64 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

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C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
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From
1694-1702.
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ered by his Maj^tys Navall Officers in their severall & respective dis-
tricts for which they shall have for their Sallery Eight pounds in the
hundred and no more. And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
by & with the advice & consent aforesaid that no such Liquors upon
which the duty aforesaid is assessed shall be Landed or putt on shore
out of any Shipp or other Vessell which shall import the same or any
other without due entry thereof made with the Officer hereby ap-
pointed (upon Oath of the person or persons Importing the said
Liquors) for collecting of the same in the Port or place where the
said Liquors shall happen to be Imported as aforesaid or before the
duty due & payable for the same be satisfied or secured to be satis-
fied and Warrant for the Landing thereof be signed by the Officer
for that purpose appointed upon pain & perrill that all such Liquors
Landed & put on Shore contrary to the true intent & meaning
of this Act shall be forfeited & lost or the full Value thereof one
half to his Maj^ty or his Success^rs for the Use of the Free Schools
of this Province the other half thereof to the Vestry of each parish
where such goods shall be landed contrary to this Law, to be
recovered in any of his Maj^tys Courts of Record within this Province
by Action of Debt bill plaint or Information wherein no Essoyn Pro-
tection or Wager of Law to be allowed to be recovered of the pro-
prietors true owners or Importers thereof; and for the better En-
couragement of all Masters Merchants Owners & other persons what-
soever to make due entry & payment of the dutys rates & imposts
raised by this Act in consideration of Leakage & all other damages
the said Officer is hereby Authorized & Impowered to make allow-
ance & abatement of twenty gallons in every hundred Gallons of all
Liquors so to be duly entred as aforesaid; and the said Officers hereby
appointed for collecting & gathering of the duty aforesaid shall & are
hereby impowered upon suspition of any fraud or deceipt by any
Importer Owner or Proprietor of any such Liquor in concealing &
not making due entry of the same to go and enter on board any Shipps
or Vessells or into any House or Warehouse on Shoar & from thence
to seize bring on shore or secure all such Liquors for which the dutys
aforesaid are not duly paid or secured to be paid as aforesaid and that
the said Officers & their Deputys may freely stay and remaine on
board untill all the goods are delivered and discharged out of the
said Shipp or other Vessell; and all Officers as well Millitary as
Civill of this Province and all Captains & Officers of Shipp are
hereby required & enjoyned to be aiding & assisting to such Navall
Officers in discharge of their duty aforesaid, for all which the said
Officers and others assisting them shall be saved and kept harmless
by Vertue of this Act.
And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid by & with the
advice & consent aforesaid that all such Navall Officers shall give
good security to the Governeur of this Province for the time being
and shall take their severall Oaths well & faithfully to gather the same