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Ballast office lighters shall not carry goods,
Penalty treble value ot the portage to discoverer.
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XVI. And to the end that the said lighters, boats, and gabbarts, to be employed by the said ballast-office, may give good attendance to the service of the said offices; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no lighter or lighters, boat or boats, gabbart or gabbarts, taken into the service of any of the said ballast-offices, shall at any time carry any goods, wares, or merchandizes of any fort, to or from any ship or ships in any of the said harbours or ports on pain of forfeiting of treble the value of the gabbarage or portage of such goods or merchandizes to the party that shall discover the same; to be recovered in a summary way before the chief magistrate of such of the said city or towns, in the port whereof the said offence shall be committed.
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