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Licences granted by the Commissioners of Customs to contain certain Particulars.
Bond to be given on obtaining Licences, 46G.3.c.137.
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II. And he it further enacted, That each and every Licence which may be granted by the said Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in England or Scotland for any Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge, or Galley, rowing with Six Oars or otherwise, requiring Licence, from, and after the Thirty-first Day of August One thousand eight hundred and twelve shall contain the proper Description thereof, the Name or Names of the Owner or Owners, together with his or their Place or Places of Abode, and in what Manner intended to be employed, together with any other Particulars which may be required by the said Commissioners respectively, to be described and inserted in such Manner as the said Commissioners may respectively think proper to require and direct; and the Owner or Owners thereof shall also give Security by Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in double the Value of such Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge, or Galley, agreeably to the Directions of an Act passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act made in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, for permitting certain Articles to be warehoused in Great Britain, to other Articles not therein mentioned; and to alter the Condition of the Bond directed to be given by an Act of the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, by the Masters and Owners of Vessels and Boats licensed by the Lords of the Admiralty, on Failure whereof the Licence shall be void and of no Force or Effect; and such Boat, Wherry, Pinnace, Barge, or Galley, shall be liable to Seizure and Prosecution in the same Manner as if no such Licence had been granted for the same.
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