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Item, regarding the complaint made in name of the noblemen, barons and gentlemen, complaining that they and the merchants from whom they bought their wines for furnishing of their own houses were troubled by the customs officers for payment of the new impost of £14 for every tun of their said wine, albeit the same impost was specially discharged to them by act of secret council, for remedy whereof, the estates declare, statute and ordain that, in case any customs officers shall after the publication hereof wrongfully take from any merchant the said new impost of £14 for any wine to be sold by them to noblemen, barons and gentlemen, for furnishing of their own houses, that the customs officers doing so shall incur the pain of £100 for the impost of every tun of wine that he shall so wrongfully take as said is, the one half of the said pain to his majesty and the other half to the grieved party; providing always that the nobleman's, baron's and gentleman's ticket upon the quantity of the wine received by him, subscribed by himself and the merchant, according to the act made thereupon, be presented and produced to the said customs officer within that same year that the wines [...] as said is [...] them.