the said Goods or Commodities and shall prosecute the same in any Court of Record within this Commonwealth And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe or of any part thereof shall after the First day of December One thousand six hundred fifty and one be Imported or brought into this Commonwealth of England or into Ireland or any other Lands Islands Plantations or Territories to this Commonwealth belonging or in their possession in any Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such as do truly and without fraud belong onely to the people of this Commonwealth as the true Owners and proprietors thereof and in no other except onely such Forreign Ships and Vessels as do truly and properly belong to the people of that Countrey or place of which the said Goods are the Growth Production or Manufacture or to such Ports where the said Goods can onely be or most usually are first Shipped for Transportation And that under the same penalty of forfeiture and loss expressed in the former Branch of this Act The said Forfeitures to be recovered and imployed as is therein expressed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities that are of Forreign Growth Production or Manufacture and which are to be brought into this Commonwealth in shipping belonging to the people thereof shall be by them Shipped or brought from any other place or places Countrey or Countreys but onely from those of their said Growth Production or Manufacture or from those Ports where the said Goods and Commodities can onely or are or usually have been first Shipped for Transportation And from none other places or Countreys under the same penalty of forfeiture and loss expressed in the first Branch of this Act the said Forfeitures to be recovered and imployed as is therein expressed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no sort of Cod-fish Ling Herring Pilchard or any other kinde of salted Fish usually fished for and caught by the people of this Nation nor any Oyl made or that shall be made of any kinde of Fish whatsoever nor any Whale-fins or Whale-bones shall from henceforth be Imported into this Commonwealth or into Ireland or any other Lands Islands Plantations or Territories thereto belonging or in their possession but onely such as shall be caught in Vessels that do or shall truly and properly belong to the people of this Nation as Proprietors and Right Owners thereof And the said Fish to be cured and the Oyl aforesaid made by the people of this said Commonwealth under the penalty and loss expressed in the said first Branch of this present Act the said Forfeit to be recovered and imployed as is there expressed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no sort of Cod Ling Herring Pilchard or any other kinde of Salted Fish whatsoever which shall be caught and cured by the people of this Commonwealth shall be from and after the First day of February One thousand six hundred fifty three Exported from any place or places belonging to this Commonwealth in any other Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels save onely in such as do truly and properly appertain to the people of this Commonwealth as Right Owners and whereof the Master and Marriners are for the most part of them English under the penalty and loss expressed in the said first Branch of this present Act the said Forfeit to be recovered and imployed as is there expressed Provided always That this Act nor any thing theren contained extend not or be meant to restrain the Importation of any of the Commodities of the Streights or Levant Seas loaden in the Shipping of this Nation as aforesaid at 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 Provided also That this Act nor any thing therein contained extend not nor be meant to restrain the Importing of any East-India Commodities loaden in the Shipping of this Nation at the usual Port or places for Lading of them heretofore 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 Provided also That it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the People of this Commonwealth in Vessels or Ships to them belonging and whereof the Master and Marriners are of this Nation as aforesaid To load and bring in from any of the Ports of Spain and Portugal all sorts of Goods or Commodities that have come from or any way belonged unto the Plantations or Dominions of either of them respectively Be it also further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That from henceforth it shal not be lawful to any person or persons whatsoever to load or cause to be loaden and carryed in any Bottom or Bottoms Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever whereof any Stranger or Strangers born unless such as be Denizens or Naturalized be Owners part Owners or Master Any Fish Victual Wares or things of what kinde or nature soever the same shall be from one Port or Creek of this Commonwealth to another Port or Creek of the same under penalty to every one that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this Branch of this present Act to forfeit all the Goods that shall be so Laden or carried as also the Ship upon which they shall be so laden or carried the same Forfeit to be recovered and imployed as directed in the First Branch of this present Act. Lastly That this Act nor any thing therein contained extend not to Bullion nor yet to any Goods taken or that shall be taken by way of Reprizal by any Ship or Ships having Commission from this Commonwealth Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend nor be construed to extend to any Silk or Silk-wares which shall be brought by Land from any parts of Italy and there bought with the proceed of English Commodities sold either for Money or in Barter but that it shall and may be lawful for any of the people of this Commonwealth to ship the same in English Vessels from Ostend Newport Roterdam Middleburgh Amsterdam or any Ports thereabouts The Owners and Proprietors first making Oath by themselves or other credible Witness before the Commissioners of the Customs for the time being or their Deputies or one of the Barons of the Exchequer that the Goods aforesaid were so bought for his or their own proper Accompt in Italy Thursday the 9th of October 1651. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti