Exportation Act 1698

VII. Proviso for carrying Corn, &c. in Boats, &c. upon navigable Rivers, to Market; and for the Custom of so taking the same without Cocquet, &c;

No Fee for Coast Cocquet, &c.

Provided alwaies and be it enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to hinder or obstruct any Person or Persons whatsoever in the Carriage of Corn Graine or Malt in any Boats or Vessells upon any Navigable River or Rivers to their Ordinary Marketts or any other Place or Places within the said River or Rivers within this Realme or the Dominion aforesaid soe as the same be not shipped or put on any Boat or Vessell in order to be shipped for Exportation And that in such Islands or Places within any of the Counties of England and Wales where the Inhabitants have usually carried by Water their Corn Graine or Malt to any Markett or Marketts within England or Wales without takeing forth any Coast-Cocquetts and thereupon giveing Bonds and returning Certificates as aforesaid such Inhabitants may lawfully carry by Water such their Corn Graine and Malt to such Marketts without being obliged by this Act or any thing herein contained to take forth any such Coast-Cocquetts or to give such Coast-Bonds or to returne Certificates thereupon as aforesaid And that for such Corn Graine and Malt of the Growth of the Isle of Wight as shall be carried from thence to any of the ordinary Marketts in the County of Southampton or Towne of Southampton and County of the same or of the County of Sussex in any open Boat the Officers of His Majesties Customs shall not demand or take any Fee or Reward whatsoever for the Coquett Coast-Bond or Certificate in that respect to be given