{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plantation-trade-act-1695/section-XII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plantation-trade-act-1695/section-XII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/22",
  "legislation_title": "Plantation Trade Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plantation-trade-act-1695",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "Recital of 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 26. § 6.",
  "text": "What Description of Persons only are to be named as Sureties in the said Bonds; Condition of such Bonds.\nAnd whereas by the said Act made in the Two and twentieth and Three and Twentieth Yeares of the Reigne of His said late Majesty King Charles the Second the Bonds required to bee given in the Plantations by virtue of the said Act for incouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation are altered and the word Ireland to bee left out of the Condition of all such Bonds And by the said Act itt is enacted and provided That for such Shipps or Vessells comeing from other Ports or Places to any of the said Plantations which by the said Act for encourageing and increase of Shipping were permitted to trade there the Governors of such English Plantations should before the said Shipp or Vessell should bee permitted to load on Board any of the Commodities in the said Act particularly mentioned, take Bond in Manner and to the Value mentioned and directed in the above mentioned Act for encourageing and encrease of Shipping and Navigation for each respective Shipp or Vessell That such Shipp or Vessell shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that should bee laden on Board in the said Shipp to some other of His Majesties English Plantations or to England Wales or Towne of Berwick upon. Tweed But because noe Provision hath hitherto beene made for the returneing and produceing Certificates within some reasonable limitted tyme of the landing and dischargeing such Goods according to the Condition of the said Bonds and also because many tymes itt hath happened that the Sureties taken in the said Bonds have beene Persons not resident in the said Plantations but of uncertaine and unknowne Abodes, the said Bonds have proved ineffectuall to the good purposes intended by the said Acts Bee itt therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all such Bonds to bee hereafter given or taken in the said Plantations the Sureties therein named shall bee Persons of knowne Residence and Ability in the said Plantations for the Value mentioned in the said Bonds and that the Condition of the said Bonds shall bee within Eighteene Moneths after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce Certificate of haveing landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in one of His Majesties said Plantations or in England Wales or Berwick upon Tweed otherwise such Bond or Copies thereof being attested under the Hand and Seale of the Governour or Commander in Chiefe to whom such Bonds were given shall bee in Force and allowed of in any Court in England Ireland or the Plantac[i]ons as if the Originall were produced in Court by the Prosecutor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/22/section/XII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:36.588176+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}