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  2. No Goods shall be imported to or exported from Asia,...

  3. II.Aliens exercising the Occupation of Merchants or Factors in Plantations. Penalty.

  4. III.Goods of Africa, Asia, or America not to be imported but in English Ships, and manned as aforesaid.

  5. IV.Goods of foreign Growth or Manufacture to be imported only from the Places of their said Growth, &c.

  6. V.All Ling, Stock Fish, &c. Oil, &c. Whalefins, &c. imported, not caught in Vessels of the Proprietors themselves, &c. shall pay double Aliens Custom.

  7. VI.No Goods to be carried from one Port of England to another in the Vessel of any Alien.

  8. VII.Abatement, &c. in the Book of Rates allowed only where the Master and Three Fourths of the Mariners be English.

  9. VIII.Goods of the Growth or Manufacture of Muscovy or Russia, and of the Turkish Empire, and other Goods herein mentioned, to be imported in English Ships, and manned as aforesaid.

  10. IX.What Goods deemed Aliens' Goods, and pay Aliens' Duties.

  11. X.In what Case and by what Means Foreign-built Ships shall be deemed English Ships.

  12. XI.Officers of the Customs allowing Privilege to any Foreign-built Ship until Certificate or Proof, &c.

  13. XII.Proviso for Goods of the Streights or Levant.

  14. XIII.Proviso for Importation of East India Commodities as to Growth.

  15. XIV.Proviso for Goods imported from Spain, Portugal, Azores, Madeira, or Canary Islands.

  16. XV.Proviso for Bullion, and Goods taken by way of Reprisal.

  17. XVI.Proviso concerning Corn, Salt, and Fish of Scotland;

  18. XVII.The Duty payable upon Goods in French Ships, and on their taking in and setting on Shore Passengers.

  19. XVIII.Sugars, Tobacco, &c. of the Growth of America, Asia, or Africa, to be shipped only to English Dominions.

  20. XIX.Ships sailing from England, Ireland, or Wales to English Plantations, bound.

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