or to send any persons out with goods for
sale into the country; and also that whosoever
shall be found to have acted hereunto
contrary, or against what is ordained in the
placard aforesaid, shall be punished by a
mulct of one-fourth part of the value of the
goods in which such trade is carried on, as
well of the cargo brought on shore, as of the
Icelandic goods so purchased; and whether
it be the master or the mate of a vessel, who
has undertaken to carry on such a trade, he
shall besides be fined twenty rix-dollars; and
such Icelanders, or other persons established
in the island, who shall suffer themselves to
be detected in such illicit trade, shall likewise
incur a penalty of from five to ten
rix-dollars, according to circumstances.
2, The same punishment shall likewise
be inflicted on the traders established in
Iceland, who shall act contrary to what
is ordained per letter b, in the placard.
The traders from Denmark, Norway, and
the provinces, who, in their trade to Iceland,
shall omit attending to the contents
of the placard in letter c, shall be punished
in like manner.
3, But, on the contrary, if the traders
from Denmark, Norway, and the provinces,
shall, agreeably to what is directed by the
placard, in letter c, establish a fixed trade
in the trading towns, and there keep house
and office, or at least do so by their factor,
they shall have a right to trade with any
inland towns thereto authorised, in the district
of such trading town; and such factors
shall, agreeably to the placard, be obliged
to take their burghership; whereas such
factors and other servants, as are employed
by merchants who have taken the
houses of trade effects and materials and
who have themselves taken their burghership,
shall be excused from taking burghership.
4, It shall be totally prohibited to grant
letters of burghership to the peasantry; and
such letters of burghership, as mav have
already been granted to such persons, shall
be revoked, and annulled, unless they are
willing to establish themselves in the trading
towns, and there only carry on trade as
burghers according to their privileges; but
they shall in no wise carry on trade at their
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