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[1.]. Commanders of ships or others, trading with pirates, furnishing them with stores, corresponding with them, &c. guilty of piracy. Forcibly boarding any merchant ship, and throwing any goods overboard, shall be punished as pirates.
2. Ships and the goods, forfeited, half to the crown, half to the discoverers.
3. Accessaries to piracy by 11 Will. 3. c. 7. shall be deemed principals.
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6. Masters or seamen not defending themselves against pirates, etc. forfeit their wages and suffer six months imprisonment.
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