Minehead Harbour Act 1700

VI. Officer of Customs at the Port of Minehead not to take Entries or grant Warrants, &c. for shipping, &c. of Goods till Duties paid;

nor permit any Vessel to sail till Receipt for Duties shewn; Officer offending,; Penalty £20.

And to the Intent the said Duties may be truly answered and paid Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Customer belonging to His Majesties Customs in the aforesaid Port of Minehead Comptroller Surveyor Searcher Waiter or other Officer of the Customs whatsoever during the Term and Time hereby granted shall take any Entries grant any Warrant give or make out any Cocquets for the shipping or discharging any Goods whatsoever until the Duties and Payments hereby granted and made payable shall be paid and answered according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act and shall not permitt any Ship Hoy or Bark or other Vessell to go out of the said Harbour untill the said Master or other Person taking Charge of the same do produce and shew forth a Receipt or Acquittance under the Hands of such Officer testifying the Receipt thereof and that every Customer Collector Comptroller Reciever of Entries of Ships Surveyor Waiter or Searcher or other Officer concerned in the Businesse of the Customs in the Port of Minehead during the Continuance of this Act making Default in any the Premisses injoyned them by this Act shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds [X1 to] the Trustees hereby appointed to be recovered together with their Costs of Suit in any of His Majesties Courts of Record by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information to be brought [X2 or co[m]menced] in the Names of the said Trustees for the Time being or the major Part of them wherein no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.