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able seamen aforesaid Africa American ships apprentices bill of sale bring British possessions British seamen British ships British vessels brought build Canary Islands captains cargo carry cent certificate of registry cheaper coast collector and comptroller collector or comptroller colonies commercial competition consul copper cost cotton crew declare delivered dominions Dutch duty East India enacted England English ships English vessels entered Europe export foreign countries foreign port foreign ships foreign vessels freight Guernsey Hamburgh hereby imported increase indentures islands labour Lascars Majesty manufacture marine master or owner month Navigation Act Navigation Laws officer Order in Council Parliament penalty person pounds present produce of Asia prohibited Prussian register ticket respect restriction Royal Navy sailors sails says ship belonging ship or vessel Straits of Gibraltar sugar Swedish thereof timber tion tonnage tons trade United Kingdom Vict voyage wages warehoused wool
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Page 263 - No seaman shall by any agreement forfeit his lien upon the ship, or be deprived of any remedy for the recovery of his wages to which he would otherwise have been entitled ; and every stipulation in any agreement inconsistent with any provision of this act, and every stipulation by which any seaman...
Page 226 - ... it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to...
Page 275 - Kingdom, shall within Twenty-one Days after the Thirtieth Day of June and the. Thirty-first day of December in every Year transmit or deliver to some Shipping Master in the United Kingdom...
Page 277 - An Act to amend an act of the twentieth year of his majesty king George the second, for the relief and support of sick, maimed, and disabled seamen, and the widows and children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the merchant service ; and for other purposes.
Page 315 - Provinces, properly registered, and owned by the citizens thereof, or any of them, and whereof the master and three-fourths of the mariners, at least, are citizens of the said United Provinces, shall be considered as vessels of the said United Provinces.
Page 314 - America, in any other ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in such ships or vessels as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England...
Page 294 - States shall be deemed to be the "master" thereof; and every person (apprentices excepted) who shall be employed or engaged to serve in any capacity on board the same shall be deemed and taken to be a "seaman"; and the term "vessel...
Page 313 - An Act to regulate the trade between his majesty's possessions in America and the West Indies, and other parts of the world.
Page 68 - that the privileges thereby granted to foreign ships shall be limited to the ships of those countries which, having colonial possessions, shall grant the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British ships ; or which, not having colonial possessions, shall place the commerce and navigation of this country, and of its possessions abroad, upon the footing of the most favoured nation...
Page 303 - December, 1660, and from thence forward, no goods, or commodities, whatsoever, shall be imported into, or exported out of, any lands, islands, plantations, or territories, to his majesty belonging or in his possession, or which may hereafter belong nnto or be in the possession of his majesty, his heirs and successors, in Asia, Africa, or America...