[2] Ordered published by the Council, November 24, 1675 (Acts of Privy Council, i, 638).
[3] The above three acts are (1) "An Act for the Encourageing and increasing of Shipping and Navigation," 12 Chas. II, ch. 18, of the year 1660, printed in Statutes of the Realm, v, 246; (2) "An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England, and for Regulating the Plantation Trade," 22-23 Chas. II, ch. 26, of the year 1670, printed in Statutes of the Realm, v, 747; and (3) "An Act for the incouragement of the Greeneland and Eastland Trades, and for the better secureing the Plantation Trade," 25 Chas. II, ch. 7, of the year 1672, printed in Statutes of the Realm, v, 792. For a general description of the Navigation Acts, see Channing, History of the United States, ii, 27; Channing's "Navigation Laws" in Amer. Antiquarian Society Proceedings, vi, 160; and Beer's "Commercial Policy of England toward the American Colonies," in Columbia University Studies, ii, pt. 2. The acts themselves are reprinted in MacDonald's Select Charters.
[1676, April 1.]
[Concerning Passes for Ships.]
BY THE KING.
A PROCLAMATION
Concerning Passes for Ships.
Charles R.