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East India Company Act 1697
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LXVII.
Security before landing of Goods to be given for; Payment of said additional Duty of £5 per Cent. as soon as the Goods shall be sold; Goods landed before Duty secured, or without Warrant, forfeited.
And for the better raising levying and securing the said Duty after the Rate of Five Pounds in the Hundred it is hereby further enacted That upon the Importation of any such Goods as aforesaid liable thereunto an Entry or Entries thereof shall be made in the Custom-House where such Goods shall be imported and before the landing thereof the Importer or Importers of the same shall give Security (which the Commissioners or proper Officers of the Customs are hereby required and impowered to take) for Payment of the said Duties after the Rate of Five Pounds in the Hundred upon the said Goods as soon as the same shall be sold the Value thereof to be reckoned according to the Gross Price at which such Goods shall be sold And that in Case any such Goods shall be landed or put on Shore out of any Ship or Vessel before due Entry be made thereof at the Custom-House in the Port or Place where [X1the] same shall be imported and the Duties hereby imposed shall be secured or without a Warrant for the landing or delivering of the same first signed by the Commissioners Collectors or other proper Officer or Officers of the Customs respectively that all such imported Goods as shall be so landed or put on Shore or taken out of any Ship or Vessel contrary to the true meaning hereof or the Value of the same shall be forfeited and shall and may be recovered of the Importer or Proprietor thereof (to wit) One Moiety of the same to the Use of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other Moiety to the Use of such Person or Persons as will seize the said Goods or sue for the same or the Value thereof by Action Bill Suit or Information as aforesaid.
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