AN ACT For settling the SUBSIDY OF POUNDAGE And Granting A SUBSIDY OF TUNNAGE And other Sums of Money UNTO His Royal Majesty His Heirs and Successors The same to be paid upon MERCHANDIZES Imported and Exported into or out of the Kingdom of Ireland according to a Book of Rates hereunto annexed Dublin Printed by Benjamin Tooke Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty for Samuel Dancer Bookseller in Castle-street 1669. AN ACT For settling the Subsidie of Poundage and granting a Subsidie of Tunnage and other sums of Money unto his Royal Majesty his Heirs and Successors the same to be paid upon Merchandizes Imported Exported into or out of the Kingdom of IRELAND according to a BOOK OF RATES hereunto annexed FOrasmuch as by the Laws of this Realm Our Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs are to have receive and leavy one subsidy of Poundage that is to say of all and every twenty shillings worth of all manner of Merchandizes and Wares brought into this Realm of Ireland by any person or persons to be sold within the said Realm Twelve pence of lawfull money of England and likewise to have leavy and receive for every twenty shillings worth of Merchandizes and Wares after the price that they be bought within this Realm and to be carried out of the same to be sold by any manner of person or persons beyond the seas twelve Pence Wine and Oyl onely excepted And forasmuch as the prizes of all such Merchandizes and Wares brought in and sold and bought and carried out are uncertain and the duties therefore or subsidy of Poundage of the same not possibly to be had received leavied in so regular a way as the nature of such an Affair doth require unless some certain and set Rates be conceived by which the said Duties and subsidie may be paid We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal with the Commons of your Majesties Realm of Ireland in this present Parliament assembled upon due and mature consideration had of the present state and condition of the Trade of this your Realm and of the Nature Quality and several Vses of the Goods and Merchandizes Imported and Exported and of the most orderly and regular manner of leavying the said subsidy upon the Goods and Merchandizes aforesaid Do therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by your most Excellent Majesty by the advice of the Lords spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same that the Rates mentioned and expressed in one book of Rates hereunto annexed Intituled The Rates of Merchandizes That is to say The Subsidy of Poundage and the Subsidy of Tunnage as they are Rated and agreed on by the Parliament of Ireland set down and expressed in this Book to be paid according to the Tenor of the Act of Poundage and Tunnage to the use of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for ever shall be the Rates according to which all Goods and Merchandizes of every Merchant natural born subject Denizens and Aliens to be brought into all or any part of this Realm or carried out of the same of the value of every twenty shillings of the same Goods and Merchandizes according to the several and particular rates and values of the same Goods and Merchandizes as they are particularly and respectively rated and valued in the forementioned book shall pay twelve pence English money and that the said book of Rates together with certain Rules Orders and Directions thereunto annexed Intituled Certain Rules Orders Directions and Allowances for the advancement of Trade and the encouragement of Merchants as also for the regulating as well of the Merchants in making of due Entries and just payment of their customs as of the Officers in all Ports of this Realm in the receipts of their several Fees and in the faithful management of their Duties and Trusts And every Article Clause Sentence and Rule in the before-mentioned book of Rates and certain Rules Orders and Directions aforesaid shall from and after the first day of December One thousand six hundred sixty one be and remain as effectual to all intents and purposes as aforesaid as if the same had been particularly included in the body of this present Act And for the better guarding and defending of the Seas against all persons intending or that may intend the disturbance of the intercourse of the Trade of this Your Majesties Realm and for the better defraying the necessary expences thereof which otherwise cannot be effected without great charge And for increase and augmentation of Your Majesties Revenue be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that your Majesty your Heirs and Successors shall have leavy and receive for ever from and after the said first day of December One thousand six hundred sixty and one one subsidy more of Poundage that is to say of every twenty shillings value of any of the native Commodities of this Realm or Manufacture wrought of any such Commodities to be carried out of this Realm by every Merchant stranger or other Alien according to the value thereof in the aforesaid book of Rates expressed twelve pence of like English money over and above the twelve pence aforesaid and also one subsidy called Tunnage that is to say Every Tun of Wine of the growth of France or of any the Dominions of the French King or Crown of France that shall come or be brought into the Port of Dublin and the members thereof and into all and every the other Ports and places of this Realm by Your Majesties natural born Subjects of this Realm or any other Your Majesties Dominions the sum of three pounds and ten shillings of lawfull money of England and by strangers and Aliens the sum of Four Pounds Thirteen shillings and Four Pence of like money and of every But or Pipe of Muscadine Malmeseis Cutes Tents Allicants bastardsacks Canaries Malligoes Maderaes and all other Wines whatsoever commonly called sweet Wines of the growth of the Levant Spain Portugal or of any of the Islands or Dominions to them or any of them belonging or elsewhere that shall come and be brought into the Port of Dublin or members thereof and into all and every the other Ports and places of this Realm by any natural born subject as aforesaid the sum of two pounds and ten shillings of like mony of England and by strangers and aliens the sum of three pounds six shillings and eight pence of every Awme containing fourty two Gallons of Rhenish wine of the growth of Germany that shall come and be brought into this your Majesties Realm by your natural born subjects as aforesaid the sum of fifteen shillings of like mony and by straingers and aliens twenty shillings of every Tun of Rape and Linseed-Oyles containing two hundred fifty two Gallons that shall come and be brought into the Port of Dublin or any of the Ports of this Realm by any natural born subject as aforesaid
horse paying no custom and allowed for provision 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 For the entry of every Ship Bark or Boat along the coast 00 02 00 01 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 00 For every Warrant for discharge of goods by Port Cocquet by English or Irish 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 For every Warrant of let pass along the Coast 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 For making every certificate for goods which paid Custom Inwards and none Outwards 01 02 00 07 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 For every Certificate upon warrant from the Lord Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours paying no duty 01 06 00 09 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 For endorsing all warrants and Licences 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 For every Coast certicate and the entry into his Majesties books 01 00 00 08 00 08 00 06 00 00 00 00 For discharging of bonds and filing the certificates 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 For making certificate of return in the Kings books wax and Parchment 01 00 00 04 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 For taking away the sails of any Ship Barque or other Vessel for a contempt or misdemeanor 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 06 00 00 00 00 Out of every Barque or boat for bringing in Apples to the Searcher one hundred of the same             Out of every Bark or Boat bringing in Oysters 〈◊〉 the Searcher one hundred of the same For gaging every Tun of Wine Gager 4 d. For gaging every Tun of Oyl beer or other 〈◊〉 quid commodities Gager 4 d. Besides out of every ship bringing in wines 〈◊〉 small bottle of wine for a gaging bottle For every barrel of Herrings Gager q For the like by strangers Gager ob For every barrel of Tallow or Butter weighing 〈◊〉 hundred weight Gager 1 d. For the like by strangers Gager 1 d. ob For every hundred weight of like commodities 〈◊〉 uncertain cask and not in barrels Gager ob For the like by strangers Gager 1 d. For every barnel of Beef Pork Herrings or Sâ—â—mon by Natives Gager q For the like by strangers Gager ob For every barrel of like commodity by staâ—gers Gager ob For every pack of yarn Fardle or bag of Wâ—â— Skins and all other packable commodities Packer â— And if it so happen that the Fees above mentioned by reason of the smalness of Trade in any Port or Ports of this Kingdom shall appear to bee too little or not sufficient for provision and maintenance of his Majesties Officers imployed in such Port or Ports That then the Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours and Privy Council for the time being shall have liberty to make and establish such salary to be paid yearly unto the said Officers out of his Majesties Exchequer as they in their judgements shall think fit and as the service care and pains of such Officers may justly merit and deserve Provided alwayes and be it surther Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawfull for the Laster of all Wines Oyls and other Liquors Imported into any Port of this Kingdom and the surveyor of the outs and defects of the same for the time being to demand and receive the Fees following viz. For every But Pipe Puncheon or large Cask that shall be tasted or surveyed six pence For every Hogshead Tierce Barrel Kundlet or smaller Vessel that shall be tasted or surveyed three pence Provided alwayes that all silks and silk manufactures imported into this your Majesties Kingdom of Ireland from any forreign parts other then from the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Waies do pay one entire third part moreover and above the Rates imposed and set by the book of Rates above mentioned Any thing before in this Act or in the said book of Rates to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also that all Sugars Indico Ginger Cotton Woolls as all other woolls and all other commodities of the growth or manufacture of any the English plantations first imported into and landed in England or Wales and afterwards exported from thence into this your Majesties Kingdom of Ireland do pay but one half part of all such Custom and Subsidies as according to the said book of Rates is imposed and set upon the said commodities And that all Wines and Tobaccoes of what sort soever imported into this your Majesties Realm of Ireland out of your Kingdom of England or Dommion of Wales do pay so much only in subsidy as upon the exportation of the same Wines and Tobaccoes out of England shall or ought to be repayed or discharged of the subsidy of Lonnage and Poundage and additional duties there paid or secured for the same And that for all other forreign commodities except Wines and Tobaccoes and commodities from the English Plantations above mentioned Imported into this your Majesties Kingdom of Ireland by any your Majesties subjects from any the parts and places beyond the seas other then from your Majesties Realm of England and Dominion of Wales there shall be satisfied and paid to your Majesty your Heirs and successors for ever one third more in subsidy over and above the subsidy payable for the same according to your book of Rates above mentioned And that for all or any of the commodities or Merchandizes mentioned in this Act or in the book of Rates above mentioned which shall hereafter be imported or exported by any Aliens or strangers born out of your Majesties allegiance the said Aliens or strangers shall pay double the custom or subsidy payable by virtue of this Act for the same commodities and Merchandizes imported or exported by all or any of your Majesties natural born subjects any thing before in this Act or in the book of Rates to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and it is hereby Enacted that every ship or Vessel belonging to any the Subjects of the French King which from and after the four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty two shall come into any Port Creek Harbour or Road of Ireland and shall there Lade or unlade any Goods or commodities or take in or set on shore any passengers shall pay to the Collectors of his Majesties Customs in such Port Creek Harbour or Road for every Tun of which the said Ship or Vessel is of burthen to be computed by such Officer of the Customs as shall be thereunto appointed the sum of five shillings currant mony of England and that no ship or Vessel be suffered to depart out of such Port Creek Harbour or Road untill the said dury be sully paid And that this duty shall continue to be collected Leavied and paid for such time as a certain duty of fifty solls per Tun lately imposed by the French King or any part thereof shall continue to be collected upon the shipping of England Lading in France and three monthes after and no longer FINIS
the hindering of merchants strangers and others from vending his or their goods without offering them first to some Burgess or Freeman of such City Corporation or Town where such merchant stranger or other do arrive with his or their goods commonly known by the name of Lownvargain is very destructive to the Trade â—nd commerce of this Realm and very preâ—udicial to your Majesties Revenue Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the said first â—ay of December one thousand six hundred sixty one no such Town bargain shall be required nor any Merchant or other hindered or with-held from disposing of his or their God's Wares or Merchandizes without offering them as aforesaid but that all and every Merchant stranger or other importing any goads wares or Merchandizes from beyond the Seas and paying all duties by law due and payable thereupon shall and may from time to time and at all times at his and their will and pleasure freely and without let molestation or binderance sell and dispose of his or their Goods and Merchandizes any Charter Custom Vsage Priviledge or liberty of or unto any City or Town Corporate at any time made given granted to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And forasmuch as several antient duties under the name of Town and petty customs due and payable by Merchants strangers unto several Cities and Towns corporate of this your Majesties Realm have been and are demanded received and taken by their Farmors Deputies or Officers in a far greater quantity and proportion then is of right belonging in respect the same have been and are required upon more Goods then are truly lyable thereunto and according to the Kates after which the customs have been from time to time increased and paid unto your Majesty and your Royal Predecessors which exceed far the ancient Kates according to which such petty customs can be required and taken Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that from henceforth no such petty customs be demanded received or paid for or upon any more or other Commodities then were chargeable with the same by antient custom and prescription and not according to the increase of his Majesties customs by his Majesties book of Rates nor for any Wares or Commodities by virtue of any grant but such as were charged at the time of the Grant made by your Majesties Royal predecessors of such petty customs unto any citty or Town corporate nor at any other or greater Rate or Kates then the same weneither payed or answered by the Merchants â—rangers at the time of the respective granting of the same or as the same were taken in the fifteenth year of the late King Henry the seventh any grant usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding upon pain that every person or persons demanding or receiving more or greater petty customs then as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such offence double the value of what shall be exacted or received upon more commodities or at greater â—ates then as aforesaid saving unto Wentworth Earl of Kildare and the Heirs Males of the body of Gerald Fitz. Gerald Earl of Kildare all such Estate Kight and Title of in and to the great and little customs pounages subsidies duties together with the â—ocquet and power of constituting Officers hereunto belonging there the Ports and Harbours of Strangford and Aâ—dglass in he county of Down and Province of Ulster no the creeks and members thereunto apertaining as they or any of them can or may â—aim or demand by or under any Letters Patents thereof made by King Henry the â—â—ght unto the said Gerald Fitz. Gerald Earl of Kildare as fully and amply as the â—ame was granted in and by such Letters Parents any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding THE RATES OF MERCHANDIZES That is to say The Subsidy of Poundage and the Subsidy of Tunnage as they are Rated and agreed upon by the Parliament of Ireland set down and expressed in this Book to be paid according to the tenor of the Act of Poundage and Tunnage to the use of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever The RATES of MERCHANDIZES Rates Inwards A l. s d. ADzes for Coopers the dozen 00 12 00 Aggers small as a bean the hundred dozen 00 13 04 Aggets large the piece 00 00 06 Alphabets the set containing twenty four 00 05 00 Allom English the hundred weight containing one hundred twelve pounds 00 10 00 Alphisti or Canary seeds the hundred weight containing one hundred and twelve pound 03 15 00 Amber The pound 00 07 04 Amber The Mast containing two pound and a half 00 08 04 Amber Beads the pound 01 00 00 Anchovis the little barrel 00 07 0â— Andirons Or Creepers of Lattin the pound 00 01 00 Andirons Of Iron wrought in England the pair 00 10 00 Andlets oâ— Mails the pound 00 03 0â— Anvils English the hundred containing one hundred and twelve pound 00 08 00 Aneile of Barbary the pound 00 03 00 Annotto the pound 00 01 00 Apples The Bushel 00 01 00 Apples The Barrel containing 3 Bnshels 00 03 0â— Aquavitae The Barrel 05 06 0â— Aquavitae The Hogshead 08 00 00 Argal white or red or powder the hundred weight containing 112 pounds 01 03 04 Armour old the hundred weight containing one hundred and twelve pounds 01 00 0â— Arrows for Truncks the groce containing twelve dozen 00 06 0â— Ashes vocat Pot-ashes the barrel containing two hundred pound 02 10 0â— Ashes vocat Wood or Soap-ashes the last coning twelve barrels 12 00 00 Aule blades the thousand English 00 08 00 Aulgers English for Carpenters the groce 00 10 0â— Aulgers Forraign for Carpenters the groce 01 00 00 Axes or Hatchets the dozen 00 06 08 B. Â Â Â Babies or Puppets for Children the groce containing twelve dozen 00 13 04 Babies Heads of Earth the dozen 00 10 00 Bacon of England or Wales the Flitch 00 10 00 Bacon of Westphalia and all Forraign the hundred containing one hundred and twelve pound 02 00 00 Balks Great the hundred containing one hundred twenty balks 12 00 00 Balks Middle the hundred containing one hundred twenty balks 05 00 00 Balks Small the hundred containing one hundred and twenty balks 02 00 00 Bags with locks the dozenâ— 02 08 00 Bags with steel Rings without locks the dozen 01 12 00 Ballances vocat Gold Ballances the groce containing twelve dozen pair 04 00 00 Ballances vocat Ounce Ballances the groce containing twelve dozen pair 02 00 00 Ballances vocat The Sort containing four dozen 02 13 04 Balls vocat Tennis Balls the thousand 02 00 00 Balls vocat Wash Balls the groce containing twelve dozen 02 00 00 Bandaleers the hundred containing five score 00 16 08 Bandstrings the dozen knots 00 10 00 Bands vocat Flanders bands of Bonelace the band 10 00 00 Bands vocat Cut work of Flanders or any other country 02 00 00 Bankers of
merchandize shall deliver under his hand and upon his Oath before the Collector or Cheque one bill of the particulars and contents of the whole Lading of the ship with the names of the several Merchants and the mark pack or Outward form of the goods and merchandizes according to his knowledge and shall also make Declaration thereof upon Oath XVIII Every Master of a ship that shall Lade any Goods or merchandizes for any parts beyond the Seas shall enter his ship with the Collector and Cheque before he take in any Goods and before his departure shall give notice of his whole Lading with the Names of the Merchants that have Laden Goods in him and shall answer upon oath to such questions concerning the same as shall be demanded of him XIX No entry nor agreement with any Merchant or others for customs or subsidy shall be made by the Collector or others nor any Coequet Warrant or Certificate sealed or subscribed but openly in the Custom-house XX. Every merchant making an entry of Goods either Inwards or Outwards shall be dispatched in such order as he cometh and if any Officer or his Clerk shall either for favour or reward put any merchant or his servant duely attending by his turn or otherwise delay any person so duely attending and making his Entries aforesaid to draw any other reward or gratuity from him then is limited in the Table of Fees hereafter following If the Master Officer or the Clerk be found faulty therein they shall respectively upon complaint to the said Commissioners or chief Officers be publickly discharged of their respective Imployments and not permitted to fit any more in the custom-house XXI Every merchant or other that will transport any Goods by way of merchandize for Forreign parts shall make his entry particularly thereof with the Collector and Cheque by a bill under his hand or the hand of his Assignes with the name of the ship the Master the burthen of whence and to what place it is fraighted with the marks and number of the Packs Cask Fardles or other bulks and the true quantity and quality of the Goods therein contained which bill shall forthwith be entred in a book by the Collector and delivered to the Comptroller to be entred by him likewise And to file and keep the bill of every ship together as they shall be entred and the true value of the Goods and ef the custom subbdy and duties thereupen due shall be likewise set sâ—rth and charged in the books at the one the Merchant maketh his entry XXII All Goods and merchandize allowed for Store Portage or provision Inwards or outwards shall be valued according to the book of Rates although the same neither doth nor shall pay any custom or subsidy and shall be Entred in books distinctly and apart by themselves XXIII The searcher or surveyor shall have all Coequets certificates and warrants delivered unto him before the shipping or Landing of any Goods therein contained and at the time of the shipping or Landing thereof shall have the said coequets certificates and warrants with them that the Goods may be thereby examined and tryed whether they agree in quantity and quality or no which if he neglect or fail to do every such surveyor or searcher shall forfeit his or their place XXIV Every merchant shall have his particular cocquer and certificate by himself sealed and subscribed openly in the custom-house by the Collector and Comptroller bearing date the same day that he enâ—red his Goods XXV All Entries Inwards or outwards by license shall be endorsed upon each particular Licence with the name of the merchant the date of the Cocquet or entry and the particular quantities shipped or Landed by virtue there of shall be also set down and entred in the books to which they properly belong XXVI All Merchandize customed outwards in any ship or Vessel which for some cause cannot be laden aboard the same ship shall be appointed to another ship by certificate openly sealed subscribed and delivered in the custom-house upon the oaths of the Searchers oâ— Surbeyors and of the Owners thereof openly taken that the said Goods did not pass according to former cocquet XXVII Every merchant entring and merchandize Inwards or taking up any Goods by stop or Portage shall make entry thereof particularly and deliver a bill thereof at large under his hand or the hand of his Assignee to the Collector with the name of the ship and of the master the burthen of whence and from what place it was fraighted with the mark and number of the Fardles Bulk and Paccage in the margent and the true quantities and qualities of the Goods therein contained and the said Collector shall with all convenient speed cast up the value of the Goods and Merchandizes therein and the customs and substdies thereupon due and write it upon the said bill with the number and date of the bill according to which it shall be presently entred in the book Inwards to be kept by the said Collector and then by him delivered to the Comptroller or Cherque to be likewise entred according to which bill another being subscribed by the said Collector comptroller or Cheque and numbred and dated as the former shall be to the Surveyor Searcher or Wayter a warrant to suffer the Wares and Merchandizes therein contained to be Landed and discharged accordingly XXVIII All manner of Goods Wares and Merchandizes of which any Merchant shall make Oath he cannot perfectly Enter for want 〈◊〉 bills of Lading advice or some other juâ—â— cause shall be entred at sight and shall 〈◊〉 taken up by warrant ad visum dated thâ— day of the entry thereof subscribed and delivered openly in the Custom-house to the searcher or surveyor who shall see the same brought to the Custom-house Key or Whaâ—â— and give knowledge thereof to the said Officers which officers shall suffer the said Goods to be taken up in the presence of the surveyor or searcher and viewed in some convenient place and the owner thereof shall forthwith make an entry thereof particularly under his hand or the hand of his Assignee with the Collector and Comptroller and thereupon a Warrant shall be made for clearing and passing of the said Wares as aforesaid accordingly XXIX Every merchant taking up Goods at sight or otherwise who shall permit or suffer his or their Goods to lye and remain in any the Ware-houses of the Custom-house for longer then the space of seven days without Entring or clearing the same shall for such time as they continue there longer pay such reasonable Rates for Ware-house room as the Commissioners of the customs or the respective Collectors of the Ports shall judge meet to direct the one half thereof shall be to the use of his Majesty and the other to the Warehouse keeper and to be paid defore the delivery of such Goods unto the merchant XXX In the Port of Dublin the Commissioners of the customs and in every other part where more
the sum of one pound ten shillings of like mony by strangers and â—liens the sum of one pound seventeen shillings and six pence of like mony of every like Tun of Sevil Majorca Minorca Apuglia Province or Portugal Oyl that shall come or be brought in by any natural born Subject as aforesaid the sum of two pounds and twelve shillings of like mony by strangers or Aliens the sum of three pounds five shillings of like mony of every like Tun of Sallet-Oyl brought in by any natural born Subject as aforesaid the sum of three pounds and three shillings of like mony by strangers or Aliens the â—â—m of three pounds eighteen shillings and nine pence of like mony of every like Tun of Trayn Oyl of Greenland brought in by any natural born subject as aforesaid the sum of eight shillings of like money by Strangers or Aliens the sum of ten shillings of like mony of every like Tun of Trayn-Oyl of new found land brought in by any natural born subject the sum of six shillings of like mony by strangers or Aliens the sum of seven shillings and six pence of like mony which several Rates of Tunnage and Poundage being the same which are expressed in the book of Rates before meâ—tioned and no other from and after the saâ—â— first day of December one thousand six hundred sixty one shall be had received leavyed and taken upon all Goods and Mâ—â—chandizes whatsoever Imported or Exporteâ— into or out of any Port or place of thiâ— Realm and so proportionably for a greateâ— or lesser quantity of the same any formeâ— Laws Statutes Vsages or Customs tâ— the contrary in any wise notwithstanding eâ—cepted always and foreprized prisage and butlâ—rage Provided always and be it Enacted by thâ— Authority aforesaid that if any Goods 〈◊〉 Merchandizes aforesaid of any Merchanâ—â— being born Denizen of this Realm of Ireland or any other your Majesties Doâ—â—nions hath been or at any time hereafter shall be taken by any Enemies or Pirateâ— upon the Sea or perish in any ship 〈◊〉 ships that shall happen to be taken 〈◊〉 perished whereof the subsidies and othâ—â— Duties are or shall be duely paid or agreeâ—â— for and that duely proved before the Lorâ— Treasurer of Ireland or the chief Baron 〈◊〉 your Majesties Court of Exchequer for thâ— time being by the examination of the saâ—â—â— â—erchants if they be alive or of their executors or Administrators if they be dead 〈◊〉 by two credible witnesses at the least born or other reasonable witness and â—roof sworn then the same Merchant or Merchants his or their Executors or Administrators shall and may newly ship in â—e same Port where the Goods and Merchandizes aforesaid were or shall be customed so much other Goods and Merchandizes as the same Goods and Merchandizes so lost as aforesaid shall amount unâ—o in custom without paying of any thing â—or the same so as the same proof be reâ—orded and allowed of in the Court of Exchequer and certified unto the Collector of the Customs of the Port where the â—ame Goods and Merchandize are to be newly shipped without custom as aforesaid And whereas many great quantities of Goods and Merchandizes are often times fraudulently concealed to the great lessening â—or diminution of your Majesties Revenue for prevention thereof be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Owner Master skipper Purser or other person taking charge of any Vessel or of any Merchants Goods shall receive or take into any ship Bottom or Vessel whatsoever any Goods Wares or Merchandizes to be carried or transported into any of the parts beyond the seas before he shall have signifâ—ed to the customer of the Port when he ladeth and other Officers there in the open Custom house if any such be there or elsewhere the said Officers or their deputies or any of them be or shall be usually resident that he intendeth to Lade and to what place he intendeth to pass nor shall after his or their full lading depart out of the Port Creek or place where he shall so Lade before he do in like manner signifie unto the â—ustomer and Officer as is aforesaid of his Lading and what Merchants and other persons shall have Lading with him or in his ship Vessel or Bottom and further truely to answer to such questions as shall be interrogated of him or them by the customer or other Officers concerning such Wares and Merchandizes as he shall have Laden being examined upon his or their oath in the open custom-house or otherwise as is aforesaid upon pain to forfeit for every such default or not truly advertising nor answering to such questions as shall be demanded of him one hundred pounds of currant mony of England afore said That no owner Master skipper Purser or other person taking charge of any ship Vessel or Bottom wherein any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall be Laden or brought from any the parts beyond the seas shall discharge into any Lighter Gabbard Bottom Boat ship or Vessel whatsoever and lay on land or procure or cause or any wayes permit or suffer to be discharged into any Lighter Gabbard bottom boat ship or Vessel whatsoever and to be laid on land out of such ship bottom or Vessel any goods wares or Merchandizes whatsoever before such Owner Master skipper Purser or other person or persons taking charge of the ship bottom or vessel shall have first entred into a sufficient obligation in the law in which he shall be bound to the King with known able sureties in such sum as the Collector of the Port where he arrives shall judge meet That the ship or Vessel by him brought in shall not depart or sail away out of the said Port or Harb our without her being fully cleared and discharged by the Collector or searcher of the said Port and shall likewise have delivered under his hand to the Customer or other Officer of the Port Haven or Creek where he arriveth one bill of the particulars and contents of the whole Lading of his or their Ship Bottom or Vessel with the names of the several Merchants or Laders and the mark packadge or outward form of the Goods and Merchandizes laden and shall make declaration that he hath not broken bulk since he came into the Port nor into any other Port of this Realm otherwise then in the said bill shall be expressed and shall have truly answered upon Oath unto such Questions and Interrogatories touching or concerning such Goods Wares or Merchandizes as shall be then Laden in any such Ship Vessel or bottom as shall be to him administred by such Customer or other Officer openly in the custom-house or in such other places as aforesaid upon his or their oath if he or they shall be thereunto required upon pain that every owner Master skipper Purser or other person or persons as aforesaid shall forfeit and loose for every such default in not giving bond truly advertising nor answering as is aforesaid One hundred pounds of like mony
merchandizes seen as aforesaid the same shall be forfeited and confiscated That no person do take upon him to enâ—â— or do or cause to be entred into the book 〈◊〉 any customer or any other or Officers 〈◊〉 any Port within this Realm his or their â—eputy or Deputies any manner of goods â—ares or Merchandizes whatsoever coming brought from any parts veyond the Seas the name or names of any other person or â—â—sons then the very owner or Owners â—oprietor or Proprietors of the same â—oods Wares or Merchandizes being not â—â—uld vargained or contracted for to or â—ith any person or persons before such enâ—y or before the arrival of such Goods â—ares or Merchandizes upon pain of forâ—ture of the Goods or value of the goods which shall be entred otherwise That for the better discovering of all proâ—vited and other Goods and Merchandiâ—s fraudulently or covertly brought in and â—nded at unlawfull hours and places the â—ollector Surbeyor Searcher Wayter or â—her persons authorized deputed and apâ—inted thereunto by the Commissioners of â—e Customs under their hands and seals 〈◊〉 under the hands and seals of the major â—rt of them shall have power and authoriâ—â— and are hereby impowred and authoriâ—d to go on board and enter into any Ship â—oy Bark Bottom Boat or other Vessel â—harsoever as well by night as by day riâ—ng lying or being within any the several Ports Havens Creeks or other plaâ—â— within this Realm and likewise at 〈◊〉 time of the day to go and enter into 〈◊〉 or any of the Cellars Shops Ware-house where they shall have just cause of suspiciâ—â— to see surbey and make search for 〈◊〉 prohibited Goods Wares and Merchanâ—â—zes and likewise any goods or Merchandizes either put on board any ship or â—â—sel or taken out or carried away or intâ—ded to be carried away the customs 〈◊〉 subsidy for the same having not been fulâ— satisfied and paid and the said Goodâ— wares and Merchandizes to seise attaâ—â— and carry away secure and put into 〈◊〉 Majesties warehouses at the Custom-house of the respective Ports there to remain 〈◊〉 till they shall be discharged by due courâ—â— Law And be it further Enacted by the authoâ—â—ty aforesaid that all and every the defaultâ—â— of such as shall attempt to do any thing 〈◊〉 trary to the tenor of this present Act orâ— the Rules Orders and directions befoâ—â— mentioned into the book of Rates to be 〈◊〉 nexed or to any of the several Articles branches of the same except as hereaâ—â—ig excepted shall be heard inquired and 〈◊〉 â—rmined by the Barons of his Majesties 〈◊〉 ourt of Exchequer and that the moyety of â—e half part of all Fines Penalties or â—orfeitures shall be and remain unto your â—ajesty your Heirs and Successors and â—e other morety or half part to him or them â—at shall seise or sue for or prosecute the â—me by Action Bill Plaint or Informaâ—on in the said Court of Exchequer wherein 〈◊〉 wager of Law Protection Essoyn or oâ—er Dilatory Plea shall be allowed Provided alwayes for the avoiding of frauâ—lent composition that no Action Bill â—aint or Information aforesaid be exhiâ—ted or proceeded in against any Goods â—ares or merchandizes seised untill such â—sures shall be Registred and entred with â—e Register or Officer to be appointed for â—at purpose in the Port of Dublin and cerâ—fied by him to be so entred and Registred â—â—d untill such goods wares and merchanâ—zes be secured or laid up in His Majesties Ware-house at the Custom-houses of the reâ—ective Ports as aforesaid and in case the Commissioners of the Customs shall be dissaâ—â—sied or apprehend any neglect or delay in â—â—y person or persons to sue for or proseâ—â—te in any Action Bill Plaint or Information as aforesaid that it shall and 〈◊〉 be lawfull to and for the said Commissioners to appoint any other person or person whom they shall think sit to prosecure whiâ—â— other person or persons shall be and 〈◊〉 hereby declared to be true proper and lawful prosecutors or seisers to all intents aâ—purposes whatsoever and to whom the moâ—ty of the said seisures and forfeitures shall 〈◊〉 due and payable and to no other aâ—thing in this present Act or any other Lakâ— Statute Vsage or custom to the contraâ— hereof notwithstanding And whereas by 〈◊〉 Act made in this Kingdom in the eight aâ— twentieth year of the Reign of the laâ—â— Queen Elizabeth it was Enacted as followeth Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the said Authority that the Lord Deputy or other Governour or Governours of thâ— Realm for the time shall have yearly for thâ— provision and store of his House of suâ— Wines as shall be brought and conveyed bâ—â— way of Merchandize into this Realm thâ— number of twenty Tuns free and discharge of the Customs of Subsidy granted by the Act And that the said Lord Deputy 〈◊〉 other Governour or Governours of thâ— Realm for the time being shall also by thâ— said Authority have full power to grant â—imit and appoint to every Peer of this Realm and to every of the Privy Council in the same and the Queens learned Council for the time being at his or their discretion from time to time such portion and quantity of Wines to be free and discharged of and from the said Customs and Subsidy as he shall think to be meet and competent for every of them after their degrees and callings to have any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding It is therefore hereby Enacted that the Lord Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours of this Realm for the time being shall have yearly for their provision and store of his or their Houses of such Wines as shall be brought into this Realm the number of twenty Luns free and discharged of all Customs or Subsidies And that the said Lord Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours of this Realm for the time being shall also by the said Authority have full power to grant limit and appoint unto every of the Privy Council and to His Majesties learned Council and Clerk of His Majesties Privy Council of this Realm at his or their discretion from time to time such portion and quantity of wine to be free and discharged of and from thâ— said customs and substdy as he or they shaâ—â— think fit to be meet and competent for everâ— of them after their degrees and qualities anâ—thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also that this Act or any thinâ— therein contained shall not extend to charge any person or persons with any penalty oâ— forfeiture for or concerning any matter oâ— thing done contrary to the tenour of this Act or any part thereof unless the party or parties offending shall be sued or prosecuted for the same within twelve months after such matter or thing shall be done and committed as aforesaid any thing in this Act or any other Law custom or Vsage whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding And because by experience it is found that
any allowance or abatement of subsidy made him by bill of store or otherwise for any sort of Lobacco under pretence of being corrupt or unmerchantable but in case any Merchant shall refuse to make Entry of such Lobacco and to pay the full subsidy of the same the principal Officers of the Custom-house or any two of them shall cause all such corrupt Lobacco to be publickly burnt as not wholsom for use and the Owner thereof is to be discharged from paying any subsidy for the same VII Every Merchant bringing in any sorts of Mines into this Realm by way of Merchandize and making due Entries of the same in the Custom-house shall be allowed ten per centum for Leakage to be taken or deâ—ucted not out of the quantities of Wines â—ut out of the monies received for the subâ—â—dy Provided such Wines be not filled â—p on ship-board and if so no allowance â—hen to be made at all for the same VIII Every Merchant shall be allowed upon â—ll other Goods and Merchandizes appointed to pay the subsidy of Poundage according to the rule of the before going book of â—â—ates to be Imported five in the hundred â—f all the said subsidies of Poundage so appointed to be paid IX Every Hog head of Wine which shall be â—â—un out and not full seven inches or above â—â—st therein And every but or Pipe not aâ—â—e nine inches shall be accounted for outs â—nd the Merchant to pay no subsidy for the â—ame X. If any Wines shall prove corrupt and unmerchantable and fit for nothing but to distil into hot waters then every owner of such Wines shall be abated in the subsidy according to such his damages in those Wines by the discretion of the Commissioners of the customs in the Port of Dublin and of the Collectors and one other of the principal Officers in all others the out Ports XI If any Goods or merchandizes except Lobacco brought into this Kingdom shall receive any dammage by salt water or otherwise so that the Owner thereof shall be prejudiced in the sale of such Goods the Commissioners in the Port of Dublin and the principal Officers of the Customhouse in all other the Ports or any two of them whereof the Collector for the time being to be one shall have power to choose two indifferent merchants experienced in the values of such Goods who upon visiting of the said Goods shall certifie and declare upon their corporal Oaths first administred by the said Commissioners or Officers what dammage such Goods have received and art lessened in their true value and according to such dammage in relation to the Rates set on them in the foregoing book of Rates the said Officers are to make a proportionaâ—le abatement unto the merchant or owner of the subsidy due for the same XII All merchants transporting any sort of Moollen Cloath called old Drapery as alâ—â— Bayes and Cottons shall be allowed one 〈◊〉 ten for a wrapper free of custom or subfiâ—y XIII Inasmuch as the natural scituation of this â—ealm renders it sufficiently convenient for be storing and laying up of Commodities and merchandize brought in with intent to â—e afterward carried out again for supply of forreign markets by which much benefit and advantage may arise to his Majesty and People The Lord Deputy therefore or other chief Governour or Governours and â—rivy Council of this Realm for the time â—cing shall and may as they in their judgements shall see meet and find most advantaâ—ous and beneficial to his Majesty and this â—ingdom appoint one certain Port in each â—rovince of this Realm to which all merâ—â—ants strangers and their Factors sending his or their goods with intent and to the end and purpose aforesaid may upon reasonable composition or agreement to 〈◊〉 agreed on by direction of the said Lord â—â—puty or other chief Governour or Governours and Privy Council as aforesaid aâ—â— payment thereof made unto the Collectorâ— Collectors of those Ports in lieu of aâ—â— Customs or Subsidies due and payable 〈◊〉 this present Act there Land and lay thâ— same up in his Majesties Ware-house at thâ— Custom-house of those places or such other Ware-houses or places and no other 〈◊〉 shall be provided for that end and purpose 〈◊〉 the Collector Customer and Searcher 〈◊〉 those Ports under whose joynt custody thâ— same are to remain until they be shippâ—â— out again which shall be done again without payment of any duties Outwards or any thing more then a reasonable rate foâ— Ware-house room but if any Merchanâ—â— Factor or other bringing in or laying up hiâ— or their Goods by way of composition 〈◊〉 not export but otherwise dispose of the same every such merchant factor or other shall before be or they receive his 〈◊〉 their Goods from the Ware-house or placâ— where they are laid up pay unto the Collector not only so much as with his or their composition monies shall compleat the whole customs and subsidies of such Goods but likewise Interest at the Rate of ten pounds per cent for so long time as the payment of the full duties of those Goods had been forborn and for prevention of all Fraud and collusions such Rules shall be observed by Merchants and Officers respectively as the Commissioners of the customs with the allowance and approbation of the Lord Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours and Privy Council shall from time to time find fit and necessary XIV The Officers who sit above in the custom-house of the Port of Dublin shall attend the service of their several places from nine to twelve of the clock in the forenoon and one Officer or one able Clerk shall attend with the book in the afternoon during such time as the Officers are appointed to wait at the water side for the better deciding of all controversies that may happen concerning Merchants warrants All other the Officers of the Out Ports shall attend every day in the custom-house of every respective Port for dispatch of Merchants and ships between the hours of nine of the clock and twelve in the morning and two â—and four in the afternoon XV. The searcher Surveyor or other Officer attending in any Port or Creek shall give knowledge to the collector of the head port to which they belong with all convenient speed of every ship that cometh in or goeth out at any Lide by way of Merchandize or with Goods from another Port by way of certificate XVI There shall be one shippers book Outwards and another Inwards kept in every custom-house wherein every ship or Vessel going out or coming in by way of Merchandize or with commodities of this Kingdom to or from any other ports by certificate shall enter openly in the custom-house the name of the ship and of the Master the burthen from whence and to and from what place it is fraighted before he take in any Lading or discharge any Goods Wares or merchandizes whatsoever XVII The master or purser of every ship coming in by way of