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Customs Act 1662
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XIX.Officers taking Bribes, &c. or conniving at false Entries.
Penalty £100, and Incapacity.; Penalty on Merchant, &c. £50.
Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any of the Kings Majesties Officers or other persons appointed to manage His Majesties Customes Searchers Waiters or other person or persons whatsoever deputed and appointed by and under them or any of them or any other Authority whatsoever and imployed in or about the Affaires of the Kings Customes and Subsidies shall directly or indirectly take or receive any Bribe Recompence or Reward in any kind whatsoever or connive att any false Entry of any Goods or Merchandizes whereby the Kings Majesty His Heires or Successors shall be defrauded or hundred in or of his Customes and Subsidies or other Su[m]ms of money or Goods prohibited by the Law to be imported or exported into or out of the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales Town and Port of Berwick be suffered to passe either by way of Importac[i]on or Exportac[i]on the person or persons therein offending shall forfeit the Su[m]m of One hundred pounds and be for ever afterwards incapable of any Office or Imployment under the Kings Majesty His Heires or Successors or any Authority derived from them as alsoe the Merchant Mariner or other person or persons whatsoever who shall give or pay any such Bribe Recompence or Reward as aforesaid shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds
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