Customs Act 1662

V. collectors, &c. of Customs to give an Account to the Collector and Surveyor in the Port of London, under 12 Car. II. c. 18. of foreign-built Ships in Port, who are to transmit same to the Exchequer on or before Dec. 1662.

All foreign-built Ships not bought before 1st Oct. 1662 deemed Aliens.; Recital of 12 Car. II. c. 18.; Mariners of England, Ireland, and Plantations, to be accounted English.

And for the better encrease of Shipping and Navigation be it further enacted That the collectors and other Officers of His Majesties Customes in all the Ports of England shall forthwith give an account unto the Collector and Surveyor in the Port. of London (appointed by His Majesty for all Duties and Matters relating to a late act entituled An act for encreasing and encouraging of Shipping and Navigation) of all Forreign built Shipps in theire Ports owned and belonging to the people of England of what built and burthen they are for which Certificates have beene made according to the said act and that the said Collector and Surveyor shall make a true and perfect list of all such Shipps attested under theire hands and transmit the same into His Majesties Court of Exchequer on or before the Moneth of December in the yeare One thousand six hundred sixty and two there to remaine upon record And that no Forreign built Ship (that is to say) not built in any of His Majesties Dominions of Asia Africa or America or other then such as shall (bona fide) be bought before the First of October One thousand six hundred sixty and two next ensuing and expresly named in the said List shall enjoye the priviledge of a Ship belonging to England or Ireland although owned or manned by English (except such Ships only as shall be taken at Sea by Letters of Mart or Reprizal and Condemnation made in the Court of Admiralty as lawfull Prize) but all such Ships shall be deemed as Aliens Ships and be liable unto all Duties that Aliens Ships are liable unto by vertue of the said act for encrease of Shipping and Navigation And whereas it is required by the said act that in sundry cases the Master and three fourths of the Mariners are to be English it is to be understood that any of His Majesties subjects of England Ireland and His Plantac[i]ons are to bee accounted English and no others and that the number of Mariners be accounted according to what they shall have been during the whole Voyage