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effect; and in so doing I chiefly confined myself to those acts of Parliamt which appear to authorize the arrest & detention in question.
The Statute of 5 Geo. 1. c. 21. first recites and confirms the 9 & 10 Will: 3. c. 44. which forbids British Subjects to go or trade to the E. Indies unless licensed or entitled so to do; and then enacts (sect: 2.) that it sl be lawful for the E. I. Comp: to arrest and seize, or cause to be arrested & seized, any such persons, at any place where they shall be found within the limits aforesaid; and to send them to England, there to answer for the offence aforesaid, according to due course of Law.”
As it might be difficult to prove in England the fact of trading in India, to remove that difficulty, the 7 Geo: 1. c. 21, enacts that “whoever shall unlawfully go to the East Indies shall be deemed to be a trader, and to have traded there.
Then