Prize Ships Act 1667

III. Certificate by Officer of such Ships and Register.

Duplicate thereof, according as Ships shall belong to England, &c. to be returned to Customs at London, Dublin, and Plantations. Officers at Dublin and in the Plantations to return Certificate of Oath, &c to Customs at London to be returned into the Exchequer.

And be it further enacted That all such Officers of the Customes before whom such Oath shall be soe made shall from time to time give Certificates under their respective Hands and Seales belonging to theire respective Offices to such person or persons as shall demand the same of all such Forreigne built Ships and shall keepe a Register of the said Ships and shall within two monthes next after such Oath so made return a Duplicate thereof to the cheife Officers of the Customes at London for all such Ships as doe soe belong to any Port or place within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and to the cheife Officers at the Port of Dublin for all such Ships as shall belong to the Kingdom of Ireland and to the cheife Officers in the cheife Ports of any of his Majesties Plantations for all such Ships as shall belong to any of the said Plantac[i]ons abroad the said cheife Officers at the Port [X1 of] Dublin and in the several Ports of the several Planta[i]cons being within two monthes next after such Oath so made to returne Certificates thereof unto the cheife Officers of the Customes att London togeather alsoe with the Names of all such persons as are the Owners of such respective Ships to the end such Certificates or Duplicates may and shall be returned into his Majesties Court of Exchequer in England there to remain upon Record

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: at O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]