Taxation (Tobacco and Sugar) Act 1685

XIII. Goods to be landed, &c.

according to Lows of Customs, in force.; Penalties in former Acts in force.; And Powers of former Acts in Commissioners under this Act.

And for the better Levying and Collecting all and every of the said Duties imposed by this Act and preventing the many Frauds and Deceits which may be had and used by evill-disposed Persons and undue Practices to elude this Act, Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That noe Goods Wares or Merchandizes lyable to the Dutyes by this Act imposed shall from and after the said Fowre and twentyeth Day of June in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty and five dureing the continuance of this Act be discharged or laid on Land out of any Shipp, Bottome, Hoy, Barke Lighter Boate or Vessell whatsoever or putt off from any Wharfe Key or Place or Land into any Shipp, Bottome, Hoy, Barke Lighter Boate or [X1 other] Vessell whatsoever but onely in such Manner and at such times and Places and noe otherwise then the said Goods or Merchandizes may or ought to be unshipped Unladen or putt into any Shipp or other Vessell to be laid on Shore or Laden putt off from Land into any Shipp or other Vessell by vertue of and according to the true Intent and Meaning of the severall Lawes and Statutes made and Enacted for the Payment of his Majestyes Customes and Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage and for Collecting and Levying the said Dutyes, And for preventing Fraudes and regulating Abuses in His Majestyes Customs; and all the Clauses Penalties and Forfeitures mentioned in the aforesaid Acts against Masters of Shipps Wharfingers Seamen and Boatemen Carmen and Porters shall be to all Intents and Purposes in full force touching and concerning any of the Goods and Merchandises mentioned in this Act and the Dutyes imposed thereupon (as well in relation to their Landing at their Importation as at the Loading of the same at Exportation as alsoe for their carrying at any Time Coastwise from one Port to another) as if the same were herein particularly and at large Recited; And the Commissioner or Commissioners Collector or Collectors Officer or Officers appointed as aforesaid for the Collecting of this Duty are hereby impowered for the better Collecting the Dutyes hereby imposed and therein avoiding all frauds and undue practices with all the Powers and Authorities the Commissioners Collectors or Officers of the Custome-House have or may have by vertue of the aforementioned Lawes in relation to the management of the Customs.

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X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: other other O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]