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 A. D. 1757. Anno tricefimo Georgii II. C. 9. 21 within the refpecSlive Times herein after-mentioned (the Danger of the Seas excepted) be returned to the Officer or Officers, or Perfon or Perfons, to whom fuch Security fhall have been given as aforefaid, that the faid Commodities, expreffing the Particulars thereof, have been landed at the Port or Place for which the fame fhall have been fo declared ; and for the taking of fuch Security, and giving fuch Cocquets and Certificates (which the refpedive Officers and Perfons aforefaid are hereby on Demand required to give) no Fct or Reward fhall he demanded or received ; and if any fuch Officer or Perfon fhall make any falfe Penalty on Offi- Certificate of any fuch Commodities being fo landed, fuch Officer or Perfon (hall forfeit the Sum of two ^^r making a hundred Pounds, and lofe his Employment, and be incapable of ferving his Majefty, his Heirs or Succeflbrs, '^"^ Certificate j in any Office relating to the Cufloms ; and if any Perfon fhall counterfeit, rafe or falfify any Cocquet or and on Perfons Certificate, or knowingly publifh any fucli counterfeit, rafed or falfe Cocquet or Certificate, he fhall for- counterfeiting, feit the Sum of two hundred Pounds, and fuch Cocquet or Certificate fhall be void and of none EfFe6t; ^^' Certificates^ which faid Penalties for Offences committed in j^men'ca, fliall be recovered in the fame Courts, and in Penalties where the fame Manner, as the other Penalties inflicted by this A61 are recoverable j and for Offences which fhall ^° ^^ recovered, be committed in that Part oi' Great Britain called England^ fuch Penalties fhall be recovered by A6lion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record z.X.Weflrninfter^ or before the juflices of Affize, or at the great Seffions in JVales^ or by Information at any General Quarter-Seffions of the Peace for the County, City, Riding, Divifion or Place, where the Offence fhall be committed; and in fuch Suit no ElToin, Protection, Privilege, or Wager of Law fhall be allowed ; and for Offences which fhall be committed in that Part oi Great Britain called Scotland, by Action or fumrnary Bill or In- formation in the Courts of Seffions or Exchequer in Scotland; and for Offences which fhall be committed in Ireland^ in his Adajefty's Courts of Record in Dublin^ or at the General Quarter-Seffions of the Peace for the County, City or Place, where the Offence fhall be committed ; and for Offences which fhall be committed in any other of the Dominions belonging to the Crown o^ Great Britain in Europe, in the High Court of Admiralty, or any other Chief Court of Civil or Criminal Jurifdi6tion in fuch Dominions re- 'f])e£tJvely; and fuch Penalties, when recovered, fhall be divided in equal Moieties betv/een his Majefty and the Informer; and upon all Actions, Suits and Informations, that fhall be brought, commenced or entered in the faid Colonies and Plantations upon this Adi, the Offences m,ay be laid or alledged to have been committed in any Colony, Province, County or Prccinci, within the laid Plantations, at the Plea- fure of the Profecutor or Informer. V. Provided alfo. That in cafe the Officer or Officers, or Perfon or Perfons, to whom any Certificate officer fufpeaing fiiall be returned, fhall have Caufe to fufpeil that fuch Certificate is falfe and counterfeit, the Bonds Certificate to be fliall not be cancelled or the Security vacated, until fuch Officer or Officers, or Perfon or Perfons, fliall lalfe, not to va- have been informed from the Perfon or Perfons in whofe Name fuch Certificate fhall appear to have been *^''^^ "^ ^ ""^' granted, that the Matter and Contents of fuch Certificate are juft and true. VI. Provided alfo. That nothing in this A6t contained fliall extend or be conftrued to extend to pro- Commodities hibit the tranfporting, carrying, or conveying any of the Commodities herein before mentioned, by may be carried Land, or acrofs Rivers, by Common Ferries, or up or down the faid Rivers, or acrofs Harbours where by Land, or a- Clearances have not uf^ually been taken, from any one of the faid Plantations or Colonies to any other "ofs Rivers, &c^ Plantations or Colonies, or to any Part of the fame Plantation or Colony, or to fubjecl the Perfons tranf- JoiTto another"." porting, carrying or conveying, or caufing to be tranfported, carried or conveyed, any of the faid Com- modities in Manner aforefaid, to any of the ReftricStions or Regulations herein before prefcribed, with refpe6l to fuch Commodities exported by Sea, from one Colony to another. VII. Provided neverthelefs, That the faid Bond or Bonds (if not profecuted within three Years) fhall Bonds to be fued be void. within. 3 Years. VIII. Provided always, and it is hereby declared. That nothing in this A& contained fhall extend to Commodities any of the Commodities aforeOiid, which fhall be cleared out of any Cuftom-houfe in any of the Colo- cleared before jiies or Plantations before the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-feven ; ^5 March 1757, any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithflanding. may be exjoned. IX. Provided always, and^ be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That in cafe his Majeffy at any j^jj Majefty by Time or Times during the Continuance of this ASt, fhall in his Royal Difcretion judge it to be expe- Proclamation, or dient to permit the ^Exportation of Corn, and other the Commodities aforefaid, or any of them, from OrderinC uncii, the faid Colonies and Plantations, that then it fliall and may be lawful to and for his Majefty by his may atany Time Royal Proclamation or Proclamations to be iffued, by and with the Advice of his Privy Council, or by ^orution^of^"" his M/'jefty's Order in Council, from Time to Time, to permit and fuffer all and fingular his Majefty's corn,^&'c!' fiom Subjects (but not any particular Perfon or Perfons) to export or carry out of all or any of the faid Colo- the Colonies or nies or Plantations in any Ship or Ships, Veffel or Veflels, duly navigated, owned, and qualified accor- Plantations, &c, ding to Law to trade there, all or any of the Commodities aforefaid to all or any other Place or Places, and upon or without giving Security for the Landing thereof in fuch Place or Places, and returning Certificates of fuch Landing, as to his Majefty fhall feem meet, and as in fuch Proclamation or Pjo.la- m.ations, or fuch Orders of Council, fhall be expreffed and declared ; any Thing to the contrary not- withftanding. X. And be it further enadted by the Authority.aforefaid, That all Certificates of the Landing and Tim.es lim.itcd of Difcharging of the laid Commodities to be exported, fhall be returned within the refpecHve Times fol- returning the lowing ; that is to fay. Where the Bonds are taken in refpe6t of any of the faid Commodities to be ex- Certiilcates from ported to Great Britain or Ireland within eighteen Calend^lr Months after the Date of the faid Bonds ; [j^g Com "^^c'^ and in refpeft of any of the faid Commodities to be exported from any of the faid Colonics or Planta- has been"landed, tions to any other of the faid Colonies or Plantations, or from any Port or Place in ajiy one of the faid "^- Colonies