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Plantation Trade Act 1695
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XIII.Recital that several Ships had been unduly discharged in Scotland and Ireland.
Plantation Goods not to be put on Shore in Scotland or Ireland, but on Condition herein mentioned; Penalty.
And whereas severall Shipps and Vessells laden with Tobacco Sugars and other Goods of the Growth and Product of His Majesties Plantations in America have beene discharged in severall Ports of the Kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland contrary to the Lawes and Statutes now in being under pretence that the said Shipps and [X1Vessells] were driven in thither by Stresse of Weather or for want of Provisions and other Disabilities could not proceed on their Voyage For Remedy whereof Bee itt enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety six itt shall not bee lawfull on any Pretence whatsoever to putt on Shoare in the said Kingdomes of Scotland or Ireland any Goods or Merchandize of the Growth or Product of any of His Majesties Plantations aforesaid unlesse the same have beene first landed in the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed and paid the Rates and Duties wherewith they are chargeable by Law under the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Shipp and Goods Three fourths without Composition to His Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Fourth to him or them that shall sue for the same
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