delivered to the proper officers, and they thall be thereupon desmed to be inlifted. and fuch man or men fhall thereupon be deemed and taken to be inlifted, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and shall and may be proceeded against as if he or they had taken the said oath according to the faid articles of war; and the faid juftices shall also forthwith caufe an entry or memorial to be made, in a book or books to be kept by them, or by the clerks of the An entry to peace of the county or place, for that purpofe, of the names of be made of the the men fo delivered as aforefaid, the ages, parishes, and places names, ages, of their last abode, if they can be known, and of the time and and places of abode, &c. of place when and where fuch men were delivered to the said offithe men to de- cers or perfons appointed to receive them, and the names of the livered, and officers or perfons who received them, and for what regiment or company, or fhip, they were fo received; and fhall caufe true copies or duplicates of fuch entries attefted by the faid juftices or the clerk of the peace, within forty days after the delivering fuch men as aforefaid, to be tranfmitted into the office of the secretary at war, or into the office of the commiffioners for executing the office of lord high admiral. of the names of the officers who received them, &c. difabled by Perfons adXVII. And, for the more effectually preventing any frauds or judged to serve abuses that may be practifed in the discharging of fuch persons, his Majefty oy be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That no perfon virtue of this who fhall be ordered and adjudged to ferve his Majefty as folact, (unless dier or as a failor, by virtue of this act, and fhall have been apaccident, &c.) proved of as aforefaid, fhall, on any account, during the term. of five years, unless disabled within that time by unavoidable accident or bodily infirmity, be difcharged from his Majesty's fervice; and any officer of his Majefty's land forces, marines, or fea fervice, who fhall prefume, knowingly and wilfully, to dif charge any perfon fo raifed, levied, and delivered over, as aforefaid, contrary to this act, or fhall, by falfe mufer or certificate, or in confideration of a gratuity of any kind, or by any other collufive or evafive ways or means whatsoever, fuffer or permit any fuch perfon to avoid the actual fervice hereby intended, every fuch officer fhall, for fuch offence, be cashiered. fhall not be discharged within five years, nor fuffered to avoid actual fervice. Officers of fending here in to be caThiered. 1779, every druggift, grocer, or Cocoa nuts, or make or XVIII. And, for the better preventing the clandeftine fale and After Aug. 1. difpofal of coffee, tea, cocoa-nuts, chocolate, foreign brandy, or other foreign fpirituous liquors, whereby the illegal importation and running of such goods is greatly encouraged, and that inOther Perfon, nocent perfons may not unwarily be rendered liable to penalties, who fhall fell be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That, from and coffee, tea, or after the first day of August, one thousand feven hundred and seventy-nine, every druggift, grocer, chandler, coffee-house keeper, fell chocolate, chocolate-houfe keeper, and all and every other person or perhall cause to fons, who fhall be a feller of, or dealer in, coffee, tea, cocoabe painted over the door nuts, or of any or either of them, or fhall be a maker or feller of chocolate, fhall caufe to be painted or written in large legible &c. the words characters over the door of each and every shop, coffee-house, dealer in cof- chocolate-house, and other place, by him, her, or them refpecfee, tea, &c. on penalty of tively made ufe of for the keeping coffee, tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, the words dealer in coffee, tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, of his shop, 2004 as the cafe may be, upon pain of forfeiting the fum of two hundred hundred pounds for every fhop, coffee-house, chocolate-houfe, or place, which, from and after the faid first day of Auguft, one thousand seven hundred and feventy-nine, fhall be fo made ufe of by any fuch druggift, grocer, chandler, coffee-houfe keeper, chocolate-houfe keeper, or any other perfon or perfons, who shall be a feller or dealer as aforefaid refpectively, without having the faid words painted or written thereon as aforefaid: And that, from and after the said first day of August, one thousand severi And every hundred and feventy-nine, all and every importer for fale; of importer for dealer in foreign brandy, arrack, rum, fpirits, or other foreign in foreign fplfale, or dealer strong waters, who fhall fell the fame, either by wholefale or rituous liretail, fhall cause to be painted or written in large legible charac- quors, fall ters, over the outer door, or in the front, or on fome confpicu- caufe to be ous part of each and every houfe, fhop, warehouse, ftorehoufe, painted over cellar, vault, and other places by him, her, or them refpectively, door, or in made use of for the keeping of foreign brandy, or other foreign the front of fpirituous liquors, the words importer of, or dealer in, foreign his houfe, &c. Spirituous liquors, upon pain of forfeiting, for every fuch fhops importer of, warehouse, ftorehoufe, cellar, vault, or other place, which, from or dealer in, and after the said first day of August, one thousand seven hun- foreign spiri dred and feventy-nine, fhall be fo made ufe of by any fuch im- tuous liquors, porter, feller, or dealer respectively, without having the faid on penalty or words painted or written as is hereby directed, the fum of fifty pounds. the outer the words 50% dealer in tea, of the faid 3 XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Additional That if any dealer or dealers in tea, coffee, cocoa-nuts, or cho- penalty of colate, fhall buy or procure, or employ any person to buy for 1001. on every him, her, or them, or for his, her, or their ufe, any tea, coffee, coffee, cocoacocoa-nuts, or chocolate, of any other perfon or perfons than of nuts, or cho a dealer in fuch commodities, over the door of whofe thop, colate, and coffee-house, chocolate-houfe, and other place by him, her, or on every dealthem respectively made ufe of for the keeping of coffee, tea, co- fpirituous er in foreign licoa-nuts, or chocolate, fhall be painted or written, as aforefaid, quors, refpec. the words dealer in coffee, tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, as the cafe tively, who shall be, every fuch dealer so offending fhall forfeit and lofe, for fhall buy any every fuch offence, the fum of one hundred pounds, over and above all former penalties; and if any importer or dealer in quors of any goods or liforeign fpirituous liquors fhall buy or procure, or employ any perfon not perfon to buy for him, her, or them, or for his, her, or their having the ufe any foreign fpirituous liquors of any other perfon than of an faid painted importer or dealer, over the door of whofe fhop, warehouse, over the door storehouse, cellar, vault, and other place, by him, her, or them of his hop, refpectively, made ufe of for the keeping of foreign brandy, and &c. other foreign fpirituous liquors, thall be written or painted, as aforefaid, the words importer of, or dealer in, foreign fpirituous liquors; every fuch importer or dealer fo offending thall forfeit, for every fuch offence, the fum of one hundred pounds, over and above all former penalties. words afore XX. Provided always, That no fuch dealer in coffee, tea, Certain cafes cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, fhall be fubject to the faid penalties of enumerated one hundred pounds for or by reafon of any purchafe or ther the dealtransfer ers in coffee. in which nei tea, cocoa nuts, chocolate, nor the dealers ว transfer of any tea, coffee, cocoa-nuts, whilft the fame fhall remain in the refpective warehouses wherein the fame fhall be lodged and put, according to the directions of an act, made in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majefty king George the first; nor by reason of any purchase of any tea, coffee, or cocoanuts, or chocolate, at any fale or fales made by the direction of the East India company, or of the commiffioners of customs or excise respectively; or at any fale made of any tea, coffee, or cocoa-nuts, fold for the benefit of the infurers or proprietors thereof, and which may be fold free of duty to defray the charges of falvage; nor by reafon of any firft purchase of any prize teas: nor fhall any fuch dealer in foreign fpirituous liquors be fubject in foreign fpirituous lito the faid penalty of one hundred pounds by reafon of the purquors, fhall be chafe of any foreign fpirituous liquors, whilft the fame remain on fubject to the board the ships in which the fame were lawfully imported, or faid penalty of on the quays upon which they fhall have been lawfully landed; 100! nor to the purchase of any rum whilft the fame remains in any warehouse wherein the fame fhall have been put, according to the directions of the act of the fifteenth and fixteenth years of the reign of his late majefty King George the fecond; nor to the purchase of any arrack whilft the fame remains in the warehouses of the united company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies; nor to the purchase of any prize foreign fpirituous liquors; nor to the purchafe of any foreign fpirituous liquors fold for the benefit of the infurers or proprietors thereof, and which may be fold free of duty to defray the charges of falvage; any thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithftanding. Penalty on perfons, not having made proper entries at the excise office, who fhall paint over their doors, &c. the words afore-mentioned. XXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if, at any time after the faid first day of August, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-nine, any perfon or perfons what foever, other than fuch as thall have duly made entry, at the proper offices of excife, of the places by them refpectively made use of for keeping of coffee, tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, or for the keeping of foreign brandy, or foreign fpirituous liquors, fhall paint or write, or caufe to be painted or written, over the door or in the front of any place to them refpectively belonging, the words dealer in coffee, tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, as the cafe fhall be, or the words importer of, or dealer in fpirituous liquors every person and perfons refpectively offending therein, fhall forfeit and lofe the fum of fifty pounds, and shall also be fubject to the several penalties and forfeitures to which perfons felling of, or dealing in, coffee, tea, cocoa-nuts, chocolate, or foreign fpirituous liquors, without entry, are now fubject unto. If any perfon, if XXII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, not being fuch That if any perfon whatfoever, not being fuch importer or dealimporter or dealer as a- er, as aforesaid, shall buy or procure, or employ any other to buy forefaid, fhall for him or her, any tea, coffee, cocoa-nuts, chocolate, foreign buy any tea, brandy, or any other foreign fpirituous liquors, (fave and excoffee, &c. or foreign fpiri- cept at fuch fales, and in fuch manner as is herein-before provided tuous liquors, and excepted) of any other perfon or perfons than of fuch perfon or (except as be perfons he fhall forfeit persons respectively over whofe door, or in the front, or on fore except- fhall within be indemni- XXIII. And whereas by an act, made in the nineteenth year of penalties for the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An his own efact for the further punishment of perfons going armed or dif- fence. guised in defiance of the laws of customs or excife; and for in- Recital of an demnifying offenders against thofe laws upon the terms in this act 19 Geo. 5, act mentioned; and for the relief of officers of the cuftoms in informations upon feizures; and which faid act was to continue in force for the space of feven years, and from thence to the end of the next feffion of parliament; and which, by feveral fubfequent ftatutes, of the twenty-fixth and thirty-fecond years of the reign of his faid late Majesty, and the fourth, eleventh, and eighteenth years of the reign of his prefent Majefty, was further continued until the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-five, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament ; perfons charged with being guilty of offences in the faid act mentioned and prefcribed, were required to furrender themfelves within a time limited by the faid act, and that on neglect or refusal of surrender, Such perfons were to be adjudged, deemed, and taken to be convicted and attainted of felony: and whereas doubts have arifen whether the methods and orders in the faid act directed and prescribed, relative to the apprehending and harbouring the offenders therein mentioned, or for caufing fuch offenders to furrender, are or were re-enacted and continued by the faid feveral acts: now, to put an end to fuch doubts, be it enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid, All the rules, That all and every the methods, orders, directions, rules, pro- penalties, and clamations, penalties, punishments, rewards, matters, and rewards, in things, provided, ordered, fettled, directed, impofed, given and the recited act required, by the faid act of the nineteenth year of the reign of his contained, refaid late majefty, relative to the furrender, proclaiming, appre- furrender, and hending, harbouring, and punishing fuch offenders, was, were, harbouring, and are continued and re-enacted by the faid feveral acts, made &c. of the of in fenders there. lative to the in mentioned, in the twenty-fixth and thirty-fecond years of the reign of his are continued faid late Majefty, and in the fourth, eleventh, and eighteenth by the several acts made for years of the reign of his prefent Majefty, and the fame may be continuing the lawfully exercifed, practifed, applied, ufed, and, imposed, in regard to all and every perfon and perfons that offend, or thall faid recited act. All foreign thread lace, to be marked in future offend, against the faid act of the nineteenth year of his faid late Majesty. XXIV. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all foreign thread lace which, from and after imported after the first day of August, one thousand feven hundred and feventyAug. 1, 1779, nine fhall be imported into this kingdom, fhall, after the fame at each end of hath been entered at the custom-houfe, and before it shall be every piece. difcharged by the officers, and delivered into the cuftody of the importer, or his agent, be marked or sealed at each end of every piece, with fuch mark or feal, and by fuch officer or officers, as the refpective commiffioners of the customs in Great Britain fhall direct and appoint for that purpose. the fame to the nearest custom-houfe, and have it marked, on making oath that the im. port duties were paid, &c, All perfons XXV. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforepoffeffed of fo- faid, That if any perfon or perfons, having in his, her, or their reign thread custody or poffeffion, in any part of this kingdom, for fale, and lace may, on or before Feb. any foreign thread lace fo directed to be marked or fealed as 1, 1780, bring aforefaid, fhall, on or before the first day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, bring or cause such lace to be brought to the custom-house for the port nearest to the place where fuch lace fhall be, and fhall make proof on oath before the collector and comptroller, or other principal officer of the cuftoms at fuch port, (which oath fuch collector and comptroller, or other officer, is and are hereby required to adminifter without fee or reward), that the legal duties due and payable to his Majefty were paid upon the importation of fuch lace, if the fame was imported by him, her, or them, or that fuch lace was purchafed by fuch perfon or perfons (having poffeffion thereof) in a legal fair way of trade, and that he, she, or they, verily believe the legal duties due and payable to his Majesty have been duly paid for the fame, mentioning the time when, and the port where, fuch lace was imported, or the time when, and of whom, fuch lace was purchafed, as the cafe may be, fuch lace fhall be thereupon, without fee or reward, inarked or fealed at each end of every piece with fuch mark or feal, and by fuch officer or officers, as the refpective commiffioners of the cuftoms in Great Britain, or any three or more of them, shall direct and appoint for that purpose. Perfons intending to export fuch lace, to give notice to proper officer, XXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That, from and after the said first day of August, one thousand feven hundred and feventy-nine, every perfon intending to export any fuch foreign thread lace which fhall have been marked or fealed pursuant to the directions of this act, fhall, before fuch lace is shipped in order to be exported, give notice to the proper officer or officers, to be appointed for that purpose by the respective commiffioners of the customs in Great Britain, when and where he will pack up the fame in order to be exported; and |