s, or other inferior provisions; and the said
ship shall be properly provided with water-casks or jars, in proportion
to the intended number of the said negroes; and the said ship shall be
also provided with a proper and sufficient stock of coals or firewood.

[Sidenote: Stores.]

4. And every ship entered as aforesaid shall take out a coarse shirt and
a pair of trousers, or petticoat, for each negro intended to be taken
aboard; as also a mat, or coarse mattress, or hammock, for the use of
the said negroes. The proportions of provision, fuel, and clothing to be
regulated by the table annexed to this act.

[Sidenote: Certificate thereof.]

5. And be it enacted, that no ship shall be permitted to proceed on the
said voyage or adventure, until the searcher of the port from whence the
said vessel shall sail, or such person as he shall appoint to act for
him, shall report to the collector that he hath inspected the said
stores, and that the ship is accommodated and provided in the manner
hereby directed.

[Sidenote: Guns for trade to be inspected.]

6. And be it enacted, that no guns be exported to the coast of Africa,
in the said or any other trade, unless the same be duly marked with the
maker's name on the barrels before they are put into the stocks, and
vouched by an inspector in the place where the same are made to be
without fraud, and sufficient and merchantable arms.

[Sidenote: Owners and masters to enter into bonds.]

7. And be it enacted, that, before any ship as aforesaid shall proceed
on her voyage, the owner or owners, or an attorney by them named, if the
owners are more than two, and the master, shall severally give bond, the
owners by themselves, the master for himself, that the said master shall
duly conform himself in all things to the regulations in this act
contained, so far as the same regards his part in executing and
conforming to the same.

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II. And whereas, in providing for the second object of this act, that is
to say, for the trade on the coast of Africa, it is first prudent not
only to provide against the manifold abuses to which a trade of that
nature is liable, but that the same may be accompanied, as far as it is
possible, with such advantages to the natives as may tend to the
civilizing them, and enabling them to enrich themselves by means more
desirable, and to carry on hereafter a trade more advantageous and
honorable to all parties:

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