be severally applied: that
is to say, that provision should be made by the said regulations,

1st, For duly qualifying ships for the said traffic;

2nd, For the mode and conditions of permitting the said trade to be
carried on upon the coast of Africa;

3rd, For the treatment of the negroes in their passage to the West India
islands;

4th, For the government of the negroes which are or shall be employed in
his Majesty's colonies and plantations in the West Indies:

[Sidenote: Ships to be registered.]

Be it therefore enacted, that every ship or trading vessel which is
intended for the negro trade, with the name of the owner or owners
thereof, shall be entered and registered as ships trading to the West
Indies are by law to be registered, with the further provisions
following:

[Sidenote: Measured and surveyed.]

1. The same entry and register shall contain an account of the greatest
number of negroes of all descriptions which are proposed to be taken
into the said ship or trading vessel; and the said ship, before she is
permitted to be entered outwards, shall be surveyed by a ship-carpenter,
to be appointed by the collector of the port from which the said vessel
is to depart, and by a surgeon, also appointed by the collector, who
hath been conversant in the service of the said trade, but not at the
time actually engaged or covenanted therein; and the said carpenter and
surgeon shall report to the collector, or in his absence, to the next
principal officer of the port; upon oath, (which oath the said collector
or principal officer is hereby empowered to administer,) her
measurement, and what she contains in builder's tonnage, and that she
has ---- feet of grated portholes between the decks, and that she is
otherwise fitly found as a good transport vessel.

[Sidenote: Number of slaves limited.]

2. And be it enacted, that no ship employed in the said trade shall upon
any pretence take in more negroes than one grown man or woman for one
ton and half of builder's tonnage, nor more than one boy or girl for one
ton.

[Sidenote: Provisions.]

3. That the said ship or other vessel shall lay in, in proportion to the
ship's company of the said vessel, and the number of negroes registered,
a full and sufficient store of sound provision, so as to be secure
against all probable delays and accidents, namely, salted beef, pork,
salt-fish, butter, cheese, biscuit, flour, rice, oat-meal, and white
peas, but no horse-bean