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Penalty on master for excessive deficiency of stores.
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4. In the event of any ship having cleared for any foreign voyage from any port in the United Kingdom with stores on board returning to that or any other port in the United Kingdom, if any deficiency in such stores be discovered, which in the opinion of the Commissioners of Customs shall be deemed to be in excess of the quantity which might fairly have been consumed, having regard to the length of time between such departure and return as aforesaid, whether such ship shall have been driven into port by stress of weather, want of repair, or other cause, the master shall forfeit, besides the duties on such excess at the rate chargeable on the importation of goods, the subject of such excess, a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, which penalty and duty shall be recoverable by information and summons before a justice of the peace.
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