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 and to forfeit and pay all such fines, penalties, and forfeitures as shall be determined and agreed on but he said laws and regulations.

Twelfth, It is hereby further agreed, by and with the consent of the inhabitants of the Bay, that if any person presuming to seize by force, or take away clandestinely, or by any means whatsoever, any property, be it either crafts, slaves, logwood, mahogany, or any effects whatsoever, belonging to any inhabitant of the Bay, for debt, or under any pretence whatsoever, before first laying his complaint before any one of the said Justices fo redress, in any grievance or complain whatsoever, shall forfeit the debt, and be further punished for the said offence, as the Justice shall judge the party offending to deserve, agreeably to the tenor of these regulations.

Given under our hands and seals at this ninth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty five.

John Lawrie John Maud James Farrell D. Fitz Gibbon