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Boats with double Bottoms or double Sides found within certain Distances, forfeited.
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VIII. ‘And Whereas a Practice has prevailed of building Boats with double Bottoms or double Sides, whereby customable or prohibited Goods may be concealed and run into this Country; and in order to prevent such illicit Practices being carried into execution, it is expedient that such Boats, if found within certain Distances, should be forfeited;’ Be it therefore enacted, That if any Boat whatever, having a double Bottom or double Side or Sides, shall be found within the Limits of any of the Ports of this Kingdom, or shall be discovered to have been within the said Limits; or if any Boat, having a double Bottom or double Side or Sides, belonging wholly or in part to His Majesty’s Subjects, or whereof One Half of the Persons on board shall be Subjects of His Majesty, shall be found in any Part of the British or Irish Channels, or elsewhere on the High Seas, within One hundred Leagues of any Part of the Coasts of Great Britain or Ireland, or shall be discovered to have been within the said Limits; every such Boat, together with all her Materials, shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized by any Officer or Officers of His Majesty’s Navy or Marines, or of the Customs or Excise.
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