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From 1st Aug, 1787, no foreign built vessel, except prizes, entitled to advantages of a British or, Irish built ship or owned by subjects,
to what ships such advantages shall be confined.
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II. And whereas it is necessary and highly expedient, that the advantages hitherto given to ships owned and navigated by his Majesty’s subjects, should from henceforth in all cafes be confined to ships wholly built and fitted out in his Majesty’s dominions: be it therefore enacted, That from and after the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, no ship or vessel foreign built (except such ships or vessels as have been, or shall hereafter be taken by any of his Majesty’s ships or vessel of war, or by any private or other ship or vessel, and condemned as lawful prize in any court of admiralty) nor any ship or vessel built or rebuilt upon any foreign made keel or bottom in the manner heretofore practised and allowed, although owned by his Majesty’s subjects and navigated according to law, shall be any longer intitled to any of the privileges or advantages of a British or Irish built ship, or of a ship owned by his Majesty’s subjects, and that all the said privileges and advantages shall hereafter be confined to such ships only, as are wholly of the built of Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle of Man, or of some of the colonies, plantations, islands, or territories in Asia, Africa, or America, which now belong, or at the time of building such ships or vessels did belong, or which may hereafter belong to or be in the possession of his Majesty, his heirs or successors.
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