A sheriff may not
levy more than 12d. for every 20s. of yearly income of any manor
for up to 100 pounds of income, and 6d. for value over 100 pounds.
No one may cut pine trees that are fit for masts of ship in New
England without license by the Queen or forfeit 100 pounds. Later,
pine trees on private property were excluded.
Citizens of Great Britain may sue colonial debtors by oath before
British magistrates and a debtor's colonial lands and houses and
negroes may be used to satisfy his debts.
Anyone pretending to act under a charter and taking subscriptions
in Great Britain or the colonies must forfeit treble damages.
No hats, including beaver hats, may be exported from any colony
even to another colony because this has hurt British hat
manufacture. The penalty is 500 pounds. No one in the colonies
except present hatmakers who are householders and journeymen may
make hats unless they serve a seven year apprenticeship. No
hatmaker in the colonies may have more than two apprentices at
once.
Whaling ships near Greenland were prohibited from returning until
their hulls were full. Vessels built or fitted out in America may
engage in whaling.
Pig iron from the colonies may be imported free, but there may be
no mill for slitting or rolling iron and no plateing-forge or
other engine to work with a tilt hammer and no furnace for making
steel erected or used in the colonies or forfeit 200 pounds.
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