Customs Act 1662

VII. Wharfingers, &c. landing or suffering to be landed prohibited or uncustomed Goods.

Exception for Port of Hull under I Eliz. c. 11.; without Notice or Presence of Officer, Penalty £100.; Goods outward and inward laden or unladen without Warrant, &c. forfeited, and Penalty on Master, &c.; Carmen, &c. assisting; being apprehended by Warrant.; First Offence, Imprisonment till Surety for good Behaviour; Subsequent Offence, Imprisonment for Two Months, or until £5 paid.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wharfinger or Keeper of any Wharf Crane or Key or theire Servants or any of them shall take up or land or knowingly suffer to be taken up or landed or shall Ship off or suffer to be Water-born at or from any of theire said Wharfs Cranes or Keys any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or whereof any Custome Subsidy or other Duties are due and payable unto the Kings Majesty without the presence of some of the Officers of His Majesties Customes thereunto appointed or att houres and times not appointed by Law (except in the Port of Hull as in the Statute of the First yeare of Queene Elizabeth Chapter the eleventh is excepted and not otherwise) or Goods passing by Certificates Waste Cocquett or otherwise without the presence or notice given to One or more of His Majesties Officers that in every such case all and every such Wharfinger and Keeper of such Wharfe Crane or Key shall forfeit and pay the Su[m]m of One hundred pounds And if any Goods or Merchandize shall be Laden or taken in from the Shore into any Barke Hoy Lighter Barge Wherry or Boat to be carryed aboard any Shipp or Vessell Outwards bound for the parts beyond the Seas or laden or taken in from or out of any Ship or Vessell coming in and arriving from foreign parts without a Warrant and the presence of One or more Officers of the Customes such Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Boat or Wherry shall be forfeited and lost and the Master Purser Boatswain or other Mariner of any Ship inward bound knowing and consenting thereunto shall forfeit the value of the Goods so unshipped And further That in case any Carman Porter Waterman or other person or persons whatsoever shall assist in the taking up landing shipping off or carrying away any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes that then such Carman Porter Waterman or other person or persons so offending being apprehended by Warrant of any Justice of the Peace for that County Citty or Borough which the said Justices and every of them [X1 are] hereby authorized to issue and to examine Witnesses upon Oath concerning such fact and the same being proved by the Oath of two Witnesses the said Offenders for such first Offence shall and may by such Justice of the Peace be committed to the next Gaol there to remaine till he and they find sufficient Surety to be of the good behaviour for so long time untill he & they shall be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor Under Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer And in case he or they so convicted shall afterwards at any time offend in the like kind then he and they shall and may by any Justice of the Peace as aforesaid bee committed to the next Gaol there to remaine for the space of Two Moneths without Bail or Mainprize or untill he shall pay unto: the Sheriffe of that County the Su[m]m of Five pounds for the use of His Majesty or untill he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Under Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.