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Rh counted from and after the Importation of Four Tons of any of the said Goods, in any one Bottom; Ship, or Vessel, from the said Province or Territory into any of our Dominions; as also, to export, and carry out of any of our Dominions, into the said Province or Territory, Custom-free, all Sorts of Tools which shall be useful or necsssary for the Planters there, in the Accommodation and Improvement of the Premises: Any Thing before in these Presents contained, or any Law, Act Statute, Prohibition, or other Matter or Thing, heretofore had, made enacted, or provided; in any-wise, notwithstanding.

AND further more of our mere ample and especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, we do, for us, our Heirs and Successors, grant unto the said Edward Earl of Clarendon, George Duke of Albemarle, William Earl of Craven, John Lord Berkeley, Anthony Lord Berkley, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Colleton, and Sir William Berkeley their Heirs and Assigns, full and absolute Power and Authority, to make, erect; and consitute, within the said Province or territory, and the Isles and Islets aforesaid, such and so many Sea-Ports, Harbours, Creeks, and other Places, for Discharge and unlading of Goods and Merchandises, out of Ships, Boats, and other Vessels, and for lading of these in such and so many Places, with such Jurisdictions, Privileges, and Franchises, unto the said Ports belonging, as to them shall seem most expedient; and that all and singular the Ships, Boats, and other Vessels, which shall come for Merchandises and trade into the said Province or Territory, or shall depart out of the same, shall be laden and unladen at such Ports only as shall be erected and constituted by the said Edward Earl of Clarendon, George Duke of Albemarle, William Earl of Craven, John Lord Berkeley, Anthony Lord Ashey, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Colleton, and Sir William Berkeley, their heirs and Assigns, and not elsewhere: Any Use, Custom, or Thing, to the Contrary, notwithstanding.

AND we do further will, appoint, and ordain, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs and Successors, do grant unto the said Edward Earl of Clarendon, George Duke of Albermarle, William Earl of Craven, John Lord Berkeley, Anthony Lord Ashley, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Colleton and Sir William Berkeley, and their Heirs and Assigns, that they the said Edward Earl of Clarendon, George Duke of Albemarle, William Earl of Craven, John Lord Berkeley, Anthony Lord Ashley, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Colleton and Sir William Berkeley, their Heirs and Assigns, may, from Time to Time, for ever, have and enjoy the Customs and Subsidises, in the Ports, Harbours, Creeks, and other Places within the Province aforesaid, payable for the Goods, Wares, and Merchandises there laded, or to be laded or unladed; the said Customs to be reasonably assessed, upon any Occasion, by themselves, and by and with the Consent of the free People, or the greater part of them, as aforesaid; to whom we give Power, by these Presents, for us, our Heirs and Successors, upon just Cause, and in due Propertion to assess and impose the same. AND