{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-manufactures-act-1698/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-manufactures-act-1698/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/11/10",
  "legislation_title": "Encouragement of Manufactures Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-manufactures-act-1698",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Wrought Silks, Bengals, &c. imported after Entry, to be warehoused, and not carried out but for Exportation, nor until Security for due Exportation, &c. given.",
  "text": "Such Security discharged without Fee, upon Certificate of Landing, or Loss of Goods at Sea, as herein mentioned; Such Goods found in any Shop, &c. forfeited; Liability to Search and Seizure, as by Stat. 14 Car. 11. c. 11; Such Goods, upon Condemnation, to be sold by Candle; Security for Exportation by Buyer; Application of Monies made by Sale; Penalty, £200 besides Loss of Goods, upon Person in whose Custody the same are found.\nAnd for the better effecting the same Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Twenty ninth Day of September One thousand seaven hundred and one all such Wrought Silks Bengalls and Stuffs mixed with Silk or Herba of the Manufacture of Persia China or East India as aforesaid and all Callicoes painted dyed printed or stained there which are or shall be imported into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed shall after Entry thereof be forthwith carried and putt into such Warehouse or Warehouses as shall be for that Purpose approved of by the Commissioners of His Majesties Customs for the Time being soe as none of them shall be taken or carried out thence upon any Account whatsoever other than in order for Exportation and not untill sufficient Security be first given to the Kings Majesty His Heires and Successors (which the said Commissioners are hereby required and impowered to take) that the same and every Part thereof shall be exported and not landed again in any Part of this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed which said Securities shall be discharged without any Fee or Reward upon Certificate returned under the Common Seale of the Chiefe Magistrate in any Place or Places beyond the Seas or under the Hands and Seales of Two knowne English Merchants upon the Place that such Goods were there landed or upon Proofe by credible Persons that such Goods were taken by Enemies or perished in the Seas The Examination and Proofe thereof being left to the Judgment of the said Commissioners And all such of the aforesaid Goods whether the same shall be mixed sewed or made up together for Sale with any other Goods or Materials or otherwise which shall be found in any House Shopp or Ware-house or other Place whatsoever (other than in such Ware-houses as shall be approved of by the said Commissioners as aforesaid) shall be forfeited and subject and liable to be searched for and seized in like Manner as prohibited and uncustomed Goods are by an Act (intituled An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs) made in the Fourteenth Yeare of the Reigne of our late Sovereigne Lord King Charles the Second And all such Goods soe forfeited as aforesaid shall upon Seizure thereof be carried to the next Custome-house and after Condemnation shall be sold to the best Advantage for Exportation at Publick Sale by the Candle The Buyer and Buyers giveing Security for the Exportation thereof in Manner as aforesaid And One Third Part of the Moneys to be raised by such Sale shall be paid to the Kings Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Two Third Parts thereof to him her or them that shall seize or prosecute for the same And over and above the Losse of the said Goods the Person or Persons in whose Custody knowing thereof the same shall be found or seized or that shall sell or dispose thereof to any Person or Persons whatsoever shall forfeite and loose the Summe of Two hundred Pounds One Third Part thereof to the Kings Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Two Third Parts thereof to such Person or Persons that shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint Suite or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed or any more than one Imparlance",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/10/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:30.275255+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}