Bridlington Piers Act 1696

II.

Officers of the Customs not to discharge any Ship, &c. loaden with Coals, until Duties paid, and a Receipt shewn for the same.; Penalty £50 .

And to the end the said Duties may be truely answered and paid Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Customer of his Majesties Customs Comptroller Receiver of Entries of Shipps Surveyor Searcher Waiter or other Officer whatsoever of or concerning the said Customs att or within the Ports Harbours Roads Greeks or Places aforesaid dureing the Terme and Time hereby granted shall take any Entries or give or make any Cockett or other Discharge for any Shipp Hoy Barque or other Vessell so loaden with Coals as aforesaid att or in any of the Ports Havens Roads Creeks or Places aforesaid until the Duties and Payments hereby granted due and payable by the Master or other Person taking charge of any such Shipp Hoy Barque or Vessell according to the Tenor and true Meaning of this Act shall be paid unto the respective Deputies or Assignes appointed to receive the same as aforesaid and such Masters or other Persons taking charge of such Shipp Hoy. Barque or other Vessell do produce and shew forth a Receipt or Acquittance under the Hand of such Deputy or Officer testifying the Receipt thereof and that every Customer Collector Comptroller Receivor of Entries of Shipps Surveyor Searcher Waiter or other Officer of or concerning the said Customs making default in any of the Premisses enjoyned them by this Act shall forfeit the Summ of Fifty pounds unto the said Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William S^t Quintin Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Bierly Charles Osborne & the Wardens of Trinity house att Hull for the time being and the Survivors & Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor 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 wherein no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed.