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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50071	Several acts and laws passed by the great and general court or assembly of Their Majesties province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England. Convened and held at Boston, the eighth day of June. 1692. Anno Regni Gulielmi, et Mariæ, Regis et Reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, quarto; Public General Acts. 1692.	Massachusetts. Council.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1016; ESTC R217665	12,111	19

made brewed or distilled and pay the Excise as aforesaid under the like penalty and forfeiture of all such Liquors as shall be found in any Retailers House not Entred and the Excise thereof not paid in manner before Expressed and to that end it shall and may be lawful to and for such Officer or Officers as by the Commissioners shall be Appointed and Impowred when and so often as he or they shall think fit in the day time to Enter into any Retailers House Cellar or Ware-house to Search for such Wines or Liquors c. as are not duely Entred nor the Excise paid for the same and such Wines or Liquors c. so found to Seiz and Secure in order to the Tryal Conviction thereof to gage any Cask or Casks for that end purpose Provided always That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners to agree with any Retailer for his Excise for one whole year in one intire Sum to be paid quarterly as they in their discretion shall think fit to agree for without making any Entry as aforesaid And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons on any pretence or colour whatsoever for the future shall or may take in receive harbour entertain keep or conceal in his or their Dwelling-Houses Cellars or Ware-houses any quantity or Parcel of Wines or other Liquors belonging to any Licensed Person or Persons Retailer or Retailers under the penalty of forfeiture of Twenty Pounds for every such Quantity or Parcel of Wines or other Liquors so taken or received harboured entertained kept and concealed as aforesaid All which Penalties and Forfeitures one half to Their Majesties their Heirs and Successors for the Support of the Government the other Moity to the Informer that shall Sue for the same shall be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Province wherein no Essoyn Protection Wager of Law Non vult ulterius Projequi or Injunction shall be allow'd Any thing in this Act or any other to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding And all manner of Persons are hereby Required to be aiding and assisting to the Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to Collect and Receive the Excise aforesaid in the due Execution of their Respective Offices And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there be Commissioners nominated appointed and Commissioned by the Governour and Council to Receive all Entries and to transact and manage all and whatsoever doth relare unto this Act and the due observance thereof which Commissioners shall Appoint and Employ such and so many Officers under them as they shall find needful for that purpose the said Commissioners and all other Officers to be Employed under them before their Entring upon the Execution of their respective Offices shall be Sworn before the Governour or Lievtenant Governour or one or more Members of the Council or two Justices of the Peace to deal truly and faithfully in the Execution of the same which aforesaid Commissioners for their own Service and Labour in this Affair and the payment of all their Under Officers and Charges whatsoever shall be allowed one just sixth part of all such Moneys as shall be Collected and brought into the Publick Treasury by vertue of this Act the said Commissioners to account with the Treasurer for all their Collections And it is likewise further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That every Ship or Vessel above Twelve Tons coming into any Port or Ports of this Province to Trade or Traffick the major part of the Owners whereof are not belonging to this Province shall every Voyage they make pay twelve pence per Tun or one pound of good and new Gunpowder for each Tun. Such Ship or Vessel is in Burthen to be imployed for the Supply of Their Majesties Castles and Forts within this Province to be received by the Treasurer or such other as in the several Ports or Places shall be appointed to receive the sanse And it is hereby Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That this present Act Entituled An Act For Impost Excise and Tonage of Shipping shall remain and continue in force for the term and space of one whole year and no longer Any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Province of the MASSACHVSETS-BAY An Act For the Erecting of a Naval-Office WHereas by Act of Parliament made in the Fifteenth Year of King Charles the Second Entituled An Act for the Encouragement of Trade It is Provided That no Ship or Vessel coming to any Land Island Plantation Colony or Territory or Place to His Majesty or Heirs and Successors belonging in America shall Lade or Unlade any Goods or Commodities whatsoever until the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall first have made known to the Governour of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place or such other Person or Officer as shall be by him thereunto Authorized and Appointed the Arrival of the said Ship or Vessel with her Name and the Name and Surname of her Master or Commander and have shewn to him that she is an English-built Ship or made good by producing Certificate that she is a Ship or Vessel free and Navigated with an English Master and three fourth parts of the Mariners English Men under the pain of the Loss of Ship or Vessel and Apparel Now for the due and more effectual observation of said Act of Parliament and that all undue Trading contrary to the said Act may be prevented in this Their Majesties Province of the Massachusets-Bay Be it Enacted and Ordained by the Governour Council and Representatives in General Assembly Convened And it it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same That in the several Ports and Places hereafter mentioned there shall be a Naval Office Erected wherein the Officers by the Governour to be appointed for the ends aforesaid shall duely attend That is to say At Boston for the Port of Boston and Charlstown at Salem for the Port of Salem and Marble-head at Ipswich at Newbury at Ki●●ery at Plimouth and at Bristol At which Naval-Office all Masters of Ships or Vessels arriving in this Province shall make their Entry with the Officer according as the said Act of Parliament requires And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Masters of Ships or Vessels Sailing out of this Province shall before their Sailing out thereof Clear their said Ships or Vessels in the said Naval-Office And that an Officer be appointed at Martha's Vineyard and another at Nantucket to Enter and Clear all Vessels passing to and from thence but not to be accounted Ports for the Unlivery or Lading of any of the Enumerated Commodities And the Fees in the said Office to be demanded and received shall be these following and no other viz.   P. Sh. P. For Entring and Clearing all Ships