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A82447
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An act for the encouraging & increasing of shipping and navigation
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); England and Wales. Parliament.
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1660
(1660)
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Wing E1108; Thomason E1075_16; ESTC R208537
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October in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty shall come into any Port Creek Harbor or Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities or take in or set on shore any passengers shall pay to the Collector of His Majesties Customs in such Port Creek Harbor 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 Money of England And that no such Ship or Vessel be suffered to depart out of such Port Creek Harbor or Road until the said Duty be fully paid And that this Duty shall continue to be Collected Levied 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 Moneths after and no longer And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one no Sugars Tobacco Cotton-wooll Indicoes Ginger Fustick or other dying wood of the Growth Production or Manufacture of any English Plantations in America Asia or Africa shall be shipped carried conveyed or transported from any of the said English Plantations to any Land Island Territory Dominion Port or Place whatsoever other then to such other English Plantations as do belong to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland or Principality of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed there to be laid on shore under the penalty of the forfeiture of the said Goods or the full value thereof as also of the Ship with all her Guns Tackle Apparel Ammunition and Furniture The one moyety to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign Protection or wager of Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Ship or Vessel which from and after the Five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty shall set sail out of or from England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed for any English Plantation in America Asia or Africa sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to the chief Officers of the Custom-house of such Port or Place from whence the said Ship shall set sail to the value of One thousand pounds if the Ship be of less burthen then one hundred Tuns and of the sum of Two thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of greater burthen That in case the said Ship or Vessel shall load any of the said Commodities at any of the said English Plantations that the same Commodities shall be by the said ship brought to some Port of England Ireland Wales or to the Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there unload and put on shore the same the danger of the seas onely excepted And for all ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid Plantations who by this Act are permitted to Trade there that the Governor of such English Plantations shall before the said ship or vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said Commodities take Bond in maner and to the value aforesaid for each respective ship or vessel That such ship or vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that shall be laden on board in the said ship to some other of His Majesties English Plantations or to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that every ship or vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid Goods until such Bond given to the said Governor or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom-house of England Ireland Wales or of the Town of Berwick that such Bond have been there duly given shall be forfeited with all her Guns Tackle Apparel and Furniture to be imployed and recovered in maner as aforesaid And the said Governors and every of them shall twice in every year after the First day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty return true Copies of all such Bonds by him so taken to the chief Officers of the Custom in London Anno Regni CAROLI II. AN ACT To Prevent FRAUDS AND CONCEALMENTS OF His Majesties CUSTOMS and SUBSIDIES BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That if any person or persons at any time after the First day of September One thousand six hundred and sixty shall cause any Goods for which Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due or payable by vertue of the Act passed this Parliament Entituled A Subsidie granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported to be landed or conveyed away without due entry thereof first made and the Customer or Collector or his Deputy agreed with That then and in such case upon Oath thereof made before the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons of the Exchequer or chief Magistrate of the Port or Place where the offence shall be committed or the Place next adjoyning thereunto it shall be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons aforesaid or chief Magistrate of the Port or Place where the offence shall be committed or the Place next adjoyning thereunto to issue out a Warrant to any person or persons thereby enabling him or them with the assistance of a Sheriff Iustice of Peace or Constable to enter into any House in the day time where such Goods are suspected to be concealed and in case of resistance to break open such Houses and to seize and secure the same Goods so concealed And all Officers and Ministers of Iustice are hereby required to be aiding and assisting thereunto Provided always That no House shall be entred by vertue of this Act unless it be within the space of one Moneth after the offence supposed to be committed Provided also That this Act shall continue in force unto the end of the First Session of the next Parliament and no longer Provided also That if the Information whereupon any House shall come to be searched shall prove to be false that then and in such case the party injured shall recover his full Damages and Costs against the Informer by action of Trespass to be therefore brought against such Informer