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Navigation Act 1660
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XI.Officers of the Customs allowing Privilege to any Foreign-built Ship until Certificate or Proof, &c.
Governors of Plantations, &c. suffering Foreign built Ships to load, &c. without Certificate; Penalty
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any [X1Officers] of the Customes shall from and after the X2 first day of April allow the priviledge of being a Ship or Vessel to England Ireland Wales or Towne of Berwicke or any of them belonging to any Forraigne built Ship or Vessel, untill such Certificate be before them produced, or such Proofe and Oath taken before them or if any Officer of the Customes shall allow the priviledge of an English built ship or other Ship to any the aforesaid places belonging to any English or Forraine built Ship comeing into any Port and makeing Entry of any Goods untill Examination whether the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners be English, or shall allow to any Foraigne built Ship bringing in the Commodities of the Growth of the Country where it was built the priviledge by this Act to such Ship given untill Examination and Proofe 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, or if any Person who is or shall be made Governour of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Africa Asia or America by his Majesty His Heires or Successors shall suffer any Forraine built Ship or Vessell to load or unload any Goods or Commodityes within the Precincts of their Governments untill 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 Fourthes of the Mariners at least be English, that for the first offence such Officer of the Customes and Governours shall be put out of their places Offices or Governments.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Officer O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: said O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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