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Fishery
Territory
Settlement
Plantation
Colony
Posession
The Territory of Tangeir which came to His Majesty by the marriage with a daughter of Portugal is declard not to be a Plantation in Asia africa or america within the meaning of this or of former acts Navigation act Sect 14 Reeves p. 60.
Sir John Howles said he should have thought Newfoundland neither a Colony nor a Plantation there being no Settld Governor there & the King not pretending to any dominion therein but Stat. 15 Ch 2 Chap. 7 & 25 Ch 2nd 7 Reckon Newfoundland among H. Plantations
Whatever doubt might have arisen in Sir John Howles time whenever that may have been the Treaty of Utrecht has now acknowledged the dominion & Sovereignty of that Island to be in the King of Great Britain Reeves 123-4
The foreign Posessions of this Country are in the act of Navigation calld Lands Islands Plantations Territories Ships are required to be built in the Kings dominions in Asia Africa uk America & Persons of the Kings Plantations are declard to be English within the meaning of the act in 7 & 8 [wm] 3. ch 22 Colonies & Plantations are mentiond in 12 Ch 2nd Ch 18 Governors of Lands Islands Plantations or Territories are required to take an oath but no mention is made of Colonies
7 & 8 [wm?] 3d is entitled for Preventing [indecipherable] & regulating [indecipherable] in the Plantation [indecipherable] Reeves p. 134
See Reeves Reasoning on this Subject which lends somewhat to not much to puzzle the cause & little if anything to explain it page 135 - 138. There can be no doubt that a Colony having a Governor is Liable to all the restrictions & entitled to all the benefits of the many other acts All dominion must in this Case be admitted in the Case of Tangeir The only exception to this Rule & Special act appears to have been necessary to establish their Exemption from the Laws of Navigation