# Exportation of Leather Act 1662, Section III: Red Tanned Leather to be brought into Common Fairs and Markets only. Penalty.


contract void.; Such Leather to be searched and sealed, and Sale registered.; Penalty.
And for the better preventing of such mischeifs as are intended to be remedied by this act bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Red tanned Leather made of the Hides or Skins of any of the Beasts aforesaid of what kind or nature soever shall be bought onely in the open and common Fair or Market used for the putting of Leather to sale and not in any House Tanners Yard Shop or other place whatsoever on pain that such person or persons that shall not accordingly doe the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the contract for the sale thereof shall be void And all such Leather shall be searched and sealed by the Searchers and Sealers thereunto appointed before the same be put to sale and upon such sale shall be registred and a true Entry thereof made both by the Buyer and Seller who are both to be present at such Registring thereof and both theire names and places of abode entred into the booke of the said Register on pain that every such Buyer or Seller that shall not accordingly do the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the forfeiture shall be recovered and imployed in such manner as hereafter in this act is directed

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/7/section/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/exportation-of-leather-act-1662/section-III
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