Section II Commissioners of Customs to mark and seal Goods imported, and to keep Entry and Register thereof in the Custom House in London,;

Entry without Fee before Goods delivered; Silks unduly imported, forfeited, and seized and sold, and exported, according to 8 & 9 W. III. c. 36.

And for the better preventing the fraudulent Importation of such Silks without paying the Duties which are or shall be due and payable for the same Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs in the said Port of London for the time being shall and are hereby authorized and required from time to time to mark and seal or cause to be marked and sealed all such Alamodes and Lustrings which from and after the said First Day of July be imported according to the the Directions of this Act and to keep or cause to be kept an Entry or Registry thereof in the Custom-house in the said Port of London in a Book to be provided for that purpose only which said Entry or Registry shall be made without any Fee or Reward before the said Goods be delivered out of the Custom-house Ware-house And in case any of the said Silks shall be imported or brought into any Port or Place whatsoever within this Realm other than the Port of London or shall be imported without such Notice first given and Licence taken out as aforesaid and the Duties paid for the same or shall not be so sealed & marked as aforesaid such Silks or the full Value thereof shall be forfeited And all such Silks X1 shall be seized and forfeited by virtue of this or any former Act shall be sold and exported and the same Rules and Methods shall be observed in the selling and exporting thereof as are mentioned and contained in an Act made in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty intituled An Act for the further encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamodes within this Realm.