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Rh X. Provided also. That it shall not be lawful for any private Person or Persons to export any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, to any Port or Place within, the Limits of the said Company's Charter, except in some Ship or Ships to be cleared out from some Port or Ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or to import any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize from any Port or Place within the Limits aforesaid, except only into such Ports of the said United Kingdom as shall be provided with Warehouses, together with Wet Docks or Basins, or such other Securities as shall in the Judgment of the Lord High Treasurer, or of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, be fit and proper for the Deposit and safe Custody of all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, as well as for the Collection of all Duties payable thereon, and shall have been duly declared so to be by the Order of His Majesty in Council in Great Britain, or by the Order the Lord Lieutenant in Council in Ireland; Provided always, that Copies of all such Orders in Council to be issued as aforesaid, shall have been published Three Times at least in the London or Dublin Gazette, as the Case may be; and Copies of all such Orders shall be laid before Houses of Parliament, in the Session next after the issuing of the same respectively.

XI. Provided also, and be it further enacted. That no Ship or Vessel engaged in Private Trade under the Authority of this Act, shall proceed to any Place within the Limits of the said Com­pany's Charter situate on the Continent of Asia, from the River Indus to the said Town of Malacca inclusive, or in any Island under the Government of the said Company lying to the North of the Equator, or to the said Company's Factory of Bencolen or its Dependencies, without a Licence to be granted for that Purpose from the Court of Directors of the said United Company; and that no such Ship or Vessel, unless specially authorized as herein-after mentioned, shall proceed ­ to any Port or Place within the Limits fast-mentioned, except to some' or One of the principal Settlements of Fort William, Fort Saint George, Bombay, and Prince of Wales Island:And when and as often as any Application shall be made to the said Court of Directors for a Licence on Behalf of any such Ship or Vessel about to proceed from the said United Kingdom to any of the said Company's principal Settlements, the said Company shall and they are hereby required forthwith to issue their Licence for that Purpose, according to such Form as shall hereafter be settled by the said Court of Directors, with the Approbation of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India: And When and as often as any Application shall be made to the said Court of Directors for a Licence specially authorizing any such Ship or the Vessel to proceed to any Place or Places upon the Continent of Asia from the River Indus to the said Town of Malacca inclusive, or in any Island under the Government of the said Company lying to the North of the Equator, except the said Company's principal Settlements, or to the said Company's Factory of Bencoolen or its Dependencies, the said Court of Directors shall, within Fourteen Days from the Receipt thereof, unless they shall think fit to comply therewith, transmit the same to the said Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, together with any Representation which the said Court may think proper to make upon the Subject of such Applica­tion; and in case the said Board of Commissioners shall think fit to direct the said Court of Directors to issue any such Licence or Licences, the said Court of Directors shall and they are hereby required forthwith to issue the same, upon such Terms and Conditions as the said Court of Directors, with the. Approbation of the said Board of Commissioners, shall from Time to Time think fit: Provided always, that in all Cases in which the said Board of Commissioners shall direct the said Court of Directors to issue any such Licence, which they shall have declined to issue without such Direction-, the special Circumstances inducing them to give such Directions shall be recorded in the Books of the said Board.

XII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That no Ship or Vessel engaged in Private Trade under the Authority of this Act, clearing out from any Port or Ports within the United Kingdom, shall proceed to any Place or Places situate more to the Northward than Eleven Degrees of South Latitude, and between the. Sixty-fourth and One hundred and fiftieth Degrees of East Longitude from London (save and except Ports and Places upon the Continent of Asia, from the River Indus to the said Town of Malacca inclusive, or in any Island under the Government of the said Company lying to the North of the. Equator, and also save and except the said Company's Factory at Bencoolen and its Dependencies) without a Licence from the said Board of Com­missioners for the Affairs of India; and the said Commissioners shall and they are hereby required from Time to Time to frame and publish such Rules and Regulations for the granting of Licences in that Behalf, as they shall think fit; and in all Cases in which any Licence shall be granted by, the said Board of Commissioners, otherwise than according to such Rules and Regulations, the special Circumstances under which such Licence shall have been granted, shall be recorded in the Books of the Board, and communicated to the Court of Directors. XIII.