Customs Act 1662

IX. Officers granting false Certificates;

Loss of Office, Penalty £50, Imprisonment, Incapacity, and liability to Corporal Punishment. Falsifying Cocquets, &c.; Penalty £100, and Cocquet, &c. invalid. Goods coasting put on Shore before Cocquet delivered to Officer.

And be it hereby further enacted That if any Officer of any Port Member or Creek shall grant or make any false Certificate of any Goods or Merchandizes which should have beene landed out of any Ship or Vessel that such Officer shall lose his Imployment and moreover forfeit the Su[m]m of Fifty pounds and suffer one yeares Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize and be incapable of serving His Majesty in any place of Trust concerning His Customes and be further liable to such Corporal punishment as the Court of Exchequer shall thinke fitt And if any person whatsoever shall counterfeit rase or falsifie any Cocquet Certificate or Return Transire Let-passe or any other Custome house Warrant hee shall forfeit One hundred pounds and the Cocquet Certificate or Return shall be invalid and of none effect And if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes brought or coming into any Port Haven or Creeke within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick from any other Port Haven or Creek within the Kingdom of England or Dominions aforesaid by Port Cocquet Transire Let passe or Certificate in Ships or Vessels shall be landed or put on Shore before such Cocquet Transire Let-passe or Certificate shall be delivered to such person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing His Customes the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of the Port or place of theire Arrival or to their Deputy or Deputies and a Warrant or Sufferance made and given from such person or persons Customer or Collector and Comptroller or theire Deputy and Deputies aforesaid for the landing and discharging thereof.