Also every vessel with all her tackle, in which any cattle, beef, or the like shall be imported, and out of which they shall be put on shore, shall be forfeited: and it shall be lawful for any person, within one year after such importation, to seize the vessel, and make sale thereof to the best advantage; and one half of the monies shall be to the use of the poor of the parish where the same shall be seized, the other half to his use that shall seize the same and it shall be lawful for any justice of peace of the county, or chief officer of the port town where such importation shall be, or where any of the cattle, beef, or the like, so imported, shall be brought, by warrant to cause to be apprehended all the masters and seamen, having charge of, or belonging to, such vessel, and every other person employed in the landing, or taking care of the said cattle, beef, and the like, and them to commit to the common gaol for three months. S. 5.

And as often as it shall happen, that any cattle, beef, or the like, after the first seizure, shall be found in any other parish or place, it shall be lawful for the constable, or like officer, of such other parish or place, to seize and dispose of the same as forfeited, the one moiety to the use of the poor of such other parish, the other to the use of such officer who shall seize the same; any former seizure in any other place notwithstanding. s.6. And if any persons shall wilfully and fraudulently agree to evade the forfeitures upon the importation of the cattle or goods in this act specified, and the same shall put in execution; every such person being thereof indicted or presented within one year after such offence, and being convicted, shall incur the pains contained in the statute of præmunire. 16 Rich. 2. c. 5. s. 10.

By 32 Car. 2. c. 2. s. 3, any person may seize cattle and goods imported contrary to 18 Car. 2. c. 2.

And every seizor of such cattle, sheep, or swine, shall within six days after conviction cause the same to be killed; and the hides and tallow shall be to the use of the seizor, and the remainder shall be distributed amongst the poor of the parish, by the churchwardens and overseers, upon notice to be given them by the seizor. s. 5.

And in case the seizor or the churchwardens and overseers shall fail in their duties in the execution of this act; every of them shall forfeit 40s. for every one of the great cattle, and 10s. for every sheep or swine; onc moiety to the poor of the parish, and the other to the informer, to be levied by distress and sale of goods by warrant of a justice of peace where the offence shall be committed, upon confession of the party, view of the justice, or oath of one witness: and for want of distress the offenders to be committed to the common gaol for three months without bail. s. 6.

Likewise no mutton or lamb shall be imported, subject to the like seizures and penalties as are appointed against importation of beef, pork, or bacon. s. 8.

If any great cattle, sheep, or swine, shall be seized in pur, suance of this or the aforesaid act, and afterwards shall be removed into and found alive in any other parish or place; the same shall be liable to like seizure, and the seizor and poor of the place have like benefit, and the proof be incumbent upon the owner, as if such cattle had never before been seized, s. 10.

Embroidery.

By 13 & 14 Cur. 2. c. 13, no person shall sell or offer to sale or export any foreign bone-lace, cut-work, embroidery, fringe, band-strings, buttons, or needle-work made of thread or silk, beyond the seas, or import any such foreign bone-lace, &c. upon pain that every person who shall sell such foreign bone-lace, &c. shall forfeit 50l. and the whole bone-lace, &c. so sold, or offered to sale: and upon pain that every person shall import any such bone-lace, &c. shall forfeit 100%. and the whole bone-lace, &c. so imported; one moiety of which forfeitures to be to the king, and the other moiety to him that shall sue for the same. s. 2.

And upon complaint to any of the justices of peace at times reasonable, they are required to issue their warrants to the constables to search for such manufactures in shops being open or ware-houses and dwelling houses of such persons as shall be suspected to have any such foreign bone-laces, &c. and to seize the same. s. 3.

All suits for any offence against this law, shall be brought within twelve months after the discovery of such offence.

S. 4.

And by 7 Geo. 3. c. 47, no foreign lace made of silk or thread, or foreign needle work, seized and condemned, shall be sold or delivered out of any custom-house, warehouse wherein secured, otherwise than on condition to be exported under the like securities as are prescribed for the due exportation of East India goods prohibited to be worn or used in Great Britain. s. 9.

But by 5 Ann. c. 17. s. 1, the 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 13, and all other acts which restrain the importation of selling of forreign lace, are repealed, so far as they relate to lace made of thread in the Spanish Low Countries, or in any other place not within the dominions of the French king.

And by 27 Geo. 3. c. 13. s. 22, thread and bone-lace may be imported from the European dominions of the French king.

lace to be

And all thread lace of foreign manufacture shall, after en. Foreign thread tered at the custom house, and before delivered into the cus- marked. tody of the importer be marked at one end of every piece, with such mark and by such officer as the commissioners shall direct, and such officer shall in his own hand writing together with

such mark also signify what is the number of yards in such Not to be im- piece, and the rate of the duty paid thereon: But no such ported in parthread lace shall be so marked or sealed, nor shall be imported cels containing in a parcel containing a less quantity than twelve yards, unless less than 12 the same shall be of the value of two pounds per yard or upyards, unless of the value of 24, wards, and unless such as shall be brought into Great Britain by any person for his own private use, and not for the use of any other person, nor to be sold as merchandize; and if any one or more pieces of thread lace shall be joined or pieced, the whole shall be forfeited and may be seized. 46 Geo. 3. c. 81.

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S. 3.

And upon oath being made by any credible person that he has reason to suspect or believe that any foreign thread lace, search warrants for which any duty imposed ought to have been paid, is in the on oath being possession of any lace dealer, draper, haberdasher, shopkeeper, there is reason or other person for sale, without having thereupon such mark to suspect that or stamp as is by this act required, it shall be lawful for two jusforeign lace is tices to issue their warrants thereby authorizing any officer of customs, or constable or other officer of the peace in the day time to search for the same, and to open doors, trunks, chests, boxes, and packages, and to seize such lace, with the packages containing the same, and to carry away the same; and all such foreign thread lace so found shall be forfeited, and the party in whose possession the same shall be found shall, for every such offence, forfeit 501. S. 9.

which has not paid the duty.

Foreign thread lace unmarked

Penalties.

And all such thread lace which shall be found in any shop may be seized. Or warehouse, or other place whatever, upon land within Great Britain, not being marked or having the hand-writing as aforesaid, upon one end of every whole piece, or upon one end of every remnant, which remnant shall exceed twelve inches in length, shall be forfeited, and may be seized by any officer of customs; and the persons to whom the same shall belong, or who shall be possessed thereof, shall forfeit 50%.; and if the value shall exceed 50%, then the said person shall forfeit double the value of the lace so found; and upon every second conviction before two justices of the peace for the like offence, the person convicted shall forfeit double the sum forfeited and paid on the first conviction; and for every third conviction, treble, one moiety of the said penalties to his majesty, and the other moiety to such officer of customs as shall prosecute for the same. s. 10.

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And if any doubt shall arise whether it be of foreign manu facture, the proof thereof shall lie on the person in whose possession such foreign thread lace shall be found. s.12.

Also no thread lace of foreign manufacture shall be imported only into Lon- by way of merchandize to be sold into any port but only into gon. the port of London.

For the mode of recovering the penalties, See the remain. ing clauses of this act under title STAMPS article "Lace."

By 19 Geo. 3. c. 69, every person intending to export such

foreign thread lace marked pursuant to this act, shall, before it is shipped, give notice to the proper officer of customs, when and where he will pack up the same; and the commissioners are to cause such officer to take care that such marks be taken off from every piece intended to be exported without fee; and no person shall be intitled to the drawback, unless he give such notice, and until such marks be taken off by the officer. 8. 26.

By 10 Ann. c. 26, no gold or silver thread, lace, fringe, or other work made thereof, shall be imported into Great Britain, upon pain of being forfeited, and upon the penalty of 1007. to be paid by the importer; and one moiety of such forfeitures shall be to the queen, and the other moiety besides costs, to him that will seize or sue for the same. s. 66.

By 15 Geo. 2. c. 20, no gold, or silver, thread, lace, fringe or other work made thereof, or any thread, lace, fringe, or other work made of copper, brass, or any other inferior metal or gold, or silver wire or plate, shall be imported into Great Britain, upon pain of being forfeited and burnt, and also 100, to be paid by the importer, for every parcel.

s. 7.

By 22 Geo. 2. c. 36, no foreign embroidery or gold or silter brocade shall be imported into Great Britain, upon pain of being forfeited and burnt, and upon the further penalty of 100%. to be paid by the importer for each piece imported. s. 1.

Also, no person shall sell or expose to sale, or otherwise dispose of any foreign embroidery, gold or silver thread, lace, fringe, brocade, or any other work made thereof, or of gold or silver wire or plate, wove or manufactured in foreign parts, or sew, work, or make up the same for any wearing apparel; upon pain that all such foreign embroidery, &c. and the garment, or other materials, in, with or upon which the same shall be so sewed or made up, shall be forfeited and burnt; and every person who shall sell, expose to sale, or dispose of, or knowingly sew, work, or make up, or cause to be worked or made up in any garment any such foreign embroidery, &c. shall for every such offence forfeit 100l. s. 2.

All foreign embroidery, &c. seized within this kingdom, whether mixed or made up with any other materials or otherwise, and the apparel upon which the same is made up, shall be forfeited, and after condemnation burnt; and the dealer in,' or vender, or maker up of any of the said manufactures, in whose house or possession the same is found, being convicted shall for each piece of such foreign embroidery, &c. found in his house or possession, and brought or continued there with his knowledge, forfeit 100l. s. 3.

All foreign embroidery, &c. so seized shall, after condemnation, be, together with the garment or other materials with

which the same is mixed or made up, publicly burnt at suck places as the commissioners of customs shall direct. s. 4.

The penalties shall be recovered in any court of record at Westminster, and one moiety shall be to the use of the king, and the other moiety to such person as will sue for the same $. 5.

If any question arise where the said goods were manufac tured, the proof shall lie upon the owner, or person prosecuted. s. 6.

Nothing in this act shall inflict any penalty on the wearer of any foreign embroidery, &c. s. 7.

All suits for any offence against this, or any former act which prohibits the importation or sale of foreign embroidery, &c. shall be brought within twelve calendar months after the dis covery of such offence, and in case of seisure within three months after such seizure. s. 8.

Dyson Qui tam v. Ld. Villiers, Ea. 13 Gen. 3, in a case re served in an action for the penalty of 100%. for bringing in fo. reign embroidery, it was stated, that the defendant, whilst he was in France, had worn an embroidered waistcoat, which was made in France, and that this waistcoat was brought over in his portmanteau, when he came to England.-The question cas, Whether he were liable to the penalty, in 22 Geo. 2, and it was holden, that he was not; for by lord Mansfield Ch. J. the intention of that statute was to prevent the bringing in of foreign embroidery for sale, and not to hinder a gentleman from bringing in his wearing apparel. If the defendant were hable in this case to the penalty, the waistcoat might have been seized in his portmanteau, it might have been taken off his back; the consequence of which would be that any person, even a foreigner, coming from a foreign part, might be stripped naked, as soon as he sets his feet on the British shore. 4 Buc. Abr. 560.

Gloves.

By 6 Geo. 3. c. 19, if any foreign manufactured leather gloves or mills shall be imported into this kingdom, or any part of the British dominions, the same shall be forfeited, and be liable to be searched for and seized by any officer of customis or excise, as other prohibited goods; and every person who shall import the same, or be aiding therein; or being a vender or retailer of any kind of leather gloves or mitts, in whose pos-* session any such foreign manufactured leather gloves or initts shall be found; or who shall sell, or expose to sale, any suchTM leather gloves or mitts; or who shall conceal, with mtent to prevent the forfeiture or seizure; shall over the forfeiture of suck! leather gloves and mitts, for every offence, forfeit 2001 with" double costs: s.1.

If any such leather gloves ör mitts shall be found and seized% in England, out of London and Westminster, and the bills of mortality, and the same shall not exceed in value 204. two jus,