Section II May discharge Fine or Imprisonment, and for Nonpayment of Fine may imprison. Fines paid to Clerk of the Chest

II. And that the said principall Officers and Commissioners or the greater number of them then present have power to discharge such Fine or Imprisonment if they soe thinke fitt, And for non-payment of the Fine soe imposed and not remitted to imprison the party offending untill payment thereof, which said Fines shall be paid to the Clerke of the Chest for the use of the named Seamen, and that the examination of Witnesses be upon Oath before them, which they any two or more of them are accordingly impowered to administer.