prizes which may be captured in their presence, unless they be, by the Admiral General or Commander of the said Company's ships, expressly requested to assist, in which case the prizes which shall have been captured by the Company's ships and them conjointly, shall be equally divided according to the ship's equipment, guns and force, and from their portion shall moreover be paid the Company's share, according to the rate of profit they shall happen to derive from such prizes, as hereinafter according to Articles ten and twelve.

And in case any of the Company's ships propose to make an attack on any of the enemy's places or ships, and find some privateers also desirous to make the attempt, the said privateers must desist and permit the Company's ships to proceed uninterrupted with their expedition ;

or if acting contrary, shall be subject to a forfeit of ship and goods, to be confiscated for the Company's benefit. 8.

Item ; the aforesaid ships will be at liberty to sell and dispose, within the before described limits of the charter, the goods,wares and merchandise they take with them, and in return to buy, obtain and take in others such as Timber, Salt, Tobacco, Cotton, Hides etc., the produce of those parts, either on their own account, or as freight or on commission, and bring them over here in their ships. 9.

Further, the skippers, or in their stead the owners and freighters, shall be bound, at the time of the return of the ships, before they break bulk, to address the Directors at the Chamber or place from which they sailed, and by manifest under their signature must correctly return