Governour has most justly observed to us,) is humbly referr'd with what is here offered to His further Consideration.

We are with Sincere respect,

The Governour's Assured ffriends,

At the Court at Kensington, the 14th day of June, 1722.

Upon reading this day at the Board a Memoriall from the Commrs for Executing the Office of Lord high Admirall of Great Britain and Ireland &c., touching Severall Indirect Practices Committed in the Granting Passes to Secure the Ships and Vessels belonging to his Majty's Subjects from the Cruizing Ships of Algier, together with New Rules and Methods for Granting Passes which are hereunto annexed.

His Majty in Council approving thereof was pleased to Order a Proclamation to be prepared and issued, Directing that all such Passes shall not Continue in force longer than Twelve Months (excepting to Ships gone or now going to the East Indies or to the South Sea or any other long Trading Voyages) but be returned into the Admiralty Office within the said Time, in order to their being Cancelled, and New Passes of a different Form, Granted in Lieu thereof: And Whereas the said Lords Commissrs of the Admiralty, do Represent in their said Memoriall, That for preventing any indirect Practices or Impositions in the obtaining Passes which may be demanded, either for Ships in the Port of London, or in any other Port of Great Britain or Ireland, or in any of his Majesty's Forreign Governments or Plantations, it is absolutely necessary, that the Surveyor of the Act of Navigation, or his Deputy, who shall be Approved by the Commisss of the Customs at the Port of London, and the Surveyor or proper Officer of the Customs, at the other Ports of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as those in

His Majesty's Forreign Governments and Plantations, should with the utmost strictness and care, personally Examine into the nature of such Ships and Vessells, for which Passes shall be demanded, to prevent their being otherwise imposed on, and not to Grant Certificates, in order to the obtaining such Passes, untill they shall be thoroughly satisfied that such Ships and Vessells were actually built in his Majesty's Dominions, or that, if Forreign built, they are made Free, and that the Masters and all the Owners of such Ships or Vessclls, are really and bona fide his Majesty's naturall born Subjects or Forreign Protestants made Denizens, as also, that the aforesaid Masters and no others are really designed to go to sea with such Ships and Vessells on their intended Voyages. His Majesty in Councill taking the same into Consideration, was pleased to Approve thereof, and to Order, as it is hereby Ordered, That the Governors or Commanders in Chief of all his Majesty's Forreign Governments and Plantations, do give the strictest Orders to the Navall Officers there, that whenever a Pass shall be demanded and a Bond Entered into, that no indirect use shall be made of such Pass, the said Navall Officers do take especiall Care that those who Enter into such Bond be responsible Persons, that so if any such indirect Use shall be made of the Pass, and that it be not delivered up by the time required, the Penalty of the said Bond may be sued for and recovered to his Majesty's Use.

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And the said Lords Commissrs of the Adniiralty likewise representing it necessary for the Security of the Trading Ships and Vessells belonging to his Majesty's Subjects inhabiting his Majesty's Forreign Governments and Plantations, that Passes should be Lodged in the Hands of the Governors or Commanding Officers at the said Governments or Plantations, to be delivered by them to the Masters of such Ships and Vessells as may have occasion for the same; Majesty is hereby further pleased to Order and strictly to forbid all such Governors or Commanding Officers of his Majesty's Forreign Governments and Plantations for the time being, to issue any Passes to the Masters of any Ships or Vessells whatsoever, untill they shall be thoroughly Satisfied by Authentick Certificates from the Navall Officers within their Governments, that such Ships or Vessells were either built in or belong to Great Britain or Ireland, or the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, or One of his Majesty's said Forreign Governments or Plantations, or that they are Forreign built, made free, as also, that the Masters and all the Owners of them are actually his Majesty's naturall born Subjects, or Forreign Protestants made Denizens, And that before the delivery of such Pass, the said Governors or Commanders in Chief, do Indorse on the backside thereof in Words at Length and not in Figures, the Time when delivered at what Place and by Whom, and that to the said Indorsement they putt their Hand and affix their Seal. But in regard the Ships and Vessells belonging to the aforesaid Forreign Governments and Plantations, do frequently make short Voyages from one Government or

Plantation to another, insomuch that it may be inconvenient to return the Passes which they shall be furnished with at the End of every such Voyage: His Majesty is hereby further pleased to Order that all such Passes as shall be so issued, be returned within the space of Twelve Months from the respective Dates thereof, either to the Governor or Commander in Chief of the Forreign Government or Plantation, by whom they shall be delivered, or to the Governor or Commander in Chief of any other of his Majesty's Forreign Governments or Plantations, where the Ship or Vessell may happen to Come when the Limited Time for the return of the said Pass shall be Expired, And the said Governors or Commanders in Chief for the time being, are hereby strictly required not only not to Grant any other Pass unto such Ships or Vessells, untill the former is delivered up, as aforesaid, or Oath made, that the said Ship or Vessell never had any Pass before, or if so, when and to whom the same was returned, or an Authentick Certificate produced thereof, from the Person to whom the same was delivered, but also to sign a Certificate to the Master of such Ship or Vessell who shall so deliver Such Pass that so the said Masters, upon producing such Certificate to the Governor or Commander in Chief from whom they received the same, may have the Bond they entered into Cancelled; And there being reason to believe that Forreigners do Buy Ships or Vessells belonging to his Majesty's Subjects in the Plantations and Governments abroad, and that with such Ships or Vessells, the Passes are delivered to the Purchasers, which they make use of to protect them in Carrying on their Trade, to the prejudice of his Majty in his Revenue, and the Navigation of his Majesty's Subjects; His Majesty is hereby further pleased to Order, that the said Governors or Commanders in Chief of his Majtys Forreign Governments or Plantations for the time being, Do use their utmost Endeavors to Prevent such irregular and unjustifiable Practices, and that when they do find any Ship or Vessell shall be sold in the manner aforesaid, they timely Demand from the Owners or Master, the Pass which was furnished to such Ship or Vessell, in Case the same shall not have been returned by them before, which they are in the strictest manner to Enquire into & Satisfy themselves in, and that upon their receiving such Pass, they do immediately Cancell the same and transmitt it, as soon as possibly may be, to the Governor or Commander in Chief of such Government or Plantation of his Majesty's, by whom the same was issued, in Order to his Cancelling the Bond which was Entered into at the Issuing such Pass and returning the Pass itself to the Admiralty Office here.

And his Majesty is hereby further pleased to Order and strictly to require the said Governors or Commanders in Chief of his Forreign Governments or Plantations for the time being, not only to Cancell and transmitt to the Admiralty Office here Quarterly, or as soon after as they can possibly have Opportunities of doing the same, all such Passes as shall be so returned to them from time to time, but to

keep or cause to be kept, and in like manner transmitted to the said Admiralty Office, a true and Exact Account of all such Passse as shall be issued by them, according to the Method which hath already been, or may hereafter be, sent to them from the Commiss" for Executing the Office of Lord high Admirall of Great Britain and Ireland &c., or the Lord high Admirall or Commiss's for Executing that Office for the time being: As also that the said Governors or Commanders in Chief of his Majtys Forreign Governments and Plantations, do cause such bonds as shall be entered into to be strictly putt in Suit, that so the Penalties therein may be recovered to his Majesty as often as they shall find the Persons to whom such Passes shall be issued, do not return as aforesaid the said Passes within Twelve Months after the respective Dates thereof, unless in the case of Shipwreck, or their being taken by Pirates or other Enemies, or that the said Passes shall be lost by any other unavoidable Accident, or that they produce to them a Certificate of their having so delivered them to some other Governor or Commander in Chief of his Majtys Forreign Governments or Plantations: And his Majesty is hereby further pleased to Order, that the respective Governors or the Commanders in Chief of the said Forreign Governments & Plantations for the time being, Do not upon any Pretence whatever, Demand Ask or Take, or cause to be Demanded Asked or Taken, any more than the summ of Twenty Five Shillings Sterling for each Pass, which shall be delivered out by them, being the Fee His Majesty hath been pleased to Direct to be Paid for such Pass, to the Secretary to the Lords of the Admiralty, and the Clerks belonging to their Office, Out of which the Publick Duty for the Stamps thereon, and on the Bonds and Oaths, are to be made good by them to His Majesty, And the Governor or Commander in Chief is to be from Time to Time Accountable to them for the same, Whereof the Governor or Commander in Chief of the Province of Pensilvania for the Time being, And all others whom it may concern, Are to take Notice and Govern themselves accordingly. TEMPLE STANYAN.

RULES FOR GRANTING PASSES.

That no Pass be Granted, in pursuance of the Treaty with the Government of Algier, to any Ship or Vessell belonging to the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, the Islands of Jersey or Guernsey, or to any of his Majesty's Forreign Colonies or Plantations, or his Majtys Island of Minorca, or the Town of Gibraltar, but by the Lord high Admirall or Lords Commiss for Executing the Office of Lord high Admirall for the time being.

That no such Pass be granted to any Ship or Vessell unless they are built in Great Britain or Ireland, the Islands of Jersey or Guernsey, or in his Majesty's Forreign Governments or Plantations, or actually belong to his Majesty's Island of Minorca, or the Town of

Gibraltar, or that it shall appear by Authentic Certificate they are Forreign Built Ships made free.

That no Pass be granted to any Ship or Vessell whereof the Master and Three fourths of the Mariners are not his Majesty's Naturall born Subjects or Forreign Protestants made Denizens, unless it be to the Ships or Vessells belonging to the Island of Minorca or the Town of Gibraltar.

That no Pass be issued to the Master of any Ship or Vessell belonging to his Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Islands of Jersey or Guernsey, or any of his Majesty's Lands, Islands, Plantations or Territories in Asia, Africa or America, untill he shall have given Bond to his Majesty in the summ of Fifty Pounds Penalty, if such Ship or Vessell be under the Burthen of One hundred Tuns, and in the Penalty of One hundred Pounds, if such Ship or Vessell be of the Burthen of One hundred Tuns or more, for the delivering up of his Pass, upon the Return of such Ship or Vessell, and her being unloaden in any Port of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, except such Ships or Vessells which Trade to the Ports of France Portugall or Spain, on this side the Streights Mouth, and that in such case, the Passes delivered to those Ships or Vessells be returned within Twelve Months from the Date of them respectively, And that the Collectors of the Customs at the Out Ports of these his Majtys Dominions Do, as at present, take the Bonds for delivering up such Passes as aforesaid.

That no Pass be granted to the Master of any Ship or Vessell belonging to his Majesty's subjects inhabiting in any of his Majesty's Lands, Plantations or Territories in Asia, Africa or America, untill they shall have Entered into Bond in the Penalties beforementioned, to deliver up the said Pass within the space of Twelve Months after the Receipt thereof, either to the Governor or Commander in Chief of such Government or Plantation from whom he received the same, or to the Governor or Commander in Chief of some other of his Majesty's Forreign Colonies or Plantations, in case such Ship or Vessell continue to Trade in those Parts, or to transmitt the said Pass to the Lord high Admirall or Commiss" for Executing that Office, in case she shall come to any Port of Great Britain or Ireland as soon as such Ship or Vessell shall be unloaden.

That the Forms of the Certificates to be given, Bonds to be Entered into, and Oaths to be taken by the Masters of all Ships and Vessells, British or Irish built, or built in the Islands of Jersey or Guernsey, or in any of his Majesty's Forreign Governments or Plantations, or to Forreign built ships made free, may be in the same manner as those which are also hereunto annexed.

Indorsed

Copy Order of Council touching the issuing of Mediterranean Passes. June 14th, 1722.