Provided neverthelesse That the Owner or Owners and Proprietors of the said Ships shall take an Oath at or before the First day of August next ensuing or within three monthes after such Ship shall be taken and adjudged Prize before the Officers of his Majesties Customes of the Port next to the place of theire abode (which Oath the said Officers have hereby power to administer) That they are the true and lawfull Owners & Proprietors of the said Forreign built Ships respectively And that no Forreigner [X1nor] Alien directly or indirectly have any part share or interest therein And that he or they produce the Adjudication and Condemnation of the said Shipp as taken and made Prize during the late War as aforesaid by one of the before mentioned Admiralties
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]