II.Duties for Goods imported to be paid by Importer before landing. Landing before Entry and Duties paid, or without Warrant;
Penalty.
And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the duties hereby sett on all the said forreigne and imported commodities of glasse stone or earth shall bee from time to time satisfied and paid by the importer or importers of the same in ready money upon his or their entry or entries made and before the landing thereof And that in case such forreigne or imported commodities of the kinds before mentioned shall bee landed or putt on shore out of any shipp or vessell from beyond the seas before due entry bee made thereof in the Custom House in the port or place where the same shall bee imported and the duties hereby imposed shall bee fully satisfied and paid or without any warrant for the landing and delivering of such imported commodities of the kinds aforesaid first signed by the Commissioners Collectors or other proper Officer or Officers of his Majesties Customs respectively that all such imported co[m]modities of the kinds aforesaid as shall bee soe landed or putt on shore or delivered contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof or the value of the same shall bee forfeited and lost and shall or may bee recovered of the importer or proprietor thereof to witt One moiety of the same to the use of his Majesty his heires and successors the other moiety to the use of him or them that will seize the said commodities or sue for the same or the value thereof by action of debt bill suit or information wherein noe essoigne protection wager of law or more then one imparlance shall bee granted or allowed.