as often as he or they shall think fit, to enter into any Ship or Vessel
Trading
to and from this Province, and into any House, Ware-house, or other Building,
and open any Trunk, Chest, Cask or Fardle, and Search to make in
any Part or Place of such Ship or Vessel, Houses or Buildings as aforesaid,
where such Naval Officer shall suspect any Furs or Skins to be as aforesaid,
for which no Account is give, or Duty paid, as aforesaid; and upon finding
any such Furs and Skins unqualified for Exportation as aforesaid, them
to
seize and have condemned, as by this law is before directed.
V. And be it
further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That from and after the Publication hereof as
aforesaid,
all Persons not being Inhabitants of this Province, exporting out of the
same, any Pork, Beef, or Bacon, shall pay unto her sacred Majesty, her
Heirs and Successors, for the Use in this Act before mentioned and expressed,
the several imports following, That is to say, For dried Beef and
Bacon,
Twelve Pence the Hundred Weight, and so proportionably for any greater
or
lesser Quantity; and for Pork and Beef undried, Twelve Pence the Barrel;
each Barrel to contain Two Hundred Weight: And that no undried Beef
and
Pork be exported out of this Province, but in Cask as aforesaid.
Which said
several Impositions shall be collected and gathered by the several and
respective
Naval Officers, who shall be accountable for the same as aforesaid; and
have full Authority to enter any Ship or Vessel as aforesaid, and to make
Search for any such Goods as aforesaid, in such Method and Manner as in
this Act is before mentioned and expressed.
VI. And if
any Person or Persons, being Non-residents as aforesaid, shall
put on board any Ship or Vessel, any Beef, Bacon or Pork, for which he,
she
or they shall not have a Certificate as aforesaid, or that shall ship on
board,
any Beef or Pork undried, not being in Cask as aforesaid, such Person or
Persons so offending, shall forfeit and lose all his, her and their Meat
so shipped
as aforesaid; one Half to her said Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, to
the Use aforesaid, and the other half to the Informer, to be recovered
as aforesaid.
VII. And every
Master of a Ship or Vessel, that shall wittingly or knowingly
take on board his said Ship or Vessel, any Beef, Bacon or Pork, contrary
to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, being thereof legally convict,
shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco;
one Half thereof to her said Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, for the
Use
aforesaid, the other Half to the Informer, or him or them that shall sue
for
the same, to be recovered as aforesaid.
VIII. And for
the better understanding what Persons shall be adjudged
Non-residents, It is hereby Declared and
Enacted by the Authority, Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That all Persons whatsoever, Trading to and
from this
Province, shall be adjudged, deemed and taken as Non-residents, not having
a
seated Plantation of Fifty Acres of Land at the least, where he, she, or
they,
with their Family (if any) have resided for and during the Space of one
whole Year, and that within the Time and Term of Twelve Months before
any Benefit claimed by virtue of this Act, or that hath, or hereafter shall
have, an House in some Port or Town, as his or their proper Free-hold,
being
Forty Foot in Length, and Twenty Foot in Breadth, with two Brick
Chimneys to the same; wherein he, she or they shall have resided for and
during
the Space of one whole year as aforesaid: And that no such Person
or
Persons, Trading to and from this Province, having Houses in any Town or
Port within the same, whereby he, she or they may claim any Benefit or
Freedom in this Act given to the Inhabitants thereof, shall have, hold
or enjoy,
such Benefit and Privilege as aforesaid, any longer than he, she or they,
or his, her or their Family, shall in such port or Town actually inhabit
and
reside.
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CHAP.
XXVII.
Power of the
Naval Officers
to enter
any Ships,
Vessels, Houses,
&c. to
search for and
make Seizure
of Goods.
Non-residents
to pay Duty,
viz.
For dried
Beef and Bacon,
exported
12 d. per C.
Weight.
For Pork and
Beef undried,
12 d. per Barrel,
containing
200 Wt.
No undried
Beef or Pork
to be exported
but in
Cask.
Non-residents
shipping any
Beef, &c.
without Certificate,
forfeit
all such
Meat.
Masters of
Ships, &c.
taking on
board Beef,
&c. contrary
to this Act;
forfeit
5000 lb Tobacco.
Who are to
be deemed
Non-residents.
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