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NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 48

Regulations of customs or excise to be observed as to prize ships and goods.

48. Where any ship or goods taken as prize is or are brought into a port of
the United Kingdom, the master or other person in charge or command of the
ship which has been taken or in which the goods are brought shall on arrival
at such port bring to at the proper place of discharge, and shall, when
required by any officer of Customs, deliver an account in writing under his
hand concerning such ship and goods, giving such particulars relating thereto
as may be in his power, and shall truly answer all questions concerning such
ship or goods asked by any such officer, and in default shall forfeit a sum
not exceeding one hundred pounds, such forfeiture to be enforced as
forfeitures for offences against the laws [relating to customs or excise] are
enforced; and every such ship shall be liable to such searches as other ships
are liable to; and the officers of the Customs may freely go on board such
ship and bring to the Queen's warehouse any goods on board the same, subject,
nevertheless, to such regulations in respect of ships of war belonging to Her
Majesty as shall from time to time be issued by the Treasury.[

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