Report of all the Goods laden on Board such Ship or Vessel under their
true and proper Denominations; and if any such Non-enumerated Goods
shall be laden on Board any such Ship or Vessel before such Bond shall be
given, the Goods so laden together with the Ship or Vessel and her
Furniture
shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized by any Officer of the
Cus-
toms, and prosecuted in the Manner herein after directed.
And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every
Master or Person having the Charge of any Ship or Vessel shall, before he
departs from any British Colony or Plantation where he receives
his Lading,
take a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Collector or other
Principal Officer of the Customs there (which Certificate such Officers
are
hereby required to grant without Fee or Reward) that Bond hath been
gi-
ven, pursuant to the Directions of this or any other Act of Parliament,
as
the Case shall require; and the Master or Person having the Charge of such
Ship or Vessel, shall keep such Certificate in his Custody till the Voyage
is
compleated, and shall then deliver the same up to
the Collector or other chief
Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where he shall discharge his
Lading, either in
Great Britain, or any British American
Colony or Planta-
tion, on Forfeiture of One Hundred Pounds for each and every
Offence.
And it is hereby further enacted, That if any British Ship or
Vessel la-
den, as aforesaid, with any Goods of the Produce or Manufacture of
any
British Colony or Plantation in America, or having on
Board any Molasses
or Syrups the Produce of any Foreign Colony or Plantation, shall be
dis-
covered by any Officer of His Majesty’s Customs within Two Leagues
of
the Shore of any British Colony or Plantation in
America, and the Master
or Person taking Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall not produce a
Certificate that Bond has been given, pursuant to the Direction of this or
any other Act of Parliament, as the Case may require; or if he shall not
produce Certificate to the Collector or other chief Officer of the
Cus-
toms where he shall arrive, either in
Great Britain or any British
American
Colony or Plantation, such Ship or Vessel, with her Tackle, Apparel, and
Furniture, and all the Goods therein laden, shall be forfeited, and shall
and
may be seized and prosecuted as herein after is directed.
And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Bond directed to be given by this Act with respect to such
Non-enu-
merated Goods, shall continue in Force for One Year from and after
the
Completion of the Voyage; and in Case no Fraud shall appear within that
Time, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs,
or any Four or more of them, to direct the said Bond to be delivered up.
And it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from
and after the Twenty ninth Day of September, One Thousand seven
Hun-
dred and sixty four, all Coffee, Pimento, Cocoa Nuts, Whale Fins,
Raw
Silks, Hides and Skins, Pot and Pearl Ashes, of the Growth, Production,
or Manufacture, of any British Colony or Plantation in
America, shall be
imported directly from thence into this Kingdom, or some other
British
Colony or Plantation, under the like Securities, Penalties, and
Forfeitures,
as are particularly mentioned in Two Acts of Parliament made in the
Twelfth
and Twenty fifth Years of the Reign of King Charles the
Second, the for-
mer intituled, An Act for the encouraging and increasing of
Shipping and Na-
vigation, and the latter intituled, An Act for the
encouragement of the
Green-
land and
Eastland Trades and for the better securing the Plantation
Trade, or
either of them, with respect to the Goods in those Acts particularly
enu-
merated; any Law, Custom, or Usage, to the contrary notwithstanding.
And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from
and after the Twenty ninth Day of September, One Thousand seven
Hun-
dred and sixty four, no Iron, nor any Sort of Wood, commonly called
Lum-