Notice to Commissioners of Customs; License to be granted; Goods imported without Notice and License; Penalty.
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid for the better encouragement of the Manufacture of Plain Silks called Alamodes and Lustrings in this Kingdom none of the said Foreigne Silk shall be imported into this Kingdom after the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety and three but upon Notice first given to the Commissioners or Farmors of their Majesties Customs for the time being of the quality and quantity with marks numbers and package of such Silks so intended to be imported with the Name of the Ship and Master or Co[m]mander on which they are to be laden and the Place into which they intend to import the same and takeing a Licence under the Hands of the Commissioners or Farmers for the time being or any three of them for the ladeing and importing thereof as aforesaid which Licence they are hereby authorized and required to grant without any Fee or Reward or any other Charge to the Persons demanding the same Any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding And in case any of the said Goods shall be imported without such Notice being first given and Licence taken out as aforesaid the same shall be forfeited one Moiety thereof to the use of their Majesties their Heires [X1and] Successors and the other Moiety to him or them that shall seize or sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoyn Priveledge Protection or Wager of Law nor more then one Imparlance shall be allowed
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X1Variant 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]