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1l32 from the East Indies and Limits in the said last mentioned Act or Charter contained, with all or any Part of their Joint Stock in Trade, Goods, Merchandizes, Estates and Effects, in common with other the Subjects of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, trading to, in, and from the said Parts or Limts.

And be it further enacted, That any Notice in Writing, signified by the Speaker of the House of Commons for the Time being, by Order of the said House, shall be deemed and adjudged, a due and proper Notice by Parliament, to and for all the Ends, Intents, and Purposes, for which any Notice is by this Act directed to be given to the said United Company.

VI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said Tenth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, it shall and may belawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, in commmon with the said United Company, to export in Ships navigated according to Law, from any Port or Ports, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to all Ports and Places within the Limits herein-before referred to; save and except the Dominions of the Emperor of China; any Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, which can now, or may at any Time or Times hereafter be legally exported; and also, in common with the said Company, to import in Ships navigated as aforesaid, from any Port or Ports within the Limits aforesaid, save and except as afore­ said, into the.said United Kingdom, any Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, the Product or Manufac­ture of any of the Countries within the said Limits, which can now, or may at any Time or Times hereafter, be legally imported; subject nevertheless to the several Restrictions, Conditions, and Limitations, in this Act contained.

VII. And whereas by a certain Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled "An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation," it is enacted. That no Goods or Commodities, that are of Foreign Growth., Production or Manufacture, and which are to be brought into England, Ireland, Wales, the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in English-built Shipping, or other Shipping belonging to some of the aforesaid Places, and navigated by English Mariners, as in the said Act mentioned, shall be shipped or brought from any other Place or Places, Country or Countries, but only from those of the said Growth, Production or Manufacture, or from those Ports where the said Goods and Com­modities can only be or are or usually have been first shipped for Transportation, and from none other Places or Countries; provided that the said Act or any Thing therein contained should not extend or be meant to restrain the imparting of any East India Commodities, loaden in English-built Shipping, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths of the Mariners at least are English, from the usual Place or Places of lading of them in any Part of those Seas to the Southward and Eastward of Cabo Bona Speranza, although the said Ports be not the very Places of their Growth; be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty's Subjects, in Ships navigated according to Law, to import, under the Authority of this Act, into the said United Kingdom, from all Ports and Places within the Limits of the said Company's Charter; save and except the Dominions of the Emperor of China; any Goods, Wares or Merchandize the Product or Manufacture of any Country within the Limits of the said Company's Charter, except Tea, although such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize may not be of the Growth, Production or Manufacture of the Place or Country from which the same shall have been shipped or brought, or have been shipped or brought from the port where such Goods or Commodities can only be, or are, or usually have been first shipped for Transportation, nor the usual Place for lading the same, the said Act or any other Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons, save only the said United .Company or such as shall obtain their special Leave and Licence in Writing, or a special Leave and Licence in Writing under their Authority, for that Purpose, to ship, carry, or put on board any Ship in the East Indies or other Parts within the Limits aforesaid, or to import into the said United Kingdom from any Port or Place whatsoever, any Tea; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IX. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That, it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons to carry any Military Stores to any Place upon the Continent of Asia, between the River Indus and the Town of Malacca on the Peninsular or Malacca inclusive, or in any Island under the Government of the said Company situate to the North of the Equator, or to the said Company's Factory of Bencoolen in the Island of Sumatra or its Dependencies; save only the said United Company, or such as shall obtain their spiectal Leave and Licence in Writing, or a special Leave and Licence in Writing under, their Authority, for that Purpose. X. Provided