Imprisonment till Quarter Sessions.; Penalty.
And whereas severall Officers and Informers have beene hindred abused beaten and wounded to the hazard of their Lives in the due execution of their severall Trusts and Services in their respective places by Companies and multitudes of Men and prohibited Goods have by force and violence as well by Land as by Water beene forcibly carryed and conveyed away Bee it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That where any Officer or Informer or any other person or persons impowered by this Act or the aforesaid Act of Prohibition shall be by any person or persons forcibly hindered abused beaten or wounded in the due Execution of this or the aforesaid Act all and every person and persons soe resisting abuseing beating or wounding the said Officer or Informer or other persons impowered thereby or such as shall act in their aid and assistance shall by the next Justice of the Peace or other Magistrate be Committed to Prison there to remaine till the next Quarter Sessions And the Justices of the said Quarter Sessions shall and are hereby impowered to punish the Offenders by Fine not exceeding Five Pounds And the Offender is to remaine in Prison till he be Discharged both of the Fine and Imprisonment by Order of the said Justices or any two of them.