the Ship-Book after the Ships Entry and afterwards having a Memorandum indorsed thereupon of such Oath shall be numbred and filed in its due place and order and together with the Ship-Book who is in like sort and manner to be numbred in the Margent shall be safely kept in the Custom-house for a Record thereof All Masters or Pursers of Ships Masters and Pursers when to enter and unlade arriving from any forreign parts shall within four dayes after their arrivall make Entry of their Ship or Vessell as aforesaid and shall unlade and discharge the same or so much thereof as is intended to be unladen and discharged with all convenient speed Merchants entring to give three Bills Every Merchant or other person entring Goods or Commodities Inwards shall make Entry of the same particularly by delivering three Bills thereof at large two of which are to be signed by his own hand or the hand of his Assigns to the Collector and Cheque mentioning and expressing the Name of the Ship and of the Master of whence and from what place it was fraighted with the Marks and Numbers of the Fardells Bulk and Package in the Margent and the true Quantities and Qualities of the Goods therein contained and expressed in words at length and not in Figures As also whether the Merchant be a Native or a Merchant Stranger in manner and form following viz. Form of the Merchants Entry Leith Customs In the Hopewel of Amsterd Jo. Johnson Mr. from Middleb John Taylar Ind. or Alien if the Master be a Stranger Five Barrells of Soap And the said Collector and Cheque having distinctly and severally cast up The Customs to be cast up on the Bills with all convenient speed the value of the Goods and Merchandize therein mentioned according to the Book of Rates or otherwise if not therein rated as is by the said Book or any other Act or Ordinance directed and appointed shall either of them upon one of the said Bills write the Custom and Subsidy due thereupon and having signed numbred and dated the same according to its order and day of Entry shall reciprocally deliver unto each other the respective Bill which each of them had respectively cast up One of them to remain with the Collector the other with the Cheque signed and entred to remain and lye viz. The Collectors Bill with the Cheque and the Chequ's Bill with the Collector for an originall Bill or voucher of Entry which shall presently or at least some time the same day together with the Subsidy and Customs thereupon due and received be entered and charged by the Collector to Accompt in the Column of his Cash or Day Book appointed for Receipts of Customs according to which the third Bill being Subscribed both by the Collector and Cheque and numbered and dated And the third to be the Waiters Warrant as the former shall be sufficient warrant to the Waitors unto whom the same shall presently be directed to suffer and permit the Wares and Merchandizes therein mentioned to be landed and discharged accordingly Post-entries when and how to be admitted In case of short Entry made of any Goods Inwards wherein upon examination to be taken before the Commissioners or Collectors for Customs it shall appear that the Merchant had no intention of fraud to the Commonwealth and the Goods un-entered shall not exceed twenty per centum in the quantity thereof in proportion with the Goods mentioned in the Warrant whereof the Five per centum is to be accompted part the Merchant shall be admitted to mend his Entry without Seizure But this Liberty is not to extend 1. To any Entries of Goods passing Outwards in any case whatsoever 2. Nor to any Goods entered Inwards which shall be landed at unlawful time or place or in the absence of the Officer of the Customs properly concerned therein 3. Nor in any Cases where upon Examination intention of fraud to the Commonwealth shall be discovered or the Goods landed and not entred shall exceed the quantity above-written For in all such Cases it is expected and required that Seizures be duly made and prosecuted according to the duties of the Officers and the Laws in that behalf established Goods at sight how to be entred and taken up All manner of Wares and Merchandize that for some just cause or other first allowed of and admitted by the Commissioners themselves in the Port of Leith and in all other Ports by the Collector and Cheque any Merchant may happen to enter at sight shall be taken up by a Warrant for view dated the day of the Entry thereof subscribed by the Commissioners themselves or Collector and Cheque as aforesaid and delivered unto the chief Searcher or other Waiter or Waiters where there is no such Searcher who shall see the same forthwith brought unto the Custome-house Key or VVharf and give knowledge thereof unto the Collector and Cheque who shall presently cause the same to be searched viewed weighed measured or otherwayes as the nature of the Commodity shall require in some convenient place And the Owner or Proprietor shall forthwith after that make an Entry thereof particularly under his hand or the hand of his Assign with the Collector and Cheque and thereupon warrant to be made for the clearing and passing the VVares and Merchandize as aforesaid Bills of Store or Portage No Bills of Store or Portage shall be granted unto any Mariners or Seamen at their coming in or going out or any others for damage goods Mis-Entries or Over-Entries but by speciall Order from the Commissioners which Bills so granted aswell as Cocquets and other Warrants shall be delivered to some Waiter and not the Person to whom granted and the same to be void unlesse served on such day or within so many dayes as shall be therein limited and appointed neither shall those Bills be served upon any Goods of any Person whatsoever other than the Person to whom they shall be granted or out of or upon any other Ship or Ships than what are or shal be mentioned in the said Bils without the especial directions appointment of the Commissioners therein All Warrants to be passed openly in the Customhouse No Entry or agreement with any Merchant or others for Custom or Subsidy Inwards or Outwards shall be made by the Collector or other nor any Cocquet Warrant or Certificat sealed or subscribed but openly in the Custom-house by the Collector and Cheque And every Merchant shall paste his particular Cocquet Warrant or Certificat the same day he entreth his Goods Masters Shippers and Pursers entring Outwards Every Master Shipper Purser or other taking charge of a Voyage that shall lade any Goods or Merchandizes for the Parts beyond the Seas shall by Entry under his hand signifie unto the Collector of the Port where he ladeth that he intendeth to lade and to what place before he receive or take into his Ship any Goods
RULES ORDERS AND INSTRUCTIONS Made and Published by the COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS and EXCIZE IN SCOTLAND To be observed by the several Officers conjunctly of both in relation as well to Customs as Excize of Forreign Goods upon Importation or Sale EDINBURGH Printed by Christopher Higgins in Harts-Close over against the Trone-Church 1656. BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS and EXCIZE In SCOTLAND FOrasmuch as his Highness Council in Scotland for the Government thereof have been pleased for the most benefit and advantage of the Publick ease and commodity of Merchants and other Traders and Dealers to entrust the businesse of Customs and Excize to the care and management of one and the same Commissioners with Power to collect levie receive and take both the said Duties according to the Rules of them respectively imposed and setled to be received for th same in England by Act Ordinance Order or Declaration as well of his Highnesse as of Parliament in that behalf And forasmuch as the said Rules are many and various and which if neglected or omitted to be practised and put in execution may prove very prejudicial to the Commonwealth as well in the matter of Customs and Excize as by the Importing and Exporting of Prohibited Goods and Merchandize For Remedy whereof and to the end the several Collectors and other Officers imployed in and about the same may more fully understand the respective Duties of their Places and observe and keep an Uniformity of Actings and Proceedings in the due and regular mannagement of Affairs of the Customs and Excize respectively And that none may pretend ignorance The present Commissioners of Customs and Excize in Scotland aswell for the Reasons aforesaid and out of their fervent desire faithfully to discharge the great Trust incumbent on them as the tender regard they have in themselves of hindering any persons whatsoever ignorantly or unwittingly to commit any Offences in breach of the Laws Have therefore not only from the several Laws now in force in England and Scotland made drawn framed and published such Instructions to the several Officers employed in the several Ports as are most suitable to the juncture of things in this Nation And which therefore the several and respective Officers are hereby ordered and required to observe perform fulfill and keep but have also made collection of the several Fines Penalties and Forfeitures devised and made by the said Laws that so those whom their affection to their Country and the Common-wealth cannot restrain from using indirect practises in prejudice of the Publick Revenue thereof may be contained within due bounds from the fence they may have of the severity of the Law which they will draw upon themselves if they shall nevertheless continue wilfully to infringe and break the same Dated at LEITH the first day of September One thousand six hundred and fifty six Ja. Mac-Dowal Leo. Lytcot Edm. Syler Tho. Tucker INSTRUCTIONS For the severall COLLECTORS of CUSTOMS in the Ports of SCOTLAND as to Goods Inward and Outwards from or for beyond the Seas Collectors duly to attend at the Head Port. THE COLLECTORS of the severall and respective Ports of this Nation are duly and constantly from time to time by themselves or some other for whom they will be answerable when and as often as they shall have leave or may otherways be necessitated to absent themselves to give their diligent and constant attendance at the hours times and places appointed at the Custom-House of the Chief or Head Port of his District And because in many the Member-Ports the Merchants by reason of distance of Place cannot possibly make their Entries at the Chief or Head Port The Collector is by Commission under his Hand and Seal To commission one of his Waiters in a Member Port to appoint one of the Waiters of his Port which he in his judgment shall conceive to be most fit and apt for such a work and for whom he shall be responsible to attend and officiate in such Member-Port of his District in every thing mutatis mutandis as a Collecto but so far onely and no further than the Collector shall by such Commission particularly direct and appoint and all as shall be for the most ease and dispatch of the Merchant benefit and advantage of the Publick And the Name of such Waiter as he shall appoint he is from time to time to transmit to the Commissioners His Cash or Day and Ship-Books Every Collector for the better carrying on and managing the affair wherein he is intrusted as to Subsidy and Customs shall cause four severall fair Books to be prepared One of which is to be imployed and kept for a Cash or Day Book of all Moneys received for Customs Inwards or Outwards and two other of them for Ship Books Inwards and Outwards Collectors to appoint Waiters to attend the landing of Goods Vpon the arrivall of any Ship in any Port the Collector and chief Searcher in such Ports where any such Searcher is appointed or else the Collector alone is to nominate and direct by Warrant under their or his hand one or more of the Watters appointed to attend in that Fort or any other Port or Place of his Precinct or District to take charge of such Ships and to see the Goods and Merchandizes therein laden cleared and discharged according to such Warrant as he or they shall receive from the Collector and Cheque joyntly of the said Port where the same shall happen to be delivered and unladen But the Master is first to enter his Ship and make report upon Oath But no such Warrant is to be granted or issued before such time as the Master or Purser coming by way of Merchandize or with Commodities from any Port shall not onely enter openly in the Custome-house the name of the Ship and of the Master the Burden of whence and from what Place she is fraighted but also deliver under his hand and upon his Oath unto the Collector and Cheque a Bill of the Particulars and Contents of the whole Lading of the Ship with the Names of the severall Merchants and the Marks Package and outward form or Bulk of the Goods and Merchandizes according to his knowledge And shall also make Declaration upon Oath that he hath not broken Bulk since he came into the Port nor to any other Port of this Nation otherwayes than in the said Bill shall be expressed and shall answer to all such other Questions concerning the direct Quantity of Good 〈…〉 the said Ship as shall be demanded of him by the Collector and Cheque And in case it shall happen that he hath broken Bulk either in that or in any other Port then he shall also deliver upon his Oath the particulars of the said Goods so delivered in the Port or Ports where he brake Bulk Which Ent y and Declaration made as aforesaid shall be entred in words at length into the Ship-Book Inwards The same to be entred in
or Merchandize and before his departure shall give notice of his whole Lading To give a particular of his Lading and answer upon his oath with the names of the Merchants and other Persons that have laden Goods with him or in his Bottom And further truly shal answer upon Oath to all such questions as shall be demanded of him by the Collector and Cheque of the Port where he shall so Lade Collector to appoint Waiters to the Ships After the Entry of any Ships as aforesaid the Collector and chief Searcher where such Searcher is appointed and in all other Ports the Collector alone shall by Warrant under their or his hand direct one or more Waiters of the same Port to take charge of such Ship and see the Goods and Merchandize therein to be shipped laden and put on Board according to such Warrant as shall be given by the Collector and Cheque joyntly for doing thereof And when and as often as any Trade more than ordinary shall chance to happen in any Head Port or Member thereof so as the Waiters appointed to attend in those places Incase of Trade more than ordinary how to send for help cannot possibly be able to see unto the Lading or unlading of the Goods and Merchandizes which shall be shipped out or brought in Every Collector of such Head Port if the suddennesse of the thing will not give him time or liberty to advertise the Commissioners thereof for some other or more Waiters to be sent from Leith to his help or assistance shall incase his Port lye Northerly send unto the Collector of the next Port lying Southerly for one or more Waiters who shall thereupon send such unto him and that Collector at the same time if the occasions of his Port require it shall in like manner send to the next Port adjoyning Southerly of his Port and so from Port to Port untill at length the want or deficiency of Waiters in the last Port may be supplied from Leith As for the Ports lying Westerly they are to be supplied as aforesaid by sending still unto the Collector of the next Port adjoyning to them Easterly and so from Port to Port if necessity require as aforesaid But if the same may at any time be done and performed aswell and with lesse charge by entertainment of some faithfull person to officiate in extraordinary during the emergency of things it is left to the discretion of the Collector to entertain such person or else to send for help as aforesaid according as he in his judgment shall think fit Merchants Entryes Outwards how to be made Every Merchant or other that will transport or ship out any Goods by way of Merchandize for forreign parts shall make his Entry particularly thereof with the Collector and Cheque by three Bills under his hand or the hand of his Assigns with the Name of the Ship the Master the Burden of whence and to what place it is fraighted with the Marks and Numbers of the Packs Cask Fardells or other outward Form or Bulk and the true quantity and quality of the Goods therein contained in words at length which shall be signed and entred filed Filed and kept and kept by the Collector and Cheque respectively as in the case of Entries Inwards and the Moneys due and received for Subsidy and Customes by the Collector charged unto Account in like manner accordingly All Goods and Merchandize to be entred by their true denominations c. Especiall care is to be had and taken that all Goods Wares and Merchandizes Inwards and Outwards be entred in their own true denomination according to their proper nature quality sortment species and kind by which they are commonly and usually known and distinguished and according to their several terms and appellations given and in such sort as the same are mentioned and directed in the Book of Rates to pay whether by Gross weight Number Measure Dozen or otherways Goods to be entred in the Merchants own name And further that no manner of Goods or Merchandize coming in or going out be entred in any other Merchant or Merchants name save in the name onely of the true Merchant Owner or Proprietor of the same Goods entred in one Vessel and shipt in another All Goods and Merchandize Customed Outwards upon any Ship or Vessell which for some cause or other cannot be laden on Board the same Ship shall be appointed to another Ship by Certificat openly subscribed and delivered in the Custom-house upon the Oaths of the chief Searcher where such Searcher is appointed and the Waiter or one of them and of the Owners and Proprietors of the said Goods and Merchandize openly taken that the said Goods did not pass according to the former Cocquet Goods allowed for Store and Portage how to be entred All Goods and Merchandize allowed for Store Portage or other cause whatsoever shall duly and daily be entred in the Cash or Day-book in the same Order as they are passed and although they pay neither Customs nor Subsidy shall neverthelesse be valued and rated as they should have been had they not been passed by Stores but shall and may be omitted to be drawn out or put into the Columne for Receipt of Customs or added up in the Account of the same No Officer whatsoever to take any Fees No Collector Searcher VVaiter or other Officer whatsoever imployed in or about the businesse of the Customs shall either directly or indirectly demand take or receive from the Merchant or any other person whatsoever any Moneys by way of Fee or Gratuity for or in respect of any Certificat Bill Cocquet Transire Ticket Sufferance Bond or any other thing whatsoever Except for Skippers Reports or Merchants Bills of Entryes to be by him or them done or performed as Collector Searcher or VVaiter And in case any of them shall at any time at the instance and request of any Skipper or Merchant make or write any report or Bill of content of any Ship or Bills of Entry Inwards or Outwards no Officer making such Bills Report 1d Each Bill of Entry ob shall demand take or receive more than one penny for writing the Skippers and no more than an half penny a Bill for writing Bills of Entryes for the Merchant upon pain of being dismissed from his or their imployment who shall do contrary thereunto INSTRUCTIONS for the COLLECTORS as to the Coast-Businesse THe businesse of the Coast which is to be understood only of Goods going or coming to or from any the Ports of England or Scotland being somewhat different from the rest and therefore to be kept in a different way and manner and distinctly by it self The Collector is here and in this Affair to make The Coast-Book or cause a fair Book to be prepared and kept by the name of the Coast Book In which all Coast Cocquets Transires and Certificates thereupon are from time to
time to be duly entred the same day and in the same order as they are presented and passed How Coast Goods are to be entred This Coast Book is to be ruled with a double Margent the one to the right hand and the other to the left hand on each side On the left Page of this Book all Cocquets and Transires Outwards are to be entred Outwards placing the Name of the Port for which any Goods shall be shipped in the Margent on the left and the date of the Certificate or Return from the Port where they were landed on the right side of the said Page Inwards On the right Page all Cocquets and Transires for Goods Inwards from the Coast are to be entred and in the Margent of the left side the Name of the Port from whence the Goods came is to be expressed and on the other side the date of the Collectors Certificate or Return of the landing of the said Goods But in the middle of both Pages between the Margents on either sides the Quantity and Quality of all Goods from the Coast Outwards or Inwards respectively is to be most exactly entred with the date of the respective Cocquets and Transires by which the same Goods have been passed either Outwards or Inwards The form of which Book with the Coast Cocquet Certificate followeth The Form of the Coast-Book  OUTWARDS   INVVARDS   24. Nov. 1655   26. June 1655  London James Ramsey Ind. five hundred quarters of Oats in the Hannab of Leith John Taylor Mr. Cert 16. June 1656. New-Castle John Booth Ind. two hundred undrest Hides in the Providence of Kirkaldy Tho. White Mr. Dated 24. December 1655 Cert 29. June 1656. The Form of a Coast-Cocquet LEITH KNow ye that James Ramsey Ind. bath Laden in this Port five hundred Quarters of Oats in the Hannah of Leith John Taylor Master for London security being given Dated the four and twentieth day of November 1655. A. B. Collector C. D. Cheque The Form of a Transire for the Coast LEITH KNow ye that Alexander Farquhar Ind. is permitted to passe fourty Barrels of Figs qt thirty hundred wt in the Hopewell of Brunt-Island Patrick Angus Master for Newcastle Dated the second of December 1655. The Form of a Certificate LEITH KNow ye that John Booth Ind. hath discharged and put on shore in this Port two hundred undrest Hides out of the Providence of Kirkaldy Tho. White Master from Newcastle security being given as per Cocquet dated the five and twentieth day of November last Witnesse the Seal of our Office this _____ day of March 1656. EVery Merchant or other person Merchants entring Goods for the Coast to give Bond. intending to ship or carry any Goods or Merchandize prohibited transportation or carrying beyond the Seas to discharge or unlade the same in any other Port or place of Scotland or England shall before the shipping thereof declare and manifest under his or their Hands by Bill of Entry as in all other Cases to the Collector and Cheque of the Customs in the Port where the same shall be shipped the Measure Length Number and other Contents and Value of such Goods together with the Name of the Ship and of the Master the Place of whence and for which he is fraighted and with the approbation of the said Collector and Cheque shall also make and enter into a sufficient Obligation according to the Law of Scotland in which he shall be bound with sufficient Sureties or Cautioners in such sums of Money as shall amount to double the value of the Goods so declared and manifested with Condition that the same shall be discharged at some Port within England Scotland or Ireland where such Goods may be carried thither and in no other place whatsoever To return Certificate within four moneths Every Person giving Bond and Security as aforesaid is within four moneths at furthest after shipping of his Goods to bring a true Certificate from the Port or place where he or they shall discharge the said Goods testifying the said Goods so shipped and the true Nature Length Weight Number and other Contents or Value thereof to be there discharged Which Certificate upon the discharge of the Goods in any Port in Scotland to be delivered to the party delivering and discharging the same What security to be taken upon shipping woollen Yarn Flocks Woolfells Earth and Clay If any person or person shall ship out any woollen Yarn woollen Flocks Wool-fels Earth or Clay the Collector shall take double Security over and above double the value for three shillings for every pound thereof with Condition That the same shall be landed in some Port of this Common-wealth as is directed by Law and according to the tenour of the usual Coast Bonds All Bonds to be returned to the Commissioners All such or any other Bonds already taken by any the Collectors are with all convenient speed and all such other Bonds whatsoever in the future to be taken by any the Collectors are and shall be monethly returned up and delivered to the Commissioners at the Custom-house in Leith that such processe and other proceedings may be had thereupon as of right belongeth No Goods to be shipped without suffrance Cocquet or Transire The Collector in every Port is to take care that no Goods whatsoever be shipped from Port to Port before a Sufferance be passed for the same nor any Native Commodities or Manufactures made thereof be transported before a Cocquet be past and good Security given for landing the same at some other Port or place of this Nation or of England or else Ireland if such Goods may be shipped thither as is provided by Law nor any forreign Goods before a Transire be past for the same And if any Goods shall be shipped contrary hereunto or that any Goods shall be brought in from one Port to another or shall be landed or found on board any Ship whether landed or not landed for which there is no Cocquet or Transire or being more in quantity than is in the Cocquet or Transire therein mentioned If so to be seized that in such cases Seizure be made and notice thereof given to the Commissioners and so to provide that the same or any part thereof be not discharged without order of the Commissioners first had and given therein Masters and Pursers how to enter for the Coast Before the going out of or upon coming into Port of any Ship or Vessel for unto or from any other Port or place of Scotland or England the Master or Purser of every such Ship is to make Entry of his Ship and the respective Merchants Proprietors and Owners are to make Entry of their Goods Merchandize and Commodities as is required to be made and done for all Ships Goods and Merchandize Outwards or Inwards for or from any forreign Parts beyond the Seas How Merchants shall enter But any
Merchant or other intending to lade or ship and so making Entry of any Goods Outwards for the Coast the Collector and Cheque are thereupon to make a Cocquet or Transire at the nature of his Entry shall require Their Cocquets and Transires to remain in the custody of the Collector and Cheque Which Cocquet or Transire is to remain in the joynt Custody of the said Collector and Cheque untill such time as the Merchant is or shall be ready to carry or ship his Goods on Board and then upon notice given thereof to be delivered to the Waiter appointed to attend that Ship in which they are to be laden who shall forthwith see the same done And if the Merchant have not before Till the Goods shall be shipped and then to be delivered to the Waiter to indorse he shall then give the Marks and Numbers of his Goods which shall be indorsed on the said Cocquet or Transire and the Waiter also shall write his name thereupon with the time when he saw the same shipped and presently after shall deliver the same back unto the chief Searcher or else unto the Collector where there is no chief Searcher who shall keep the same by him till the Ship be fully laden By him to the Searcher or Collector Who after ful lading and oath given by the Master search made Shal deliver the same or else one general Cocquet to such Master No Ships unlading to be d scharged before examination of Entries search of the same and then the Master or Purser thereof coming and making Declaration upon Oath that he hath received no Goods on Board but what have been laden by Cocquet Transire or Sufferance and the said Searcher or Collector or some Waiter appointed by him going on Board to search and finding no other or more Goods laden therein then for which there was or had been Cocquet Transire or Sufferance granted for doing thereof shall thereupon deliver the Cocquets and Transires remaining in his custody or else one general Cocquet for all unto the Master or Purser of the Ship who is to be cleared and discharged that She may proceed upon Her Voyage accordingly No Ships Inwards from the Coast are to be discharged or suffered to depart from the Key or have any Goods de novo put on Board before such time as the chief Searcher or Collector where there is no chief Searcher shall first have examined the particular Entryes with the Masters or Pursers Entry and finding the same to agree shall afterwards go on Board and see that there are no Goods left remaining on Board but that the whole Lading hath been really and truly delivered and discharged The same mutaris mutandis to be observed for and upon all Ships Inwards from beyond the Seas In passing of Goods from Port to Port the Collectors and other Officers What to be understood by Goods Customable are to understand by Goods Customable All Wares and Commodities growing wrought or manufactured within this Nation and all forreign Commodities and Merchandizes which have been imported and remained in this Nation viz. by an English-man above twelve Months and by a Stranger above nine Months and the Property altered by the sale thereof made by the first Importer INSTRUCTIONS For the COLLECTORS in levying of SUBSIDY and CUSTOMS Collector to receive according to the book of Rates c. THe Collector in every Port appointed for receiving of Subsidy and Customs upon all Goods Wares and Merchandize Imported into and Exported out of Scotland are faithfully to observe do and perform the same according to the Articles Rules and Directions of the present Book of Rates and such others as are directed to be received for or concerning the payment of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage or the Importation or Exportation or Transportation of Goods prohibited by any Statute Act or Ordnance of Parliament Ordinance or Order of his Highness the Lord Protector and his Councill now in force in England and become so in Scotland by the Union of both Nations And to proceed in all things belonging to the duty of his Place according to the same and according to such Rules and Instructions as he shall from time to time receive or have from the chief Commissioners in that behalf What Wine are to be accounted of the growth of the Levant What natives and strangers shall pay The Collector is to take notice That all Wines except Rhenish and French Wines are to be accounted of the growth of the Levant and to pay Customs accordingly In levying the Subsidy of Poundage the Collector is to collect receive and levy Five in the Hundred as a Generall Subsidy upon all Goods Inwards and Outwards aswell from the English and Scots Merchant as from the Merchant-Stranger and the Petty Customs of Three pence in the Pound more from all Strangers so as the Merchant-Stranger for every Twelve pence to be paid by the English or Scots Merchants upon every Pound or Twenty shillings sterling is to pay One shilling three pence Subsidy and Customs What stranger shall pay for Native Commodities and Manufactures Vpon Coal Pladding Salmon and all manner of Native-Commodities or Manufactures made thereof to be carried or shipped Outwards he is to collect from the Merchant-Stranger Five in the Hundred over and above the Five per Cent. and Petry-Customs aforesaid so as the Merchant-Stranger for every Twelve pence to be paid by the English or Scots-Merchant is to pay Two shillings three pence Subsidy and Customs And the Merchant-Stranger for those Commodities for which he is to pay double Subsidy as Lead Tin Double Subsidy and double petty Customs Woollen-Cloath and all or any Manufactures made of Wooll or part Wooll is also to pay double Petty-Customs and upon Woollen-Cloath he is to pay more an old Custom of Fourteen pence upon every Cloath Exported and proportionably upon new Draperies as they are reckoned for a Cloath in the Instructions annexed to the Book of Rates Natives inhabiting beyond the seas All English or Scots inhabiting beyond the Seas and sworn Subjects to forreign Princes are to pay Customs and other Duties as Strangers so long as they continue so Denizens to pay strangers Customs All Strangers made Denizens are to pay all Customs and Subsidies as strangers All great and small Coal exported being by Order of his Highness Councill in Scotland for the Government thereof bearing date the First of November Coal to be computed by the Tun not Chaldron 1655. rated to pay a certain Rate upon each Chaldron containing Twenty hundred weight Especiall care therefore is to be had in levying thereof That the Collector do not receive or take the same according to the Scots Chaldron which is more or less in sundry places where such Coal are shipped and laden but according to the number of Tuns or twenty hundred weights contained in every such Chaldron Coals shipt in strangers
prepared as that the same may serve and be imployed also for managing the businesse of Excize and for this cause and reason shall upon all week dayes be kept open from eight of the Clock in the Morning till twelve at Noon and from two of the Clock in the Afternoon How long kept open till six at Night for the Entring and Registring the Goods Wares and Merchandizes with the Names and Sirnames aswell of the Importers as of the Sellers and Buyers of the severall Goods Wares and Commodities Excizable their quantities and values as for the receiving of all Moneys which shall be due and payable thereupon and for doing other things necessary to be done for and concerning the same Vpon the Arrivall and after the Entry of any Ship with Goods Inwards Merchants Importers entring Goods to give three Bills as to Excize from any Parts beyond the Seas every Merchant Importer if he be purely a Merchant and so not to pay any Excize untill Sale is in like manner as for the Customs to deliver in to the Collector and Cheque three Bills of Entry under his own hand or the hand of such other Person or Persons as by Deed or Writing under his hand and Seal shall be deputed thereunto mentioning the name of the Ship and of the Master whence and from what place it was Fraighted with the Marks Numbers Fardels Bulk or Packings in the Margent and the true quantity and quality of the Goods therein contained in words at length and not in Figures two of which Bills as in the businesse of Customs shall be Signed by the Collector and Cheque respectively and delivered afterwards to each other to be numbred filed and kept as an originall Voucher for the Excize And the third being Signed by them both shall be the Waiters warrant for the delivery of the same to the Merchant This is to be understood of the Merchant Importer only Merchants paying Excize upon Entry how many for where Goods pay Excize aswell as Customs upon Entry one and the same Bills being three only in number given for Customs will serve also for Excize Entries of Merchant Importers in what manner to be placed in the Sub-Commissioners or Collectors Book If the Merchant Importer be purely a Merchant then upon his Entry made as aforesaid he is to be permitted to take up and receive his Goods forthwith without payment of any Excize And the Collector shall not need for all Entries of this kind to make any Entries in his Cash or day Book distinct from that of the Customs but only to draw a blank Line with pricks or otherwise from the said Custom Entry through the Column of the said Book which is appointed and designed for the Receipts of Excize Merchant Retailer how to Enter and pay But if the Merchant Importer shall happen to be either a Shop-keeper or Retailer of the Commodities he Imports the Collector and Cheque having upon delivery in of his Bills of Entry cast up the sum or sums unto which the Excize of the Goods mentioned in the said Bills shall amount unto and delivered their Bills so cast unto each other respectively In what manner the same shal be placed to accompt as was directed before as to Customs the Collector shall presently receive the Excize due thereupon and make Entry of the same in his Cash or day Book not making a distinct Entry from the Customs but having expressed the rate or value of the Excize different from the Custom next and immediately below the Entry of the same as to Customs shall draw out and place the totall due or received for Excize in an equall Line with that of the Customs but in the Column of the Book aforesaid appointed and designed for the Receipts of Excize Merchant stranger or Planter entring But if it so fall out that the Merchant or Importer be some Person living beyong the Seas a Planter in the West Indies or Virgina an unknown Person either having no certain habitation that is to say not known to be an able or sufficient Merchant or else having no constant Family in the Town or Port where he shall Enter his Goods such Merchant is either to pay down the Excize of his Goods or else to give Bond to the Collector with sufficient Security To pay Excize or give Bond. or Caution for the payment of the Excize before he be admitted to take up his Goods or receive any warrant for doing thereof Such Merchant being unable or refusing to give Bond or pay his Goods are to be taken up and landed If any Planter or unknown person as aforesaid shall not be able or shall refuse to give Bond or to pay Excize upon Entry as aforesaid then and in such case the Collector is to cause the Goods to be taken up and landed And after due notice taken of the Quantity and Quality of the Goods in the presence of the Owner or some other appointed by him or upon refusall of himself or any other for him to be present in the presence of other two good witnesses to house and dispose of the same in some sitting Ware-house untill either Bond be given or Excize fully paid for the same as aforesaid Shop-keeper to carry his Goods to his own house Especiall care is to be had and taken that the Shop-keeper upon Entry and clearing of his Goods Inwards at the Importation of them do carry his Goods to his own Shop directly and is not to be permitted to house and lay up the same in any other House Shop Store-house or other place whatsoever without acquainting the Collector and Cheque therewith In like manner no Merchant who is purely such no Planter or unknown Merchant No Merchant to lodge his Goods with a Retailer is to be permitted to house or dispose of his Goods Wares or Merchandizes in the House Shop Ware-house or any other place of or belonging to any Retailer of the same Commodity without first making the Collector and Cheque in like manner acquainted therewith Goods sold how to be entred When any Goods aforesaid come to the consumption or sale the Merchant who is purely a Merchant and who was perimitted to land and take up his Goods without payment of any Excize shall before he be permitted to deliver all or any of the same bring and deliver to the Collector and Cheque two Bills of Entry signed under his own hand or the hand of his Servant or other person whom he shall first authorize under his hand to be filed in the Office of Excize to that purpose and for whose Act he shall be answerable certifying the Quantity Weight and Measure of his Goods sold and to whom their several species sortments and kinds and the price at which they are sold in case they be goods which pay Excize ad valorem Upon each of which Bills the Collector and Cheque having cast up and written the Sum or Sums
make return of an Hogshead of Wine fit only to distill and receive a good one in stead thereof in this case the rate of the bad Hogshead being Seventeen shillings six pence there will remain then to be paid more Twelve shillings six pence which compleats the sum of Thirty shillings the full rate of a good Hogshead of Wine Bills of Store and Portage to be charged to accompt or else pay Excize All Goods passed by Bill of Store Portage or otherwise as to the freeing them of Customs are neverthelesse to be charged on accompt of the Merchant Importer or else pay Excize respectively as in all other cases as if the same had not been passed by any such Bills or otherwise at all but then imported INSTRUCTIONS To the COLLECTORLS or SUB-COMMISSIONERS of EXCIZE as to Goods Outwards for beyond the Seas Goods Outwards to be entred EVery Merchant Retailer Shop-keeper or other may when and as often as he shall desire ship out any Goods Wares or Commodities excizable unto any Parts beyond the Seas making Entry and doing otherwise in all particulars as is required in the businesse of the Customs for and upon the shipping out of any Goods or Merchandize No more then entred to be shipped on board But forasmuch as the Merchants Accompts are to have so much credit as there shall be Goods at any time shipped out or else that the Excize paid for these Goods is to be re-paid especiall care is to be taken That neither more nor lesse Goods be permitted at any time to be shipped or carried on board any Ship or Vessel than shall be mentioned and expressed in the particular Entry Outwards of the Exporter and so in the Warrant of the Collector and Cheque upon that Entry And Bond to be first given That before the shipping out of any Goods or Merchandizes which have not paid the duty of Excize a sufficient Obligation in Law be entred into by the Merchant or Exporter shipping out such Goods wherein he shall be bound either by himself or else with sufficient Caution as shall be thought fit and approved of by the Collector in such sum of Money as shall amount to double the value of the said Goods with condition That the same shall be discharged at some Port or Place beyond the Seas And that he will by Oath or otherwise make due proof thereof before the Commissioners or any they shall appoint within such convenient space of time after as shall be agreed upon by the Merchant and Collector for doing thereof the same to be inserted and mentioned in the said Bond. Repayment of Excize That no re-payment of Excize for Goods shipped out be made by any Collector without the special Order and Warrant of the Commissioners themselves And before such Order can be passed the Collector upon application made unto him by the Merchant or Exporter shall give a Certificate signed joyntly by himself and the Cheque Upon certificate endorsed by the Searcher or Waiter expressing the time when the same were shipped out and in what Parcell the quantity and quality of the said Goods and when and in what Parcel and at what rate Excize had been paid for the same under which Certificate as aforesaid the Searcher or else the Waiter who was present at the shipping of the said Goods shall certifie his seeing the same done and when and in what Ship they were shipped their quantity and quality And after notice had and obtained that his Goods are landed or arrived in any Forreign Part or Place beyond the Seas the Merchant or Importer bringing the Certificate aforesaid and making due proof by Oath before the Commissioners or such as they shall appoint And Oath of the Merchant of his Goods being re verâ landed beyond the Seas and that the Excize of the same had been duly paid and satisfied as was expressed in the Certificate shall thereupon have Order and Warrant for repayment thereof accordingly Goods Outwards in what manner to be entred in the Collectors Books All Entries of Goods Outwards for beyond the Seas either with or else without having paid Excize are to be Entred constantly by the Collector in the Day-book drawing in that case a Blank Line with pricks or otherwise through the Columns for Receipts of Customs and Excize also INSTRUCTIONS for the COLLECTORS or Sub-Commissioners of Excize as to Goods sent to or from the Coast Coast Goods how to be Entred ALL Goods coming in from or going out by Land or by Sea to any Port or Place of this Nation or England are in like manner to be entred and taken up or shipped out by the Merchant as is directed for the Customs But the Merchant Importer or Exporter is to make Entry of the same by severall and distinct Bills from those he gives for the Customs unlesse the Merchant Importer shall bring in such Goods which had before payed or else not having formerly payed Excize shall then happen to pay the same before landing or that the Merchant Exporter shall happen to ship out Goods for any part of Scotland which had before paid Excize for in these cases the same Bills may serve both for Customs and Excize Bond to be given where Goods have not paid Excize Every Merchant shipping out Goods for the Coast which have not paid Excize or else sending such Goods by Land is in like manner as for Goods shipped for beyond the Seas to give Bond or a sufficient Obligation in Law with condition that the Goods shipped out shall bonâ fide be landed at some other Port or place of this Nation and there Entred with the Officer appointed for receiving Excize from whom he is to bring Certificate in due form and manner of his doing thereof To return Certificate or some other for him according as by condition of his Bond is required Which Certificate is to be returned within such convenient space of time afterwards as the Collector shall think reasonable for doing thereof the same to be mentioned and expressed in the said Bond or Obligation Goods having paid Excize to be shipped by Sufferance Any Shop-keeper Retailer or other shipping out Goods which have already paid Excize The Collector after Entry thereof by such Shop-keeper Retailer or other setting forth the quality of the Exporter the name of the Ship and Master of whence and to what place bound with the quantities and qualities of his Goods and when and in what parcell cleared as to Excize is to grant or permit a Sufferance for shipping thereof as followeth The form of a Permit or Sufferance LEITH Excize IN the Sarah of Brunt-Island Anthony Lilburn Master pro Invernesse Michael Craig Retailer Two Hogsheads of French Wines but not to be Exported without further order Dated the _____ day of _____ A. B. Collector C. D. Cheque To be delivered to the Waiter who is to see the goods brought from the Exporters Which
Sufferance is to be delivered to the hands of the Searcher or Waiter appointed to attend the Ship in which the said Goods shall be laden who shall presently go with the Exporter and see the same brought forth out of the Shop Celler or Ware-house of such Exporter and no other and afterwards laden and shipped on board the Ship or Vessel to which they were designed All which such Searcher or Waiter shall indorse or certifie on the back side of such Permit or Sufferance and afterward deliver the same back again unto the chief Searcher or where there is none And upon cause of suspition to acquaint the Collector therewith who is to try the verity by Oath unto the Collector to be kept by him and the Cheque untill the Ship be fully laden But if the Goods shall be brought or delivered out of any other place then aforesaid whereby suspition may be given of some fraud or collusion the Searcher or Waiter is to forbear shipping the Goods and to inform the Collector and Cheque of the Port therewith who are thereupon to be fully satisfied by the Oath of the Parties or others which Oath the Collector is therefore to administer to them that the Goods have bonâ fide paid Excize before the same be permitted to be shipped in any Ship or Vessel whatsoever Bill of Contents to be made from the severall Sufferances c. When any Ship bound outwards for the Coast is fully laden the Collector or chief Searcher where there is one from the several Sufferances Cocquets and Transires given and returned from the Waiter for all Cocquets Transires and Sufferances for shipping Goods Outwards for the Coast after the doing thereof are to be returned and delivered unto the chief Searcher or Collector as aforesaid where there is no such Searcher shall make and besides all Cocquets and Transires granted as to the Coast relating to Customs frame a true Content of the whole Ships or Vessels Lading which Content is to expresse and mention the name of the Ship or Vessel with the Master thereof the true Denomination Numbers and Marks of the Bales Packs Casks outward Bulk or Vessels in which any Commodities are contained and the Names of the Persons to whom consigned the Net Weight Measure just Contents and Values of the severall Commodities expressed in words at length and not in Figures and whether the duty of Excize be paid or no and how much where the same can be ascertained and when and whether Bond be Entred into for delivery and due Entry of the Goods in the Office of Excize in the Port whither the Goods are designed and sent which Content made according to the qualifications aforesaid shall be signed by the Collector and Cheque joyntly Which after search of the Vessel is to be delivered to the Master thereof and after search made by the Collector or chief Searcher where there is such a Searcher whether there be not more or other Goods laden on Board then are specified and mentioned in the same shall be delivered unto the Master of such Ship or Vessel to be by him afterwards delivered after his arrivall in Port unto the Sub-Commissioners Collectors or other chief Officer for Excize there Ships coming from the Coast and delivering but part the Goods delivered to be endorsed on the Bill of Content Vpon arrivall of any Ship from the Coast the Collector is to call for the Masters Bill of Contents which is to be kept and filed with the Entry of the Ship And when any Ship bound from one Port to another shall happen to deliver any part of her Goods by the way before she arrive at her last designed Port the Sub-Commissioner or Collector of the said Port is to call for the Certificate of the Content which was delivered unto the Master at the Port where she was laden and certify upon the back of the same what Goods are there delivered as part of the said Certificate what remaining in the Ship and what put on board at the Port delivering back the said Content unto the Master at his going thence and keeping a Copy of his Endorsement of the said Content by him shall cause the same to be transcribed and Entred as all other Tickets and Certificates in the Waste-Book Goods sent by Land carriage upon Bond. All Goods and Marchandizes sent after Bond given by Land Carriage unto any other Port or place are to be sent and passed by Ticket in manner and form following The form of a Land carriage Ticket LEITH A. B. is permitted upon Bond given to send to the Burgh of _____ by C. D. Carrier being consigned unto E. F. of the said Town or Burgh Dated the _____ day of _____ 1655. A. B. Collector C. D. Cheque To pay Excize if consigned to a Retailer Which Ticket being received by the Collector of that place he is in case the Goods therein mentioned shall happen to be consigned to a Shop-keeper or Retailer of the same Commodity to demand and receive Excize presently for the same but if to a known Merchant who is purely such then the same are to be Entred Charged Or else charged to account of the Merchant if to a Merchant and passed to his proper accompt as if they had been then Imported by himself from beyond the Seas The like to be observed for all Goods shipped by Bond for the Coast The nature of the Bond. Forasmuch as Bond given in this case is not for payment of the duty but for to cause true landing or delivering the same at the Port or Place to which they are sent All Goods carried by Land are to be carried by Ticket directly to the place unto which they are intended Goods going by Land or Water or both how to passe but all Goods going by Sea or Water are to passe no further by Ticket or Bill of Content but to the next Port and if to passe afterwards up into the Country are to be first Entred with the Sub-Commissioner or Collector in the said Port where they are landed and afterwards to passe by Ticket from him and the Cheque there unto the designed place of delivery Coast-Goods uncleared or cleared how to be Entred in the Books of the Collectors All Entries both Inwards and Outwards from and to the Coast of Goods which had not before paid Excize are to be duly Entred in the same order in which they are passed in the Cash or Day-book drawing in this case a blank line through both Columns as is directed for Goods for beyond the Seas But the Entries of all other Goods to or from the Coast which had before paid Excize are to be Entred in the Coast-book at the end of the respective Custom-Entries for the same Goods there with signification that Excize had been paid for the same the date of the Certificate signifying so much and the place whence such Certificate came A Ledger to
You are to demand and receive from the Master or Purser of every Ship Inwards a Report or Bill of Content of the particular Lading of every such Vessell with the Names of the severall Merchants and the Mark Number Package and Outward form of the Goods and Merchandize which Bill of Contents is to be verified by the Oath of such Master or Purser And Examinations in presence of your self and Cheque or else of the Collector and Cheque who is also to declare upon his said Oath whether he hath broke Bulk or no since he came into the Port or any other the Ports of this Nation otherways than in the said Bill of Contents shall be mentioned and expressed and if so then what and where such Goods were delivered and to whom belonging or consigned And further to make answer to all such Questions concerning Goods laden in the said Ship as shall be reasonably demanded of him The like Mutatis Mutandis is to be done and practized with every Master of a Ship outwards before he be suffered to depart out of Harbour or receive his Cocquets Transires Bills of Content or other Tickets or VVarrants And enter them either as to Customs or Excize And all Reports and Examinations taken as aforesaid are to be entred in the Skippers Books Inwards or Outwards unto which they shall relate respectively VI. You are to be carefull and see Jerk that every Ship Inwards or Outwards be duly Jerked by comparing the Respective Bills of Contents of every Ship Inwards or Outwards with the respective VVarrants returned by the VVaiter or VVaiters for every such Ships unto the lading or unlading whereof he or they were appointed And if the same agree and that every such Ship be fully Entred to suffer the same to be discharged or go But you are first to go on board such Ship and search see and survey Search all Ships and seize prohibited and uncustomed Goods whether there be no Goods yet left concealed on board which have not been Entred Inwards or whether there have not any other or more Goods been shipped on board any Ship Outwards then such onely for which VVarrant or Sufferance hath been granted And in case you find any Goods concealed hid or shipt out as aforesaid or being prohibited or uncustomed Goods you are to seize and bring the same away unto the Publick VVare-house of the Custom-houses or some other convenient place adjoyning where they may be most conveniently secured and forthwith to acquaint the Commissioners or Collectors therewith VII You are after the Jerking of any Ship to annex or file together the VVaiters Bills File the Masters Reports and Waiters Bils after examination of them and the respective Bills of Contents formerly given in as aforesaid by any Skipper or Purser and numbering the VVaiters Bills in Order of their Dates to expresse the Number of the said Bills in words at length at the bottom of the Masters or Pursers Bill of Content and afterwards examining the same with the Cash or Day-Book and finding them to agree to file them all together and lay them up in some convenient place to be produced upon all occasions VIII You shall be diligent and carefull to make stay or cause to be made stay Make stay of all Goods brought in shipped out or delivered contrary to the Law of Custom or Excize of all Goods Wares and Merchandize prohibited to be brought in or carryed out and delivered or intended to be carryed in or out of this Nation or the Dominions thereof or delivered to any buyer of the same contrary to any Act Ordinances Orders or Declarations as well of his Highnesse and Councill as of Parliament which are in force both touching Customs and Excize IX You are at all times and as often as you shall see cause or have just cause of suspicion Go on board to search to go on board any Ship or other Vessels riding in Harbour or in any Road within the Precincts or Limits aforesaid to see survey and search for all manner of Goods prohibited or uncustomed which you are to seize or bring away as aforesaid And further with the consent and directions of the Collector And enter Waiters to put any Waiter he shall appoint on board any Ship riding in the Road who is to remain there and come in with ther untill such Ship be cleared and discharged X. You are to take care See to the Waiters attendance that the severall Waiters appointed to attend any Ships or otherways at Leith or Edinburgh do constantly and duely give their attendance accordingly And that such of them who shall have no particular charge at any time do constantly attend some at the Shoar and some at the Ports of Leith and Edinburgh for the making stay of all Goods At shoar and Ports which shall not be duely entred or else delivered by the Merchant to any the buyers thereof without any Ticket or Warrant as to the Excize XI And because in time of Trade Cause them to watch much fraud is usually practised and used you are at any time when you finde store of shipping in Harbour to appoint one or more of the Waiters by turns each night to watch along the shoar of the Haven and to seize any Goods landed at unlawfull hours Acquaint the Commissioners with their neglects XII You are from time to time to acquaint the Commissioners with any the Omissions Neglects or other failures of all or any the Waiters XIII You are to observe pursue and follow in all things the severall Acts Ordinances Orders and Declarations And observe these and all other Instructions given him as well of his Highnesse and Councill as of Parliament touching Excize and Customs And in all things honestly and faithfully to demean your self according to your Commission These and all other Instructions which you shall receive from the Commissioners or their Surveyor-Generall from time to time INSTRUCTIONS For the WAITERS I. YOu shall give your faithfull and diligent attendance in the Port or Place where you shall be appointed and directed to attend as Waiter To attend diligently and give notice to the Collector or chief Searcher where there is such a Searcher of that Port with all convenient speed Give notice of all Ships coming in or going out of every Ship that cometh in or goeth out every Tide by way of Merchandize or with any Goods from or to any Forreign Parts or from or to any Port of this Nation or of England II. You are forthwith upon warrant or other direction given from the Collector and Searcher Board or wait on Ships in lading to enter on board any Ship or Vessel and there to remain untill she be fully discharged and delivered And to see unto the shipping of all Goods Outwards unto which you shall at any time in like manner be directed and appointed III. You shall not permit or suffer any
the value 1. El. 11. The Master and Mariners to lade and discharge at no other then the times and places aforesaid No manner of person shall receive or take into any Ship or Vessell any Goods or Merchandize to be transported beyond the Seas nor shall discharge or lay on Land out of any Ship or Vessell any Goods or Merchandize in any other place or at any other hours then is before limited upon pain that the Owners Master or other Person taking charge or guiding of any such Ship or Vessell for that Voyage shall loose and forfeit for every such offence 100. l. 1. El. 11. No Master Shipper Purser or other person taking charge of a Voyage No Master or Skipper to lade before entry of his Ship shall receive or take into any Ship or other Vessell any Goods or Merchandize c. to be transported beyond the Seas before he shall have signified to the Customer of the Port where he ladeth that he intends to lade and for what place nor after lading shall depart out of the Port where he shall so lade without signifying his lading what Merchants and other Persons have lading with him Nor depart after lading before be signifies his lading and answer upon oath or in his Bottom and further truly to answer upon Oath to such Questions as shall be demanded of him by the Collector or other Officer upon pain to forfeit for every default not truly advertising or answering 100. l. 4. El. 11. 1. El. 1.11 No person to land goods No Owner Master Purser or other person taking charge of any Ship Crayer Vessell or Bottom wherein any Goods or Wares c. shall be laden and brought from beyond the Seas shall discharge into any Lighter or Bottom and lay on Land or procure cause or willingly suffer to be discharged into any Lighter or Bottom and to be laid on Land any Goods VVares or Merchandize whatsoever before such Owner Master or other Person taking charge of the Ship Bottom Vessell or Merchants Goods for that Voyage shall have signified and declared to the Customer or other Officer of the Port Haven or Creek where he arriveth Before the Master hath made his Report and answered upon oath the Names of every the Merchant or Laders and shall have truly answered to such Questions and Interrogatories touching such Goods and Merchandize as shall be then laden in any such Ship as shall be to him administred by such Customer or other Officer openly in the Custom house upon his or their Oath if need so require upon pain that every such Master or other person shall forfeit and loose for every such default All goods to be entred in the names of the Owners not truly advertizing nor answering as is aforesaid 100. l. 1. El. 11. No person shall take upon him to enter or cause to be entred any Goods or Merchandize coming from or going into any the parts beyond the Seas in the name or names of any other persons then the very Owner or Owners of the same Goods being not sold bargained or contracted for to or with any person or persons before such Entry or before the arrivall of such Goods in the parts beyond the Seas upon forfeiture of the value of the Goods so entred No Wharsinger Granekeeper c. to contal any offence 1. El. 11. Every Wharsinger Crane keeper Searcher Lighterman or other Officer belonging to the Customs who shall consent or know of any Offence contrary to the Act aforesaid and do not within one Moneth after his knowledge thereof disclose the same to the chief Customer or other Officer of the Port within whose Office or Charge any such Offence shall be committed shall for every such concealment forfeit and lose 100. l. 1. El. 11. Goods uncustomed All Merchants aswell Denizens as others shipping or putting any Goods or Merchandize into any Boat or Vessell to the intent to be conveighed beyond the Seas or else bringing from the Parts beyond the Seas into any Port or Place of this Commonwealth and unshipping the same to be said on Land the Customs and other Duties not paid forfeit all such Goods and Merchandize Ordin of Parl 21. Feb. 1644. 16. Decem. 1647. Certificate to be given for Goods going to the Coast Every Merchant as well Denizen as Stranger bringing and entring Goods with the Customers in any Port and the Duties thereof paid who will after that conveigh or carry away the same from thence to any Port within the Common-wealth Himself Factor or Atturney shall bring from the Customer of the Port where the Goods were so entred a Certificate under the Customers Seal directed to the Customer of the Port whereto the same shall be conveighed or carryed of the naturall colour length and value used to be measured with Eln or Yard as of the naturall weight content or value of all other Goods used to be weighed or valued to be delivered to the Customer before the said Goods be discharged upon pain of forfeiture of the same 3. H. 7.7 No Custome or Cheque to use trading No Customer Comptroller nor any their Cheques Deputies Servants or Factors shall have any Ships of their own or shall buy or fell by way of Merchandize nor shall meddle with fraighting or shipping or have or occupy any Wharf or Key or hold any Hostelry or Tavern or shall be any Factor or Atturney for any Merchant nor shall be Host unto any Merchant upon pain of forfeiting Fourty pounds as often as they do the contrary 20. H. 6.5 No Customer to be a Common Officer or Deputy of such No person shall take upon him to be Customer Comptroller or Searcher in any Port in any City Burrough or Town where he is a common Officer or Deputy to any common Officer upon forfeiture for every half year that he occupieth the said Offices the sum of Four pounds 3. H. 7. No Customer to conceal or consent to any thing in prejudice of the Customs Every Customer Comptroller or Searcher shall from time to time do his or their diligent attendance at the houses times and places appointed as well in the Custom-house or elsewhere as shall be most for the dispatch of the Merchant without concealment or consenting to any thing which may be to the hurt or damage of his Highness in the just answering of the Customs upon pain that every such Customer Comptroller or Searcher shall forfeit and loose for every Offence his or their severall Offices and an hundred pounds sterl 1. El. 11. Customer making false Certificates of Leather Every Customer and Officer making false Certificate of the arrivall of any Leather in any Port or Creek shall for every such Offence forfeit one hundred pounds 1. Ja. 22. Or knowing of Leather shipped do not neverthelesse seize or disclose the same forfeit 100l No Officer to take any fee or gratuity Every Customer Comptroller or Searcher hearing or knowing of