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WARRANT-continued.

-Special, or Capias, granted to Persons named by the Solicitor of the Customs

Sheriff not responsible

of King's Bench to apprehend Persons charged
with the Offences

WRIT of Assistance to search for smuggled Goods
of Delivery may issue in case of Delay to pro-

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against Officer not to issue until after One
Month's Notice

of Capias may issue against Persons sued for
smuggling

WITNESSES, Officers, although interested in Event of
Trial, deemed competent

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ANNO SEXTO

GEORGII IV. REGIS.

CA P. CVIII.

An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling.

[5th July 1825.]

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session

of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 6 G. 4. c. 105. Laws relating to the Customs; in which it is declared that the Laws of the Customs have become very intricate, by reason of the great Number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long Series of Years; and that it is therefore highly expedient, for the Interests of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be required to act in Obedience to those Laws or in Execution of them, that all the Laws relating to Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which those Laws have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments in more compendious Form, and commencing at one and the same Time: And whereas by the said Act all the Laws relating to Smuggling will be repealed: And whereas other Laws relating to the Customs have been made, and may hereafter be made; and it is expedient to make Provisions to prevent or punish any Infraction of such Laws: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of January One Commencement thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this Act, and all of Act. the Provisions therein contained, shall have effect and come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation, for

Vessels and

Boats.

Any Vessel belonging wholly or in part to His Majesty's Subjects, found within certain

Coast of the United Kingdom with prohibited Goods on board, and not proceeding on her Voyage,

forfeited.

construed to extend to any Law in force, or hereafter to be made, relating to the Revenue or Management of the Customs.

II. AND be it further enacted, That if any Vessel or Boat belonging in the Whole or in Part to His Majesty's Subjects, or whereof One Half of the Persons on board or discovered to have been on board the said Vessel or Boat shall be Subjects of His Majesty, shall be found within Distances of the Four Leagues of the Coast of that Part of the United Kingdom which is between the North Foreland on the Coast of Kent and Beachy Head on the Coast of Sussex, or within Eight Leagues of the Coast of any other Part of the said United Kingdom, or shall be discovered to have been. within the said Distances, not proceeding on her Voyage, Wind and Weather permitting, having on board or in any Manner attached or affixed thereto, or having had on board or in any Manner attached or affixed thereto, or conveying or having conveyed in any Manner, any Goods whatsoever liable to Forfeiture by this or any other Act relating to the Revenue of Customs upon being imported into the said United Kingdom, then not only all such Goods, together with their Packages, and all Goods contained therein, but also the Vessel or Boat, together with all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel, shall be forfeited: Provided always, that such Distance of Eight Leagues may and shall be measured in any Direction between the Southward and Eastward of Beachy Head; and the Provisions of this Act shall extend to such Distance of Eight Leagues in every Direction from Beachy Head, although any Part of such Limits may exceed the Distance of Four Leagues from any Part of the Coast of Great Britain to the Eastward of Beachy Head aforesaid.

Any Vessel or Boat (not Square-rigged) belonging wholly or in part to his Majesty's Subjects, and found in

III. AND be it further enacted, That if any Vessel or Boat, not being Square-rigged, belonging in the Whole or in Part to His Majesty's Subjects, or whereof One Half of the Persons on board or discovered to have been on board the said Vessel or Boat 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 Irish Channels, Leagues of any Part of the Coasts of the United Kingdom, or shall be discovered to have been within the said Limits or Distances, having on board or in any Manner attached or affixed thereto, or having had on board or in any Man

the British or

or elsewhere
within 100

Leagues of the
Coast, with

Spirits or To

ner attached or affixed thereto, or conveying or having conveyed in any Manner, any Brandy or other Spirits in any Cask or Package of less Size or Content than Forty Gallons (excepting only for the Use of the Seamen then belonging to and on board such Vessel or Boat, not exceeding Two Gallons for each Seaman), or any Tea exceeding Six Pounds Weight in the Whole, or any Tobacco or Snuff in any Cask or Package whatever, containing less than Four hundred and fifty Pounds Weight, or packed separately in any Manner within any such Cask or Package, (except loose Tobacco for the Use of the Seamen, not exceeding Five Pounds Weight for each Seaman), or any Cordage or other Article adapted and prepared for slinging small Casks, or any Casks or other Vessels whatsoever capable of containing Liquids, of less Size or Content than Forty Gallons, of the Sort or Description used or intended to be used or fit or adapted for the Smuggling of Spirits, or any Materials for the forming, making, or constructing such Časks or Vessels, or any Syphon, Tube, Hose, or Implements whatsoever, for the broaching or drawing any Fluid, or any Articles or Implements or Materials adapted for the repacking Tobacco or Snuff, (unless the said Cordage or other Articles as aforesaid are really necessary for the Use of the said Vessel or Boat, or are a Part of the Cargo of the said Vessel or Boat and included in the regular official Documents of the said Vessel or Boat), then and in such Case the said Spirits, Tea, Tobacco, or Snuff, together with the Casks or Packages containing the same, and the Cordage or other Articles, and also the Vessel or Boat, with all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel therein, shall be forfeited.

Vessels and
Boats.

bacco in certain
Packages, or
other Goods on
board, forfeited.

with certain

Any Foreign Square-rigged) in which there shall be One or more Subjects of His Ma

Vessel (not

IV. AND be it further enacted, That if any Foreign Vessel or Boat (not being Square-rigged), in which there shall be One or more Subjects of His Majesty, shall be found within Four Leagues of that Part of the United Kingdom which is between the North Foreland on the Coast of Kent and Beachy Head on the Coast of Sussex, jesty, found or or within Eight Leagues of any other Part of the Coast having been of the United Kingdom, to be measured as aforesaid (1), Distances of the or shall be discovered to have been within the said Dis- Coast, having tances, not proceeding on her Voyage, Wind and Weather on board Spirits, permitting, having on board or in any Manner attached or bacco in small affixed thereto, or having had on board or in any Manner. Quantities,

(1) See § 2.

within certain

Tea, or To

forfeited.

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