ACTS AND LAWS, Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England.
Begun at Boston the Twenty-ninth Day of May, 1695. and continued by Adjournment until Wednesday the Fourteenth of August following.
Anno Regni Guilielmi, Tertii, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae, Regis, Septimo.
BOSTON. Printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen, Printers to the Governour and Council. 1695.
Anno Regni Guilielmi, Tertii, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae, Regis, Septimo.
An Act, To Prevent the Supplying of His Majesties Enemies.
W HEREAS the French of Port Royal and parts Adjacent in Accadie or Nova Scotia, within this His Majesties Province, that have Sworn Allegiance to the Crown of England, have dependance on this Government, to be furnished with necessary Supplies for their Subsistance; which is meet should be under due Regulations: To the intent that on pretence thereof Supplies may not be conveyed to His Majesties Enemies, for their Support.
Be it therefore Enacted by the Lieutenant Governour, Council, and Representatives, in General Court Assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
That from and after the Publication hereof during the continuance of the present War with France; the French of Port Royal and parts Adjacent in Accadie or Nova Scotia, be and hereby are Inhibited all intercourse of Trade to Boston or other parts of this Province to the Westward of Monhegin: And that no other Person or Persons whomsoever (without special Licence first had and obtained from the Governour, with advice and consent of the Council) shall or may presume to hold any Commerce or dealings with the said French or any others at Port Royal, or in any of the parts Adjacent in Accadie or Nova Scotia; Or to Convay any Goods, Wares, Merchandizes or Provisions unto them by Land or Water, but by Licence as aforesaid; On Pain of Forfeiting One hundred Pounds; and all such Goods, Wares, Merchandizes and Provisions, together with the Vessel or Vessels and all their Tacklin, Apparrel and Furniture on which they shall be laden, and all Peltry or other Goods traded for; one Moiety of said Forfeitures to be unto His Majesty, for and towards the Support of the Government of the Province, and the other Moiety to him or them that shall Inform or Sue for the same, in any of His Majesties Courts of Record.
An Act, For the further Contituance of an Act passed at the first Session of this present General Court or Assembly, Entituled, An Act, For the Continuation of several Acts therein mentioned that are near Expiring.
BE it Enacted by the Lieutenant Governour, Council, & Representatives in General Court Assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
That the said Act of Continuation, and the several Acts therein mentioned, That is to say, The Act for Encouraging the prosecution of the Indian Enemy and Rebels, and preserving such as are Friends, with the several Proviso's and Additions thereto in the said Act of Continuation expressed: As also the Act Entituled, An Act, For the giving Succours and Assistance to the Neighbouring Provinces and Colonies, against His Majesties Enemies; to Extend onely unto Succours and Assistance for the Province of New-Hampshire, as need may require; and the Governour with advice and consent of the Council shall direct and order: Be and hereby are Revived and further continued to be, remain, and abide in full force, unto the end of the next Session of the General Court or Assembly, and no longer.