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Penalty for giving more than one shipping notice for the same goods exported and for claiming drawback more than once, &c.
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16. If any person who shall have given notice of his intention to ship any goods or commodities for exportation on drawback shall give another such notice in respect of the same goods or commodities, or shall claim the drawback upon the same goods and commodities more than once, or shall pass any account or do any act for the purpose of obtaining any further or greater amount of drawback upon any such goods or commodities than the drawback payable by law thereon, or whereby or by means or colour whereof any such further or greater amount of drawback than as aforesaid may be obtained or claimed, he shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of one hundred pounds, and treble the amount of the drawback unlawfully obtained or claimed, or which might be obtained or claimed by means or under colour of any such unlawful act as aforesaid.
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