Harborers of such offenders will
be transported for seven years. The hundreds shall pay 100 pounds
for each revenue officer killed, and up to 40 pounds for each one
beaten, wounded, or maimed, and damages up to 200 pounds for
goods, unless an offender is caught and convicted in six months.
There is a reward of 500 pounds to an apprehender, and 50 pounds
for an attempt to apprehend in which one loses a limb or eye or is
maimed or wounded, and 100 pounds to his family if he is killed.
An offender who brings two of his accomplices to justice will be
acquitted and rewarded 50 pounds for each such accomplice. Later,
an incentive was given to customs officers to have a portion of
the proceeds of the sale of such goods seized by them, such as 2/3
for wrought silks and calicoes, and 1/3 for tea, coffee, foreign
brandy, and rum. Still later, any person could seize wrought silk,
including ribbons, laces, and girdles containing it, from the
importer or retailer, and the importer was to forfeit 100 pounds,
and any import assistants 50 pounds, and retailers or concealers
50 pounds, with one half going to the suer. Also, the goods were
to be publicly burnt. Still later, the penalty was increased to
forfeiture of 200 pounds for all offenders, but not including
wearers, and the goods were to be publicly sold for export rather
than burnt. Then the import of silk stockings, silk mitts, and
silk gloves was prohibited for the support of the English silk
industry.
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