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and bringing him or them before any of his Majesty's said Justices of 

 the Peace ; and if such Persons shall not give a satisfactory Account 

 of themselves, and their Callings and Employments, or otherwise 

 make it appear to the Satisfaction of such Justice or Justices that 

 they are not to be employed or concerned in, or to be aiding or assist- 

 ing in the carrying on any fraudulent or clandestine Trade, or unlaw- 

 ful Business or Occupation, and are not at such Place as aforesaid 

 with Intent to carry on the said clandestine Practices, then every 

 Person who shall not give such Account and Satisfaction to such 

 Justice or Justices shall be committed to the House of Correction, 

 there to be whipt and kept to hard Labour for any Time which such 

 Justice or Justices shall in his or their Discretion think meet, not 

 exceeding one Month, and that the Commissioners of the Customs or 



Excise respectively shall cause to be paid to the Person or Per- 

 531 sons informing of such Offender or Offenders a Reward of 



twenty shillings per Head for every such Offender so taken as 

 aforesaid. 



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XXII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June one thousand seven 

 hundred and thirty-six, where any ship or Vessel whatsoever coming 

 or arriving from Foreign Parts, and 1 having on Board six Pounds of 

 Tea, or any Foreign Brandy, Arrack, Rum, Strong Waters, or other 

 Spirits whatsoever, in Casks under sixty Gallons (except only for the 

 use of the Seamen then belonging to and on Board such ship or Vessel, 

 not exceeding two Gallons for each Seaman) shall be found at 

 Anchor, or hovering within the Limits of any of the Ports of this 

 Kingdom, or within two Leagues of the Shore, or shall be discovered 

 to have been within the Limits of any Port, and not proceeding on 

 her Voyage, Wind and Weather permitting (unless in case of un- 

 avoidable Necessity, and Distress of Weather, of which Necessity and 

 Distress the Master, Purser or other Person having or taking the 

 Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall give Notice to, and 

 make Proof of before the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Cus- 

 toms of such Port as aforesaid immediately after the Arrival of such 

 Ship or Vessel into the said Port) all such Tea, Foreign Brandy, 

 Arrack, Rum, Strong Waters and Spirits, together with the Chests, 

 Boxes, Casks, and other Package whatsoever, containing the same 

 Goods, or the value thereof, shall be forfeited and lost (whether Bulk 

 shall then have been broken or not) and the same Goods and Package 

 shall and may be seized and prosecuted, or the Value thereof sued for 

 by any Officer or Officers of the Customs or Excise in such Manner 

 and Form as herein after is expressed ; any Law, Statute or Custom 

 to the contrary notwithstanding. 



" XXIII. And whereas Foreign Goods are frequently taken out of 

 Ships at Sea without the Limits of any Port, with Intent to be fraudu- 

 lently landed in this Kingdom;" For preventing thereof, be it fur- 

 ther enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in case any Foreign 

 Goods, Wares or Merchandizes, shall after the twenty-ninth Day of 

 September one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, by any Ship, 

 Boat or Vessel whatsoever, be taken in at Sea, or put out of any Ship 

 or Vessel whatsoever, within the Distance of four Leagues from any 

 of the Coasts of this Kingdom (whether the same be within or with- 



