and be applicable to their use,-without any dominion over the same of any purchaser, or of any master to whom they may in any colony or plantation be sold, and which shall always be in some of his master’s [Majesty’s?] colonies and plantations only.  And the master of the ship in which such person shall embark shall give bond for the faithful execution of his part of the trust at the island where he shall break bulk.

18.  Be it further enacted, that, besides the hospitals on shore, one or more hospital-ships shall be employed at each of the said chief marts, wherein slaves taken ill in the trading ships shall be accommodated, until they shall be cured; and then the owner may reclaim and shall receive them, paying the charges which shall be settled by regulation to be made by the authority in this act enabled to provide such regulations.

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III.  And whereas it is necessary that regulations be made to prevent abuses in the passage from Africa to the West Indies: 

[Sidenote:  Slave ships to be examined on the coast.]

1.  Be it further enacted, that the commander or lieutenant of the king’s ship on each station shall have authority, as often as he shall see occasion, attended with one other of his officers, and his surgeon or mate, to enter into and inspect every trading ship, in order to provide for the due execution of this act, and of any ordinances made in virtue thereof and conformable thereto by the authorities herein constituted and appointed; and the said officer and officers are hereby required to examine every trading ship before she sails, and to stop the sailing of the said ship for the breach of the said rules and ordinances, until the governor in council shall order and direct otherwise:  and the master of] the said ship shall not presume, under the penalty of ——­, to be recovered in the courts of the West Indies, to sail without a certificate from the commander aforesaid, and one of the inspectors in this act appointed, that the vessel is provided with stores and other accommodation sufficient for her voyage, and has not a greater number of slaves on board than by the provisions of this act is allowed.

[Sidenote:  Governor to give special instructions.]

2.  And be it enacted, that the governor and council, with the assistance of the said naval commander, shall have power to give such special written instructions for the health, discipline, and care of the said slaves, during their passage, as to them shall seem good,

[Sidenote:  Presents and musical instruments to be provided.]

3.  And be it further enacted, that each slave, at entering the said ship, is to receive some present, not exceeding in value ——­, to be provided according to the instructions aforesaid; and musical instruments, according to the fashion of the country, are to be provided.

[Sidenote:  Table of allowances.]