Accommodation for custom house officers

C115 Penalty on undertakers neglecting to repair watch-house, &c.

If at any time such watch-house or boat-house or such huts or weighing materials shall be out of repair, or not provided as required by the said commissioners, and notice thereof be given to the undertakers, they shall repair or provide the same to the satisfaction of the said commissioners within three months after such notice, or in default thereof shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds for every month during which such watch-house, boat-house, huts, or weighing materials shall continue out of repair or be not provided, such penalty to be recovered in any of the superior courts against the undertakers as a debt due to the crown, and to be sued for by any officer of Customs, by the direction of the said commissioners.