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Province of Nova-Scotia
AN ACT
To regulate the Shipping and Exportation of Corn or Grain. Made and passed in Council at Halifax, the 5th Day of October, 1754.

Whereas the Exportation of Corn, of Grain of any Kind, from this Province, is attended with the greatest ill Consequences, not only by preventing the Markets of the said Province from being supplied with a Quanity of that Commodity sufficient for the Consumption of the Inhabitants thereof; but is also often shipped and transported to his Majesty's Enemies, for their Use and Support, to the great Prejudice, Disturbance, and Annoyance of his said Majesty's Government, and the Inhabitants thereof: For Prevention whereof the future,

It is Resolved, by the President and Members of his Majesty's Council of this Province, And by the Authority of the same it is Enacted, That from and after the Publication hereof, no Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Pease, or any other kind of Grain whatsoever, shall be shipped or taken on board and Ship of Vessel, Shallop, Boat, or Canoe, in any Port or Place within this Province, until a Permit shall be first obtained in Writing under the Hand of the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province for the Time being, for the shipping of such Corn of Grain, and also Bond with sufficient Surety, be entered into by the Shipper thereof, to such Person or Persons as shall be appointed for that Purpose, by the said Governor of Commander in Chief, to take the same, (and who is hereby required to give a Certificate thereof) that such Corn of Grain so shipped, shall be carried to some other of his said Majesty's Colonies of Plantations in America, Asia, or America, or to the Kingdom of England, Principality of Wales, of Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and there put on shore without Fraud, (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) and so Toties Quoties, as often as the same shall be brought to be reship'd. And if any Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Pease, or any other kind of Grain whatsoever, shall