Section III Goods landed without paying or tendering Duties.

Goods forfeited.

And for the more effectuall collecting and receiveing of the said Duty Bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That if any of the Commodities aforesaid whereof the Duties are or shall be due shall be unshipped or laid on Land the Duties due or to be due for the same not paid or lawfully tendred to the Collector thereof or his Deputy with the consent and agreement of the Comptroller and Surveyour there nor agreed with for the same in the Customehouse according to the true meaning of this Act that then from the said five and twentyeth day of December one thousand six hundred eighty nine all the said Goods and Merchandices shall be forfeited the one moyety of the said Goods soe forfeited shall be to your Majestyes use and the other moyety to him or them that will seize or sue for the same without any Composition whatsoever this Act to continue for the terme of five yeares and noe longer