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Boats with more than Four Oars, found within certain Limits, forfeited.
8 G.1. c.18.
§ 3.
Using them, Penalty 100l. Proviso for Boats, &c. of the Royal Family, and certain other Boats, &c.
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XIV. ‘And Whereas by an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act to prevent the clandestine Running of Goods, and the Danger of Infection thereby; and to prevent Ships breaking their Quarantine; and to subject Copper Ore of the Production of British Plantations to such Regulations as other enumerated Commodities of the like Production are subject; all Boats, Wherries, Pinnaces, Barges and Gallies, rowing or made or built to row, with more than Four Oars, found within certain Counties and Ports therein particularly mentioned, are forfeited, and the Owner or Owners, or Persons using the same, are liable to the Penalty of Forty Pounds; which Penalty, by a subsequent Act, passed in the Fifty seventh Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, is increased to One hundred Pounds: And Whereas it is found expedient to extend the Provisions of the said Acts to other Places than those mentioned in the said first recited Act;’ Be it therefore enacted, That if any Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge or Galley, however owned, rowing or made or built to row, with more than Four Oars, shall be found either upon the Land or the Water, within the Limits of any of the Ports of that Part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, or the Members or Creeks to them or either of them respectively belonging, such Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge or Galley, with all her Tackle and Furniture, or the Value thereof, shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized by any Officer or Officers of the Customs; and the Owner or Owners, and every Person using or rowing in such Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge or Galley, shall also forfeit and lose the Sum of One hundred Pounds: Provided always, that this Act shall not extend or be construed to extend to any Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge or Galley belonging to His Majesty or any of the Royal Family, or to any Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge or Galley belonging to and used in the Service of any Merchant Ship or Vessel, or belonging to any Ship or Vessel in the Service of His Majesty’s Navy, Victualling, Ordnance, Customs, Excise or Post Office, nor to any Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge or Galley whatsoever, the Owner of which shall have a Licence from the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in England or Scotland respectively, or any Three or more of them for the time being.
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