Preſent,
IT was Ordered by His Majeſty in Council, That an Order this day read and approved at the Board, for Diſpenſing for ſome time with certain Clauſes of ſeveral Acts concerning Trade, Shipping and Navigation, be forthwith Printed and Publiſhed.
HIs Majeſty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, is pleaſed to Declare and Order, That an Act of Parliament made in the Parliament begun at Weſtminſter the Five and twentieth day of April in the Twelfth year of2 His Majeſties Reign, and confirmed by the Parliament begun at Weſtminſter the eighth day of May, in the Thirteenth year of His Majeſties Reign, intituled, [An Act for encouraging and encreaſing of Shipping and Navigation] and all the proceedings therein or thereby directed, Be totally ſuſpended in all the matters and things therein contained, concerning, or relating to any Ships or Veſſels, their Maſters or Mariners, their Guns, Furniture, Tackle, Ammunition and Apparel, or to any Goods or Commodities imported, or exported to, or from Norway, or the Baltique Sea.
And His Majeſty doth further Order, That the ſaid Act, and all the proceedings therein, or thereby directed, be totally ſuſpended in all the matters and things therein contained, concerning or relating to any Ships, or Veſſels, their Maſters or Mariners, their Guns, Furniture, Tackle, Ammunition and Apparel, or to any Goods or Commodities imported or exported to, or from any parts of Germany, Flanders or France, whereof the Merchants and Owners ſhall be His Majeſties natural born Subjects.
And His Majeſty is graciouſly pleaſed to declare and grant, That not only His Majeſties natural born Subjects, but all Merchants of any Nation in Amity with His Majeſty, may import from any parts whatſoever, Hemp, Pitch, Tar, Maſts, Saltpeter, and Copper; and upon importation thereof ſhall be liable to pay only ſuch Duties, as by the Act of Tonnage and Poundage are impoſed upon His Majeſties natural born Subjects, and no other; Any thing in the ſaid Act to the contrary notwithſtanding.
3And His Majeſty doth further Order, that notwithſtanding the ſaid Act for Encouraging and encreaſing of Shipping and Navigation, and one other Act made in the ſaid Parliament begun at Weſtminſter the eighth day of May in the thirteenth year of His Majeſties Reign, intituled [An Act for the Encouragement of Trade] or either of them, or any Clauſe or Clauſes in them, or either of them to the contrary, It ſhall and may be lawful for any Engliſh Merchants, and they are hereby authoriſed, freely and without interruption, to make uſe of, and employ any Foreign Ships or Veſſels whatſoever, Navigated by Mariners or Seamen of any Nation in Amity with His Majeſty, for importing or exporting of Goods and Commodities, to or from any Port in England, Ireland, or Wales, to or from any of His Majeſties Plantations.
Provided, That no Goods or Commodities whatſoever, be by them imported into any of His Majeſties ſaid Plantations, but what ſhall be without fraud, Laden and Shipped in England, Ireland or Wales, and thence directly carried, and from no other place to His Majeſties ſaid Plantations.
Provided alſo, That ſuch Goods and Commodities as ſhall be by them laden or taken on Board at His Majeſties ſaid Plantations, or any of them, be brought directly from thence to ſome of His Majeſties ſaid Ports in England, Ireland or Wales. And all Governors, and Officers of the Cuſtoms are hereby charged and required, ſtrictly to obſerve all Rules, Directions and Orders for taking of Bonds or other Securities, and exacting all Forfeitures,2〈1 page duplicate〉3〈1 page duplicate〉4and Penalties by the ſaid Acts or either of them required or enjoyned: ſave only in the Two Clauſes concerning Engliſh Ships or Engliſh Mariners herein before diſpenſed with.
And laſtly, His Majeſty doth declare, That this ſhall continue and be in force during His Majeſties pleaſure: And when His Majeſty ſhall think fit to determine the Diſpenſation hereby granted, He will by His Royal Proclamation give ſix moneths notice thereof, To the end no Merchant or other perſon herein concerned, may be ſurprized.
LONDON, Printed by John Bill and Chriſtopher Barker, Printers to the Kings moſt Excellent Majeſty, 1664.
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