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Clauses in Act 8 Annæ.
and 15 & 16 Geo. 2. c. 31.
Claimant, upon entering his claim, to give fecurity in 6ol. to pay costs;
and a Default thereof, the goods and vessel to be condemned.
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VIII. And whereas by an Act passed in the eighth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne for granting to her Majesty new Duties of Excise, and upon several imported Commodities; and by another Act passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, for further regulating the Plantation Trade, and several other Purposes; It is amongst other Things enacted, That every Person, upon Entry of any Claim in the Court where any prohibited or uncustomed Goods, or any Ship, Vessel or Boat, shall be prosecuted, shall be obliged to give Security, in the Penalty of thirty Pounds, to answer and pay the Costs occasioned by such Claim; and in Default of giving such Security within the Time limited by the Course of that Court for entering such Claim, such Goods, Ships, Vessels or Boats shall be recovered: And whereas many Persons have, from the Smallness of the Penalty, been induced to enter groundless Claims in fictitious Names, with a View to put the Officers of the Revenue to vexatious Trouble and Delay, as well as to deter them from prosecuting Seizures legally made, by putting them to an extraordinary Expence, often times more than the Value of the Goods seized, which tends very much to the Prejudice of the publick Revenue, and to the Discouragement of the Officers thereof in the Execution of their Duty :’ To remedy therefore this Inconvenience for the future, Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the first Day of May one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, every Person, upon Entry of any Claim in the Court where any Goods, Ships, Vessels or Boats, shall be prosecuted, shall be obliged to give Security, in the Penalty of sixty Pounds, to answer and pay the Costs occasioned by such Claim; and in Default of giving such Security within the Time limited by the Course of that Court for entering Claims, such Goods, Ships, Vessels or Boats, shall be adjudged to be forfeited, and shall be condemned; any Thing in the before recited Acts, or any other Acts of Parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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