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XVIII.[X1XVIII. Exemption of Fishing Boats, &c. from Necessity of Registry.

Provided also That nothing in this Act shall bee construed to require the registring any Fisher-Boates Hoys Lighters Barges or any open Boates or other Vessells (though of English or Plantation Built) whose Navigation is confined to the Rivers or Coasts of the same Plantation or Place where they trade respectively but onely of such of them as crosse the Seas to or from any of the Lands Islands Places or Territories in this Act before recited or from one Plantation to another.]

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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: respectively O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]