Smuggling Act, 1807

For rewarding Officers detaining Persons under 45 G. 3. c. 121. § 7.

XLI. And be it further enacted, That every Officer of the Customs or Excise, or of the Army, Navy, or Marines, detaining and convicting any Person or Persons, liable to be detained or prosecuted under an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the Prevention of Smuggling, shall be allowed such Sum of Money for such Person, not exceeding Twenty Pounds, as the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs and Excise in England or Scotland respectively, shall in their Discretion think fit.