AN ACT OF THE COMMONS Assembled In PARLIAMENT, Establishing the present Commissioners for the CUSTOMS.  
LONDON, Printed for Laurence Blaiklock, and are to be sold at his shop near Temple-Bar. 1650.   

a ACT of the COMMONS assembled in Parliament.  
WHereas by Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, of the sixteenth of December, One thousand six hundred forty seven, the payment of a Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage is ordained to be paid upon all Goods and Merchandise, to be exported out of, or imported into this Commonwealth of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Barwick, in such sort as in the said Ordinance is expressed, the said payments to continue from the six and twentieth of March, One thousand six hundred forty eight inclusive, unto the six and twentieth day of March, which shall be in the year of our Lord, One thousand six hundred fifty one inclusive, As by the said Ordinance more at large appeareth; And whereas the Parliament have since, That is to say, upon the four & twentieth of April now last passed, nominated and appointed Edmund Harvy, Robert Titchborne, Mark Hildeslye, Daniel Taylor, and Edward Parks, of London Merchants, the present Commissioners and Collectors of the Customs; It is now enacted and declared, and be it by Authority of Parliament enacted and declared, That the said Edmund Harvy, Robert Titchborne, Mark Hildeslye, Daniel Taylor, and Edward Parks, the present Commissioners and Collectors of the Customs, are and shall be Commissioners & Collectors thereof; And by this Act, they the said Edmund Harvy, Robert Titchborne, Mark Hildeslye, Daniel Taylor, and Edward Parks, and their Deputy and Deputies by them to be authorized under their Hands and Seals, are enabled to collect and receive upon account all such sum and sums of money, which from and after the one and twentieth day of july, one thousand six hundred forty nine, shall by virtue of the said Ordinance, or any Act or Declaration of Parliament made since, be payable or paid for Customs, or Subsidies, or otherwise, for or in respect of Goods or Merchandizes exported out of, or imported into the Port of London, and all other Ports in the Commonwealth of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick, in such sort as the duties of Tonnage and Poundage have been formerly collected by Samuel Avery Alderman of London, and other the late Commissioners of the customs, & in such manner as by the said Ordinance, or other Acts, Declarations or Orders of Parliament, and Instructions as the said late commissioners received, Or that the said Edmund Harvy, Robert Titchborn, Mark Hildeslye, Daniel Taylor, and Edward Parks, shall hereafter receive from Parliament, or the Committee of Parliament appointed for the Navy and Customs, or shall be by them ordered or directed. And it is further enacted and ordained, That the said Edmund Harvy, Robert Titchborne, Mark Hildeslye, Daniel Taylor, and Edward Parks,, shall have the same power and authority, And to do all act or acts, thing or things whatsoever that Samuel Avery, Christopher Pack, Richard Bateman, Charles Lloyd, and Walter Boothby, or any of them, or any Customer or Collector for the Port of London, or any the Out-Ports, by Law, by any Act or ordinance of Parliament, or otherwise might lawfully do. And it is further enacted and ordained, That the several person and persons nominated and appointed since the three and twentieth of April now last passed, or to be nominated and appointed by Parliament, or by the Authority thereof to keep a Checque in the Port of London, or in any other Port, Harbour, or Creek within this Commonwealth, or to be Surveyor, Searcher, or Waiter within the said Port of London, or in any other Port, Harbour or Creek within this Commonwealth, shall respectively have the same power and authority: And to do all and every Act or Acts, thing or things whatsoever, that any former controller, Surveyor, Searcher, or Waiter of the Port of London, or any other of the said Ports of this Commonwealth, by Law, by any Act or Ordinance of Parliament, or otherwise might have lawfully done. And it is further enacted and ordained, That all Mayors, Sheriffs, justices of Peace, Constables and other Officers; All Admirals, Vice-admirals, Captains and Commanders, or other Officers of Ships: All Officers of the Admiralty, All Colonels, Captains, and other Officers and Soldiers of the Army, and of the Trained Bands of the Commonwealth, and all other persons whatsoever, be aiding and assisting to the said Commissioners, their Deputies and Officers abovesaid, in collecting, securing and receiving the said Customs and Duties as abovesaid, and in suppressing all Tumults, Riots, and other force that is or shall be had, or made against them, and every or any of them, in the execution of this present Act, and all other persons in their aid and assistance. And it is further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth no Officer or Officers of the Customs, shall take or receive from the Merchant, or any other person any monies by way of Fee or gratuity for any Certificate, Bill or Cocquet, or any other thing whatsoever. And in case they or any of them shall receive any Fee or gratuity, contrary to this act, upon proof thereof they shall forfeit their places. And it is further provided and enacted, That the said Edmund Harvy & the rest of the said Commissioners shall and may be removable from the said employment, as the Parliament shall think fit and order.  
Hen: Scobell, Cler. Parliament.  
FINIS.