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Revenue officers shall not clear outwards, without discharge from ballast-master of all said duties:
Ballast-master delaying discharge, Penalty 40 s. before chief magistrate.
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VII. And to the end that the said respective duties hereby made due and payable for ships as aforesaid may be more effectually levyed and paid; be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful to or for the officers of his Majesty’s revenue, or any of them, in the said ports, or any of them, to clear or discharge any ship or ships outward bound, or to permit any ship or ships outward bound to sail, or to permit any ship or ships above the burthen of thirty tuns, to be measured as aforesaid, to sail coast-ways, until the commander or master of such ship or ships shall have brought a discharge from the master of the ballast-office or his deputy, testifying such ship or ships to have paid and cleared their ballast money in case they took in ballast, and likewise all and fingular the duties hereby as aforesaid imposed; which discharge shall be immediately granted without fee or reward, fraud or delay; and in case of refusal or delay then the master of the ballast-office or his deputy so refusing or delaying shall forfeit forty shillings for every such refusal or delay to the master of such ship, to be recovered in a summary way before the chief magistrate of such of the said city or towns, where the same shall happen, to be levyed by distress by warrant under the hand and seal of such chief magistrate, and by sale of the goods and chattels of the master of the said office.
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