Regulations for shipping wool, ried coastwise, &c. to be car signed by the owner of such wharf, or his, her, or their agent, "which shall certify and acknowledge the quantity of wool so "received, and the number of sheets in which the same is con"tained, to the customer or comptroller at the port at which such "wharf shall be kept, in case there shall happen to be at such port or place any such officer, and, for want thereof, to such "other officer of the customs (if any) as shall happen to be "stationed at such port or place, upon pain of forfeiting, for every neglect, the sum of ten pounds to any person or persons "who shall sue for the same." 66 66 66 + Sect. 38. By 28 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 34. "And the better to prevent any fraudulent exportation of wool, woolfels, mortlings, shortlings, combed wool, woolflocks, or woollen bay yarn, worsted yarn, cruels, or wool slightly manufactured, and which are hereby prohibited from being exported, under the pretence of carrying the same coastwise in the kingdom of Great Britain;" it is further enacted, "That no wool, or any other the last before "enumerated articles, and which are hereby prohibited from being exported, shall be put on board any ship, vessel, or boat, "to be carried coastwise, or from one port in Great Britain to "another, unless notice be first given to the commissioners or "chief managers of the customs, or to the customer or collector "and comptroller of the customs at the port from which the "same is intended to be sent, of the quantity, quality, and package, together with the marks, numbers, and weight thereof, "with the name of the ship, and the master or commander, on "board of which the said goods are to be laden, together with "the name or names of the owner or owners of the said goods, " and the place of his or their abode or habitation, and the place "and port at which the same are intended to be landed, and the names of the person or persons to whom the same are consigned; and also unless a bond be first entered into to the use "of the king's majesty, his heirs and successors, by two good and "sufficient persons, in treble the value of the said goods so in"tended to be carried coastwise, that the same shall (the danger "of the seas excepted) be landed accordingly, which said bond "shall be executed by the owner or owners of the said goods, or some person or persons by him, her, or them appointed to "execute the same, and which execution shall be deemed to be "the act of such owner or owners, or shipper or shippers "thereof; which said shipper or shippers, if acting as agent, or having sold such goods to any person or persons, shall and may sue for and recover, of and from the proprietor or proprie"tors of the goods so shipped, all such sum and sums of money as such shipper or shippers shall or may pay, expend, or be "put unto without their wilful default or negligence, for or by "reason of his, her, or their entering into such bond or bonds: "and in case any such bond or bonds shall be so entered into for any wool, or any other the last herein-before enumerated "articles, being the property of different persons, then such owner or owners, or person or persons for whose account such "bond was so entered into, shall be accountable for his, her, or "their share of the money so expended, in proportion to the 66 66 66 66 66 "amount 66 " amount of such goods so shipped; and also unless a license be "first taken out under the hands of the commissioners or chief managers of the customs for the time being, or any three of "them, or from the customer, or collector and comptroller of the "customs where any such bond is given, for the lading, carrying, "and landing thereof as aforesaid, which license they are hereby "required to grant without any fee or reward, or any other charge to the person demanding the same, any law, statute, or 66 66 66 66 be carried coastwise, ac usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and if any If wool, &c. be wool, or other of the said last-mentioned goods, shall be car- not shipped to ried or laden on board any ship, vessel, bottom, or boat, in "order to be carried coastwise, or from one port to another, be- cording to this "fore such bond shall be entered into, and such license taken act, to be forfeited, with the "out as aforesaid, and before all the directions in this act made vessel. "to prevent the exportation thereof shall be fully and duly complied with, then all such wool, and other such last-mentioned "articles, and which are hereby prohibited from being exported, "or the value thereof, shall be forfeited, together with the ship, "vessel, bottom, or boat, in which such goods shall be so laden " or put on board, and all the guns, ammunition, tackle, apparel, "and furniture, of or belonging to such ship, vessel, bottom, or "boat, for the benefit of the person or persons first informing "thereof." be carried from one part to another of the lochs, or from islands to the mainland, in + Sect. 39. By 28 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 35. " And whereas in that Wool, &c. may part of Great Britain called Scotland, there are a great many lochs or inlets of the sea, to and upon which it may be unavoidably necessary to carry wool, and other the said enumerated articles, from one part of the coast of such lochs or inlets to another part of the coasts of the same lochs or inlets, respectively, Scotland, but on board boats or other vessels; and that there are also, adjacent not to sea, exto the coasts of Scotland, a great many islands from whence cept under the wool, the produce of the said islands, must necessarily be brought this act. regulations of to the mainland of Scotland, or be carried from such mainland to the said islands, by boats or other vessels:" it is therefore enacted, "That the carrying, shipping, or landing of wool, and "other the said enumerated articles, to such intent or purposes "aforesaid, only to or in such lochs or inlets, or from such islands "to the mainland of Scotland, or from such mainland to such "islands, shall not be deemed or taken to be carrying, shipping, "or landing of wool, or other the said articles, for the purpose "of carrying the same coastwise; nor shall the carrying, shipping, or landing of such wool, or other the said herein-before enumerated articles, to or in such lochs or inlets, or from such "islands to the mainland of Scotland, or from such mainland to "such islands, for such intent or purposes as aforesaid only, be subject or liable to the restrictions or regulations herein contained, respecting the carrying, shipping, and landing of wool, " and other the said articles intended to be carried coastwise, any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise not"withstanding provided nevertheless, that nothing herein con"tained shall authorize the carrying such wool, or any other the "said articles, to open sea, same as aforesaid, but under such 66 66 66 66 "restrictions Customer at the port of shipping not sending proper notice to the officer at the port for which wool, &c. is feit 10l. "restrictions and regulations as are herein for that purpose mentioned and expressed." 66 66 66 + Sect. 40. By 28 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 36. it is further enacted, "That when any wool, woolfels, mortlings, shortlings, combed "wool, woolflocks, woollen or bay yarn, worsted yarn, cruels, or "wool slightly manufactured, shall be shipped to be carried "coastwise under the authority of this act, the customer, or col"lector and comptroller of his majesty's customs at the port shipped, to for- "from whence such goods shall have been shipped, shall, ́immediately on the clearance of such ship at such port, transmit a notice in writing, setting forth the quantity, quality, and package of such wool, or other the said last-mentioned articles, together with the marks and numbers thereof, with the name "of the ship in which the same shall be shipped, and of the "master or commander thereof, to the customer, or collector and comptroller of the port to which such wool, and other the said "last-mentioned articles, are intended to be conveyed, under the penalty of ten pounds, to be paid by the officer neglecting to "transmit such notice, which said penalty shall be paid to the person who shall inform against such officer; and that the "bonds herein-before directed to be entered into on the shipping "of the said wool, and other the said last-mentioned articles, the port of land-shall not be discharged until a certificate, under the hand and ing; which he "seal of the customer, or collector and comptroller of the port or place in Great Britain where the same were landed, expressing the quantity, quality, and package, marks, numbers, name of the ship and master, out of which such wool, and "other the said last-mentioned articles, were landed, shall be "produced to and left with the person or persons in whose pos"session such bond shall be kept, at the custom house of the Bonds given on shipping wool, &c. to be discharged by a certificate from the officer at is to transmit to Certificate of landing to be given the master of the vessel. Bonds not discharged in six months to be sent to the com missioners of customs. 66 66 66 port from whence the said wool, and other the said last-men"tioned articles, were shipped, and which certificate the said customer, or collector and comptroller of the said port at which "such wool, and other the said last-mentioned articles, shall be "landed, is hereby required to transmit to the customer, col"lector and comptroller at the port from whence the same were shipped, within the space of seven days next after the landing "thereof, under the penalty of ten pounds, to be paid by the "officer neglecting to transmit such certificate to the person or persons who shall inform against such officer; and the said "customer, or collector and comptroller at the port at which such wool, or other the said last-mentioned articles, shall be "landed, shall also grant and deliver another certificate of such landing to the masters or commanders of the ship or vessel "from which the same shall be landed, without fee or reward, "when the same shall be requested; and that all such bonds as "shall remain undischarged by such certificate for the space of "six calendar months, shall be transmitted to the commissioners "of the customs at London, who are hereby required to put "them in suit immediately; and if the wool, or other the said articles mentioned in such notices, shall not be landed at the "port to which the same were consigned within a reasonable 66 to be sent to the "time for that purpose, then the customer, or collector and comp- Notice of wool "troller at the port to which the same were licensed to be sent, not landed in a "shall transmit a notice thereof to the customer, or collector and reasonable time 'comptroller at the port from whence such wool or other ar- officer at the "ticles were shipped, in order that proper inquiry may be imme- port of shipping, diately made in what manner the same have been disposed of who is to inquire "or delivered, and which inquiry the said customer, or collector disposed of. "and comptroller, is and are hereby required to make without delay." 66 how it has been Sect. 41. By 28 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 37. it is further enacted, Wool, &c. "That no wool or any other the said herein-before enumerated shipped for "woollen or worsted articles, fullers earth, fulling clay, or to- parts beyond "bacco-pipe clay, shall be put on board any ship, vessel, or forfeited, and "boat, bound to parts beyond the seas, on any pretence whatso- the vessels. "ever, under the penalty of forfeiture, for the benefit of the per66 son or persons who shall inform thereof, of all such goods, and "also of such ship, vessel, bottom, or boat, on which such goods Masters to be "shall be so laden or put on board, and all the guns, ammuni- subject to the "tion, tackle, apparel, and furniture belonging to such ship, penalties, ex"vessel, bottom, or boat; and moreover the master or com"mander of such ship or vessel, bottom, or boat, shall in such "case be deemed the exporter thereof, and shall be subject and "liable to the pains and penalties in such case made and pro 66 vided, unless such master or commander shall and do, imme"diately upon his being apprehended, discover and make known "the person or persons who actually shipped such goods, and "enter into a recognizance with two sufficient sureties, before some justice of the peace for the county, city, borough, or "place, in or at which such last-mentioned goods shall be discovered, to prosecute and give evidence against such shipper SO that he may be convicted thereof." 66 66 66 66 cept they discover the ship pers. any illicit trans Sect. 42. By 28 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 38. it is provided, "That Masters of ves"nothing in the above exception contained shall extend to the sels not regu"masters or commanders of ships or vessels not regularly clear- larly cleared out to foreign parts, "ing out to foreign parts, but that if any wool, or other the said as well as all on "last-mentioned goods, shall be discovered on board any such board privy to ship or vessel, and where no such clearance can be exhibited, action, to be "then, and in such case the master or commander of such ship liable to the or vessel shall be deemed the shipper of such goods, and such same penalties "master or commander, and also all and every person and peras exporters of wool. "sons on board any such ship or vessel, knowing of any such "illicit transaction, shall be liable to the pains and penalties "herein-before enacted against the exporters of wool: provided also, that in case any person or persons on board any ship not regularly cleared out to foreign parts, other than the master or "commander thereof, shall, immediately on his or their being "apprehended, give information, so that such master or com"mander may be convicted, or the ship or vessel condemned, 66 66 66 every such person and persons so informing shall not be liable Informers to be "to any pains and penalties to which he or they might otherwise entitled to 40l. “be liable, and shall also be entitled to a reward of forty pounds, "which reward shall be paid to such informer or informers by "the Masters of vessels or drivers of carts, &c. exempted from punishment, if it is proved ness of the they were not privy to wool, &c. being in their vessels, &c. "the commissioners of his majesty's customs immediately after "such conviction." 66 66 66 Sect. 43. By 28 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 39. it is also provided, "That nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be con"strued to extend, to prevent evidence from being received, in any suit or information brought for the forfeiture of any vessel "bound coastwise, or to foreign parts, which shall have been from the small-regularly cleared out, and also the guns, ammunition, tackle, quantity that apparel, and furniture thereto belonging, for or on account of any wool, or any other the said herein-before enumerated ar"ticles, and which are hereby prohibited from being exported, "which shall be found or discovered on board any such vessel so regularly cleared out, or for the forfeiture of any other ship or "vessel, other than such as shall not have been regularly cleared "out, or for the forfeiture of any waggon, cart, carriage, horses, "or other beasts of burthen, wherein or whereupon any wool, or cr any other the said herein-before enumerated articles, shall be "laid, or which shall be carrying or conveying the same, or in "any prosecution which shall be brought against the master or "commander of such vessel, owner, or driver of such waggon, "cart, carriage, horse, or other beast of burthen, in order to shew, from the smallness of the quantity of the said wool, or "other the said articles, that the same were on board such ves"sel, or within such waggon, cart, or carriage, or upon such "horse or beast of burthen, without the knowledge and privity "of the owner, or of the master or other person having the 66 charge or command of such vessel, or the care of such waggon, "cart, carriage, horse, or other beast of burthen, and without any any wilful neglect, or want of reasonable care in the discharge "of the duty of such owner, master, or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, or the care of such "waggon, cart, carriage, horse, or other beast of burthen; and "in every such case where proof shall be made, from the small"ness of the quantity of wool, or other the said articles, and "other circumstances, that such small quantity was on board “such vessel, or within such waggon, cart, or carriage, or upon "such horse or beast of burthen, without the knowledge, privity or consent either of the owner, or the master or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, or the care of such waggon, cart, carriage, horse, or other beast "of burthen, and without any wilful neglect, or want of reason"able care, either in the owner, or in the master or other per"son having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, or "the care of such waggon, cart, carriage, horse, or other beast "of burthen, then, and in every such case, such owner, master, or commander, or crew on board such ship or vessel, person or persons, shall not be punished, nor shall such ship or "vessel, ammunition, tackle, apparel, or furniture belonging thereto, or such waggon, cart, or other carriage, horse, or other "beast of burthen, be forfeited, for or on account of such small quantity of wool, or other the said herein-before enumerated "articles, having been found or discovered on board of such 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 |