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1140 the said Limits; Provided nevertheless, that any Governor General or Governor of any of the said Presidencies, for extraordinary Reasons to be entered upon the Minutes of Council, may authorize by Special Licence the Residence of any Subject of His Majesty in any Place or Places under the Government of such Presidency, until the Pleasure of the said Court of Directors shall be known in that Behalf: and that such Special Licence shall be deemed and taken to be of the same Force and Effect as a Licence of and from the said Court of Directors, until Notice of the Pleasure of the said Court to the contrary shall have been given to such Person, by Delivery thereof to such Person, or by leaving the same at his last Place of Abode, or by Publication thereof in the Gazette the Presidency by which such Special Licence shall have been, granted: Provided that a Copy of such Licence, and of the Reasons for granting the same, accompanied with an Application for a Licence from the said Court of Directors, shall be transmitted to the said Court of Directors forth­ with after the granting thereof.

XXXVIII. And be it further enacted,. That it shall and may be lawful for the said Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, by Licence in Writing for that Purpose, upon such Terms and Conditions as they may think fit, to authorise any Person or Persons to proceed to and reside limits of the Charter, at 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, and not being upon the Continent of Asia between the River Indus and the Town of Malacca inclusive; nor in any Island under the Government of the said Company lying to the Northward of the Equator; nor at the said Company's Factory at Bencoolen, nor its Dependencies; nor within the Dominions of The Emperor of China; any Act, Matter, or Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.

XXXIX. And be it further enacted; That it shall and may be lawful for any Subjects of His Majesty, to proceed to and reside at any Place or Places situate more to the .Southward than Eleven Degrees of South Latitude, or more to the Westward than Sixty-four Degrees, or more to the East­ ward than One hundred and fifty Degrees of East Longitude from London, for any lawful Purposes without any Licence whatsoever: any Thing in this or any other Act, or in any Charter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

XL. And be it further enacted, That if any of the Subjects of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, of or belonging to any of His Majesty's Dominions situate, without the East Indies, and Limits of the said Company's Charter, other than such as shall be licensed by the said United Company, or otherwise thereunto lawfully, authorized, shall at any Time, before the Determination of the further Term hereby granted to the said Company, directly or indirectly, sail, to, visit, haunt, frequent, trade, traffick or adventure to, in or from the East Indies or Parts aforesaid, or go, sail, or repair thereto, or be found therein, in any other Manner than is prescribed or allowed by the Provisions of this Act, and the Terms and Conditions of any Licence or Certificate to be granted by virtue thereof, all arid every such Person and Persons shall,be deemed and taken to have unlawfully traded and trafficked there; and, all, such Persons, and all Ships and Vessels found in the Cus­tody of any such Person or Persons, or engaged or concerned in such, unlawful Trade or Traffick, and the Owners, Masters and Crews thereof, and all Goods, Merchandize, Treasure and Effects shipped or laden thereon, or taken out of the same, or found in the Custody of any such Person or Persons, shall be subject and liable to all such and.the like. Pains, Penalties, Forfeitures, Dis­- abilities, and Methods of Suit, as are contained in the said Acts of the. Thirty-third Year of His present Majesty, or either of them, or in any Act or Acts now in Force, and which Pains, Penalties, Forfeitures, Disabilities, and Methods of Suit, were enacted for thp Purpose of securing, to the said Company the sole and exclusive Right of trading,to the East Indies, and other Parts within the Limits of their Charter, during the Continuance of such sole and exclusive Right, and of restraining clandestine and illicit Trade, in, to, and from East Indies and Parts aforesaid; and all such and the like Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Matters and Things as, are contained in the said Acts of the Thirty-third Year of His present Majesty, or either of them, or in any Act or Acts now in Force, and which were enacted for the Purpose aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be in Force, and to apply to all such unlawful Trade and Traffick as aforesaid, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, or of the Terms and Conditions of any Licence or Certificate to be granted by virtue thereof, and shall be put in Execution during the further Term hereby granted to the said Company, for the Purpose of preventing any such unlawful Trade or Traffick as fully and effectually as if the same Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Matters, and Things were, severally repeated,at, large, and re-enacted in the Body of this Act, and applied to and for the Purpose last aforesaid. XLI.