Smuggling Act, 1807

Penalty on Persons counterfeiting, erasing &c. Licence, 500l.

XXVI. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall counterfeit, erase, alter, or falsify, or cause to be counterfeited, erased, altered or falsified, any Licence which has been granted by the Lord High, Admiral of Great Britain, or by the Commissioners of the Admiralty for the Time being, or by any Person authorized by them to grant such Licence, or which shall, in pursuance of this Act, be granted by the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in England, Scotland, or Ireland, respectively, or any Three of them for the Time being, or shall knowingly or wilfully make use of any Licence so counterfeited, erased, altered, or falsified, such Person or Persons shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds.