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New Swedish Custom Measures Tighten Vessel Gauging
An Order of Council requires captains to carry a sworn gauge certificate stating exact capacity, to be measured by a chief magistrate or sworn shipwrights or two sworn masters. False entries incur heavy fines paid to the hospital and informers, with stringent enforcement at Swedish ports and for foreign and royal ships alike.
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Stockholm
Gage
Sweden
M. Rumpt
States General
Count Horn
Horn
Straelfund
Goo
Grelwade
Land of Rugen
Swedish Pomerania
Wybourg
Carelfcroon
London
Hospital of
St. Thomas's
Southwark
William Thompson
Benjamin Collier
Great Grimsby
Lincolnshire
Thomas Woolley
The
India Company
Charles Joye
South Sea Company
Lock
Thomas Malin
Henry Lille
Edward Owen
George Heathcote
Samuel Leflingham
Thomas Matftin
Salisbury
Tharty
Guild Hall
Richard Hopkins
Limestreet
Skinner
Deceas
Hailworth
John Field
Edward Wintland
Newgate
Francis Forbes
South-Sea Company
Dublin
John Evans
Meath
South Sea
Bank
India
Attican
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Assurance
York Caliente
Welsh Corpe
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