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Show [ I46 ] " ful for any l'erfon or Perions to profecute " fuch Ship or VefiEl [offending as defcribed in " the preceding Section] in any Court of Ad" miralty in Eng/m: u, the one Moiety of the " curing and regulating the Plantation Trade, " it is remarked, that notwithflandingfuch Laws, " great Abufes are daily committed, to the Pre" judice of the Englz' 1 Navigation, and the " Lofs of great Part of the Plantation Trade " to this Kingdom, by the Artifice and Cunning " Forfeiture, in Cafe of Condemnation, to be " to his Majelty, his Heirs, and Sticcefibrs , and " of ill~difpofed Perfons." " the other Moiety to fuch Profecutor or " Profecutors thereof." [See 22 and 23 of 02. fcribed fuch Remedies as thefe great Evils feemed to require, the Aft goes on at §. 7. to ll. Cap. 26, § 12 and 13.] ordain, " That all the Penalties and Forfeitures " before mentioned, not in this Act particu- And we find, that two Years afterwards, ‘vz'z. 25 of C11. II. Cap. 7, the fame Complaints were again renewed ; and (I? ‘1 ‘13:? " tion of this Kingdom, and for the better fe- in Conlequence thereof higher Duties and ad« ditional Penalties were laid on, for the more ef- fectually enforcing of the Obfervance of this and of the former Laws: But in Spite of all: that was done, Things grew worfe and worfe Then, having pre- "‘ larly difpofed of, {ball be one third Part to " the Ufe of his Majefty, his Heirs, and Sue" celfors, and one thirdPart to the Governor " or .13 Colony or Plantation where the Offence " {hall be committed, and the other third Part " " " " " tions, feemed to have been called in Qiefiion; to fuch Perfon or Perfons as {hall fue for the fame, to be recovered in any of his Majefiy's Courts at lVe/fmz'flfler, or in the Kingdom of IreZmzd, or in the Courts of Admiralty held in his Majefty's Plantations refpeétively, where which Authority, therefore, the Parliament was " fuch Olfenee {hall be committed, at Me Plea- every Day. For it is obfervable, that in the Year 1696, the very Authority of the Eizglif/t L‘giflflml‘fia for making fuch Laws and Regula obliged to affert in Terms very peremptory -,--- and I may likewife add, very prophetical. The Law made on this Occafion was the famous Statute of the 7th and 8th of EVE/{am llI. Cap- 7- "fure of the Oficer or Iaformer, or in any other " Plantation belonging to any Subject ofEingmza', " wherein no Efibin, Protection, or Wager of " Law {hall be allOwed ~, and that where any wherein, after the Recital of " divers Aé‘ts " (Luel'tion {hall arife concerning the Importa- " made ‘5 tion or Exportation of any Goods into or out T 2 amt-mu. is exprefsly ordained, " lt lball, it may be law. [ I47 ] " made for the Encouragement of the Naviga- f‘ of it!" V3413, Profecutions for the Breach of thofe Laws would be to little or no Effect, it carried on in t/z'merz'ccm Courts, or before flmericmz Juries, that it |