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... owners . This was the first attempt to form a complete register of the shipping of England , and to increase it by command . From the wording of the letter , it would seem that England was then accustomed to build ships for foreigners ...
... owners . This was the first attempt to form a complete register of the shipping of England , and to increase it by command . From the wording of the letter , it would seem that England was then accustomed to build ships for foreigners ...
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... owners were desired to carry them for reasonable freights . " What the reasonable freights were we are not told . But the probability is , that certain British shipowners made an outcry against the foreigners who came from ports where ...
... owners were desired to carry them for reasonable freights . " What the reasonable freights were we are not told . But the probability is , that certain British shipowners made an outcry against the foreigners who came from ports where ...
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... later , a supplemental statute enacted , " That no foreign - built ship shall enjoy the privileges of English or Irish - built ships , even though the owners be Englishmen , prize ships only exempted . " 26 INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE.
... later , a supplemental statute enacted , " That no foreign - built ship shall enjoy the privileges of English or Irish - built ships , even though the owners be Englishmen , prize ships only exempted . " 26 INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE.
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John Lewis Ricardo. owners be Englishmen , prize ships only exempted . " This was the first announcement of the most strange doctrine , that if an Englishman buy a ship he may not use her for trade ; but if he steal her , he may . An ...
John Lewis Ricardo. owners be Englishmen , prize ships only exempted . " This was the first announcement of the most strange doctrine , that if an Englishman buy a ship he may not use her for trade ; but if he steal her , he may . An ...
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... owners , the reports of their Society , and sad details given , with tearful eyes , by members of their association , they persevere in ship - building as if their miseries were but a kind of clappers and scarecrows , kept rattling and ...
... owners , the reports of their Society , and sad details given , with tearful eyes , by members of their association , they persevere in ship - building as if their miseries were but a kind of clappers and scarecrows , kept rattling and ...
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Page 226 - ... it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to...
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 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...
Page 303 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, or are of the built of and belonging to any of the said lands, islands, plantations or territories as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English...
Page 76 - Parliament {naming the times when such letters of denization have been granted respectively, or the year or years in which such act or acts for naturalization have passed respectively ;] and that no foreigner, directly or indirectly, hath any share or part interest in the said ship or vessel.
Page 246 - That if any master or other person having or taking the charge or command of any ship or vessel, in...
Page 305 - ... most favoured nation, unless His Majesty, by His Order in Council, shall in any case deem it expedient to grant the whole or any of such privileges to the ships of any foreign country, although the conditions aforesaid shall not, in all respects, be fulfilled by such foreign country...