Silk industry - Fraud - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

An Act for repealing the present duties on wine lees, and lignum vitæ, and laying new duties on wine lees and for prohibiting the importation of wine in flasks, bottles, or small casks; and for preventing frauds in exporting silk manufactures, and for supplying the want of regular certificates of such manufactures being landed in foreign parts, where such certificates cannot be had; and for giving further time to clerks and apprentices, to pay duties omitted to be paid for their indentures and contracts.