The ships which will repair to the before mentioned permitted parts within the charter, must be provided with clearance and authority from the General Incorporated West India Company, at the Assembly of the XIX, which shall be issued to the skippers, owners or charter-party, in the Chamber from which they shall conclude to send out their respective ships, under the penalty that those who let their ship or ships sail without the aforesaid clearance and authority, shall fall within the meaning of the first article of the charter granted to the West India Company, and be accordingly forthwith treated as contraveners; and, also, before obtaining such permit, a pertinent return must be made of the name of the captain or skipper, also the name and tonnage of the ships, with their guns and men and as it is not intended to license ;

the ship or ships, returned in rnanner as aforesaid, merely to trade in or carry timber, salt,

tobacco or cotton, and all other wares and merchandises, the growth of the aforesaid limits, but it is, also, designed to commit offensively and defensively, every hostility and damage on the King of Castile's subjects, they shall be also obliged to take with them a commission from his Highness the Lord Prince of Orange, as Captain Admiral General together with the permit of the General Incorporated West India Company, and for further security of their precise observance of the tenor of the obtained commission and of this regulation, they shall be bound, in addition to the obligation stated in the preceding article, to enter sufficient bail at the Chamber where they will receive the permit in the prescribed form, on pain, if found neglecting so to do, of being debarred from all license, in the same manner as if none had ever been granted them, and of being subject to the fine and forfeit hereinbefore mentioned.