of the Coasts or Shores of Our said Colony under Your Government, do belong to Our Subjects, and do break Bulk or Sell, Barter, Exchange, or otherwise dispose of the said Goods or Negroes, or any part thereof, contrary to Law; You are to take Care that such Ship or Ships, with the Guns, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture thereof, and all Goods and Merchandize laden thereupon, and the Proceed and Effects of the same be immediately seized, and that the Laws in such Case made and provided be put in Execution with the greatest Care, Diligence and Application; But if any Ship belonging to the Subjects of any foreign State or Potentate, having on board any Negroes or East India Commodities, shall be actually bound to some Place or Port in the West Indies, belonging to any foreign Prince or State, from some European Port, and such Ship shall happen to be driven in by necessity and be in real Distress, the same may be supplied with what is absolutely necessary for her relief: But you shall not take, have or receive, nor permit or suffer any Person to take, have, or receive any Negroes, or other the said East India Commodities in payment or Satisfaction for such Relief; That if any Officer of Our Customs, or other Officer employed by you Our Governor or Commander in Chief, in visiting, searching, or seizing such Ship or Ships, Goods, Merchandize or Negroes, be corrupt, negligent, or remiss in the discharge of his Duty therein, We do hereby require you to suspend him from the Execution of his said Office, and that you do by the first opportunity, send an Account, of such Officer's Behaviour to Us, by one of Our principal Secretaries of State, that care may be taken, that such Officer be removed from his Employment, and further punished according to his Demerit; And Our further WILL and PLEASURE is, that you, Governor or Commander in Chief do constantly from time to time, and by the first opportunity that shall offer, send to Us by one of Our principal Secretaries of State, true, full, and exact accounts of Your Proceedings, and of all other Transactions and Occurrences in, or about the Premisses or any of them. 26. AND whereas notwithstanding the many good Laws made from time to time, for preventing of Frauds in the Plantation Trade, it is manifest that very great Abuses have been and continue still to be practised to the Prejudice of the same, which Abuses must needs arise either from the Insolvency of Persons, who are accepted for Security, or from the Remissness or Connivance of such as have been, or are Governors in the several Plantations, who ought to take Care, that those Persons, who give Bond should be duly prosecuted in case of nonperformance, You are to take notice, that we take the good of Our Plantations and the Improvement of the Trade thereof, by a strict and punctual observance of the several Laws in force concerning the same, to be of so great Importance to the benefit of this Kingdom and to the advancing the Duty of Our Customs here, that if we shall hereafter be informed, that at any time there shall be any Failure in the due observance of those Laws and of these present Instructions, by any wilful fault or neglect on your part, We shall esteem such Neglect to be a breach of the aforesaid Laws; And it is Our fixed and determined WILL and PLEASURE, that you or the Commander in Chief respectively, be for such offence, not only immediately removed from Our Employments, and be liable to the Fine of One thousand Pounds, as likewise suffer such other Fines, Forfeitures, Pains and Penalties as are inflicted by the several Laws now in force relating thereunto, but shall also receive the most rigorous Marks of Our Highest Displeasure, and be prosecuted with the utmost Severity of Law for your Offence against Us, in a matter of this Consequence that We now so particularly charge you with. G. R. Where and when Bond given. VIRGINIA. A List of Ships and Vessels which have Entered Inwards in the Port of day of and the day of Quality of the Loading of each Vessel. following, being the Quarter ended at in the Colony of Virginia, between the with the particular Quantity and Owner's names. Whither bound. Where and when Registered. A List of Ships and Vessels, which have cleared Outwards from the Port of and the day of following, being the Quarter ended at VIRGINIA.day of Quality of the Loading of each Vessel. N.B. The particular Quantity and Quality of the Loading must be mentioned under these Columns. In the Register of Prize Ships the Capture and Condemnation must be also specially mentioned instead of the Time and place of Building. List of all Ships trading to or from the Plantations, or from one Plantation to another, to be prepared Quarterly by the Collector of the Customs and the Naval Officers in the respective Plantations in order to be transmitted by you to the Lord High Treasurer, or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs at London, by the first Opportunity of Shipping every Quarter. ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LORD DUNMORE. GEORGE R. L.S. ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION to Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin, John Earl of Dunmore, Our Lieutenant and Governor General of Our Colony and Dominion of Virginia in America. GIVEN at Our Court at St James's the Fourth Day of February, 1772. In the Twelfth Year of Our Reign. WHEREAS Laws have been passed in some of Our Colonies and Plantations in America, by which the Lands, Tenements, Goods, Chattels, Rights, and Credits of Persons, who have never resided within the Colonies where such Laws have been passed, have been made liable to be attached for the Recovery of Debts, in a manner different from that allowed by the Laws of England in like cases; and whereas it hath been represented unto Us, that such Laws may have the consequence to prejudice and obstruct the Commerce between this Kingdom and Our said Colonies, and to affect public Credit: It is therefore Our WILL and PLEASURE that you do not on any pretence whatever, give your Assent to, or pass any Bill or Bills in Our Colony under your Government, by which the Lands, Tenements, Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits of Persons, who have never resided within Our said Colony, shall be made liable to be attached for the Recovery of Debts, due from such Persons, otherways than is allowed by Law, in Cases of the like nature within this Our Kingdom of Great Britain, untill you shall have first transmitted unto Us, by one of Our principal Secretaries of State, the draught of such Bill or Bills, and shall have received Our Royal |