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Fees of Custom House Officers |
12 Car. II. c. 4. § 7. |
183 |
To prevent Frauds and Concealments of Customs and Subsidies. |
12 Car. II. c. 19. |
250 |
Persons conveying away Goods without Entry and Agreement for the Custom—Penalty. |
§ 1. |
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Officer to break and enter Houses suspected. |
Ib. |
Ib. |
Limitation of Entry. |
§ 2. |
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Continuance of Act. |
§ 3. |
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Damages and Costs against false Informers.
This Act confirmed, 13 Car. II. c. 7. |
§ 4. |
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For preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesty's Customs. |
14 Car. II. c. 11. |
393 |
Time allowed for Ships to come from Gravesend to Place of Discharge. |
§ 1. |
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Master to make a true Return on Oath of Burthen and Lading. |
Ib. |
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In all Out-Ports to come direct to Place of unlading. |
Ib. |
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Ships exporting not to take in Lading till Ship entered with Officer of the Customs. |
§ 2. |
394 |
Particulars of Entry; and before Departure to deliver a Content in Writing to Officer. |
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What the same is to contain. |
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Masters to answer on Oath Questions by Officers touching Goods, &c. laden on Board—Penalty £100. |
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Of Ships importing, not to discharge, &c. till they have declared in Writing the Name of Merchant, and Number and Marks of Packages; and have answered Questions touching the same on Oath—Penalty £100. |
Ib. |
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Refusing to make Entries, &c. Officer may go on board and bring away prohibited or uncustomed Goods. |
14 Car. II. c. 11. § 3. |
394 |
Officers of Customs authorized to go on board Ships outward and inward bound, and bring away Goods (except Jewels). |
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Goods to remain in Storehouse till Duty paid, unless Time allowed. |
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Officers may remain on board. |
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Masters, &c. suffering Packages on board to be opened and Goods embezzled—Penalty £100.
Unentered Goods found concealed in Packages, how dealt with, 5 G. III. c. 43. § 1. |
Ib. |
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If after clearing Ship, &c. any Goods be found on board concealed, and on which Duties have not been paid, Penalty £100. |
§ 4. |
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Persons authorized by Writ of Assistance may enter Houses, &c. break open Doors, &c. and seize, putting Seizure into His Majesty's Storehouse.
See 7 G. III. c. 46. § 10. and for the Period during which Writs of Assisttance shall remain in force, 54 G. III. c. 46. |
Ib. |
Ib. |
Collectors, &c. of Customs to give an Account to the Collector and Surveyor in the Port of London, under Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 18. of Foreign-built Ships in Port, who are to transmit same to Exchequer on or before Dec. 1662. |
§ 5. exp. |
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All Foreign-built Ships not bought before 1st Oct. 1662, deemed Aliens. |
Ib. |
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Mariners of England, Ireland, and Plantations, to be accounted English. |
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Persons abusing, &c. Officers—Imprisonment till next Quarter Sessions and Penalty not exceeding £100. and to remain till discharged by Exchequer.
See 52 G. III. c. 143. § 11. |
§ 6. |
395 |
Wharfingers, &c. landing or suffering to be landed prohibited or uncustomed Goods. |
§ 7. |
Ib. |
Exception for Port of London, under Stat. 1 Eliz. c. 11. without Notice or Presence of Officer—Penalty £ 100. |
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Goods Outward and Inward, laden or unladen without Warrant, &c. forfeited, and Penalty on Master, &c. |
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Carmen, &c. assisting, being apprehended by Warrant—First Offence, Imprisonment until Surety for good Behaviour. —Subsequent Offence, Imprisonment for Two Months, or until £ 5. paid. |
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Coasting Goods shipped without Sufferance or Warrant—Goods forfeited. |
§ 8. |
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Masters of Coasting Ships to take out Cocquet, and enter into Security for delivering of Goods, before Removal of Ship, Dangers of the Sea excepted, and return a Certificate from Officers of the Landing.
Certificate to be indorsed on Bonds herein mentioned, 1 Ann. st. 1. c. 26. § 3. This Section altered as to Southampton and the Isle of Wight, 6 G. III. c. 50. § 1. which appears to be repealed 28 G. III. c. 38. § 1. but is revived and extended to Horses, 32 G. III. c. 32. § 1, 2. As to removing Goods from Out ports to London, or within Twenty Miles of the Royal Exchange there, 9 G. III. c. 41. § 1. and as to Lime carried Coastwise without Cocquet or Bond, 19 G. III. c. 62. and further general Regulations as to this Section, 32 G. III. c. 50. § 1. |
Ib. |
Ib. |
Officers granting false Certificates—Loss of Office — Penalty £50.—Imprisonment, Incapacity, and Liability to Corporal Punishment. |
14 Car. II. c. 11. § 9. |
396 |
Falsifying Cocquets, &c.—Penalty £ 100. and Cocquet, &c. invalid. |
Ib. |
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Goods coasting put on Shore before Cocquet delivered to Officer. |
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Goods for which Customs due concealed in Ships and exported—Penalty on Owners. |
§ 10. |
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Coal to pay Double Duty, as by Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 4. |
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Every Merchant to subscribe One of the Bills of Entry, &c. or no Entry to be suffered. |
§ 11. |
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Children of Aliens under 21 not to be Traders. |
§ 12. |
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Proviso concerning Party Jury. |
§ 13. |
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Merchants to demand for Damage, Allowance upon Oath. |
§ 14. |
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Shipping out less Goods than expressed in Certificate—Penalty. |
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Goods shipped out by Certificate, landing again, (Proviso for Case of Distress) —No Allowance, and Goods forfeited. |
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Goods brought from Scotland by Land to pass through Berwick or Carlisle, and there pay Custom, under Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 4. |
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Passing prohibited Goods—Forfeited. |
Ib. |
397 |
Further Ports, &c. may be assigned by Commission out of the Exchequer, except Hull.
His Majesty empowered to appoint open Quays at Hull, 14 G. III. c. 56. § 1. |
§ 15. |
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Officers, &c. to reside in such assigned Ports, &c. for passing, &c. Ships and Goods. |
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By virtue of such Commissions Limits, &c. of Ports, &c. may be appointed. |
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Goods, &c. not to be laden on board, &c. for Exportation— (Exception of Fish, &c.); nor landed, &c. on Importation— (Exception of Fish, &c.); but upon Places so assigned, without special Sufferance, &c. on Forfeiture of Goods. |
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By what Officers only Ships and Goods may be seized. |
§ 16. |
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Seizures by other Persons void. |
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In Actions against Officers of the Customs and Persons authorized to put in Execution Stat. 12. Car. II. c. 18. General Issue may be pleaded, and the Acts of Customs, &c. given in Evidence. |
§ 17. |
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Judges to admit the same, and to indemnify. |
14 Car. II. c. 11. § 17. |
398 |
Persons seizing, &c. and not prosecuting with Effect, then Officer may seize and inform, or bring Action by way of Devenerunt, and be adjudged the true first Informer. |
§ 18. |
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Informer or Officer compounding—Penalty. |
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Officers taking Bribes, &c. or conniving at false Entries—Penalty £100 and Incapacity. |
§19. |
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Penalty on Merchant, &c. £ 50. |
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Persons confessing within 2 Months, discharged. |
§ 20. |
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Regulations for landing Foreign Goods permitted to be landed. |
§ 21. |
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Officer to give Account of Entry of such Goods—Penalty £100. |
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Packets importing or exporting Goods—Penalty £100, Loss of Place by Master, and Goods forfeited. |
§ 22. |
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Certain Goods not to be imported in any Ships whatever—Penalty, Loss of Goods and Ships.
Pearl Ashes from Germany, the Produce of Germany, may be imported, 10 & 11 W. III. c. 31. § 30.; and Section 23 of this Act, as to Deal Boards and Fir Timber from Germany only, repealed, 6 G. I. c. 15. § 1.; and Pot and Pearl Ashes from the American Plantations, 24 G. II.c. 51. But note, by the express Words of 49 G. III. c. 98. § 40. the whole of 24 G. II. c. 51. is repealed, whilst the antecedent Words of that Section seem to relate to the Oaths and Certificate then required by 24 G. II. C. 51. and to no other Part of that Act. And Pitch and Tar, as well as Deal Boards, Fir, and Timber may be imported from Germany in British or Irish-built Vessels during the then Hostilities, and until 6 Months after Ratification of Peace, 43 G. III. c. 153. § 10. and His Majesty empowered by Order in Council to grant Licences for permitting the Importation of Masts and other Articles in the Act mentioned, from any Place in Amity, and by Ships navigated in any manner, 47 G. III. Sess. 2. c. 27.; and this Act, as to Prunes from Germany, repealed, 56 G. III. c. 37. |
§ 23. |
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Vessels mentioned in Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 18. putting Goods on Shore, &c. without Payment of Customs, &c. to pay Duties, and Penalty, £10. |
§ 24. |
399 |
Boatmen, &c. going to such Vessels—Penalty. |
Ib. |
Ib. |
Vinegar, Perry, &c. imported, to pay Duties laid on French Wines by Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 4. and exonerated from Subsidy or Poundage |
§ 25. |
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Allowance on Exportation.
Duty made to cease, 27 G. III. c. 13. §1. See 43 G. III. C. 68. §1.—49 G. III. c. 98. § 1. |
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Stat. 23 Eliz. c. 9. and 39 Eliz. c. 11. (a) repealed as to Logwood, and Logwood may be, (imported and used in dying, provided such Importation be according to Stat 12 Car. II. c. 18. (a) The Titles at the Heads of these Acts in the printed Copy differ from the Recitals of them in this Act, and they are on the Roll in Chancery as at the Heads of the printed Acts, but the Recitals correspond with the Roll. |
14 Car. II. c. 11. § 26. |
399 |
Duty on Importation. |
Ib. |
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Allowance to Exporter.
Duty made to cease, 27 G. III. c. 13. § 1. See 43 G. III. c. 68. § 1—49 G. III. c. 98. § 1. |
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Actions, &c. on Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 18. may be prosecuted in the Exchequer. |
§ 27. |
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In Suits, &c. on Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 4. and any other Act concerning Importation of Goods, &c. Onus probandi on Owner.
Claimant of Goods to give Security of £30. for Costs, 8 Ann. c. 7. § 63. and Claimant of Vessels seized to give like Security, 15 G. II. c. 31. § 7. Increased to £60, both on Goods and Vessels, or in Default, Goods, &c. forfeited, 3 G. III. c. 22. § 8. Increased, with Secureties, to £100; and in case Party not resident in Great Britain, then the Solicitor entering the Claim to be bound, with Sureties, in the like Penalty, 24 G. III. Sess. 2. c. 47. § 37. |
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Proviso that in Informations on Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 18. Defendants may have a Commission out of Chancery to examine Witnesses abroad. |
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No Writ of Delivery to be had, but no Security—In what Cases to be had. |
§ 28. |
Ib. |
Penalties how to be distributed. |
§ 29. |
400 |
All Persons to aid Officers of the Customs in Execution of this Act. |
§ 30. |
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Deputies, Clerks, &c. in the Customs to take Oath to do their Duty—And none to be employed till Oath taken. |
§ 31. |
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Commissioners, &c. of Customs to administer and register Oath. |
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Officers taking undue Fee, or putting Merchant out of his Turn without Order for the same, or detaining Goods, or refusing Allowances—Penalty. |
§ 32. |
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Exporting or importing Goods to or from the Mediterranean in improper Ships. |
§ 33. |
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Rate of £1 per Cent. over Tonnage and Poundage.
The Duty granted by this Section, as to Woollen Manufactures, made to cease, 11 & 12 W. III. c. 20. § 1. Appropriation of remaining Duties for 32 Years, 9 Ann. c. 6. § 18. made perpetual, 3 G. I. c. 7. § 1. made to cease, 24 G. III. Sess. 2. c. 16. § 5. |
14 Car. II. c. 11. § 33. |
400 |
Proviso for Exportation of Fish to the Mediterranean.
Confined to Cases in which a Moiety of the Lading of Fish is taken and cured by the King's Subjects only, 9 G. II. c. 33. § 3. |
Ib. |
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Persons, within 7 Years from March 25, 1662, building Ships of the Description. herein mentioned—Reward. |
§ 34. exp. |
Ib. |
Duty on Salt imported from Scotland after June 24, 1662.
See how far altered by 5 & 6 Ann. c. 8. Art. 8.; and all Duties and Drawbacks on Salt made to cease, and others granted, 43 G. III. c. 69. § 1. and see Sch. A.; additional Duties and Drawbacks, 45 G. III. c. 14. § 1, 2.: and see further, as to the State of the Duties and Drawbacks on Salt, 47 G. III. Sess. 2. c. 30. § 2.— 49 G. III. c. 81. § 6.— as to Scotch Salt, 54 G. III. c. 21.— and as, to Glauber and Epson Salts, 55 G. III. c. 66. § 33.—55 G. III. c. 162. |
§ 35. |
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Duties on certain Sorts of salted and dried Fish imported.
These Duties made to cease, 27 G. III. c. 13. § 1. See 43 G. III. c. 68. § 1. —49 G. III. c. 98. § 1. |
14 Car. II. c. 7. § 14. |
451 |
For settling the Imposition on Brandy. |
22 Car. II. c. 4. |
656 |
Brandy chargeable by Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 23 & 24. |
§ 1. |
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Eight-pence per Gallon not demanded before 1 Nov. 1666; no Person having imported before that Time chargeable for more than Four-pence.
These Duties made to cease, 27 G. III. c. 13. § 1.—See 43 G. III. c. 68. § 1. —49 G. III. c. 98. § 1.—53. G. III. c. 33. § 1. and Table A. —54 G. III. c. 65. |
§ 2. |
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Penalties how and when to be levied. |
§ 3. |
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Juries free from Attaint for Verdicts heretofore given. |
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