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JAMES TOWNE In the Words of Contemporaries |
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19. THE PORT OF JAMESTOWN
UNDER the royal government Virginia continued to expand and develop. Jamestown remained the capital, but the life of the colony flowed out into the ever growing tobacco plantations. Economic conditions did not make for the growth of cities, but efforts to foster the development of Jamestown continued. Such was the attempt to center trade there in 1631—32.
[Enacted by the Assembly:]
That every shipp arivinge in this colony from England, or any other parts, shall, with the first winde and weather, sayle upp to the porte of James Citty and not to unlade any goods or breake any bulke before she shall east anchor there, uppon payne that the captayne and mayster of the sayd shipp shall forfeite the sayd goods or the value thereof, and shall have and suffer one mounthes imprisonment;
AN ACT OF THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY. 1631/32.
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