AN ACT TO INDEMNIFY PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN GUILTY OF THE UNLAWFUL IMPORTING, LANDING, OR RUNNING OF PROHIBITED, UNCUSTOMED, OR OTHER GOODS OR MERCHANDIZE.

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First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 639-643. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning and slight wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An Act published in Public General Acts 1744-1745, enacting an amnesty for those who have engaged in the activity of smuggling and laying out punishments for those who continue to partake in the crime (transportation or death). The statutes of 1745 are considered to be the leading statutes for smuggling law in eighteenth-century England, as they made the greatest effort to convict offenders and to sentence those convicted to death. These statutes, part of the 'Bloody Code', further extended the means by which a person could be convicted for smuggling and put to death without benefit of clergy, although other lesser penalties, most notably transportation, remained the more common outcome. N° de ref. del artículo 1071

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