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Section VII Officer may search Glass-house, &c. in the Day-time.

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Goods not entered, or concealed, forfeited, and may be seized.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Officer and Officers soe to bee appointed as aforesaid att all seasonable times in the day time to search and see what quantities of the said co[m]modities are makeing in any glasse-house or kilne X1or what quantities thereof shall bee in any ware-house or other place belonging thereunto And if any maker or makers owner or owners of any of the said commodities of glasse earth or stone shall endeavour to defraud his Majesty of any duties by this Act payable either by not makeing due entries or giving account as aforesaid or by removeing or carrying away any such commodities from the warehouse or other place where the same shall bee first putt after drawing or perfect makeing as aforesaid before his Majesties duties shall bee paid or secured and a permission given for carrying away such goods as aforesaid or shall fraudulently hide or conceal any of the said commodities to the intent to deceive his Majesty of his just dues for the same that then and in every such case the goods for which noe such entry or account shall bee made or given or that shall bee soe unlawfully removed or carried away or fraudulently hid or concealed shall bee forfeited and shall and may bee seized by any the Officer or Officers aforesaid to his Majesties use.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]