Exportation (Beer and Cider) Act 1688

II. Merchant unlading, &c. such Ale, &c.

Penalty, Ale, &c. forfeited, and £50 per Cask.; Proviso for Ale, &c. spent on Shipboard.; Excise thereof how recovered.

And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That if any Merchant or Master of any Shipp or Vessell or other person shall cause or suffer any of the said Liquors soe shipped in any Vessell as Merchandize to be unshipped unladen and laid on Land or putt into any other Shipp or Vessell within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede he or they shall forfeite the same and fifty pounds of lawfull Money of England more for every Caske he or they shall soe unduely land or putt aboard any Vessell to be [X1 recorded] in any of his Majestyes Courts of Record by Information Bill or Plaint The one moyety of which Forfeiture shall be to the use of the King and Queens most excellent Majestyes the other moyety to the Informer [X2 or] Prosecutor And to the intent their Majesties Duty of Excise may not be prejudiced for such Beere Ale Sider or Mum as shall be spent on Shipboard their Majestyes Commissioners and Officers of the Customes are hereby required and enjoyned to charge every Master of any Shipp or Vessell in his Victualling Bill with soe much Beere. Ale Sider or Mum and noe more as such number of Men use to spend in such Voiages The Excise whereof to be recovered according to the Laws and Rules already established

Editorial Information

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

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]