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Commissioners of Customs in England may grant their Deputation to Persons in the British Colonies in America and the West Indies, authorising them to make Seizures when Goods and Vessels are liable to Seizures.
Such Seizures to be prosecuted as if made by Officers of the Customs.
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XI. ‘And Whereas it is expedient, for the more effectual Execution of the Laws now in force, or hereafter to be made, for the Benefit of Shipping and Navigation, and of His Majesty’s Revenue of Customs, and for the Suppression of Smuggling in the Colonies or Plantations in America or the West Indies, which now are or hereafter may be under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, that the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in that Part of the United Kingdom called England, should be empowered to grant their Deputations to any Person or Persons they may think fit, in the said Colonies or Plantations (although such Person or Persons may not hold or be appointed to any specific Office under the said Revenues), authorising him or them to make Seizures of any Ship, Vessel, Boat, Carriage, Horses, or other Cattle or Goods which may be subject to Forfeiture under any Law or Laws relating to the Shipping and Navigation of this Kingdom, or the said Colonies or Plantations, or to the Revenue of Customs, now in force, or hereafter to be made, in like manner as if such Person or Persons held or had been appointed to a specific Office or Offices under the said Revenue;’ Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in that Part of the United Kingdom called England, or any Three or more of them, to grant their Deputation to any Person or Persons they may think fit, in the Colonies or Plantations in America or the West Indies, which now are or hereafter may be under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors (although such Person or Persons may not hold or be appointed to any specific Office or Offices under the said Revenue), authorising him or them to make Seizures of any Ship, Vessel, Boat, Carriage, Horses or other Cattle or Goods which may be subject to Forfeiture under any Law or Laws relating to the Shipping and Navigation of this Kingdom, or the said Colonies or Plantations, or to the Revenue of Customs, now in force or hereafter to be made (although such Person or Persons shall not hold or be appointed to any Office or Offices of the Customs at any specific Port or Place), and such Person or Persons so deputed shall and may make Seizures in like manner as any Officer or Officers of the Customs, and such Person or Persons so deputed shall be subject to the like Penalties as Officers of the Customs; and all Seizures made by such Persons so deputed, shall be sued for, prosecuted and recovered by the like Means, Ways and Methods, and shall and may be disposed of, and the Proceeds distributed in like manner, as any Seizure made by Officers of the Customs in His Majesty’s Colonies or Plantations in America or the West Indies, may by any Law now in force or hereafter to be made be sued for, prosecuted, recovered and applied.
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