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Trade with France Act 1690
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W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 34. recited; and that, notwithstanding; the said Act, divers French Commodities had been imported.
Officer offending; Penalty £500.
WHEREAS by an Act made in the First yeare of Their Majestyes Raigne Entituled An Act for Prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France it was provided That if any French Wines Vinegar Brandy Linen Silks Salt Paper and other Commodities of the growth product or manufacture of France or of the Territories or Dominions of the French King or any Goods Commodities or Manufactures mixed with any Goods or Commodities being of the growth product or manufacture of any of the Dominions or Territories of the French King should be Imported contrary to the said Act they should be stav'd spilt destroyed or burnt in such manner as is by the said Act directed Notwithstanding which diverse of the said Goods Commodities and Manufactures taken or pretended to be taken as Prizes have beene Imported but not stav'd spilt burnt or destroyed according to the Provision of the said Act For Remedy whereof and for the more effectuall putting the said Act in Execution Bee it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That if any Officer or Officers of the Customs or Prizes shall wilfully or knowingly suffer any of the said Goods Commodities or Manufactures imported as Prizes or otherwise contrary to the said Act to be admitted to an Entry or to be imbezled and not stav'd spilt burnt or destroyed in such manner as by the said Act is directed every such Officer or Officers shall being thereof lawfully convicted forfeit the Summe of Five hundred pounds whereof one Moyety to be to Their Majesties Their Heires and Successors and the other Moyety to such person or persons as shall discover and sue for the same and alsoe shall for ever afterwards be incapable of haveing or executing any Office in their Majesties Revenue
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