REWARDS-continued. Sect. may be withheld, if Officers act collusively or to Persons informing of Spirits floating upon, SEARCHING, Vessels or Persons Persons, Manner of proceeding Females to be searched by Females if without reasonable Ground, Officer liable to Penalty if Goods denied on Search, and afterwards found, Party liable to Penalty Houses, &c. SEIZURES, Persons empowered to make on Prosecution before Justices, if Owner not known, public Notice to be given collusively made or delivered up condemned, Disposal of may be restored in certain Cases SIGNALS made to Smugglers not so intended, Proof to lie on Party SPIRITS found at Sea in small Casks not to be taken up except by Officers or authorized Penalty for meddling with Reward for Information of See Vessels. Persons 71 70 STORES, Spirits, Tea, or Tobacco. See Vessels. 77 where may be tried 78 100 86 75 SUITS, when to be commenced in whose Name to be commenced poor Persons may defend in Formâ Pauperis SUMMONS, to Party prosecuted before Justices THINGS, used in the Removal of run or prohibited Goods, forfeited TOBACCO. See Vessels. VESSELS liable to Forfeiture. found within certain Four or Eight Leagues 32. with Goods prohibited to be imported 2 wholly or partly British-owned, or Half Sect. VESSELS-continued. found within certain Four or Eight Leagues with Foreign, with One British Subject on board, Foreign, within One League, with Goods after Signal, or in Chase, throwing Things 7 8 9 10 11 12 having had a Cargo found light, and the Dis- chased, not bringing to on Signal, may be fired 15 16 17 See Licence. WARRANT-continued. Special, or Capias, granted to Persons named by the Solicitor of the Customs of King's Bench to apprehend Persons charged WRIT of Assistance to search for smuggled Goods secute against Officer not to issue until after One of Capias may issue against Persons sued for smuggling WITNESSES, Officers although interested in Event of Trial, deemed competent ANNO SEXTO GEORGII IV. CA P. CVIII. An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling. [5th July 1825.) WHEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 6 G. 4. c. 105, Laws relating to the Customs; in which it is declared that the Laws of the Customs have become very intricate, by reason of the great Number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long Series of Years; and that it is therefore highly expedient, for the Interests of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be required to act in Obedience to those Laws or in Execution of them, that all the Laws relating to Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which those Laws have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments in more compendious Form, and commencing at one and the same Time: And whereas by the said Act all the Laws relating to Smuggling will be repealed: And whereas other Laws relating to the Customs have been made, and may hereafter be made; and it is expedient to make Provisions to prevent or punish any Infraction of such Laws: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of January One Commencement thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this Act, and all of Act. the Provisions therein contained, shall have Effect and come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation, for |