# Encouragement of Trade Act 1663, Section VII: Officer of the Customs in England giving Warrant or suffering Plantation Goods herein mentioned to be carried to any other Country, without having first been landed in England;


Forfeiture of Place, and Penalty.
And it is hereby further enacted That if any Officer of the Customes in England Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Sugar, Tobaccho, Ginger, Cotton, Wooll, Indico Speckle Wood or Jamaica Wood Fusticke or other Dying Wood of the growth of any of the said Lands Islands Colonyes Plantations Territories or Places to be carryed into any other Country or Place whatsoever untill they have beene first unladen bona fide and putt on shore in some Port or Haven in England or Wales or in the Towne of Berwicke, that every such Officer for such Offence shall forfeite his place and the value of such of the said Goods as he shall give Warrant for or suffer to passe into any other Country or Place the one moyety to His Majestie His Heires and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall informe or sue for the same in any Court of Record in England or Wales wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed,

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/15/7/section/VII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-trade-act-1663/section-VII
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