Section XIII Officer of the Customs may accept Recompense for Services rendered to Merchant, as Commissioners may determine.

And whereas it may bee a reasonable accomodation for trade that the Officers of the Customs bee permitted on sundry urgent occasions to work att times and places not required by law for which extraordinary attendances the merchant or other person concerned is willing to make a moderate allowance if the Officer might bee justified in receiving the same Bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may bee lawfull for any Officer duely imployed in the execution of his office on any extraordinary service not required by law to take and receive such recompence from the merchant or other person desireing his attendance as the Commissioners of the Customes in the Port of London and the Collector Customer and Comptroller in the Out ports or any Two of them respectively (by whom the sufferance is thought requisite to bee granted) shall determine.