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... unless acts , ordinances , and procla- mations , were its sheet - anchor , cable , and harbour of refuge . Our poor ancestors were haunted and hag - ridden by the notion , that some breezy night every ship in England , great A.D. 1409 ...
... unless acts , ordinances , and procla- mations , were its sheet - anchor , cable , and harbour of refuge . Our poor ancestors were haunted and hag - ridden by the notion , that some breezy night every ship in England , great A.D. 1409 ...
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... unless it were imported in a vessel belonging to Eng- land , Ireland or Wales , and navigated principally by natives of England , Wales , Ireland or Calais . " † This is the first act declaring that a majority of the seamen must be the ...
... unless it were imported in a vessel belonging to Eng- land , Ireland or Wales , and navigated principally by natives of England , Wales , Ireland or Calais . " † This is the first act declaring that a majority of the seamen must be the ...
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... unless the Navigation Laws are relaxed , and we allow vessels of the German maritime states to trade between Asia , Africa , America , and this country , the Shipowners ' As- sociation may yet live to see another golden age , when two ...
... unless the Navigation Laws are relaxed , and we allow vessels of the German maritime states to trade between Asia , Africa , America , and this country , the Shipowners ' As- sociation may yet live to see another golden age , when two ...
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... unless with England . The ships of the colonies could however come and go to and from England on the same terms as her own ; with that trade the Navigation Act did not interfere . But so soon as America became independent , the Acts ...
... unless with England . The ships of the colonies could however come and go to and from England on the same terms as her own ; with that trade the Navigation Act did not interfere . But so soon as America became independent , the Acts ...
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... unless it can be shown that its preserves do not extend beyond the sixty or seventy thousand seamen employed in the Colonial trade , and that , in case of war , there would not be a grand battue amongst the hundred and fifty or sixty ...
... unless it can be shown that its preserves do not extend beyond the sixty or seventy thousand seamen employed in the Colonial trade , and that , in case of war , there would not be a grand battue amongst the hundred and fifty or sixty ...
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able seamen aforesaid Africa American ships apprentices bill of sale British possessions British seamen British ships British vessels brought build Canary Islands captains cargo carry certificate of registry cheaper coast collector and comptroller collector or comptroller colonies commercial competition consul copper cost cotton crew Customs declaration dominions Dutch duty East India enacted England English ship English vessels entered Europe export foreign countries foreign port foreign ships foreign vessels freight Guernsey Hamburgh hereby imported increase indentures islands labour Lascars Majesty Majesty's manufacture marine master or owner mate merchant service month Navigation Act Navigation Laws officers Order in Council Parliament penalty person present privileges produce of Asia prohibited Prussian register ticket respect restriction Royal Navy sail sailors says ship belonging ship or vessel shipowners Straits of Gibraltar sugar Swedish thereof timber tion tonnage tons trade United Kingdom voyage wages warehoused wool
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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...