Importation Act 1667

V. Cattle, &c. seised and then driven, &c. into another Parish, Constable, &c. of such other Parish may seise and dispose thereof.

And be it further enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid That whensoever and as often as it shall happen either through any fraudulent Agreement or unfaithfull Connivance of any Constable Headborough Tithingman Church warden or Overseer of the Poor or that it shall happen any otherwise howsoever that any great Cattel Sheep Swine Beef Pork or Bacon after the first Seizure of them or any of them by vertue of the aforesaid Act shall be driven brought carried into or found in any other Parish or place then where the same shall be first seized as aforesaid That then and so often and from time to time it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Constable Tithingman Headborough Church warden or Overseer of the Poor of every or any such other Parish or place where such great Cattel Sheep Swine Beef Pork or Bacon shall be brought driven or carried into or found as aforesaid to seize take and dispose the same and every or any of them as forfeited The one moyety thereof to the use of the Poor of such other Parish or place where such Seizure shall be made the other to the use of such Officer or Officers who shall seize the same as aforesaid Any other or former Seizure or Seizures in any other Parish or Parishes place or places notwithstanding