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 A. D. 1739. Anno duodecimo Georgii II. C. 2 J. 341 portions out of the faid annual Sum, as the Monies arifing by the faid Duties on Bay Yarn and Woollen Yarn would have been appropriated and applied, in cafe the faid Duties had been continued, and not been determined by this Act. IV. Provided neverthelefs, That nothing in this Act contained (hall extend, or be conftrued to ex- Piovi/o, tend to take off, or caufe to ceafe and determine the Duties upon Worfted Yarn, being of two or more Threads twifted or thrown, or Crue', imported into Great Britain from the Kingdom of Ireland. ' V. And whereas notwithftanding the feveral Laws made to prevent the Exportation of Wooll unma- ' nufactured from this Kingdom and Ireland to Foreign Parts, (itch Exportation is notoriously conti- ' nued ;' Now for the better preventing fuch Exportation of Wooll from thence, and fecuring the fame to be manufactured within this Kingdom; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all tarion°of VooU Wooll and Woollen or Bay Yarn, Wooll-fells, Shortlings, Mortlings, WooH-flocks, Worlted Yam, in Ireland, Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerfeys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth-Ierges, Shalloons, Stuffs, and other Draperies and Woollen Manufactures or mixed with Wooll or VVooll-flocks, which (hall from time lo time be exported from the laid Kingdom of Ireland, from and after the firlt Day of May in the Year our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and forty, into the Ports of this Kingdom, hereafter mentioned* (hall be (hipped off, and entered at the Ports of Dublin, Waterford, Toughall, Kin/ale, Cork, Droghe- da, Nezv Rofs, Newry, Wexford, Wicklow, Sligoe, Limerick, Galway and Dundalk, in the faid Kingdom of Ireland, and at or from no other Port or Place within the faid Kingdom ; nor (hall the fame be imported into any Parts of the Kingdom of Great Britain, other than the Ports of Biddeford, Barnfta- ple, Minehead, Bridge-water, Brijtol, Milford-haven, Cbejler and Liverpool, in the fame Manner as if the and f mpor(B, faid Ports of Newry, Wexford, IVicklow, Sligoe, Limerick, Gahvay and Dundalk, had been particularly tion in England 1 , named for Exportation of the laid Goods, in the Act palled in the tenth and eleventh Year of the Reign ss6Geo._z.c. 11. of the late King William the Third, intituled, An Ati to prevent the Exportation of Wooll out of We JO y. ■>. c. 10. Kingdom of Ireland and Eng'and, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; any thing in this or any other . Act to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. VI. And the better to prevent the Exportation ot Wooll or Woollen Yarn, and the other Species of Wooll or Woollen Manufactures, before-mentioned, from Ireland into Foreign Parts ; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenty-fifth Day of December in the Year ships how to of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine, no Wooll, or any of the faid Goods, lhall be qualified (ot be loaden or laid on board any Ship, Veffel or Boat in Ireland, or imported or brought from thence load ' n S Wo ° ;k into this Kingdom, but in fuch Ships, Veffels or Boats, as lhall be of the Built of Great Britain or Ireland, and which (hall be wholly owned and manned by the Subjects of this Kingdom, or Ireland, and duly regiftred in fuch Manner and Form as herein after mentioned ; under the Penalty of the For- feiture of the faid Goods, or the Value thereof, as alfo of the Ship, Veffel or Boat, in which the fame (hall be laden or put on board, together with all her Guns, Ammunition, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture. VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the faid twenty-fifth Wooll to be ex- Day of December one thou and feven hundred and thirty-nine, no Ship or Veffel whatfoever (hall be pened in Vef- deemed or pafs as a Ship of the Built of Great Britain or Ireland, fo as to be qualified to load or take on t he Buik°of board in any of the Ports of Ireland, herein appointed for that Purpofe, any Wooll, Woollen or Bay Great Britain or Yarn, or other the Species before-mentioned, in order to import or bring the fame into the Ports of 1 "-' 13 ™ 1. Great Britain, in this Act mentioned and appointed for that Purpofe, until the Perfon orPerfons claim- ing Property in fuch Ship or Veffel, (hall regifter the fame as followeth (that is to fay) Proof (hall be made upon the Oath, or Affirmation in cafe the Perfon be a Quaker, of one or more" of the Owners of fuch Ship or Veffel, before the Collector- and Comptroller of his Majefty's Cuftoms in fuch Port of Great Britain or Ireland reflectively, to which fuch Ship or Veffel (hall belong ; which Oath or Affirma- tion the faid Officers of the Cuftoms respectively are hereby authorized to administer in the Tenor fol- lowing ; that is to fay, A. B. do make Oath (or, being a Quaker, do folemnly affirm] that the Ship of whereof is at preterit Matter being built of Tons, was built at in the Year and that of znd of are at prefent Owners thereof; and that no Foreigner, directly ' or indirectly, hath any Share, Part or Interest therein.' A Certificate of which Oath or Affirmation, attefted by the Collector and Comptroller of the C adorns who administer the Same, under their Hands and Seals,' (hall, after having been regiftred by them, be delivered to the Matter of the Ship for the Security of her Navigation ; a Duplicate of which Re- gifter lhall be immediately tranfinitted to the Commiliioners of h s Majefty's Cuftoms in the Pt rt of London, in order to be emred in the general Regifter, to be there kept by them for this Purpofe. VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Ship's Name regiftred (hall be ship's Name afterwards changed, without regiftring fuch Ship again, which is hereby required likewite to be done not to be aiter- upon any Transfer of Property to another Port, and delivering up the former Certificate to be cancelled, ri&ringjiie tre " under the fame Penalties, and in the like Method, as is herein before directed : And that in cafe of any fame again; Alteration of Property in the fame Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares -in any Ship,' after regiftring thereof, fuch Sale (hall always be acknowledged by Indorsement of the Certificate of the Regifter. be- fore