209 PART V. 



STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, &C. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



No. 1. 1662: Extract from British Statute, 13-14 diaries //, Cap. 11. 

 An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in his Majesty's Customs. 



" Forasmuch as it appears, that several unlawful and indirect 

 Means and Devices are daily put in Practice, to export and import 

 Goods and Merchandizes prohibited by the Laws and Statutes of this 

 Kingdom, as also to defraud the King's most Excellent Majesty of 

 his Dues, Customs and Subsidies, as well by secret and deceitful De- 

 signs, as by open Force and Violence used against the King's Majesty's 

 Officers employed in the Affairs of the Customs : " 



II. For the better preventing of which Frauds and Violences in 

 Time to come, it is enacted and ordained by the King's most Excellent 

 Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual 

 and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, and be it 

 enacted and ordained by the Authority thereof, That no Ship or Ves- 

 sel arriving from the Parts beyond the Seas, shall be above three 

 Days coming from Gravesend to the Place of her Discharge (within 

 the River of Thames} without touching or staying at any Wharf, 

 Key or Place adjoining to either Shore between Gravesend and 

 Chester's Key, (unless apparently hindred by contrary Winds, 

 Draught of Water, or other just Impediment to be allowed by such 

 Person or Persons as are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for 

 managing the Customs, the Collectors Inwards, or other principal 

 Officers of the Customs;) (2) and then or before, the Master or Purser 

 (for that Voyage) of such Ship or Vessel, shall make a just and true 

 Entry upon Oath of the Burthen, Contents and Lading of every such 

 Ship or Vessel, with the particular Marks, Numbers, Qualities and 

 Contents of every Parcel of Goods therein laden, to the best of his 

 Knowledge ; also where and in what Port she took in her Lading, of 

 what Country built, how manned, who was Master during the Voy- 

 age, and who are Owners thereof; (3) and in all Out-Ports or Mem- 

 bers, to come directly up to the Place of Unlading, as the Condition 

 of the Port requires and will admit, and making Entries, as aforesaid, 

 upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of one hundred Pounds. 



III. And be i't further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 no Captain, Master, Purser, or any other Person or Persons taking 

 Charge of any Ship or Vessel bound for the Parts beyond the Seas, 

 or into the Kingdom of Scotland, whether the same Ship or Vessel 

 shall have Commission from or belong unto the King's Majesty that 

 now is, his Heirs or Successors, or shall belong to or have Commission 

 from any foreign Prince or State, or otherwise, shall take in, or suffer 



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