A COLLECTION OF DIVERS ORDERS & RULES, Heretofore established for the making and passing Entries in the Customhouse, aswell for Merchandise, as for Goods from Port to Port within this Nation. Published by Order of the Commissioners of the Customs. LONDON, Printed for Laurence Blaiklock, and are to be sold at his shop near Temple-Bar. 1650. A Collection of divers Orders and Rules heretofore established for the making and passing Entries in the Customhouse, etc. WHereas certain reasonable and necessary Articles, Orders and Directions bearing Date the 27th january, in the seventh year of the late Queen Elizabeth, remaining upon Record in the Court of Exchequer, and divers other Rules and Penalties by several Statutes, Acts and Ordinances of Parliament, have been since devised and made for the better levying and receiving of the Customs and Subsidies: The due execution and practice whereof, have been for some years past much neglected, to the great hurt and damage of the Commonwealth, as well in matter of Custom and Subsidy as by the Importation and Exportation of goods prohibited. For prevention whereof, and to the end the said Articles, Orders, and Directions may be hereafter duly observed, and put in Execution, for the more regular management of the affairs of the Customs, and that none may pretend ignorance thereof, or unwittingly commit any Offences contrary thereunto, we the present Commissioners of the Customs, have made a Collection of some of the aforesaid Articles, Orders and Rules, and have caused them to be published in Print, as fo●followeth: viz. The Surveyor, Searcher, or other Notice of the coming in, and going out of Ships. Officer attending in any Port or Creek, shall give knowledge to the Collector of the head Port to which they belong (with all convenient speed) of every Ship that cometh in, or goeth out, at any Tide by way of Merchandise, or with goods from another Port by Certificate. There shall be one Shippers Book Shippers Books. Outwards, and another Inwards, in every Customhouse, wherein every Shipper going out, or coming in by way of Merchandise, or with Commodities of this Nation to or from any other Ports by Certificate, shall enter openly in the Customhouse the name of the Ship, and of the Master, the Burden, of whence and to, or from what Place it is freighted, before he take in any Lading, or discharge any Goods, Wares, or Merchandises whatsoever. The Master or Purser of every Shippers Entry Inwards. Ship coming in by way of Merchandise, shall deliver under his hand and upon his Oath before the Collector, or Checque, one Bill of the particulars and contents of the whole Lading of the Ship, with the Names of the several Merchants, or the Mar●●e, Package and outward form of the Goods and Merchandise according to his knowledge; And shall also make Declaration upon Oath, That he hath not broken Bulk since he came into the Port, or into any other Port in this Nation or the Dominions thereof, otherwise than in the said Bill shall be expressed; and shall answer to such other questions concerning the Lading of his said Ship, as shall be demanded of him by the said Collector, or the Checque. But in case he hath broken Bulk in any other port, Then he shall deliver likewise upon his Oath the particulars of the goods so delivered in the Port, where he first did break Bulk; which Entries and declarations so made as aforesaid, shall be entered into the Shippers Book Inwards after the Ships Entry, and be filled together in Order, and with the Shippers Book shall remain and be kept safely in the Customhouse. Every Master of a Ship that shall Shippers Entries Outwards. Lad any Goods or Merchandise for the part beyond the Seas, shall enter his Ship with the Collector and Checque before he take in any Goods, and before his Departure shall give notice of his whole Lading, with the names of the Merchants that have Laden Goods in him, and shall answer upon Oath to such Questions concerning the same as shall be demanded of him, upon pain of the forfeiture of 100 l. All Masters or Pursers of Ships Time allowed for the Entering and discharging Ships Inwards. arriving from any foreign parts, shall within four days after their arrival, make Entry of their Ship or Vessel in the said Port as aforesaid, and shall unlade and discharge the same with all convenient speed; And if such Ship or Vessel shall not be fully unladen within thirty days after the Entry (unless in case of necessity appearing to the Collectors) the Owner and Propriator of such goods as shall remain on Board at that time, shall bear the charge of such Officers as shall continue on Board: And the Master of such Ship or Vessel respectively, combining with the Merchant therein, shall lose his Portage. The Master of any Ship that Penalty for a Shipper consenting to Land or Ship goods. shall suffer goods to be Landed or Shipped without payment of Subsidy and other Duties, or at an unlawful time or place doth forfeit 100 l. No person may Lade, or carry any No Strangers Ships may be employed from Port to Port. Goods or Merchandise from Port to Port within this Nation, in any Ship or Bottom whereof any Stranger is Owner, Master, or part Owner, upon pain of forfeiture of the Goods. Every Merchant, or other, that will Entries of Merchandise Outwards. transport any goods by way of Merchandise for foreign Ports, shall make his Entry particularly thereof, with the Collector and Checque by a bill under his hand, or the hand of his Assign, with the name of the Ship, the Master, the burden, of whence, and to what place it is freighted, with the marks and numbers of the Packs, Cask, Farthels, or other bulk, and the true quantity and quality of the goods therein contained; which Bill shall be forthwith entered in a Book by the Collector, and delivered to the Checque to be entered by him likewise, and to file and keep the Bill of every Ship together as they shall be entred, and the true value of the goods, and of the Custom, Subsidies, and duties thereupon due, shall be likewise set forth, and charged in the Books at the time the Merchant maketh his Entry. All Goods and Merchandise allowed Store and Portage. for Store, Portage, or provision, Inwards or Outwards, shall be valued according to the Book of Rates (although the same neither doth nor shall pay any Custom or Subsidy) and shall be entered in Books distinctly and apart by themselves. No Entry, nor agreement with any Entries to be made in the Custom-house. Merchant or others, for Custom or Subsidy, shall be made by the Collector or others; nor any Cocquet, Warrant, or Certificate, Sealed or Subscribed, but openly in the Customhouse. The Searcher or Surveyor Searcher to have the Cocquets & Warrants at the Landing & Shipping of Goods. shall have all Cocquets, Certificats, and Warrants delivered unto him before the Shipping or Landing of any goods therein contained, and at the time of the Shipping or Landing thereof, shall have the said Cocque●●, Certificats, and Warrants with them, that the Goods may be thereby examined and tried. Every Merchant shall have his Particular Cocquets. particular Cocquet, and Certificate by himself, sealed and subscribed openly in the Customhouse, by the Collector and Checque, bearing date the same day that he eatred his Goods. All Entries, Inwards or Outwards, Endorsement of Licenses. by Licence, shall be endorsed upon each particular Licence, with the name of the Merchant, the date of the Cocquet or Entry, and the particular quantities Shipped or Landed by virtue thereof, shall be also set out and Entered in the Books to which they properly belong. All Merchandise Customed Outwards Certificates or Indorsements of Cocquets. in any Ship or Vessel, which for some cause cannot be Laden aboard, the same Ship shall be appointed to another Ship by Certificate openly sealed, subscribed, and delivered in the Customhouse, upon the Oaths of the Searcher or Surveyor, and of the Owners thereof, openly taken, that the said Goods did not pass according to former Cocquet. Every Merchant or other that will Entryes Inwards. enter any Merchandise inwards, or take up any Goods by store or Portage, shall make Entry thereof particularly, and deliver a Bill thereof at large under his hand or the hand of his Assign, to the Collector, with the name of the Ship, and of the Master, the burden, of whence, and from what place it was freighted, with the marks and numbers of the Farthels, Bulk & Package, in the margin, and and the true quantities and qualities of the Goods therein contained. And the said Collector shall with all convenient speed cast up the value of the Goods, and Merchandise therein, and the Customs and Subsidies thereupon due, and write it upon the said Bill, with the number and date of the Bill, according to which it shall be presently entered in the Book Inwards, to be kept by the said Collector, and then by him delivered to the Checque, to be likewise Entered, according to which Bill, another being subscribed by the said Collector and Checque, and numbered and dated as the former shall be to the Surveyor▪ Searcher or Waiter, a Waarant to suffer the Wares and Merchandise therein contained to be Landed and discharged according. All manner of Wares that any Bills at sight. Merchant entereth at sight, shall be taken up by a Warrant (ad visum) Dated the day of the Entry thereof, subscribed and delivered openly in the Customhouse to the Searcher or Surveyor, who shall see the same brought to the Customhouse Key or Wharfe, and give knowledge thereof to the said Officers, which Officers shall suffer the said Goods to be taken up in the presence of the Surveyor or Searcher, and veiwed in some convenient place; and the Owner thereof shall forthwith make an Entry thereof particularly under his hand, or the hand of his assign, with the Collector and Checque, and thereupon a warrant shall be made for the ●learing and passing of the said wares as above said. In every Port where more than Waiters to be appointed by the Collector. one (whether Searcher, Surveyor, or Waiters) are appointed to attend, There the Collector of the same Port shall nominate, and direct under his hand which and how many of them shall take charge of every respective Ship, going forth or coming into the same Port, either from beyond Sea, or from any other Port within this Nation, to see the Goods and Merchandise therein cleared and discharged, according to such warrants as he or they shall receive from the Collector and Checque. Every Merchant Stranger that entereth Bonds of employment any Merchandise brought from beyond Seas, shall enter into Bond with the Collector, for employment to be made according to the Statute. Every Searcher or Surveyor Searchers & Surveyors Book. shall enter in a Book the day of the going out and coming in of every Ship, by way of Merchandise, or by Certificate from another Port, with the name of the Ship and Master, and the Date of every man's Cocquet, warrant and Certificate, as they in order of the days of every month Wharfingers' Crane-keepers, or Officers consenting to fraud in matters of Custom. shall fall out. If any Wharfinger, Crane keeper, Searcher, Lighterman, Waiter or other Officer, do consent or know of any Goods shipped or landed without payment of Subsidy, etc. or at an unlawful place, or an unlawful time, and do not disclose the same within one month after he shall forfeit 100 l. Every Officer that maketh any False Cocquets and Warrants. Cocquet or warrant contrary, or disagreeing to the Entry of any Goods or Merchandise, shall be fined and punished according to his Offence. Every Merchant, English or Stranger, Entering Strangers Goods in an English man's name. That shall enter the Goods of a Stranger in the name of an Englishman, shall forfeit and lose the Goods and Merchandise so entered, and all his Goods personal. English men Inhabiting beyond English men inhabiting beyond Sea. Sea, and sworn Subjects to foreign Princes, are to pay Customs and other duties, as Strangers, so long as they so continue. Every one borne out of the Nation, Denizens. and after made Denizen, shall pay like Customs as before he was made denizen, except Merchants of the Stillyard. If any Searcher shall give way to Connivance of the Searcher. the transportation of money or unlawful passengers, he shall lose his place, and all his goods, and suffer one year's imprisonment. All Officers whom it concerns Seizures. in their respective places, shall be diligent and careful to make stay, and seizure of Goods, Wares and Merchandise, that shall be brought in or carried out, or intended to be carried out of this Nation, or the Dominions thereof, contrary to the Laws, or any Act or Ordinance of Parliament. All Goods and Merchandise that The custody of Seizures. shall be seized or stayed as aforesaid, shall presently after such seizure or stay be delivered into the charge and Custody of the Commissioners of the Customs for the time being, or of the Collector in the Port where such seizure or stay shall be made, there to remain until a sufficient warrant and discharge (aswell in respect of the Custom and Subsidy, as of the seizure and forfeiture) shall be brought for release and delivery thereof. A Note in writing of all and every The Register for Seizures. seizure and stay of Goods, and of all suits and Informations, for or concerning the Importation, or Exportation of Goods prohibited or uncustomed shall be forthwith by the party that doth seize or prosecute the same, delivered to the Register for seizures and forfeitures for the time being, resident at the Customhouse, in the Port of London; The said Register taking no fee or recompense for the entering thereof. No Officer or other person, shall No Composition without Seizure. make composition or agreement for the seizure or forfeiture of any Goods prohibited or uncustomed, without Licence out of the Court of Exchequer, or other lawful Warrant first had and obtained by the Offender, upon the pains and penalties by the Laws in that behalf made and provided. All Compositions, Fines, Recoveries; The moiety of Seizure to be paid before the Goods be released. Warrants, Orders, and other discharges to be had, made, or granted, for, or upon the aforesaid seizures and informations be entered in the Register aforesaid, and the monies thereupon due and payable, be satisfied and paid to the Commissioners of the Customs, for the use of the Navy, before the respective Goods therein concerned be released or delivered. All Appraisments of Goods, Appraisements. Wares and Merchandise seized as aforesaid, be showed and delivered to the Register aforesaid, before they be returned into the Cxchequer to be by him examined and entered, and if the Goods be to much undervalved, the said Register is to make stay thereof, and to acquaint some of the Barons of the Exchequer therewith, to the end that a review, and new appraisement may be made of the Goods. Every Merchant that carrieth any Coast Cocquets for foreign Goods. foreign Goods or Merchandise, from the Port where they were first entered to another Port by water or by Land, shall bring a Certificate from the Collector of the Port where they were first entered, testifying the payment of the Custom, with the true quantity and quality of the Goods, and shall not dicharge his Goods before he deliver his Certificate to the Collector of the Port to which the Goods shall be brought, upon pain of forfeiture of the said Goods, And if the Certificate be not made according to the first Entry, the Collector shall lose his place. Every person or persons, that will English Goods Customable or prohibited. Ship or carry any Goods or Merchandise (prohibited, or whereof any the duties of Custom or Subsidy are payable) to discharge the same in any other Port or place within this Nation, shall before the Shipping thereof declare, and manifest under his or their hands, to the Collector and Checque of the Customs, in the Port where the same shall be Shipped, in the open Customhouse, the nature, Length, number, and other contents, and the value of such Goods, together with the name of the Ship, and of the Master, the place of whence, and for which he is freighted, & with the approbation of the said Collector and Checque shall also make & enter into a sufficient obligation Bond. in the Law, in which he shall be bound with sufficient sureties, in such sum of money as shall amount to double the value of the Goods so declared, and manifested, with condition that the same shall be discharged at some Port or Creek within this Nation, and in no other Place. And in case any of the said Goods or Merchandise, shall be Shipped or Laden in any Ship or other Vessel, to be carried or passed between Port and Port as aforesaid, before such Declarations shall be made, and security given as aforesaid, That then all and every the said The forfeiture of the Goods. Goods and Merchandise, shall be forfeited and lost, the one moiety or the value thereof to be to him or them that will seize or sue for the same, and the other moiety or value thereof, or the Fine or Composition for the same to be paid to the Commissioners, and Collectors of the Customs, for the time being, for the use of the Navy. That every person or persons, that Return within four months. shall Ship such Goods, and shall be bound as aforesaid, shall within four months' next after the Shipping thereof, bring a true Certificate from the Port or Place, where he or they shall discharge the said Goods, testifying that the same Goods so Shipped, and the true nature, Length, Weight, Number, and other contents or value thereof is there discharged, which Certificate shall upon discharge of the Goods be delivered to the Party discharging the same without delay. All and every the said Bonds▪ for Bonds to be delivered into the Exchequer and redelivered to the parties. which Certificats are returned, shall be delivered half yearly into the Exchequer, with the Certificats thereunto annexed, and endorsed also thereupon, And every Easter Term after the account of the Officers that did take them is passed, The said Bonds shall be delivered to every person that will sue for the same, paying only twelve pence, for the delivery thereof, to the Officer that hath the Custody of them. All other of the said Bonds that be expired, and no Certificate returned according to the conditions, shall be delivered into the Exchequer half yearly, that execution may be had thereupon. Forfeited Bonds. Every person that bringeth any Goods, Wares or Merchandise, from any Port within this Nation, into another Port within the same, by Certificate, shall make Entry thereof under his hand, and shall bring his Certificate to the Commissioners or Collectors of the Subsidy in the respective Ports, which Commissioners, Collectors, or their Substitutes, shall make a Warrant at large, to the Waiters or Searchers to suffer the same Goods, Wares and Merchandise, to be taken up to the Entry and Certificate. In the passing of Goods from Port to Goods Customable. Port within this Nation, the Collectors and other Officers are to understand by Goods Customable, All Wares and Commodities growing, wrought or manufactured within this Nation; and all foreign Commodities and Merchandises, which have been imported and remained in this Nation (viz) by an English man above twelve months, and by a Stranger above nine months, and the property altered, by the Sale thereof made by the first Importer. And by Goods prohibited to be exported, Goods prohibited outwards. Moneys, Bullion, Plate, jewels, Woollen yarn, and Cloth undressed, Horses, Mares, Oxen, Kine, Sheep, Copper, Brass, Bell metal, Pan metal, Gun metal, shruffe, White Ashes, Butter, Cheese, Wood, and Corn (when it is above the price limited by Statute) Also Leather, Hides, Tallow, and all things made thereof, Skins of Sheep or Pelts, and of Stag, Hind, Buck, Do or Fawn, Goat or Kidd, Wool, Worsted Yarn Woollen Flock, wool-fells, Fullars Forth, and Clay of what kind soever. It is further to be noted, That by Grocery and Saltery wares is meant foreign Commodities only, which have been formerly brought from beyond the Seas, and the duties paid Inwards, and that no Merchandise or manufactures, of England or Wales, are to pass under those general names. The Collectors and other Officers of the Customs, are likewise diligently to observe and perform the Articles, Rules and directions annexed to the present Book of Rates, and such others as are directed by any Ordinance of Parliament published 16 De: 1647. or by a late Act made for the Raising and Levying of Money, by way of Excise; or by any other Statute Act or Ordinance of Parliament, now in force for or concerning the payment of the Subsidy of Tomage and Poundage, or the importation or exportation of Goods prohibited. FINIS.