Section IX How Penalties distributed,

and recovered.

And for the Incouragement and better enabling all such (whether Officers of the Customs or others) that shall effectually put this Act in Execution It is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the Penalties and Forfeitures hereby or by any former Law relating to Alamodes or Lustrings given or imposed or which shall arise or accrew in respect thereof or for the importing conveying delivering receiving buying or selling of any Alamodes or Lustrings shall be distributed and divided in manner following (that is to say) Two third parts thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the remaining Third part to such Person or Persons as shall seize or sue for the same the Charge of which Suite & Prosecution shall be borne by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors out of His Majesties part of the said Forfeitures and Penalties Any Law Statute Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding And further it shall and may be lawfull for any Person or Persons to sue for and prosecute and to recover the Forfeitures and Penalties inflicted or imposed by this present Act X1 relating to Alamodes or Lustrings by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or more than one Imparlance And that all and every Person and Persons that shall seize or stay any of the said Silks or prosecute any of the Offences or Offenders against this or any other Act relating to Alamodes or Lustrings may lay his or their Information or Action and try the same in such Place or Places and use such and the like Method and Course of Proceedings in prosecuting and condemning of the said Silks as are have been or may be used in or about the seizing condemning or prosecuting of any Goods or Commodities for Non payment of Customs or other Duties or any Person or Persons for offending against any of the Laws or Statutes relating to the Customs.