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fine and duty before any one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace ; 

 which Justice is hereby directed and required, on oath being made 

 by any such officer as aforesaid, to cause a capias to be issued for the 

 recovery of the same, and immediately to proceed and adjudicate on 

 the same; and if the amount of the judgment given by such Justice, 

 and the costs and expenses, be not at once paid after the giving of 

 such judgment, then the defendant shall be imprisoned for the same 

 length of time, in proportion to the amount or the judgment, as he 

 would have been under an execution issuing out of any Court for the 

 recovery of small debts, constituted or to be constituted under any 

 Act now or hereafter, for the time being, to be in force, on a judg- 

 ment of a similar amount recovered therein. 



VII. If the master of any vessel shall not pay any such duty or 

 duties when duly demanded, or if such master shall conceal himself, 

 or cannot be found on inquiry made on board such vessel, or if such 

 master shall refuse to exhibit and show forth the certificate of reg- 

 istry or enrollment of such vessel, or any of the vessel's papers, show- 

 ing the tonnage of suck vessel, when demanded by any officer acting 

 under this Act, such officer shall, and he is hereby authorized to seize 

 such vessel or any part of her figging, furniture or materials, and 

 to employ other persons in doing the same, and to detain such vessel 

 or materials until the duty or duties due and the expenses thereon are 

 paid. 



VIII. The remedies for the recovery of the duties and penalties 

 aforesaid, given by the two last sections of this Act, may be both 

 pursued, and at the same time or different times, or only one may be 

 pursued, or otherwise, as the officer collecting the same may think fit. 



IX. So much of the Act of the eighth year of Her present Maj- 

 esty's reign, chapter three, intituled k 'An Act to make new provi- 

 sion for the support of lighthouses, buoys and beacons," as relates to 

 and establishes the rates of light duties to be paid on account of ves- 

 sels clearing from or entering at any port or place in this Island; 

 and also the whole of the Act of the eleventh year of Her present 

 Majesty's reign, chapter eleven, intituled " An Act to explain and 

 amend an Act made and passed in the eighth year of the reign of 

 Her present Majesty, intituled 'An Act to make new provisions for 

 the support of lighthouses, buoys and beacons,' " be, and the same are 

 hereby respectively repealed. 



X. If any person shall assault, resist, molest, oppose, hinder, or 

 obstruct any Controller of navigation laws or harbor master in the 

 exercise of his office, or of any of the powers by this Act conferred 

 upon him, or any person acting in his aid or assistance, such person 

 shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding ten peunds, the same to be 

 sued for and recovered in Her Majesty's name oefore any two of Her 

 Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County wherein the offence 

 was committed, and if not paid on conviction, the offender shall be 

 imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months. 



XI. This Act shall continue and be in force for the space of ten 

 years from the passing thereof, and from thence to the end of the 

 then next session of the General Assembly, and no longer. 



Schedules to which this Act refers. 

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