Penalty on Owners.; Coal to pay Double Duty as by 12 Car. II. c. 4.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes for which the Duties of Subsidie or Custome are due and payable to the Kings Majesty shall be secretly conveyed on board any Shipp or Vessel before the Custom and Subsidy thereof be duly answered and paid and shall escape the discovery thereof by the Officers of the Customs or others and be carried into the parts beyond the Seas in such case the Owners or Proprietors of such Goods Wares or Merchandizes or other person or person who shall have soe shipped or caused the same to be shipped and transported shall forfeit the double value of the Goods computed according to the Booke of Rates except for Coal which so secretly exported as aforesaid shall pay double the Custome and Duty to be collected and levied in such manner as by the act of Tonnage and Poundage is directed and appointed.