Section XXIII XXIII. French Goods imported to be sued for as byX1

13 & 14 (14) Car. II. c. 11.; and secured and sold as Prize Goods.

And for the incouragement of such persons duely authorized by the Co[m]missioners of Their Majesties Customs as shall make discovery and seize any Goods of the Growth Manufacture or Product of France imported into any of their Majesties Dominions contrary to the true intent and meaning of this present Act be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such Goods so imported and seized shall be sued for and prosecuted in their Majesties Court of Exchequer in such manner and forme as is provided by an Act made in the X2 Fourteenth yeare of the Reigne of the late King Charles the Second entituled An Act for preventing of Frauds in their Majesties Customs two thirds of the said Goods to be for the Use of their Majesties their Heires and Successors (they defraying the Charges of the Prosecution of such Goods) and One third to the Prosecutor and no composition to be made for their Majesties part upon any pretence whatsoever All the said Goods to be secured and sold in such manner as Prize Goods are by this Act appointed to be secured and sold Any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.