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An act for the encouraging & increasing of shipping and navigation
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); England and Wales. Parliament.
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1660
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Wing E1108; Thomason E1075_16; ESTC R208537
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Anno Regni CAROLI II. REGIS Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae DUODECIMO At the Parliament begun at VVestminster the Five and twentieth day of April An. Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord CHARLES By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. Cum Privilegio Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis AN ACT FOR THE Encouraging Increasing OF SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION FOr the increase of Shipping and encouragement of the Navigation of this Nation wherein under the good Providence and Protection of God the Wealth Safety and Strength of this Kingdom is so much concerned Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and the Authority thereof That from and after the First day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty and from thenceforward no Goods or Commodities whatsoever shall be Imported into or Exported out of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories to His Majesty belonging or in His possession or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the possession of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors in Asia Africa or America in any other ship or ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such ships or Vessels as do truly and without fraud belong onely to the people of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or are of the built of and belonging to any the said Lands Islands Plantations or Territories as the Proprietors and right Owners thereof and whereof the Master and three fourths of the Marriners at least are English under the penalty of the Forfeiture and Loss of all the Goods and Commodities which shall be Imported into or Exported out of any the aforesaid places in any other Ship or Vessel as also of the Ship or Vessel with all its Guns Furniture Tackle Ammunition and Apparel one third part thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors one third part to the Governor of such Land Plantation Island or Territory where such default shall be committed in case the said Ship or Goods be there seized or otherwise that third part also to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other third part to him or them who shall Seize Inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed and all Admirals and other Commanders at Sea of any the ships of War or other ship having Commission from His Majesty or from His Heirs or Successors are hereby Authorized and strictly required to seize and bring in as Prize all such Ships or Vessels as shall have offended contrary hereunto and deliver them to the Court of Admiralty there to be proceeded against and in case of condemnation one moyety of such Forfeitures shall be to the use of such Admirals or Commanders and their Companies to be divided and proportioned amongst them according to the Rules and Orders of the Sea in case of Ships taken Prize and the other Moyety to the use of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And be it Enacted That no Alien or Person not born within the Allegiance of Our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors or Naturalized or made a frée Denizen shall from and after the First day of February which shall be in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one exercise the Trade or Occupation of a Merchant or Factor in any the said Places upon pain of the Forfeiture and Loss of all his Goods and Chattels or which are in his possession one third to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors one third to the Governor of the Plantation where such Person shall so offend and the other third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts in the Plantation where such offence shall be committed And all Governors of the said Lands Islands Plantations or Territories and every of them are hereby strictly required and commanded and all who hereafter shall be made Governors of any such Islands Plantations or Territories by His Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall before their entrance into their Government take a Solemn Oath to do their utmost that every the afore mentioned Clauses and all the matters and things therein contained shall be punctually and bona fide observed according to the true intent and meaning thereof And upon complaint and proof made before His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or such as shall be by Him or them thereunto Authorized and appointed that any the said Governors have been willingly and wittingly negligent in doing their duty accordingly that the said Governor so offending shall be removed from his Government And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Africa Asia or America or of any part thereof or which are described or laid down in the usual Mans or Cards of those Places be imported into England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in any other Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels whatsoever but in such as do truly and without fraud belong onely to the people of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or of the Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Asia Africa or America to His Majesty belonging as the Proprietors and right Owners thereof and whereof the Master and three Fourths at least of the Mariners are English under the penalty of the forfeiture of all such Goods and Commodities and of the Ship or Vessel in which they were Imported with all her Guns Tackle Furniture Ammunition and Apparel one moyety to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or wager in Law shall be allowed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Goods or Commodities that are of forain Growth Production or Manufacture and which are to be brought into England Ireland Wales the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in English-built shipping or other shipping belonging to some of the aforesaid Places and navigated by English Mariners as abovesaid shall be 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 penalty of the forfeiture of
aforesaid shall be deemed Aliens Goods and pay accordingly to His Majestie His Heirs and Successors and to the Town or Port into which they shall be Imported And for prevention of all Frauds which may be used in colouring or buying of Forain 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 Forain 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 priviledge 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 aboad that he or they are not Aliens and shall have taken an Oath before such chief Officer or Officers who are hereby Authorized 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 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 aboad and that no Forainer 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 or 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 priviledge 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 Duplicat 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 And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Officer of the Customs shall from and after the said First day of April allow the priviledge of being a Ship or Vessel to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick or any of them belonging to any Forain built Ship or Vessel until such Certificate be before them produced or such Proof and Oath taken before them or if any Officer of the Customs shall allow the priviledge of an English built Ship or other Ship to any the aforesaid places belonging to any English or Forain 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 or shall allow to any Forain built Ship bringing in the Commodities of the Growth of the Countrey where it was built the priviledge by this Act to such ship given until Examination and Proof whether it be a ship of the built of that Countrey and that the Master and three fourths of the Mariners are of that Countrey 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 Forain 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 that for the first Offence such Officer of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their Places Officers or Governments Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not or be meant to restrain and prohibite the Importation of any the Commodities of the Straights or Levant Seas loaden in English built shipping whereof the Master three fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual Ports or Places for lading of them heretofore within the said Straights or Levant Seas though the said Commodities be not of the very Growth of the said places Provided also That this Act or any thing therein 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 South-ward and East-ward of Cabo bona speranza 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 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 Provided That this Act or any thing 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 or Successors Provided always That this Act or any thing 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 Majesties Subjects nor to any Seal Oyl 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 Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That every Ship or Vessel belonging to any the Subjects of the French King which from and after the Twentieth day of