19. And whereas by an act of parliament, passed in the sixth year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen _Anne_, intituled, _An act for the encouragement of the trade to ~America~_, it is amongst other things enacted, That no mariner or other person who shall serve on board, or be retained to serve on board any privateer, or trading ship or vessel, that shall be employed in any part of _America_, nor any mariner or other person being on shore in any part thereof, shall be liable to be impressed or taken away by any officer or officers of or belonging to any of her Majesty’s ships of war, impowered by the lord high admiral, or any other person whatsoever, unless such mariner shall have before deserted from such ship of war: and whereas the said privilege or exemption so given by the said act to mariners serving on board ships or vessels employed in any of the seas or ports of the continent of _America_, or residing on shore there, is prejudicial to the fisheries carried on by his Majesty’s subjects of _Great Britain_ and _Ireland_, and others his Majesty’s dominions in _Europe_, and has proved an encouragement to mariners belonging thereto to desert in time of war, or at the appearance of a war, to the _British_ plantations on the said continent of _America_; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said clause, so far as it relates to the exempting of mariners or other persons serving, or retained to serve, in any ship or vessel in the seas or ports of the continent of _America_, or other persons on shore there, from being impressed, be and the same is hereby repealed. [Sidenote: Rum, _&c._ imported into _Newfoundland_ from _America_, to pay a duty of 1_s._ _per_ gallon. How such duty is to be collected, recovered, and applied.]