Encouragement of Manufactures Act 1698

VI. [X1 VI.

Warehouse-keepers to keep Books and enter Goods warehoused;and every Six Months render Account to Commissioners; Commissioners to appoint Inspectors of Books and Warehouses; and lay Accounts before Parliament; Warehouse-keeper offending; Disability and Penalties.

And for preventing clandestinely carrying out of the said Ware-houses any of the said Goods hereby prohibited and by this Act intended for Exportation as aforesaid Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Warehouse-keeper or Warehouse-keepers shall keepe one or more Book or Books wherein he or they shall fairly enter or write downe an exact particular and true Account of all and every Chest Bail and Number of Pieces therein contained of such of the aforesaid Goods only which shall be brought into and carried out of his or their said Ware-house or Ware-houses and the Daies and Times when the same shall be soe brought in and carried out and shall every Six Months in the Yeare transmitt in Writing an exact Account thereof upon Oath to the said Commissioners together with an exact Account how much shall be remaining in his or their said Ware-house or Ware-houses respectively And the said Commissioners are hereby impowered and enjoyned within one Month after the same shall be transmitted to them as aforesaid to appoint one or more Person or Persons to inspect the said Booke or Books Warehouse or Warehouses and examine the said Accounts and to lay a true Account of the same before the Parliament within the First Weeke of every Sessions thereof And if upon Examination it shall appeare That any of the aforesaid Goods were carried out unlesse for Exportation or before sufficient Security given for their Exportation as aforesaid that then the Ware-house-keeper or Ware-house-keepers soe offending therein shall not onely forfeite and loose the Value of the said Goods soe carried out as aforesaid and be for ever disabled from any publick Employment for the future but shall alsoe forfeite the Summe of Five hundred Pounds for every such Offence to be recovered and divided in manner as aforesaid]

Editorial Information

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