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Plantation Trade Act 1695
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X.The Treasury and Commissioners of the Customs may appoint Officers in Ports, &c. of Islands, &c; In all Actions Jury to be Natives of England or Ireland, or born in the Plantations.
Where Offences to be laid.
[X1And for the better executing the severall Acts of Parliament relating to the Plantation Trade bee itt enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury and the Commissioners of the Customes in England for the tyme being shall and may constitute and appoint such and soe many Officers of the Customes in any City Towne River Port Harbour or Creeke of or belonging to any of the Islands Tracts of Land and Proprieties when and as often as to them shall seeme needfull] Bee itt further also enacted That upon any Actions Suites and Informations that shall bee brought commenced or entred in the said Plantations upon any Law or Statute concerning His Majesties Duties or Shipps or Goods to bee forfeited by reason of any unlawfull Importations or Exportations there shall not bee any Jury but of such onely as are Natives of England or Ireland or are borne in His Majesties said Plantations And also that upon all such Actions Suits and Informations the Offences may bee laid or alleadged to bee in any Colony Province County Precinct or Division of any of the said Plantac[i]ons where such Offences are alleadged to bee committed att the pleasure of the Officer or Informer.
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X1annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.
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