Section LXXVIII Admiralty to exhibit to Parliament a Certificate in Writing of Ships set out in pursunnce of this Act.

And that it may the better appeare how the Service in this present Act appointed for Ships to Cruize in proper Stations to secure the Merchant Ships in their goeing out and returning Home is performed be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord High Admiral of England or Co[m]missioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England for the time being shall and are hereby respectively required to exhibit to the Co[m]mons assembled in Parliament att the next Session of Parliament which shall happen after the First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety & six a Certificate in Writing under his or their Hands respectively of the Ships by him or them X1respectively sett out in pursuance of the Directions of this present Act expressing therein the Names and Rates of the Ships sett out and the times when by him or them respectively ordered as alsoe the Stations to which they were directed and the times how long they were continued att Sea in that Service.