Section VII Tanners unduly shaving Hides, Penalty.

And whereas diverse Tanners do shave cut and rake theire upper leather Hides all over and the necks of their backs and butts to the great impairing thereof and the extream prejudice of the Kingdome Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Tanner who after the Nine and twentieth day of September in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall commit any such offence as aforesaid shall forfeit all the said Leather Backs Buts or Calve skins so shaved cut or raked or the value thereof and it shall be lawfull for the Searchers and Sealers of Leather to seise the same