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1134 XIII. Provided also, That it shall not be lawful for any Ship or Vessel, the registered Measurement whereof shall be less than Three hundred and fifty Tons, other than such Ships or Vessels as may be employed by the said Company as Packets, to deal out from and Port in the United Kingdom, for any Port or Place within the Limits of the said Company's Charter, or be admitted to Entry at any Port of the United Kingdom, from any Place within those Limits.

XIV. Provided also, and be it further enacted. That no Ship or Vessel engaged in Private Trade under the Authority of this Act shall be permitted to clear out from or be admitted to Entry at any Port or Place within the United Kingdom, or Limits of the said Company's Charter, until the Master or other Person having the Command of such Ship or Vessel shall have made out and exhibited a true and perfect Manifest of the Cargo of such Ship or Vessel, to such Person or Persons according to such Form, and subject to such Regulations as now are 6r hereafter may be prescribed by any Act or Acts passed or to be passed for that Purpose.

XV. Provided also,, and be it further enacted, That no Ship or Vessel engaged in Private or Trade under the Authority of this Act shall be permitted to clear out from any Port of the said United Kingdom, or any Place or Places under the Government of His Majesty or of the said Company, 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, until the Master or other Person having the Command of such. Ship or Vessel shall have made out, and exhibited to the principal Officer of the Customs, or other Person thereto authorized by such. Government as aforesaid, at such Port of Clearance, upon Oath (which Oath such. Officer or other Person is, hereby authorized to administer) a true and perfect List in such Form as shall from Time to Time be settled by the said Court of Directors, with the Approbation of the said Board of Commissioners, specifying and setting forth the Names, Capacities, and Descriptions of all Persons embarked or intended to be embarked on board such Ship or Vessel, and all Arms on board, or intended to be put on board the same, or be admitted to entry at any Port in the said United Kingdom, or any such Port within the Limits last mentioned, until the Master or other Person having the Command of such Ship or Vessel shall in the like Manner have made out arid exhibited to the principal Officer of the Customs, or other Person thereunto authorized, as afore­ said, upon Oath (which Oath such Officer or other Person is hereby authorized to administer) a true and perfect List, in form to be settled as aforesaid, specifying the Names, Capacities, and Descriptions of all Persons on board, or who shall have been onboard such Ship or Vessel, from the Time of the sailing thereof, to the Time of Arrival; and all Arms on board, or which shall during such Time have been on board such Ship or Vessel; and the several Times and Places at which such of the said Persons as may have died or left the said Ship or Vessel, shall have so died, or left such Ship or Vessel, or such of the said Arms as may have been disposed of, have, been so disposed of.

XVI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That in every Case where any such List shall be received in any Port of the said United Kingdom, from any Master or other Person having the Command of any such Ship or Vessel, the Officer or other Person receiving the same shall, and he is hereby required, with all reasonable Dispatch, to transmit a Copy of such List to the Secretary of the Court of Directors of the said United Company; and in case such List shall be received in any Port in the East Indies, or other Place within the Limits last mentioned, such Officer or other person receiving the same shall, and he is hereby required, in like Manner to transmit a Copy of such List to the Chief Secretary of the Government to which the Port or Place in which such List shall be received shall be subject.

XVII. And be it further enacted, That no Articles manufactured of Silk, Hair, or Cotton Wool, or any Mixture thereof, imported under the Authority of this Act, from any Port or Place within the Limits of the said Company's Charter, shall be entered or taken out of any Warehouse, except for Exportation, unless the same shall have been brought into the Port of London and deposited in the Warehouses of the said United Company; and that for the Purpose of ascertaining the Duties payable upon all such Articles which shall be deposited in the Warehouses of the said United Company, the same shall be sold openly and publicly by Inch of Candle, or by way of public Auction, and in no other Manner, under the Order and Authority of the Court of Directors of the said Company, on the Account of the proper Owners thereof; and that when any of such Goods shall be bought in by the Owners, the whole Consignments so bought in shall and may be delivered out to them with all convenient Speed after the Sales thereof, upon Payment of the Duties and other Charges to which the same shall be liable, without the actual Payment