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out the Limits of any of the Ports thereof) without Payment of the 

 Customs and other Duties due and payable for the same (unless in 

 case of apparent Necessity or some other lawful Reason, of which the 

 Master or other Person having Charge of such Ship, Vessel or Boat, 

 so taking in the same, shall give immediate Notice to, and make Proof 

 before the Chief Officer or Officers of the Customs of the first Port of 

 this Kingdom where he shall arrive) such Goods, Wares and Mer- 

 chandizes, shall be forfeited and lost, and the Master or other Person 

 having Charge of such Ship, Vessel or Boat, so taking in the same, 

 and all such Persons who shall be aiding, assisting or otherwise con- 

 cerned in the unshipping or receiving of the said Goods, Wares or 

 Merchandizes, shall forfeit Treble the Value thereof; and the Ships, 

 Boats and Vessels, into which the said Goods, Wares and Mer- 

 chandizes shall be unshipped and taken in, shall also be forfeited and 

 lost, any Ship, Boat or Vessel, so to be forfeited and lost, not exceed- 

 ing the Burthen of one hundred Tons; and the Master, Purser or 

 other Person taking Charge of such Ship or Vessel out of which such 

 Goods shall be taken (unless in case of such apparent Necessity or 

 other lawful Reason, whereof Notice shall be given by him, and Proof 

 be made as aforesaid) shall also forfeit Treble the Value of the Goods 

 so unshipped as aforesaid; which Forfeitures shall be divided and 

 recovered in such manner as herein after mentioned. 



No. V2.1763: Extract from British Statute, 4 Geo. Ill, Cap. 15. 



An Act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in 

 America; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in 

 the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, 

 (intituled, An Act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of his 

 Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America) ; for applying the produce of such 

 duties and of the duties to arise by virtue of the said Act, toward defraying 

 the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the said colonies and 

 plantations; for explaining an Act made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign 

 of King Charles the Second, (intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the 

 Greenland and Eastland trades, and for the better securing the plantation 

 trade) ; and for altering and disallowing several drawbacks on exports from 

 this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clandestine conveyance of 

 goods to and from the said colonies and plantations, and improving and secur- 

 ing the trade between the same and Great Britain. 



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"XXXIII. And whereas by an Act of Parliament, made in the 

 ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, 

 intituled, An Act for indemnifying persons who have been guilty of 

 offences against the laws made for securing the revenue of customs 

 and excise, and for the enforcing those laws for the future, and by 

 other Acts of Parliament since made, which are now in force, in order 

 to prevent the clandestine landing of goods in this Kingdom from 

 vessels which hover upon the coasts thereof, several goods and vessels, 

 in those laws particularly mentioned and described, are declared to 



be forfeited, if such vessels are found at anchor, or hovering 

 532 within two leagues of the shore of this Kingdom, without 



being compelled thereto by necessity or distress of weather; 

 which laws have been found very beneficial to the public Revenue: 



