Taxation (Tobacco and Sugar) Act 1685

XI. Officers appointed in every Port.

Hours of Attendance.

And to the end that all Importers Merchants and Persons concerned in the Payment of the Duties aforesaid may know to whome and where to pay the same and to make Entry of their Goods in manner as by this Act is intended It is hereby Enacted That His Majestie may from time to time Nominate Commissionate and Authorize such Commissioner or Commissioners Collector or Collectors or other Officer or Officers as he shall thinke fitt to Manage Collect and Levy the said Duties in every Port of the Kingdome which said Commissioners Collectors or other Officer or Officers soe appointed shall duely attend at the Custome House or other Place publickly appointed in the Port or Place to which he or they shall be respectively appointed at the usuall houres and times in which the Officers of the Customes doe or ought to attend and there shall doe and Execute whatsoever ought to be Done and Executed on his or their Parts pursuant to the Trust reposed in him or them according to the true intent and meaning of this Act.