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Additional comments:/ Commentairea supplimantairais: Various psginot. WrinkM pages may film slightly out of focus. This item is filmed at tha reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est film* au taux de riduction indiqu* ci-dessous. 10X 14X 18X 22X 26X »X y 12X 16X aox MX 28X 32X The copy fHificd her* hat bMn raproduead tfianks to th« fl«n«r''/v k .^a- VVV .'>m'*wVi',*^ .1!' ' .. * V -.^'i ,|J! %riin%ii fn^i>jH:/> ;, /v-n. >!#., ■•" ," ¥ .f n Ya u .■V««P.-\.-»— f-,1.'."ir iiiy *V *-■-.*•■? j e V ' .l r ?-*•!■ .• *■• l^rvlU .Uyi^O-llt. INTRODUCTION. ■iS$i C!#- ••'iff" A WORK of this Nature never having been published, it will be necessary to premise that the European Colonies in .^erica and the West Indies are of Two Descriptions — ^First, where the Lands are claimed by Right of Occu- pancy only, by finding them desert and uncultivated and peopling them from the Mother Country ; and. Secondly, when already cultivated, they have been either gained by Conquest or ceded by Treaties ; and both these Rights are founded upon tiie Law of Nature, or at least, upon that of Nations. The Colonies belonging to Great Britain are, principally, of this latter Description, and therefore the Common Law of England, as such, has no Authority there, being distinct (though dependent) Dominions : They are subject, however, to the Controul of the Parliament of Great Britain, though not bound by any Act, unless particularly named.* ^>^ V^" With respect to Countries gained by Conquest, the Inhabitants, once received under the King's Protection, become Subjects, and are to be universally con* sidered in that light, not as Enemies or Aliens j and although the King, without the Concurrence of Parliament, has a Power to alter the old and introduce new Laws in a conquered Country, he cannot exempt an Inhabitant from the Laws of Trade, or from the Power of the ParUament of Great Britain, or give him Privileges exclusive of his other Subjects, t , .,, > '^'jii i.a iS'Si); im The Form of Government in most of the British Colonies is borrowed from that of England ; and the Laws passed by their General Assemblies and Council, wilh the Concurrence of the Governor, are of the same Validity in the Colonies, as Acts of Parliament are in the Mother Country ; unless repug- nant to any Law made in Great Britain relative to the Colonies, in which Case they are utterly void and of no Effect. J * Commentaries on the Laws of England. J7&8W.III. Ch. 22. t Campbell v. Hall, (Cowper's Reports). a It f: ry ;-.;.V'*L.-iA^-. I ii INTRODUCTION. It has been the Policy of the different Nations of Europe, with regard to their Colonies, to secure to themselves respectively the most important of their Productions, and retain exclusively the great Advantage of supplying them with European Produce and Manufactures ; Commercial Monopoly is therefore the leading Principle of Colonial Intercourse. The British Colonies in the West Indies (in so many respects dissimilar in Nature and Situation from those in North America) are of great Value anil Importance, for their Cultivation is devoted to Objects which the Mother Country cannot produce, and yet cannot do without ; and which, from their extensive Consumption, sflford the surest Means of balancing her Foreign Trade. ii:wJi 'if A. aiii aiaii?,' Li A' £ if They answer in every point of view all the Purposes and Expectations for ^hich Colonies have at any Time been established. Their Productions are not only sufficient for the Consumption of the Mother Country, but afford the Means of a huge Export to Foreign Markets, of many valuable and most necessary Commodities, none of which interfere in any respect with her own Productions, and most of which she cannot obtain on equal Terms elsewhere ; and, as many of these Commodities yield a Profit so much beyond what can be obtained from the Cultivation of Grain, it is true Economy in the Planter to buy Provisions from others rather than raise them by his own Laboiu*. The Trade of the West Indies, therefore, supports and increases British Commerce and Navigation in Time of Peace, and very eminently tends to invigorate her Operations in War. ..v;i,;,i Mi'.i.c . . > '\ ; ^ • A Series of Regulations, Restrictions, and Prohibitions have therefore been de- vised, to secure to Great Britain the exclusive Trade of her Colonies ; no Goods are to be imported or exported in Foreign Shipping ; no Commodity whatever, the Growth or Production of Europe, is allowed to be imported into the Colonies, unless laden in the Mother Country, except certain Articles and Implements for the Fisheries, and Wine from the Madeiras or Azores. Before the lading Sugar, Cofifee, and many Articles of Colonial Production, Security must be given to convey them to some other British Coloi^y, or to the United Kingdom. These latter Articles being enumerated in the Navigation Acts, have, for that reason, been called ** Enumerated:" Other Articles, not included in the Enumeration, may be exported directly to any Countries of Europe, not being to the Northward of Cape Finisterre. Amongst other Regulations for securing the due Execution of the Navigation Acts, a Duty was imposed upon the principal Enumerated Commodities, when not '■$ W jm ^- '-N--'- I INTRODUCTION. L 111 Ii regard ortant of supplying nopoly ia limilar in alue an4 I Mother rom their Fore^n Eitions for s are not ifibrd the and most 1 her own Isewhere ; at can be ?lanter to m. The >mmerce ;orate her been de- no Goods itever, the Colonies, ments for ng Sugar, given to n. These It reason, uneration, Northward not intended to be conveyed to Great Britain ; for it had beeto ftmnd that, under colour of shipping the Articles for another British Colony ox Plantation, they were often vende'* at Sea to the Shipping of other Nations, or tianqtorted to Europe dirf;ct. ^^ '*'"" The Entmerdted Articles are of Two Sorts — First, such as are either the pecuhar Produce of America, or as cannot be produced (or at least are not produced) in the Mother Country;— Secondly, such as are' not the peculiar Produce of America, but which are or may be produced in the Mother Country, though riot in such Quantities as to a£K>rd a sufficient Supply, and have therefore been obtained from European Countries. c ,.(»(/;» # By confining the Enumerated Articles to the Home Markets, the Merchants are not only enabled to buy them cheaper in the Plantations, and conse- quently sell them at a better Profit at Home, but to establish between the IHantations and Foreign Countries an advantageous canying Trade, of which Great Britain was necessarily to be the Centre or Emporium, as the European Country into wluch the Articles were first to be imported. The Importa- tion of Articles of the Second Kind are so managed as to interfere, not with the Sale of those of the same Kind which were produced at Home, bu^ with the Sale of those imported from Foreign Countries, because, by means of proper Duties, they might be tendered always dearer than the former, and yet much cheaper than the latter. This was intended to operate as a Dis- couragement to the Produce, not of Grreat Britain, but of some Foreign Countries with whiph the Balance of Trade was held to be unfavourable to Great Britain.* : v . Y -•'This System has in view Two Objects— First, the Increase of our Naval " Strength ; Secondly, the securing to the Piarent State all the Emoluments . fuising by the Monopoly, both of th^ Iinports and Exports: and another Advan age is, that we repeive from our Colonies all the Products, Raw, and in the first state, and send to them every thing in the last stage of Manufacture, But « Laws, which made the Interest of a whole People subservient to that oi \ »« another residing at the Distance of 3000 Miles, were not likely to execute I ♦• themselves very readily, nor was it easy to find many on the S|)Ot who could I »» be depended upon for carrying them into Execution t." ::j-'>^* ■ M*"" fc- •: avigation ies, when not u. '*■ * Dr. Adam Smith's Wealth of Natiqus. -.,t t Mr. Reeye's History of Law of Shipping and Navigatioc. a3 ■.f;'n;\^'^l "'^^ More Ksj^..; •■/. * ,...a W INTRODUCTION. More eflbctually to prevent the Frauds and Abuses that had existed to the Prejudice of the British Navigation, and the Loss of a great Part of the Trade of the Colonies, many additional Regulations have been directed to be observed, the most material of which are — ^that the Masters of Ships coming into or going out of the British Colonies shall report, and, if inward bound, before proceeding to the Place of unlading ; that all Ships and Goods shall be subject to the same Rules, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures to which Ships and Goods in England are subject by IS & 14 Car. II. Ch. 11. ; that OfHcers shall be appointed as often as may be needful ; that no British Ships shall be qualifiod to trade to the said Colonies unless registered ; that no Goods shall be shipped to be carried from one British Colony or Plantation to another, without a Sufferance from tb? proper Officers, nor conveyed from thence without a Cocket, except laden in BQat« or small Vessels under Twenty Tons, and carried within inland Waters, and not farther out to Sea than One League ; that no Ship carrying Goods to ot from the British Colonies, or from one Colony to another, shall be deeme4 qualitied to trade, until the Master shall prove on Oath that she is the identical Ship registered, that she belongs to His Majesty's Subjepts, and that no Foreigner has any Share or Interest therein. It has been deemed expedient, however, to depart in some Measure from the Colonial System, by permitting the Exportation of most of the principal Enume- rated Commodities from the Sugar Colonies direct to Malta and Gibraltar, and allowing the Exportation of a great Variety of European Articles from Malta and Gibraltar direct to the said Sugar Colonies, and to Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the Colonies in North America : To extend also the Trade of the North American Colonies and encourage the Fisheries, the Lading of other Articlefi is permitted in Ports of Europe S^^uth of Cape Finisterre, on board Ships apriving from the said Colonies, either witli Articles the Production thereof, or with British American Fish ; finally, Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, may export the Produce of their Estates to the Netherlands, lind import from thence into those Colonies the necessary Articles of Supply for the Cultivation of such Estates, and the Clothing and Maintenance of the Residents thereon, and the Trade to and froni the Netherlands may be carried piy in Dutch Ships. , ;r /. . ■, , j - w :■ Such is briefly the Nature of the Law and Policy regarding " the Trade with Europe ;*' and as none of the Countries South of Cape Finisterre are Manu- facturing Countries, it is not considered that any Injury can arise in consequence of the Departure from our Colonial System in favour of those Countries. .•s\ ' Witl} i .■r-' INTRODUCTION •? With respect to the Trade «« betxueen the Cokmiett" both in the Enumerated and the Non*enumerated Commodities, it is perfectly free, except •• to Hata, Wool, and Woollen Manufactures, the Exportation of which is wholly prohibited to any Place ; this Prohibition was intended to prevent the Establishment of any Manufactures of such Commodities in the British Colonies, to the Iiyurr of the Export Trade of the Mother Country. »».T 1.1. ■ I Ever since the Indepehdence of the « United States,** the Trade of the British Colonies has been subject to particular Limitations and Restrictions, with respect to its Intercourse with that Country. Having broke off their Political Connexion with Great Britain, and become our Rivals in Trade and Manu- factures, it was thought necessary to confine the " Imports** to Tobacco, Naval Stores, and such Articles as the British Colonies did not produce in sufficient Quantities for their Use and Consumption, and which could not be obtained elsewhere, and to confine the " Exports " to some Enumerated Commodities and Goods not prohibited to Foreign Countries in Europe ; such Articles and Goods being imported and expoited by British Subjects and in British Ships, except as to Importations into Bermuda of the Articles first-mentioned, and Exporta- tions from the Bahamas of the Article of Salt. > To prevent a circuitous Trade in the Articles permitted to- be imported direct. Articles of the like Description are prohibited to be imported from the Islands and Colonies under the Dominion of " Foreign European Sovereigns or States," except in Cases of Emergency for the Supply of the Inhabitants, or from the " Portuguese Colonies -," but such Importations must be made by British Subjects and in British Ships, A very lucrative Trade had always been connived at in the West Indies, between the Spanish urui English Colonies ; and Orders in Council were issued ?oon after the passing of the Navigation Act, whieh expressly directed that Spanish Ships should be allowed to import into our Colonies particular Articles of Commerce, notwithstanding the Provisions of the Navigation Ac^.» ^> It has since been considered that *f opening Ports in the West Indies" for the more free Importation and Exportation of Goods under certain Restric- tions and Limitations, would be productive of considerable Advantage to the Manufactures of the Mother Country, and be a Means of increasing and * Mr. Reeve's Law of Shipping. extending Tl INTRODUCTION. extending the Trade and Navigation of Hii Majesty's Dominions : Acts have therefore been passed to pehnit a Variety of Articles to be imported into Ports in the West Indies firom Colonies under the Dominion of Foreign European Sovereigns or States, in Ships owned and navigated by the Inhabitants thereof} particular Commodities may also be exported in such Ships, To point out, however, the specific Articles affected by oiir Colonial and Navigation System, and the particular Regulations, Restrictions, and Exceptions api^cable to so important a Branch of Commerce, is a Matter of much Difficulty, pwing to the Multiplicity of Enactments and Articles, The Compiler of the present Work considered that a copious Alphabetical Index, wherein all the Laws upon the different Subjects might be seen at one View, would in a great Measure remove the Difficulty, and be an Improvement upon all former Compi- lations, where the Laws are classed under the general Head '* Plantations," or " British Dominions Abroad," which occasions tedious and intricate Re- search whenever it may be necessary to refer to the Laws applicable to a particular Colony or Country, such as " CanadOt** — " Nefofoundland"-^ ** Europtt" — " Umkd State*" or iqiplicable to a particular Commodity, such as ** Sugar**^** Cqffee*'—** Tobacco"—** fVood'," and it will appear that a great Variety of Laws have been passed affecting every one of these Countries and Artides, as well aa many others comprehended under the numerous Heads ip ^e Index, \ ■ ;(., 1 I'i 'M. yj- mmmmmim le.j>iij'j,J . n *<,;.>!, ■ r. :t^■ • — '--^-j--'- -'-j TABLE of the STATUTES relating to Shipping, Navigation, Commerce, and Revenue in the British Colonies and Plantations in America and the West Indies. Ymt Hid R«i|ii. laCAROLi If. Ch. 13 8c 14 15 aaeeaj 85 7 & 8 GULIBLMI III. 88t9 10 8c II ^— — — . 38C4 AmnjI' 5 7 8 la I Gboroii I. 7 8 a Georoii II. 4 5 6 9 '3 15&T6 19 a6 ,- 3 Georgii III. 3 4 6 7 9 10 la 18 If 7 a6 7 aa ao 10 i 8 5 »3 18 I a. ai '5 18 35 ai 7 aa 34 »3 37 3 7 31 37 30 44 »9 24 35 aa 15 19. 39 45 S3 2 41 46. 28. 17 37 58 Vtir tad iUi|ii. 10 aa 83 36 37 a8 39 13 GiOROii III. Ch. ai. 15. 26. 14 83. 88. 15 31. 40. 16 47. 18 13. 10. 75. 79. a6. — .. 40. — — — — 60. 19. 33. 6. 34- 39, 16. 53. 56. 68. 8. 37. 39. 30. 31. 38. 50. 63. 43. 68. 73. 67. 67. lOI. 57. 68. — 17. 52. 73. 36. 48. 33. 30 31 33 34 37 38 39 8c 40 44 45 46 47 48 Y«rtadRai|ii. 48 Gboroii III. Ch. 70. laj' 49 JO 51 S3 53 54 55 56 57 1 30* 16. 18. aa> 37- 41. 46. 1 07* ai> 33- 48. 6a. 96. 97- 35- 5S- 79- 98. 99. 100. 106. 3- 37- SO. 113. 48. 59- 61. 39. 116. 135 17a. 91. 83. 4- 10. 38. 29. 36. 4a. 45- 74. 89. 127. i .-^A:': hsfs-. 'foif. -t^i/:' -yfl. tiiT': )? ;ji.u T,;5 .; •_ ;,/ .. .. ~ ' ■/.■ B. Beaver Skins. (See Fun.) Bahamas and Bermuda Barbadoes ... Berbice. (See Guiana.) Bills at Sight Biscuit. (See Provisions.) Botabgo - . Box Wood. (See Wood.) Bowsprits. (See Wood.) Bread. (See Provisions.) Bridgetown ... Brimstone Britain . , .. » British Subjects Bullion - - C. Caicos Canada Cantharides Page. - s - ih. - ih. ' 9 . ib. - ib. - ib. ' ib. r ib. m ib. *. ib. ib. - 18 - IS - 16 ^ d. - ib. 17 ib. ib. ib. ib. 18 ib. 89 ■'.,*^'--*>^'''-' - /I ■•iO- ■ Cape Breton - ''^^^'' Capers Cascasoo ... Cattle and Live Stock Cavixb Certificates Cheese (Parmasan) c^ Cihnabar Clothing. (See Settlers.) Cochineal Coffee and Cocoa Nuts Coin ... Copper Ore Coral ... Cork Corn and Grain Cotton Wool Crooked Island Cumminseed Currants . . . Dates Debts . . . Demerara. (See Guiana.) Diamonds Dominica Drugs Duties E. Emert Stone England and English ESSENCE of BeRGAMOT ■ ■ '■ OF Citron — OF JLemon ^; Pag*. 29 SI ib. ib. as ib. S4 ib. ib. ib. 45 ib. » ib. 46 47 51 54 ib. ib. 54 ib. SB ib. ib. 56 58 ib. ib. ib. ib. TABLE OF THE TITLES, &c. CONTAINED IN THE INDEX. i I y r I I -Am Essence of Obanoe OP Lavemdeb —^— OF Roses OF Rosemary EssEQuiBo. (See Guiana.) Eubope EZUMA Falmouth Fees ... Figs ... Fisheries - ■. Fla¥. (See Hemp.) j^ouR. (See Corn and Chraio.) Free Ports Fruit Furs - , - G. OlBBALTAR OlNOER Qlass - - - Oooos ... - • ■■ (Enumerated) (Non-enumerated) (East India) Governors CrRENADA GUEBNBEY AND JeRSET ©triANA Gum Arabic Mastic Myrrh SlCILLY Ammoniac ^: Pag*. . 58 - I*. - ib. - ib. - a. 66 ib. 68 ib. J 75 76 H. Hats and Feits Hemp and Flax liiDEs AND Skins 77 «& 79 *& 93 ib. %b 96 99 ib. ib. 101 ib. ib. ib. ib. - 101 - 102 - 103 Hogs. (See Cattle.) Honey .... Horses. (See Cattle.) Household Furniture (See Settlers.) I. & J. Jalap .... Jamaica . - Implements. (See Fisheries.) Incense ... Indigo . - - - - Insurances . . _ Ireland ... Iron .... Juniper Berries Justices . . - P.,e. 104 ■ t-f^t-'*'-^ Kingston K. L» Lava .... Laws .... Lead .... Lemons ... Lentils - - . - Logwood. See Wood. M. Maccaroni or Vermicelli. Madeiras and Western Islands Malta and Gibraltar Man, Isle of Manifests. (See Goods, No. 95.) (Tobacco, No. SO.) Manna .... Marble, (Rough and Worked) Maria - , - Meal or Flour. (See Corn ^pd Gxain.) 104 ib. 106 ib. 109 ib. 110 ib. ib. Ill 111 ib. ib. 112 ib. IIS tS. id. 116 U7 ib. ib. ib. ib. TABLE OF TH£ TITLES, &c. CONTAINED IN THE INDEX. - 104 - a. - 106 - i6. - 109 - ift. - 110 - ib. . ib. - Ill 111 ib. ib. lis ib. - IIS . tjS. - id. - 116 - in - ib. - I*. - ib. . ib. Medals Molasses Mosaic Wokrs Mules. (See Cattle.) Musk P*ge. - 117 - 118 - ib. ) N. Nassau - - Naturalization. '(See Aliens.) Naval Officers - ■■ ^ Navigation of British Ships Netherlands Newfoundland New Providence Nova Scotia and New BRumwiCK o. Ochres ... Officers Oil - - - Oil of Almonds • Cloves Opium . . - Oranoe Buds - . . • Oranges . . ^ Oris Root Ostrich Feathers P. Paintings ... Painters Colours Paper . . ~ Passengers ... Pearls . - . Pease. (See Corn and Grain.) Penalties ... Pickles - . - Pimento ... PisTAccio Nuts Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine - 121 - a. ■ 198 - 126 - ib. - ISS - i5. MS ib. 140 142 ib. ib. ib. a. 14S ib. 14S ib. 145 148 149 ib. ib. 153 Pitts Town Porto Rico Portuguese Colonies P'ouLTRY. (See Live Stock.) Pozzolona FiteEcious Stones Prince Edward's Island Prints Provisions Pumice Stone PtWK ' ' :'-,.',. .■ ft,. Quebec. (See Canada.) ^,_ Quicksilver Pig*. - ISS - ib. w ib. . ib. " ib. - 186 - 1«7 • », " 160 - ib. ,t.u 160 ,r R. Raisins - - ' Rhubarb IbtGisTRY OF British Ships Rice •■ i njw«,-:! > ^ji|bSi»* os R«Aft Harbour ' • «^ - ROSSBAU - - * Rum. (See 8pHitif> - 160 - ib. - ib. - 175 . vm -. ib, .t.,;.i.--; ; • K , ;.'.';; S. Safflower Saffron Sails ... Saint John's (Island of) SimiT John's (New Brunswick) Saint John's (Newfoundland) Saint John's (Antigua) Saint George (Granada) Saint Ann (Jamaica) Saint Domingo. (See Jamaica.) Saint Vincent Salt - - - San Josef - - . Santa Lucea 179 ib. ib. 180 181 ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. 184 ib. -^ SS7 - S88 . S41 » ib. . ib. PHt. Tortola ... - 242 Trinidad - - - ' ib. Turk's Islands. (See Bahamas and Bermuda.) V. Vegetables Vermillion 242 ib. u. United States - " - - 242 Utensils of Husbandry. (See Settlers.) w. • ^ '■ ' '. ^ ■r , Wages of Seamen. (See Seamen.) Whale Fins - - - - 247 Whetstones .... ib. Wine - - - - - ib. Witnesses - - - ' - 250 Woro - - - - - ib. Wool 255 Writs of Assistance ... %S6 Y. Yabps. See Wood. I I I' li lW ^i li ^n - 842 . ib. lermuda.) 242 ib. - 242 en.) - 847 - ib. - ib. - 850 - ib. ' 855 - 856 r t:.V''n ? Mf!'/' ) ■'"r" h . ■ Jlfi- -rf' I •• ,'■! ^■■h--'\ '.}.\ •[!,:; Il-ilv; rtT;-.i: ;A f'^ri''j> ri^r. ■;;? Ai [I- COLLECTION OF THE STATUTES RELATING TO SHIPPING, NAVIGATION, ^c. IM THE BRITISH COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS. J'; Anno 12°Caroli II. Cap. 18. An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation. ■Vii"' F |OR the Increase of Shipping and Encouragement of the Navigation of this No Goods shall be Nation, wherein, under the good Providence and Protection of God, the imported from the Weahh, Safety, and Strength of this Kingdom is so much concerned ;* be u't"*"^ ° r^* it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, and by the Lords and Commons in ships! "* " this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority thereof, That from and after the First Day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty, and from thenceforward, no Goods or Commodities whatsoever shall be imported into or exported out of any Lands, Islands, Plantations, or Territories to His Majesty belonging or in His Possession, or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Asia, Africa, or America, in any other Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels whatsoever, but in such Ships or Vessels i as do truly and without Fraud belong only to the People of England or Ireland, ^ Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or are of the Built of and belonging to any the said Lands, Islands, Plantations, or Territories, as the Proprietors and right Owners thereof, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths of the Mariners at least are English, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture and Loss of all the Goodd and Commodities which shall be imported into or exported out of any the aforesaid Places, in any other Ship or Vessel, as also of the Ship or Vessel, with all its Guns, Furniture, Tackle, Ammunition, and Apparel; One Third Part thereof to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, One Third Part to the Governor of such Land, Plantation, Island, or Territory where such Default shall be committed, in case the said Ship or Goods be there seized, or otherwise that Third Part also to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Third Part to him or them who shall seize, inform, or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill, Information, Plaint, or A 2 other .. }ff ( J m 'pm ^f 12*CAR0LI II. Cap. 18. .»' v; ■^n ■i-M ^.n I'fri-'-'vi , Aliens shall not ezerciie the Ooou- pstion of Mer> chanta or Factors in the Plantations. Governors, &c. of nantations to take an Oath for the Observation of the afc 3«nientioned Glauaes. SS' •">ilxvrl«v* 1 lUiUi ■ Mp. Other Action, wherein no Essoin, Protedlion, or Wager of Law shall be allowed ; and all Admiral^? and other Commanders at Sea of any the Ships of War, or other Ship having Commission from His Majesty, or from His Heirs or Successors, are hereby authorized and strictly required to seize and brtns; in as Prize all such Ships ^ or Vessels as shall have offended contrary hereunto, and deliver them to the Court ^ of Admiralty, there to be proceeded against; and in case of Condemnation One Mmety of such Forfeitures shall be to the Use of such Admirals or Commanders and their Companies, to be divided and proportioned amongst them acccording to the Rules and Orders of the Sea in case of Ships taken Prize, and the other Moiety to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors. II. And be it enaded, That no Alien or Person not bom within the Allegiance of otir Soverdgn Lord the King, His Heirs and Successors, or naturalized or made a free Denizoi, shall, from and after the First Day of February which will be in the Tear of Our Lord One thousand six himdred sixty-one, exercise the Trade or Occupation of a Merchant or Factor in any of the said Places, upon pain of the Forfeiture and Loss of all his Goods and Chattels, or which are in his Possession ; One Third to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, One Third to the Governor of the Plantation where such Pjprson shall so o^end, and the other Third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of His Majesty's Courts in the Plantation where such Offence shall be committed ; and all Governors of the said Lands, Islands, . Plantations, or Territories, and everv of them, are hereby strictly required and commanded, and all who hereafter shall be made Governors of any st^ch' Islands, Plantations, or Territories, by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall, before their Entrance into their Government, take a solemn Oath to do their utmost that every the afore-mentioned Clauses, and all the Matters and Things therein contained, shall be pimctually and bond fide observed according- to the true Intent and Meaning thereof; and upon Complaint and Proof made before His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or such as shall be by Him or them thereunto authorized and appointed, that any the said Governors have been willingly and wittinely negligent in domg their Duty accordingly, that the said Governor so offendmg shall be removed from his Government. iL >;:) ,Ti'3T,- ."'Ik.v ■•ilj Officers of the XL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Officers of Stew Mv PriSege *® Customs shall, from and after the said First Day of April [One thousand six to any foreign- hundred and sixty-one], allow the Privilege of being a Ship or Vessel to England, ■ "■ ■ Ireland, Wales, or Town of Berwick, or any of them, belonging to any foreign-built Ship or Vessel, until such Certificate* be before them produced, or such Proof and Oath taken before them ; or if any Officer of the Customs shall allow the Privilege of an English-built Ship, or other Ship to any of the aforesaid Places, belonging to any English or foreign-built Ship coming into any Port, and making Entry of any Goods, until Examination whether the Master and Three-fourths of the Mariners be English ; or shall allow to any foreign-built Ship bringing in the Commodities of built Ship until Certificate or Proof, &c. * This Certificate was required in order to show that the Ship was bought by British Subjects for a valuable Consideration, and that no Foreigner had any Interest therein ; but foreign-built Ships (except Frizes, and Ships condemned under the Slave Trade Abolition Acts) are not now entitled to the Privileges of British Ships, and a new Form of Certificate of Registry is directed by 26 Geo. III. Cap. 60. 12?,CAR0LI II. Cap. 18. the Growth of the Country where it was built, the Privilege bv this Act to such Ship given, until Examination and Proof whether it be a Snip of the Built of that Country, and that the Master and Three Fourths of the Manners are of that Country, or if any Person who is or shall be made Governor of any Lvods, Islands, Plantations, or Territories in Africa, Asia, or America, by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, «hall suffer any foreign-built Ship or Vessel to load or unload any Goods or Commodities within the Precincts of thdr Governments, until such Certificate be produced before them, or such as shall be by them appointed to view the same, and Examination whether the Master and Three Fourths of the Mariners at least be English, that for the first Offience such Officer of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their Places, Offices, or Governments. > XVIII. And it is further ena&ed by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the First Day of April which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand m hundred sixty-ofte, no Sugars, Tobacco, Cotton Wool, Indicoes, Ginger, Fustick, or other Dyemg Wood of th^ Growth, Produ£Uon, or ManufikSure of ariy English Plantations in America, Asia, or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed, or transported fram any of the ^d Enfrlish Plantations to any Land, Idand, Territory, Dominion, P^, or Place whatsoever, other than to such ether English Plantations as do belong to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland, or Prindpality of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, there to be laid on shore, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the said tioods, or the full Value thereof, as also of the Ship, with all her Guns, Tackle, Apparel, Ammunition, and Furniture; the onie Moiety to the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors; and the other Moiety to him or them Aat shall /seize, inform, or sue for tho'same in any Court of Record- by Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essdn, Protection, or Wager of Law, ihall be allowed. — ^-^- ^^ XIX. And bei jS^further enaded by the Ajithority aforesaid. That for every Ship or Vessel whichf^rom and after the Five-and Ships of £ngland, Irebod, or Wales, sailing to any Enslish Plantation of America, Asia, or Africa, shdl be bound with Sure- ties to bring Goods there loaded into England, kc. fHML The respective Governors to return the Bonds taken Twice Yearlj to the Chief Offi- cers of the Cuatoms in London. — , : 4i- l^CAROLI II. Cap.;. jrforesnd Gt)od^ until sach Bond giVMi to the and Ooveiiior, or Certificate produced ^M ^e Oftcen of mf Cusftom4l6u8e of England, Iceland, Wales, or of the TdwA of Berwick, that such Bonds have been there duly given, shall be forfeited #Sth tUl her Odns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, to be employed and recovered jth Manner as aforesaid ; icai the said Governors and everv of them shall Twice in eveiyTear^ after the Tint Day of January One thousand six hundred and sixtyi retttm' true Gopjes of all such Bbnds by them so taken to the Chief OfBcers of the CtiMoms in'Lohdon. ' ■ ■ . . . ".r.a'i'i* 'n\\ ' ■ IH -li'v?!' V> Ti.:-. t'irq tni iituin »•■■' :n:^^r •/« utv^iiririf '•(?■ Anno 1 5 Caroli II. Cap. 7. An Act for the Encouragement of Trade. ■ici PlairtMions beyond V. ' /k ND in regard His Majesty's Plantations beyond the Seas are inhabited the Seat. 'XJi. and peopled by His Subjects of this His Kingdom of England, for the * maintaining a greater Correspondence and Kindness between them^ and keefang * them in a firmer Dependence upon it, and rendering them yet mor§ beneficial and ;;: ' ' . .. ' adva^geous unto it in the further Employment and Increase of English Shipping . . ,^/. * and Seamen, Vent o£ English WooUen and other Manu&ctures and ComtQodities, ; * rendering the Navigation to and from the same more safe and cheap, and making ' this Kingdom a Staple, not only of the Commodities of those Plantations, but •"'■"• * also of the Commodities of other Countries and Places, for the supplying * of them ; and it being the Usage of other Nations to keep their Plantations * Trade to themselves :' .BKtiiin.'I Commodities of / (Jie Growth and ' Manufacture of! Bntrope, how tol be imported in ^ English-built \ X-' V'^\! ■ VI. Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted, That from and after the Five>and^ twentieth Day of March One thousuid six hundred sixty-four, no Commodity of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Europe, shall be imported into any Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place to His Majesty belonging, or which shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Asia, Africa, or America (Tangier only excepted), but what shall be bona fide aitd without Fraud laden and shipped in England, Wales, or the Town (^y^'f "^'iiLi>'' I' of Berwick upon Tweed, and in Englishrbuilt Shipping, or which were bona fide ^. I ■ ' .J VIII. And, for the better Prevention of Frauds, be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted, PreTentioa That from and after the five-and*twentieth Day of March One thousand six htip- of Frauds, dred sixty and four, every Person or Persons importing by I/ . ?•» Wi ..«-o'«- fi2*&93*CAROLI II. Cap. 26. .UilfkdMi -lit! Penalty upon Officers or the Ciutomi. /.I".'iv 15 Car, 2. c. 7. tkcn (Tanglef ttily excepted), shall before the Five-^nd-twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and four, and all such as shall her«iter be nude Oorernors or Commanders of any of them, shall, before their Entrance upon the Execution of such Trust or Charge, take a solemn Oath, before such Person or Persons as shall be authorized by His Majesty, His Hdrs and Successors, to administer the same, to do their utmost within their respective Governments or Commands, to caune to be well and trulv observed what is in this Act enacted in relation to the Trade of such Lands, Islanas, Plantations, Colonies, Territories, and Places, under the Penalty of being removed out of their respective Governments and Commands } and if any of them shall be found, after the taking of such Oath, to have wittingly and willingly offended contrary to what is by this A& required of them, that they shall for such Offence be turned out of their Governments, and be incapable of the Government of any other Land, Island, Plantation, cr Colony, and moreover forfeit the Sum of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England ; the one Moiety to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of His Majesty's Courts, in any of the said Plantations, or in any Court of Recokd in England, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, shall be allowed. IX. And it is hereby f ./ther enacted, That if any OfEcer of the Customs in England, Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Sugar, Tobacco, Ginger, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Speckle Wood, or Jamaica Wood, Fustick or other Dyeing Wood, of the Grow:h of any of the said Lands, Islrmds, Colonies, Plantations, Territories, or Places, to be carried into any other Country or Place whatsoever, until they have been first unladen bona fide and put on Shore in some Port or Haven in England or Wales, or in the Town of Berwick, that every such Officer for such Offence shall forfeit his Place, and the Value of such of tne said Goods as he shall give Warrant for or suffer to pass into any other Country or Place ; the one Moiety to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record in England or Wales, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager in Law, shall be allowed. Anno 22' & 23"Caroli II. Cap.26. An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England, and for •" - , '^ ' .= ■ regulating the Plantation Trade. ; v , ^ X. ' A ND whereas by One Act of Parliament in the Fifteenth Year of His Majesty's *J\. Reign, intituled ' An Aft for the Encouragement of Trade,' it is declared, * that inasmuch as His Majesty's Plantations beyond the Seas are inhabited with His * Subjects of England for the maintaining a better Correspondency betwixt them, and ' keeping them in a firmer Dependence upon it, and rendering them yet more bene- * ficial and advantageous unto it in the further Employment and Increase of English ' Shipping and Seamen, Vent of Woollen and other Manufactures, rendering the ' Navigation to and fiom the same more safe and cheap, and making this Kingdom a * Staple, *,,. .. . 22*&23<>CAROLI H. Cap.a9. Staple, not only of the Commoditiet of thoae Plantations, but alio of die Commodhie* of other Countries, for the supplying them, ^it being the Usage of other Nations ta keep their Plantation Trades to themselves) { it was therefore enacted, that naQoodt or Commodities of Europe shall be cairied into any the Planutions of Asia». Africa, or America, but what shall boni fide be laden and shipped in England, and in English-built Ships, or Ships made free, and navisated with English, according to aA Act of Parliament on that behalf ; and that no Omcer of the Customs in EngUnd or Wales shalfgive any Warrant, or suffer any Sunr, Tobacco, and other Pfanta* tion Goods therein particularly named, to be carried into any other Country or Place whatsoever, until they have been first boni fide unladen in England, as by the said Act doth more at large appear.' XI. * Notwithstanding which, some Persons taking Advantase of the not mentioning * the repealing of the Word Ireland, in one Clause in an Act of Parliament made in the * Twelfth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, ' An Act for the Encouraging ' and Increase of Shipping and Navigation, where Bonds are directed to be taken for * all Ships that shall lade any Sugar, or other Commodities therein pardcularly men- * tioned, in any of the said Plantations, that the same Commodities shall be by the said ' Ship brought to some Port of England, Ireland, Wales, or Town or Port of Berwick, ' and shall there unload and put the same on Shore, the said Persons having either * refused to give Bond for the Return of their Ships in such Case to England, Wales, * or Town or Port of Berwick only, or, having pven such Bonds, have nevertheless * gone with their Ships to Ireland, by which means (although this Kingdom hath and * doth daily suffer a great Prejudice by the transporting great Number of the People < thereof to the said Plantations for the peopling of them; yet that the Trade of them * would thereby in a great measure be diverted firom hence and carried elsewh^e, * His Majesty's Customs and other Revenues much lessened, and this Kingdom not * continue a Staple of the said Commodities of the said Plantations, nor that Vent for * the future of the Victual and other native Commodities of this Kingdom )' be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Word Ireland shall, from and after the Twenty>fourth Day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy-one, be left out of all such Bonds which shall be taken for any Ship or Vessel which shall set sail out of or from England, Ireland, Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, for any English Plantation in America, Asia, and Africa ; and that in case the said Ship or Vessel shall load any of the said Commodities at any of the said English Plantations, that the said Commodities shall be by the said Ship or Vessel brought to some Port of England or Wales, or to the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and shall there unload and put on shore thfc same (the Danger of the Seas only excepted), and in like manner for all Ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid Plantations, who by the aforesaid Act for encouraging and Increase of Shipping are permitted to trade there ; that from and after the Nine*and-twentieth Day of^ September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and one, the Governor of such English Plantations shall, before such Ship or Vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said Com- modides, take Bond in manner and to the Value mentioned and directed in the above- mentioned Act for the encouraging and Increase of Shipping and Navigation, for each respective Ship or Vessel, that such Ship or Vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that be laden on board in the said Ship, to some other of His Majesty's English Plantation8,orto£ngland, Wales, or Town- of Berwick upon Tweed; and 8 that 9 Ui' ii'n/i 12 Car. 2 . C. 18. i 19. ' 1 ' ■». i) t -: tUti •■ (T ■, ,;,"» (•-•, iT»i"A %At i> irr'ai ni ► ui. 1' ! r'((i •M n-ir.v f ;i Vi. "' ■V .Bv>J»J :) *.i ,.' '■:. !' ;t'.,t .r:v-' * ' ^j)?iw d Ui :>■- 'I ill ifiJ Vw!,'*! The Word Ireltind ■hall b« left out of all Bonda that ahaii be taken for any Ship that ahall set sail out of or from England^ Ireland. Walei, &c. for any EngUih Plantation in America, (kc. 1 ■;' (:-a-i>.< ■-■■• What Bonds the Governors of the English Planutions aredirectedtotake. to Forfeiture. .•<» The Oofemon of theAmerieanPUn- utions to return Yeerljr to the Cuaton-houM a LbtofaUSUpe loMiiDg therein. If tbeyslnU unload ■WT Sumui, he. other than in EngUind, 8cc. The Forfititurt. (ptjin ( aecute such Ship or Vasjsl in any Court of Admiralty in England ; the one Moiety <^ the Forfeiture, in case of Condemnation, to be to His Majesty, His. Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to such Prosecutor or Prosecutors therrcf. ^/\ XIV. And lastly, it is hereby enacted, and be it i urther enacted by t^r \u'^"'^v aforesaid. That Tangier shall not be deemed or taken to be a Plan o I; s Majesty beiongifig in Asia, Africa, or America, within the Intent and Meaning of this, Act, or any of the aforementioned Acts, so as to enjoy any Right, Privilege or Benefit of Tradic/ to or from the said Plantations, or any of them y any Law, Act, Usages or Declarsttii Mo the contrary notwithstanding.. _,, ^ , ,, :,...,,, .i^. »i-. in «S.»>«M(f*9^ lll' l l l ^' 'KV'?. (' .. present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same. That firom and a^r the First Day of September which shall be m the Year of our Lord One thousand ax hundred seventy and three, if any Ship or Vessel which by Law may trade in any of Your Majesty's Plantadons, shall come to any of them to ship and take on, board any of the aforesaid Commodities, and that Bond shall not be first given, with. One sufficient Sure^, to bring the same to England or Wales, or the Town of. Berwick upon Tweed, and to no other Place, and there to unload and put the same on Shore (the Danger of the Seas only excepted)^ that there shall be answered and paid to Your Muesty, Your Heirs and Successors, for so much of thes^ Commo-, dities as shall be faded and put on board such Ship or Vessel, these folk wing Rates or Duties} that is to say. For Sunr White, the Hundred Weight, containing C^e The Rates for the hundred and twelve Pounds, Five Snillings ; and Brown Sugar and Musco -adoee, tbe/'^*<>™^pence ; for Gineer, the Hundred Weight, containing One hundred and twelve Pounds, One Shilling } for Logwood, the Huh£-ed Weight, containing One hundred and twelve Pound^ nve Pounds ; for Fustick and all other Dying Wood, the Hundred Wdsht, containing One hundred and twelve Pounds, Sixpence -, and also for every Pound of Cocoa Nuts, One Penny { to be levied, collected, and paid at such Places, and to such Collectors and other Officers as shall .='.'> hi * The Duties upon Sugur and Cotton Wool repealed by 6 Geo. 3, Chi M, Ba 1,1 Penalty. The Duty to be levied by the Com- iniasionen of the Ciistoma in England, &c. If the Party shall not have ready Money, then the CommissionerB to take a Proportion of the Commodi- tiea. r&8*GULlELMl 111. Cap.22. be appointed in the respective Plantations to collect, levy, and receive the same before the lading thereof, and under such Penalties, both to the Officers and upon the Goods, as for Non-payment of or defrauding His Majesty of His Customs in England. III. And for the better Collection of the several Rates and Duties aforesaid imposed by this Act, be it enacted, and it is hereby further enacted by the Autho. rity aforesaid. That this whole Business shall be ordered and managed, and the several Duties herebv imposed shall be caused to be levied by the Commissioners of the Customs in England now and for the time being, by and under the Authority and Directions of the Lord Treasurer of England, or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being. IV. And in case any Person or Persons liable by this Law to pay any of the Duties aforementioned shall not have Monies wherewith to answer and pay the same, be it further enac^^ by the Authority aforesaid, That the Officers appointed to collect the same shall accept, instead of such Monies, such a Proportion of the Commodities to be shipped, as shall amount to the Value thereof, according to the current Rate of the said Commodities in such Plantation respectively. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. 15 Car. 2. c 7. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. 25 Car. 2. c. 7 Goods not to be imported or ex- ported to or from the Plantations, but, in Ships built in / England, Ireland,^ or in the i'lanta- '; tions. Anno7**&8«GuLiELMilIL Cap.22. An Act for preventing Frauds, and reg^ilating Abuses in the Plantation Trade. WHEREAS, notwithstanding divers Acts made for the Encouragement of the Navigation of this Kingdom, and for the better securing and regulating the Plantation Trade, more especially One Act of Parliament made m the Twelfth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for increasing of Shipping and Navigation ;' another Act made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty, intituled ' An Act for the Encouragement of Trade;' an- other Act made in the Two-and-twentieth and Three-and-twentieth Years of his said late Majesty's Reign, intituled ' An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England, and for regulating the Plantation Trade ;' another Act made in the Twenty- fifth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty, intituled ' An Act for the Encourage- ment of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trades ;' great Abuses are daily committed to the Prejudice of the English Navigation, and the Loss of a great Part of the Plantation Trade to this Kingdom, by the /^tifice and Cunning of ill-disposed Persons : For Remedy whereof for the future,' II. Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the King's most Excel- lent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tempfi|.al, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, /That' after the Five-and-twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety-eight, \ no Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever shall be imported into or exported out of j any Colony or '^antation to His Majesty, in Asia, Africa, or America, belonging, or in his Possession, or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His' Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or shall be laden in or carried from any one Port > m or 5^5W»S'7;',;T71Pl|jr r'&ePGVLIELMl III. Cap.22; 13 or Place in the said Colonies or Plantarions to any other Port or Place in the same, the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, ' , • ■ in any Snip or Bottom but what is or shall be of the Built of England, or of the Built ' •' of Ireland, or the said Colonies or Plantations, and wholly owned by the People thereof, or any of them, and navigated with the Masters and Three-fourths of the Mariners of the said Places only, (except such Ships only as are or shall be taken as Prize, and Except Prize Ships Condemnation thereof made in one of the Courts of Admiralty in England, Ireland, and Foreign Ships or the said Colonies or Plantations, to be navigated by the Master and Three-fourths "uployed forThree of the Mariners English, or of the said Plantations as aforesaid, and whereof the J^ atoral* '" Property doth belong to Englishmen } and also except for the Space of Three Tears, such Foreign-built Ships af> shall be employed by the Commissioners of His Majefty's Navy for the Time being, or upon Contract with them in bringing only Masts, Timber, and other Naval Stores for the King's Service, from His Majesty's Colonies or Planta- . , , , tions to this Kingdom, to be navigated as aforesaid, and whereof the Property doth belong to Englishmen), under Pain of Forfeiture of Ship and GoodsJOne Third Part whereof to be to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, ~One Third Part to the Governor of the said Colonies or Plantations, and the other Third Part to the Person who shall inform and sue for the same, by Bill-, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or m any Court in His Majesty's Planta- tions, where such Offence shall be committed. Goods may be imported and exported in Prize Ships, the Master and Three-fourths of the Mariners being English. III. And be further it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That, from and after the said Five-and-twentieth Day o^ '^larch. Goods or Merchandizes may be exported or imported to and from this KL ^dom, the Colonies, Plantations, and Places aforesaid,- in any such Ships as are or shul be taken as Prize, and whereof Condemnation shall be made in one of the Courts of Admiralty aforesaid, and shall be navigated as aforesaid by the Master, Three-fourths of the Mariners English, and whereof the Property shall belong to Englishmen, and also Masts, Timber, and other Naval Stores for His Majesty's Service, for the Space of Three Years, may be imported from His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations to this Kingdom, in such Foreign-built Ships as shall be employed by the Commissioners of the Navy for the Time being, or by Contraft with them ; any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. IV. ' And whereas by One Clause in the said Act passed in the Twelfth Year of * the Reign of the late Iving Charles the Second, intituled ' An Aft for the en- 12 Car, 2. c. 18. * couraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation,' all Governors of His * Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in Asia, Africa, or America, are required to take * a solemn Oath to do their utmost that every the Clauses therein-before mentioned, * and all the Matters and Things therein contained shall be punctually and bona fide ' observed, according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof, so that the said * Governors are not strictly obliged by that Oath to put in Execution the subse- * quent Clauses of the said Act, although some of the Clauses following are of great * importance, and tend greatly to the Security of the Plantation Trade : And whereas 13 & u Car. 2. ' divers other good Laws have been made for the better regulating and securing the c- H. * Plantation Trade since the said last-mentioned Act ;' be it further enacted by the 4&5 W. & M. Authority aforesaid, That all the present Governors and Commanders in Chief of any ^ English Colonies or Plantations shall, before the Five-and-twentieth Day of March EngHsTpianta- One thousand six hundred ninety-seven, and all who hereafter shall be made tion» to taite an Governors or Commanders in Chief of the said Colonies or Plantations, or any of O&th to observe them, before their Entrance into their Government, shall take a solemn Oath to do *" *^^^ ^'""*^* '" their 14 this and the other Acts relating to the said Planta- tions. On Neglect, to be removal from his Government, and forfeit iflOOO. 15 Car. 2. c.7. Naval Officers in the Plantations to give Security to the Commissionerg of the Customs in England for Per- formance of their Duty, and in default to be disabled. Governors in the interim to be answerable. Ships coming into or going out of the Plantations liable to the same Rules, &c. as Ships in England, by 14 Car. 2. c. 11. Officers of the Revenue there to have the same 7«&8*GULIELMI III. Cap. 22. their utmost that all the Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in the before-redted Acts of Parliament heretofore passed, and now in force, relating to the said Colonies and Plantations, and that all and every the Clauses contamed in this present Act^ be punctually and bonA fide observed according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof, (which Oath shall be taken before such Person or Persons as shall be appointed by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, who are hereby authorized to administer the same), so rar as appertains unto the said Governors or Commanders in Chief respect- ively ; and upon Complsuiit and Proof made before His Majesty, His Heirs and Suc- cessors, or such as shall be by Him or them thereunto authorized and appointed, by the Oath of Two or more credible Witnesses, that any of the said Governors or Commanders in Chief have neglected to take the said Oath at the Times aforesaid, or have been wittingly or willingly negligent in doing their Duty accordingly, the said Governor so neglecting or offending shall be removed from his Government and forfeit the Sum of One thousand Pounds Sterling. V. ' And whereas by the said Act of the Fifteenth of King Charles the Second, ' intituled ' An Act for the Encouragement of Trade,' the Governors of the ' Plantations are empowered to appoint an Officer for the Performance of certain ' Things in the said Act mentioned, which said Officer is there commonly known ' by the Name of the Naval Officer : And whereas, through the Connivance or * Negligence of the Persons so appointed by the Governors of the said Plantations, * divers Frauds and Abuses are or have been committed ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every the said Officers already appointed ■shall, within Twq Months after Notice of this Act in the respective Plantations, or as soon as conveniently it may be, give Security to the Commissioners of the Customs in England for the time bdng, or such as shall be appointed by them, for His Majesty's Use, for the true and faithfulPerformance of their Duty ; and all and every Person or Persons who shall hereafter be appointed to the said Omce or Employment, shall within Two Months, or as soon as conveniently it may be, after his or their Entrance upon the said Office or Employment, give sufficient Security to the Commissioners of the Customs as aforesaid, for His Majesty's Use, for the true and faithful Performance of his or their Duty ; and in default thereof, the Person cr Persons neglecting or refusing to give such Security shall be disabled to execute the said Office or Employment ; and tmtil such Security given, and the Person appointed to the said Office or Employ- ment be approved by the Commissioners of the Customs as aforesaid, the respective Governor or Governors shall be answerable for any of the Offences, Neglects, or Misdemeanors of the Person or Persons so by him or them appointed. VI. And for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade in America, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all Ships coming into or going out of any of the said Plantations, and lading or unlading any Goods or Commodities, whether the same be His Majesty's Ships of War or Merchant Ships, and the Masters and Commanders thereof, and their Ladings, shall be subject and liable to the same Rules, Visitations, Searches, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as to the entering, lading, or discharging their respective Ships and Ladings, as Ships and their Ladings, and the Commai^ders and Masters of Ships, are subject and liable unto in this Kingdom by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for * preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesty's Customs :' And that the Officers for collecting and managing His Majesty's Revenue, and inspecting the Plant- ation IK Powers as Officer* ' of the Customs inEnghimlw Penalty on Wharf- ingers, &c. assisting in Concealment or Rescue of Goods. Like Assistance to be given the Officers; and Officers subject to the same Penalties asbyl3&l4Car.2. c. 11. General Issue. ation r&8'GULIELMI III. Cap. 22. adon Trade* in any ofthe said Plantations, shall have the same Powers and Aothoriries for visiting and searching of Ships, and t^ng their Entries, and for seizing and secure ing or bringing on shore any ofthe Goods prohibited to be imported or exported into or out of any of the said Plantations, or for which any Duties are payable or ou7;ht to have been paid by any of the before>mentioned Acts, as are provided for the C fficers ofthe Customs in England, by the said last-mentioned Act made in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and also to enter Houses or Ware- houses to search for and seize any such Goods ; and that all the Wharfingers and Owners of Quays and Wharfs, or any Lightermen, Bargemen, Watermen, Porters, or other Persons assisting in the Conveyance, Concealment, or Rescue of any of the said Goods, or in the hindering or Resistance of any of the said Officers in the Performance of their Duty, and the Boats, Barges, Lighters, or other Vessels em- ployed in the Conveyance of such Goods, shall be subject to the like Pains and Penalties as are provided by the same Act made in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, in relation to prohibited or uncustomed Goods in this Kingdom ; and that the like Assistance shall be given to the said Officers in the Execution of their Office as by the said last-mentioned Act is provided for the Officers m England ; and also that the said Officers shall be subject to the same Penalties and Forfeitures for any Corruptions, Frauds, Connivances, or Concealments, in Violation of any the before-mentioned Laws, as any Officers of the Customs in England are liable to by virtue of the said last-mentioned Act ; and also that in case any Officer or Officers in the Plantations shall be sued or molested for any thing done in the Execution of their Office, the said Officer shall and may plead the General Issue, and shall give this or other Custom Acts in Evidence, and the Judge to allow thereof, have and enjoy the like Privileges and Advantages as are allowed by Law to the Officers of His Majesty's Customs m Engird *. v.^; :/:.^'./:,' " " ": - v vil And * Fitrther ProviMion being made by mbtequent Actt relative to the entering Sh^ inwards and outwardi in the Britiih Colonies, and the Landing, Shifq>ing, Conveyance, and Conceal- ment of prohibited and uncustomed Goods there, the Clauses o^\3 8i 14 Car. II. Cap. II, as to those Matters are not inserted. The other Clauses of the Jet which relate to the searching, lading, and discliarging Sh^s ; entering Houses to seize Goods prohibited, or which have not paid the Duties m EngUmd; obstructing Officers there; assisting them in their Duty ; and the Penalties to which Officers in England are liable, for violating t^^e Laws ; and which Clauses are now extended to the British Plantations, are as follows; that is to say, Anno 13" & 14° Caroli II. Cap. 11. An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesty's Customs. IV. A ND be it hereby also enacted, That the said Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed The Power of Officers XX for managing the Customs and Officers of His Majesty's Customs, and their Deputies, are ^"^ managing the hereby authorized and enabled to go and enter aboard any Ship or Vessel, as well Ships of War aa Customs to enter and Merchant Ships, and from thence to brina on shore all Goods prohibited or uncustomed, except ve^els Jewels, if they be outwards bound, and if they be Ships or Vessels inwards bound, from thence to bring on shore into His Majesty's Storehouse as aforesaid, all small Parcels of fine Goods or other Goods which shall be found in Cabins, Chests, Trunks, or other small Package, or in any private or secret Place in or out of the Hold of the Ship or Vessel, which may occasion a just Suspicion that they were intended to be fraudulently conveyed away, and all other Sorts of Goods whatsoever, for which the Duties of Tonnage and Poundage were not paid or compounded for within Twenty Days after the First Entry of the Ship, to be put and remain in the Storehouse aforesaid, until His Majesty's Duties thereupon be justly satisfied, unless the said Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs, and Officers ofthe Customs, shall see just Cause to allow a longer Time, and that the said Person or Persons which are or shall be so appointed to manage the Customs, and 16 One-third of the Forfnturas to be to tbe King, another to the 7*&8'GUL1ELMI m. Cap.22. Vn. And it is hereby further enacted, That all the Penalties and Forfeitures before mentioned, not in this A£b particularly disposed of, shall be One Third Part to the Use of His Majesty, Ifis Hdrs and Successors, and One Third Part to the Governor of -.• Ul-llf.:.-- Ooodt cMCMled in any Ship dttr leleiTiag. PeniUy. ,^.A- Piuiithment for abuiinc Oflkan. For preventing Frauds in cwourint Strangeri Good!. I "n Foreign Goods wliere to ba landed, &c. and the Officers of the Customs and their Deputies, ma^ freely stay and remain aboard until all the Goods are delivered and discharged out of the said Ships or Vessels; and if any Master, Purser, or Boatswain, or other taking Charge in any Ship or Vessel, or any other Person whatsoever, shall suffer any Truss, Bale, Pack, Fardel, Ouk, or other Package to be opened aboard the said Ship or Vessel, and the Goods therein to be embezsled, carried away, or put in any other Form or Package after the Ship comes into the Port of her Discbarge, in every such Case the said Master, Purser, Boatswain, or others, shall forfdt the Sum of One hundred Pounds. V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in case, after the clearing of any Ship or Vessel by the Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs, or any their Deputies, and discharging the Watchmen orTidesmen frdm Attendance thereupon, there shall be found on board such Ship or Vessel any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes Vrhich have been concealed from tbe Knowledge of tne said Person or Persons Which are or shall be so appointed to manage the Customs, and for ^hich the Custom, Subsidy, and other Duties due upon the Importa- tion thereof, have not been paid ; then the Master, Purser, or other Person takitw Charge or such Ship or Vessel, shall forfeit tne Sum of One hundred Pounds : And it shall be lawral to or for any Person or Persons authorised by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of Hia Mi^esty's Court of Exchequer, to take a Constable, Headborough, or other Public Officer inhabiting near unto the Place, and in the Day-time to enter and go into any House, Shop, Cellar, Warehouse, or Room, or other Pbuse, and in case of Resistance to break open Doors, Chests, Trunks, and other Package, there to seize, and from thenoe to bring any kind of Goods or Merchandise whatsoever, prohibited and uncustomed, and to put and secure the same in His Majesty's Storehouse in the Port neit to the Place where such Seizure shall be made. VI. < And whereas of late some of the Persons appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs, ' and the Officers of the Customs and their Deputies, have been hindered, affironted, abused, beaten, ' and wounded to the Hazard of their Lives in the due Bxecution of their several Trusts and Services ' in their respective Places by armed Companies and Multitudes of Men, and Goods prohibited and '■ uncustomed have by Force and Violence, as well by Land as by Water, been forcibly carried and ' conveyed away ;' be it enacted bv the Authority aforesaid. That where any Officer or Officers shall be by anv Person or Persons, armed with Club or any Manner of Weapon, forcibly hindered, affivnted, abuscid, beaten, or wounded as aforesaid, either on board any Ship or Vessel, or upon the Land or Water in the due Eiecution of their Office, all and every Person and Persons so resuting, affiwnting, abusing, beating, or wounding the said Officer or Officers, or their Deputies, or such as shall act m their Aid or Assistance, shall by the riezt Justice of Peac^ or other Magistrate be committed to Prison, there to remain till the next Quarter Sessions, and the Justices of the Peace of the said Quarter Sessions shall and are hereby empowered to punish the Offender by Fine, not exceeding One hundred Pounds, and the Offender is to remain in Prison till he be discharged, by Order of the Exchequer, both of the Bine and of the Imprisonment, or discover the Person that set him on work ; to the End he may be legally proceeded against, X. Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That for preventing of Frauds in colouring of Strangers Goods and otherwise, every Merchant or other passing any Goo£, Wares, or Merchandizes, inwards or outwards, shall by himself or his known Servant, Factor, or Agent, subscribe one of his Bills of every Entry with tbe Mark, Number, and Contents of ever}- Parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the Piece or Measqre, and Weight of the whole Pkrcel of such €roods as are rated to pay by the Weight, without which the Officers of uie Customs shall not suffer any Entry to pass ; and that no Children of Aliens under the Age of Twenty-one Years be permitted to be Traders,' or any Goods or Merchandizes to be entered in their Names. XXI. And be it further enacted, That all foreign Goods and Merchandize, which by the Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for the managing of the Customs, and the Customer, Collector, and Comptroller, shall be permitted to be landed anduken up by Bills at Sight, Bills at View, or Sufferance, snail be landed at the most convenient Keys or Wharfs, where the said Person or Persons so to be appointed Customer, or Collector, or Comptroller shall appoint, and not elsewhere, and there, or in His Mi^ty's Storehouse of tbe respective Ports, at the Election of the said Person or Persons so to be appointed, and the Officers, shall be measured, weighed, and numbered, by wd in tbe Presence of the Officers to be thereunto particulariy appointed ; which said Officers wb appointed i ■w r&8*GULIBLMI III. Cftp.22. 17 of the Colony or Plantation where the Oflfence shall be conunitted, and the other to**""^**'^^ Third Part to such Person or Persons as shall sue for the same^ to be recovered SeoSSMo'The in any of His Majesty's Courts at Westminster, or in the Kmgdom of Ireland, or in Prosecutor, the Court of Admiralty held in His Majesty's Plantations respectively, where such Offence shall be committed, at the Pleasure of the Officer or Informer, or in any Rank, other Plantation belonging to any Subject of England, wherein no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law, shall be allowed ; and that where any Question smdl arise con- cerning the Importation or Exportation of any Goods into or out of the said proof to lie Plantations, in such Case the Proof shall lie upon the Owner or Claimer, and the on the Owner. Claimer shall be reputed the Importer or Owner thereof. «ift* VIII. * And whereas, in some of His Majesty's American Plantations, a Doubt or * Misconstruction has arisen upon the before mentioned Act, made in the Five and < twentieth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, whereby certain Dudes ' are laid upon the Commodities therein enumerated (which by Law ma;* be trans- ' ported from one Plantation to another for the Supply of each other's Wants), as if * the same were, by the Payment of those Dudes in one Plantation, discharged from * giving the Securities intended by the aforesaid Acts, made in the Twelfth, Two and * twentieth, and Three and twentieth Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, * and consequently be at Liberty to go to any Foreign Market in Europe, without < coming to England, Wales, or Berwick ; ' it is hereby further enacted and declared, That notwithstanding the Payment of the aforesaid Duties in any of the said Planta- tions, none of the said Goods shall be shipped or laden on board, until such Security shall be given, as is required by the. said Acts made in the Twelfth, Two and twentieth, and Three and twentieth .Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, to carry the same to England, Wales, or Berwick, or to some other of His Majesty's Plantations, and so toties quoties, as any of the said Goods shall be brought to be re^ipped or laden in any of the said Plantation^ under the Penalty and Forfeiture of Ship and Goods, to be divided and disposed of as aforesaid. 25 Car. II. c. 7.4 No Goods to be shipped, though Duties paid in the PlantatiODS, until Security be given as required by 12 Car. II. c. 18. 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 26. on Forfeiture of Ship and Goods. appointed shall perfect the Entry, and thereunto shall subscribe thar Names, and the next Day following shall give Account and make Report of every respecti^^e Entry so perfected as aforesaid to the said Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed to manage His M^esty's Customs, Customer, . or Collector and Comptroller aforesud, without reasonable Cause to be allowed by the said Person or Persons, or Officers aforesaid ; or in default thereof shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds. XXXIJ. And be it further enacted and ordained. That all Officers belonging to the Admiralty, xu Penon* to be Captains and Commanders of Ships, Forts, Castles, and Block-houses, as also all Justices of the Peace, aiding. Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, and Headboroughs, and all the King's Majesty's Officers, Ministers, and Subjects whatsoever, whom it may concern, shall be aiding and assisting to all and every Person and Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty to manage His Customs, and the Officers of His Majesty's Customs and their respective Deputies, in the due Execution of all and every Act and Thing in and by this present Act required and etijoined, and all such who shall be tuding and assisting unto them in the due Execution hereof shall be defended and saved harmless by virtue of this Act. XXXIV. Provided also, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person employed penoM cnptoyed ibout His Majesty's Customs shall demand or Uke any other or greater Sum of Money than by Law is the CuKonw ibaUnot now due or hereafter shall become due, or shall putanv Merchant or other Person out of his Turn demand aor tOe any ■ '^ ' * " ■ - - - Persons who are "«?•'?"*'*'•*• for the Customs. ^^V^"- Repayment^ and Allowances which are or shall be due since the Four and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred and sixty, or shall not, after Notice given, give out and execute his Warrant, shall be liable to Double Costs and Damages. C IX. And in . -y ';.'T>"i"'V^tf^'T'' IS 7*«r6ULIBLMI III. Cap.22. Lnwt, By-lkwa, IX. Afid it is further enacted wad declared by the Authoritv aforesaid, That all &c. of FUnutioni. La^ivs, By-laws, Usages, or Costoms at this Time, or which hereafter shall be in Act"to^Told. PfJWtice, or endeavoured mentioned Laws, or anv of them, so far as they do raate to the said Plantations or any of them, or whicn are anyways repugnant to this presoit Act, or to any other Law hereafter to be made in this Kingdom, so far as such Law shall relate to and mention the said Plant- atiras, are illegal, null, and void, to dl Intents and Purposes whatsoever. ■?^ A.'..- Officers suspecting Certificate, to take Security for Dis- charge of the Planution Ladiiw, and not to cancM Certificate tiU informed of the Truth. Penalty on Persons counterfeiting Cocket, &c. If Actions brought in Plantations Junr to be Natives of England, Ireland, or Plant- ations : X. * And whereas great Frauds and Abuses have been committed by Scotch- * men and others in the Plantation Trade, by obtruding false and counterfeit Certifi* * cates upon the Governor and Officers in the Plantations appointed by His Majesty's ' Gomnussioners of the Customs in England, of having given Security in this King- * dom to bring the Ladings of Plantation Goods to England, Wales, or Town of * Berwick upon Tweed, as also Certificates of having discharged their Lading of * E^antation Goods in this Kingdom, pursuant to Securities taken in the Plantation, * and also Cockets or Certifichtca of having taken in their Ladings of European * Goods in England, Wales, or Berwick, by meanb whereof they may carry the ' Goods of Scotland, and other Places of Europe, without shipping or lading the ' same in England, Wales, or Berwick, to His Majesty's Plantations, and also carry * the Goods of the Plantations directly to Scotland, or to any other Market in * Europe, without bringing the same into England, Wales, or Town of Berwick ' upon Tweed ;' it is hereby further enacted, That in such Cases where the Governor or Officers appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs in the Plantations shall have reasonable Ground of Suspicion that such Certificates are fiilse or counterfeit, (that is to say) that the Certificate of having given Security in England is false, in such Case the Governor or Officers appointed by the Commis- sioners of the Customs shall refbire and take sufficient Security there for the Discharge of the Plantation Lading in England, Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and in such Case where there shall be cause to suspect that the Certi- ficate of having discharged her Lading of Plantation Goods in this Kingdom is false or counterfeit, the Governor or Officers aforesaid shall not cancel or vacate the Security given in the Plantation, until he or they shall be informed from the Commissioners of the Customs in England that the Matter of the said Certificate . is true ; and if any Person or Persons shall counterfeit, rase, or hlsify any Cocket, Certificate, Return, or Permit for any Vessel or Goods, or shall knowingly or willingly make use thereof, such Person or Persons shall forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, to be recovered and disposed of as aforesaid ; and the Cocket, Certificate, Return, or Permit so counterfeited, rased, or falsified, shall be invalid and of no Effect. XI. And for the better executing the several Acts of Parliament relating to the Plantation Trade, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Lord Treasurer, Commissioners of the Treasury, and the Comnussioners of the Customs in England for the Time being, shall and may constitute and appoint such and so many Officers of the Customs in any City, Town^ River, Port, Harbour, or Creek of or belonging to any of the Islands, Tracts of Land, and Proprieties, when and as often as to them shall seem needful : Be it further also enacted, That upon any Actions, Suits, and Informations that shall be brought, commenced, or entered in the said Plantations, upon any Law or Statute concerning His Majesty's Duties, or Ships or Goods to be forfeited M "%' ;*&8*6ULIBLMI UI. Oap.22. 19 .<«■ orfdtedby reason of any unlawful Importations or Exporfttlon^ theit dudU not \ft any Jury but of such only as are Natives of England or Ireland^ or are born in His Majesty's said Plantations ; and also that uponul such Actions, Suits, and Inform* Off«no«tolMi«d ations, the Offences may be laid or alleged to be in any Colony, Province, County, '" «>y Colony, f^i Precinct, or Division of any of the said Plantations where such Offences are «,/V'' alleged to be committed, at the Pleasure of die Officer or Informer. Xn. Provided always, That all Places of Trust in the Courts of Law, or what Places of Tnut relates to the Treasury of the said Islands, shall from the making of this Act be jn to be in the Handi the Hands of the native-born Subjects of England or .Ireland, or of the said Islands. °f *^^ Natives. ^ ,.!< rp, ■ ;. r.. ••'}.*( i XIII. < And whereas by the said Act made in the Two and twentieth and Three ,f * and twentieth Yr rs of the Reign of His said late Majesty King Charles the * Second, the Bonds required to be given in the Plantations by virtue of the said * Act for encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation, are altered, and the * Word Ireland to be left out of the Condition of all such Bonds ; and by the said * Act it is enacted and provided, that for such Ships or Vessels coming from other * Ports or Places to any of the said Plantations, which by the said Act for encouraging * and Increase of Shipping, were permitted to trade there, the Governors of sucn * English Plantations should, before the said Ship or Vessel should be permitted to * load on board any of the Commodides in the said Act particularly mentioned, take * Bond in manner and to the Value mentioned and directed in the above-mentioned * Act for encouraging and Increase of Shipping and Navigation, for each respective * Ship or Vessel, that such Ship or Vessel shall carry all the afor«iaid Goods that should * be laden on board in the said Ship to some other of His Majesty's English Plantations, * or to England, Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed : But because no Provision ' hath hitherto been made for the retur ing and producing Certificates, within some * reasonable limited Time of the landing and discharging- such Goods, according to ' the Condition of the said Bonds, and also because many times it hath happisned < that the Sureties taken m the said Bonds have been Persons not resident in thf said ' Plantations, but of uncertain and unknown Abodes, th t said Bonds have proved * ineffectual to the good Purposes intended by the said Acts ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all such Bonds to be hereafter given or taken in the Surety of Bonds said Plantations, the Sureties therein named shall be Persons of known Residence and to be of Ability. Ability in the said Plantations, for the Value mentioned in the said Bonds ; and that the Condition of the said Bonds shall be, within Eighteen Months after the Date thereof, (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce Certificate of having landed and dis- . charged the Goods therem mentioned in one of His Majesty's said Plantations, or in . < England, Wales, or Berwick upon Tweed ; otherwise such Bond or Copies thereof, ; » beine attested under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief to whom such Bonds were given, shall be in force and allowed of in any Court in England, Ireland, or the Plantations, as if the Original were produced in Court by the Prosecutor. r o ^ ; XVI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all Persons and Persons not to sell their Assignees claiming any Right or Propriety in any Islands or Tracts of Land Plantations hi upon the Continent of America by Charter or Letters Patents, shall not at any Time s'weT ^f *" hereafter aliene, sell, or dispose of any of the said Islands, Tracts of Lands, or Pro- Eyand,&c. prieties, other than to the natural-born Subjects of England, Ireland, Dominion of C a Wales, f? 90 Govemontobs approfcd of by the King, and to take the Otthi. Peniltjr. InclUb-buiU Shipe to be regiatered, and Proof madf ^ OB Oath. / ^> V \ H; v^.. V The Oath. *^. .^*^ V Oath to be attested by the Governor, und a Duplicate to be transmitted. Penalty on Ship trading to America without Proof of her Built. 4 "^ * 7*&8*OULIBLMI III. Cap. 22. Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, without the Licence and Consent of His Mbjetty, His Hdre and Successors, signified by his or thdr Order in Council, first had anid obtained ; and all Oovemors nominated and appointed by anv such Persons or Proprietors, who shall be entitled to make such Nonunation, shall oe allowed and approved of bv His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, as aforesaid, and shall take the Oaths enjomed by tnis or any other Act to be taken by the Oovemors or Com- manders in Chief in other His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations, before their entering upon their respective Governments, under the like Penalty as His Majesty's Governors and Commanders in Chief are by the said Acts liable to. t XVn. And for a more effectual Prevention of Frauds which may be used to elude the Intention of this Act, by colouring Forogn Ships under English Names, be it further enacted by the Autnority aforesaid, That from and after the Five and Twentieth Day of March which shall be in the Tear of our Lord One thousand sue hundred ninety-eight, no Ship or Vessel whatsoever shall be deemed or pass as a Ship of the Built of England, Ireland, Wales, Berwick, Guernsey, Jersey, or any of His Maje^'s Plantadons in America, so as to be qualified to trade to, from, or in any of the said Fkntatioos, until the Person or Persons claiming Property in such Ship or Vessel sETall register the same as followeth^ that is to say. If the Ship' at the lime of such Register doth belong to any Port in England, Ireland, Wales, or to the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, then Proof shall be made upon Oath of One or more of the Owners' of such Ship or Vessel, .before the Collector and Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs in sudi Port ; or if at the Time of sUch Redster the Ship belong to any of His Majesty's Plantadons in America; or to the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, then the like Proof to be made before the Governor, together with the Prin- cipal Officer of His Majesty's Revenue residing on such Plantation or Island ; which Oath the said Governors and Officers of the Customs respectively are hereby authorized to administer in the Tenor following, viz. ■ ;:;.(. (Name) of (Port) whereof is at present Master, being a (Kind of Tons, was built at (Place where) and that (Owner's Name) of of, &c. are at present Owners thereof; and that no Foreigner, directly or indirectly, hath any Share or F^t or Interest 'therein.* . . „• . / , .,■,.. , , ^ XVIir. "Which Oath, bdn^ attested by the Governor or Custom Officer respec. tively who administered the same under their Hands and Seals, shall, after having been registered by them, be delivered to the Master of the Ship for the Security of her Navigation, a Duplicate of which Register shall ut immediately transmitted to the Commissioixers of His Majesty's Customs in the Port of London, in order to be entered in a General Register to be there kept for this Purpose ; with Penalty upon any Ship or Vessel trading to, from, or m any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, after the ssud Five and twentieth Day of March, and not having made Proof of her Built and Property, as is here directed, that she shall be liable, and she is hereby made liable, to such Prosecution and Forfeiture as any Foreign Ship (except Prizes condemned m the High Court of Admiralty) would, for trading with thtte Plantations, by this Law be liable to. XII. Pro- ' JURAT' A. B. That the Ship ' «l (Master's Name) * Built) of (Burthen) ' in the Year (Time when) * ' and ^i XIX. Pro 1)Y Letters of rftO-GULIELMI III. Cap. 80. X r Prise Ships to bk regUterea, and Osth made that the Propertj ia English. Hoys, fcc. not t(K always, That all such Ships as have been or «h^" brtaken at Sea UT «J«».^.^> >'. "-iKt or Reprisal, and Condemnation thereof a m Uie Ifigh Court of Admiralty of Eneland as lawful Prize, shall be nedally renstered, mentioning the Capture and Condemnatifv-T."'«'i if ■>>,"'j'4 '"Vj ii«A ' Vir\i^lfi"^fi< ■■'if.^'rH <• !.., ...'i, ,\...*»r-Cvw.:-i-.^ •f*'^'^7Ai/. : Auno8"&9"GuLiELMi III. Cap.20. ' An Act for making good the Deficiencies of several Funds therein mentioned, and for enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bs^k of England ; and for raising the Public Credit. '1 -.■-, LXIX [. Pro- .< A ND whereas, by an A£l of Parliament made in the Seventh and Eighth *-l\. Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled • An Act for prevent- < ing Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade,' it is amongst other Things ' therein enacted, that all the present Governors and Commanders m Chief of any * English Colonies or Plantations shall, before the flve-and>twentieth Day of March * One thousand six hundred and ninety*seven, and all who shall be made Governors or ' Commanders in Chief of the sdd Colonies or Plantations, or any of them, before * the entering into their Governments, shall take a solemn Oath to do their utmost * that the Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in One Act of Parliament made in ' the Twelfth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second, intituled * An ' Act for encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation ;' and One other * Act made in the Fifteenth Year of His said bte Majcsty^s Reign, intituled • An 7&8W.3.C.22. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. 15 Car. 2. 0.7. n 7k%W.t.9.2SI. FtethirTlme iHowml for admbittering and taUng the Oathi. KMfcll'GULIELMl III. Cap. 10. ' * Aik^t !Eftcouikg«tii«nt of Trade ;' and also the odd Act made in the Sevendi afid * l^hth Yean of the Reign of His present Majesty, indtuled * An Act for preventinf * Frauds and reguladng ^uses in the I^antation Trader* be punctually and boni fide ' < observed, according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof, so far as appertains * unto the said Governors or Commanders in Chief respectively : And whereas the * Persons appubted to administer the said Oaths are by some Accidents prevented * from performing the same within the Time limited by the said Act :' To the End, * therefore, that the good Intent of the said Act may not be disappointed for want of * Time to put the same in Execution, be it therdfbre enacted, That further Time shall be allowed for administri-mg the said Oath, and that all present Governors and Conunanders in Chief of any English Colonies or Plantations shall, before the Five* and-twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety-eight, and who shall hereafter be made Governors or Commanders in Chief of the said Colonies or Plant* ations, or any of them, sha!!, at their Entrance upon their respective Governments, or within the Space of Six Months after the same, take a solemn Oath to do their utmost that all the Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in the before-recited Acts of Parliament, or any of them, heretofore passed, and nov in force, relating to the said Colonies and Plantations, be punctually and boni fide observed, according to the i^ue bitent and Meaning thereof, (which Oath shall be taken before such Perp^cf.^ or Persons as shall be appointed by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, who arc hereby authorized to administer the same,) so far as appertains to the Governors or Conunanders in Chief respectively. * — ™~^ It '?i-;*.i:A*Lr-i ,,;:.«.• :i AiinolO"&ir GuLiELMi III. Ca;)..iO. An Act to prevent the Exportation of Wool out of the Kingdoms of Ireland and England into Foreign Parts ; and for the Encourage- ment of the Woollen Manufacturer in the Kingdom of England. AND for the more effectual Encouragement of of this Kingdom, be it further enacted by ths the Woollen Manufacture No Wool, &c. of XIX. Engliah Plantation! "^^ °^ ^^ Kingdom, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Aniericu, shall be from and after the First Day of December in the Year oi' Our Lord One thousand in exported. six hundred and ninety-niuv?, no Wool, Woolfells, Shortlings, Mortlings, Woolflocks, Worsted, Bay, or Woollen Yarn, Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, Drug- gets, Cloth Serges, Shalloons, or any other Drapery Stuffs, or Woollen Manufactures whatsoever, made or mixed with Wool or Woolflocks, being of the Produ<;t or Manufacture of any of the English Plantations in America, shall be loaden or laid on board ,in any Ship or Vessel, in any Place or Parts within any of the said English Plantations upon any Pretence whatsoever ; as likewise, that no such Wool, Woolrells, Shortlmgs, Mortlings, Woolflocks, Worsted, Bay, or Woollen Yarn, Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth Serges, Shalloons, or any other Drapery Stufl^ or Woollen Manufactures whatsoever made up or mixed with Wool or Wool- flocks, being of the Product or Manufacture of any of the English Plantations in America as aforesaid, shall be loaden upon any Horse, Cart, or other Carriage, to the Intent and Purpose to be exported, transported, carried, or conveyed out of the said English »:• l(r&ll*Oi;LI£LMI III. Cap. 10. English PlantatkniB to any other of the said Plantations, or to any other Place whatso- ever, upon the same and tike Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to and upon all and «very the oiender and Offenders herein, within all and every of the said English Plantatioub respectively, as are prescribed and provided by this Act for the like OflFences com- mitted witnin the Kingdom of Ireland } and all Governors or Commanders in CMef of the said respective Plantations, as also all Officers employed in the Customs or other Branches of His Majesty's Revenue there, are hereby authorized, charged, and required to take effectual Care that the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, so far forai as it relates to the said req)ective Plantations, be duly put m Execution*. .V'jip; iif.- V'nV .b; rtill^ftirf''- ii'! I i' ;j.'. * The Paint, Penalties, and Forfeitures provided bjf the Act, y. '"■:] r' ' ". " as to Quinces committed in Ireland, are contained in '■' "^-- ' • r ."" ^"•'*;' the folkming Sections, that is to sm/, IwtfealUn uMsissin .•^n\nk 04 "lot ut, ««sj)-*w ltd II. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every of the Pcnaltieion Offender and Offenders, Offence and Offences aforesiud, shall be subject and Offbnden. liable to the respective Pains, and Penalties, and Forfeitures hereafter following; «!"<"i (that is to say). The ssud Wool, Woolfells, Shortlings, Mortlings, Woolfloc^ Worsted, Bay, or Woollen Yam, Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, Drug- gets, Cloth Serges, Shalloons, or any other Draperies, Stuffs, or any odier Manufac- tures made of or mixed with Wool or Woolflocks, so exported, transported, shipped off", or carried, conveyed, or loadei> contrary to the true Intent and Meamne of this Act, shall be forfeited ; and that every of the Offender and Offenders dierein snail likewise forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds for every such Offence ; and all and every ■ Ship, Vessel, Barge, Boat, or other Bottom whatsoever, wherein any of the said Commodities are or shall be shipped or laid on board, contrary to tne true Intent and Meaning of {his Act, shall be forfeited, with all her Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture to them and every of tliem belonging; and the Masters and Mariners By3 0. i.e. 21. thereof, or any Porters, Carriers, Waggoners, Boatmen, or other Persons whatsoever, j 4. One Moiety knowing such Offence, and wittingly adding and assisting therem, shall forfeit Forty »^ven to the Pounds, of which One Moiety shall be to him or them that shall sue for the same ^"^' by Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record in England or Ireland, and the other Moiety thereof to the Encouragement of setting up the Linen Manufactures m Ireland, to be disposed of by the Court of Exchequer there for that Use only ; in which Suit no.Essoigu, Protection, or Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That it shall and may j^ Penon may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons to seize, take, secure, and convey to His seize all such Majesty's next Warehouse all such Wool, Woolfells, Shortlings, Mortlings, Wool- Wool, he. flocks. Worsted, Bay, or Woollen Yarn, CloA, Serges, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, fj". Druggets, Cloth Serges, Shalloons, Stuffs, and other Draperies md Woollen Manu- factures, or mixed with Wool or Woolflocks, as he or they shall happen to see, find, know, or discover to be laid on board in any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, or to be brought, carried, or laid on shore at or near the Sea, or any navigable River or Water, to the Intent or Purpose to be exported or conveyed out of the said Kingdom " ' of Ireland, contrary to the true Meaning of this Act, or to be laden upon any Horse, Cart, or other Carriage, to the Intent or Purpose to be exported, conveyed, or carried into any foreign Parts or Places, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning hereof; and /^ 94 I) ihiuttt and abo the Ship, Hulk, ke< Stint indemnified for w doing. Certiflofttei to be written on Paper, fco. Penalty on Com* mtMioner or Officer of the Ciutomi, fcc. ]0*&li*GULIELMI III. Cap. 10. and alto that it ihall and may be lawfol to and for any Person and Persons to adze and secure all and every such Ship, Hulic, Vessel, Barae, or Boat of what kind soerer, or wheresoever found or discovered, wherein any of the aforesaid Commodides shall happen to be shipped or put on board, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act; and that such Person or Persons that shall happen so to seize, take, or secure any of the Commodities aforesaid, or any such Ship, Vessel, Hulk, Barge, or Boat as aroresaid, shall be indemnified for so domg to all Intents and Purposes. IX. And for preventins the mischief of rasins, obliterating, or interlinine such Certificates as albresaid, oe it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all such Certificates shall be written upon Paper, and not Parchment, and that the Quantities and Quadities, Marks and Numbers therein expressed, shall not be obliterated or interlined upon any Pretence whatsoever. XI. ' And to the Intent and Purpose that this Act may more effectually be put in * Execution, for preventing the growing Mischiefs that daily do or may arise to this ' Kinedom from the Exportation of such Goods as aforesaid, or any uf them, out ' of the Kingdom of Ireland, should the same still be suffered to be sent from thence * to supply the Foreign Markets that are or have been supplied from England }' be it further enacted by Uie Authority aforesaid. That if any Commissioner or Commis- sioners, Farmer or Farmers of the Revenue of Ireland, or Officer or Officers employed under diem m the Management of the said Revenue there, shall, from and after the said Four>and-twentieth Day of June, take or suffer to be taken any Entry outward, or sign any Cocket, Warrant, or Sufferance for the shipping and exporting any such Goods as aforesaid into any Kingdom, State or Dominion whatsoever (except as aforesaid)^ or shall wittingly or willingly permit, contrive, or suffer the same to be , done, directly or indirecdy, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, that ^,,,,1, ' then and in every such Case such Commissioner or Commissioners, Farmer or Farmers, Officer or Officers, so offending in the signing such Cocket, Warrant, or Sufferance for the shipping or exporting any of the said Goods into any other Kingdom, State, or Dominion, or Place whatsoever (except as aforesaid), or passing such Entry for the same, or anywise conniving thereat, contrary to the true Intent and Meanins hereof, or shall otnerwise fail or neglect to perform all other Duties required by this present Act, shall for every such Offence or Neglect forfeit his Office, and shall moreover for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, to be recovered and employed in Manner and Form as aforesaid. Pertonii sued for ZIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action, executing this Act, ^iW, Plaint, Suit, or Information, shall be commenced or prosecuted aeainst any B«l &'. °" Person for what he shall do in pursuance of this Act, such Person so sued shall and ' may file a Common Bail, or enter into a Common Appearance, and plead the General Issue Not Guilty, and upon Issue joined may give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence ; and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit, or suffer Discon* tinuance, or if a Verdict pass against him, or if upon Demurrer Judgment pass against Treble Cosu. him^ th^ Defendant shall recover Treble Costs and Damages for the I^oles^tion, -1- '■,. l(y>&U GULIELMI III. Cap.35. 9X t V Ul) 4 > ecu to rule Anno 10« & 11° GuLTELMi III. Cap.25. An Act to encourage the Trade to Newfoundland. » - » TT/HER i^AS the Trade of and Fishing at Newfoundland is a beneficial Trade * VV to this Kingdom, not only in the employing great Numbers of Seamen and * Ships, and exporting and consuming great Quantities of Provisions and Manufactures * of tnis Realm, whereby many Tradesmen and poor Artificers arc kept at work, but * also in bringing into this Nation, by Returns of the Effects of the said Fishery from * other Countries, great Quantities of Wine, Oil, Plate, Iron, Wool, and sundry ' other useful Commodities, to the Increase of His Majesty's Revenue, and the En- * couragement of Trade and Navigation ;* be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, ^d Comnwns, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from henceforth it shall and may be lawful for all His Majesty's Subjects, King's Subw residing within this His Realm of England, or the Dominions thereunto belonging, h»»efreeTi trading or that shall trade to Newfoundland, and the Seas, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, »« Newfoundland. Harbours in or about Newfoundland, or any of the Islands adjoining or adjacent thereunto, to have, use, and enjoy the free Trade and Trafiick, and Art of Merchan- dize and Fishery, to and from Newfoundland, and peaceably to have, use, and enjoy the freedom of taking Bait and Fishing in any of the Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, Harbours^ or Roads in or about Newfoundland, and the said Seas, or any of the Islands adjacent thereunto, and Liberty to go on shore on any Pa|t of Newfoundland, or any of the said lsland.0, for the curing, salting, drying, and husbanding of their Fish, and for snaking of Oil, and to cut down Woods and Trees there for building and making or repairing of Stages, Ship-rooms, Trainfats, Hurdles, Ships, Boats, and other Necessaries for themselves and their Servants, Seamen and Fishermen, and all other Things which may be useful or advantageous to their Fishing Trade, as fully and freely as at any Time heretofore hath been used or enjoyed there by any of the Sub- jects of His Majesty's Royal Predecessors, without any Hinderance, Interruption, Penial, or Disturbance of or from any Person or Persons whatsoever ^ and that no Alien or Stranger whatsoever (not residing within the Kingdom of England, Dominion No Alien or of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed) sha^ at any Time hereafter take any Stranger to bolt Bait, or use any Sort of Trade or Fishing whatsoever in Newfoundland, or in any of '" Newfoundland, the said Islands or Places above mentioned. IX. And be it further enacted by the Ajuthority aforesaid, That every Master of a By-boat or By-boats stiall carry with him at least Two frosh Men in Six, viz. One )Man that hath made no more than One Voyage, and One Idan who hath never been at Sea before; and that every Inhabitant shall be obliged to employ Two such fresh Men as the By-boat Keepers are obliged for every Boat kept by them ; and further, that all Masters of Fishmg Ships shall carry with them in their Ship's Company at least One such fresh Man that never was at Sea before, in every Five Men they carry ; and that the Master of each such By-boat, and each such Fishing Ship, shall ike Oath before the CoUedlor or other Principal Officer of the Customs of the Pc or Ports from whence such Ship intends to sail, that each Ship and By-boat'o Company have such fresh Men therein as this Act directs j and that the said Officer or Officers D is By-boatB to carry Two fresh Men in Six. Inhabitant obliged to emplov Two such fresh Men. Master of Fishing Ship to carry One fresh Man in Five, and make Oath thereof. 26 3''&4''ANNiE. Cap.5. is and are hereby empowered and required to administer the aforesaid Oath to the Certificate grati:). said Masters of Ships and By-boats, and give a Certificate thereof under his Hand without any Fee, Gratuity, or Reward for so doing. . Every Fifth Man X. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That every Master or a Green-mao. Owner of any Fishing Ship going to Newfoundland (after the said Twenty-fifth Day of March) shall have m his Ship's Company every Fifth Man a Green-man ; (that is to say), not a Seaman, or having been ever at Sea before. Anno 3° & 4^ Annje. Cap.5. An Act for granting to Her Majesty a further Subsidy on Wines and Merchandizes imported. Xn.* A ND whereas by the Acts made in the Twelfth and Five-and-twentieh Years of *jl\. the Rdgn of His late Majesty King Charles the Second, the former intituled * 'An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation,* and the * latter intituled ' An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trade, * and for the better securing the PlantationTrade,' certain Commodities therein enume- * rated of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of any of the English Plantations * in America, Asia, or Africa, are obliged to be imported into this Kingdom of England, * Dominion of Wales, or Tovm of Berwick upon Tweed, or to some other of the * said Plantations, under the Securities and Penalties in the said Acts particularly ' mentioned, to the End this Kingdom might be made a Staple, not only of the Com- * modities of those Plantations, but also of the Commodities of other Countries, for * supplying them ; since the making of which Laws, several Commodities which are * not in the said Acts particularly enumerated, such as Rice and Melasses are * produced and made in the said Plantations, and carried to divers Foreign Markets * in Europe, without being first brought into this Eangdom, Dominion of Wales, or ' Town of Berwick upon Tweed, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the * afores^d Laws, to the great Prejudice of the Trade of this Kingdom, and the * lessening the Correspondence and Relation between this Kingdom and the aforesaid * Plantations :' For the Prevention whereof for the future, be it enacted by the Autho- From S^t. 29, rity aforesaid. That from and after the Nine-and-twentieth Day of September One ] 705, Rice and Me- thousand seven hundred and five, all Rice and Melasses shall be under the like ^^iVs*** "v " Securities and Penalties, restrained to be imported into this Kingdom, Dominion as other Plantation o^ Wales, and Town of Berwick aforesaid, as by the fore-recited Acts or either of Goods, &c. them is provided for the Goods therein particularly enumerated. 3»&4*ANN^. Cap.8. 27 ' Anno 3° & 4° An N^. Cap.8. ' An Act to permit the Exportation of Irish Linen Cloth to the Planta- tions, and to prohibit the Importation of Scotch Linen into Ireland. WHEREAS in and by an Act made in the Fifteenth Year of the Rdgn of 15 Car.2.c. 7, His late Majesty lung Charles the Second, intituled * An Act for the Encouragement of Trade,* it is amongst other Things enacted, that no Commodity of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Europe, shall be imported mto any Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place to His Majesty belonging, or which shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Asia, Africa, or America (except as is therein excepted), but what shall be boni fide, and without Fraud, ladeh and shipped in England, Wale% or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, under the Penalties in the said Act contained ; yet forasmuch as the Protestant Interest in Her Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland ought to be supported, by giving the utmost Encouragement to the Linen Manu- factures of that Kingdom, Her Majesty is graciously pleased, in tender Regard to Her good Protestant Subjects of Her said Kingdom ; and for the further Encourage- ment of the Linen Manu&ctures thereof,' that it: may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same. That from and after the Four-and-twentieth Day After 24th June of June One thousand seven hundred and five, it shall and may be lawful to and for 1705, Irish Linen any Native or Natives of England or Irehnd to lade and stup in any Port of the roavbetraiiBported said Kingdom of Ireland, in English-built Shipping, whereof the Master and One SiS p£^u- Moiety of the Mariners during the present War, and afterwards the Master and tions. Three Fourths of the Mariners at least to be English or Irish, any White or Brown Linen Cloth, which shall be of the Manufacture of the said Kingdom of Ireland, and no other, and the same to transport in such Ships, and so navigated into any of the said Lands, Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Territories, or Places, and there freely to trafSck with and vend the same ; any thing in the said Act, or in any other Act, to ^he contrary thereof m anywise notwithstanding. II. Provided nevertheless, That no Ship or Vessel coming to any of the said Lands, Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Territories, or Places from the said Kingdom of Ireland, shall unlade or break Bulk until the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall first have made known to the Governor of such Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place, or to such Person or OfHcer as shall be by him thereunto authorized and appointed, the Arrival of the said Ship or Vessel, with herName, and theNameandSurname of the Master orCommander, and shall have delivered to such Governor or Officer a true and perfect Inventory or Invoice of the Lading of such Ship or Vessel, together with a Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Port in Ireland where such Ship or Vessel shall be laden, expressing the Pardculars of such Lading, with the Names and Abodes of the Exporters, and of Two Persons at the least who shall have made Oath before such Chief Officer that thie said Goods and Linen are bonA fide of the Manufacture of the said King- D a dom No Ship to break Bulk until Notice of Arrival be first given to the Governor ; and an Invoice of the Lading, &c. delivered. 28 Penalty on Com- mander offending. 3''&4»ANNJE. Cap. a dom of Ireland, and until the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall have made Oath before such Governor or Officer, that the said Goods and every Parcel thereof are the same Goods, that he the said Master or Commander took on board by virtue of such Certificate as is aforesaid, nor until such Ship or Vessel shall have been visited and searched by an Officer or Officers ; and in case the Commander of any such Ship or Vessel shall unlade or break Bulk before such Notice given, and such Certificate produced, and such Oath made by such Com- mander, or before such Search made as aforesaid, or if upon such Search any Goods whatsoever of Woollen Manufacture, not laden in England (necessary Apparel of the Commander and Mariners only excepted), or any Linen Goods not laden in England, nor of the Manu&cture of Ireland, shall be round in such Ship or Vessel, in all or any of the said Cases such Ship or Vessel shall be and is hereby adjudged forfeited, vnth all her Guns, Tackle, Ammunition, and Furniture, together with all such Goods and Commodities, of what Kind soever, as shall be imported or found in such Ship ; One Third Part to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, One Third Part to the Governor of such Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place into which such Goods shall be imported, if the said Ship, Vessel, or Goods be there seised, informed against, or sued for (or otherwise that Third Part also to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors), and the other Third Part to him or them who shall sue for the same in Her Majesty's Court in such of the said Lands, Islands^ Colonies, Plantations, Territories, or Places where the Offence shall be committed, or in any of Her Majesty's Courts at Weftminfter, by Bill, Plaint, Information, or other Acticni, wherein no Essoign, Protection^ or Wager of Law, shall be allowed. Ships coming from Ireland liable to be visited in like manner as Ships from England. Persons sued may plead the General Issue. III. And be it further enacted. That all Ships coming from Ireland to any sucb Land, Island, Colony, Plantation, Territory, or Place, shall be subject to the same Rules, Visitations, Searches, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to which Ships coming froiA England to any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Places, are subject or liable to by any Law now in force. VIII. And it is hereby further enacted. That if any Person or Persons be sued, molebicd, or prosecuted for or by reason of any Seizure made in pursuance of this Act, such Person and Persons may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if afterwards a Verdict shall pass for the Defend- ant or Defendants, or if the Plaintiff shall discontinue his Action, or be nonsuited, or if Judgment be given against him, then such Defendant or Defendants shall have Double Costs. Suits to be com- menced within Twelve Months after Offence. Proviso concerning English Ships laden for the Plantations, &c. IX. Provided always. That all Informations, Actions, and Suits to be brought for any Offence against this Act, shall be brought and commenced within Twelve Months after the Discovery of such Offence. X. Provided also, and be it enacted, That if any Ship or Vessel, being laden with Goods in England, Wales, or Berwick upon Tweed, for any of the Plantations aforesaid, shall put into any Port or Place in Ireland, and shall there take in any White or Brown Irish Linen Cloth, in that Case the like Certificate and Oaths shall be made, that the said Linen Cloth is of the Manufacture of Ireland, as is before directed 5°ANNJE. Cap.8. & ;• ANN^. Cap.5. directed by this Act ; and if, upon the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel in any of the said Plantations, such Certificate be produced, and Oaths made^ aforesud, such Ship or Vessel, her Master or Commander, and Lading, shall be subject and liable to such Rules, Visitations, Searches, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as tney respectively- were subject and liable to by virtue of the Laws which were in force before the passing of this Act, and no other ; any thing in this Act tu the contrary notwithstanding \ Anno 5^ Ann^. Cap.8. An Act for an Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland. ART. * npHAT ali the Subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain shall, from Freedom of IV. * X and after the Union, have full Freedum and Intercourse of Trade an J Trade, &c. < Navigation to and from any Port or Place within the said United Kingdom, and the * Dominions and Plantations thereunto belongmg ; and that there be a Communication * of all other Rights, Privileges, and Advantages which do or may belong to the * Subjects of either Kingdom, except where it is otherwise expressly agreed in * these Articles.' Anno 7^ Ann^. Cap.5. An Aci, for naturalizing Foreign Protestants. * TTTHEftEAS the Increase of People is a Means of advancing the Wealth and « V V Strength of a Nation ; and whereas many Strangers of the Protestant or ' Reformed Religion, out of a due Consideration of the happy Constitudon of the * Government of this Realm, would be induced to transport themselves and their < Estates into this Kingdom, if they might be made Partakers of the Advantages and * Privileges which the natural-born Subjects thereof do enjoy.' IIL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Children of all Children of natural-born Subjects bom out of the Ligeance of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and natural-bom Successors, shall be deemed, adjudged, and uken to be natural-bom Subjects of Ab''''t^'*d °™ed this Kingdom, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever. nai'Iral-born Subjects. * This was a temporary Act, but has since been made perpetual. 30 8'ANN^ Cap. 13. Limiting a Time for Prosecutions upon Plantation Bonds. 12Car.2. c. 18. 25 Car. 2. c, 7. Anno &" Ann^. Cap. 13. An Act for continuing several Impositions, additional Impositions, and Duties upon Goods imported, to raise Money by way of Loan, for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ten ; and for taking off the Oversea Duty on Coals exported in British Bottoms; and for better preventing Frauds in Drawbacks upon Certificate Goods ; and for ascertaining the Duties of Corans imported in Venetian Ships ; and to give further Time to Foreign Merchants for Exportation of certain Foreign Goods imported ; and to limit a Time for Prosecu- tions upon certain Bonds given by Merchants ; and for continuing certain Fees of the Officers of the Customs ; and to prevent Embez- elements by such Officers; and for appropriating the Monies granted to Her Majc^y ; and for replacing Monies paid or to be paid for making good any Deficiencies on the Annuity Acts ; and for Encou- ragement to raise Naval Stores in Her Majesty's Plantations ; and to give further Time for registering Debentures, as is therein men^ tioned, • . , XXIII.' A ND whereas the Laws of this Realm do require, that for Ships trading *-t\. to or in Her Majesty's Plantations, lading Sugars, and other enumerated * Commodities there. Bonds be given, which are commonly called Plantation Bonds, * with Condition to bring the same Goods to Great Britain, or to some other of Her * Majesty's Plantations, or to that Effect: Now, to prevent the Discouragement which * Persons trading to and from the said Plantations do or may lie under by the said * Bonds lying out against them, although the Conditions thereof are or shall have * been performed ;' be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That as to such of the said Plantation Bonds as have been entered into at any Time or Times before the Eight-and-twentieth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and ten, and are now remaining in the Hands of any of Her Majesty's Officers, in case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or Non-performance of the respective Conditions thereof before the £ight-and-twentieth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and thirteen, or if upon such Prosecution Judgment be not obtained for Her Majesty before the £ight-and-twentieth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and fifteen, then such of the said Plantation Bonds so already entered into shall (for want of such Prosecution or Judgment) be void ; and as to such Plantation Bonds as shall be entered into after the said Eight-and-twentieth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and ten, in case there shall be no Prosecution f(Sr some Breach or Non- performance of the respective Conditions thereof within Three Years after the Dates thereof, or if, upon such Prosecution as is last mentioned. Judgment be not obtained for Her Majesty within the Space of Two Years after the same Prosecution com- menced, then every such Plantation Bond which shall hereafter be entered into as aforesaid (in default of such Prosecution to be commenced, and Judgment to be obtained, within the Times before limited) shall also be void ; and all the said Plantation Bonds so made void by this Act shall be delivered up by the Officers having the same in their Keeping, to be cancelled, without Fee or Reward. 5 XXV. And la-ANN^. Stat. 2. Cap. 18; 31 XXV. And it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Officer of Officer* not Her Majesty's Revenue, having the Custody of any of the Bonds by this Act required So„dg""o^pay" to be delivered up to be cancelled as aforesaid, shall upon reasonable Demand, refuse Damages and or neglect to deljyer up such Bonds, according to the Purport and true Meaning Treble Costs, of this Act, then the Officer so offending shall for every such Offence be and is hereby made liable to answer to the Party grieved all his Damages, together with \ Treble Costs of Suit. .. Anno 12° Ann /E. Stat. 2. Cap. 18. An Act for the preserving all such Ships and Goods thereof which shall happen to be forced on Shore, or stranded upon the Coasts of this Kingdom, or any other of Her Majesty's Dominions. « TT 7"HEREAS by an Act made in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward « W the First, concerning Wrecks at Sea, it is enacted, that where a Man, a * Dog, or a Cat, escape quick out of the Ship, that such Ship, nor Barge, nor any * thing in them, shall be adjudged a Wreck, but the Goods shall be saved and kept * by view of the Sheriff, Coroner, or the King's Bailiff, and delivered into the Hands * of such as are of the Town where the Goods were found, so that if any sue for * those Goods, and after prove that they were his, or perished within his Keeping * within a Year and a Day, they shall be restored to him without Delay, and if not * they shall remain to the King, or to such others to whom Wreck belongeth j and * he that otherwise doth, and thereof be attainted, shall be awarded to Prison, and * make Fine at the King's Will : And whereas by another Act m? 'e in the Fourth Year * of the Reign of the said King Edward the First, intituled • De Officio Coronatoris, * concerning the Wreck of the Sea,' it is enacted, that wheresoever it be found, if < any lay Hands of it, he shall be attached by sufficient Pledges, and the Price of the * Wreck shall be valued, and delivered to the Town : And whereas great Complaints * have been made by several Merchants, as well Her Majesty's Subjects as Foreigners, < trading to and from this Kingdom, that many Shipb )f Trade, after all their Dangers ' at Sea escapeJ, have unfortunately near Home run on shore, or been stranded on * the Coasts thereof, and that such Ships have been barbarously plundered by Her ' Majesty's Subjects, and their Cargoes embezzled, and when any Part thereof has * been saved, it has been swallowed up by exorbitant Demands tor Salvage, to the * great Loss of Her Majesty's Revenue, and to the much greater Damage of His * Majesty's Trading Subjects:' For Remedy whereof be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace of every County, or County of a Sheriffs, Mayors, City or Town, and also all Mayors, Bailiffs, and other Head Officers of Corporations &c. and Custom- and Port Towns near adjoining to the Sea, and all Constables, Headboroughs, '*°"*® ^'^^'^^' *** Tithing Men, and Officers of the Customs in all and every such Places, shall, upon Msiat'ships^Vi *** Application made to them, or any of them, by or on the behalf of any Commander Distress, or Chief Officer of any Ship or Vessel of any of Her Majesty's Subjects, or others being in danger of bemg stranded or run on shore, or being stranded or run on shore, 3^ H.Wf 12«ANNJE. Stat 2. Cap. 18. ,xl«' , lii»if*tii All Ships to aasut. on Forfeiture of 4^100, |leasonable SalTage to be made. •."•;•? ■ Three Justices to adjust the Quantum. Goods not clainled vathin Twelve Months to be 8o!d. elior^ are hereby empowered and required to command the Constables of the several Ports within Her Majesty's Dominions, nearest to the Sea Coasts where any such Ship or Vessel shall be in Danger as aforesaid, to summon and call together as many Men as shall be thoueht necessary to the Assistance and for the Preservation of such Ship or Vessels so in Distress as aforesaid, and their Cargoes ; and that if tht -e shall be any Ship or Vessel, either Man of War or Merchants Ship, belonging to Her Majesty or any of Her Subjects, riding at Anchor near the Place where such Ship or Viessel is in Distress or Danger as foresaid, the Officers of the Customs and Constables above mentioned, or any of them, are hereby empowered and required to demand of the Superior Officers of such Ship or Vessel so riding at Anchor as aforesaid Assist- ance by their ^oat^ and such Haqds as they can conveniently spare for the said Ser- vice, and Preservation of the said Ship or Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid ; and that in c^ such Superior Officer of such Ship or Vessel riding at Anchor as aforesaid shajl refuse or neglect to give such Assistance, he shall forfeit for the same the Sum of One hundred Pounds, to be recovered by the Superior Officer of the said Ship or Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid, together with their Cofts of Suit, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record, by Action, Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoign^ Wager of Law, or Protection, shalji be allowed: - • f n. And for the Encouragement of such Persons as shall give thei** Assistance to such Ships or Vessels so in Distress as aforesaid, be it further enacted, That the said Collectors of the Customs, and the Master or Commanding Officer of any Ships or Vessels, and all others who shall act or be employed in the preserving of any such Ship or Vessel in Distress as aforesaid, or their Cargoes, shall, within Thirty Days after the Service performed, be paid a reasonable Reward for the same by the Con^« mander. Master, or other Superior Officer, Mariners or Owners of the Ship of Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid, or by the Merchant whose Ship, Vessel, or Goods shall be so saved as aforesaid ; and in default thereof the said Ship, Vessel, or Goo^s So saved as aforesaid, shall remain in the Custody of such Ofpcer of the Customs, or his Deputy, until such Time that a|I Charges shall be paid, and until the said Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, and the said Master or other Officer of the Ship qr Vessel, and all others so employed as aforesaid, shall be reasonably gratified for their said Assistancie and Trouble, or good Security eiv«i for that Purpose to the Satisfeu;- tion of the several Parties that are to receive the same ; and that in case, after such Salvage, the Commander or other Superior Officer, Mariners or Owners of such Ship or Vessel so baved as aforesaid, or Merchant whose Goods shall be so saved ^s aforesaid, shall disagree with the said Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, touching the Monies desarved bv any of the Persons so employed as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Commander or such Ship or Vessel so saved, or the Owner of the Goods, or the Merchant interested therein, and also for the said Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, to nominate Three of the neighbouring Justices of the Peace, who shall there- upon aidjust the Quantum of the Monies or Gratuities to be paid to the several Persons acting or being employed in the Salvage of the «aid Ship, Vessel, or Goods ; and such Adjustments shall be binding to all Parties, and shall be recoverable, in an Action at Law to be brought in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record, by the respective Persons to whom the same shall be allotted by the said Justices of Peace ; and in case it shall happen that no Person shall appear to make his Claim to all or any the Goods that shall be saved, that then and in such Case the Chief Officer of the Customs of the nearest Port to the Place where the said Ship or Vessel was so 12'A'N^M. Stat. 2; Cap. 18. 33 in Distress as aforesaid, shall apply to Three of the nearest Justices of the Peace, who shall put him or some other responsible Person in Possesribn of the said Goods, such Justices of Peace taking an Account in Writing of the said Goods, to be nnied by 6uch Officer of the Customs ; and if the said Goods shall not be lendly claimed within . th«Space of Twelve Months next ensuing by the rightful Owner thereof, then pubUc '»»! t«^(iaS) Sale shall be made thereof, and if perishable Goods, forthwith to be sold, and, after all Charges deducted, the residue of the Monies arinng by such Sale, with a fair and just Account of the whole, shall be trtuismitted to Her IVbjesty's £xchequer, there to remidn and the Monies for the benefit of the rightful Owner when appearing, who, upon Affidavit or other Proof transmitted into made of his ortheir right or property thereto, to theSads&ctionofoneof tbeBarons of the *••" Exchequer, «rc. Coifie of the Exchequer, shall upon his Order receive the same out of the Exchequer. ni. And it is hereby also enacted, That if any Person or Persons whatsoever, besides those empowered by the said Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, and the Constables as aforesaid, shall enter or endeavour to enter on board any such Ship or Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid, without the Leave or Consent of the Commander or other superior Officer of the said Ship, or of the said Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, or of the said Constable, or some or one of them employed for the Service and Preservation of the said Ship or Vessel as aforesaid ; or in case any Person shall molest him, them, or any of them, in the saving of the said Ship, Vessel, or Goods, or shall endeavour to impede or binder the saving of atiy such Ship, Vessel, or Goods, or when any such Goods are saved, shall take out or de&ce the Marks of any such Goods, before the same shall be taket -^own in a Book or Books for that Purpose provided by the Commander or ruling Officer, and the First Officer of the Customs as aforesaid, such Person or Persons shall within the Space of Twenty Days make double Satisfacdon to the Party grieved, at the Discretion of the Two next Justices of Peace, or in default thereof shall by such Justices of Peace be sent to the next Mouse of Correction, where he shall continue and be employed in bard Labour by the Space of Twelve Months then next ensuing } and that it shall be lawful for any Commander or Superior Officer of the said Ship or Vessel so in distress as aforesaid, or for the said Officer of the Customs, or Constables on b^d the sarnie Ship or Vessel, to repel by force any such Person or Persons as shall, without such Leave or Consent from the said Commander or S jperior Officer, or the said Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, or such Constables as aforesaid, press on board the said Ship or Vessel so in Distress as iatoiesaid, and thereby molest them in the Preservation of the said Ship or Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid. IV. And it is he/eby likewise enacted. That in case any Pjods shall be found Goods carried off upon any Person cr Persons, that were stoleii or carried on from any such Ship or J® |>e'™n>ediately Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid, he, she, or they, on whom such Goods shall be °*'"'^^™"P' found, shall immediately upon Demand deliver the same to the Owner thereof, or to such Person by such Owner authorized to receive the same j or in default thereof Penalty Treble shall be liable to pay Treble the Value of such Goods, to be recover^ by such Owner the Value, in an Action at Law to be brought for the same. Persons entering Ships without or hindering the Savins the Ship, . to maike Doublet, ^^ Satisfaction, f ^j^; Masters may renel Pressnt iOM tne Ship. or V. And it is hereby moreover enacted. That if any Person or Persons shall make Making Holes be assisting in the making any Hole in the Bottom, Side, or any other Part of any ia theShip, &c. Ship or Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid, or shall steal any Pump belonging to any ^^^nj. . Ship or Vessel so in Distress as aforesaid, or shall be aiding or abetting in the stealing £ such ^r-WfT"' "'.ffV*' - u Geacral Imuc. Public Act. Cuatom^houM Officer ■lnuiii|i; his Trust, to forfeit Treble Damages, and disabled. Act to oommenoe oivtbel^ofAm^ 17UiU>dtobe read Four llmea in the Tear, on Sundays, in Sea- port Towns. Claims to Wreck sared. 12*ANNiB. Stat.2. Cap.l8. Mch Pmnp M afbraMid, or shall wiUully do any thing tending to the immediate Loss on Oestniction of such Ship or Vessel, "Bttch nrson or Persons shall be, and are hereby made guilty of Felony, without any Benefit of his, her, or their Clergy. - 'VL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Actk>n, Suit, or Information shall be commenced os prosecuted against any Parson or Persons for any thing diat he or they shall do or cause to be done in pursuance of this Act, and executing any of the Powers and Authorities, or any of the Orders or Directions therein mentioned, all and erery Person and Persons so sued in any Court whatsoever shall and majr plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if m any such Svjt the PIainti£f orProeecutor shall become noiw suit, or forbear Prosecution, or discontinue the Suit, or if a Verdict shall pass against him, or Judgment be given against him upon a Demurrer, then in any of the said Cases the Daendant or Defendants shall recover full Costs, for which he and thev shall have the like Remedy as where Costs by Law arc awarded : And this Act shall be taken and allowed in all Courts within this Kingdom as a Public Act, and all Judges and Justices are hereby required to take Notice thereof as such without q)ecial pleading of the same. Vn. Provided nevertheless, if any Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy so empowered as above, shall by Fraud or wilful Neglect abuse the Trust so hereby reposed in him as aforesaid, and shall be convicted thereof in due Form of Law, such Officer or his Deputy shall respectively forfeit Treble Damages to the Party grieved, to be recovered in any Action or Suit to be broufht in any Court of Record^ and shall from thenceforth be fully disabled and rendered incapable of the same, or any other Empk)yment relating to the said Customs. ..^_^ _ Vin. And it is hereby further enacted. That this Act, and the several Clauses herein contained, shall take Effect from and after the First Day of August in the Tear of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fourteen ; and that, for the better observing of the same, this Act shall be read Four Tiroes in tht Year in all thu Parish Churches and Chapels of every Sea-port Town, and upon the Sea-coast in this Kingdom, upon the Sundays next before Michaelmas Day, Christmas Day, Lady Day, and Midsummer Day, in the Morning, immediately after the Prayers, and before the Sermon. IX. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted. That neither this Act nor any Thing herdn contained shall anyways extoid to deprive, or anyways prejudice Her Royal Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors^ or any claiming under them or any of them, or any Patentee or Grantee of the Crown, or any Lord or Lords of any Manor or Manors, or other Person whatsoever, of or in relation to an/ Right which they or any of them respectively have or shall. have, or kwfolly may. claim, to any Wreck or Wredu, or any Goods that are or shall be Flatsam, Jetsam, or Lagan, but that such respective Rights shall be oijoyed in as full, ampie^ and beneficial z Manner in every respect as if this Act had never been made*. * This Act is made perpetual by 4 G. 1. c. 12. ' ■ ''All-. r&r«G£ORGII I. Cap. 12. & Cap. 21. Anno 1 Georgii I. Stat. 2. Cap. 12. An Act for enlargine the Faiid- twentieth Year of the Reigii of King Charles the Second (of blessed Memory)^ in- tituled * An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and * for the bettfer securing th6 Phtntation Trade,' were granted to Ifis Majesty, His Heirs and Successors for ever, commonly called the Plantation Duties (the necessary Ch-uges of raiung and paying the same excepted), shall also be brought and paid from' time to dme into the said Receipt of Exchequer, for the Purposes in this Act expressed, and be liable to such Redemption as is herdn-after prescribed in that behalf. l>Miia». < ■■lit.,' - ■ n Ckr. HM. 7. I. «'.! Anno T'' Georgii I. Stat. 1. Cap. 21. An Act for the further preventing His Majesty's Subjects from trading to the East Indies under Foreign Commissions; and for encouraging and fiirther securing the lawful Trade thereto ; md for further regulating the Pilots of Dover, Deal, and the Isle of Thanet s ;,,, >.i ,.,.„.:.,.,. .. ,,:■: ..:. .,.. , ,- :..^,;.;, ...;,-. . ,- IX. A ND it is fiirdier «iacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and afier the said J\. Four-and-twentieth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and twenty- one, no Commodity of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture of the East Indies or other the Places aforesaid, shall be imported or carried mto the Kingdom of Ireland, the .sjands of Jersey, Guernsey, Aldemey, Sark, or Man, or into any Land, Island, Plant. ation. Colony, Territory, or Place to His M^esty or to the C'own of Great Britain belonging, «r which shall hereafter belong to Has MajeMy, His Hdrs and Sufecosors, in E * Afrioi 3b* tn e^GBORGII 1. Cap. 15. Forfeitures how dit|iused of. Officcn of the Cuntomi conniving at luch Importa- tion, or detaving the Proiecutton, to forfeit ^500, and be incapable of anjr Office under the Crown. Africa or America, but such only as shall be bonA fide and without Fraud loaden and shipped in Great Britain in Ships navigated according to the several and respective Laws now in being as to the several Places to which the said Goods shall be imported or carried, under the Penalty of forfeiting all such Goods or the Value thereof, together with the Ship or Vessel in which they shall be imported, with all her Gims, Tackle, Furniture, Ammunition, and Apparel i and such Ship and Goods shall and may be seized, and the same or the Value thereof shall and may be prosecuted in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in Dublin, or in any of His Majesty's Courts in such Land, Island, Colony, Territory, or Place where the Offence shall be committed, or in the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey respectively, by Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherdn no Essoign, Protection, or Waeer of Law shall be allowed, nor any more than One Imparlance ; '^ne Moiety of wnich Forfeiture shall be to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to him or them who shall seize or sue for the same, except such Offence shall be committed in any of His Majesty's Plantations in Africa or America, in which Case One Third Part of the said Forfeiture shall be to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, One other Third Part to the Governor of such Land, Island, Colony, or Place where the Offence shall be committed, and the other Third Part to the Informer or Pro- secutor, any Law, Custom, or ITsage to the contrary notwithstanding i and if any Oi&cer or Officers of the Customs in the s^tid Kingdom of Ireland, or in the Lands, Islands, Colonies, Plantations, Territories, or Places aforesaid, shall willingly or know- ingly connive at the fraudulent Importation of any such Commodities as is before mentioned, contrary to the true Meaning hereof } or if any such Officer or Officers shall take upon him or them to seize any of the said Commodities, and shall by Fraud or Collusion desist or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation ; he or they so conniving, desisting, or delaying, shall forft'*^ and lose the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, to be sued for and recovered in manner aforesaid ; One Moiety of which Forfeiture to be to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety thereof to him or them who will inform and sue for the same ; and such Officer or Officers shall also for the future be incapable of holding any Office or Employment under His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors. IV Anno 8° Georgii I. Cap. 15. An Act for Encouragement of the Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom ; and for taking off several Duties on Merchandizes exported ; and for reducing the Duties upon Beaver-Skins, Pepper, Mace, Cloves, and Nutmegs imported ; and for the Importation of all Furs, of the Product of the British Plantations, into this Kingdom only ; and that the Two Corporations of Assurance, on any Suits brought on their . Policies, shall be liable only to single Damages and Ck)sts of Suit. AND be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Beaver Skins, and other Furs of the Product of any of the British Plantations in ISeavcr Skins. &c. XXIV. 1-22^^**1}^"'''* -^ ■» and otner *urs ot the product ot any l-ortedd^ircctTv America, Asj", or Africa, shall, from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand -rr 8*G£ORGIl 1. Cap. 18. ^h 37 ihousaiidiieven hundred and twentv-tw«, be imported directly from thence into Great from Britiih Britain, and laid on tihore there, ana not elsewhere, under the Penalties and Forfeitures f'nutions, contained in an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles '^ ^"' ^' '^' '^' the Second, intituled * An Act for the encouraging and increasing Shipping and Navigation,' in relation to Sugars, Tobacco, and other enumerated Goods, of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of any of the English Plantations therein men- tioned, to be recovered and distributed in such manner as the Penalties and Forfeitures relating to the said enumerated Goods are by the said recited Act to be recovered and distributed. .v/i:a;fai/(^i^< f'-i ;, /! 1 r ' Anno 8° Georgii I. Cap. 18. ' :;f: All Act to prevent the Clandestine Running of Goods, and the Danger of Infection thereby ; and to prevent Ships breaking their Quarantine ; and to subject Copper Ore, of the Production of the British Plantations, to such Regulations as other enumerated Com- modities of the hke Production are subject. XXII. • A ND whereas by the Acts made in the Twelfth and Twentv-fifth Years of the *x\. Reign of His late Majesty King Charles the Second, the former intituled < * An Jyrx for tne encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation,' and the * latter iniituled, ' An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland < Trade, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade;' and by one other Act made * in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, ' intituled * An Act for granting to Her Majesty i further Subsidy on Wines and < Merchandizes imported,' certain Commodities therein respectively enumerated, of * the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of any of the British Plantations in * America, Asia, or Africa, are, for the Reasons therein mentioned, restrained to be < imported into this Kingdom, or to some other of the said Plantations, under the ' Securities and Penalties in the said Two first-recited Acts or either of them par- < ticularly mentioned ■, since the making of which Laws, Copper Ore (which is. not in < any of the said Acts particularly enumerated) is produced in the said Plantations, * and carried to Foreign Markets in Europe without being first brought into this * Kingdom to the Prejudice of the Trade, and the lessening the Correspondence and * Relation between this Kingdom and the aforesaid Plantations :' For Prevention whereof for the future, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from aud after the Copper Ore of the Twenty-nirtth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and twemy-two, all I'roduceof Bridsii Copper Ore shall be, under the like Securities and Penalties, restrained to be imported j^^tej "o ,'^.1**'** into this Kiiigdom, as by the fore-recited Acts or any of them is provided for the iiegulationii*a8 Goods therein particularly enumerated ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary other Commo- notwithstanding*. dities, &c. This WM a temporary Law ; but, after several Continuations, it was made perpetual by 49 G. 3. o. 20. "'■-»?■' 38 lmp«trtMlon nf Nnviil .SuirM from Antfliir* how lo b«> tf-A4*GBOHGII 11. Up.aiS. &Cn|).i2l. Anno 2* Georoii II. Cap.35 All Act lor tlic iMtUsr Pr««ervftUoii of Hin Majesty's WooUr in America, and for the Knoouragenifnt of the Inifiortatioii of Naval Stores fixnii thence t and to encourage the Importation of Manti, Ynrdfi, and BowRpritH from that Part of Great Britain called .Scotland. 'H lllli,, XVI. PROVIDED alwayt/rhtt the Importation of the Naval Storcn following, vl/. IT Pitch, Tir, Turpentine, Maitt, Yarda, and Bowsprita, of the Growth or Produce of Ilia Majctty'a Colonies or Plantationn in America, shall be auhject to the same Regulationa, Reatrictioas, and Limitationa in reference to the nhipping and navigatinff thereof, and auch Security ahali he given for importing the same into Great Britain, and aubject to auch Penaltiea and Forfeiturea, aa the Importation of Sugar, Tobacco, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Ginger, Fuatick, and other Dying Wood for Hia Majenty'a Colonies and Plantations in America, are subject unto. ' r Anno 4" Georgii II. Cap.21. i\ An Act to cxoliiiu u Clause in an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign ot Her late Mi^esty Queen Anne, for naturalizing Foreign IHt)MMtaDts« which relates to the Children of the natural-bdrn Subject* of the C>rown of England, or of Great Britain. TV7HER£AS by an Act of Fkriiaraent made in the Seventh Year of the Reign W of Her late Maj«ty Queen Anne, intituled * Au Act for naturalizing of Foreign Protcatanta,' it is sraongst other Things enacted, That the Children oF all naiufsMMra SubjeetSi born out of die Ligeance of Her said late Majesty, Her Heira and Smc c s m ots, should be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be natural-born Subjects of this Kiagdoin to all Intents, CoDstructions, and Purposes whatsoever : 10 .\un. r.5. * And whercw ia the Tend) Year of Her said late Majesty's Reigu another Act was made and psssed to repeal the said Act (except what related to the Children of Her Majesty's nsiurtl^m Subjectt, bom out of Her Majesty's Allegiance) : And wheresa some Doubts have arisen upon the Construcdon of the said resited Clause in the said Act of the Seventh Yesr of Her late Majesty's Rd^ :' Now for the explaining the aid recited Clause in the said Act, relating to Children of natural- boni Subjects, and to prevent any Disputes touching the true Intent and Meaninff thoeof, may it please Your most Excellent Majesty, that it may be declared and enacted: and be it declared and rr.2ct?d by the Kins's most Excellent Msjcsty, by and with the Ad\nce and Coiisent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, ana the cii>.Mivnoinuiu«t- ^^**™'"°"''» i" ***** j^Tcsent FUrlianxnt assembled, and by the Author!^ of the same, boniStt^wOsbora ^^* ^ Children bom out of the Ligcauce of the Crown of England, or of Great o(uoftlML%«tMt Britain, or wluch shall hereafter be bora out of such Ligeance, whose Fathers were or 5»GKORGII II. Cap.;. 39 ur ■hall be natunUbom Subject! of the Crown a§ England, or of Or«u Britain, at <>' f" crown, d*- the TTrnt of the Birth of auch Children reapectively, ahall and may by rhrtue of the cl»r«<»»b«Mtu«|. Mid Mdled ClauM in the uid Act of the Seventh Year of the Rdm of Her nid Utc ^3'"' '^"•''■'• Majcaly, and of thia preaent Act, be adjudged and taken to be, and all auch Children are hereby declared to be, naturaUbom Subjecta of the Crown of Oreat Britain to all Intenta, Conatructiona, and Purposea whataoever. r. >.. .1 . . .1.. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted and declared by the Authority Children of Parenu aforesaid, 'i1uu nothing in the laid recited Act of the Seventh Year of Her said late ^^^^^^ "' Majesty's Reign, or in thia present Act contained, did, doth, or shall extend, or ought '"*■'<><'• to oe construed, adjudged, or taken to extend, to make any Children bom or to be born out of the Legunce of the Crown of England, or of the Crown of Great Britain, to be natural*born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, whose Fathers, at the Time of the Birth of such Children respectively, were or shall be attainted of High Treason, by Judgment, Outlawry, or otherwise, either in this Kingdom or in Ireland, or whose Fatners, at the Time of the Birth of such Children respectively, by any Law or Laws made in this Kingdom or in Ireland, were or shall be liable to the Penalties of High Treason or Felony, in case of their returning into this Kingdom or into Ireland without the Licence of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or of any of Hia Majesty's Royal Predecessors, or whose Fathers, at the or in actual Service Time of the Birth of such Children respectively, were or shall be in the actual ?'B°"'*"J!!"hT Service of any Foreign Prince or State then in Enmity with the Crown of England, j? "ij "iwoted. or of Great Britain, but that all such Children are, were, and shall be and remain in the same State, Plight, and Condition to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as they would have been in if the said Act of the Seventh Year ot Her said late Majeaty's Reign, or this present Act, had never been made ; any thing herein, or in the said Act of the Seventh Year of Her said late Maj'nty's Rdgn contained, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Anno 5*^ Georgii II. Cap. 7. An Act for the more easy Recovery of Debts in His Mfyesty't ^. Plantations and Colonies in America. * "ITTHEREAS His Majesty's Subjects trading ^ the British Plantations in • V V America lie under great Difficulties for want of more easy Methods of * proving, recovering, and levying of Debts due to them, than are now used in some * of the said Plantations : And where:.s it will tend very much to the retrieving of the ' Credit formerly given by the trading Subjects of Great Britain to the Natives and • Inhabitants of the said plantations, and to the advancing of the Trade of this King. • dom thither, if such Inconveniences were remedied ;* May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted } and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Ma- jesiy, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords ^iritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament asoembled, and by the Authority of the same. That 40 After September 29» Plantation Debts may be proved in Great Britain on Oath before a Chief Magistrate. Debts to His Majesty may be pix)ved in the same manner. Penalty on false Oath or Affirm- ation, Lands, Houses, Negroes, &c. in the Plantations, liable to satisfy Debts. 5»GEORGII II. Cap.;. That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September which shall be in the Tear of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, in any Action or Suit then depending or thereafter to be brought in any Court of Law or Equity in any of the said Plantations, for or relating to any Debt or Account wherein any Person residing in Great Britain shall be a Party, it rhall and may be lawful to and for the Plaintiff or Defendant, and also to and for any Witness, to be examined or made use of in such Action or Suit, to verify or prove any Matter or Thing by Aifi* davit or Affidavits in Writing upon Oath, or in case the Person making such Anidavit be one of the People called Quakers, then upon his or her solemn Affirmation made before any Mayor or other Chief Magistrate of the City, Borough, or Town Corporate in Great Britain, where or near to which the Person making such Affidavit or Affirm- ation shall reside, and certified and transmitted under the Common Seal of such City, Borough, or Town Corporate, or the Seal of the Office of such Mayor or other Chief Magistrate, which Oath and solemn Affirmation every such Mayor and Chief Magistrate shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to administer ; and every Affidavit or Affirmation so made, certified, and transmitted, shall, in all such Actions and Suits be allowed to be of the same Force and Effect as if the Person or Persons making the same upon Oath or solemn Affirmation as aforesaid had appeared and sworn or affirmed tlie Matters contained in such Affidavit or Affirma- tion viva voce in open Court, or upon a Commission issued for the Examination of Witnesses, or of aiiy Party in any such Acdon or Suit respectively; provided that in every such Affidavit and Affirmation there shall be expressed the Addition of the Fiirty making such Affidavit or Affirmation, and the particular Place of his or her Abode. * ■ IL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in all Suits now depending or hereafter to be brought in any Court of Law or Equity by or in behalf of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in any of the said Plantations, for or relat- ing to any Debt or Account, that His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall ^d may prove his and their Debts and Accounts, and examine his or their Witness or Witnesses, by Affidavit or Affirmation, in like manner as any Subject or Subjects is or are empowered or may do by this present Act. III. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted. That if any Person making such Affidavit upon Oath or solemn Affirmation as aforesaid shall be guilty of falsely and wilfully swearing or affirming any Matter or Thing in such Affidavit or Affirmation, which, if the same had been sworn upon an Examination in the usual Form, would have amounted to wilful and corrupt Perjury, every Person so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall incur the same Penalties and Forfeitures as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm are provided against Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury, f • ■ • • ' IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That firom and after the said Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, the Houses, Lands, Negroes, and other Hereditaments and real Estates, situate or being within any of the said Plantations belonging to any Person indebted, shall be liable to and chargeable with all just Debts, Duties, and Demands, of what nature or kind soever, owing by any such Person to His Majesty or any of His Subjects, and shall apd may be Assets for the Satisf: tion thereof, m like manner as real Estates are by the Law of England liable to the satisfaction of Debts due by Bond or other Speciality, 5*GE0R6II II. Cap.22. Speciality, and shall be subject to the like Remedies, Proceedings, and Process in any Court of Law or Equity, in any of the said Plantations respectively, for sdang/ extending, selling, or disposing of any such Houses, Lands, Negroes, and other Here- ditaments and real Estates, towards the Satisfaction of such Debts, Duties, and Demands, and in like manner as personal Estates in any of the said Plantations respectively are seized, extoided, sold, or disposed of for the Satisfaction of Debts. 41 Anno 5^GEOttGii II. Cap.22. An Act to prevent the Exportation of Hats out of any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, and to restrain the Number of Apprentices taken by the Hatmakers in the said Colonies or Plant- ations, and for the better encouraging the making Hats in Great Britain. * TXTHEREAS the Art and Mystery of making Hats in Great Britain hath arrived * ^^ to great Perfection, and considerable Quantities of Hats manufactured in this * Kingdom have heretofore been exported to His Majesty's Plantations or Colonies * in America, who have been wholly supplied with Hats from Great Britain : And * whereas great Quantities of Hats have of late Years been made, and the said * Manufacture is daily increasing, in the British Plantations in America, and is * from thence exported to Foreign Markets, which were heretofore supplied from * Great Britain; and the Hatmakers in the said Plantations take many Apprentices' for ' very small Terms, to the Discouragement of the said Trade, and debasing the said ' Manufacture :' Wherefore, for preveming the said ill Practices for the future, and for promoting and encouraging the Trade of making Hats in Great Britain, be it enacted by the Kmg's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the Twenty -ninth Day of After 29th of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, September 1732, no Hats or Felts whatsoever, dyed or undyed, finished or unfinished, shall be shipt, "**i***** or Felts leaden, or put on board any Ship oi Vessel in any Place or Parts within any of the fronf BrWsh"** British Plantations, upon any Pretence whatsoever, by any Person or Persons what- Plantations, soever ; and also that no Hats or Felts, either dyed or undyed, finished or unfinished, shall be loaden upon any Horse, Cart, or other Carriage, to the Intent or Purpose to be exported, transported, shipped off, carried, or conveyed out of any of the said British Plantations to any other of the British Plantations, or to any other Place whatsoever, by any Person or Persons whatsoever. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all and every the Hats or Felts Offender and Offenders, Offence and Offences, against this Act, shall be subject so transported and liable to the Penalties and Forfeitures herein-after mentioned ; that is to say, the forfeited, said Hats or Felts, dyed or undyed, finished or unfinished, so exported, transported, shipped off, carried, conveyed, or luaden contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of F this 4P and jCuOO. Penalty on assuting, j£40. Prohibited Hats and Felts to be seized and carried to the King's Warehouse. Seizers in- demnified. Officers of Customs, &c. permitting Entries of such Hats or Felts, forfeit Office, and jfJOO. 5»GE0RG1I II. Cap. 22. tliis Act, shall be forfdted ; and that every of the Oflfender and Offenders theran shall likewise forfeit and pay the Sum of Five hundred Pounds for every such Offence committed ; and every Master, Mariner, Porter, Carter, Waggoner, Boat- man, or other Person whatsoever, knowing such Offence, and wittingly aiding qnd assisting therein, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Forty Pounds ; which said several Penalties and Forfeitures shall and may be recovered by Action of Debt. Bill. Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record in Great Britain, or in such of the said Plantations wherein such Offence shall be committed (in which Suit no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed), and shall go and be applied, one Moiety to the Use of His Majesty, His Heurs and Successors, and the other Moiety to him, her, or them that shall sue for the same. m. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful- to and for any Person or Persons to seize, take, secure, and convey to His Majesiy'tt next Warehouse all such Hats and Felts, dyed or undyed, finished or unfinished, as he or they shall happen to see, find, know, or discover to be laid on Board in any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, or to be brought, carried, or laid on shore, at or near the Sea, or in any navigable River or Water, to the Intent or Purpose to be exported or conveyed out of the said Plantations, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, or to be laden upon any Horse, Cart, or other Carriage, to the Intent or Purpose to be exported, conveyed, or carried into any other of the said Plantations, or into any other Part or Place whatsoever, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning hereof ; and that such Person or Persons, that shall happen so tQ seize, take, or secure any of the Commodities aforesaid, shall be indemnified for so doing to all Intents and Purposes. IV. ' And to the Intent and Purpose that this Act may more effectually be put in * Execution, for preventing the growing Mischiefs that daily do or may arise to this ' Eongdom firom the Exportation of such Goods as aforesaid, or any of them, out of ' the British Plantations, should the same still be suffered to be sent from thence to * supply other Plantations and Foreign Markets, that are or have been supplied from * Great Britain ;' be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Com- missioner or Commissioners, or other Ofhcer or Officers of the Customs of any Port or Place within the British Plantations, or any Farmer or Farmers of the Revenue of the Customs arising in the Plantations, or any Officer or Officers employed in the Management of the said Revenue, shall, from and after the said Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, take or suffer to be taken any Entry outward, or sign any Cocket, Warrant, or Sufferance for the ship- ping or exporting any Hats or Felts, dyed or undyed, finished or unfinished, or shall wittingly and willingly permit, contrive, or suffer the same to be done, directly or indirectly, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, that then and in every such Case, such Commissioner or Commissioners, Farmer or Farmers, Officer or Officers, so signing such Cocket, Warrant, or Sufferance, or passing such Entry for the same, or anywise conniving thereat, contrary to the true Intent and Mean- ing hereof, shall for every such Offence or Neglect forfeit his Office, and shall moreover for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, to be recovered and applied in Manner and Form as aforesaid. ? V. And 5'GEORGII II. Cap. 24. 43 V. And be it fbrther enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Offence OAtences where committed against this Act shall and maybe inquired of, tried, heard, and determined ^ ^ in the County where any such Goods shall be so laden and put on board as aforesaid, or else in the County or Place, either in Great Britain or the Plantations, where such ' Offender shall happen to be apprehended or arrested for such Offence, or where any of the Goods aforesaid shall happen to be seized, taken, or brought in ; and that the said Trial shall be in such Manner and Form, and in such Effect, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same Offence had been wholly done and committed in the same County or Place where the same shall be tried, by virtue and in pursuance of this Act. '., .... ,■ .„;',:i;. ,;,■:;.:.'.. p>j., :.5 'i;, .1 ,^:;. ^•• VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Action, General Issue. Bill, Plaint, or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any Person for what he shall do in pursuance of this Act, such Person so sued shall and may file Common Bail, or enter into a Common Appearance, and plead the General issue, Not Guilty, and, upon Issue joined, may give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence ; and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit, or suffer Discon- dnuance, or if a Verdict pass against him, or if upon Demurrer Judgment pass agiainst him, the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs and Damages. Anno.5° Georgii 11. Cap.24. ? . ;. An Act for encouraging the Growth of Coffee in His Majesty's Planta- . i^ .., tions in America. . in. A ND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after xjL the said Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and thirty-five, no Coffee shall be suffered to be put on board any Ship or Vessel in any of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, until the Planter or G rower of such Coffee, or his known Agent, shall make Oath or Affirmation in Writing before Planter or his Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in or near the Place where the said Coffee Agent to make grew (which Oath or Affirmation such Justices are hereby empowered to administer), 9^^** S^ '*'® that the same is actually of the Growth and Produce of such Planter's or Grower's "'^ ' Plantation lying in the District, Division, or Parish of • withui the Island or Colony of ; which Oath or Affirmation shall be produced and produce a Copy to the Collector, Comptroller, and Naval Officer, or any of them, by the Person or to the Collector. Persons who shall enter or ship such Coffee, before the Entry and Snipping thereof for Great Britain ; and such Person or Persons shall likewise make Oath or Affirm- ation before the said Officers, or any Two of them, that the Coffee then to be shipped is the very same Coffee, and no other, than what is mentioned in such Oath or Affirmation of the Planter or Grower, or his known Agent, as aforesaid ; which Oath or Affirmation the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs, and Naval Officer, at the Port where the said Coffee is to be loaded, or any Two of them, are empowered to administer j and the said Collector and Comptroller, and Naval Officer, are hereby required to deliver a Certificate of such Affidavit or Affirmation, under their respective F 2 Hands 44 Comniandurt) uf Vessels to make Oath ot the Receipt of such Coffee oa board, and of no other. Fee for the Oath. Particulars to be specified ; S^GEORGII II. Cap. 24. Hands and Seals, to the Commander or Master of such Ship or Vessel on boaid of which the said Coffee is to be shipped ; and. the Master or Pereon having Command of such Ship or Vessel shall, before clearing his Ship or Vessel, also make Oath in the like manner, that he has received such Co£Fee on board his Ship or Vessel, and that he has no more or other Coffee on board his Ship or Vessel than such for which Proofe shall be made as aforesaid, and that he .nil not take or receive any more Coffee on board before his Arrival in Great Britain, and making a Report of his Ladine there, for* which Affidavit or Affirmation, and Certificate, the said Col- lector and Comptrc' ', or Naval Officer, shall receive as a Fee or Reward the Sum of Five Shillings, and no more ; and all Certificates of such Affidavits or Affirmations shall, by the Commander or Master of such Ship cr Vessel, importing such Coffee into this Kingdom, be produced by such Master or Person having Command of the Ship or Vessel, to the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port where such Ship shall unlade at the Time of making his Report, and shall at the same Time deliver to such Collector and Comptroller a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs, and Naval Officer, of the Port or Place where such Coffee shall have been shipped, or any Two of them, testifying the particular Quantities of such Coffee which shall be so laden, and of which such Proofs shall be made as aforesaid, specifying the Package or Packages in which the same is contained, with the particular Marks, Numbers, and Weights of each Package ; and the said Master shall likewise make Oath, or if he be one of the People called Qriakers, solemnly affirm before them, that the Coffee in the said Certificate or Certificates mentioned was truly taken on board as in the said Certificate or Certi- ficates is expressed, and that, after his Departure from the Place or Places where such Coffee mentioned in the said Certificate or Certificates was laded, he did not take on board, or permit to be laded on board his said Ship or Vessel, either at Sea or elsewhere, any Parcel or Parcels of Coffee, and that all the Coffee on board his said Ship is mentioned and set forth in the said Certificate or Certificates ; and upon the Entry of such Coffee at the Custom-house, and paying or securing the several Duties then due thereupon, a Mark shall be set on every Parcel, denoting it to contain Coffee of the Growth of the Lritish Plantations, and where and by what Ship imported, and thereupon ^iich Parcel or Parcels of Coffee so marked shall be lodged in a Warehouse or Warehouse':, pursuant to the Directions of the said Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty ; and the Importer or Proprietor of any Parcel or Parcels of Coffee, or any other Person who shall be employed by such Importer or Proprietor to make an Entry with the Receiver or Collector of the said Inland Duty, shall deliver to the said Receiver or Collector the said Certificate or Certificates of the Affidavit or Affirmation of the Growth of the said Cc^'ae in the British Plantations, made before the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs or Naval Officers, together with the said Oath or Affirmation made as aforesaid, by the Master of such Ship or Vessel, at the Port where such Co - was taken on board, together with the Oath or Affirmation, or a Copy thereof, made by the Planter or Grower before Two of His Majesty's Justices .>f the Peace there, in the manner before directed ; as also the said Certificate of the Package, Marks, and Numbers of the Coffee so laden on board ; which said Certificate or Certificates, Oath or Affirmation, shall remain with the said Collector or Receiver of the said Inland Duty.' Penalty on false V. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Person shall falsely Oath or Certificate, make any Oath or Affirmation by this Act directed to be made, and shall thereof be legally theGood-* to be marked. 6«G£ORGlI II. Cap. 13. legally convicted in ai./ of His Majesty's Courts of Record in Great Britain, or in w.:y 9f the Courts of Admiralty in anv of the said Plantations where such Offence was commit ed, such Person, so guilty, shall forfeit the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and be imprisoned for the Space of Twelve Months } and if any Person shall forge or counterfeit a Certificate of the said Oath or Affirmation, or shall publl^ such Certificate, luiowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, and be legally convicted thereof in any of the (^ourts- aforesaid, such Person shall forfeit the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and such Forfeiture shall be paid, one Moiety to His Majesty, and the other Moiety to' the Person or Persrns who shall inform and sue for the same, to be recovered and divided as is before directed and appointed. Anno 6"* Geo RG II II. Cap.JS. An Act for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America. * T T THEREAS the Welfare and Prosperity of Your Majesty's Sugar Colonies * V V in America are of the greatest Consequence and Importance to the Trade, ' Navigation, and Strength of this Kingdom : And whereas the Planters of the said * Sugar Colonies have of late Years fallen under such great Discouragements, that * they are unable to improve or carry on the Sugar Trade upon an equal Footing < with the foreign Sugar Colonies, without some Advantage and Relief be given to « them from Great Britain :' For Remedy whereof, and for the Good and Welfare of Your Majesty's Subjects, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain assembled in Parliament, have given and granted unto Your Majesty the several and respertive Rates and Duties herein-after men- tioned, and in such Manner and Form as is herein-after expressed ; and do most humbly beseech Youi Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice, and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho- rity of the same, That from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and thirty-three, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, upon all Rum or Spirits of the Produce or Manufacture of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, not in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty,* His Heirs and Successors, which, at any Time or Time$ within or during the Continuance of this Act, shall be imported or brought into any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, which now are or hereafter may be in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, the Sum of Nine-pence, Money of Great Britain, to be paid according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver, for every Gallon thereof, and after that Rate for any greater or lesser Quantity; and upon all Molasses or Syrups* of such Foreign Produce After 25th of December 1733, 9d. per Gallon to be paid for Rum and Spirits made in the American Plantations, not belonging to His Majesty, on Im- portntion to the British Plantations ; and 6d. per Gallon for Molasses and Syrups, * Foreign Spiriu ate now prohibited to be imported into the British Colonies, by 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. and the Duties upon Molasses, or Syrups is repealed by 6 Geo 3. c. 52. § 1. and a new Duty imposed in lieu thereof. or and Ss. per Cwt. for Sugars and Paneles. Duties how to be levied. The said Goods, if landed before Entry and Payment of Duties, shall be forfeited. and may be seized. and recovered in the Court of Admiralty, or any Court of Record there ; Forfeitures how to be distributed. e^GEORGII II. Cap. 13. or Manu£u:ture, as aforesaid, which shall be imported or brought into any of the said Colonies or Plantations of or belonging to His Majesty, the Sum of Sixpence of like Money for every Gallon thereof, and after that Rate for any greater or lesser Quantity ; and upon all Sugars and Paneles of such Foreign Growth, Produce, or Manufacture as aforesaid, which shall be imported into any of the said Colonies or Plantations of or belonging to His Majesty, a Duty after the Rate of Five Shillings of like Money for every Hundred Weight- Avoirdupois of the said Sugar and Paneles, and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity. II. And for the hfitter raising, levying, and collecting the said Duties, it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That upon the Importation of any such Goods as aforesaid into any of the said Colonies or Plantations belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, an Entry or Entries shall be made with the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs, or the Impost Officer, or proper Officer of the Excise, in the Port or Place where the same shall be imported, and that all and every the said Duties hereby imposed for and upon all such Rum, Spirits, Molarses, Syrups, Sugar, and Paneles, of such Foreign Growth, Produce, or Manufacture aforesaid, which shall be imported into any of the said Colonies or Plantations of or belonging to the Crown of Great Britain as aforesaid, shall be paid down in ready Money by the Importers thereof, before the landing of the same respectively. m. And be it further enacted, That in case any of the said Commodities shall be landed or put on shore in any of His Majesty's said Colonies or Plantations in America, out of any Ship or Vessel, before due Entry be made thereof at the Port or Place where the same shall be imported, and before the Duties by this Act charged or chargeable thereupon shall be duly paid, or without a Warrant for the landuig and delivering the same, first signed by the Collector or Impost Officer, or other proper Officer or Officers of the Custom or Excise belonging to such Port or Place respectively, all such Goods as shall be so landed or put on shore, or the Value of the same, shall be forfeited ; and all and every such Goods as shall be so landed or put on shore, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, shall and may be seized by the Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Colonies or Plantations where the same shall be so landed or put on shore, or any Person or Persons by them authorized in that behalf, or by Warrant of any Justice of the Peace or Aher Magistrate (which Warrant such Justice or Magistrate is hereby empowered and required to give upon Request), or by any Custom-house Officer, Impost or Excise Officer, or any Person or Persons him or them accompanying, adding, and assisting ; and all and every such Offenc and Forfeitures shall and may be prosecuted for and recovered in any Court of ^i.dmiralty in His Majesty's Colo- nies or Plantations in America (which Court of Admicalty is he- ?by authorized, empowered, and required to proceed to hear and iinally determine the same), or in any Court of Record in the said Colonies or Plantations where such Offence is committed, at the Election of the Informer or Prosecutor, according to the Course and Method used and practised there in Prosecutions for Offences against penal Laws relating lo Customs or Excise ; and such Penalties and Forfeitures, so recovered there, shall be divided as follows, viz. One Third Part thereof for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to be applied for the Support of the Government of the Colony or Plantation where the same shall be recovered, One Third Part to " ■ ■ '■ -the 6«GEORGIi II. Cap. 13. the Governor or Commander in Chief of the said Colony or Plantation, and the other TTiird Part to the Informer or Prosecutor who shall sue for the same. -* * DIt. V. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Per- Penalty un Penonii son or Persons shall be aiding and assisting in bringing on shore or landing any such HMwtinainroch Sugar, Paneles, Syrups, or Molasses, Rum, or Spirits, into the Kingdom of Ireland, l^^^^ '""P*" or mto any of His Majesty^s Colonies or Plantations in America, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, or shall '•eceive into his, her, or their House or Custody any of the Commodities afore-mentioned, knowing the same to be imported or landed, and brought on shore, contrary to this Act, every such Person so offending shall forfeit Treble the Value of such Goods, to be estimated and computed accordl ing to the best Price that each respective Commodity bears at the Place where any such Seizures shall be made, to be sued for, recovered, and applied in manner afore* mentioned, ••■'•t- • -■ :.'.■.- ^ f.-v,,,, o. «:.->«: v »•. ;-i,.,.i;.. -v., ..^,., VI. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall hinder, molest, or resist any Custom-house Officer, Impost or Excise Officer, or their or any of their Assistants, in the due Execution of his or their Duty in seizing or securing any of the Commodities afore mentioned, imported into the Kingdom of Ireland, or landed or put on shore in any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, which now are or hereafter may he in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, contrary to the Purport or true Meaning of this Act, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds, to be sued for, recovered, and applied in manner afore-mentioned, and shall also be liable to be prosecuted for the same by Indictment or otherwise, and being thereof found guilty, shall be imprisoned for Three Months without Bail or Mainprize ; and if any Officer or Officers of the Customs, Impost or Excise Officer or Officers, or their Assistants, shall be sued or prosecuted for any thing done in Execution of his o' their Duty for the better and more effectual putting in force this present Act, he or they may and shall plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence, and the Judges shall allow thereof; and if any Officer or Officers of the Customs or Excise, in the Rjngdom of Ireland, or any Officer or Officers of the'Customs, Impost or Excise Office, in any of His Majesty's Plantations or Colonies in 'America, shall willingly or knowingly connive at the fraudulent Importation or landing and bringing on shore of any of the Commodities afore-mentioned, contrary to the Purport and true Meaning of this Act, or such Officer or Officers shall take upon him or them to seize any of the said Commodities, and shall by Fraud or Collusion d "sist from or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, he or they so conniving, desisting, or delaying, shall forfeit and lose the Sum of Fifty Pounds, to be sued for, recovered, and applied in manner aforesaid, and such Officer or Officers shall also be incapable of holding any Office or Employment under His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors. MO Penalty on molesting Officer ID his Duty. Officer, if sued, m ly plead the General Issue, j^50 Penalty on Officers conniving at fraudulent Importation. VII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any of .£ioo Penalty on His Majesty's Subjects, who is or shall be Master or have the Charge of any Ship MasierofShip, or Vessel, shall take in, or permit or suffer to be taken in, at Sea, or in any Creek or &c. permitting Harbour, or other Place, any Sugar, Paneles, Syrups or Molasses, Runi or Spirits, ""''■'' i'»portation. in order to be imported into Ireland, or brought on shore and landed in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, every fl 6*G£ORGII II. Cap. 13. every luch Master or other Person so offending shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Orie hundred Pounds, to be sued for, recovered, and applied in manner herein-before mentioned. TheOnui probandi vm. And be it farther enacted. That upon all Suits and Prosecutions for the theOmie' *^* "" Importation of any of the Commodities afore,mentioned into the Kingdom of Ireland, "* or for the bringing on shore *** ^ landing of any of the Commodities afore-mentioned in any of His Majesty's Colomes or Plantations in America, contrary to the Purport and true Meaning of this Act, the Onus probandi, that the same and every Part thereof were fairly and bonA fide, and without Fraud, loaden and shipped in Great Britain, in Ships navieated according to the several Laws in being in th^t behalf, or that the Riim or Spints were made of the Growth or Manufocture of some of His Majes^'s Sugar Colonies in America, or that all and every the Commodities aforesaid, which shall be imported into any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, were of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations there, )r > or were duly entered, and had really and bo°^ ^cle paid the Duties hereby charged and chargeable thereon, before the bringing on shoic and landing thereof in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, shall lie on the Claimer or Owner thereof , i:/-^"f 'T Suits to be commenced in Two Years after Offence. Charge of Prose- cution how to be borne. Public Act. Continued by 26Geo.2. c. 32. XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all Suits and Pro* secutions for any Offence against this Act shall be brought and commenced within Two Years after such Offence committed. XII. And for the better and more effectual carrying this Act into Execution, be it further enacted, That the Expence of prosecuting any Offence against this Act shall be paid and borne, in the first place, out of the Shares and Parts of the Penalties and Forfeitures hereby given and granted to HL" Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, upon any Seizure, Condemnation, and Ji^dgment to be had and obtained for or by reason of any Fraud or Misbehaviour against th^ tri^e Intent or Meaning of this Act. XIV. And it is hereby declared and enacted, That this present Act shall be taken to be a Public Act, of which all Judges and Justices shall take Notice, without specially pleading the same } and the same shall continue and be in force for the spaice of Five Years, to be computed from the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and thirty-three, and to the End of the then next Sessi(m of Parliament.* . • * This Act is made perpetual by 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. subject to such Alterations and Amendments as are therein contained. .1.' ( >iyy^-} 9'&13*GEORGII II. Cap. 37. & Cap. 3. . .*AiriH«f fi '-mi '■''! in- .■**1 .■,.■" O^"! 5.;fn' i'. S'^^i.i, ')■■'>.*' ■■. v^• Anno9'' Georgii II. Cap.37. jCSO Penalty on every Ship bv-llr. in Great Britain, or British Plant»- tions in America, not having a com- plete Set of Sail* of British Sail Cl^th. An Act for further encouraging and regulating the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and for the more eiTcctual securing the Duties now payable on Foreign Sail Cloth imported into this Kingdom. IV. \ ND for the better encouraging the Use and Cousumptlon of the said Manu- JlV facture of British Sail Cloth, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hun- dr"ci and thirty- six, every Ship or Vessel which shall be built in Great Britain, and fro.r» and after the Twenty-fifth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and thirtysiy, every Ship or Vessel which s!iall be built in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, shall, upon her first setting out, or being first navigated at Sea, have or be furnished with One full and complete Set of Sails made up of Sail Cloth manufactured in Great Britain ; and in case such Ship or V(.>ssel shall not on her first setting out be fitted and furnished as aforesaid, that then, and for every auch Neglect or Defan't, tl»e Master of such Ship or Vessel shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds. IX. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the several Penalties how to Penalties and Forfeitures herein-before enacted and imposec on Persons offending ^? ""ecovered and contrary to this Act (^not otherwise directed and applied) shall and may be recovered "*" " by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record in Great Britain, or in such of His Majesty's Plantations wherein such Offence shall be committed ; in which Suit no Essoign, Protection, Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed ; which said Forfeitures shall be applied, one Moiety thereof to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the pthef Moiety therepf to the Person who shall sue foi* the same. Anno IS^Georgii II. Cap.3. An Act for the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen to serve in His Majesty's Ships of War, and on board Merchant Ships, and other Trading Ships, and Privateers, ' TT^OR the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen to serve in His Majesty's Ships ' Jj of War, and on board Merchant Ships, and other Trading Vessels, and * Privateers, and for the better carrying on the present or any future War, and the * Trade of Great Britain, during the Continuance thereof :' May it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, G and Merchant Shipi, he. may be navi- cated by Three- fourths Mariners during the War. Foreign Men aerving on board Men of War or Merchant Ships Two Years during the War, to be deemed natiiral- bom Subjects. Proviso. The same may be Jtractised in any uture War. 13"GK0RGII II. Cft|).3. and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That during the Continuance of this present War, and no longer (except in respect to such Alerchant Ships, and other Trading Ships or Vessels, and Privateers, which shall be on their Voyage before the Determination of the War, who shall be and are hereby allowed the Libertv and Benefit of returning Home, navigated in the Manner as herein-after is provided), it shall and may be lawful for any Merchant Ship, or other Trading Snip or Vessel, or Privateer, to be navigated by Foreign Seamen or Mariner.^ not being Natives of Great Britain, or any of the Colonies or Plantations thereto belonging, or His Majesty's natural or naturalized Subjects, so as the Number of such Foreign Seamen or Mariners do not exceed Three-fourths of the Mariners at any one Time employed to navigate such Merchant Ship, or other Trading Ship or Vessel, or Privateer ; and that One-fourth at least of the Mariners or Seamen so employed be at all Times Natives or His Majesty's natural- ized Subjects of Great Britain (sudden Death, and a Hazard and Casualties of War, and the Seas, saved and excepted), one Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled * An Act ' for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation,' or any other Statute or Law to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And for the better encouraging of Foreign Mariners and Seamen to come and serve on board Ships belonging to this Kingdom of Great Britain, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That every such Foreign Mariner or Seaman who shall, from and after the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine, have faithfully served, during the Time of War on board any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or any Merchant or other Trading Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, or Privateers (which at the Time of such Service shall beloiig to any of His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain), for the Space of Two Years, shall to all Intents and Purposes be deemed and taken to be a natural-bom Subject of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain, and have and enjoy all the Privileges, Powers, Rights, and Capacities which such Foreign Mariner or Seaman could, should, or ought to have had and enjoyed, in case .he had been a natural-bom Subject of His Majesty, and actually a Native within the Kingdom of Great Britain. III. Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That no Person who shall be naturalized by virtue of this Act shall thereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to take any Office or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, or to have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from the Crown to himself, or any other Person or Persons in Trust for him ; any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, at all Times when it shall be found necessary to declare War against any Foreign Power, to publish a Royal Proclamation, if he or they shall judge it requisite, to permit all Merchant Ships, and other Trading Vessels, and Privateers, to be manned with Foreign Mariners and Seamen during such War, in the Manner as by this Act is provided ; and that, upon the publishing of such Proclamation, this Act and every Thing therein con- tained shall be deemed to be in full Force and Virtue, and have Continuance for and 13°GEORGII II. Cap.r and during the Time of any such War, and no longer (except in ropect to such^ Merchant Shipe, and other Trading Ships or Vessels, and Privateers, which shall be on their Voyage before the Determination of such War, vrho shall be and are hereby allowed the Liberty and Benefit of returning Home, navigated in the Manner as herein*before is provided) . Anno 13°Georgii IL Cap.7. An Act for naturalizing such Foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled, or shall settle, in any of His Majesty'* Colonies in America. « TT rHEREAS the Increase of People it a Means of advancing the Wealth and « VV Strength of any Nation or Country : And whereas many Foreigners and * Strangers, from the Lenity of our Government, the Puritv of our Religion, the « Benefit of our Laws, the Advantages of our Trade, and the Security of our * Property, might be induced to come and settle in some of His Msyesty's Colonies • in America, if they were made Partakers of the Advantages and Privileges which ' the natural-born Subjects of this Realm do enjoy ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day ol June in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hund id and forty, all Persons born out of the Ligeance of His Majesty, His Heirs cr Successors, who have inh^ited and resided, or shall inhabit or reside, for the Space of Seven Years or more, in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America, and shall not have been absent out of some of the said Colonies for a longer Space than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven Years, and shall take and subscribe the Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the Declaration appointed by an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled * An A61 for the further Security * of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in * the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants ; and for extinguishing the ♦ Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, Tiis open and secret Abettors;' or, being of the People called Quakers, shall make and subscribe the Declaration ot Fidelity, and take and affirm the Effect of the Abjuration Oath appointed and prescribed by an A&. made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of His said Jate Majesty, intituled * An ♦ Act for granting the People called Quakers such Forms of Affirmation or Doclara- ♦ tion as may remove the Difficulties which many of them lie under ;' and also make and subscribe the Profession of his Christian Belief appointed and prescribed by an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King WiUia*a and Queen Mary, intituled ' An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects • from the Penalties of certain Laws ;' before the Chief Judge or other Judge of the Colony wherein such Persons respectively have so inhabited and resided, or shall so inhabit and reside, shall be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be His Majesty's natural- born Subjects of this Kiose8, as if they G 2 and Foreignera Uvji^ Seren Years to snf of our Colonies to be deemed Natives on taking the Oaths, &c. Quakers to sub- scribe the Decla- ration of fidelity, &c. 52 Entries to be made in Books to be kept for Public Inspec- tion; 2i. to be paid, and no more, for each Entry, on j£10 Penalty ; The Mme Penally on Secretary's neslecting to rcguter. Each qualified Fcnon to receive the Sacrament, except Quakers wid Jews, 20 Geo. 2. c. 44. Jews taking the Oaths may omit some Christian Expressions. 13-QEORGII II. Cap.;. and every of them had been or were born within thit Kingdom ; which said Oath or Affirmation, and Subscription of the said Declarations respectively, the Chief Judge or other Judge of every of the said respective Colonies is hereby enabled and empowered to administer and take ; and the taking and subscribing of every such Oaths or Affirmation, and the making, repeating, and subscribing of every such Declaration, shall be before surh Chief Judge or other Judge, in open Court, between the Hours of Nine and Twelve in the Forenoon, and shall be entered in the same Court, and also in the Secretary's Office of the Colony wherein such Person shall so inhabit and reside : And every Chief Judge or other Judgee of every respcc* tive Color' , before whom such Oaths or Affirmation shall be taken, and every such Declaration shall be made, repeated, and subscribed as aforesaid, is hereby required to make a due and proper Entry thereof in a Book to be kept for that Purpose in the said Court; for the doing whereof Two Shillings and no more shall be paid at each respective Place, under the Penalty and Forfeiture of Ten Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain for every Neglect or Omission ; and in like manner every Secretary of the Colony wherein any Person shall so take the Raid Oaths or Affirma« tion, and make, repeat, and Hubscrioe the said Declarations respectively as aforesaid, is hereby required to make a due and proper Entry thereof in a Book to be kept for that Purpose in his Office, upon Notification thereof to him by the Chief Judge, or other Judge of the same Colony, under the like Penalty and Fortciture for every such Neglect or Omission. II. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person, of what Quality, Condition, or Place soever, other than and except such of the Pen* pie called Quakers, as shall qualify themselves, and be naturalized by the Ways and Means herein-before mentioned, or such who profess the Jewish Religion, shall be naturalized by virtue of this Act, unless such Person shall have received tiie Sacrament c/the Lord's Supper in some Protestant and Reformed Coitgregation within this King- dom of Grejit Britain, or within some of the said Colonies in America, within Three Months next before his taking and subscribing the said Oaths, and making, repeating, and subscribing the said Declaration ; and shall, at the Time of his taking and sub- scribing the said Oaths, and making, repeating, and subscribing the said Declaration, produce a Certificate, signed by the Person administering the said Sacrament, and attested by Two credible Witnesses, whereof an Entry shall be made in the Secretary's Office of the Colony wherein such Person shall so inhabit and reside, as also in the Court where the said Oaths shall be so taken as aforesaid, without any Fee or Reward. • III. ' And whereas the following Words are contained in the latter Part of the Oath * of Abjuration, videlicet ('upon thetrue Faith of a Christian') : And whereas the People * professing the Jewish Religion may thereby be prevented from receiving the Benefit * of this Act ;' be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That whenever any Person professing the Jewish Religion shall present himself to take the said Oath of Abjuration in pursuance of this Act, the said Words (' upon the true Faith of a Christian') shall be omitted out of the said Oath in administering the same to such Person, and the taking and subscribing the said Oath by such Person professing the Jewish Religion, without the Words aforesaid, and the other Oaths appointed by the said Act in like manner as Jews were permitted to take the Oath of Abjuration by an Act made in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Certificatm given by the Colony, of Heaidence, tiiking the Oathn, fic. to be allowed proper Evidence III III! the Courts of Great Britain and Ireland. ia*G£ORGlI II. Cap.;. the First, intituled ' An Act for explaining and amending an Act of the last Senioii • of Parliament, intituled, ' An Act to oblige all Persons, being Papists, in that •• Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and all Persons in Great Britain refusing •• or neglecting to ta|je the Oaths appointed for the Security of His Majesty's Person «• and Government, by several Acts herein mentioned, to register their Names and '• Real Estates;" and for enlarging the 'lime fo. taking the said Oaths, and making • such Registers, and tor allowing further Time for the Enrolment of Deeds or Wills • maile by Papists, which li.ive been omitted to be enrolled pursuant to an Act of the ' Third Year of His Majesty's Reign ; and also for giving Relief to Protestant Lessees;' shall be deemed a sufficient taking of the said Oaths, m order to entitle such Person to the Benefit of being naturalized by virtue of this Act. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That i. Testimonial or Certificate, under the Seal of any of the said Colonies, of any Persons having resided and inhabited for the Space of Seven Years or more as aforesaid within the said Colonies or some of them, to be specified in such Certificate, together with the particular Time of Residence in each of such respective Colon-es (whereof the Colony under the Seal of which such Certificate shall be ■riven to be One), and of his having taken and subscribed the said Oaths, and of his having ..\ade, rep .ted, and subscribed the said Declaration ; and in case of a Quaker, of his having . ^ade and subscribed the Declaration of Fidelity, and of his having taken and .I rmed the Effect of the Abjuration Oath as aforesaid ; and in the Case of a Person professir-.; the Jewish Religion, of his having taken the (Jath of Abjuratic •> . aforesaid, with.r. the same Colony, under the Seal whereof such Certificate shall be gj'/en as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a sufficient Testimony and Proof thereof, and of his being a natural-born Subject of Great Britain, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and as such shall be allowed in every Court within the Kingdonis of Great Britain and Ireland, and also in the said Colonics in America. V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That every Secretary of Secretary of the the said respective Colonies for the time being shall and is hereby directed and Colony to send required at the end of every Year, to be computed from the said First Day of June '*\^^}'* ''>e Com- in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty, to transmit and send Trade Li"" vearlv over to the Office of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations kept in the City to be registered of London or Westminster, a true and perfect List of the Names of all and every '» England ; Person and Persons who have in that Year entiti ' ^bemselves to the Benefit of this Act, under the Penalty and Forfeiture of Fifty T,r. ds of lawful Money of Great on Penalty of ;f 50. Britain for every Neglect or Omission ; all which said Lists so transmitted and sent over shall from Year to Year be duly and regularly entered by the said Comniis- sioners in a Book or Books to be had and kopt for that Purpose in the said Office, for public View and Inspection, as Occasion shall require. VI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, That no Person who shall Proviso to extend become a natural-born Subject of this Kingdom by virtue of this Ac: shall be of the to the Unitas Privy Council, or a Member of either House of^ Parliament, or capable of taking, l!![^5y"'"i'y haying, or enjoying any Office or Place of Trust within the Kingdoms of Great ^°' * ^' Britain or Ireland, either Civil or Military, or of having, accepting, or taking any Grant from the Crown to himself, or to any other in Trust for him, of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments within the Kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland ; any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. 14 IS^GEORGII II. Capi31. 7&8W.3.C.22. 5 Ann. c. 8. N, -;■• A V V x.>. Masters of Vessels registered shall "ve Account poaOath. X The Oath. Anno 13°Georgii II. Cap. 31. An Act for further regulating the Plantation Trade ; and for Relief of Merchants importing Prize Goods from America, and for preventing collusive Captures there ; and for obliging the Claimers of Vessels • seized for Exportation of Wool, or any unlawful Importation, to give Security for Costs ; and for allowing East India Goods to be taken out of Warehouses, in order to be cleaned and refreshed. * T^kT^ERE'AS by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Seventh and * V V Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Third, for * preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade, and by another * Act of the Fifth Year of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, for the Union of the * Two JCingdoms of England and Scotland, no Ship or Vessel whatsoever fhall be ' deemed or pass as a Ship of the Built and Property of Great Britain, Ireland, ' Guernsey, Jersey, or any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, or a Prize Sh^ < made free, so as to be qualified to trade to, from, or in any of the said Planta- * tions, until the Person or Persons claiming Property in such Ship or Vessel shall * make Oath, and register the same in the manner therein directed ; and in case any * Ship's Name so registered shall be altered, or any Transfer of Property to another * Port, such Ship is thereby directed to be registered de novo, upon delivering up the * former Certificate of the Register to the proper Officers to be cancelled ; aad * in case of any Alteration of Property in the same Port, by the Sale of one or ' more Shares in any Ship, after registering thereof, such Sale is to be acknowledged * by Endorsement on the Certificate of the Register before Two Witnesses } notwith- * standing which, the Certificates of the Register of several Ships have been frequently * sold to Foreigners, and such Certificates delivered to the Purchasers, and the Ships * of Foreigners, under Colour thereof, have been admitted to trade from and to the * said Plantations (though of Foreign Property) contrary to Law, to the Pjejudiceof * the Navigation of Great Britain and the Plantations ;* Fci- the Prevention thereof for the future, may it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual, and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and forty-two, no Ship or Vessel required by the said recited Acts to be registered, and carrying any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes to or from any of His Majesty's said Plantations in America, or to or from one Plantation to another, shall be permitted to trade, or be deemed qualified for that Purpose, within the Intent of the said recited Acts, until the Master or Person having Charge of the said Ship or Vessel shall, upon Oath (or in case of a Quaker, upon his solemn Affirmation) before the Governor or Collector of the Customs of every of His Majesty's said Plantations where the same shall arrive, give a just and true Account of the Name and Burthen thereof, and of the Place from whence she came, and of the other Particulars, according to the Form following } that is to say, • A. B. maketh Oath (or, if a Qviaker, solemnly affirms) that the Ship or Vessel * called the whereof he this Deponent (or Affirmant) is Master, or ' hath '•i^Mn'Xi") Relief of )reventing of Vessels »n, to give be taken Seventh and e Third, for 1 by another lion of the rer fhall be lin, Ireland, I Prize Ship said Planta- Vessel shall in case any y to another ering up the :elled ; and J of one or knowledged s ; notwith- n frequently id the Ships and to the '^ejudiceof thereof for it enacted sent of the assembled, th Day of lel required Wares, or srica, or to be deemed until the Oath (or Collector same shall ind of the the Form 15*G£ORGU II. Cap.31. * hath the Charge or Command during this present Voyage, being of the Burthen ( of Tons, came last from , and that she is, as he verily ' believes, the same Ship or Vessel described, meant, and intended in and by the * Cerdficate now produced by him ; and that the same does now, as he behevev, < belong wholly belong to His Majesty's British Subjects, and that no Foreigner has < directly or indirectly any Share, Property, or Interest therein, to his Knowledge or * Belief.' And in case any Ship or Vessel shall load or unload any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, before such Proof shall be made, that every such Ship r.nd Vessel shall be forfeited and lost, and shall and may be prosecuted, recovered, and divided in like manner as if she had not been registered in pursuance of the said Acf of the Seventh and Eighth of King William the Third. n. * And whereas by the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of His said * late Majesty King William the Third, it is enacted, that no Ship's Name registered * shall afterwards be changed without registering the same de novo, which is by * the said Act required to be done upon any Transfer of Property to another * Port, and delivering up the Certificate of the First Registry to be cancelled : * And whereas Masters of Ships have frequently lost or mislaid Certificates, to the * great Prejudice of the Owners, who have thereby lost their Voyages, and been * deprived of the Benefit of registering their Ships de novo, and such Losses have * happened at great Distances from the Port proper for the registering the Ship * de novo ;' be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and forty-two, if any Ship or Vessel duly qualified to trade to, from, and in His Majesty's said Plantations, shall happen to be in any of the said Plantations, and the Certificate of the Register thereof shall be lost or mislaid, the Master or other Person having Charge of the said Ship or Vessel may make Oath, or, being a Quaker, a solemn Affirmation, before the Governor or Collector of the Customs in the Port where the Ship or Vessel shall happen to be, in the following Form : ' A. B. being Master (or having the Charge) of the Ship or Vessel called the does swear (or solemnly affirm) that the said Ship or Vessel has been, as he verily believes, registered according to Law, to qualify her to. trade to, from, and in His Majesty's Plantations in America, and that he had a Certificate thereof granted at the Port of but that the same is lost or mislaid, and that he cannot find the same, and does not know where the same is, or what is become thereof, and that the same hath not been, nor shall be, with his Privity or Knowledge, sold or disposed of to any Person or Persons whatsoever ; and that he this Deponent (or Affirmant), and Three-fourths of the Mariners navigat* ing the said Ship or Vessel, are His Majesty's British Subjects, and the said Ship or Vessel does now, as he believes, belong wholly to His Majesty's British Subjects, and that no Foreigner has, 'o his Knowledge or Belief, any Share, Property, or Interest therein.' u Loadibg or un- loadin| Goods, before Proof same Force and Effect as if the same were an original Register and Certificate, and (^ no other ; and a Duplicate thereof shall be transmitted by the Officers who shall \ grant the same to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs. IV. * And whereas by the before-recited Act of Parliament made in the Seventh ' and Eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, for preventing Frauds, * and regulating Abuses in the Plantadon Trade, it is enacted among other Things, ' That in all Bonds (commonly called Plantation Bonds) that are given in the * Plantations, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of 12 Car. 2, c. 18. ' the Reign of King Charles the Second, for encouraging and increasing of Shipping ' and Navigation, and another Act made in the Twenty-second Year of His said 22 Car. 2. c. 26. * Majesty's Reign, to prevent planting Tobacco in England, and regulating the * Plantation Trade, the Governors of the Plantations, before they permit any Ship, * that by Law is to trade there, to load on board any of the Commodities enume- ' rated in the said Act last mentioned, are to take Bond, in the Manner and to the * Value expressed and directed by the sud Act, that such Ships or Vessels shall * carry all the aforesaid enumerated Goods that shall be laden on board the * said Ship to some other of His Majesty's British Plantations, or to Great Britain j * and that the Condition of the said Bonds shall be within Eighteen Months after the ' Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce Certificates of having * landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in One of His Majesty's said ' British Plantations, or in Great Britain, otherwise such Bonds to be in full Force : ' But there being no Provision made in any of the said Acts, or any other Law, for * returning and producing Certificates within any limited Time of the landing and ' discharging such Goods for such Ships as give Bond in Great Britain, in pursuance ' of the Directions of the said Acts made in the Twelfth and Twenty-second Years ' of King Charles the Second ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven xhe Condition of hundred and forty-two, that in all Bonds, commonly called Plantation Bonds, which Plamatlon Bonds, shall be hereafter taken or entered into in Great Britain, in pursuance of the said Act, or any other Law since made, whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great Britain, such Bond^ shall be with Condition, that within Eighteen Months from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certificate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall be delivered, that they have been there landed and discharged, otherwise such Bonds shall be forfeited, and the Penalty thereof shall and may be sued for in His Majesty's Courts of Exchequer in England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively ; provided that this Act shall not extend or be construed to extend to Bonds given for Ships which lade Rice at Carolina or Georgia, by virtue of a Licence granted by the Commis- sioners of the Customs, to be carried to some Part of Europe, to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, pursuant to an Act passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty's 3 Geo. 2. c. 28. Reign, or for Ships lading Sugars in any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America, by virtue of a Licence granted by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, to be carried directly to any Foreign Part of Europe, except Ireland, pursuant to an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty. P Geo 2 e 30 H ^:r 59 IP'GBORGII II. Cap. 37. & Cap. 30. ■.-f. . • .UwA.»„ Jk .,t'\.A.^^t. Ships new-built in Great Britain or America, on first setting out, to be furnished with a Set of new Sails, manufactured in Great Britain, under Penalty of jfiSO, Penalties how to be recorcred. and disposed of. j^m-.-:.,i:u. Anno IP Georgii II. Cap.27. Av Act for the inore effectual securing the Duties now payable on Foreign-made Sail Cloth imported into this Kingdom; and for charging all Foreign-made Sails with a Duty ; and for explaining a Doubt concerning Ships being obliged, at their first settmg out to Sea, to be ilimislifd with one compleat Set of Sails made of British Sail Cloth. XI. ' A ND whereas Doubts have arisen about the Meaning of a Clause in the said *Jl\, Act of the Ninth Year of His present Majesty's Reign» by which Ships or ' Vessels are obliged^ at their first setting out, or being first navigated at Sea, to be * furnished with one full and complete Set of Sails nude of Sail Cloth mzmufactured ' in Great Britain :' To obViate such Doubts for the future, be it enacted by the Authority afcjesaid». That from and after the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and forty-six, every Ship or Vessel which shall be built in Great Britain, and from and after the I'wenty-ninth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and forty-six, every Ship or Vessel which shall be built in His Majesty's Plantations in America, shall, upon her first setting out, or being first navigated, have or be furnished with one full and complete Set of new Sails (bond fide belonging to such Ship or Vessel) made of Sail Cloth manufactured in Great Britain ; and in case such Ship or Vessel shall not, on her first setting out, be fitted or furnished with a new Set of Ssuls, properly belonging to such Ship or Vessel, made of Sail Cloth of the Manufacture of Great Britain as aforesaid, that then, and for every such Neglect or Default, the Master of such Ship or Vessel shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds. XEL And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the several pecuniary Peoalties and Forfeitures herein-before imposed on Persons offending against this Act (not otheiv/ise directed and applied) shall and m&y be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Coiu-ts of Record in Great Britain, or in such of His Majesty's Plant?Mc is whe»cin such Ofience shall be committed ; in which Suit no Essoign, Protection, Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance,. shall be allowed; which said Forfeitures shall be applied, one Moiety thereof to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety thereof to th« Person or Persons who shall sue tor the same. Anno 19° Georgii II. Cap. 30. An Act for the better Encouragement of the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America. 111. ' A ND for the moj c effectual preventing Merchants Ships or Privateers in any ' l\ of the Parts aforesaid from harbourir g or entertaining any Seamen who shall ' desert His Majesty's Service in any of the Parts aforesaid,' be it further enacted by the A.uthority 20'G£QRGII II. Cap.44. Authority aforesaid. That from and after the said Twenty^fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and forty-six, every Master of a Merchant Ship or Vessel, and Commander of a Privateer, sliall, before he shall set Sail from any Port of or belonging: to the said British Sugar Colonies or any of them, deliver to th6 Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port from whence he shall oet Siul, an exa«t List of all the Men belonguig to such Merchant Ship or Vessel, or Privateer, containine their Names, Ages, and Descriptions of their Persons, upon Pain that he shall fbrfsit the Sum of Ten Pounds to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for every such Man he shall so receive and entertain on board, whose Name shall not be inserted in such I tibt ; to be recovered, with fiill Costs of Suit, in any Court of Recgrd within any Part of His Majesty's Dominions. IV. And it is hereby further enacted, That such Officer of th* Customs do returfl to '^uch Master or Commander an attested Copy of such List so delivered to him ^ and that upon the Death or Alteration of any Seaman, the ^aid List be immediately altered, and delivered to the Naval Officer, or Chief Officer of the Customs, in aby Port where such Merchant Ship or Vessel, or Privateer, shall arrive, in manneif as aforesaid ; all which said Lists shall from Time to Time be produced and shown to any of the Captains or other Officer of any of His Majesty's Ships of War demanding the same ; and if any Man or Men belongin3 to any of His Majesty's Ships of War iihall be found on board any Merchant Ship or Vessel, or Privateer, whose Name shall not be contained in such List as aforesaid, the Master or Commander of such Vessel or Privateer shall forfeit to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the Sum (^ l^fty Pounds for every such Man which shall be so found on board, to be recovered ift manner as aforesaid. <. :■'■' .< ' .'■i'-f,ii>'.- 1>..'. ■>'■-;. ■■■ -j^-^ h' ■ -i-'-.w^ :" '■•-' • ' fc--'": ■■-i' ••jst-^'';: . Lists, &c. of the Men employed to be ddivcred to the Officer of the Port by the Master, *^c. of Vessel, on Penalty of jg 10. An attested Copy of the List to be returned, &c. The Lists to be shonrn to Captains of Men of War. Men belonging to any of the Men of War, being aboard, and not in the List, the Master to forfeit £50, .!.'/.'■ Anno 20'' Georgii II. Cap.44, An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act made in the Thirteentli Year of His present Majest/s R«ign, intituled An Act for natu- ralizing such Foreign. Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any of His Majesty's ^^olonies in America, to other Foreign Protestants who conscientious ^ scruple the taking of an Oath. WHEREAS by an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty's 13 G».o.2. c. 7. Reign, intituled ' An Act for naturalizing such Foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as arc ^settled or shall settle m any of His Majesty's Coloniesin America', it was enacted, that from 'id after the First D fJuhe in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty, all Pei," • s bom out of the Ligeance of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, who had inhabited and resided, or should inhabit and reside for the Space of Seven Years or move m tofv of His Majesty's Colonies in America, and should not have been absent out of som"; of the said Colonies for a longer Spact than Two Months at any one Time during H 2 « the 60 I Geo. I.e. 13. 8 Geo. I . c. 6. 1 W.&M. St. I. '; c. 18. Foreign Protest- ants, Residents in America Seven Years, who scruple an Oath, upon making and sub- scribing the Aftirrn- Btion of Fidelity aiid Declaration, to be deemed natural-born Subjects. ^GKORGII II. Cap. 44. ' the said Seven Tears, and should t^^^ke and subscribe the Oaths, and make, repeat, * and subscribe the Declaradon appointed by an Act made in the First Year of the ' Reign of His late Majesty King Gecrge the First, indtuled * An Act for the further * Security of Ilis Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown ' in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants } and for oxia^uishing * the Hopes of the pre: :nded Prince of Wales, his open and secret Abettois ;* or * being of the People called Quakers, should make and subscribe thj I)e<^ ici; ition ')f * Fideuty, and take and affirm the I'.Sect of the Abjuration Oath appvuvied and * prescribed by an Act made iu the Eighth Year of the Reign of His ?aid )"iteM."je5ji'', * mtituled * An A€t for granting the People called Quaker :such ¥ nms ot Affi;m- ' ation or Declaradon as may remove the Ditnculiles v/hkh man" of them He * under j' and also make and subscribe the Piofeaaon of his Chiicitian Belief, * appointed and prescribed by an Act made in the Fir: ; Year of the Reign of Their * late Majesties King William and Queen iVlary, intituled • An Act for -xemprinj^ ' Theiir IVIajesdes Protestant Subjects from the Penalties of certain I.iws,' before the * Chirtf Judge or other Judge of the Colony wherein sucii Persons i-specdwely had so * inhsbited and resided, or shouM so inhabit and reside, should be detmed, adjui'^, -1, •- aiid t?\en to be Bk Mfijesty's ii;\tural-born Subjects of this Kingdom, to ill Inteiit?, * Construcdriiis zv.d •'•ijpor.es, as if they and every one of them hud been or were * born within this Ki; /,ciom : \nH whtreap many of the People of the Congregation * called the Moravian Br :flvr^iij, :*d it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. Persons excluded 'J iui nothing in this Act, or in the sai'' recited Act of the Thirteenth Year of Ills f""**™ this or Majesty's Reign contained, shall ext«- A or be construed to extend to naturalize any '^ ^^°' ^• Person or Persons whatsoever, who by virtue of an Act made in the Fourth Year of 4 Geo. 2. c.2i. His Majesty'? Reign, intituled • An Act to explain a Clause in an Act made in the • Seventh 62 26>GEOR6II II. Cap. 19. * Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, for naturalizing Foreign * I'rotestantB, which relates to the Children of natural-born Subjects of the Crown of * IDngland or of Great Britain,' are declared and enacted not to be entitled to the Benefit of the said Act of the Seventh Year of Her said Mate Majesty's Reign, but that all such Persons shall be and remain in the same State, Plight, and Condition, to all Intents. Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as they would have been in, if the said recited Act of the Thirteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, or this Act, had never been made ; any Thing in this Act, or in the said recited Act of the Thirteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, contained to the contrary in anywise not- withstanding. Persons convicted of plundering 3hip- wrecked Goods, &c. or of obstructing the Escape of any Person from a Wreck, or of put- ting out false Lights, to siifTer Death without Clergjf. Wliere Goods of small Value shall be stolen, without any Circunistancea of Cruelty, the Offender may be indicted for Petit Larceny. Anno 26° Georgii II. Cap. 19. An Act for enforcing the Laws against Persons who shall steal or detain shipwrecked Goods ; and for the Relief of Persons suffering Losses thereby. * TTT'HEREAS, notwithstanding the good and salutary Laws now in being ' T V against plundering and destroying Vessel:) in Distress, and against taking * away shipwrecked, lost, or stranded Goods, many wicked Enormities have been ' committed, to the Disgrace of the Nation, and to the grievous Damage of Mer- * chants and Mariners of our own and other Countries :' For Remedy thereof be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That a" any Person or Persons shall plimder, steal, take away, or destroy any Goods or Merchandizes, or other Effects^ from or belonging to any Ship or Vessel of His Majesty's Subjects, or others, which shall be in Distress, or which shall be wrecked, lost, stranded, or cast on shore in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions (whether any living Creature be or. board such Vessel or not), or any of the Furniture, Tackle, Apparel, Provision, or /'art of such Ship or Vessel ; or shall beat or wound with Intent to kill or destroy, or shall other- wise wilfully obstruct the Escape of any person endeavouring to save his or her Life from such Ship or Vessel, or the Wreck thereof; or if any Person or Persons shall put out any false Light or Lights with Intention to bring any Ship or Vessel into Danger, then such Person or Persons so oflfending shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and being lawfully convicted thereof, shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony with* out Benefit of Clergy. II. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authoiity aforesaid. That when Goods or Effects of small Value shall be stranded, lost, or cast on shore, and shall be stolen without Circumstances of Cruelty, Outrage, or Violence; then and in such Cases it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons to prosecute for such Offence by way of Indictment for Petit Larceny ; and the Offenders being thereof lawfully con- victed shall suffer such Punishment as the Laws in Cases of Petit Larr y do enjoin or require. ill, And Sd'OBOKGll II. Cap. 19. III. And be it fuHher enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That k shsll be lawful for any one or more oi His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, upon Information made before him or them upon Oath (which Oath all Justices are hereby empo\rered to administer) of any Part of the Cargo or Effects whatsoever belonging to any Ship or Vessel lost or stranded upon or near the Coasts aforesaid, being unlawfully carried or conveyed away, or concealed in any House, Outhouse, Bam, or other Pface, or of some reasonable Cause of Suspicion thereof, to issue his or tlwir Warrant Or War- rants for the searching of such House, Outhouse, Barn, or other Place, as in other Cases of stolen Goods : And if the same shall be found in scch House, Outhotisc, Barn, or other Place or Places, or upon or in the Custody or Possession of any'Person or Persons not legally authorized or entitled to keep and withhold the same ; and the Owner or Occupier of such House, Outhouse, Barn, or other Place, or the Person or Persons upon whom or in whose Custody or Possession the same shall be found, shall not immediately upon Demand deliver the same to the lawful Owner or Owners thereof, or to such other Person or Persons as shall be lawfully authorized to demand the same ; or shall not give a good Account, to the Satisfaction of the said Justice or Justices, how he, she, or they came by or became possessed thereof, it shall and may be lawful to and for such Justice or Justices, upon Proof of such Refusal, and he and they is and are hereby required, to commit the said Offender or Offenders to the Common Goal for the Space of Six Months, or tmtil he, she, or they shall have paid to such lawful Owner or Owners, or to the Person or Persons lawfully authorized to re^ jive the same. Treble the Value of the Goods or Things so by him, ht.> , or them uiriawfully detained. 03 imticet, upon InformMion of shipwrecked Oobda bdng Koien or conceaUd, to issue Search Warrants ; aikd the Persons in whose Cnstody the Goods shall be fonnd. not giving a satufactory Aeconnt, to be committed for Six Months, or until Payment of TreWeVahre. V V..'; >/t'r./ '.-jf. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Person or Persons shall offer or expense to Sale any Goods or Fffects whatsoever belonging to any Ship or Vessel lost, stranded, or cast on shore as aforesaid, •■id unlawfully taken away, or reasonably suspected so to ' ave been, then and in evci-^ siTch Case it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be so onw ' for Sale, or any Officer of the Customs or Excise, or any ConstaWe, Headbcouph, or Tithingman, or other Peace Officer, to stop, take, .and seize the said Goo^ and Effects ; and that he or they shall with all convenient Speed carry the same, or give Notice of such Seizure, to some one or more of His Majesty's Justice or Justices of the Pbace ; and if the Person or Persons who shall have offered the said Goods or Effects to Sale, or some other Person or Persons ou his, her, or their Behalf, shall not appear before the said Justice within Ten Days next after such Seizure, and make out, to the Satisfaction of the said Justice, the Property of the said Goods or Effects to be in him, her, or them, or in the Person or Persons by whom he, she, or they was or were employed to sel' the same, then the said Goods or Effects shall, by Ojder of the said Justice, be forthwith delivered over to or'for tlie T *(x f the right- ful Owner or Owners thereof, upon Payment of a reasonable Reward for such Sei- zure (to be ascertained by tV.e said Justice) to the Person who seized the same ; and such Justice shall and may commit the Person or Persons who shall so have offered or exposed the said Goods or Things to Sale as aforesaid, to the Common Gaol for the Space of Six Months, o. until he, she, or they shall have paid to such lawful Owner or Owners, or to the Person or Persons lawfully authorized to receive the same ble the Value of .ue said Goods or Effects so by him, her, or them un- lawful!; ,: ., od to Sale as aforesa'd. Goods offered to Sale, suHpentzd to be shipwrecked, to be stopped. and Notice to be given to a Justice ; and the Person offering the same, not making out his Property, the Goods to le returned to the Oh ler, and the Offender to be committed for Six Months, or tili> Pavnient of Treble Value. V. And 64 Peraont who thall Mve and carry any Vettel or Good* into Port, &c. for the Benefit of the Owncm, and give Notice thereof, ur who shall dis- cover where such Goods are con- cealed, entitled to the Reward ; and the Quantum, in case of Disagree- ment, is to be ad- Jtuted according to 12 Ann. St. 2. c^ 18. Where any Vessel or Bffecto shall be stranded, public Notice to be given for a Meeting of the Sheriff, Jus- tices, and Magis- trates, &c. who are to aid in saving the Vessel and Goods, &c. and to adjust the Salvage. 4s. a Day allowed for their At- tendance. If the Salvage be not paid, the Officer of the Customs may raise the same bv a Bill of Sale of 'the Vessel or oargo, which rr.«y be re- deemed upon Pny- ment of Principal and Interest. 26«GEORGII II. Cap.l9. V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in case any Person or Persons not employed by the Master, Mariners, or Owners, or other Persons lawfully authorized, in the Salvage of any Ship or Vessel, or the Cargo or Provision thereof, shall, in the Absence of Persons so employed or authorized, save any such Ship, Vessel, Goods, or Eflfects, and cause the same to be carried, for the Benefit of the Owners or Proprietors, int^ <'\i c to any near adjoining Custom-house or other Place of safe Custody, inwOi^J ..m < giving Notice thereof to some Justice of the Peace, Magistrate, or Cuitj-.n-housc oi Lxcise Officer, or shall discover to any such Magistrate or Officer where nny such Goous or Effects are wrongfully bought, sold, or concealed; then such Person or Persons shall be entitled to a reasonable Reward for such Services, to be paid by the Masters or Owners of such Vessels or Goods, and to be adjusted, in case of Disagreement about the Quantum, in like manner as the Salvage is u be adjusted and , :o borrowed, and Interest for the same aflter the Rate of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum. 9B «tl , ■#. A"' . i,-%i , t • VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That If Oath shall be made, t)i;fore any Magistrate lawfully empowered to take the same, of any such Plunder or Theft, and the Examination in Writing whereupon taken shall bie delivered to the Clerk of the Peace of the County, Riding, or Division wherein such Fact shall Where Oath shall be made of Plunder or Theft, or of breaking a Ship, contrary to l2Ann. 8t.2. C.18. arid the Bxamina- tion shall be de- li rered to the Ck-rk of the Peace, he is to prosecute the OlTender ; thereupon taken shall be delivered to such Clerk of the Peace or his Deputy, then such Clerk of the Peace shall cause the Offender or Offenders in any of the said Cases to be forthwith prosecuted for the same, either in the County where the Fact shall be committed, or in any County next adjoining ; in which adjoining County any Indictment may be laid by any other Prosecutor ; and if the Fact be committed in Wale.s then the Prosecution shall or may be carried on in the next adjoining English (>ounty ; and the necessary Charges of such Prosecutions by the Clerk of the Peace <:hall be paid by the Treasurer of the County, Riding, or Division where the Fact shall be committed, to such Amount as the Justices of the Peace in their General or Quarter Sessions shall order and ascertain the same ; and if such Clerk of the Peace shall neglect or refuse to carry on such Prosecution in due manner, he shall forfeit One hundred Pounds for every such Offence to any Person or Persons who shall site for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster } in which Action no Essoign, Pro- - > tection, Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Commissioners Olicers for putting of the Land Tax, the Deputy Sheriff, the Coroner, and the Officers of Excise in ^'^ • ""'' '^ i^""- each County, Riding, and Division, shall be proper Officers for putting m Execution Execution '" this present Act, and the said Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, together with those therein respectively named for that Purpose, »'') the Charges to be paid by the Treasurer of the County. Clerk of the Peace neglecting to pro- secute forfeits j£100. XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Sheriff or his Deputy, Justice of the Peace, Mayor or other Magistrate, Coroner, Lord of a Manor, Commissioner of the Land Tax, Chief Constable or Petty Constable, or other Peace Officer, or any Custom-house or Excise Officer, or other Person law- fully authorized, shall be assaulted, beaten, and wounded for or on account of the Exercise of his or their Duty in or concerning the Salvage or Preservation of any Ship or Vessel in Distress, or of any Ship or Vessel, (soods or Effects, strandea, wrecked, or cast on shore, or lying under Water, in any of His Majesty's Dominions, then any Person or Persons so assaulting, beating, and woundmg, shall upon Trial and Conviction, by Indictment at the Assizes or General Gaol Delivery, or at the General or Quarter Sessions for the County, Riding, or Division where such Offence shall be committed, be transported for Seven Years to some of His Majesty's Colonies in America, and shall be subject to such subsequent Punishment, in case of Return before that Time, as other Persons under Sentence of Transportation are by the Law subjected unto. ., ^ . w Persons convicted of ii!>8aulting any Magistrate or Officer, &c. in the Salvage of any Vessel or Goods, to be transported for Seven Years. I . XU. And Im Jiiitire, in the Abience of the Sheriff*, may tnke « . fiullicieiu VoTct to reprew Violence, he. Persons em- powered to give Orders, where any shitll be «s«embied in Mie of « Shipwreck, ftc. Persons acting con- trary to Orders forfeit £5, Rights of the Crown, &c. reserved. £)(auiination on Oath to be taken of the Ship's Name, Cargo, Own«n, &6. and a Copy to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Admiraitv, and published in the Gazette. 26>OEORGlI II. Cap. 19. XII. And be it further entcted by the Authority aforesaid, That it Khali lie lawful for any one or more of His Majesty's Justicoi of the Peace, in case of Need, and in the Absence of the'High Sheriff, to talie sufFcient Power of the County to repress all unjtin Violence, and duly to enforce the Execution of this Act. XIII. And to prevei^t Confusion among Persons assembled to save any Ship, Vessel, Goods, or Eflfecta aa aforesaid, either for want of proper Orders, or by contradictory Orders ; be it further enacted. That all Persons so assembled shall confbrm in the first place to the Orders of the Master or other Officers or Owners, or other Persons employed by them ; and for want of their Presence or Directions, then in the next place to the Orders of the Persons authorized by thii Act, or the aforesaid Act of Queen Anne, in the like manner, in the following Subordination, as any of the said Persons shall happen to be present ; that is to say, in the first place, to the Orders of any Officer or Officers of the Customs ; then of any Officer or Officers of the Excise } then of the Sheriff or his Deputy ; then of any Justice or Justicea of the Peace ; then of the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of any Corporation } then of the Coroner ; then of any Commissioners of the Land Tax { then of any Chief Constable i then of any Petty Constable or other Peace Officers : And any Person whatsoever acting knowingly and wilfully contrary to such Orders shall forfeit any Sum not exceedmg Five Pounds, to be levied by Warrant of One Justice of the Peace ; and in case of Non-payment, the Offender nhall be committed to the House of Correction for any Time not exceeding Three Months. XIV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That neither this Act, nor any thing herein contained, shall any way extend to deprive or prejudice His Royal Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or any claiming under them, or any Patentee or Grantee of the Crown, or any Lord or Lords of any Manor or P«Ianors, or other Person whomsoever, of or in relation to any Right which they or any of them have or may have, or lawfully claim, to any Wreck or Wrecks, or any Goods which are or shall be flotsam, jetsam, or lagan, but that such respective Rights shall be enjoyed in as full, ample, and beneficial a manner, in every respect, as tf this Act had never been made. XV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Officer of the Customs who shall act in the preserving of any Ship or Vessel \i\ Distress, or the Cargo thereof, shall, as soon as conveniently may be, cause or procure all Persons belonging to the said Ship or Vessel, and others who can give any Account thereof, or of the Cargo thereof, to be examined upon Oath before sonie Justice of the Peace as to the Name or Description of the said 6hip or Vessel, and the Names of the Master, Commander, or Chief Officer and Owners thereof, and of the Owners of the said Cargo, and of the Ports or Places fttnn or to which the said Ship or Vessel "Was bound, and the Occasion of the said Ship's Distress ; which Examination the said Justices are herd>y required to take down in Writing, and they shall deliver a true Copy thereof, together with a Copy of the said Account of the Goods, to the said Officer of the Customs, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the Secretary of the Admiralty for the thne being, vho shall publish or cause to be published, iii the next London Gazette, so much thereof as shall or may be necessary for the In- formation of the Persons interested or concerned therein. XVI. And enence or 2«GEORGII III. Cap. 24. 67 XVI. And be It further enacted by the Authority .iforesaid, That the before- The ' . u i mentioned Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of Her said late Majesty '*• * ' *"; Queen Anne, and aLso an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late ,,. jn^force where IIU and 4 Geo. 1. c. 12. to Majesty King George the First, for enforcing and making perpetual the before- not altered by mentioned Act, and for inflicting the Punishment of Death on sucn as shall wilfully thii Act. bum or destroy Ships, shall in all Things remain in full force, save only so far as the same are altered or changed by this present Act. ■ " , <" s ' " ti',*'» r, XVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall CommeuuenKut take place from the Twenty-ninth Day of September in the Year of Our Lord One ?f thU Act. thousand seven hundred and filty -three. • XVni. Provided, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed Not to extend to extend to that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. . . to Scotland. Anno S^Georgii ,111. Cap. 24 An Act for importing Salt from Europe iwto the Colony of Nova Scotia in America. * TTTHEREAS Doubts have arisen whether His Majesty's Subjects may lawfully * W import Salt diredly from any Foreign Port in Europe into the Colony of * Nova Scotia in America for the Use of tne Fishery there, in like manner as is * allowed for the Fisheries of New Eneland and Newfoundland bv virtue of an A6t * of Parliament made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second : '* And whereas very considerable Establishments have lately been made in the said ' Colony by FIfliermen from diiferent Parts of His Majesty's Dominions, with a vir v * to carry on the Rshery upon the adjacent Banks :' In order therefore to recove jsuch Doubts as aforesaid, and for the Encouragement of so valuable a Brancli ; the Commerce of His Majesty's Subjects, which was one principal Object of fbe Settlement of this Colony, and of the Encouragement given by Parliameni' fn tlu: Support of such Settlement: May it please Your most Excellent Majesty thai: it nuv be enacted} and be it er\a£ted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, t)) ai>(! wit^ the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Conun(mt>, this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from pnd F om and after after the Fiwt Day of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, it fliaii and '**t July 1762, Salt may be lawful to and for any of His Majesty's Subjects to carry and import Salt lyi^M^^^ ffom any Part of Europe into the Colony of Nova Scotia in America, in British Ships Subjects from!|iny and Vessels manned and navirated according to the Ad of Parliament made in the Fart of Europe Twelfth Year of the Rd^ of Kinjr Charles the Second, intituled * An Aft for the .'"^ Nova Scotia, * encours^n^ and increasmg of Shipping and Navigation ;' and in the same manner as naSjted tSord Salt may be unported from Europe into New England and Newfoundland by an Aft ingtoAoti2Car.2. made in the Fifteenth Tearofthe Reign of the saidKing Charles the Second, intituled and in like manner * Au Aft for the EncouKUtement of Trade:' any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom to ** Salt may be im- the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. SrNeXlaX &c. a^BBS 68 sTGEORGll III. Cap. 25. Preamble, reciting Arts, 18 Geo. 2. and 29 Geo. 2. Foreign Protestants serving in'the Royal American Regi- ment, or as En- gineers in, America, lor the Spaco of Two Years, and (limlifyinr •"•fim- selves a I Geo. \ct .ects; Anno 2"Geoiigii III. Cap.25. An Act for naturalizing such Foreign Protestants as have served, or shall serve, for the Time therein mentioned, as Officers or Soldiers in His Majesty's Royal American Regiment, or as Engineers in America. ♦ TTTHEREAS by an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His late * W Majesty King George the Second, intituled ♦ An Act for naturalizing such * Foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in ' any of His Majesty's Colonies m America ;' all Persons bom out of the Ligeance.of * His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, who shall have inhabited and resided, or ' shall inhabit or reside, for the Space of Seven Years or more, in any of His Ma- ' jesty's Colonies in America, or shall not have been absent out of the said Co- * lonies for a longer Space than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven ' Years, are, upon the Conditions prescribed by the said Act, naturalized and made ' Partakers of all the Benefits and Pfivileges which the natural-born Subjects of this • Realm do enjoy, other than such as are specified in a Proviso in the said Act con- ' tained : And whereas Commissions have been granted to a certain Number of ' Foreign Protestants in America, in pursuance of a Power given by a subsequent Act • of the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, ' intituled ' An Act to enable His Majesty to grant Commissions to a certain Number * of Foreign Protestants, who have served abroad as Officers or Engineers, to act and • rank as Officers or Engineers in America only, under certain Restrictions and • Qualifications ;' which said Officers have been very useful to His Majesty's Service, ' by the raising of a great Number of Men, and training them to Disciphne as Soldiers : ' And whereas several of the said Officers, since the passing of the above-recited ' Acts, have purchased Estates in America, by which, as well as by their faithful ♦ Services, they have given the strongest Assurances of their Attachment and Fidelity ' to His Majesty's Government : And whereas it is just to reward the past Services ' of the said Officers and Soldiers, and to give Encouragement for their future good ' Conduct ; and it is likewise expedient to add Inducements to such Foreis^ Pro- ' testants as have settled, or may hereafter settle in America, to engage in His Ma- • jesty's Service ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same, That all such Foreign Protestants, as well Officers as Soldiers, who have served or sliall hereafter serve in the Royal American Regiment, or as Engineers in America, for the Space of Two Years, and shall take and subscribe the Oaths, and make, repeat, and sub- scribe the Declaration appointed by an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the First, intituled • An Act for the further Security of His Ma- ' jesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the * late Princess Sophia, being Protestants ; and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pre- ' tended Prince ofWales, his open and secret Abettors ;' and shall, at the Time of sub- scribing the said Oaths, and making, repeating, and subscribing the said Declaration, produce Certificates, signed in manner directed by the above-recited Act of the Thir- teenth of His late Majesty, of their having receii ed the Sacrament in some Protestant and ■;tff w erved, or r Soldiers 'ineers in of His late ilizing such lall settle in Ligeancejof resided, or of His Ma- ke said Co- i said Seven and made jectsof this id Act con- Number of sequent Act the Second, ain Number 3, to act and fictions and ty's Service, as Soldiers : bove-recited leir faithful and Fidelity >ast Services future good 'oreisfn Pro- in His Ma- Majesty, by 1 Commons, 'hat all such all hereafter )r the Space lat, and sub- leign of His of His Ma- Heirs of the s of the pre- rime of sub- Declaration, of the Thir- iC Protestant and S'GEORGIl 111 Cap.22. and Reformed Congregation within the Kingdom of Great Britain, or within some of the said Colonies in America, within Six Months before that Time, shall be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be His Majesty's natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as if they and every of them had been or were born within this Kingdom ; and that no Estates, of what Nature or Kind soever, pur- chased by them, or any of them, in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America, smce the passmg of the above-recited Act of the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, shall be liable to Seizure into the Hands of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or their Titles thereto be otherwise impeached by reason of their having been Alien? at. the Time of their making the said Purchases ; the above-recited Acts, or any other Statute, Law, or Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. II. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to naturalize any Person or Persons whatsoever, who, Ly virtue of an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First (intituled * An Act to explain a Clause ' in an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, * for naturalizing Foreign Protestants, which relates to the Children of natural-bom • Subjects of theCrown of England, or of Great Britain'), ate declared and enacted not be entitled to the Benefit of the said Act of the Seventh Year of Her said Majesty's Reign ; but that all such Persons shall be and remain in the same State, Plight, and Con- dition to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as they would have been in if this Act had never been made ; any thing herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. III. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That no Person who shall become a natural-born Subject of this Kingdom by virtue of this Act, shall be thereby enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to be capable of taking, having, or enjoying any Office or Place of Trust within the King- doms of Great Britain or Ireland, either Civil or Military ; or of having, accepting, or taking any Grant from the Crown to himself, or to any other in Trust for him, of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, within the Kingdoms aforesaid ; any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 69 ui^ producing Certificates of their having received the Sacrament in some Protestant Church, to be (Itemed naturai-born Sub- jects ; and all Pur- chaseM made by them since thepass. ing Act 29 Geo. 2. declaredto be valid. None are to be deemed naturalized by this Act, who by \ct 4 Geo. 1. are declared not to be entitled to the Be- nefit of the Act of 7 Aaate. Persons naturalized by this Act not capable of being Privy Counsellors, or Members of either House of Parliament ; or of holding Offices of Trust m Great Britain or Ireland. Anno3"GEORGii III. Cap. 22. An Act for the further Improvement of His Majesty's Revenue of Customs ; and for the Encouragement of Officers making Seizures ; and for the Prevention of the Clandestine Running of Goods into any Part of His Majesty's Dominions. ND whereas, for the more eflfectual Prevention of the infamous Practice of ' Smuggling -—-->- > • '•■.^^•-- j^r„-,. oelonging ^^- ' A ND whereas, for the more eflfectual Prevention of the infamous Practice of *-^^ Smuggling, it may be necessary to employ several of the Ships and Vessels * of "War oelonging to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, on the Coasts of ' Great 70 llieKing to direct, by Order in Council or Produnation, how the Share of such Sozures as shall be made by Vessels in His Service shall be divided amongst the Officers and Men. Clauses in Act SCreo. I. 3»GEORGII m. Cap. 22. ' Great 3rit9in and Ireland, and of the other Dominions and Colonies belongiiK • to the Crown of Great Britam :' Therefore, for the better Encouragement of all the Officers and Seamen employed in such Service to do their Duty merein, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to direct and appcwit the Moiety herein4>efore mentioned, or any other Part of all and every the Seizure and Seizures that shall be made by such Officers or Seamen respectively, so employed as aforesaid, to be divided amongst all such Officers and Seamen of such Ship or Vessel of War who shall make any such Seizure as aforesaid, in such Proportions and in such Manner as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, ^all think fit to order and direct by any Order or Orders of Council, or by any Proclamation or Proclamatiuiis to be made or issued from time to time for that Purpose; and such Moiety or other Part of the said Seizure or Seizures shall be so paid and divided to and amongst all the Officers and Seamen of such Ship or Vessel of War accordingly. TX. ' And whereas by certain Clauses in an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled * An Act against clan- destine Running of uncustomed Goods, and for the more effectual preventing of Frauds relating to the.Customs' (which Clauses have been continued by several subsequent Acts), it was declared and enacted. That where any Ship or Vessel of the Burthen of Fifty Tons or under, laden with customable or prohibited Goods, should be found hovering on the Coasts of this Kingdom within the Limits of any Port, and not proceeding on her Voyage for Foreign Parts, or to some other Port of this Kingdom, Wind and Weather permitting, it should and might be lawful to and for any Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs to go on board every such Ship or Vessel, and to take an Accouirt of the Ladmg, and to demand and take Security from the Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel in that Voyage, by his own Bond by him to he entered into unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in such Sum or Sums of Money as should be Treble the Value of such Foreign Goods then on board, with •Condition that such Ship or Vessel, as soon as Wind and Weather, and the State and Condition of such Ship or Vessel, permitted, should and would proceed regularly on such Voyage, and should land such Foreign Goods in and at some Foreign Port or Ports ; and if such Master or other Person havi*^ . or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, should, upon such Demand, refuse to enter into such Bond, or, having entered into such Bond, should not depart or proceed regularly on such Voyage as soon as Wind and Weather, and the State and Condition of such Ship or Vessel, should permit, unless otherwise suffered to make a longer Stay by the Collector, or other principal Officer in his Absence, of such Port where such Ship or Vessel should be, not exceeding Twenty Days ; then and in either of the said Cases all the Foreign Goods so on board such Ship or Vessel should and might, by any Officer or Officers of the Customs, by Direction of the Collector or other Principal Officer as aforesaid, be taken out of and from such Ship or Vessel, and forthwith brought on shore and secured } and in case the said Goods were customable, the Customs and other Duties should be paid for the same : And as concerning Wool, or any prohibited Goods, or other Goods liable to Forfeiture, which might be found on board such Ships or Vessels at the Time of their unlading as aforesaid, :he same were thereby declared to be subject to For- feiture, and the Officers of the Customs should and might prosecute the same, as • also 3 GE ORG 1 1 III. Cap. 22. 71 s belonrai^ ;inent of all erein* be it and for his lerein-befbre liat shall be to be divided ) shall make nner as His ly any Order ide or issued of the said Officers and Year of the against clan- )reventing of d by several lip or Vessel ar prohibited iin the Limits some other ght be lawBil 1 board every demand and »e Charge or by him to he n or Sums «f 1 board, with and the State )uld proceed and at some >r taking the and, refuse to not depart or nd the State ie suiFered to Absence, of Days; then .hip or Vessel ection of the id from such case the said paid for the Goods liable t the Time of ibject to For- the same, as • also ' ;ilso the Ship or Vessel, in case she should be liable to Condemnation, as in the ♦ Manner therein-after mentioned; and that after such Goods were so taken out of ' such Ship or Vessel, and brought on shore and secured by such Officer or Officers, ' such Bonds so to be given as aforesaid should be voi9, and delivered up, without * any Fee or Reward for taking or delivering up the same ; and such Bond, not • being otherwise discharged, should, on a proper Certificate returned under the ' Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place or Places beyond the Seas, or • under the Hands and Seals of Two known British Merchants upon the Place, that * such Goods were there landed, or upon Proof by credible Persons that such * Goods were taken by the Enemies, or perished in the Seas (the Examii^tion and ' Proof thereof being left to the Judgment of the Commissioners of the Customs), • should be vacated and discharged : And whereas the extending of the said Clauses ' to the rest of His Majesty's Dominions may be a Means of preventing illicit Trade ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the First The recited Clauses Day of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, the said Clauses and respecting custom- every Part of them shall be extended, to all Ships and Vessels of the Burthen of SwdTon'board Fifty Tons or under which shall be found hovering on the Coasts of Ireland, or Vessels of Fifty any other of His Majesty's Dominions or Territories belonging to the Crown of Tons or under, Great Britain, and shall be of equal Force in every respect, in regard to all such ^!?'"Jlf hovering on Ships and Vessels found hovering on any of the Coasts aforesaid, as such Clauses officersof theCus- now are, or shall be construed to be, in regard to any Ships or Vessels hovering on toms, extended to the Coasts of this Klingdom ; and all Offences which shall be committed against a'l such like Vessels the said Clauses, or any Part of them, on the Coasts of Ireland, shall be tried, and the J^""oVu,rcof8t8° Penalties and Forfeitures thereby incurred shall be prosecuted for and recovered, in ^^i ^land a'tTd of any of His Majesty's Courts of Record in Dublin in the said Kingdom, and all thesaid Offences co Offences which shall be committed against the said Clauses, or any Part of be tried, andPenal- them, on the Coasts of any other of His Majesty's Dominions or Territories (except *'** recovered, in this Kingdom), shall be tried, and the Penalties and Forfeitures thereby incurred shall Courts of Dublin, be prosecuted for and recovered, in any Court of Admiralty in the Dominion or Offences in other Territory on the Coast whereof such Ofjfence shall be committed (which Court of Parts to be prose- Admiralty is hereby "Uthtrized, empowered, and required to proceed to hear and ^"^^ '"? '^1'* ^°"''* determine the same), l r in any Court of Record in such Dominion or Territory, at other Court of the Election of the Informer or Prosecutor, according to the Course and MethcKl Record of the same used and practised there in Prosecutions for Offences against penai Laws relating to ^'"^^j *""* *•»« the Customs or Excise; and such Penalties and Forfeitures so recovered there ^vided'ar.d*ap'Hed shall be divided and applied in such and the same manner as Penalties and Fcr- as those in Grc^t feitures recovered in Great Britain for the like Offences are, or in pursuance of this Britain, Act may be, directed to be divided and applied. 72 4-GEORGII III. Cap. 15. From and after 29th September 1764, the following Rates and Duties to take place on the several Species of Foreign Goods here enumerated, im- ported into any of HisMajesty'sPlant- itions in America. Anno 4° Geo RG 1 1 III. Cap. 15. An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Planta- tions in America ; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled * An Act for the better securing ' and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in * America ;' foi applying the Produce of such Duties, und of the Duties to arise by virtue of the said At, towards defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the said Colonies and Plantations i for explaining an Act made in the Twenty- fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled * An Act for the Encouragement of the Green'and ami Eastland ' Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Tr^de ;' and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks on Exports from this Kingdi^ni, and more effectually preventing the clandestine Convey- ance of Goods to and from the said ColonL-s and Plantations, and improving and securing the Trade between the same and Great Bntain. * "l^HEREAS it is expedient that new Provisions and Regulations should be * established for improving the Revenue of this Kingdom, and for extending * and securing the Navigation and Commerce between Great Britain and Your * Jifiajesty's Dominions in America, which by the Peace have been so happily enlarged : * Aad whereas it is just and necessary that a Revenue be raised in Your Majesty's * said Dominions in America, for defraying the Expences of defending, protedUng, and * securing the same :' We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, being desirous to make some Provision in this present Session of Parliament towards raising the said Revenue in America, have resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several Rates and Duties herein-after mentioned j and do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand £ jven hundred and sixty-four, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for and upon all White or Clayed Sugars of the Produce or Manufacture of any Colony or Plantation in America, not under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors ; for and upon hidico, and Coifee of Foreign Produce or Manufacture ; for and upon all Wines (except French Wine) ; for and upon all Wrought Silks, Bengals, and Stuffs, mixed with Silk or Herba of the Manufacture of Persia, China, or East India, and all Calico painted, dyed, printed, or stained there ; and for and upon all Foreign Linen Cloth called Cambrick and French Lawns, which shall be imported or brought into any Colony or Plantation in America, "~ which f * I 7» nd Planta- perpetual te Majesty IT securing lolonies in Lnd of the raying the d Colonies e Twenty- I, intituled I Eastland i ;' and for from this le Convey- itions, and and Great IS should be For extending n and Your >ily enlarged : our Majesty's otedling, and Subjects, the make some Revenue in al Kates and ilajesty that it r, by and with imons, in this 'om and after id sixty-four, lis Heirs anc Manufacture His Majesty, a Produce or and upon all Manufacture d, or stained : and French n in America, which On Foreien White or Clayed Sugars, , 22s. per Cwt. ', Indieo 6d. per Pound. Coffee £2. 19s. 9d. per Cwt. Madeira Wines, d7 per Ton. Portugal and Spanish Wines, 10s. per Ton. The Duties on the enumerated Goods here mentioned, to be raised and paid as by the recited Act of 6 Geo. 2. ; 4*GB0RGII ni. Cap. 15. which now is or hereafte»' may be under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the several Rates and Duties following }• that is to say, For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of such Foreign White or Clayed Sugars, One Pound Two Shillings, over and above all other Duties imposed by any former Aft of Parliament. For every Pound Weight Avoirdupois of such Foreign Indieo, Sixpence. For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of such Foreign Coffee, which shall be imported from any Place except Great Britain, Two Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Nine-pence. For every Ton of Wine of the Growth of the Madeiras, or of any other Island or Place from whence such Wine may be lawfully imported, and which shall be so imported from such Islands or Places, the Sum of Seven Pounds. For every Ton of Portugal, Spanish, or any other Wine (ex^.ept French Wine) imported from Great Britain, the Sum of Ten Shillings. VI. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Rates and Duties hereby charge 1 upon such Foreign White or Clayed Sugars, Foreign Indieo, Foreign Coffee, Wines, Wrought Silks, Bengals, and Stuffs, mixed with Silk or Herba, Calico, Cambricks, French Lawns, and Foreign Molasses or Syrups, imported into any British American Colony or Plantation, shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid in the same Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures (not otherwise altered by this Ad), as are mentioned and expressed in the said Act of Parliament made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, with respect to the raising, levying, collecting, and Payment of the Rates and Duiiet thereby granted ; and that the aforesaid Duties hereby charged upon British Coffee and Pimento exported from any Britilh Colony or Plantation shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid in the same Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, as are mentioned and referred unto in an Act of Parliament made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled • An A&. for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland ' Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade,' with respect to the raising, levying, collecting,andPayment of the Rates andDutiestherebygranteduponthe several Goods therein particularly enumerated ; and that all Powers, Penalties, Provisions, Articles and Clauses, in those Acts respectively contained and referred unto (except in such Cases where any Alteration is made by this Act), shall be observed, applied, practised, and put in execution, for the raising, levying, collecting, and answering the respective Rates and Duties granted by this Act, as fully and effectually as if the same were particularly and at large re-enacted in the Body of this present Act, and applied to the Rates and Duties hereby imposed : and as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as the same could have been at any Time put in execution, for the like Purposes, with respect to the Rates and Duties granted by the said former Acts. ^ VII. Provided always, and it is hereby further eracted by the Authority aforesaid, Importer refusing That if the Importer of any Wines shall refuse to pay the Duties hereby imposed "* P"y '^*' Duties ' ' ' -^ *^ on Wines, Officer ~ — ^ — mavEsizethesanie; those upon Coffee and Pimento as bv Act 25 Car. 2. * The Duties granted by this Act upon East India Goods, Cambrick, Pimento, being repealed by 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. are not inserted. French Lawn, Coffee, and thereon, 74 and publicly soil them to the beat Bidder, and deduct the Duties and Charges. If they shall not bring sufficient to pay the Duty and Charges, they are to be staved and spilt. Monies arising h\ the several D.iti' before granted, and upon Su^ai^, (fee. to be paid into the Exchequer, and to be reserved towards defraying the Charges of pro- tecting the British Colonies in America! 4''GE0RGII 111. Cap. 15. thereon, it shall and may be lawful for the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs where suci: Wines shall be imported, and he is hereby respectively required, to take and secure the same, with the Casks or other Package thereof, and to cause the same to be publicly sold, within the Space of Twenty Days at the most after such Refusal made, and at such Time and Place as such Officer shall, by Four or more Days Public Notice, appoint for that Purpose ; which Wine shall be sold to the best Bidder, and the Money arising by the Sale thereof shall be applied, in the first place, in Payment of thn said Duties, together with the Charges that shall have been occasioned by the said Sale ; and the Overplus, if any, shall be paid to such Importer, or any other Person authorized to receive the same. VIII. Provided also, That if the Money offered for the Purchase of such Wine shall not be sufficient to discharge the Duty and Charges aforesaid, then and in every such Case the Collector or other proper Officer shall cause the Wine to be staved, spilt, oi jt£uvfwise destroyed, and shall return the Casks, or other Package wherein the same was contained, to such Importer. A., And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all the Monies which, from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand sc»ren hundred and sixty-four, shall arise by the several Rates and Duties iierein-before granted, and also by the Duties which, from and after the said Twenty-ninth Day ol . ; ember One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, shall be raised upon Sugars and Paneles by virtue of the said Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Second (except the necessary Charges of raising, collecting, levying, recovering, answermg, paying, and accounting for the same), shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and shall be entered separate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to His Majesty, His Heirs or Suc- cessors ; and shall be there reserved, to be from time to time disposed of by Parlia- ment towards defraying the necessary Expences of defending, protecting, and securing, the British Colonies and Plantations in America. Where Goods entered for Ex- portation to Pa'ta beyond the Seits, in order to obtain a Drawback not allowed by this Act, r.ball be carried to any British Plant- ation in America, such Drawback shall be forieited, and Double the Amount thereof, with Treble the Value of the Goods. Foreign Rum or Spirits imported into any of the British Plantations in, America, "XVI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Merchant or other Person shall, from and after the said First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, enter any Goods for Exportation to Parts beyond the Seas, other than to the said British Colonies or Plantations in America, in order to obtain any Drawback not allowed by this Act upon the Exportation of such Goods to the said British Colonies or Plantations, and the said Goods shall nevertheless be carried to any British Colony or Plantation in America, and landed there, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning hereof, that then and in such Case the Drawback shall be for- feited, and the Exporter of such Goods, and the Master of the Ship or Vessel on board which the same were loaden and exported shall forfeit Double the Amount of the Drawback paid or to be paid for the same, and also Treble the Value of the said Goods. XVIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, no Rum or Spirits of the Produce or Manufacture of any of the Colonies or Planta- tions in America, not in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall be imported or brought into any of the Colonies or Planta- tions Ifficer of the ;ly required, md to cause e most after , by Four or J sold to the , in the first lU have been ch Importer, h Wine shall n every such staved, spilt, wherein the rhat all the ne thousand iierein-before ty-ninth Day upon Sugars Reign of His ;es of raising, ! same), shall ;red separate leirs or Suc- of by Parlia- and securing ny Merchant ousand seven )nd the Seas, der to obtain ds to the said je carried to y to the true shall be for- or Vessel on the Amount Value of the cm and after sixty-four, es or Planta- Majesty, His es or Planta- tions 4'GEOROII m. Cap. 15. 75 m m Exporter of Rum, Spirits, Paneles, MolasseB, orSyrupi, from the British Colonies in America, as of the Growth thereof, to produce and deliver to the proper Officer, before clearing, an Affidavit of the Quality of the Goods, and Deno- mination of the Packages, &c. tions in America which now are, ci hereafter may be, in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, upon Forfeiture of all such Rum liable to befor- or Spirits, together with the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be imported, with ^^•"u'*l'"^"*'7o, the Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture thereof; to be seized by any Officer or Officers w"" '"e ve»«ei,«cc. of His Majesty's Customs, and prosecuted in such Manner and Form as herein-after is expressed ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. ^• XX. ♦ And for the better preventing Frauds in the Importation of Foreign Sugars ' and Paneles, Rum and Spirits, Molasses auad Syrupsj into any of His Majesty's * Dominions, under Pretence that the same are the Growth, Produce, or Manufac- * ture of the British Colonies or Plantations ;* it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, every Person or Persons loading on board any Ship or Vessel, in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, any Rum or Spirits, Sugars or Paneles, Molasses or Syrups, as of the Growth, Product, or Manufecture of any British Colony or Plantation, shall, before the clearing out of the said Ship or Vessel, produce and deliver to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Loading Port an Affidavit, signed and sworn to before some Justice of the Peace in the said British Colonies or Plantations, either by the Grower, Maker, or Shipper of such Goods, or his or their known Agent or Factor, expressing in Words at Length, and not in Figures, the Quality of the Goods so shipped, with the Number and Denomination of the Packages, and describing the Name or Names of the Plantation or Plantations, and the Name of the Colony where the same grew or were produced and manufactured ; which Affidavit shall be attested, under the Hand of the said Justice of the Peace, to have been sworn to in his Pre- sence, who is hereby required to do the same without Fee or Reward : And the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs to whom such Affidavit shall be delivered, shall thereupon grant to the Master, or other Person having the Charge of the Ship or Vessel, a Certificate under his Hand and Seal of Office (without Fee or Reward) of his having received such Affidavit pursuant to the Directions of this Act ; which Certificate shall express the Quality of the Goods shipped on board such Ship or Vessel, with the Number and Denomination of the Packages j and such Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs shall also (without Fee or Reward), within Thirty Days after the sailing of the Ship or Vessel, transmit an exact Copy of the said Affidavit to the Secretary's Office for the respective Colony or Plantation where the Goods were shipped, on Forfeiture of Five Pounds. XXI. And it is further enacted, That upon the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel into the Port of her Discharge, either in Great Britain or any other Port of His Majesty's Dominions where such Goods may be lawfully imported, the Master or other Person taking the Charge of the Ship or Vessel shall, at the Time he makes his Report of his Cargo, deliver the said Certificate to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs, and make Oath before him that the Goods so reported are the same that are mehtioned in the said Certificate, on Forfeiture of One hundred Pounds ; and if any Rum or Spirits, Sugars or Paneles, Molasses or Syrups, shall be imported or found on board any such Ship or Vessel, for which no such Certificate shatl be produced, or which shall not agree therewith, the same shall be deemed and taken to be Foreign Rum and Spirits, Sugar and Paneles, Molasses and Syrups, and shall be liable to the same Dutiee, Restrictions, Regulations, Penalties and Forfeit- K 2 ures, Officer tA-grant the Ma&ter of the Vessel u Certifi- cate thereof. and to transmit a Copy of such Affi- davit to the SecK' tary's Office for the Colony, on Penaltv of 5^5. On Arrivfl] of the Vessel at the Port of Dischar,-*', the Master 'n .o deliver the Certificate to the proper Officer, and make Oath of the Identity of the Goods, on Penalty of^eiOO; SRd Good,* found on board, not certified for, &c. ar« to pay Foreign Duties. 76 Whare any such Goods, not included in the Certificate, shall be imported without intending a Fraud, they may be admitted to Entry, paying the usual Duties. 4*G£0RGII III. Cap. 15. uret, in all respects, as Rum, Spirits, Sugar, Paneles, Molasses, and Syrups of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any Foreign Colony or Plantation, would respectively be liable to by Law. XXII. Provided always, That if any Rum or Spirits, Sugar or Paneles, Molasses or Syrups, shall be imported into Great Britain from any Briush Colony or Plantation in America, without being included in such Certificate as is hereinflicer of the ;rapi without js of this or er or Person his Custody Collector or discharge his lantation, on Vessel laden ritish Colony e Proa ace of His Majesty's Plantation in s>cl shall not ctions of this not produce [\s where he )r Plantation, ill the Goods •rosecuted as d. That from red and sixty- and Skins, )f any British !nce into this le Securities, )f Parliament arles the Se- cond, ■i'<;x^ 4'GEORGI' III. Cap. 15. cond, the former intituled Seas. XXIX. And for the better preventing F-au. ; in the Importation or Exportation of Goods that are liable to the Payment o^ Duties, or are prohibited in the British Colonies or Plantations in America, it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day ofSeptember One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, no Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, of any Kind whatsoever, shall be shipped or laden on board any Ship or Vesse' in any of the British Colonies or Plant- ations in America, to be carried iVom thence fo any other British Colony or Planta- tion, without a Sufferance or Warrant firsf ^ l^ and obtained from the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs at the Poi t or Place where such Goods shall be intended to be put on board ; and the Master of every such Ship or Vessel shall, be- fore the same be removed or carried out from the Port or Place where he takes in his Lading, take out a Cocket or Cockets expre^ ing the Quantity and Quality of the Goods, and Marks of the Package so laden, with the Merchants Names by whom shipped, and to whom consigned ; and if they are Goods that are liable to the Payment of any Duty, either upon the Importation into, or upon the Exportation from the said Colonies or Plantations, the said Cocket or Cockets shall likewise distinctly soecify that the Duties have been paid for the same, referring to the Times or Dates of Entry and Payment ?? Bond and Security to be given before lading any Iron or Lumber of the British American Plantations. Condition to land the game, if for Europe, in Great Britain, and to |M-o(liice a Certifi- rate thereof within Eighteen Months ; and if for any of theRritiah American Plant- ations, within Six Months ; and if for any other Place in America, Africa, or Asia, within 12 Months. Where the Goods perish, or are taken, the Bond is dis- charged. No Goods to be shipped in one British Colony, to be carried to another, without a Sufferance, I and taking out a proper Cocket, ■*■? 78 whicli is to be pro- duced at the Hurt of Discharge, on Forfeiture of the Goods. OikmIs also to be forfeited, if they do not agree with the Cocket. VesMl dlHC^'Cred near the Coast may bestopped, and the Goods for which uo Coclcet is pro- duced may be •eized. No Vettsel to be cleared out for any of the British Co- lonies in America, unless the whole Carco be shipped in this Kingdom ; «nd where any European Vessel is discovered near auch Coasts, the Goods for which no such Cocket is pro- duced, may be seized. 4'G£ORGII 111. Ca|).l5. Payment of such Dities, and by whom they were paid ; which Cocket or Cockets shall be produced by the Ma;. of such Ship or Vessel to the Collector or other Pr". "pal Officer of the Custi •• t the Port or Place vrhc. such Ship or Vessel shall arri-.e in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, befon. .•■iv Part of the Goods are unladen o. put onshore: And if any Goods or Murchandiziv iii;!! be shipped as aforesaid without such Sufferance, or the Vessel shall depart and proceed on her Voyage without such Cocket or Cockets, or the Goods shall be landed or put on shore before such Cocket or Cockets are produced at the Port or Place of Discharge, or if the Goods do not agree in all respects therewith, the Goods, in any or either of those Cases, shall be forfeited and lost ; and any Officer of His Majesty's Customs is hereby empowered to stop any such Ship or Vessel, bound as aforesaid, which shall be discovered within Two Leagues of the Shore of any of the said British Colonies or Plantations in America, and to seize and take from thence all the Goods which shall be found on board such Ship or Ves!«ol, for which no such Cocket or Cockets shall be produced to him. XXX. ' And whereas British Vessels arriving from Foreign Parts at several of the * Out-ports of this Kingdom, fully or in part laden abroad with Goods that are < pretended to be destined to some Foreign Plantation, do frequently take on board < some small Parcels of Goods in this Kingdom, which are entered outwards for some < British Colony or Plantation, and a Cocket and Clearance thereupon granted for * such Goods, under Cover of which the whole Cargoes of such Vessels are clandea- * tinely landed in the British American Dominions, contrary to several Acts of Par- * liament now in force, to the great Prejudice of the Trade and Revenue of this * Kingdom :' For Remedy whereof be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after thi First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and sixty- four, no Ship or Vesu! -ifiiil, upon any Pretence whatsoever, be cleared outwards from any Port of thi: Kajgrlom, for any Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Terri- tory or Place to H ;; Maji^ty belonging, or which shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in America, unless the wiiole and entire Cargo of such Ship or Vessel shall be bona fide, and without Fraud, laden and shipped in this Kingdom ; and any Officer of His Majesty's Customs is hereby empowered to stop any British Ship or Vessel arriving from, any Part of Europe, which shall be discovered within Two Leagues of the Shore of any of the said British Colonies or Plantations in America, and to seize and take from thence as forfeited any Goods (except as herein-after mentioned) for which the Master or other Person taking the Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall not produce a Cocket or Clearance from the Collector or proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs, certifying that the said Goods were laden on board the said Ship or Vessel in some Port of Great Britain. XXXL Provided always, Ihat this Act shall not extend nor be construed to Salt. extend to forfeit, for want of such Cocket or Clearance, any Salt laden in Europe for the Fisheries in New England, Newtoundland, Pensylvania, New York, and Nova Scotia, or any other Place to which Salt is or shall be allowed by Law to be carried ; Madeira Wines, &c. Wines laden in the Madeiras, of the Growth thereof; and Wines of the Growth Horses. Provisions, ^j^ ^j^g Western Islands, or Azores, and laden there ; nor any Horses, Victuals, Ireland, excepted, o' Linen Cloth, of and from Iicland, which may be laden on board such Ships r,r Vessels. XXXII. And \'>' 4GK0RGII III. Cap. 15. 79 put on icharge, r either Customs ich shall lonies or ich shall ets shall ralofthe that are m board for some anted for clandes- s of Par- ae of this aforesaid, ind sixty- outwards , Terri- unto or iccessors, 1 be bona Officer of or Vessel eagues of to seize entioned) shall not Vlajesty's Vessel in strued to urope for nd Nova e carried ; Growth Victuals, Ships cr XII. And XXXII. And it is hereby further enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall Penslty»ncouBMis counterfeit, rase, alter, or falsify any Affidavit, Certificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or Jj*i,"f'*c«rtf«?'' Clearance, reouired or directed by this Act, or shall knowingly or willingly make use atxitdlttO, ke.' of any Affidavit, Ortificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or Clearance, so. counterfeited, rased, altered, or falsified, such Person or Persons shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds; and such Affidavit, Certificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or Clearance, shall be invalid and of no Efft'ct. XXXIII. ' And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George nifymg Persons who have been guilf"' curing the Revenue of Customs and ! future,' and by other Acts of Parliai order to prevent thv clandestine Landi which hover upon the Coasts thereof, cond, intituled ' An Act for indem- t « ^c :'.'-'-'■■ against the Laws made for se- 1 tor enforcing those Laws for the "»de, which are now in force, in in this Kingdom from Vessels ods and Vessels in those Laws Clause in Act 9 Geo. 2. * particularly mentioned and described are Ueciarvd to be forfeited, if such Vessels * are found at Anchor or hovering within Two Leagues of the Shore of this Kingdom, ' without being compelled thereto by Necessity or Distress of Weather ; which Laws * have been found very beneficial to the public Revenue: And whereas if some * Provision of that Sort was extended to His Majesty's American Dominions, it may * be a Means of preventing an illicit Trade therewith, and tend to enforce an Act * made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Ciiarles the Second, intituled ' An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation,' and another * Act made in the Seventh and Eighth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, * intituled ' An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in the Plantation ' Trade,' so far as those Laws do prohibit any Goods or Commodities to be imported « into or exported nut of any British Colony or Plantation in America, in any Foreign f Ship or Vessel :' To which End, therefore, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, Tliat from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, if any Foreign Ship or Vessel whatsoever shall be found at Anchor or hovering within Two Leagues of the Shore of any Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place, which shall or may be in he Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, .His Heirs or Successors, in America, and shall not depart from the Coast, and proceed upon her Voyage to some Foreign Port or Place, within Forty-eight Hours after the Master or other Person taking the Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall be required so to do by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs, unless in case of unavoidable Necessity and Distress of Weather, such Ship or Vessel, with all the Goods therein laden, shall be forfeited and lost, whether Bulk shall have been broken or not, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs, in such Manner and Form as herein-after is expressed. 1 2 Cur. 2. 7 8c 8 W. S. Foreign Vessels foundatAiiclioror lioveriiiff on the Coast of any of the British American Dominions, and not departing, un- less distressed, within 48 Hours after Notice, -.re liable to be for- feited, together with the Goods.. XXXIV. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be con- Except French strued to extend to any Ship or Vessel belonging to the Subjects of the French King, Fishing-vessels off which shall be found fishing, and not carrying on any illicit 'i rade, on that Part of Newfoundland. the Island of Newfoundland which stretches from the Place called Cape Bonavista to the Northern Point of the said Island, and from thence running down to the Western Side, reaches as far as the Place called Point Riche. XXXV. And. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 1.1 u HA 2.0 14.0 1^ u& ■ li Fkjtograpiiic Sciences Corporation 23 WIST MAIN STREIT WUSTIR.N.Y. U5S0 (71«)«7a-4S03 '^ 4^' Is . .* 80 BritUh .V«8seU found lUnding into oroombg out from the Isles of Saint Pierre ft Miquelon, or hovering, he. on the Coasts, or with Goods on board Aom thence,&c. are forfeited, together with the Goods ; andthe Master, &c. forfeit also Treble Value. Concealed Go«>ds found on board, after Report made by the Master, and not comprized in his Report, are forfeited ; and the Master, being privy to the Fraud, for- fieitt Treble the Value. If customed Goods be either laden on board, or landed before the Duties are paid. or prohibited Goods be imported into or exported out of any of the British Colonies in America, the Persons con- cerned therein for- feit Treble the Value, together with the Boats, Carriages, and Cattle em- ployed. 4«G£ORGII III. Cap. 15. XXXy. And in order to prevent any illicit Trade or Commerce between His lyiajesty's Subjects. in America and the Subjects of the Crown of France in the Islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, it is hereby further enacted by the Autho- rity . aforesaid, That from and after ttie Twenty-ninth Day of. September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, if anv British Ship or Vessel shall be found standme into or coming out from either of those Islands, or hoveiins or at Anchor within Two Leagues of the Coasts thereof, or shall b|^ discovered to have taken any Goods or Merchandizes on board at either of them, or to have been there for that Purpose, such Ship or Vessel, and all the Goods so taken on board there, shall be forfeited and lost, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His A&jesty's Customs ; and the Master or other Person having the Charge of such Ship or Vessel, and every Person concerned in taking any such Goods on board, shall forfeit Treble the Value thereof. XXXVI. < And to prevent the concealing any Goods in false Packages or ' private Places on board any Ship or Vessel arriving at any of the British Colonies < or Plantations in America, with Intent to their bang clandestinely landed there ;' be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty- ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, all Goods which shall be found concealed in any Place whatsoever on board any such Ship or Vessel, at any Time after the Master thereof shall have made his Report to the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs, and which shall not be comprized or mentioned m the said Rqxtrt, shall be forfeited and lost, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of the Customs; and the Master or other Person having the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel ^in case it . can be made appear that he was anywise consenting or privy to such Fraud or Concealment) shall forfeit Treble the Value of the Go()df so found. '% XXXVII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, if any Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever, liable to the Payment of Duties in any British Colony or Plantation in America by this or any other Act of Parlia- ment, shall be loaden on board any Ship or Vessel outward bound, or shall be un- shipped or landed from any Ship or Vessel inward bound, befpre the respective Duties diie thereon are paid, agreeable to Law } or if anv prohibited Goods whatsoever shall be imported into or exported out of any of toe said Colonies or Plantations, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this or any other Act of Parliament j every Person who shall be assisting or otherwise concerned, either in the loading outwards, or in the unshipping or landing inwards, such Goods, or to whose Hands the same shall knowingly come after the loading or unshipping thereof, shall for each and every Offence forfeit Treble the Value of such Goods, to be estimated and computed according to the best Price that each respective Commodity bears at the Place where such Offence was committed ; and all the Boats, Horses, Cattle, and other Carriages whatsoever, made use of in the loading, landing, rrnoving, Carriage, or Conveyance of any of the aforesaid Goods, shall also be forfeited and lost, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs, as herein-after mentioned. .Ti^vpsiii^:^ ... :^^ \.Si. .'l" XXXVIII. And * -^' '^^' 4'GEOR6II III. Cap.l5. XXXVin. And it ig hereby further enacted by the Authcmty aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, if any Officer of His Majes^'s Customs shall directly or indurectly takd or receive any Bribe, Recompence, or Reward, in any Kind whatsoever ; or connive at any folse Entry, or make any collusive Sdzure or Agreement ; or do any other Act or Deed whatsoever by which His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall or may be defrauded in his or their Duties, or whereby any Goods prohibited shall be suffered to pass eivher inwards or outwards, or whereby the Forfeitures and Penalties inflict^ by this or any other Act of F&rliament relating to His Majesty's Customs in America may be evaded ; every such Officer dierein offending; shall for each land every Offence forfeit the Sum of Five himdred Pounds, and be rendered incapable of serving His Majesty in any Office or Employment Civil or Military : And if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall give, offer, or promise to give, any Bribe, Recompence, or Reward to any Officer of the Customs, to do, conceal, or con- nive aC any Act whereby any of the Provisions made by this or any other Act of Parliament relating to His Majesty's Customs in America may be evaded or broken, every such Person or Persons shall for each and every ■ such Offence (whether the same Offer, Proposal, of Promise, be accepted or performed or not) forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds. .^} XXXIX. * And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in^he Seventh and Eighth I Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled 'An Act for prevoiting ^1 Frauds, and regulating Abuses in • the Plantation Trade,^ all Governors or Com- ^ manders in Chief of any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations are reauired to J; take a solemn Oath to do their utmost that all the Clauses, Matters, pna Things i contained in that Act, and several other Acts of Parliament therdn referred t6, * relating to the said Colonies and Plantations, be punctually and bont fide observed, * accordmg to the true Intent and Meaning thereof: And whereas divers other good < Laws have been since made for the better reguktine and securing the Plantation * Trade :' Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all the present Governors or Commanders in Chief of any British Colony or Plantation sh^U, before ^he Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, and all who hereafter shall be made Governors or Commanders in Chief of the said Colonies or Plantations, or any of them, before their Entrance into thdr Govern- ment, shall take a solemn Oath to do their utmost thr..^ all the Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in any Act of Parliament heretofore made, and now in force, re- lating to the said Colonies and Plantations, and that all and every the Clauses contained in this present Act, be punctually and bonft fide observed, according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof, so far as appertains unto the said Governors or Commanders in Chief respectively, under the like Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities, either for neglecting to take the said Oath, or for wittingly neglecting to do their Duty accord- tngly, as are mentioned and expressed in the said recited Act made in the Seventh and Eighth Year of theRdgn of King William the Third; and the said Oath hereby required to be taken shall b|e< administered by such Person or Persons as hath or have been, or shall be appointed to administer the Oath required to be taken by the said Act mac^e in the Seventh and Eighth Year of the Reign of King William the yWrd. si Officer receiving Bribe, &c. conniving at a folse Entry, making a collusive Seisure, or guilty of other ■ Fraud in hia Office, forfeite i«500, and iadiwbled; and Persons giving or promising any Bribe, ke. to such OfRcer, in order %o betray hia Trust, forfeit ifSO. Clause in Act 7 & 8 W. 3. Governors or Com- manders in Chie^ of the British Colonies are to uke an Oath for the due Bzedttioa- of their Duty lb . this and all other Acts relating fo the said Colonies, &c. under the Penalties in the recited Act of7«t8W.3. {■'■ti^'JAv h *%' • "^ - f^TTS^f ,'• XL. And J^ 4j. *2f PenalUei and For-* I'eitures incurred in tireatBriuin, how to be recovered, difidedia«4a|>- plicd. The Mouey granted bytl|isAet»atfdAot 25 Oar. 9. aaRatae or Duties, and the Penalties and Rxfeitures relating to the Cus- toms in America, are to be deemed StorliDg Money of Great Britain at the Rate of 5s. Cd. per Ounra in silver ; 4^G£ORGII III. Cap. 15. •i aiirf t1»ft Net Pro- duce is to be paid, . OaeThird to the King. Onelliirdtothe Govempr, and One Third to the Prosecutor. But Seiiurea oaade at Sea by th« King's Ships art to go, one Moiety, to the King, and the other w the Prosecutor ; subject neverthe- less to such Distri- bution as His Ma- XL. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all Penalties and Forfeitures hereiiwbefore mentioned^ which shall be incurred in Great Bnuin, shall •nd may be prosecuted, raed for, and recovered in any of His Mi^esty's Courts oi Record at Westminater, or in the Court of Exchequer m Scotland renecthrely ; and (all necessary Charges for the Recovery thereof being first dsducted) shall be dbidefi and applied, <»e Moiety to and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Seizor or Prosecutor. XLL And it is hereby further enacted and declared. That from and af^ the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven himdred and sixty«four, aU Sums of Money granted and imposed by this Act, and bv an Act made in the Twen^-fifth Tear of the Reign of King Charles the Secona, intituled * An Act for * the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better ae- * curing the Plantation Trade,' as Ratea or Duties; and also all Sums of Money impoaed as Penalties or Forfeitures, by this or any other Act of Parliament relating to die Customs, which shall be paid, incurred, or recovered in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America ; shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be Sterling Money of Great Britain, and shall be collected, recovered, and paid to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britam ; and that such Monies shall and may be received and taken according to the Proportion an■ >e divided, paid, and applied as follows ; that is to say, after deducting the Charges of Prosecution from the Gross Produce thereof, One Third Part of the Net Produce shall be paid into the Hands of the Collector of His Majesty's Customs at the Port or Place wnere such Penalties or Forfeitures shall be recovered, for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs^ and Successors ; One Third Part to the Go'"ornor or Commander in Chfef of the said Colony or Plantation ; and the other Third Part to the Person who diall seize, inform, and sue for the same ; excepting such feizures as shall be made at Sea by the Commanders or Officers of Wa Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War duly authorized to make Seizures ; one Moiety of which Seizures, and of the Penalties and Forfeitures recovered thereon, first deducting the Charges of Prosecution from the Giross Produce thereof, shall be paid as aforesaid to the Collector of His Majesty's Customs, to and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to him or them who shall seize, inform, and sue for the same } any Law, Custom, or Usage, to the contrary notwithstanding ; subject nevertheless to such Distri- bution of the Produce of the Seizures so made at Sea, as well with regard to the Moiety herein^before granted to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, as with ^'r . regard ^■•^~^JllJ*4:-^ 4*GBORGU m. Cap. IS. m riigaKl to the other Moiety given to the Seizor or Prosecutor, as His Majesty, His Jesty by Order of Heir& and Successors, shall think fit to order and direct by any Order or Orders of Stut ."'.f^'il Council, or by wy Proclamation or Proclamations to be made for that Purpose. •"•«"••«.«• matibn shall make. "■■ XLin. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority afore« said, That if the Produce of any Seizure made in America shall not be sufficient to answer the Expences of Condemnation and Sale; or if, upon the Trial of any Seizure of any Ship or Goods, a Verdict or Sentence shall be given for the Clainu ant, in either of those Cases the Charges attending the seizing and prosecutmg such Ship or Goods Shall and may, with the Consent and Approbation of any Four of theCommusioners of His Majesty's Customs, be paid out of any Branch of the Revenue of Customs arising^ in any of the British Colonic or Plantations in Ame- rica ; any thing in this or any other Act of Parliament to the contrary notwith- standing. XLIV. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said Twenty-nmth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, no Person shall be admitted to enter a Claim to any Ship or Goods seized in pursuance of this or any other Act of Parliament, and prosecuted in any of the British ColcHiies or Plantations in America, until sufficient Security be first given, by Persons of known Ability, in the Court where such Seizure is prosecuted, m the Penalty of Sixtv Pounds, to answer the Costs and Charges of Prosecution; and, in default of giving such Security, such Ship or Goods shall be adjudged to be forfeited, and shall be condemned. ' Wliere the Seizure shall nM answer the Expence of the Condemnation and Sale, or a Verdict be^ven for the Claimant, the Charges, with Ap- probation of the Conuniisioners, may be defrayed out of the Customs in America. No Claim to be ad- mitted till Security to answer Coeta. be given to the '^ Amount of j£60 ; and in default, Ship and Goods to be condemned. XLV. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from Where Ship or and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and Goods are seized sixty-four, if any Sb'p or Goods shall be seized for any Cause of Forfeiture, and any ft"' any C»"»e of Dispute shall anse whether the Customs and Duties for such Goods have been paid, Ownerirto prove or the same have been lawfully imported or exported, or concerning the Growth, the Blatter in dis- Product, or Manufacture of such Goods, or the Place from whence such Goods P*>te. were brought, then and in such Cases the Proof thereof shall lie upon the Owner or Claimer of such Ship or Goods, and not upon the Officer who shall sdze or stop the same ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. ^ ^ XLVI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, in case any Information shall be commenced and brought to Trial in America, on account of any Seizure of any Ship or Goods as forfeited by this or any other Act of Parliament relating to His Majesty's Customs, wherein a Verdict or Sentence diall be given for the Claimer thereof; and it shall appear to the Judge or Court before whoTh the same shall be tried, that there was a probable Cause of Seizure, the Judge or Court before whom the same shall be tried shall certify on the Record or other Procieedings, that there was a probable Cause for the Prosecutors seizing the said Ship or Goods ; and in such Case the Defendant shall not be entitled to any Costs of Suit whatsoever ; nor shall the Persons who seized the said Ship or Goods be liable to any Acdon, or other Suit or Prosecution, on account of such Seizure ; and in case any Acdon, or other Suit or Prosecudon, shall be commenced and brought to Trial against any Person or f^ersons whatsoeyer, on ^count of the seizing any l^ % ^uch In Trials upon In- formation in Ame- rica, where a pro- bable Cause ox Seizure appears, the Judge shall certify the save on theReeofd,aadth^ Defendont shall have no Costs v»,^^ Actiop;,and in Suits wbere no In? ~ formation shall b« commenced an4 brought to Trial, and the Court sbUl certify there was a probable Causa of Seizure, the -^^ 84, naintifrttlMll have but 2d. Damage*, and no Costs, and the Defendant ba lined not more than Is. 4''G£ORGII III. Cap.l9.i f - f such Ship or Goods, where no Informadon shall be commenced or brought to Trial to condemn the same, and a Verdict or Sentence shall be given upon such Action or Prosecution against the Defendant or Defendants, if the Court or Judge before whom such Action or Prosecution may be brought shall certify in like manner as aforesaid that there was a probable Cause for such Seizure, then the Plainti£F, besides his Ship or Goods so seized, or the Value thereof, shall not be endtled to above • Two-pence Damages, nor to any Costs of Suit } nor shall the Defendant in such ; Prosecution be fined above One Shilling. ,, i , i .u Qeueral Issue. IVeble Costs. •s '> From and after 24th June) 764 Salt may be iro> ported in British Vesseh manned And nvrigsted according to Act ■12 Car. 2. from any Port of Europe 3M , 'i:;a;x . XLVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Action . or Suit shall be commenced, either in Great Britain or America, against any Person « or 'Persons for any thing done in pursuance of this or any other Act of Psirliamentt .' relating to His Majesty's Customs, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or r ' Suit may plead the General It»ue, and give the sud Acts and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pur- suance and by the Authority of such Act; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants ; and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants shall have . apf>eared, or^f Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict oj; Demurrer against the,^, Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall recover Treble Costs, and have the liksilt Remedy for the same as Defendants have in other Cases by Law. . ../.^«j!, ^ — ^ '■ 't Anno 4" Georgii III. Cap.l9. * ' An Act for importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Quebec • in America, for a limited Time. * * "VyHEREAS the Rivers, Bajjs, and Coasts of the Colony of Quebec in * Vv America, and the Seas adjoining, are commodiouslv situated for carrying on ' a very advantageous Fishery, to the great Benefit of the Inhabitants of the faid ' Colony, and to the extending the Commerce and increasing the Riches of these ' Kingdoms : And whereas it would be of great Advantage to the said Fishery, if . * His Majesty's Subjects were permitted to import Salt into the said Colony directly * from Foreign Parts, in like manner as is allowed with respect to the Fisheries of * New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, bv several Laws now in being :' May it pl«ise Your most Excellent Majesty th^t it may be enacted; and be it,^. enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Con- 1: sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament | assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the Twenty- j fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, it shall and may. be lawful to and for any of His Majesty's Subjects to carry and import Salt from any Part of Europe into the said Province of Quebec in America, in British 1 Ships and Vessels manned and navigated according to the Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the Rejgn of King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act ' for encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation,' and in the same y ti?. i',",jr 'vf*^J ^''h^-^ * Made perpetual by 48 Geo, 3. c. 22. (?VJ!.: manner 5*6EORGlI III. Cap. 39. & Cap. 45. 85 Hiamier as Salt may be imported from Europe into New England and Newfound* into the Province huid by an Act made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of the said King Charles of Quebec, in lilce the Second, intituled • An Act for the Encouragement of Trade;' any Law, Statute, NJw"BngliinTfcc. Usage, or Custom to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. virtue of Act 1& Car. 2. 0i -D'. -n :T Anno S^'Georgii III. Cap. 39. ■?i«i s > An Act for more effectually preventing the Mischiefs arisini Revenue and Commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, t illicit and clandestine Trade to and from the Isle of Man. ; to the' 'om the V. A ND it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and Spirits shipped in xX after the 1 wenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred America to be and sixty-five, no Rum or other Spirits shall be shipped or laden on board any Ship b^"a,|^di io'l^e^^ or Vessel in any British Colony or Plantation in America, but on condition that the igU of Man, under same shall not be carried to or landed in the Isle of Man, under the like Securities, the Penalties of Penalties, and Forfeitures as are prescribed and mentioned in Two Acts of Parlia- ^°^ J^ """^ ^^ ment made in the Twelfth and Twenty-fifth Years of the Reign of King Charles "' ' the Second, the former indtuled * An Act for the encouraging and incrieasing of > v- * Shipping and Navigation,' and the latter intituled * An Act for the Encourage, v ,^ ^ ); ■,- * ment of the Greenland and Eastland Trades }' and for the better securing me 'v s ,<. , :^ Plantation Trade, or either of them, with respect to the Goods in those Acts par« ' ticularly enumerated ^ any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. ■ (fli^-'VO ,5','«>; : £-.-'^--u:; If iK:^,W. .i.-t7l )-!'v, Jr,.;.;: :>vv. ■M- I- ..u.L f>d>^ ':)t'S- ■ Anno o'^ Georgii 111. Cap.45. An Act for more effectually securing and epcouraging the Trade of ^ His Majesty's American Dominions ; for repealing the Inland Duty on Coffee, imposed by an Act made in the Thirty-second Year of His late Majesty King George the Second ; and for granting an^) Inland Duty on all Coffee imported (except Coffee of the Growth of the British Dominions in America); for altering the Bounties and Drawbacks upon Sugars exported ; for repealing Part of an Act made in the Twenty-third Year of His said late Majesty, whereby Bar Iron made in the said Dominions was prohibited to be exported from Great Britain, or carried Coastwise; and for regulating the Fees of the Officers of the Customs in the said Dominions. i 1--;V .U.i' # xxu. &«; .-■■I '^h&ii' * A ND whereas by an Act made m the last Ses»on of Parliament, intituled Clause '•tx. * An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantap ^ 0«<** tiqns in America ;' for continuing, amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in Act 3. .1 1 .^aiSsrjAti-i. ♦ ,•>'• .10v>, / I' Act 8 Geo. 1. H ImporUtion of BntUh American Iron extended to Ireland ; and of Lumber to Ireland, the Madeiras, Azores, or to any Tart of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, upon giving Bond. 5'G£ORGII III. Cap.45. ia the Sixth Tear of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, bti' tuled * An Act for the tetter securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America j' for applying the Produce of such Duties, uid of the Dudes to arise by vfrtue of the said Act, towards defraymg the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the said Colonies and Plantadons; for ex- plaining an Act nutde in the Twenty-€fth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second indtuled * An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and East- land Trades, and for the better securing the Plantadon Trade i" and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks on Exports from this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clandestine Conveyance of Goods to and from the said Colonies and Plantations, and improving and securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain ; it is amongst other Things enacted, that from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, no Iron, nor any Sort of Wood commonly called Lumber, as specified in an Act passed in die Eiehth Year of the Reign of King George the First, indtuled < An Act for giving nirther Encouragement for the Importation of Naval Stores, and for other Purposes therein menucmed,' of the Growth, Production, or Manufac- ture of any British Colony or Rbuitadon in America, shall be there laden on board any Ship or Vessel to be carried from thence, until sufficient Bond shall be given, with One Surety besides the Master (^the Vessel, to the Cdlector or other Prin- cipal Officer of the Customs at the loading Port, m a Penalty of Double the Value or the Goods, with Condition that the said Goods shall not be landed in anv Part of Europe except Great Britain, and to bring Certificates m discharge thereof withia the reflective Times and m the manner directed by the said Act : And whereas it may be expedient to extend the Importation of such Iron to Ireland, and ^ abo to extend the Importation of such Wood commonly called Lumber to Ire> ' land, and to the Madeiras, and the Western Islands called The Azores, and any Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre :' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, any Iron, being the Production or Manufiictures of any British Colony or Plantation in America, shall and may be there laden on board any Ship or Ve^, to be carried from thence to Ireland ; and also that any Wood commonly called Lumber, as specified in the said Act of the Eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty ffittg George the» First, of the Growth or Production of anv British Colony or Plantation in America, shall and may in like manner be there laden on board any Ship or Vessel, to be carried from thence to Ireland, or to the Madeiras, or the Western Isles called The Azores, or to any Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, upon sufficient Bond being given in the Penalty and in the manner directed by the said Act made in the last Sesdon of Parliament, with Con- dition that the said Goods shaJl be there landed accordingly, and not in any other Part of Europe except Great Britain } and that Certificates imder the Hands and Seals of the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs readent at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be landed in Ireland, testifymg the landing thereof, shall be produced to the Collector or other Principal Officer where Bond shall have been given, within Eighteen Months from the Date of such Bond ; and that for such of the said Goods as shall be entered for and landed at the Madeiras, or the Western Isles called The Azores, or any Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, the like Certificate sludl be produced within the same Tune to the Officers before mentioned, under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate, or under the Hand ?t >li eiras, iward the Con- other and Port jreof, have t for Tthe Cape Beers ir the and ' 5'G£OR6II III. Cap.4». Hand and Seal of the British Consul, or Hands and Seals of Two katam British Merchuits residing where such Goods shall be landied ; and upon the producing of liuch Certificate, or Proof upon Oath being made by Two crediblie Perwm that the aiid Goods were taken by Enemies, or perished in the Seas, the said Bond ttall be discharged ; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding. * XXV. ' And whereas, in and by the said recited Act mdde in the last Sessbn of * Parliament, it is amongst other Things enacted, that a Sufferance and Cocket shall * be taken from the Officers of the Customs for all Goods, Wares, and Merchandises, < of any Kind whatsoever, which shall be laden on board any Ship or Vessel far any * British Colony or Plantation in America, to be carried from thence to any other * Colony or Plantation, as in the said Act is expressed : And whereas the requiring * such Suflferances and Cockets for Goods of the Growth or Produce of die said * Colonies, which are not liable to any Duty by any Act of Parliament made in Great * Britain, nor prohibited to be purried from the said Colonies, may lay an unneces- * sary Restraint upon the Trade and Correspondence of His Majesty's American < Subjects, when such Goods are carried merely for the Use and Sustenance of the * said Colomes, in Boats or small Vessels widiout Decks, which do not go to open * Sea ;* for the Ease therefore of His Majesty's American Subjects in this particular, , be it enacted, That from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, the said recited Act shall not extend nor be construed to extend to re- quire any Person to take out any Sufferance or Cocket for any Goods of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, which are- not by any Act of Parliament made in Great Britain, liable to any Duty dther upon the Importation into or the Exportation from the saiid Colonies or Plantations, nor are prolubited to be exported from thence, which shall be laden in any Boat, Flat, Shallop, or other Vessel without a Deck, not exceeding Twenty Tons Burthen, and shall be carried within any River, Lake, or other Inland Waters, within, the said Colonies or Plantations, and shall not be carried out to Sea farther diai| One League from the Shore ; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.^ ^' •^ '■ . 'i"^v; ' ■ :. Boats or ihmU "'eaida without Pecki, cwryinff Good* of ^M no* duct or Manufac- ture of the laid Colouiei, not liable to Duties, nor pro- hibited to be ex- ported, are not obliged to take out a Cocket. iA- • - 1 fy* XXVL < And whereas by the said last recited Act rr^de in the last Session of * Parliament, one Moiety of all Seizures which shall be :r.ude at Sea by the Cotn- ' mand<:r8 or Officers of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of .<^ar duly authorized to * make Seizures, and of the Penalties and Forfeitures recovered thereon, in any of His * Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, first deducting the Charges of Prose- ' cutionsfrom the Gross Produce thereof, is to be paid to him or them who shall sdze, ' inform, or sue for the same ; subject to such Distribution as His Majesty, His Heirs ' and Successors, shall think fit to order and direct by any Order or Orders of * Council, or by Proclamation or Proclamations, to be made for that Purpose, as ^ ia and by the said recited Act may more fully appear :' Now, to obviate any Doubts that have arisen or may arise concerning the Construction of the Words * Seizures '': ' : made at Sea,' it is hereby further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid. That the said Words, ' Seizures made at Sea,' in the said recited Act of Parliament, Construction of the shall extend and be construed to extend to all Seizures made by the Commanders Wwds ' Seizjires oi Officers of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War duly authorized for that the roiled Act 'of Purpose, any ^here at Sea, or in or upon any River, and which shall not be actmdly 4 Geo. 3. made on shore withm any British Colony or Plantation in America. "'*' v^ - ' > ' '- ::.> M a-'. IV. And 90 And from Mid afttr 1st Nov«mb«r, 1766. the following Diitte aro to tain pUMinlimof tkoM rapMlad, OaMoUMctai^d Synipt. CoIIm. and Flmmto, Eiception. C«rtifi«d Molauaa and Syrupa from Dominioa, not •harjieablo. Dutie* on Mo- lastes and Syrupa to be taken aa Sterling Money at Ss. Cd. perOunpe In Silver. Method of levying and recovering the said Rate* and Duties. Duties to be paid into theExchequer, and reserved for the future Disposi* tion of Parliament. e-GEORGll in Cup. 52: IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said First Day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, there shall be railed, levied, collected, and paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the several and reqwcdve Rates and Duties herein-after mentioned, that is to say, For every Gallon (Wine Measure) of Molasses mi Svrups, which shall be im- ported or brought (except as is herein-after mentioned), mto any Colony or Planta< tion in America, which now is, or hereafter may be, under the Dominion of His Maiesty, His Heirs and Successors, One Penny. For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of Coffee, of the Growth and Produce of any British Colony or Plantation in America, which shall be imported or brought from thence into any other British Colony or Plantation in America, Seven Shillings : And for every Pound Weight Avoirdupois of such British Pimento which shall in like manner be imported or broueht into any such British Colony or Plantation, One Halfpenny ; except only such British Coffee and Pimento as shall be warehoused under the .Regulations and Restrictions hereinrafter mentioned ; and after those Rates for any greater or less Quantity of such Goods respectively. V. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Duty herein-lMifore granted upon any Molassesor Syrups, shall not be charged or payable upon any Molasses or Syrups imported into any British Colony or Planta- tion on the Continent of America from the Island of Dominica, for which a Certifi- cate shall be produced upon the Importation thereof, to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port of Importation, under the Hand and Seal of Office of the Collector, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port of Exportation in Dominica, certifying that the said Duty hath been there paid for such Molasses or Syrups ; any thing he rein-before contained to the contrary not« withstanding. Xn. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the afore- said Rates and Duties charged by this Act upon Molasses and Syrups, Coffee and Pimento, imported into any British American Colony or Plantation, shall be deemed and taken to be Sterling Money of Great Britain, and be received to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain ; and that such Monies nuy be received and taken according to the proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver ; and that the said Rates and Duties shall be raised, levied, and collected, paid and recovered, in the same Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, as any other Duties now payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plantations, are or may be raised, levied, collected, paid, and recovered, by any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes, as if the several Clauses, Powers, Directions, Penalties and Forfeitures relating thereto, were particularly repeated and again enacted in the Body of this present Act : And that all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duties (exc<.pt the necessary Charges of raising, collecting, levying, recovering, answering, paying, and accounting for the same), snail be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and shall be entered separate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, and shall be there reserved to be from time to time 6'OEOROII III. Cap.62. time diipoaed of by Parliament, towards defraying the neccMarv Expcncet of dafend* ing, protecting, and securing the British Colonies and Plantations tn America. t XV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid. That no Dutv whatsoever shall be paid for any British Coffee or Pimento, which, from and after tne said First Day of ^fovember One thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, shall be imported or brought into any British Colony or Plantation in America ', provided the same shall, upon landing thereof, be immediately depodted in Warehouses provided at the sole Expence of the Importer or Proprietor of such Coffee and Pimento, with the Privity and Approbation, and under the Care and Inspection 'of the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs, at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be imported,. and shall be secured under the separate Locks of such Officers, and the Proprietor, and shall within the Space of Twelve Calendar Months from the landing and warehounng the same, be shipped directly from thence for Exportation, either to Great Britain, or to some other British Colony or Plantation in America, under the like Securities and Restric- tions as are now required by Law for the same. XVI. And it is hereby further enacted b/ the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said First Day of November One thousand seven hundrr \ md sixty.8ix, no Duty whatsoever shall be paid for any Foreign Sugars, nor for any Foreign Coffee or Indico, which from and after the said First Day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, shall be imported or brought into any British Colony or Plantation on the Continent of America ; provided such Goods shall, upon, landing thereof, be immediately . deposited and secured in such Warehouses, and in the manner herein-before mentioned ; and shall, within the Space of Twelve Calendar Months from the landing and warehousing the same, be shipped from thence for Exportation, as herein-after is expressed ; that is to say, upon Condition that such Sugars shall be exported either directly to Great Britain, or to some other Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterrr, under the like Securities, Regulations, and Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures, as British Sugars may be so carried and exported from any British Colony or Plantation in America, by virtue of any Law how in force } and provided also, that such Foreign Indico shall be exported to Great Britam only under the like Securities, Regulations, and Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures^ as are particularly mentioned and expressed in any Act of Parliament now in force, with respect to mdico of the Growth or Produce of any British Colony or Plantation ; and provided that before such Foreign Coffee shall be taken out of such Warehouse for Exportation, the Exporter shall become bound with sufficient Security in the Penalties of Five Pounda ror every Hundred Weight of such Coffee, that the same and every Part thereof, shall be really and truly exported according to the Entry, and not brought back again or relanded in any F^ of the British Domi- nions in America •, which Bond the Collector and Comptroller, or other Prmcipal Officers of the Customs at the Port from whence such Foreign Coffee shall be in- tended to be exported, sire hereby authorized and required to take, in the Name, and to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors; and the said Bond* with respect to such Coffee as shall be exported to Great Britain, Ireland, or to any other Place under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, where Custom-house Officers are or may be established, t^all be with further Condition, to return a Certificate within Eighteen Calendar Months from the Date of such Bond M 2 from 81 No Duty to be ptid for Britbh Cofta or Pimento im* Cirted after lit ovember 1760 into My Britith AnMrioan Colonjr, trorided the ume e wireliouMd, and ihipped for Biporution witliiu Twelfe Month* ; nor for any Foreign Suoart, Coflbe, or Indico, Erovided the tame e warehouied. and ihipped for Biporution within Twelve Months, under the Con- dition and Hegu- lationt herein exproaaed, .fti.-i H '.■■■■,^ Condition of ibe Bonds to be given in these Cases. '92 f-f :f^t^V If •aeh'Wttclioawa Goods shall not be exported within Twelve Months, nor the Duties paid; the Custom- hoiite MAy sell the same and apply the Monies in dia> chaise of theDuties and Chai^[es, &c. e-GEORQII 111. Cap. 52. from the dbltector and Con^tro^r, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at such Port Olr Vhset that Midi Coffee has hrzn there landed accordingly ; and with respect to such Coffee as shall be exported to any Place not under the Dominion of His !ih;festy, or where no «udi Omcers are appointed, such Bond shall continue in force fer IVo Tears firom the Date thereof; and in case no Fraud shall appear wi^in ihIA *thn6, k shall be lawful for tiie Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in fiilMarid, or any Foot oi* more of them, to direct the said Bond to be cancelled and '^'^fcTed op. XVIL And it is henfby fuiilier enacted, That if che Importer or Proprietor of any iBUch boOds as shall be warehoused as aforesaid, shall not pay the Duties due for the ^ime^ nbr export Mich Goods within Twelve Calendar Months as aforesaid, it sbaU 'be laWfiil for the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the CtUftoms, at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be secured, to cause the siime to be pubtidy sold to the'b^t Advantage ; and the Money arising by such Sale shall bie in the first place applied in Discharge of the Duties due and payable for such Goods, and the Charges attending the Expence of such Sale ; and the Surplus of the Money so arising by such Sale (if any) after Payment of the said Dudes and Charges, ehdl be paid to the Importer or Proprietor who so landed and warehoused such Goods, or to such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive the same. XVln. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from mid ^er the said ¥lr6t Day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty*six, it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons to import any Cotton, Wool, or Indico of Foreign Produce or Manufacture into any British Island in that Part of America commonly called the West Indies, in any Ship or Vessel that may lawfully trade to and from the said British Islands, navigated according to Law, without Pay- ment of any Duty or other Imposition whatsoever for sudi Goods ; any Law, Custom, or tbage, to the contrary notwithstanding. XIX. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said First Day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, no from^nceofany Duty or Other Imposirion whatsoever shall be paid in any British Colony or Plants- Cotton Wool. tion in America, for any Sort of Cotton Wool exported from thence ; any Law, Custom, or Usage, to the contrary notwithstanding. XXI. Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted. That a due Entry of such Cotton Wool and Indico, shall be made in the respective Custom-house belonging to the Port where such Goods shall be imported, either in the West Indies or Great Britain, in the same Manner and Form, and expressing the Quantities thereof as was used and practised before the making of this Act ; and the said Goods «hall be landed in the Presence of the proper Officer appointed for that Purpose ; other- Wise such Goods shall be liable to the Payment of the same Duties as would have been due and payable for the same if this Act had not been made. XXX *And whereas by an Act made in theTwelfth Sf ear of the Reign of King Charles * the Second, intituled 'An Act for encouraging and encreasing of Shipping and Naviga- * tion,* and several subsequentActs of Parliament which are now in force, it is amongst • other Licencegiven to import OMj-trte Cottoti Won], Or Indico of Foreign Produce, into the British West Indies, in Ships ■•kA^^Ij^m— d- til f iCi il TisiTintca accoia- ingwlMtr. No Duty to be paid in America oa Exportation Entry to be made at the Port of Im- portation of such Cotton Wool and Indico, and the Goods to be landed in the Presence of the Officer, otherwise to j[)By th« ae- castbhied Duties. Clause in Act 12 Car. 2. * other Thiogs snac^^, That for every Ship or V^ssd whfcK ,s^all Jk>a4 any Cic^m* « mo4rought by suoi * Ship or Vessel to sqme other British Plantatioin, or to «M[ne Pqrt in >Gr^t < Britain :' Now in order more eflfectually to prevent such Goods being privately carried from any British Colony or Plantation in America into Foreign Parts of Europe in Vessels that clear out with non-enumerated Goods, as well as to prevent the clandestine Importation of Foreien European Goods into the said British Colonies i be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven. Bond and Security, in the like Penalty, shall also be given to the Collector, or other principal Officer of the Customs, at any Port or Place in any of the British American Colonies or Plant- ations, with One Surety besides the Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take on board there any Goods not particularly enumerated in the said Acts, with Condition that such Goods shall not be landed at ^y Part of Europe to the North- ward of Cape Finisterre, except in Gr^t Britain ; which Bond shall be discharged in the manner hereafter "SSeuudned j~that is to say, for such of the said Goods as shall be entered for or landed in Great, Britam, the Condition of the Bond shall be, to bring a Certificate in Discharge thereof vyjithin Eighteen Months from the Date of Sjuc|i Bond, and within Six Months for such of the said Goods as shall be entered for, or janded ui any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America ; which respecrive Certificates shall be under the Hands and S^ls of the Collector and ComptrMlef, ,';.. •i^-f^j ■'k'.^.t^. :..:,1 If any such Goods shall ^kden on board^^Kond given, they are forfeited with the VesseL Limitation of this Act with respect to Vessels bound to some of the Ports of Spain, within theiBay ' ' of Biscay. I , ) ,• XXXII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced either in Great Britain or America, against any Person or Persons for any Thing done in pursuance of this or any other Act of Parliament relating to His Majesty's Customs, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give the said Acts, and the Special Matter in General issue Evidence, 94 Treble Costs. /"GEORGII III. Cap.2. Evidence, at any Trial to be had thereupon ; and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of such Act : And if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants ; and if the Plaintiff shall be non- suited, or discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared } or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the naintiff; the Defendant or Defendants shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as Defendants have *in other Casesby Law. <' ^^ fi' .V> ' /^VV m, >,'■■■ -u .I'j fWi Premuble reciting Clause in Act 6 6eo.3. Non-ennmerated Goods, laden in any British Ame- rican Colony, may be landed in Ireland. Anno7**GEORGii III. Cap.2. An Act to amend so much of an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled * An Act for repealing certain Duties in the * British Colonies and. Plantations, granted by several Acts of Par- * liament ; and also the Duties imposed by an Act made in the last * Session of Parliament upon certain East India Goods exported * from Great Britain ; and for granting other Duties instead thereof, * and for further encouraging, regulating, and securing, several ' Branches of the Trade of this Kingdom, and the British Dominions * in America,' as relates to the Exportation of non-enumerated Goods from the British Colonies in America. * T^^THEREAS by an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled * An * W Act for repealmg certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations ' granted by several Acts of Parliament } and also the Duties imposed by an Act < made in the last Session of Parliament upon certain East India Goods exported < from Great Britain; and for granting other Duties instead thereof; and for encou- * ragine, regulating, and securing several Branches of the Trade of this Kingdom, < and the British Dominions in America ;' it is amongst other Things enacted, that < Bond and Security, in the Penalties in the said recited Act mentioned, shall be given < to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs, at any Port or Place in * any of the British American Colonies or Plantations, with One Surety besides the ' Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take on board there any non- < enumerated Goods, with Condition that such Goods shall not be landed at any Part < of Europe to the Northward of Cape Finisterre, except in Great Britain : And ' whereas Irelanu should have been excepted in the said Act as well as Great Britain :' Be it therefore enacted and declared by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That any non- enumerated Goods laden as aforesaid in any British American Colony or Plantation, may be landed in Ireland ; and that the said recited Act, and all the Regulations there 'n contained, so far as the same relate to the Bond and Security for landmg such non . so far aa it relates to the Bond and Security for land^ ing such non- enumerated Goods in Great Britain, extended to Ireland, &e. #*-. Anno 7** Georgii III. Cap.41. An Acl to enable His Majesty to put the Custotns and other Duties, in the British Dominions in America, and the Execution . of the Laws relating to Trade there, under the Management of Commis- sioners to be appointed for that Purpose^ .and to be resident in the said Dominions. ■ • • - ■ * '- ' , * T7[7^^^^'^^ ''^ pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Twenty*fifth Preamble reciting « V V Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled * An Act for the Act 25 Car. 2. * Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing * the Plantation Trade,' the Hates and Duties imposed by that and several subsequent * Acts of Parliament, upon various Goods imported into or exported from the British * Colonies and Plantations in America, have been put under the Management of the * Commissioners of the Customs in England for the Time being, by and under the * Authority and Directions of the High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury * for the Time being : And whereas the Officers appointed for the Collection of the * said Rates and Duties in America, are obliged to apply to the said Commissioners ' of the Customs in England for their special Instructions and Directions, upon every * particular Doubt and Difficulty which arises in relation to the Payment of the ' said Rates and Duties ; whereby all Persons concerned in the Commerce and ' Trade of the said Colonies and Plantations, are greatly obstructed and delayed in ' the carrying on and transacting of their Business : And whereas the appointing of * Commissioners to be resident in some convenient Part of His Majesty'*s Dominions ' in America, and to be invested with such Powers as are now exercised by the * Commissioners of the Customs in England by virtue of the Laws in being, would ' relieve the said Merchants and Traders from the said Inconveniences, tend to the * Encouragement of Commerce, and to the better securing of the said Rates and * Duties, by the more speedy and effectual Collection thereof:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Customs and other Duties His Majesty autho- imposed by any Act or Acts of Parliament upon any Goods or Merchandizes brought rlzed to put the or imported into, or exported or carried from any British Colony or Plantation Customs and other in America, may from Time to Time be put under the Management and Direction of g";'';*^ coloiTles such in America, under T » Their P«ww with ragard to carrying into Execution the Lkwt relating to the Revenues and Trade of the said Colonies. The Crown em- Ewered, in such inimissions, to mi^e Provision for the Execution of the said Laws there. Deputations, &c. nrnnted by the Commissioners of the Customs in England, to be in IVeuiiry. 7«QeOlb^II 111. Cap.4G. mU CbMMArfoHi^ td icsUie iA th« tald Platotatioiii, as His MajcBty, Hii Heira md 8^eHi, hf¥Bi or the&r ComAifssion oir Cbitimiislons under the Oreat Seal of Gnbt BHttin, shall jtid^ (o b^ most for the Adtantage of Trade and Secikrity of (he k£V*0lme 6f the said JBritish Cdloniea ; any lAvr, GuMOm, or Usage to die con- ihirf AoHrithitahding. n. AM It is hkte% fiirtHelr enacted by the Authtfthy afelteaaid, That the said Commissioners so to be appointed or any Three or moire of thtm» ihall have the same Powers and Authorities for carrying into Execution the several Laws relating to the Revenues and Trade of the said British Colonies in Amnirica* as were before the passing of this Act exercised by the Cdmmissioners of the Customs in England^ by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force ; and it shall and nuy be lawful to and for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successort*, in such Commission or Commissions, to make Provision for putting in Execution the several Laws rebting to the Customs and Trade of the said British Colonies ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. . ? - ; i y ; i," , . , ; J ^ / ;i ^ III. Pirovided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That atl Deputations and other Authorities granted by the Commisuoners Of the Customs in £hgland before tKe psttdng bf this Act, or which may be granted by them before any Commission or Conunissions shall issue in pursuance of this Act, to any Officer or Officers acting in the said Colonies or Plantations shall continue in force ^ fuHy to all Intents and Purposes as if this Act had not facta ituufe^ 'until the I)e]|>iitatl6tis or dther Authorities, so grahted to sUch Officer or Officerl rbpec- tiVi^ly, ^m Ve revoked, ailhulled, or made void by the High Treasurer of Great Britab, br Cointnisdoners dF the Treasury for the titne bdng. AnnoT" GteoRGii III. Cap.46. An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plant- atiohs in America; for allowing a Drawback of the Duties of Customa upon the Exportation from this Kingdom of Coffee and Cocoa Nuts of the Produce of the said Colonies or Plantations ; for discontinuing the Drawbacks payable on China Earthenware exported to America ; and for more effectually preventing the clandestine Running of Goods in the said Colonies and Plantations. * TirniEREAS it is expedient that a Revenue shbuld be raised, in Your Majesty's * ▼ V Dominions in Ameiica, for making a more certain and adequate Provision * for defraying the Charge of the Administration of Justice, and the Support of * Civil Government, in such Plrovinces where it shall be found necessary; and towards * further^ defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the said ' Dominions;' We Tour Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Brftidh, in Parliament sistteinbled, have therefore resolved to give and grant unto 7* GEORGII in. Cap.4e. unto Your Majesty the several Rates r%A Duties heran4rfter mendoned; 9nA do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it maybe enacted, and be it enacted by the King^s most Excellent Majesty, hy and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by tne Authority of the same. That froin and after theTwentieth Day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for and upon the respective Goods herein-after mentioned, which shall be imported from Great Britain into any Colony or Plantation in America, which now is or, hereafter may be under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, the several Rates and Duties following ; that is to say, ^^ : • ^ 1/ ., ' ; . ., ; . For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of Crown, Plate, Flint, and White Glass, Four Shillings and Eight-pence : For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of Green Glass, One Shilling and Two-pence : For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of Red Lead, Two Shillings : For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of 'White Lead, Two Shillings : For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of Painters Colours, Two Shillings : For every Pound Weight Avoirdupois of Tea,* Three-pence : For eveiy Ream of Paper usually called or known by the Name of Atlas Fin^ Twelve Shillings : • , . For every Ream of Paper called Atlas Ordinary, Six Shillings : For every Ream of Paper called Bastard, or Double Copy, One . Shilling and Sixpence : For every single Ream of Blue Paper for Sugar Bakers, Ten-pence Uaifyeany : For every Ream of Paper called Blue Royal, One Shilling and Sixpence : For every Bundle of Brown Paper containing Forty Quires, not made in Great Britain, Sixpence : For every Ream of Paper called Brown Cap, not made in Great Britain, Ninepence : . For every Ream of Paper called Brown Large Cap, made in Great Britain, Four^ pence Halfpenny : For every Ream of Paper called Small Ordinary Brown, made in Great Britain, Three-pence: Foir every Bundle containing Forty Quires of Paper called Whited BrowD, made in Great Britain, Four-p«ice Halfpenny : For every Ream of Cartridge Paper, One Shilling and One Penny Hal^enay : For every Ream of Paper called Chancery Double, One Shilling and Sixpence: For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Crown Fjne, One Shillu)^ and One Penny Hal^nny : For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Crown Second, Nine-pence : For every Ream of Paper caUed German Crown, Ninerpence : For every Ream of Paper called Fipie Printing Crown, Nine-pence : For every Ream of Paper jcalled Second Ordinary Prmting Crown, Sixpence Three Farthings : For every Ream of Ps^r called Crown Fine, made in Great Britam, Nine-pence : From add after » 20th November 1767 the Duties foUowiog are to take place, upon the respective Goods herein-after mentioned im- ported from Great Britain into the British Colonies and Plantations in America, viz. Upon Glass, Red Lead. White Lead, Painters Colours, Teas, ■ and Paper: * The Dub/ iipm 7«|i rtfeakd hy 18 Geo. 3. c. 12. }2. N For 98 1 >v.^i;'»ii' •.I - !• V. 7'GEORGII III. Cap.46v < For every Ream of Paper called Crown Second, made in Great Britain, Sixpence Three Farthings : For every Ream of Paper called Demy Fine, not made in Great Britain, Three Shillings : For every Ream of Paper called Demy Second, not made in Great Britain, One Shilling and Four-pence Halfpenny : For every Ream of Paper called Demy Fine, made in Great Britain,, One Shilling^ and One Penny Halfpenny : For every Ream oi Paper called DemySecond, made in Great Britain, Nine-pence : For every Ream of Paper called Demy Printing, One Shilling and Three* pence: ^ . r: For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Demy Fine, One Shilling and Sixpence : For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Demy Second, One Shilling and One Penny Halfpenny : For every Ream of Paper called German Demy, One Shillmg and One Penny Halfpenny : For every Ream of Paper called Elephant Fine, Six Shillings r For every Ream of Paper called Elephant Ordinary, Two Shillings and Five-pence- Farthing : For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Foolscap Fine, One Shilling and One Penny Hal^;>enny : ^ . . For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Foolscap Second, Nine-pence : For every Ream of I^per called German Foolscap, Nine-pence : ' For every Ream of Paper called Fine Printing Foolscap, Nine-pence : For every Ream of Paper called Second Ordinary Printing Foolscap, Sixpence* Three Farthings : For every Ream of any other Paper called Foolscap Fine, not made in Great ^tain. One Shilling and Ten-pence Halfpenny : For every Ream of any other Paper called Foolscap Fine Second, not made in> Great Britain, One Shilling and Sixpence. For every Ream of Paper called Foolscap Fine, made in Great Britain, Nine- pence. For every Ream of Paper called Foolscap Second, made in Great Britain, Six- pence Three Farthings : For every Ream of Paper called Imperial Fme, Twelve Shillings ; " For every Ream of Paper called Second Writing Imperial, Eight Shillings and) Three-pence: For every Ream of Paper called German Lombard, Nine-pence : "Eot eveiy Ream of Paper called Medium Fine, Four Shillmgs and Sixpence : For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Medium, One Shilling and Ten-pence* Hal^nny : For every Ream of Paper called Second Writing Medium, Three Shillings : For every Ream of Painted Paper not made in Great Britain, Six Shillings : For every Ream of Paper called Fine Large Post, One Shilling and Ten-pence Halfpenny : For every Ream of Paper called Small Post, One Shilling and One Penny Half- penny : For every Ream of Paper called Fine Genoa Pot, Sixpence Three Farthings : For every Ream of Paper called Second Genoa Pot, Sixpence Three Fartmngs :. Fen- iwdg .••.•t[ .»!, .4^ 7«G£OR6II III. Cap.46. Por every Ream of other Paper called Superfine Pot, not made b Great Britain, One SUlUng and Sixpence : For every Ream or otiier Paper called Second Fine Pot, not made in Great Britain, One Shilling and One Penny Halfpenny : For every Ream of Paper called Ordinary Pot, not made in Great Britain, Six- pence T^ree Farthings : For every Ream of P^' called Fine Pot, made in Great Britain, Nine-pence : * .For every Ream of E^per called Second Pot, maide in Great Britain, Four-pence Halfpenny:^ For every Ream of Paper called Super Royal Fine, Six Shillings : "' *" "^ For every Ream of Paper called Royal Fine, Six Shillings : For every Ream of Paper called Fine Holland Royal, Two Shillings and Five- pence Farthing .: ' ' • For every Ream of Paper called Fine Holland Second, One Shilling and Sixpence: For every Ream of Paper called Second Fine Holland Royal, One Shilling and /Sixpence: ■ ^,* ■ For every Ream of Paper called Ordinary Royal, Nine-pence: < For every Ream of Paper caU«d Genoa Royal, Two Shillings and Five-pence farthing; For every Ream of Paper called Second Writing Royal, Four Shillings and One Penny Halfpenny : For evei-y Ream of P&per called Second Writing Super Royal, Six Shillings : For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of Paste^bbards, Mill-boards, and Scale- boards, not .made in Great Britain, Three Shillings and Nine-pence : For every Jlundred Weight Avoirdupois of P^te-boards, Mill-bosurds, and Scale* boards, made in Great Britain, Two ShUlines and Three-pence : And for and upon all Paper which shall be printed, painted, or Gained in Great ^Britain, to serve for Hangings or other Uses, Three Farthings for every Yard square, oyer and above the Duties payable for sych Paper by this Act, if the same had not been printed, painted, or stained ; and after those Rates respectively for any greater or less Quantity. - II. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all other All other unrated Paper (not being particularly rated and charged iu this Act) shall pay the several and ^f,|^°*^,** *"* respective Duties that are charged by this Act upon such Paper as is neslrest above " ' i^ Size and. Goodness to such unrated Paper, III. And be it declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That a Ream of Quantity of which itper, chargeaple by this Act, shal ^h Quire of Xwenty-four Sheetjs. Paper, chargeal?le by this Act, shall be understood to consist of Twenty Quires, and " ^-^^ and Quire are to consist. IV. And it .ie .hereby ftirther enacted by the Authority afor^d. That the said Duties to be paid Rates and Duties charged by this Act upon G(i)Qds imported intb any British as Sterling Money American Colony or Plantation, i$hall.be deemed, and a^e hereby declared to be, of Great Britain, Sterling Money of Qreat Brits^n ; and shall be collected, recovered, and "^aid, to the Amount of the Vajue which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain ; aul that such * The Duii/ upon Paper made in Great Britam repealed by 10 Geo. 3. c. 17. ^ 1. N 2 Monies KK) tt the Hate of St. 6d. per oi. in Silver, and to be paid and levied as any other Duties payable to His Mi|)esty ; and to b« applied, in the first place, in making Provi- sions for the Ad- ministration of Justice and Sup- port of the Civil Government, and the Residue to be paid into the Ex- chequer, and re- served for the Dis- EosilioD of Par- ament. r.GBOROII BI. Cap. 46. Monies may be received and taken aoooiding to the ProfXHrtim and Value of live Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver ; and shall be raised, levied^ collected^ paid, and recovered, in the same Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfieitures as any other Dudes now payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plantadons, may be raised, levied, collected, paid» and recovered by any A£t or Ads of Parlktment now in force, as full^ and effectually to all Intents and Purposes, as if the several Clauses, Powers* Directions, Penaldes, and Forfeitures relating thereto, were partieularly repeated, and again enacted, in the Body of this present Act : And that all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary Charges of raising,, collecting, levying, recovering, answering, paying, and accountmg for the same) shall be applied in the first place, m such Manner as is herein-after mendoned, in making a more certain and adequate Provision for the Charge of the Administradon of Justice, and the Support of Civil Government, in such of the said Colonies and Plantations where it shall be found necessary ; and that the Residue of such Duties shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and shall be entered separate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors ; and shall be there reserved, to be from Time to Time disposed of by Parliament towards- defraying the necessary Expences of defending, protecting and securing the Bridsh. Colonies and Plantadons in America. His Majesty em- powered to cause such Monies to be applied out of the Produce of the said Duties as he shall judge necessar)-, for defraying the Charges of the Admmistration of Justice and Civil Government there. Entry and Report to be made of all Vessels on their Arrival in any of the British Colonies in America, before they proceed to the Place of uor lading. /' _^ — V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That His Majesty and His Successors shall be, and are hereby empowered from Time to Time, by any Warrant or Warrants under his or their Royal Sign Manual or Sign Manuals, counter»gned by the High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, to cause such Monies to be applied out of the Produce of tbi Duties granted by this Act, as His Majesty or His Successors shall think, proper or necessary for defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice, and the Support of the Civil Government^ withm all or any of the said Colonies of Plantations. «'n ■Yis:'i,m::r-:^<'-j'V¥:yvmi. vur ■'VJi^l', Entry aho and Report to be made outwards, before any Part of the lading shall be taken in, IX. And, for the more effectual preventing the clandestine Running of Goods in* the Bridsh Dominions in America, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,. That from and after the said Twentieth Day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of every Ship or Vessel arriving in any Bridsh Colony or Plantation in> America shall, before he proceeds with liis Vessel to the Place of unlading, come du-ectly to the Custom House for the Port or District where he arrives, and make a just and true Entry upon Oath, before the Collector and Comptroller, or other Prin- cipal Officer of the Customs there, of the Burthen, Contents, and Lading of such Ship or Vessel, with the particular Marks, Numbers, Qualities, and Contents of every Parcel of Goods therein laden, to the best of his Knowledge ;■ also where and in what Port die took in her lading ;^ of what Country built; how manned; who was- Master during the Voyage, and who are Owners thereof ; and whether any and what Goods during the Course of such Voyage had or had not been discharged out of such Ship or Vessel, and where ; and tt^ Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of every Ship or Vessel going out from any British Colony or Plantation in America, before he shall take in, or suffer to be taken into or laden on board any such Ship or Vessel, any Goods^ Wares^ or Merchandizes, to- 4 be rGSORGII III. Cap. 46. be exported, shall in like manner enter and report Outwarda aoflh Ship or Vessel, with her Name and Burthen, of what Country built, and how manned, with the Names of the Master and Owners thereof, and to what Port ,or Place he intends to pass or sail ; and before he shall depart with such Ship or Vessel out of any such Colony or Plantation, he shall also bring and deliver unto the Collector and Comp< troUer, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where he shall lade, a Content in Writing under his hand, of the Name of every Merchant, or other Person who shall have laden or put on board any such Ship or Vessel, any Goods or Merchandize, together with the Marks and Numbers of such Goods or Merchandize ; and such Master or Person having or taking the Charge or Command of every such Ship or Vessel, either coming into, or going out of any British Colony or Plantation as aforesaid, whether such Ship or Vessel shall be laden or in Batlast, or otherwise, shall likewise publickly in the open Custom-house, to the best of his Knowledge, answer upon Oath to such Questions as shall be demanded of him by the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs for such Port or Place, concerning such Ship or Vessel, and the Destination of her Voyage, or concerning any Goods or Merchandize that shall or may be laden on board her, upon Forfeiture of One hundred Pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain, for each and every Default or Neglect ; to be sued for, prosecuted, recovered, and divided, in the same Manner and Form, by the same Rules and Regulations in all Respects as other pecuniary Penalties for Offences against the Laws relating to the Customs or Trade of His Majesty's Colonies in America, may, by any Act or Acts of Par- liament now m force, be prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided. 101 and Q Contcn*. to be delivered befdrjj ,* Master also of efery Vessel coming into or going out of any 'ritish Colony to answer upon Oath to the Questions demanded of him at the Custom- house by the CoU lector, &c. of th« Port, on Penalty ofjflOO. •.i^^C, c I < c < < 4 < f < t « « < * t * « t « V. X. < And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Fourteenth Tear of the Clauses In Ace Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled • An Act for preventmg Frauds and ^^ ^^'" 2- regulating Abuses in His Majesty's Customs,' and several other Acts now in Force, it 18 lawful for any Officer of His Majesty's Customs, aujthori^d by Writ, of Assist- ants under the Seal of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, to take'^a Constable, Headborough, or other Public Officer inhabiting near unto the Place, and in the Day-time to enter and go into any House, Shop, Cellar, Warehouse, or Room or other Place, and in case of Resistance to break open Doors, Chests, Trunks, and other Package there, to seize, and from thence to bring any Kind of Goods or Merchandize whatsoever prohibited or uncustomed, and to put and secure the same in His Majesty's Storehouse next to the Place where such Seizure shall be made : And whereas by an Act made in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Act 7 & 8 W. Sn Reign of King William the Third, intituled * An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade,' it is amongst other Things enacted, that the Officers for collecting and managing His Majesty's Revenue, and inspecting the Plantation Trade in America, shall have the same Powers and Authorities to enter Houses or Warehouses, to search for and seize Goods prohibited to be imported or exported into or out of any of the said Plantations, or for which any Duties are payable, or ought to have been paid ; and that the like Assistance shall be given to the said Officers in the Execution of their Office, as by the said recited Act of the Fourteenth Year of King Charles the Second, is provided for the Officers in England; but no Authority being expressly given by the said Act made in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, to any particular Court to grant such Writs of Assistants for the Officers of the Customs in the said Plan- tations, it is doubted whether such Officers can legally enter Houses and other * Places* ^iSf-' .;>■ 102 9*G£ORGII III. Cap.28. ** Places on Land, to search for and seize Goods in the Manner directed by the said » recited Acts :' To obviate which Doubts for the future, and in order to carry the Intention of the said recited Acts into effectual Execution, be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the said Twentieth Day of November One thousand seyen hundred and sixty- seven, such Writs of g..„.^ „, Assistants to authorize and empower the Officers of His Majesty's Customs to enter the Supreme Court and go into any House, Warehouse, Shop, Cellar, or other Place in the British of Justice having Colonies or Plantations in America, to search for and seize prohibited or uncustomed the Colony! '" Goods in the manner directed by the said recited Acts, shall and may be granted by the said Superior or Supreme Court of Justice having Jurisdiction within such Colony 'I <•' I" or Plantation respectively. . , u? .v,. >■. WriUof Auiil- .anu, pursuant to the recited Acta, to be granted bj General Iiaiie. Treble Coeu. •t>J ♦ XI. Asd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced, either in Great Britain br America, against any Person or Persons for any Thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act, and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon ; and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act ; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Pefendants; and if the Plaintiff shall be nons- .tied, or discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defend* ants shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like R^q^e^y for the san^e as defendants h^ye in other Cas^s by I^^w. Preamble reciting Clauses in ^ct 15 Car. 2. and 4 Geo. 3* Anno 9® Georgh III. Cap.28. An Act to permit the Inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey to export directly from thence to Newfoundland, or the British Colonies iii America, Goods necessary for the Fishery, under certain Restric- tions ; and to import from thence non-enumerated Goods (except Hum), an^ to Jand the same in the said Islands. * TT7HEREAS by an Act made in the Fifteenth Year of the ]flelgn of His late .' y V Majesty Iting Charles the Second intituled, ' An Act for the Eqcouragc- .* ment of Trade,' it is amongst other Things enacted, (hat no Commodity ofttie ' Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Europe, shall be imported into any Land, * Island, Plantation, (Colony, I'erritory, or Place to His Majesty belonging, or which * shall hereafter belong unto, or be in the I^ossession of His Majesty, His Heirs and ' Successors, in Asia, Africa, or Americaj (except as therein is excepted) but what ' shall be bon& fide and without Fraud, laden and shipped in England or Wales, or * the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed^ under the Penalties }n the said Act mentionjed : * And whereas by an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present ' Majesty, any Officer of His Majesty's Customs is empowered to stop any British ' Ship or Vessel arriving from any Part of Europe, which shall be discovered within * Two 9*GEORGII 111. Cap.28. 103 * Two Leagues of the Shore of any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, * and to mzt and take from thence as forfeited, any Goods (except such as in the * said Act are mentioned), for which the Master or other Person talcing Charge of * such Ship or Vessel shall not produce a Cocket or Clearance from the Collector or ' proper Uflicer of His Majesty's Customs, certifying that the said Goods were laden ' on board the said Ship or Vessel in some Part of Great Britain : And whereas the * Fishing Trade carried on by the Inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey at Newfound- * land, and other of the British Colonies and Plantations in North America, is highly * beneficial to this Kingdom, in the employing great Numbers of Seamen and Ships, * and in the Use and Consumpdon of great Quantities of British Manufactures ; and • * it is therefore expedient, for the Encouragement of that Trade, to permit the said * Inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey to export directly from thence such Articles as * are necessary for their carrying on the said Fishery : May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enaaed ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, andf Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons inhabiting in the Inhabitants of said Islands of Jersey or Guernsey to ship and lade in the said Islands, and to trans- ^^,"^^?^ Guernsey port directly from thence to Newfoundland, or to any other of the British Colonies to Newfoundland or Plantations in America, where the Fishery is now or shall hereafter be carried on or oiher British on board any Ship or Vessel which may lawfully trade there, any Sort of Craft, Food, American Colony Victuals, Cloathing or other Goods, fit and necessary for the Fishery in those Parts, ^ Pl^'ntation, or for the Use and Support of the Mariners or other Persons employed on board the Growth°or Manu- Vessels, or on shore in carrying on the said Fishery there; such Craft, Cloathing, fncture of Great or other Goods, being the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of Great Britain, or Britain necessary of the said Islands of Jersey or Guernsey, and such Food or Victuals being of the '"' **^ Fnhery ; Growth or Produce either of Great Britain, Ireland, or the said Islands of Jersey or Guernsey ; any thing in the said Acts, or any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. ■' II. Provided always, and it is hereby further declared and enacted by the Autho- rity aforesaid, That the Master or other Person taking Charge of such Ship or Vessel, shall produce to the proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Plantation where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, or Commander in Chief for the Time being, that Oath had been made by the Shipper of such Goods before the Magistrates of the Royal Courts in Jersey or Guernsey respectively, or any Three of them, that the Goods and Victuals so shipped on board such Ship or Vessel are of such Growth, Product, or Manufacture as aforesaid ; which Certificate shall also be attested by the Principal Officer of the Customs in the saud Island respectively, who shall certify that the said Oath was taken in his Presence ; and on Failure of producing such Certificate as herein-before directed, such Craft, Food, Victuals, Cloathing, or other Goods found on boar.l any Ship or Vessel, and the Vessel importing the same shall be liable to be seised and forfeited, in the same Manner as they would have been subject and liable if this Act had not been made \ and thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding. upon producing a Certificate to the Otficer of the Customs there that the Goods, &c. are of such Growth or Man'u- facture» otherwise the same are liable to For- feiture. III. * And whereas by an Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Claire m Act present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for repealing certain Duties in the British * Colonies 104 •ad 7 Geo. 3. Non-«nunicrated Ooodt, Rum ex- cepted, laden on board in any Britiah Aoierican Colony allowad to be landed in Jersey or OiMrnaey, under the Re^^tiona in the reciud Act fif 6 Geo, 3, 9*G£ORQII III. CiH).38. CoUnin and Planttttoni granted by Mveral Acts of Parliament ; and alao the Dutiei impoaed by an Act made in the^ last Session of Parliament upon certain East India Goods exported from Great Britain, and for granting other Dudes instead thereof) and for encouragins, rcsutating, and securmg several Branches of the Trade of this Kingdom, and the British Dominions in America }' it is amoagst other Things enacted, that Bond and Security in the Penalties in the said recited Act mentioned, shall be dven to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at any Port or Place in anv of the British American Colonies or Planta- tions, with One Surety besides the Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take on board there any non-enumerated Goods, with Condition that such Goods shall not be landed at any Part of Europe tu the Northward of Cape Finisterre, except in Great Britain ; which Exception was by an Act made in the Seventh Tear of His Majesty's Reign extended to Ireland : And whereas it is reasonable to extend the like Exception to the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey :' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That any non-enumerated Goods, except Rum, laden as aforesaid in any British American Colony or Plantation, may be landed in the said Islands of Jersey or Guernsey } and that the said Act made in .he Sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, and all the Regulations therein coa> tained, so far as the same relates to the Bond and Security for landing such non< enumerated Goods in Great Britain, shall extend and be construed to extend to the said Islands of Jersey and Guernsey also, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the said Islands had been excepted and named in the said Act ; and that any Bond which may have been or shall be entered into in pursuance of the said recited Acts or either of them, shall and may be cancelled and discharged by the Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Magistrates of the Royal Courts of Jersey or Guernsey respectively, or any Three of them, and the Principal Officer of the Customs in such Island respectively, testifying the landing stich Goods there, in the same Manner as if the said Goods h-, • * TX7HEREAS, in and by an Act passed in the Seventh Tear of His Majesty's Preamble rtt m * W Reign, intituled ' An Act for granting ccrtdn Dunes in the British Colonies Act 7 Geo, 3 40. * and Plantations in America ; for allowing a Drawback of the duties of Customs * upon the Exportation, from this Kingdom, of Coffee and Cocoa Nuts of the Produce * of the said Colonies or Plantations; for discontinuing the Draw Hacks payable on * China Earthenware imported to America ; and for more cffec ually preventing * the clandestine Running of Goods in the said Colonies and Plantations,' it was * amongst other Things enacted, that there should be raised, levied, collected, and * paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, certain Duties u ion Glass, Red * Lead, White Lead, Painters Colours, and upon theseyeral Sorts or Paper therein ' mentioned ; as also upon all Pasteboard, Millboard, and Scaleboard, which should < be imported into any Colony or Plantation in America under the Dt; minion of His * Majesty, His Heirs and Successors : And whereas the said Duties, in so far as they * affect the Produce and Manufacture of Great Britain, do in their Nature tend * to the Prejudice and Discouragement thereof, and are therefore contrary to the * true Princ iples of Commerce :' May it therefore please Your mo tember One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, provided the Fees so taken * are not contrary to the express Direction of any Act of Parliament made in Great * Britam; any Law, Bye-law, or other Act of Assembly made in the said Plantations, * to the contrary notwithstanding : And whereas there have lately arisen in some of * the Ports of America Disputes whether the Officers of the Customs were entitled to * demand and receive such Fees as were usually taken by them and their Predecessors * before the said Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and ! .sixty«four ; and the Naval Officers not having been included in the said recited * Act, Disputes have arisen concerning the Fees of some of the said Naval Officers j* After Aug. 1, 1770, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the First Day of August CustonL andN al ^'^^ thousand seven hundred and seventy, for and during the Term of Two Years, m 1^ II ■Wi-i'g^CH>iWlJi"i liZ-GEORGII III. Clap.58. and from thence to the End of the then next Session of F^Iiament, unless the same shall be sooner settled by the Authority of Parliament, every Collector, Comptroller, and other Officer of His Majesty's Customs, and every Naval Officer in the said British Colonies, shall be deemed to be entitled to, and shall and may lawfully demand and receive, such Fees as they and their Predecessors respectively were and had been generally and usually accustomed to demand, take, and recdve before the said Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and mxty- four ; and shall have like Remedy for the same according to the true Intent ^nd Meaning of the said recited Act j any Law, By-law, or other Act of Assembly made in the said Plantations, to the contrary notwithstanding : And if any such Col- lector, Comptroller, or '^ther Officer of His Majesty's Customs, or Naval Officer in America, shall exact, require, or receive any greater or other Fees than such as are herein-before allowed to be taken, he shall for the First Offence forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds ; one Moiety of which Penalty shall be to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Person or Persons aggrieved thereby, who fhali sue for the same in the proper Court in such Colony or Plantation ; and for the Second Offence he shall forfeit his Place or Office, and be for ever after incapsblc of executing any Office or Employment in the Customs or Navy •. ' 107 Officers of the British Colonies, may Two Years demand such Feea as were usurliy paid before Sep- tember 29, 1764. Penalty on exact* ing greater Fees. Application thereof. * Thii Act after ttveral Continuationt was made perpetual by 45 Geo. 3. c. 68. $ 5. Anno 12**Georgii III. Cap.58. An Act for the further Encouragement of the Herring Fishery on the Coasts of the Isle of Man, and for obviating a Doubt which has arisen with respect to the allowing the Bounties upon the British White Herring Fishery in the Year One thousand seven hundred and seventy-one. JV. A ND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after Jl\. the said Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and After 24th June 1772, Inhabitants seventy-two, it shall and may be lawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, inhabiting na^MpmlS" and residing in the Ifle of Man, to ejcport from thence, and import into any British rings to the British Colonies or Plantations in America, in British Ships or Vessels manned and navigated Colonies. according to an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year ofthe Reign of King Charles the Second, (intituled « An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping * and Navigation'), Herrings caught and cured by them, in the same Maimer as Vidtuals of and from Ireland may be imported into the said Colonies or Plantations by an Act made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of the said King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for the Encouragement of Trade j' any Law, Custom^ or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. O 3 109 1...^- cti. .jtiO'lTi--. 13'G£0RGII m. Cap. 21, Anno 13° Geo RG II III. Cap.21. An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled * An Act to explain a Clause in an Act made in the Seventh Year of ^ * the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, for naturalizing Foreign . . * Protestants, which relates to the Children of the natural-born Sub- * jects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, to the Children * of such Children.' . **'■ ; • • -■.--:..-•;. * \7I7HEREAS divers natural-born Subjeds of Great Britain, who profess and ' exercise the Protestant Religion through various lawful Causes, especially for * the better carrying on of Commerce, have been and are obliged to reside in several ' trading Cities, and other Foreign Places, where they have contracted Marriages, and * brought up Families : And whereas it is equally just and expedient that the Kingr * dom should not be deprived of such Subjects, nor lose the Benefit of the Wealth ' that they have acquired ; and therefore that not only the Children of such natural- ' bom Subjects, but their Children also, should continue under the Allegiance of His * Majesty, and be entitled to come into this Kingdom, and to bring hither and realize, * or otherwise employ their Capital ; but no Provision hath hitherto been made to * extend farther than to the Children bom out of theLigeanceof His Majesty, whose * Fathers were natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain :* May it therefore please Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it ena£ted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spimual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That all Persons bom, or who herep after shall be born, out of the Ligeance of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, 4 Geo.2. c.2(. i 1. whose Fathers were or shall be, by virtue of a Statute made in the Fourth Year of King George the Second, to explain a Clause in an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, for naturalizing Foreign Protestants, which relates to the natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, entitled to all the Rights and Privileges of natural-bom Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, shall and may be adjudged and taken to be, and are hereby declared and enacted to be, natural-born Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as if he and they had been and were born in this Kingdom ; any thing contained in an Act of the Twelfth 12 & 13 W. 3. C.2. Yefar of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled * An Act for the further Limitation of the Grown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject,' to the contrary in anywise notwithftanding. Provisoes, &c. of 4 G. 2. c. 21. not repealed. II. Provided always, and be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid, That nothing in this present Act contained shall extend or be construed, adjudged, or taken to extend, to make any Persons born or to be bom out of the Ligeance of the Crown of England, or of the Crown of Great Britain, to be natural-bom Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, contrary to all or any of the Provisoes, Exceptions, Limitations, and Restrictions contained in the aforesaid Act made in the Fourth Year v-v 13«6EORGII III. Cap.25. 109 Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, or to repeal* abridge, or alter the same; but all such Clauses shall be and remain in the same State, Plight, and Condition, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as they would have been if tliis present Act had never been made. III. Provided also, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That ^ot *<* *l><^ •» nothing in this present Act contained shall extend or be construed, adjudged, or taken g q|^^ '^ to repeal, abridge, or anyways alter an Act made in the Fifth Tear of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled * An Act to prevent the Incon- ' * veniences arising from seducing Artificers in the Manufactures of Great Britain into * Foreign Parts ;' nor to repeal, abridge, or anyways alter z^^y Law, Statute, Custom, or Usage whatsoever, now in force, concerning Aliens, JJuties, Customs, and Im- positions, nor to cause any Privilege, Exemption, or Abatement relating thereto, in fevour of any Person naturalized by virtue of this Act, unless such Person shall come into this Realm, and there inhabit and reside, and shall take and subscribe the Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the Declaration appointed by an Ad made in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled * An A£t * for the further Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the Suc- ' cession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and * for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and * secret Abettor^,' in such Manner and Form, and at such Place and Places, as are in and by the said Act directed, and also receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Usage of the Church of England, or in some Fiotestant or Reformed Congregation within this Kingdom of Great Britain, within Three Months before their talung the Oaths in the said Act mentioned ; and shall at the Time and Place of taking*and subscribing the said Oaths, and of the making, repeating, and subscribing the said Declaration, produce a Certificate figned by the Person administering the said Sacrament, and attested by Two credible Wimesses, whereof an Entry shall be made of Record in the Court and Courts respectively wherein such Oaths shall have been taken and subscribed, without any Fee or Reward. Anno IS^'Georgii III. Cap.25. An Act to explain Two Acts of Parliament, one of the Thirteenth ' Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for naturalizing such Foreign Protestants and others as are settled or shall settle in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America ; and the other of the Second Year of ' the Reign of His present Majesty, for naturalizing such Foreign Protestants as have served or shall serve as Officers or Soldiers in His Majesty's Royal American Regiment, or as Engineers in America. • TT7HEREAS by an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His late Act 13 Geo. 2. « W Majesty King George the Second, intituled * An Act for naturalizing such * Foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in no Act 2 Geo. 3. All Persons who have or shall be- come His Majesty's natural-bom Sub- jects by virtue of the said Acts, are hereby deemed capable of taking and holdine Places of Trust, either Civil or Military, He 13-^GEORGII III. Cap. 25. <; any of His Majesty's Colonies in America ;' all Persons bonl out of the AllcffBuicc of ' His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, who shall have inhabited and resided, or shall inhabit or reside, for the Space of Seven. Years or more, in any of His Ma- jesty's Colonies in America, or shall not have been absent out of the said Co- lomes for a longer Space than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven Years, are, upon the Conditions prescribed by the said Act, naturalized and made Fautakers of dl the Benefits and Privileges which the natural-bom Subjects of this Realm do enjoy, other than such as are specified in a Proviso in the said Act coa> tamed : And whereas by an Act nuide in the Second Year of the Rdgn of Hi* present Majesty, intituled * An Act for naturalizing such Fordsn Protestants a* have served or shall serve for the Time therein mendoned as Officers or Soldiers in His Majesty's Royal American Regiment, or as Engineers in America,' it is enacted, that all such Foreign Protestants, as well Officers as Soldiers, who have • served or shall hereafter serve in the Royal American Regiment, or as Engineer! in America, for the Space of Two Years, shall, upon the Terms required by tne said recited Ad, be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be His Majes^'s natural-bom Subjects of this Kingdom, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as if they and every of them had been or were bom within this Kingdom ; and in both which Acts respectively are contained Provisoes, that no Person who shall become a natural-bom Subject of this Kingdom by virtue of the said Acts shiill be thereby enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to be capable of taking, having, or enjoying any Office or Place of Trust within the Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland, either Civil or Military, or of havings accepting, or taking any Grant from tiie Crown, to himself, or to any other in Trust for him, of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments within the Kmgdoms aforesaid ; And whereas Doubts may nevertheless arise, whether such Persons as have been or may be naturalized under or by virtue of the said recited Acts are capable of taking, having, or enjoying any Omce or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, or of taking any Grant of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments from the Crown whatsoever ;' be it enacted and declared by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every Person and Persons that have become or shall become His Majesty's natural-born Subjects by force or virtue of the said Acts or either of them, are and shall be deemed to be capable of taking and holding any Office or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, and of taking and holding any Grant of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, from the Crown, to himself or themselves, or to any other or others in Trust for him or them, as well under the Great Seal of Great Britain as otherwise, (other than and except Offices and Places, and Grants of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, within the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland) } any Law or Act of parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. ]3*6EORGII III. CapSt. Ill ■li' 'ivv..' t^> »r.fTi.^i4 #»('w^ •'*■*■' "^i I A;, :r'-3\'\ Anno IS^'Georgii III. Cap. 26. 'It;;, An Act for preventing Abuses in the Sale of Shares of Bridsh-buitt . s ... ; , - • Ships to Foreigners. , ^ ,, ,i , ; , . .,,:5 • 4 < TTTHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Tear of the Rdgn Act 12 Car. 2. < W of His Majesty Kmg Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for the encou- * raging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation/ it is amongst other Things * enacted, that from and after the First Day of December One thousand six hundred ' and sixty, and from thenceforward, no Goods or Commodities whatsoever shall be * imported into or exported out of any Lands, Islands, Plantations, or Territories to * His Majesty belonging or in his Possession, or which may thereafter belong unto * or be m the Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in A^a, Africa, ' or America, in any other Ship or Ships', Vessel or Vessels whatsoever, but such ' Ships and Vessels as did truly and without Fraud belong only to the People of * England or breland. Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or were * of the Built of or belonging to any of the said Lands, Islands, Plantations, or * Territories, as the Proprietors and right Owners thereof; and whereof the Master * and Three Fourths of the Mariners at least were English, under the Penalty of the * Forfeiture and Loss of all the Goods and Commodities which should be imported * into or exported out of any of the aforesaid Places in any other Ship or Vessel, * as also of the Ship or Vessel, with all its Guns, Furniture, Tackle, Ammunition, * and Apparel ; One Third Part thereof to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors ; * One Third Part to the Governor of such Land, Plantation, Island, or Territory * where such Default should be committed, in case the said Ship and Goods be there * seized, or otherwise \ that Third Part also to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, * and the other Third Part to him or them who should seize, inform, or sue for the * same in any Court of Record by Bill, Information, Plaint, or other Action, wherein * no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law, should be allowed ; and all Admirals < and other Commanders at Sea of any of the Ships of War, or other Ships having * Commission from His Majesty, His Heirs or Successor^ were thereby authorized and ' strictly required to seize and bring in as Prize all such Ships or Vessels as shall * have offended contrary hereunto, and deliver them to the Court of Admiralty, * there to be proceeded against ; and in case of Condemnation, one Moiety of such ' Forfeiture shall be to the Use of such Admirals or Commanders, and their Com- * panies, to be divided and proportioned amongst them according to the Rules and * Orders of the Sea in case of Ships taken Prize, and the other Moiety to the Use of * His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors ; and it is also by the said Act further * enacted, that no Alien or Person not within the Allegiance of our Sovereign Lord * the King, His Heirs and Successors, or naturalized or made a free Denizen, « shall from and after the First Day of February which should be in the Year of '.our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty-one, exercise the Trade or Occu- * pation of a Merchant or Factor in any of the said Places, upon the Pain of the * Forfeiture and Loss of all his Goods and Chattels, or which are in his Possession, * One Third to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, One Third to the Governor ' of the Plantation where such Person shall so oSiend, and the other Third to him or • them J112 and 7 & 8 Qui. 3. recited. .13'GEORGII III. Cap. 26. them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of His Majesty's Courts !n the Plantation where such Offence shall be committed : And whereas by one other Act amongst other Things that a^er the' Twenty •fifth Day of March One thousand six hundred and ninety- dght, no Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever shall be imported into, or exported out of any Colony or Plantation to His Majesty in Asia, Africa, or America, belonging or in his Possession, or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, as shall be laden in or carried from any one Port or Place in the said Colonies or Plantations to any other Port or Place in the same, the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, in any Ship or Bottom but what is or shall be of the Built of England, or of the Built of Ireland, or the said Colonies or Plantations, and wholly owned by the People thereof, or any of them, and navigated with the Masters and Three Fourths of the Mariners of the said Places only, (except such Ships only ais are or shall betaken asPnr.e, and Condemnation thereof made in one of the Courts of Admiralty in England, Ireland, or the said Colonies or Plantations), to be navi- gated by the Master and Three Fourths of the Mariners English, or of the said Plant- ations as aforesaid, and whereof the Property did belong to Englishmen ; and also, except for the Space of Three Years, such Foreign-built Ships as should be employed by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy for the Time being, or upon Contract with them, in bringing only Masts, Timber, and other Naval Stores, for the King's Ser- vice, from His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations to this Kingdom, to be navigated as aforesaid, and whereof the Property doth belong to Englishmen, under Pain of Forfeiture of Ship and Goods, One-third whereof to be to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, One Third Part to the Governor of the said Colonies or Plantations, and the other Third Part to the Person who shall inform or sue for the same by Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in any Court in His Majesty's Plantations where such Offence shall be committed ; and it is by the said last-recited Act further enacted, that from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand six hundred and ninety-eight, no Ship or Vessel whatsoever shall be deemed or pass as a Ship of the Built of England,' Ireland, Wales, Berwick, Guernsey, Jersey, or any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, so as to be qualified to trade to, from, or in any of the Plantations, until the Person or Persons claiming Property in such Ship or Vessel shall register the same as followeth ; that is to say. If the Ship, at the Time of such Register, doth belong to any Port in England, Ireland, Wales, or to the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, then Proof shall be made upon Oath of one or more of the Owners of such Ship or Vessel before the Collector and Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs in such Port} or if at the Time of such Register the Ship belong to any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, or to the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, then the like Proof to be made before the Governor, together with the Principal Officer of His Majesty's Revenue residing on such Plantation or.Ifland; which Oath the said Governor and Officers of the Customs respectively are thereby authorized to administer in the Tenor following j videlicet. « JURAT A. B. That the Ship (Name) ■f! nl (Porj) whereof (Master's Name) Pf js at present " Master 13'GEORGII III. Cap.96. 113 Master, being a (Kind of Built) of * 5 /„';;,. - Burthen Tons, was built at (Place where) > jk.^uS in the Year 'v^' (Time when) '"s '< and that .turi^^-f (Owners Name) of and of et cetera, are at present Owners thereof ; and that no Foreigner, directly or indi- rectly, hath any Share or Part or Interest therein.' Which Oath, being attested by the Governor or Custom-house Officer respectively who administered the same under their Hands and Seals, fhall, after havmg been registered, by them, be delivered to the Master of the Ship for the Security of her Navigation, a Duplicate of which Register shall be immediately transmitted to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in the Port of London, in order to be entered in a general Register to be there kept for this Purpose j with Penalty upon any Ship or Vessel trading to, from, or in anv of His Majesty's Plantations in America, after the said Twenty-fifth Day of Marcn, and not having made Proof of her Built and Property as is here directed, that she shall be liable, and she is thereby made liable, to such Prosecution and Forfeiture as any Foreign Ship (except Prizes condemned in the Hieh Court of Admiralty), would for tradingwith these Plantations by such Law be liable to : And it is also further enacted. That no Ship's Name registered fhall be afterwards changed without registering such Ship de novo, which is thereby required to be done, upon any Transfer of Property to another Port, and delivering up the former Certificate to be cancelled, under the same Penalties, and in the like manner as is therein-before directed ; and that in case there be any Alteration of Property in the same Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares of any Ship, after registering thereof, such Sale shall always be acknowledged by Endorse- ment on the Certificate of the Register before Two Witnesses, in order to prove that the entire Property in such Ship remains in some of the Subjects of England, if any Dispute arises concerning the same : And whereas, notwithstanding the said good and wholesome Laws, many Inconveniences have arisen and may hereafter arise, by Foreigners or other Persons, not natural-born Subjects of His Majesty, becoming possessed of and entitled unto any Part or Share of any British Ship or Vessel what- soever,' belonging only to na.tural-born Subjects of His Majesty, whereby the other Part Owners of such Ship or Vessel cannot obtain the Register required by the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of His said late Majesty King William the Third, for the Security of the Navigation of such Ship or Vessel, whereby the Trade and Commerce of this Kingdom hath been and may be greatly hindered and obstructed:* For Remedy whereof may it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That no Fordgner No Fonigner to or other Person or Persons whatsoever, not being a natural-bom Subject of His contract for any Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall be entitled to or shall purchase or contract for |^"® Uh'^t'tt^'* any Part or Parts, Share or Shares of any British Ship or Vessel whatsoever, belong. Consent oTthe ^ ing only to natural-born Subjects of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, without the Owners of Three- Consent in Writing of the Owner or Owners of Three Fourth Parts ja Value at least ^"^hs of the of such Ship or Vessel for that Purpose first had and obtained, and endorsed on the ' Certificate of the Register of such . Ship before Two Wimesses ; and all Agreements, Contracts, Purchases, and Sales of any Part or Share of any British Ship or Vessel, belonging only to natural-born Subjects of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, P made 114 14"QBORGll 111. Cap.83. made, entered intOt contracted for, or concluded by any such Foreigner or other Person or Pertons nOt being » natural-bom Subject or Subjects of His Majesty, His Heirs or Succeaters, without such Consent first had and obtained, and endorsed as aforesaid, shall be and are hereby declared to be absolutely null and void to all Intents and Purposes whitsoever. f.r :\':~-,-,*^ v-n^'*'} *myFi«i ■%<,■, 'a^ 'ii*»Ti«r ■><•)*• «xir:: '.IJX'l ou: The Territories, Islands, and Countries in North America, belong- ing to Great Britain, ; Anno 14"Georgii 111. Cap.83. . An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the .,,,...; ,. Province of Quebec in North America. •: >- •. .. TX7HEREAS His Majesty, by His Royal Proclamation, bearine Date the Vt Seventh Day of October in the Third Year of His Reign, thought fit to declare the Provisions which had been made in respect to certain Countries, Terri- tories, and Islands in America, ceded to His Majesty by the Definitive Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris on the Tenth Day of February One thousand seven himdred and sixty-three : And whereas, by the Arrangements made by the said Royal Proclamation, a very large Extent of Country, within which there were sieveral Colonies and Settlements of the Subjects of France, who churned to remain therein under the Faith of the said Treaty, was left without any Provision being made for the Administration of Civil Government therein ; and certain Parts of the Territory of Canada, where sedentary Fisheries had been established and carried on by the Subjects of France, Inhabitants of the said Province of Canada, under Grants and Concessions from the Government thereof, were annexed to the Govern* ment of Newfoundland, and thereby subjected to Regulations inconsistent with the Nature of such Fisheries :' May it therefore please Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent; Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority or the same. That all the Territories, Islands, and Countries in North America, beloneinc to the Crown of Great Britain, bounded on the South by a Line from the Bay oT Cnaleurs, along the High Lands which divide the Rivers that empty themselves mto the River Saint Lawrence from those which fall into the Sea, to a Point in Forty-five Degrees of Northern Latitude, on the Eastern Bank of the River Connecticut, keeping the same Latitude directly West, through the Lake Champlain, tmtil in the same Latitude it meets the River Saint Lawrence ; from thence up the Eastern Bank of the said River to the Lake Ontario ; thence through the Lake Ontario "^nd the River com- monly called Niagara ; and thence along by the Eastern and South-eastern Bank of Lake Erie, foUowmg the said Bank until the same shall be intersected by the Northern Boundary, granted by the Charter of the Province of Pensylvania, in case the same shall be so intersected ; and from thenc€ along the said Northern and Western Boundaries of the said Province, until the said Western Boundary strike the Ohio ; but in case the said Bank of the said Lake shall not be found to be so intersected, then following the ^d Bank until it shall arrive at that Point of the said Bank which shall be neares*^ to the North>westem Angle of the said Province of Pensylvania, and thence le same Western Ohio; rsected, which nia, and thence 14<>6£ORGlI III. Cap.83. thence by a Right Line to the said North-western Apgle of the said Province ; and thence along the Western Boundary of the said Province, u it strike the River Ohio ; and along the Bank of the said River Westward to the Banks of the Mississippi, and Northward to the Southern Boundary of the Territory granted to the Merchants Adventurers of England trading to Hudson's Bay ; and also all such Ter- ritories, Islands, and Countries, which have since the Tenth of February One thou- sand seven hundred and sixty-three been made Part of the Government of New- foundland, be, and they are hereby, during His Majesty's Pleasure, annexed to and made Part and Parcel of the Province of Quebec, as created and established by the said Royal Proclamation of the Seventh of October One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three. II. Provided always. That nothing herdn contained, relative to the Boundary of the Province of Quebec, shall in anywise affect the Boundaries of any other Colony. III. Provided always, and be it enacted. That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to make void, or to vary or alter any Right, Title, or Pofiseeciioii, derived under any Grant, Conveyance, or otherwise howsoever, of or to any Lands within the said Province or the Provinces thereto adjoining ; but that the same shall remain and be in force and have Effect, as if this Act had never been made. V. And for the more perfect Security and Ease of the Minds of the Inhabitants of the said Province, it is hereby declared. That His Majesty's Subjects, professing the Religion of the Church of Rome, of and in the said Province of Quebec, may have, hold, and enjoy the free Exercise of the ReIi|pon of the Church of Rome, subject to the King's Supremacy, declared and established by an Act, made in the First Tear of the Kdgn of Queen Elizabeth, over all the Dominions and Countries which then did or thereafter should belong to the Imperial Crown of this Realm; and that the Clergy of the said Church may hold, receive, and enjoy their accustomed Dues and Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said Religion. Vn. Provided always, and be it enacted. That no Person profes^ng the Religion of the Church of Rome, and residing in the said Province, shall be (K>liged to take die Oath required by the said Statute passed in the First Year of the Rdgn of Queen Elizabeth, or any other Oaths substituted by any other Act m the Place thereof; but that every such Person who by the said Statute is required to take the Oath therein mentioned, shall be obliged and is hereby required to take and subscribe the following Oath before the Governor or such other Person in such Court of Record as His Majesty shall appoint, who are hereby authorized to administer the same; videlicet. MB annexed to ths o' Province of { Quebec. Not to aflfect the Boundaries of any other Colony. Nor to make void other Righu formerly granted. ••■ ltln» ■ ...' •'* OJ Inhabitants of Quebec may pro- fess the Romish Religion, subject to the King's Supremacy, as by Act of I Elu. : and the Clergy enjoy their ac- customed Dues. No Person profess- ing the Romish Reliffion obliged to ttdce the Oath of 1 Eliz. ; but to take before the Governor, &c. the following Oath. T A. B. do sincerely promise and swear. That I will be feithful and bear true The Oath. Allegiance to His Majesty King George, and him will defend to the utmost of my Power against all traitorous Conspuacies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his Person, Crown, and Dignity ; and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, all Treasons and traitorous Conspiracies and Attempts which I shall know to be P 2 ' against 116 Panoni refuting the Oath to be •ubject to the Penalties of Act 1 Eliz. Ilia Mi^eaty'a Canadian Subjects. Religious Orders excepted, may hold all their Posses. •ioDS, &c. and in Matters of Controversy Resort to be had to the Laws of Canada for the Dcdtion. Oimers of Goods may alienate the same by Will. &c. if executed accord* ■lUf to the Laws orCanada. All Acts formerly made are hereby enforced within the I'rovince. l4*6£ORGlI 111. Cap.83. * against him, or any of them ; and all this I do swear without any Kquivocatiou ' mental Evasion, or secr^it Reservation, and renouncing all Pardons and Dispensa* * tions from any Power or Person whomsoever to the contrary. ' So help me GOD.' And eveiysuch Person who shall neglect or refuse tu take the said Oath before mentioned shall incur and be liable to the same Penalties, Forfeitures, Disabilities, and Incapacities, as he would have incurred and been liable to for neglecting or refusing to taketne Oath required by the said Statute passed in the First Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. > .'i; VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all His Majesty's Caiudian Subjects withifi the Province of Quebec, the Religious Orders and Com- munities only excepted, may also hold and enjoy their Property and Possessions, together with all Customs and Usages relative thereto, and all other their Civil Rights, in as large, ample, and beneficial manner as if the said Proclamation, Commissions, Ordinances, and other Acts and Instruments, had not been made, and as may consist with their Allegiance to His Majesty, and Subjection to the Crown and Parliament of Great Britam ; and that in all Matters of Controversy r( Inive to Property and Civil Rights, Resort shall be had to the Laws of Canada, as the Rule for the Decision of the same ; and all Causes that shall hereafter be instituted in any of the Courts of Justice to be appointed within and for the said Province by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall, with respect to such Property and Rights, be determined agreeably to the said Laws and Customs of Canada, until they shall be varied or altered by any Ordinances that shall from time to time be passed vn the said Province by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief for the time being, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council of the same, to be appointed in manner herein>after mentioned. X. Provided also, That it shall and may be lawful to and for every Person that is Owner of any Landb, Goods, or Credits in the said Province, and that has a Right to alienate the said Lands, Goods, or Credits, in his or her Lifetime, by Deed of Sale, Gift, or otherwise, to devise or bequeath the same, at his or her Death, by his or her last Will and Testament ; any Law, Usage, or Custom heretofore or now prevailing in the Province, to the contrary hereof in anywise notwithstanding ; such Will being executed either according to the Laws of Canada, or according to the Forms prescribed by ihe Laws of England. XVm. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That nothing in this Act con- tained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or make void, within the said Province of Quebec, any Act or Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain heretofore made for prohibiting, restraining, or regulating the Trade or Commerce of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America ; but that all and every the said Acts, and also all Acts of Parliament heretofore made concerning or respecting the said Colonies and Plantations, shall be and are hereby declared to be in force within the said Province of Quebec and every Part thereof. asa '^. said the t/J, ■ i r\Kif' 14'(J£ORGII 111. Cup.88. Anno 14pGeorgii III. Cap. 88. nr Certain Duties int- poted bj His Moat Cliriitian Majesty upon Rum, Brandy, ttc. im- portedintoQuebec. All Acl to establish a Fund towards further defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice and Support of the Civil Government within the Province of Quebec in America. ' TTLT^^^^^^ certain Duties were imposed by the Authority of His most * VV Christian Majesty upon Wine, Rum, Brandy, £au de Vie de Liqueur, im> ' ported into the Province of Canada, now called the Province of Quebec, and also a ' Duty of Three Pounds per Centum ad Valorem upon all dry Goods imported * into and exported from the said Province, which Dudes subsisted at the Time of * the Surrender of the said Province to Your Majesty's Forces in the late War : And * whereas it is expedient that the said Duties should cease and be discontinued } and * that in«lieu and instead thereof other Duties should be raised by the Authority of * Parliament, for makinsr a more adequate Provision for defraying the Charge of the ' Administration of Justice, and the Support of Civil Government m the said Pro- * vince :' We Your Majesty's most dutinil and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, all the Dudes which were imposed upon Rum, Brandy, £au de Vie de Liqueur, within the said Province, and also of Three Pounds per Centum ad Valorem on dried Goods imported into or export^ from the said Province under the Authority of His most Christian Majesty, shall be and are hereby discontinued ; and that in lieu and in- stead thereof there shall, from and after the said Fifth Day of April One thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for and upon the respective Goods herein-after mentioned, which shall be imported or brouglit into any Part of the said Province, over and above all other Duties now payable in the said Province by any Act or Acts of Par- liament) the several Rates and Dudes following } that is to say. For every Gallon of Brandy, or other Spirits, of the Manufacture of Great Britain, The Rates. Three-pence : For every Gallon of Rum, or other Spirits, which shall be imported or brought from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, Sixpence : For every Gallon of Rum, or other Spirits, which shall be imported or brought from any other of His Majesty's Colonies or Dominions in America, Nine-pence : For every Gallon of Foreign Brandy, or other Spirits of Foreign Manufacture, imported or brought from Great Britain, One Shilling. For every Gallon of Rum or Spirits of the Produce or Manufacture of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, not in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, imported from any other Place except Great Britain, One Shilling. For every Gallon of Molasses and Syrups which shall be imported or brought into the said Province in Ships or Vessels belonging to His Majesty's Subjects in Great Britain or Ireland, or to His Majesty's Subjects in the said Province, Three-pence : For After April 5, 1755, to be discon- tinued within the Province ; and instead of which the follow- ing Duties to be Said to His [ajeaty. r- -,. 118 lUtca dMin«d Sterlioc Monty of QrMt BriUin ; how th«f are to baleni hm are to iM, ko. I to whom th«y are to be paid. and how to be applied. 14 GEORGII III. Cap. 88. For every Gallon of Molaasea and Syrupt, which shall be imported or brought into the said Provmce in any other Ships or Vessels in which the same may be legally imported. Sixpence : and after those Rates for any greater or less Quantity of luch Goods respectively. U. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Rates and Duties charged by this Act shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be Sterling Money of Great Britain, and shall be collected, recovered, and paid, to the Amount of the Value of which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain ; and that such Monies may be received and taken according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver ; and that the said Duties herein- before granted shall be raised, levied, collected, -paid, and recovered in the same Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Pooalties and Forfeitures, except in such Cases where any Alteration is made by this Act, as any other Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into any British Colony or Plantation in America are or shall be raised, levied,, collected, eid, and recovered by any Act or Acts of Parliament, as fully and effectu'ally to all tent« and Purposes as if the several Clauses, Powers, Directions, Penalties, and Forfeitures relating thereto were particularly repeated and again enacted in theBody ' all the Monies ~ ' Regulations with respect to Gooda brousht into the Province, charge- able with Duties. of this present Act ; arise by the said Duties Penalty. Penalty. the time being, and shall be applied, in the first place, in making a more certain and adequate Provision towards defraying the Expences of the Admmistration of Justice, and of the Support of Civil Government in the said Province ; and that the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them for the time being, shall be and is or are hereby empowered from time to Time, by any Warrant or Warrants under his or their Hand or Hands, to cause such Money to be applied out of the said Produce of the said Duties, towards defraying the said Expences ; and that the Residue of the said Duties shall remain and be reserved in the Hands of the said Receiver General, for the future Disposition of Parliament. ni. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Goods chargeable with any of the said Duties herein-before mentioned shall be brought into die raid Province by Land Carriage, the same shall pass and be carried through the Port of Sunt John's near the River Sorrel ; or if such Goods shall be brought into the said Province by any Inland Navigation, other than upon the River Saint Law. rence, the same shall pass and be carried upon the said River Sorrel by the said Port, and diall be there entered with, and the said respective Rates and Duties paid for the same to such Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs as shall be there appointed for that Purpose ; and if any such Goods coming by Land Carriage, or Inland Navi- eation as aforesaid, shall pass by or beyond the said Place before named, without Entry or Payment of the said Rates and Duties, or shall be brought into any -Part of the said Province, by or through any other Place whatsoever, the said Goods shall be forfeited j and every Person who shall be assisting or otherwise concerned in the bringing or removing such Goods, or to whose Hands the same shall come, knowing that they were brought or removed contrary to this Act, shall forfeit Treble the Value of such Goods, to be esdnuted and computed according to the best Price that each 18-GBORGn 111. C»p.3l. 119 ciich respccttve Commodity bears in the Town of Quebec at the Time lucli Offence shall be committed ; and all the Horses, Cattle, Boats, VeaeU, and other Carriara whatsoever, made use of in the Removal, Carriage, or Conveyance of such OoocH, shall also be forfeited and lost, and shall and may be seized by any Officer of His Penalt). Majesty's Customs, and prosecuted as herein-atter mentioned *. IV. And c is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the said PciuIUm where Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act inflicted shall be sued for and prosecuted m pro«««u«l, fcc. any Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction within the said Pro- vince, and the same snail and may be recovered and divided in the same Manner and Form, and by the same Rules and Regulations in all respects, as other Penalties , , : and Forfeitures for Offences against the Laws relating to the Customs and Trade of His Majesty's Colonies in America shall or may by any Act or Acts of Parliament be sued for, prosecuted, recovered and divided. '•'•■.. .• • • i/; i.ii.' * Explained and amendtd, IS G«o.3. c. 40. lowmg )le the tee that each Any Part of New- foundland not in Anno IS^'Georgii III. Cap. 31. An Act for the Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions in Europe, and for securing the Return of the Fishermen, Sailors, and others employed in the said Fisheries, to the Ports thereof, at the End of the Fismng Season. II. A ND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That for the better Ac- xX commodation of the Persons belonging to Vessels employed in the Newfound- land Fishery, it shall and may be lawfu* for the Masters and Crews belonging to any fo^curinir wid"*^ Vessels fitted out and employed in that Fishery, in pursuance of this or any other Act, drying I^h. to occupy and use, for the Purpose of curing, salting, drying, and husbanding their Fish, any vacant or void Space whatever on any Part of Newfoundland which is not then occupied and used for the said Fishery, without any Let, Disturbance, or Hinderance from any Person or Persons whatsoever, although such unoccupied Places mav not before have been reputed Ships Rooms; and all such unoccupied Places shall from henceforth be deemed and taken to be Ships Rooins j any Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding, IV. * And in order to obviate any Doubts that have arisen or may arise to whom What Persons are * the Privilege or Right of drying Fish on the Shores of Newfoundland does or shall JJ****'*^ *** *^® , * belong under the before-mentioned Act made in the Tenth and Eleventh Ye of p'sh on^he Bim'k? ' the Reign of King William the Third, which Right or Privilege has hitherto ily of Newfoundland. ' been enjoyed by His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain, and the other Lrush * Dominions in Europe }' be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforessdd. That lizo Provisions and all Necessaries for fishing may be ex> ported from Ireland and the Isle of Man to Newfound' land, being British or Irwh Product or ManuCkcture. Masters of Vessels to produce Certi- ficates from the Officer of Customs that the Provisions, &c.aretheProduct, &c. of Great Bri- tain or Ireland. On Failure, ftc. the Ship to be forfeited. No Fishing Ships, or any CrMt carry- ing Necessaries for the Fishery, to be liable to any Re- straint as to Time of working; 15»GEORGII III. Cap.31. That the said Right and Privilege shall not be held and enjoyed by any of His Majesty's Subjects arriving at Newfoundland from any other Country except from Great Britain, or one of the British Dominions in Europe. > . V. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in Ireland to ship and lade there, and to transport directly from thence to Newfoundland, or to any Part of America where the Fishery is now or shall hereafter be earned on, on board any Ship or Vessel which may lawfully trade or fish there, any Provisions, and also any Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Tools or Implements necessary for and used in the Fishery by the Crews of the Ships or Vessels carrying out the same, and the Craft belonging to and employed by such Ships or Vessels in the said Fishery, such Pro- visions, Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Tools or Implements, beihg the Product and Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland ; and that it shall and may be lawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Ifle of Man in like manner to export directly from thence any of the Articles herein-before mentioned for the Purpose aforesaid, such Articles bong the Product or Manufacture of Great Britain or the said Ifle of Man, any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. VI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Master or other Person taking Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall produce to the proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Plantation where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs in the Port where he shall have fitted out, that Oath hath been made before him by the Shipper of such Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Tools and Implements, that the same are of the Product and Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Isle of Man respectively, as the Fact may be, and that the several Articles before mentioned (except the Provisions), specifying the Quantities and Particulars of each Sort, are to be used in the Fishery by the Crews of the respective Ship or Vessel carrying out the same, and by the Craft belonging to and to be employed by such Ship or Vessel in the said Fishery, and for no other Use or Purpose whatsoever (which Oath and Certificate such Collector or other Officer is hereby authprized and required to administer and grant without Fee or Reward) ; and on Failure of producing such Certificate, or if any such Hooks, Lines, Netting, Tools, and Implements are used or disposed of for any other Purpose, the same, and the Ship or Vessel having the same on board, shall be liable to be seized and forfeited in the same manner as they would have been subject and lis^ble to if this Act had not been made ; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, VII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, all Vessels fitted and cleared out as Fishing Ships in pursuance of this Act, or of the before-mentioned Act made in the Tenth, and Eleventh Years of the Reign of the late King Wijliam the Third, and which shall be actually employed in the Fishery there, or any Boat or Craft whatsoever employed in carrymg Coastwise, to be landed or put onboard any Ships or Vessels, any Fish, Oil, Salt, Provisions, or other Necessaries, for the Use and Purpose of that Fishery, shall not be liable to any Restraint or Regulation with respect to Days or Hours of working, nor to make any Entry at the Custom-house at Newfoundland, except a Report to be made by the Mmet 15«G£ORGIl III. Cap. 31. 121 iuc, all of the of the ishery anded other to ally ke any by the Master Master on his first Arrival there, and at his clearing out from thence ; and that a not to' make any Fee not exceeding Two Shillings and Sixpence shall and may be taken by the Officers ^°*[y ****•" of the Customs at Newfoundland for each such Report ; and that no other Fee shall ^"«<"»"*<'"»«» ««• be taken or demanded by any Officer of the Customs there, upon any other Pretence whatsoever relative to the said Fishery i any Law, Custom, or Usage to the con- trary notwithstanding. VIII. Provided always^ and be it enacted, That in case any such Fishing Ship or If Ships have on Vessel shall at her last clearing out from the said Island of Newfoundland have on ^"^ "jy °^' board or export any Goods or Merchandise whatsoever, except Fish, or Oil made ^ "^^j ^c^th^^ of Fish, such Ship or Vessel, and the Goods thereon laden shall be subject and shall be under the liable to the same Securities, Restrictions, and Regulations in all respects, as they usual Restrictions, would have been subject and liable to if this Act had not been made ; any thing ^^' herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XII. ' And whereas it has been a Practice of late Years for divers Persons to seduce No Shipmaster to * the Fishermen, Sailors, Artificers, and others employed in carrying on the Fishery '^"'y *"y Fuher- * arriving at Newfoundland, on board Fishing and other Vessels from Great Britain, J!2nger8*to"ny'part < and the British Dominions in Europe, to go from thence to the Continent of of the Continent of ' America, to the great Detriment of the Fishery and the Naval Force of this Eang- America without * dom :' Now, in order to remedy the said Evil, and to secure the Return of the P^oni^'on. said Fishermen, Sailors, Artificers, and others employed as aforesaid, to the British Dominions in Europe, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, it shall not be lawful for the Master or Person having the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel trading to or from any Place within the Government of Newfoundland, to carry or convey as Passengers any such Fishermen, Sailors, Artificers, and others, employed as aforesaid, from thence to any Part of the Continent of America, without the Permission under the Hand and Seal of the Governor of the said Island of Newfoundland, under the Penalty of forfeiting Two himdred Pounds for every such Offence. XX. * And whereas the immoderate Use of Rum and other Spirits imported into < Newfoundland from His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations ui America has been ' found to be highly detrimental to the Fisheries carried on there, and it is therefore < proper to endeavour to diminish the Consumption thereof; be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, there shall be paid in to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for every Gallon of Rum, or o^her Spirits, which shall be brought or imported into the Island of Newfoundland from any British Colony or Plantation on the Continent of America, the Sum of One Shilling Sterling Money of Great Britain j and the same shall be collected, recovered, and paid to the Amount of the Value of which such nominal Sum bears in Great Britain, and may be received and taken according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver ; and the said Duty hereby granted shall be raised, levied, collected, paid, and recovered in the same Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, except in such Cases where any Alteration is made by this Act, as any other Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into any Bridsh Colony or Plantation in America are raised, levied, Q collected, Spirits imported into Newfoundland from America, to pay a Duty of Is. per Gallon. . How such Duty is to be collected, recovered, and applied. ,'€^ ^}l,-. Persons giving false Certificates, &c. to forfeit ^£'500. •(.'I Forfeitures how to be applied. 122 15»GEORGII 111. Cap.ait "^ ' collected, paid, and recovered by any Act or Acts of Parliament, as fully and effec* ''\ tually to all Intents and Purposes as if the several Clauses, Powers, Directions, Penalties and Forfeitures relating thereto were particularly repeated and again enacted in the Body of this present Act ; and that all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duty (except the necessary Charges of raising, collecting, levying, recovering, answering, paying, and accounting for the same), shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and applied and appropriated to the same Uses and Pur- poses as the Duties arising by that Part of the Customs commonly called The Old Subsidy, payable in Great Britain, are applied and appropriated. , ;,--? .,««■,; » XXXH. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person or Persons shall give or grant any false Certificate for any of the Purposes required or directed by this Act, such Person or Persons shall forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, and be rendered incapable of serving His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in any Office whatsoever j and if any Person or Persons shall counterfeit, erase, alter, or falnfy any Certificate required or directed by this Act, or shall knowingly or willingly make use of any false Certificate, or of any Certificate so counterfeited, • erased, altered, or ^Isified, such Person or Persons shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds ; and every such Certificate shall be invalid and of no Effect. XXXm. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That one Moiety of the Penalties and Forfeitures inflicted by this Act (except in such Cases where other Directions are given by this Act) shall be to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to such Officer or Officers of the Customs as shall sue or prosecute for the same in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster or Dublin, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, or in any Court of Admiralty havmg Jurisdiction in His Majesty's Colonies or Islands respectively where the Offence shall be committed. XXXIV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the Penalties and Forfeitures inflicted by any Act of Parliament relating to the Trade or Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, which shall be incurred in the said Island of Newfoundland, shall be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in ■flie Court of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction in the said Island, and in no other j and if any Person or Persons shall think him or themselves aggrieved by any Judg- ment, Sentence, or Determination of any Court of Vice Admiralty, or other Court having Jurisdiction in Newfoundland, upon any Suit or Prosecution commenced there for any Penalty or Forfeiture inflicted by any Act of Parliament relating to the Trade or Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, it shall and may be lawful for such Party to appeal from such Judgment, Sentence, or Determination in the first Instance, to the proper Court of Admiralty in Great Britain, or to His Majesty in Council ; and that no Appeal shall in such Case He or be brought in any other Court or Jurisdiction whatsoever j any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Duties on Goods XXXV. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from ^orteT*to"be under ^^^ ^^^^ the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the ' Customs Forfeitures in- curred in New- foundland to be sued for in the Vice Admiralty Court in said Island. Persons aggrieved may appeafto the proper Admiralty Court in Britain. ■S 15'6£OR6Il III. Cap.40. 123 Customs and other Duties which now are or hereafter may be due and payable upon the Directions of any Goods or Merchandizes brought or imponed into, or exported or carried from ^^^ Commissioner* the Island of Newfoundland by virtue of this or any Act or Acts of Parliament, and °^ C"**""**- *'c. the Officers of His Majesty's Customs appointed for executing and carrying into Execution the several Laws relating to the Trade and Revenue there, shall be under the Management and Direction of the Conunissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England for the time being, under the Authority and Direction of the High Treasurer of Great Britain, or the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time bdng } any Law, Patent, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. XXXVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Persons sued for Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for any thing done ^"y thing done in in pursuance of this Act of Parliament, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action ^Ict^tnay^plead the or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in GenerJ issue. Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance of and by the Authority of this Act : And if \t shall appear so to have been Hone, the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants ; and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy - k .r for the same as Defendants have in other Cases by Law. u-d* I I Anno IS^'Georgii III. Cap.40. I An Act for amending and explaining an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act to establish a Fund ' towards further defraying the Charges of the Administration of ' Justice, and Support of the Civil Government, within the Province * of Quebec in America.' • ' ' ' XT THERE AS by an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, Clause in Act VV mtituled 'An Act to establish a Fund towards further defraying the '^Geo.s. recited. Charges of the Administration of Justice, and Support of the Civil Governmeut within the Province of Quebec in America, it is amongst other Things enacted, that if any Goods chargeable with any of the Duties in the said Act mentioned, shall be brought into the said Province by Land Carriage, the same shall pass and be carried through the Port of Saint John's near the River Sorrel; or if such Goods shall be brought into the said Province by any Inland Navigation, other than upon the River Saint Lawrence, the same shall pass and be carried upon the said River Sorrel by the said Port, and shall be there entered with, and the said respective Rates and Duties paid for the same, to such Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs as shall be there appointed for that Purpose ; and if any such Goods coming by Land Carriage or Inland Navigation as aforesaid shall pass by or beyond the said Place before fumed without Entry or Payment of the said Rates and Q J Duties, 124 ■■-■ V^' i''-. His Mi^Mty's Sub- jects mar bring, by Inbuid mvigfttion, bto any Parts of Quebec, not here- tofore compre- hended in the Royal Proclama- tion of October 7» 1763, any Quan- tity of luim. Brandy, &c. 16-6EORGII III. Cap. 47. * Dudes, or shaU be brought into any Part of the said Province by or through any * aA&c Place whatsoever, the said Goods shall be forfeited ; and every Person who ' shall be assisting or otherwise concerned in the brinnng or removing such Goods, ' or to whose Hands the same shall come, knowmg that they were brought or re* ' moved contrary to this Act, shall forfeit Treble the Value of such Goods ; to be ' estimated and computed according to the best Price that each respective Commodity * bears in the Town of Quebec at the Time such Offence shall be committed ; and * all the Horses, Cattle, Boats, Vessels, and other Carriages whatsoever, made use ' of in the Removal, Carriage, or Conveyance of such Goods, shall be forfeited and ' lost, and shall and may be seized by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs, and ' prosecuted as therein-suter mentioned : And whereas there is reason to apprehend ' that the Regulations and Restrictions contained in the said herein-before recited * Clause, so rar as they relate to the bringing of Rum, Brandy, or other Spirits, ' into the Province of Quebec by Land Carriage, may, without further Explanation, * operate to the Prejudice and Disadvantage of the Cdmmerce carried on with the * Indians in the upper or interior Parts of the said Province :' We Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in P^liament assembled, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it mav be enacted i and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with tne Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same^ That it shall and may be lawful to and for all His Majesty's Subjects freely to bring, carry, or convey by Land Carriage or Inland Navigation into any Parts of the Province of Quebec, not heretofore compre- hended within the Limits thereof by His Majesty's Royal Proclamation of the Seventh of October One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, any Quantity of Rum, Brandy, or other Spirits ; any thing contsdned in the before recited Act 01 Parliament to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 1/) n J*")'. w _ ''^V: >!?.:« ill; 'i> Anno 16** Georgii III. Cap.47. An Act for the further Encouragement of the Whale Fishery carried on from Great Britain and Ireland, and the British Dominions in Europe ; and for regulating the Fees to be taken by the Officers of the Customs in the Island of Newfoundland. Act 10 Geo. 3. recited. m. ' A ND whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Tenth Year of His *x\. Majesty's Reign, it is amongst other Things enacted, that for and during * the Time therein mentioned (which Act hath been since continued, and is now in * force), the Officers of His Majesty's Customs, and Naval Officers, in the British * Colonies or Plantations in America, shall be deemed to be entitled to, and shall and ' may lawfully demand and receive, such Fees as they and their Predecessors respec- * tively were and had been generally and uoually accustomed to demand, take, and ' receive before the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred ' and sixty-four, and shall have the like Remedy for the same according to the true * Intent * IS^GEORGII III. Cap. 12. 125 ^ Jesty's customs now estaousnea in tne isiana ot iNewtoundiand, not bdng * to discover and ascertain what Fees were taken and received by their PredeceMors * before the said Twenty-nmth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and * sixty-four. Doubts have arisen what Fees they are entitled to demand and recdv^ ' in pursuance of the said in part recited Act :' For Remedv whereof, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesud, That so long as the said recited Act shall be Fees to be taken continued and remain in force, the Officers of His Majesty's Customs in the said by the Officers of Island of Newfoundland shall be and are hereby declared to have been entitled to NewfouuUand. ask, demand, take, and receive such Fees for all Business done by them in the Exe- cution of their Duty, as were le^lly demanded and taken by the like Officers of the Customs at the Fort of Hali£uc m Nova Scotia, on or before the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, provided the said Fees so taken are not contrary to the express Directions of any Act of Parliament made in Great Britain ; and the said Officers of the Customs shall have the like Remedy for the same, and be liable to the same Forfeitures and Disabilities for exacting or receiving any greater or other Fees than such as are herein-before allowed to be taken, as are prescribed and inflicted in such Cases by the said recited Acts or either of them, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been again repeated and enacted in this present Act. ■- ■-■■-■,ifi^;: ■ • ■ -.• Amiol8**GEORGii III. Can. 12. An Act for removing all Doubts and Apprehensions concerning Tax- ation by the Parliament of Great Britain in any of the Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in N(Nrth America and the West Indies ; and for repealing so much of an Act, m \de in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as ii.i poses a Duty on Tea im- ported from Great Britain into any Colony or Plantation in America, or relates thereto. TT7HEREAS Taxation by the Parliament of Great Britain, for the Purpose of V V raudng a Revenue in His Majesty's Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in North America, has been found by Experience to occasion great Uneasinesses and Disorders among His Majesty's faithful Subjects, who may nevertheless be disposed to acknowledge the Justice of contributing to the common Defence of the Empire, provided such Contribution should be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of each respective Colony, Province, or Plantation : And whereas, in order as well to remove the said Uneasinesses, and to quiet the Minds of His Majesty's Subjects who may be disposed to return to their Allegiance, as to restore the Peace and Welfare of all His Majesty's Dominions, it is expedient to declare that the King and Parliament of Great Britain will not impose any Duty, Tax, or Assessment, for the Purpose of raising a ' Revenue 126 No Tax to be here- after imposed by the King and Par- liament of Great Britain on an^ of the Colonies m North America or the West Indies, except, &c. 18GEORGII 111. Cap.65. < Revenue in any of the Colonies, Provinces, or Plantations :' May it please Your Majesty that it may be declared and enacted ; and it is hereby declared and enacted by the Kine's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlianient assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing i£ this Act, the King and Parliament of Great Britain will not impose any Duty, Tax, or Assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such Duties as it may be expedient to impose for the Regulation of Commerce ; the Net Produce of such Duties to be always paid and applied to and for the Use of the Colony, Province, or Plantation in which the same shall be respectively levied, in such Manner as other Duties collected by the Authority of the respective General Courts or General Assemblies of such Colonies, Provinces, or Plantations, are ordinarily paid and applied. So much of Act H. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the ' ^*°'^fjf """ passing of this Act, so much of an Act made in the Seventh Year of His present l^^mporteVfrom Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Great Britain into America, repealed Colonies and Plantations in America j for allowmg a Drawback of the Duties of < Customs upon the Exportation from this Kingdom of Coffee and Cocoa Nuts of * the Produce of the said Colonies or Plantations ; for discontin.-ing the Drawbacks * payable on China Earthenware exported to America ; and for more effectually * preventing the clandestine Running of Goods in the said Colonies and Plantations i* as imposes a Duty on Tea imported from Great Britain into any Colony or Plantation in America, or has Relation to the said Duty, be and the same is hereby repealed. Act 15 Car. 2. recited. = Anno 18°Georgu III. Cap.55. An Act to permit the Exportation of certain Goods directly from Ire- land into any British Plantation in America, or any British Settle- ment on the Coast of Africa; and for further encouraging the Fisheries and Navigation of Ireland. TT7HEREAS by an Aft made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of King W Charles the Second, intituled * An At\ for the Encouragement of Trade,' it is among other Things enaded, that from and after the Twenty-fifth Day ot March One thousand six hundred and sixty-four, no Commodity of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Europe, shall be imported into any Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place to His Majesty belonging, or which shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs and Suc- cessors, in Asia, Africa, or America (Tangier only excepted), but what shall be bonfifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituM ' An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade ;' and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks on Exports from this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clandestine Conveyance of Qoods to and from the said Colonies and Plantations, and improving and securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain ;* it was amongst other Things enacted, that from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and sixty- four, every Person or Persons loading on board any Ship or Vessel, in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, any Rum or Spirits, Sugars or Paneles, Molasses or Syrups, as of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture of any British Colony qi Plantation, should, before the clearing out of the said Ship or Vessel, produce and deliver to the Collector or other Principal OfB^^er of the Customs at the loading Port an Affidavit to prove the said Rum or Spirits, Sugars or Paneles, Molasses or Syrups, to be the Growth, Produce, or Manu&cture of the said Colonies or Plantations, in the manner directed by the said Act ; and that such Collector or other Principal Officers of the Customs should, within Thirty Days after the sailing of the Ship or Vessel, transmit an exact Copy of the said Affidavit to the Secretary's Office for the respective Colony or Plantation where the Goods w^re shipped, on Forfeiture of Five Pounds, to be recovered in the manner directed by the said Act : And whereas, by another Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, so much of the said Act as related to Molasses or Syrups has been repealed : And whereas the Restrictions and Regulations prescribed by the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty have been found insufficient to prevent the Importation of Foreign Sugar and Paneles into this Kingdom :' For Remedy whereof, may it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Comtr.jns, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the First Day of March One thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, the Col. lector or other Principal Officer of the Customs, to whom such A^davit shall be produced 2D*0£0RGII III. Cap. 10. produced and delivered, shall (without Fee or Reward) ,within Thirty Days after the sailing of the Ship or Vessel, transmit One exact Copy of the said Affidavit, to the Secretary's Office for the respective Colony or Plantation where the Sugar or Paneles referred to in the said Aflidav'' were shipped ; and shall also, within the like Space of Thirty Days, transmit an^tner exact Copy of such Affidavit td the Justices and Vestry of the Parish and Parishes, Precinct or Precincts, where the said Suear or Paneles grew, or were produced and manufectored, on the Penalty of forfeiting Fifty Pounds for every such Omission and Neglect. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in case any Justice of the Peace of the said Colonies or Plantations shall, from and after the said First Day of March One thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, subscribe his Name to any Paper or Parchment Wrhing, purporting to be an Affidavit for the Purpose directed by the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, unless the Person or Persons purporting to make such Affidavit shall actually appear ,, ,. before him, and be sworn upon the Holy Evangelists to the Truth of the said Affidavit, that then and in every such Case every sucn Justice of the Peace shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Fifty Pounds. IV. Provided also, and it is hereby further enacted and declared by the Authority Penalties to be aforesaid, That the several Penalties herein-before mentioned shall be sued for, had, ""*** ^PT' *"'• '" ''"* recovered, distributed, and disposed of, in such and the same Manner, to all Intents ^y^^^^ mentioned and Purposes, as the several Penalties mentioned in the sJd before-mentioned Act of m the before- the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty are in and by the said Act recited Act. directed to be sued for, had, recovered, distributed, and disposed of. i i2d after ullinf of the Vessel, tranimit a Copy of the Affi- davit to :he Secre- tary's OQice for the Colony ; and another Copy to theJuDtices, £cc. of the PHrish where the Sui<«r grew, &c. on Penalty of £50. Penalty on Justices signing Affidavits before they are properly authenti- cated. .■>S*GEORG1I HI. Cap. 10. pality xA Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed : And whereas b]r another Act of Parliament made in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of the Rdgnof King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act to prevent the planting of Tobacco in England, and for regulating the Plantation Trade, it was amongst other Things enacted, that th^ Word Ireland should be left out of all such Bonds : And whereas by several subsequent Acts of Parliament made in this Kingdom, which are now in force, the said enumerated Commodities, and several other Articles which are Sarticularly enumerated in such subsequent Acts, are to be carried to some other Iritish Plantation, or to some Port in Great Britain only : And whereas by another Act of Parliament made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for the Encouragement of Trade,' no Commodity of the Growth, Production, or Manufactm. of Europe (excepting some particular Ardcles which are enumerated in that Act, and in other subsequent Acts of Par- liament which are now in force), can be imported into any Land, Island, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place belonging to or in the Possession of His Majesty, in Asia, Africa, or America, but what shall be bon& fide, and without Fraud, laden and shipped in Great Britain, in Ships navigated according to Law, and carried directly from thence, and from no other Place or Places whatsoever : And whereas by another Act of Parliament made in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, indtuled ' An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America ; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, mtituled ' An Act for the better se<:uring and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America ;' for applying the Prdouce of such Duties, and of the Duties to arise by virtue of the s-Jd Act, towards defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing th said Colonies and Plantations ; for explaining an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled * An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade ; and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks and Exports from this Kingdom, and more elFectually preventing the clandestine Conveyance of Goods to and from the said Colonies and Plantations, and improving and securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain ;' it is amongst other Things enaded, that any Officer of the Customs may stop any British Vessel arriving from any Port of Europe, which shall be discovered within Two Leagues of the Shore of the British Colonies in America, and take from thente, and seize as forfeited, any Goods (except Salt, Wities, Horses, Victuals, and Lhien Cloth, as therein particularly mentioned) for which the Master shall not produce a Cocket or Clearance from the Collector or proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs, certifying that the said Goods were laden on board the said Ship or Vessel in some Bort of Great Britain : And whereas by another Act of Parliament made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled « An Act for the further preventing His Majesty's Subjects fVom trading to the East Indies under Poreign Commissions ; and for encouraging and further securing the hwful Trade thereto ; and for further regulating the Pilots of Dover, Deal, and the Isle of Thanet,' it is amongst other Things enacted, that no Com- modity of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture of the East Indies, and other Haces beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall be imported or carried into any Land, Ifland, Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place, to His Majesty or the Crown of Greac Britain belonging, or which should thereafter belofig to His Majesty, His • Heirs It IS 30GEORG1I III. Cap. 10. 131 * Heirs and Succetaon, in Africa or America, but such only as shall be bon& fide, apd * without Fraud, loaden and shipped in Great Britain, in Ships navigated according * to Law : And whereas it is expedient to allow the Trade between Ireland and the < British Colonies in America and the West Indies, and the British Settlements on the ' Coast of Africa, to be carried on in like manner, and with equal Advantages to His * Majesty's Subjects in Ireland, as it is now carried on between Great Britain and the * said Colonies and Settlements :' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; .ind be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with th<; Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture of the British Colonies or Plantations in America or the West Indies, or of any of the Settlements belonging to Great Britain on the Coast of Africa, and which by rny Act or Acts of Parliament are required to be imported from such Colonies, Plantations, or Settle- ments, into Great Britain ; and also any other Goods, which having been in pny way legally imported into the said Colonies, Plantations, or Settlements, may now or hereafter be legally exported from thence for Great Britain, shall and may be laden in, and exported from such Colonies, Plantations, or Settlements respectively, and in ''kie manner imported directly from thenceinto the Kingdomof Ireland ; and that any Goods or Commodities of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Ireland, or of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Great Britain, legally exported from thence into Ireland, or of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of any other Part c^ Europe ; and any Goods or Commodities of the Growth, Product, or Mani^facture of the East Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, which are now Inquired by any Act of Parliament to be shipped or laden in Great Britain, to be carried directly from thence to any British Colony or Plantation in Africa or America ; as also any other Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, which now or herealte^r may be legally shipped or laden in Great Britain, to be carried directly from theocii, and imported into any Colony or Plantation in America or the West Indies, or into any British Settlement on the Coast of Africa ; shall and may be shipped and l^di^n at any Port or Place in the Kingdom of Ireland, and exported directly from thence, and in like maimer imported into any British Colony or Plantation in America or.tfae West Indies, or into any British Settlement on the Coast of Africa ; any thing in the said herein-before recited Acts, or either of them, or any other Act or Acts of Parlia- ment made in Great Britain, or any Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding ; subject nevertheless to the Conditions herein-after expressed. III. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That during the Part of the reoite d Continuance of this Act, so much of the- herein-before recited Act, made in the Act 22 & 23 Car. 2. Twenty-second and Twenty-third Tears of the Reign of King Charles fhe Second, as ™P'"*'*''' directs or requires the word Ireland to be left out of any Bond taken for any Ship or Vessel that shall load any enumerated Commodities in any British Plantation in America, Asia, or Africa, shall be and the same is hereby repealed and made void ; any thing in the said recited Act, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament, to the con^ trary notwithstanding. IV. And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That so much of the Act Ckmse rektinir to of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign as is herein-before recited shall the recited A. i not extend or be construed to extend to subject to Seizure and Forfeiture any Goods, ^*'' ^' R 2 Wares, Anv Good* which muy br legiJlv ln»- purtcU rrum Brititli America, or the British .'ettleiuenls on the Coast of Africa, into Gr«ac Britain, iqay in like manner be imported directly from the sa'id Set- tlements, ^c. into Ireland ; and any Goods which may be legally expurtt-d from GrcHt Britain to British America or the said SMtle- ments, may b* exported dirMtly from Irelaniti) •: the a«me I>las(p. l3f This Act not to reitnin any Liberty of Export to, or Import from, America or Africa, {ranted to the rish by any former Act. NoPeraon to trade to an^ Colony in America whilst ■uob Trade i> pro- hihited by Act of I'arliamcnt. ^'i-GEORGIl 111. Cttp.7B. Waros or Merchandize, which by this Act, or by anv other Actor Acts of ParKa* ment, may now or hereafter be Ic^ly imported from Ireland into any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, or any British Settlement on the Coast of Africa ; provided the Master or other Person taking the Charge of the Ship or Vessel carrying such Goods shall produce a Cocket or Cockeu, Clearance or Clearances, from the proper Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs, certifying that the siiid Goods were laden on board the said Ship or Vessel in some Port of Great Britain, or in •ome Port of Ireland respectively. ^ ,. „ , VI. Provided always, and be it declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That nothing herein be at* after belonging to the Crown of Great Britain shall be granted or granuble by f"^f^ ' rMtrirteS. Patent for any longer Term than during buch Time as the Grantee thereof, or Person appointed thereto, shall discharge the Duty thereof in Person, and behave well therein. 1 T' II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, Th^t if any Person or Oovernor and Persons holding such Office shall be wilfully absent from the Colony or Plantation q'^^'""" "'■?■■»•»• wherein the same is or ought to be exercised, without a reasonable Cause to be lect^f'Duty •*^' allowed by the Governor and Council for the time being of such Colony or Plant- ation,^r shall neglect the Duty of such Office, or otherwise misbehave thesein, it shall and mav be lawful to and for such Governor and Council to amove such Person ». or Persons from every or any such Office ; and in case any Person or Persons so amoved shall think himself aggrieved thereby, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Person or Persons so aggrieved to appeal therefrom, as in other Cases of Appeal from such Colony or Plantation, whereon such Amotion shall be finally judged of and determined by His Majesty in Council, t,.'.^ t - /, ■-}..-■.'■■■ . . III. Provided always, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Council of andmnymnt any Colony or Plantation to give such Leave of Absence as they shall see Occasion j ^"'" of Abtence. and in such Case, as likewise in the Case of Vacancy occasioned by Death or Amotion, to provide for the due Discharge of the Duties of such Office or Offices until the King's Pleasure shall be kivvjwn, .7 IV. Provided als<.>. That nothing herein contained shall operate to the Prejudice of Subsisting Grants any subsisting Grant of such Office or Offices, or to prevent any Office being granted no**»beprejudiced determinable ai Pleasure. . y. ■" « • I Anno23°GEORGii III. Cap. 79^ An Act for the further encouraging the Growth of Coffee and Cocoa ^ Nuts in His Majesty's Islands and Plantations in America. VII. A ND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after -Tx the said Fifth Day of January no Cocoa Nuts shall be suffered to be put on board any Ship or Vessel in any of His Majesty's Islands or Hantations in America, until the Planter or Grower of such Cocoa Nuts, or his known Agent, shall make Oath or Affirmation in Writing before Two of His Majesty's Justices of the.P6ace m From January 5, , 1 784, no Cocoa Nuts to be put on board any Vessel in the British Islands. &c. in America, unti) the Planter ibercof 194 huiiMul«Oftth that they are the Produce of his own Plantation. Such Oath to be produced to the proper Officer be- fore Entrr of the Nute, ana another Oath to be taken. Master of the Ves- sel also sworn. Certificates of such Affidafvitstobe ■piaiuced to the proper Officer at the Port of Im- portation. Upon Entry of such Nuts At the Custom-house, each Parcel shall be marked, to de- note they are the Grewth of the British Plantations, 2S*GEORGII III. Cap. 79. in or new to the Place where the said Cocoa Nuts grew (which Oath or Affirmation such Justices are herdij empowered to administer), that the same is actually of the Growth and Produce of such Planter's or Grower's Plantation, lying in the District, DiTisiop, or Parish of , within the Island or Colony of ; which Oath or Affirmation shall be produced tc the Collector, Comptroller, and Nayal Officer, or any of them, by the Person or Persons who shall enter or ship such Cocoa Nuts, before the Entry and Shipping thereof for Great Britain ; and such Person or Persons shall likewise make Oath or Affirmation before the said Officers, or any two of them, that the Cocoa Nuts then to be shipped are the very same Cocoa Nuts, and no other than what are mentioned in such Oath or Affirmation of the Planter or Grower, or his known Agent, as aforesaid ; which Oath or Affirmation the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs, and Naval Officer, at the Port where the said Cocoa Nuts are to be loaded, or any two of them, are einpowered to ad- mimster ; and the said Collector and Comptroller, and Naval Officer, are hereby required to deliver a Certificate of such Affidavit or Affirmation, under their respec- tive Hands and Seals, to the Commander or Master of such Ship or Vessel on board of which the said Cocoa Nuts are to be shipped ; and the Master or Person having Command of such Ship or Vessel shall, before clearing his Ship or Vessel, also* make Oath in like manner that he has received such Cocoa Nuts on board his Ship or Vessel, and that he has no more or other Cocoa Nuts on board his Ship or Vessel than such for which Proofs shall be made as afoMsaid, and that he will not take or receive any more Cocoa Nuts on board before his Arrival in Great Britain, and making a Report of his Lading there ; for which Affidavit or Affirmation and Cer- tificate, the said Collector and Comptroller, or Naval Officer, shall receive, as a Fee or Reward, the Sum of Five Shillmgs and no more ; and all Certificates of such Affi- davits or Affirmations shall, by the Commander or Master of such Ship or Vessel importing such Cocoa Nuts into this Kin(;dom, be produced by such Master, or Person having Command of the Ship or Vessel, to the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port where such Ship shall imlade, at the Time of making his Report; and shall at the same Time deliver to such Collector and Comptroller a Certificate imder the Hands and Seals of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs, and Naval Officer, of the Port or Place where such Cocoa Nuts shall have been shipped, or any two of them, testifying the particular Quantities of such Cocoa Nuts which shall be so laden, and of which such Proofs shall be made as aforesaid, specifying the Package or Packages in which the same is contained, with the particular Marks, Numbers, and Weights of each Package ; and the said Master shall likewise make Oath, or, if he be one of the People called Quakers, solemnly affirm before them, that the Cocoa Nuts in the said Certificate or Certificates mentioned were truly taken on board as in the said Certificate or Certificates is expressed ; and that, after his Departure from the Place or Places where such Cocoa Nuts mentioned in such Cer- tificate or Certificates were laden, he did not take on board, or permit to be laden on board his said Ship or Vessel, either at Sea or elsewhere, any Parcel or Parcels of Cocoa Nuts, and that all the Cocoa Nuts on board his said Ship are mentioned and set forth in the said Certificate or Certificates ; and upon the Entry of such Cocoa Nuts at the Custom-house, and paying or securing the several Duties then forge or counterfeit a Certificate of the said Oath or Affirmation, or shall publish such . tificate, &c. Certificate, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, and shaU be legally con- victed thereof in any of the Courts aforesaid, such Person shall forfeit the Sum of shall forfeit jUiQO. Two hundred Pounds ; and such Forfeiture shall be paid, one Moiety to His Majesty, and the other Moiety to the Person or Persons who shall inform and sue for the same, to be recovered and divided as is before directed and appointed. XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Action or Limitation of Suit shall be brought or commenced against any Person or Persons for any Matter or Actions. Thing by him or them done or executed by virtue of or in pursuance of this Act, such Penalty on Gom- nianders who shall take on board or land in America, &c. any Cocoa Nuts of Foreign Growth. Exception. Application of. Penakici. 136 Gtnend Imu«. Treble Cosu. 2e»GEORGII III. Cap. 26. 'snch Actbn or Suit shall be commenced within Three Months next after the Matter or Thing done, and shall be laid in the proper County ; and the Defendant or De- fendants in such Action or Suit shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereon, and that the same was done in pursuance of and by the Authority of tiiis Act ; and if afterwards a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuited, or discontinue his, her, or their Action or Prosecution, or Judg- ment shall be given against him, her, or them, upon Demurrer or otherwise, then such Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs awarded to him or them against csuch Plaindff or Plaintiffs. ■JXt'jt^ :iK IFishermen at New- foundland not to sell or barter any Vessel, &c. toor with any Foreigner. ^^^;;^ Annoae'^GEORGii III. Cap. 26. An Act to amend and render more effectual the several Laws now in „ force for encouraging the Fisheries carried on at Newfoundland, and Parts adjacentj, from Great Britain, Ireland, and the Britisli Dominions in Europe ; and for granting Bounties, for a limited Time, on certain Terms and Conditions. .-, ; . > r- , ; x. XIV. ' A ND whereas it is of great Importance to the Trade, Manufificture, and *jl\. Navigation of Great Britain, and of His Majesty's Dominions in Europe, < that all Trade and mercantile Intercourse between His Majesty's Subjects, residing < or carrying on Fishery in the Island of Newfoundland with the Subjects of any < Foreign State, should be prohibited : And whereas it is essentially necessary to the '* Preservation of the Benefits arising from the Fishery aforesaid, to prevent the Sale ■* of any Ships, Vessels, or Boats, or of the Tackle, Apparel, or Furniture of the same, * and of all and all manner of Utensils and Implements which are or may be used < in catching and curing Fish, and also of all Articles and Commodities of the * Growth, Produce, and Manu&cture of the said Island of Newfoundland, to < the Subjects of any Foreign State, or to any other than the Subjects of His * Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and also to prohibit the Purchase of any * Goods or Cpmmodides whatsoever from the Subjects of any Fordgn State;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons residing in or carrying on Fishery in the said Island of New- foundland, or on the Banks thereof, there to sell, barter, or exchange any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, of what Kind or Description soever, or any Tackle, Apparel, or Furniture, used or which may be used by any Ship, Vessel, or Boat ; or any Seans, Uets, or other. Implements or Utensils, used or which may be used in catching or curing Fish, or any Kind of Bait whatsoever, used or which may be used in the <:atchmg of Fish ; or any Kind of Fish, Oil, Blubber, Seal Skins, Peltry, Fuel, Wood, or Timber, to or with any Person or Persons whatsoever, other than the Subjects of tiis Majesty, His Heirs and Successors. XV; And Mr 26*6£ORGII III. Cap.96. 137 XV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person or Offimden herda Persons residing or carrying on Fishery in the said Island of Newfoundland, shall *<> ^^ ^'''"*"**'*'* there sell, barter, or exchange, or cause to be sold, bartered, or exchanged, or shall endeavour to sell, barter, or exchange, or shall be aiding or assisting in selling, bartering, or exchanging, or causing to be sold, bartered, or exchanged, any sudi Ship, Vessel, Boat, or any Tackle, Apparel, or Furniture used or which may be used for the Purpose of navigating any Ship, Vessel, or Boat ; or any Seans, Nets, or other Implements or Utensils, used or which may be used in catching or curing Fish ; or ''. ' any Kind of Bait whatsoever used or which may be used in catchmg Fish ; or any '-' Fish, Oil, Blubber, Seal Skins, Fuel, Wood, or Timber, to any Person or Persons, bemg the Subjects of any Foreign State, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Governor of Newfoundland, or his Surrogates, or for any Justice of the Peace'in Newfoundland, to issue his or their Warrant or Warrants to apprehend every such Offender, and on the Oath of one or more credible Wimess or Wimesses, ta commit him to Prison, there to remain until the next Court of Session which shall be h<^en in pursuance of the Commission of the said Governor for the time being ; and aU and every such Person or Persons, if found guilty of the said Offence at such Session, shall forieit and pay Treble the Value of the Articles so sold or caused to be sold, or attempted to be sold as aforesaid, or bartered or taken in Exchange, or in the selline, bartering, or exchanging of which, or causing to be sold, bartered, or exchanged, sucn Person or Persons was or were aiding or assisting, and the same shall be levied of ( Offender's Goods and Chattels, by Warrant to be granted by the said Court of o<:i.'^ for that Purpose; and in case no Goods upon which such Distress can be ■'i-\i-\. »hall be foimd, then it shall and may be lawful for the said Court to order such Person or Persons to be punished and dealt with in the same Manner as is herdn> before directed with respect to Deserters or Persons agreeing to deserts. XVI. ' And whereas it is highly injurious to the Trade and Manu&ctures of His- * Majesty's Dominions in Europe, that Persons residing or carrying on Fishery in the * Island of Newfoundland, or Parts adjacent, or on the Banks of the said Island of * Newfoundland, should be supplied with any Goods or Commodities whatsoever * by the Subjects of any Foreign State ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, I'hat no Person or Persons residing or carrying; on Fishery in the Island of Newfoundland, or Parts adjacent, or on the Banks of the said Island of Newfound- land, shall there purchase or take in Exchange or by way of Barter, or cause to be purchased or taken in Exchange or by way of Barter, or be aiding or assisting in the purchasing, bartering for, or taking in Exchange, any Goods^or Commodities what- soever, from any Person or Persons being a Subject or Subjects of any Foreign State; and that every Person or Persons residing or carrying on Fishery in the said Island of Newfoundland, or Parts adjacent, or on the Banks of the said Island of Newfoundland, who shall there purchase, barter for, or take in Exchange, or shall cause to be^ pur- chased, bartered for, or taken in Exchange, any such Goods or Commodities in manner aforesaid, shall be apprehended and committed to Prison, and, on due Con- viction before the Court of Session, shall forfeit Treble the Value of such Goods or Commodities so purchased or taken in Barter or Exchange, or procured to be pur- chased or taken in Barter or Exchange, or in the Purchase, Barter, or taking of. which in Exchange such Person shall have been aiding or assisting ; and the s»ine shall be levied of the Offender's Goods and Chattels by Warrant to be granted by S the Such Fishernwn not to purchase any Goods of, oi to barter with Foreigners for the same. Oi&nders to be committed, and to forfeit TreUe^ the Value of thee I>np<»^^o» slirued' to extend ^ hinder or prevent Bread, Flom, Indian Com, and Live Stock, of Bread, &c. f^^ |^^ imponed into the said Island of Newfoundland in certain British Vessels, in punuanoe st, and shall and maiy be prosecuted for that Purpose by the Officer or Officers so seizing the same, in the Vice Admiralty Court of the said Island of Newfoundland ; such Forfeiture to be given, one Moiety to the said Officer or Officers, and the other Moiety to the- Governor of Newfoundland for the rime being, to be applied, under the Direction of such Governor, in defraying the Passages home of such Person or Persons as by this or any former Act are directed to be sent back to the Country to which they belong. XXI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in case any Libel, Clau&a relative to Information, or other Suit or Proceeding whatsoever, shall be commenced and ®'"'* '" Newfound- brought to Trial in the Court of Vice Admiralty in the said Island of Newfoundland, j^e Seizweof"' on account of the Seizure of any Ship, Ve'ssel, Boat, or Goods, for the Condemnation Vessels, &c. of the same, for any of the Causes herein-before mentioned, wherein a Decree shall be pronounced for or in fevour of the Defendant or DiefendantB, Claimer or Claimers thereof, and it shaii appear to the Judge or Court before whom, the same shall be tried, that there was a probable Cause for seizing the said Ship, Vessel, Boat, or Goods, the Judge before whom the said Cause shall be tried ^all certify on the Record that there was a probable Cause for the seizing of the said Ship, Vessel, Boat,, or Goods ; a Copy of which Certificate shall be delivered to the Prosecutor under the Hands and Seals of such Judge or Judges ; and that in such Case the Defendant shall not be entitled to any Costs of Suit whatsoever, nor shall the Person or Persons who seized such Ship, Vessel, Boat, or Goods, be liable to any Action, Indictment, or other Prosecution, on account of such Seizure ; and that if any Action, Indictment, jot Prosecution shall be brought or preferred agauist any Person or Persons, who shall have obtamed such Copy of such Certificate as aforesaid, in any of His Majesty's Courts in Great Britain, such Copy shall be admitted in Evidence on behalf of the Defendant or Defendants, and shall have the like Force and Effect as the Certificate on Record would have had in the Case of such Action, Indictment, or other Prose- cution, being brought or preferred in the Island of Newfoundland. XXII. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Action, Plaintiff gainiDg a Indictment, or other Prosecution, shall be commenced and brought to Trial against Je ent?tlS to""* any Person or Persons whatsoever, on account of the Seizure of any such Ship, cosu, if there was S a Vessel, probable Cause ■'f Stizure. 140 Limiution ttf Aetioiia. .. . . General Issue. Treble Costs. Fines and forfeited Goods, &c. how to be applied. 26*G£OR6ri HI. €8^.26. 'Vessel, Boat, or Goods, wherein a Verdict shall be given against the Defendant or Dbfendants, if the Court or Judge before whom such Action or Prosecution shall be tried, shall certify on the Record that there was a probable Cause of suth Seizure, that the PlaindflF, braides his Ship, Vessel, Boat, or Goods so seized, or the Value thereof, shall not be entitled to above Two*pence Damages, nor to any Costs of Suit, nor shall the Defendant in such Prosecution be fined above One Shilhng. XXm. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Person or Persons shall at any Time or Times be sued or prosecuted for any thing by him or them done or executed in pursuance of or by colour of this Act, or of any Matter or Thing in this Act contained, such Action or Prosecution shall be commenced within the Space of Three Months after the Offence shall have , been committed ; and in case the Person or Persons making such Seizure as aforesaid shall have quitted the said Island of Newfoundland before the Expiration of Three Months from the Time of the Offence committed, then that such Action or Prosecution shall be commenced within Three Months after his or their Return to Great Britain ■; and. such Person ot Persons shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence for his and their Defence, and that the same was done in Prosecution and by Authority of the said Act : And if it shall appear so to have been done, then the Court shall adjudge and decree, or the Jury shall find, in the Courts of Great Britain or Newtoundland respectively, ibr the Defendant or Defendants } and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his Action, Libel, or other Proceedings, m the Courts of Great Britain or Newfoimdland, after the Defendant or Defendants hath or have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as the Defendant or Defendants hath or have in other Cases by Law. % *, ,■' - ■- - XXIV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every the Fines or Penalties inflicted by this Act, or by the Acts herein-before recited, and to be levied upon the Seamen or Fishermen, except those for Neglect of Duty ; and that such Ships, Vessels, or Goods, as shall be seized, condemned, and forfeited as before mendontid: except such the Distribution whereof is otherwise directed by this Act, shall be given, one Moiety to the Informer, and the other Moiety to the Governor of Newfoundland for the time bemg, to be applied, under the Direction of such Governor, m defraying the Passages home of such Person or Persons as by this or any former Act are directed to be sent back to the Cctmtry to which Aey belong. ■r.:-i.t.tr>:].t^l-r^ -fvj r"i; li^-^-'i 26*GEOR6II III. Cap. 40. 141 •',v> ,; . ^ • XXXIII. * And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Jict for the further Improvement of His Majesty's Revenue of Customs : and for the Encouragement of Officers making Seizures ; and for the Prevention of the clandestine Running of Goods into any Part of His Majesty's Dominions ;' it ^ amongst other Things enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs to cause all Ships, Vessels, and Boats, and all Goods, of what Kind soever they may be (excepting only such Vessels, Boats, and Goods as are by Law liable to be burnt), which shall be seized by any Officers of .the Customs for unlawful Importation,* or for Nonpayment of Duties, or for any other Cause of Forfeiture, and condemned according to Law, to be sold publicly to the best Bidder, at such Places as the said Commissioners shall think proper : And whereas by an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reigu if His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America ; for continumg, amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled ' An Act for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America ;' for applying the Produce of such Duties, and of the Duties to arise by virtue of the said Act, towards defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing tiie said Colonies and Plantations ; for explaining an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled * An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade ;' and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks on Exports from this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clandestine Conveyance of Goods to and from the said Colonies and Plantations, and improving aiid securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain ;' it is amongst otl^er Things enacted, That all Forfeitures and Penalties inflicted by that or any other Act or Acts ()f Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in .i\ ^nerica, which shall be incurred there, shall and may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered in any Court of Record, or in any Court of Admiralty, in the said Colonies or Plaiitations where such Offence shall be com- mitted, or in the Court of Vice Admiralty which may or shall be appointed over all America j which Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty are thereby respectively authorized and required to proceed, hear, and detern^ne the same, at the Election » of le com- d over actively lection » of *i^ ^GEORGII III. Cop. 601 143 of thcf bdixwM or ProMeutor ; but the said last-recited Act not hAvbg given any * Directions by whom Ships and Goods so sdzed and prosecuted in the said Britikn y ■ * Colonien cr Plantations shall be sold after the Condemnation thereof, and it bring '' * expedient that the same should be sold by the Officers of His Majesty's RevenuLi < in like manner as they are sold in Great Britain :' In order therefore to obviate any Doubts that have arisen or may arise in such. Cases, it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One From September thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.'^ll Ships and Vessels, and all Goods, of W* 1786. all Vcs- what Kind soever they may be, which shall l)e seized in pursuance of any Act or .* *," „^°." „ Acts niade m Great Britain relative to the Trade and Revenue of the said British demne'i in the Colonies or Plantations, and wMch shall be condemned there, in any Court having Hritish Colonies in Jurisdiction to try and determine the same, shall be sold by public Auction to the America, shall be best Bidder, at the Custom-house, by the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal pubUcAuction. Officer ot" ^he Customs for the Island, Colony, or Plantation in whose Custody such Ship, Vessel, or Goods shall be lodged and secured j and the Produce of such Sale shall be accounted for and applied by such CoUectorand Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs, according to Law, subject to the Orders and Directions of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England, or any Four or more of them ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Anno26"GEORGii III. Cup.6t), /^' * An Act for the further Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation. k:, ^ W^^ -^ ■•; !?«9B VK^ X*.t ^ V u<.A'a/ :i^ >o iK Vv>l?Vi i i ,<.^_; e/ « TT7HEREAS the Wealth and Strength of this Kingdom, and the Prosperity V//Ui^' * W and Safety of every Part of the British Empire, greatly depend on the ' Encouragement given to Shipping and Navigation : And whereas it is proper that * the Advantages hitherto given by the Legislature to Ships owned and navigated by * His Majesty's Subjects should from thencefortb be confined to Ships wholly built * and fitted out iii His Majesty's Dominions:' Beit therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That fi-om and after the First Day of August One thousand From August i, seven hundred and eighty-six, no Ship or Vessel Fcreign-built (except such Ships 1786, no Ship built or Vessels as have been or shall hereafter be taken by any of His Majesty's Ships unv^s Dominions, or Vessels of Wat, or by any private or other Ship or Vessel, and condemned as except Prizes, shall lawful Prize in any Court of Admiralty), nor any Ship or Vessel built or rebuilt be entitled to the upcTi any Foreign-made Keel or Bottom, in the manner heretofore practised and S"''.''f^o*h-'^''h allowed, although owned by British Subjects, and navigated according to Law, -^wl^ Ships "* shall be any longer entitled to any of the Privileges or Advantages of a British- built before May I « built Ship, or of a Ship owned by British Subjects ; and that all the said Privileges 1786, not hereby and Advantages shall hereafter be confined to such Ships only as are wholly J^ ''p^^^emh'^ of the Built of (Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man, or ^^^ e"rovf&c. ^^ of some of the Colonies Plantations, Islands, or Territories in Asia, Africa, or America, -, >-> / lU No Ship rebuilt, or where KepairB ex- ceed ISs. per Ton in a Foreign Port, to be deemed British-built. .26'GE0)IGI1 III. Cap. 60. America, which now belong, or at the Time of building such Ship« or Veateh did belong, or which may hereaf cer belong to, or be in the Puf session of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors : Provided always, that nothing herein-before contained i»hall extend or be construed to extend to prohibit such Foreign-built Ships or Vessels only as, before the First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty six, did truly and without Fraud wholly belong to any of the People of Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man, or of any of the aforesaid Colonies, Plant* ations, Islands, ur Territories, as the Proprietors and right Owners thereof, and which shall be navigated according to Law, and shall also be registered in manner herein-after directed, from continuing to enjoy the Privileges and Advantages they have hitherto enjoyed, or from importing or exporting such Goods or Commodities as may now be legally imported or exported by such Ships or Vessels into and from such Ports and Places as is now by Law allowed, and under such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as have heretofore been made touching such Foreign-built Ships or Vessels, and subject and liable to all such Duties as have been imposeid on any Goods or Commodities imported or exported as aforesaid in such Foreign-built Ships or Vessels by any Act or Acts of Parliament : And provided also, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to deprive any Ship or Vessel which before the passing of this Act hath been built t>r rebuilt upon any Foreign-made Keel or Bottom, and which before the said First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six was duly registered as a British Ship, from continuing to enjoy any Privilege or Advantage to whicn such Ship or Vessel is now by any Law or Usage entitled ; nor to prevent any such Ship or Vessel which shall have been begun to be repaired or rebuilt before the said First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, from being registered according to and in pursuance of this Act, by an Order under the Hands of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Csutoms in England, or any Four or more of them, or of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in Scotland, or any Three or more of them ; which Order the said Commissioners respectively are hereby authorized and empowered to grant, if it shall be made appear to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners respectively upon Oath, that such Ship or Vessel was stranded by the Act of Providence, and not with a fraudulent Intent, and was at the Time of being so stranded, the sole Property of some Foreigner or Foreigners ; or that such Ship or Vessel was a Droit of Admiralty, and it be in like manner fully and clearly ascertained to the Satisfaction of such Commissioners respectively, that the said Ship or Vessel, from the Damage received by being so stranded, was rendered unfit to pro- ceed to Sea without undergoing a thorough Repair in this Kingdon, and that she was necessarily sold for the Benefit of the Foreign Owner or Owners, or, being a Droit of Admiralty, was sold by virtue and under the Authority of an Order or Commission from the Court of Admiralty, and that she was fairly and openly purchased by a British Subject or Subjects, and, being the sole and entire Property of such Brirish Subject or Subjects, that she hath been so much repaired that Two-thirds of her at the least are of British-built. U. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That from and after the Krst Day of August One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, no Ship or Vessel shall be deemed or taken to be British-built, or enjoy the Privileges thereunto be- longing, which shall from thenceforth be rebuilt or repaired in any Foreign Port or Place, if such Repairs shall exceed the Sum of Fifteen Shillings for every Ton of the said Ship or Vessel according to the Admeasurement thereof, unless such Repairs shall be ■7 2fl*GEORGll III. Cap.60. y^-.... D be necemnr bjr rcMon of extraordinary Damage auitained by sovii'Ship or Vosel during the Absence of such Ship or Vessel from His Majesty's Dominions^ to enable her to perform the Voyage in which she shall be then engaged, and to return in Safety to some Port or Place of the said Dominions ; and tnat before such Ship or Vessel shall be repaired, so as to exceed the Sum aforesaid, the Master or other Person having or taking the Chaive or Command of such Ship or Vessel shall report the State and Condition thereof upon Oath, or (being a Quaker) upon AiSrmation, to the British Consul or other Chief British Officer, if there shall be such Consul or Officer at the Port where it shall be necessary to repair such Ship or Vessel, and shall cause such Ship or Vessel to be surveyed by Two nt and proper Persons^ to be approved of by such Consul or Chief British Omcer ; and shall deliver to such Consul or Chief British Officer, in Writing, the Particulars of the Damage sustained by such Ship or Vessel, and shall verify upon Oath, or (being a Quaker) upon Affirmation (to be administered by such Consul or Chief British Officer), the Particulars and Amount of tlie Repairs o\ such Ship or Vessel ; and that the same were become necessary in consequence of Damage sustained durine the Voyage to that Port, to enable such Ship or Vessel to prosecute the Voyage then intended, and to return to some Port or Place of His Majesty's Dominions, which the said Consul or Chief British Officer is hereby required to certify under his Hand and Seal ; and if there shall not be any British Consul, or Chief British Officer, resident at or near the Port or Place where such Repairs may be necessary, then that such Survey shall be made by Two fit and proper Persons, to be approved of by Two known British Merchants residing at or near such Port or Place ; and that such Master or other Person having or takmg the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel shall produce to such Merchants as aforesaid Vouchers of the Particulars and Amount of the Repairs of such Ship or Vessef, whose Certificate of the same shall be of the like Force and Effect as that of the British Consul, or Chief British Officer .esident in any Foreign Port or Place ; and in case any Ship or Vessel shall, after tht said First Day of August One thousand seven hundrecl and eighty-six, be repaired in any Foreign Port or Place, the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command thereof shall make Proof on Oath, or (if a Quaker) by Affirmation, before the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs in the Port of His Majesty's Dominions where the said Ship or Vessel may first arrive (if required by them so to do ; which Oath or Affirmation the said Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer, or either of them, is and are hereby authorized and empowered to administer), describing the Nature and Amount of the Charge or Expence of such Repairs ; and if such Charge or Expence shall appear to exceed the before mentioned Sum of Fifteen Shillings for every Ton of the Admeasurement of such Ship or Vessel, and the said Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall neglect or refuse to deliver to such Collector and Comptroller, or Principal Officer of the Customs, or to One of them, the Certificate so required to be produced in such Cases as aforesaid, the said Ship or Vessel shall be deemed and taken to be a Foreign-built Ship or Vessel to all Intents and Purposes whatever. 14A Bioeptlon In favour of mtraordinarr DtinagM tiuuinetl OQ Voyogei. Expences of Re- pairs to be certified on Arrival to an Offiner of the Customs. in. ' And whereas it is highly expedient that the Provisions made for the Registry of Ships and Vessels by an Act made and passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Third, intituled * An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade,' should be altered and amended^ and that the same should be extended and applied to Ships t * and Provisions of Act 7 & 8 VV. 3. c. 22. to be extended to Vessels of Fifteen Tons and upwards, and Certificates of Registry obtained. 146 ^ u / Certificate of Britiih Kejfittry >; / 7 f./U./f^. / No Registry made, Hk. but at the Port to which a Vessel belongs, except for Prizes condemned at .Guernsey, &c. unlets authorized by the Commis- Aioners of the Customs. 26* GEO KG 11 111. t>ap.60. < and VcsiwU other than those which are therein particularly describvU }' be it there« fure enacted. That all and every Ship or Vessel having a Deck, nr being of the Burtheu of Fifteen Toiia or upwards, bt-ionging to any ot His Maji-tity's Subjects in Great Britain, or Guernsey, Jersey, and the isle of Man, or of any of tnc aforesaid Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories, shall, from and after the respective Times herein- after expressed, be registered in manner herein.aftc>r mentioned ; and that the Person or Persons claiming Property therein bhall cause the same to be registered, and shall obtain a Certificate of such Registry from the Collector and Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs in Great Britain or the Isle of Man, or from the Governor, Lieu- tenant r,overnor, or Commander in Chief, and Principal Officer or Officers of Hin Majesty » Revenue of Customs residing in the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or in any of the said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories respectively in manner herein-after directed ; and that the Form of such Certificate shall be as follows ; videlicet, IN pursuance of an Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled ' An Act [here insert the Title of the Act, the Names, Occupation, and Residence of the subscribing Owners] having taktin and ' subscribed the Oath required by this Act, and having sworn that he [or they J ' together with [Names, Occupation, and Residence of non-subscribing Owners] is ' [or are] sole Owner for Owners] of th6 Ship or Vessel called i'he [Ship's Name] ' of [Place to which the Vessel belongs], whereof [Master's Name] is at present • Master, and that the said Ship or Vessel was [when and where built or captured, ' and Date of Condemnation] ; and [Name and Employment of the surveying ' Officer] having certified to us that the said Ship or V "^sel is [whether British, ' Foreign, or British Plantation Built], has [Number of Decks] Decks, and [Number • of Masts] Masts, that her Length, from the Fore Part of the Main Stem to the After • Part of the Stern Post aloft, is [Number of Feet and Inches], her Breadth at the • broadest Part, whether above or below the Main Wales [Number of Feet and • Inches], her Height between Decks [Number of Feet and Inches, if more than One ' Deck, and if not, then the Depth of the Hold [Number of Feet and Inches], and ' admeasures [Burthen] Tons, that she is a [Kind of Vessel, and how built], has • [whether any or no Gallery] Gallery and [Kind of Head, if any] Head ; and the ' said subscribing Owners having consented and agreed to the above Description • and Admeasurement, and having caused sufficient Security to be given, as is required • by the said Act, the said [Kind and Name of the Vessel] has been duly registered • at the Port of [Name of the I*ort.] ' Given under our Hands and Seals of Office, at the Custom-house in the said • Port of [Name of the Port], this [Date] Day of [Name of the Month], in * the Year [Words at Length.'] IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no such Registry shall hereafter be made, or Certificate thereof granted by any Person or Persons herein- before authorized to make such Registry, and grant such Certificate, in any other Port or Place than the Port or Place to which such Ship or Vessel shall properly belong, except so far as relates to such Ships or Vessels as shall be condemned as Prizes in any of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, which Ships or Vessels shall in future be registered in manner herein-after directed ; but that all and every Registry and Certificate granted in any Port or Place to which any such Ship, or Vessel does except Partner in any House or Copartnership actually carrying on Trade in Great Britain Factory, &e. or Ireland. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That so much of the Oath required by said recited Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of thu Reign of His late the recited Act of Majesty King William the Third, as directs the Oath therein contained to be taken on ^^ ' '*' "■^Fa'^"' registering the Ships and Vessels therein described, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. T 2 X. And " i^^/^Ai cct/^' ■'' 148 No Registry to b« made, &c. till the following Oath be talcen. i Sfi-GEORGII III. Cap. 60. X. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Reg^ry shall henceforth be nude, or Certificate granted, until the following Oath be taken aad subscribed before the Person or Persons herein-before authorized to make such Registry, and grant such Certificate respectively, (which they are hereby re^ctively empowered to administer), by the Owner of sucn Ship or Vessel, if such Ship or Vessel is owned by or belongs to One Person only ; or, in case there shall be Twa joint Owners, then by both of such joint Owners, if both shall be resident within Twenty Miles of the Port or Place where such Register is required, or by One of such Owners, if one or both of them shall be resident at a greater Distance from such Port or Place ; or if the Number of such Owners or Proprietors shall exceed Two, then by the greater Part of the Number of such Owners or Proprietors, if the greater Number of them shall be resident within Twenty Miles of such Port or Place as afore- said, not in any Case exceeding Three of such Owners or Proprietors, or by One of such Owners, if all shall be resident at a greater Distance. ' T A. B. of [Place of Residence and Occupation] do make Oath, That the Ship or JL Vessel [Name] of [Port or Place] whereof [Master's Name] is at present Master, being [Kind of Built, Burthen, et cetera, as described in the Certificate df the sur- veying Officer] was [when and where built, or if Prize, Capture, and Condemna^ tion] and that I the said A. B. [and the other Owners Names and Occupations, if any, and where they respectively reside, videlicet. Town, Place, or Parish, and County, or if Member of and resident in any Factory in Foreign Parts, or in any Foreign Town or City, being an Agent for or Partner in any House or Copartner- ship actually carrying on Trade in Great Britain or Ireland, the Name of such Factory, Foreign Town, or City, and the Names of such House or Copartnership] am [or are] sole Owner [or Owners] of the said Vessel, and that no other Person or Persons whatever hath or have any Right, Title, Interest, Share, or Property therein or thereto ; and that I the said A. B. [and the said other Owners, if any] am [or are] truly and bona fide a Subject [or Subjects] of Great Britain; and that I the said A. B. have not [nor have any of the other Owners, to the best of my Know- ledge and Belief] taken the Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign State whatever [except under the Terms of some Capitulation, describing the Particulars thoreof], or that since my taking [or his or their taking] the Oath of Allegiance to [naming the Foreign States resp>ectively to which he or any of the said Owners shall have taken the same] and prior to the passing of an Act in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, (intituled ' An Act for the further Increase and En- couragement of Shipping and Navigation), I have [or he or they hath or bavej become a Subject [or Subjects] of Great Britain, [either by His Majesty's Letters Patent, as a Denizen or Denizens, or naturalized by Act of Parliament, as the Case may be, naming the Dates of the Letters of Denization, or the Act or Acts of Par- liament for Naturalization respectively] or [as the Case may be] I have [or he or they hath or have] become a Denizen [or Denizens, or naturalized Subject or Subjects, as the Case may be] of Great Britain, by His Majesty's Letters Patent, or by an Act of Parliament passed since the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, [naming the limes when such Letters of Denization have been granted respecdvely, or the Year or Years in which such Act or Acts for Naturalizadon have passed respectively], and that no Foreignt^r, directly or in- directly, hath any Share or Part or Interest in the said Ship or Vessel.* XI. And ■ r- . "*e;''- ^^-■; f\ '^K.^^^ <^---... 26°OEORGII III. Cap. 60. 149 XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That m caae the Number Addition to be of Joint Owners or Proprietors of any Ship or Vessel shall amount to Three or more, "lade to the (teth and Three of such Joint Owners or Proprietors shall not personally attend to take and when the >^eq|>tt>t« subscribe the Oath herein-before directed to be taken and subscribed, then and in be"ndrniiltSid. such Case, such Owner or Owners,. Proprietor or Proprietors, as shall perscmally attend, and take and subscribe the Oath aforesaid, shall further make Oath that the Part Owner or Part Owners of such Ship or Vessel then absent is or are not resideiit within Twenty Miles of such Port or Place, and hath or have not, to the best of lus or their Knowledge or Belief, wilfully absented himself or themselves in or.^er to avoid the taking the Oath hereiufbefore directed to be taken and subscribed, or is or are prevented by Illness from attending to take and subscribe the said Oadi. Xn. * And in order to enable the proper Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Ships to be ex* * Customs to grant a Certificate, truly and accurately describing every Ship or Vessel »nMned, &c. before * to be registered in pursuance of this Act, and also to enable all other Officers of *'*"i5?*fc!."* ' His Majesty's Customs, on due Examination to discover whether any such Shipi or *"" ' * Vessel is the s^me with that for which a Certificate is alleged to have been granted ;' . ^ be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That previous to the registering or granting of any Certificate of Registry as aforesaid, some one or more proper Person or Persons • * appointed by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scotland, or by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief for the time being in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, or of the Colonies, IMantations,. Islands, or Territories aforesaid respectively (takii>g to his or their Assistance, if he or they shall judge it necessary, one or more Person or Persons skilled in the Buildmg and Admeasuren\ent of Ships), shall go on board of every such Ship or Vessel as is to be registered, and shall strictly and accurately examine and admeasure every such Ship or Vessel, as to all and every Particular contained in the Form of the Certificate herein-before directed, in the Presence of the Master, or of any other Person who shall be appointed for that Purpose on the Part of the Owner or Owners, or, in his or their Absence, by the said Master, and shall deliver a true and just Account in Writing of all such Particulars of the Built, Description, and Admeasurement of every such Ship or Vessel as are specified in the Form of the Certificate above redted,. to the Person or Persons who shall be authorized as aforesaid ta make such Registry and grant such Certificate of Registry ;, and the said Master, or other Person attending on the Part of the Owner or Owners, is hereby required to sign his Name also to the Certif.cate of such surveying or examining Officer in Testimony of the Truth tlfereof,. provided such Master or other Person shall consent and agree to the several F^culars set forth and described therein, XIII. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if such Rsrson or P^nons siving false Persons so appointed to examine and admeasure such Ships or Vessels as aforesaid, shall Descriptions, or wilfully deliver to any Person or Persons authorized to make Registry, and grant "?''"18 ''^ ^'-^ Certificates of Registry as aforesaid, a false Description of any of the Particulars shipg, (mt^w ^ hereby required to be contained in such Certificate ; or if any Person or Persons jf 10 herein-before authorized to make such Registry, and grant such Certificates of Registry, shall knowingly make any false Register, or grant any false Certificate, in. regard to any of the Particul^s required by this present Act, he or they, on being convicted thereof by due Course of Law in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, in the Court of Justiciary or the Court (^ Exchequer in Scotland, or 150 - '/ J J jrf^ 1 arGEORGII III. Cap.60. or.inany Com t of Record in. the said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories, or in the Royal Court in Guernsey or Jersey, or in the Superior Court of Justice in the Isle of Man, as the Case mav be, shall respectively forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds, and be for ever incapable of holding or enjoying any Office or Employment 'Under His Majesty. . , ,j;;:.:.h -j .^ •. ■ ;.- \: .' •. ,.•■ • -..^v*/ ■:•- "■-i^-.i t^ m ■:■■■•> . /» Method of woer- taining the Ton- nage of Vessels when afloat. Bond to be given not to lend Certi- ficates, and to return them in Cases herein spe- cified. Xiy. * And whereas the Officer or Officers so appointed to examine and admeasure * such Ships and Vessels as aforesaid may not always be enabled to cause such Ship * or Vessel to be laid on shore, for the Purpose of ascertaining her Tonnage, according * to the Rule now by Law prescribed for that Purpose : And whereas it would in * some Cases endanger such Ship or Vessel so to do ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in Cases where it may be necessary to ascertain the Tonnage of any such Ships or Vessels when afloat, the following Method shall be observed ; videlicet, Drop a Plumb Line over the Stern of the Ship, and measure the Distance between such Line and the After Part of the Stern Post at the Load Water Mark ; then measure from the Top of the said Plumb Line, in a parallel Direction with the Water, to a perpendicular Point immediately over the Load Water Mark, at the Fore Part of the Main Stem, subtracting from such Measurement the 'above Distance, the Remainder will be the Ship's extreme Length, from which is to be deducted Three Inches for every Foot of the Load Draught of Water for the Rake Abaft, and also Three Fifths of the Ship's Breadth for the Rake Forward, the Remainder shall be esteemed the just Length of the Keel to find the Tonnage ; and the Breadth shall be taken from Outside to Outside of the Plank, in the broadest Part of the Ship, either above or below the Main Wales, exclusive of all Manner of Sheathing or Doubling that may be wrought upon the Side of the Ship ; then multiplying the Length of the Keel for Tonnage by the Breadth so taken, and that Product by Half the Breadth, and dividing by Ninety-four, the Quotient shall be deemed the true Contents of the Tonnage : Provided always, that nothing herein- before contained shall in anywise be construed to alter the TV';i;-.ner of admeasuring the Tonnage of any Ship or Vessel which has heretofore been practised for the Purpose of ascertaining the Light Duties, or any other Duties or Imposts whatever, payable according to the Tonnage of any Ship or Vessel. XV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That at the Time . of obtaining the Certificate of Registry as aforesaid, sufficient Security by Bond shall be givento His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by the Master and such of the Owners as shall personally attend, as is herein-before required, such Security to be approved of and taken by the Person or Persons herein-before authorized to make such Registry, and grant such Certificates of Registry, at the Port or Place in which such Certificate shall be granted, in the T>enalties following ; (that is to say). If such Ship or Vessel shall be a decked Vessel, or be above the Burthen of Fifteen Tons, and not exceeding Fifty Tons, in the Penalty of One hundred Pounds ; if exceeding the Burthen of Fifty Tons, and not exceeding One hundred Tons, in the Penalty of Ihree hundred Pounds; if exceeding the Burthen of One hundred Tons, and not exceeding Two hundred Tons, in the Penalty of Five hundred Pounds ; if exceeding the Burthen of Two hundred Tons, and not exceeding Three hundred Tons, in the Penalty of Eight hundred Pounds ; and if exceeding the Burthen of Three hundred Tons, in the Penalty of One thousand Pounds : And the Condition of t?very such Bond shall be, that such Certificate shall not be sold, lent, or otherwise d'^poscd of, to any Person or Persons /^A..£^-rLr «..„ ■■ /^" (A 2d»GEORGII III. Cap. 60; 151 Persons whatever, and that the same shall "ro solely made use of for the Servic^ of fh» vShip or Vessel for which it is granted ; and that in case such Ship shall be Ic«t, or taken by the Enemy, burnt or broken up, or otherwise prevented from returning to the Port to which she belongs, the Certificate, if preserved, shall be delivered up, within One Month after the Arrival of the Master in any Port or Place in His Majesty's Dominions, . to the Collector and Comptroller of some Port in Great Britain or of the Isle of Man, or of the Britisli Plantations, or to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Com- mander in Chief for the time being of the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey ; and that if any Foreigner, or any Person or Persons for his Use and Benefit, shall purchase or otherwise become entitled to the whole, or any Part or Share of, or any Interest in such Ship or Vessel, and the same shall be within the Limits of any Port in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or the British Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories aforesaid, then and in such Case the Certificate of Registry shall, within Seven Days after such Purchase or Transfer of Property in such Ship or Vessel, be, delivered up to the Person or Persons herein-before authorized to make Registry, and grant Certificates of Registry, at such Port or Place respectively as aforesaid ; and if such Ship or Vessel shall be in any Foreign Port when such Purchase or Transfer of Interest or Property shall take place, then that the same shall be delivered up to the British Consul, or other Chief British Officer, resident at or nearest to such Foreign Port ; or if such Ship or Vessel shall be at Sea when such Purchase or Transfer of Interest or Property shall take place, then that the same shall be delivered up to the British Consul, or other Chief British Officer, at the Foreign Port or Place in' or at which the Master, or other Person having or faking the Charge or Command of sucly Ship or Vessel^ shall first arrive after such Purchase or" Transfer of Property at Sea, immediately after his Arrival at such Foreign Port ; but if such Master, or other Person who had the Command thereof at the Time of such Purchase or Transfer o£ Property at Sea, shall not arrive at a Foreign Port, but shall arrive at some Port of Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or His Majesty's said Colonies, Plantations,^ Islands, or Territories, then that the same shall be delivered up in manner aforesaid, within Fourteen Days after the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel, or of the Person who. had the Command thereof, in any Port of Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or any of His Majesty's said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories : And that if Mediterranean any Pass, commonly called a Mediterranean Pass, shaU have been obtained or pro- I*8sses to be He- cured for any such Ship or Vessel, then and in such Case the same shall be delivend up at the same time, and in like manner, with the Certificate of Registry aforesaid, to the Person or Persons herein-before authorized to receive such Certificate of Registry ; and such Certificates so delivered up shall forthwith be transmitted to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scotland respectively ; and such Mediterranean Passes shall be also transmitted to the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, by the Person or Persona herein-before authorized to receive such Certificates and Passes, in order that the same may be cancelled; XVI. ' And whereas the Provisions made in and by the said recited Act, touchuig Tenor of Endorse- ' theEndorsement on Certificates of Registry, in case of any Alteration of the Property ™^"*'' "P^*"'* ' in any Ship or Vessel, in the same Port to which the Ship or Vessel belongs, have g^'jf ^*° ^^'* •' ' been found insufficient ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in every such Case, besides the Endorsement required by the said recited Act, there shall also be endorsed on the Ctrtificate of Registry, before Two Witnesses, the Town, Place, ot livered up with Csrtificates. lSi2 36*6EOR&II III. Cap.60. or Pansk where all sand every Person or Persons to whom thePropertjr >n al|y Ship or Vasiel, or any Part diereoi^ shall be so transferred, shall reside ; or it such Person or Persons usually reside in any Counti^ not under the Dominion of His Majesty, Ifis Vr.^ and Successes, but in some Bndsh Factory, the Name of such Factory of which such Person or Persons is or are Member or Members ; or if such Person or Persons reside in any Foreign Town or City, and are not Members of some British Factory, the Name of such Foreign Town or City where such Person or Persons usually ronde, and also the Names of the House or Coparmership in Great Britain or Ireland, for or with whom such Person or Persons is or are Agent or Partner, or Agents or IVurtners ; and the Person or Persons to whom the Property of such Ship or Vessel shall be so transferred; or his or their Agent, shall also deliver a Copy of such Endorse- ment to the Person or Persons authdrized to make Registry, and grant Certificates of Registry as aforesaid, who are hereby required to cauie an Entry thereof to be en- dorsed on the Oath or Affidavit upon which the original Certificate of Registry of such Ship or Vessel was obtained ; and shall also make a Memorandum of the same in the Book of Registers which is hereby directed and reouired to be kept, and shall forthwith give Notice thereof to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Cusioms in England or Scotland under whom they respectively act. Certificate to be XVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That when and so fen'of Pr*" rt""*' °^®" ^ *^® Property m any Ship or Vessel, belonging to any of His Majesty's en rope jr. Subjects, shall be transferred to any other or others of His Bfajesty's Subjects, in whole or in part, the Certificate of the Registry of such Ship or vessel shall be truly and accurately recited 'in Words at length in the Bill or other Instrument of Sale thereof, and that otherwise such Bill of Sale shall be utterly null and void to all Intents and Purposes. Changes of Masters of Vessels to be endorsed on Cer- tificates of Re- gistr}', >" made m* Ship's Names, which, and their Ports, must be painted con- spicuously ra the Vessels. XVIII. And be it further enacted bv the Authority aforesaid, That when and so often as the Master or other Person havmg or taking the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel, registered in manner hereinbefore directed, shall be changed, the Master or Owner of such Ship or Vessel shall deliver to the Person or Persons herein- before authorized to make such Registry, and grant such Certificates of Registry, at the Port where such Change shall take place, the Certifica"? of Registry belong* ing to such Ship or Vessel ; who shall thereupon endorse and subscribe a Memorandum, of such Change, and shall forthwith give Notice of the same to the proper Officer of the Port or Place where such Ship or Vessel was last registered pursuant to this Act ; who shall likewise make a Memorandum of the same in the Book of Registers which is hereby directed and required to be kept, and shall forthwith give Notice thereof to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scotland respectively. XIX. * And whereas many Frauds are committed by the frequent Change of Name^ * given to Ships and Vessels, and the DifHcuhy of comparing the Entry m the Book * of Registers herein»after directed to be kept by all such Person or Persons as are ' authorized to ^register Ships and Vessels, and to grant Certificates of the eame, with ' the Registers of which they claim the Benefit, is thereby gready increased }' be k therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for any Owner or Owners of any Ship or Vessel tc give any Name to such Ship or Vessel, other than that by which she was first registered in pursuance of this Act f and that the .rf ' / Authority aforesaid, That all and every Person and Persons who shall apply for a Certificate of the Registry of any Ship>Ojr Vessel in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle pf Man, which shall be built, or whose Building shall be completed, a^er the First Day of August One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, shall and they are hereby required to produce to the Person or Persons authorized to grant such Certificate a true and full Account, under the Hand of di« Builder of such Sl% or Vessel, of the proper Denonunatlon, and of the Time when, and the Place where, such Ship or Vessel was built \ and ?Iso an exact Account of the Tonnage of such Ship or Vessel, together with the Name of the first Purchaser or Purchasers thereof, (which Account such Builder is hereby directed and required to give under his Hand, on the same being demanded by such Person or Persons so appljring for a Certificate as aforesaid) ; and shall also make Oath before the Person or Persons herein-before authorized to grant such Certificate (which Oath he or they are hereby authorized to administer), , that the Ship or Vessel for which such Certificate is required, is the same with that which is so described by the Builder as aforesaid. XXI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aP >c s^d, That all and every Person or Persons who, from and after the First Day of j^auary One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, shall apply for such Certificate as aforesaid in any of His Majesty's said Colonies, Plantations, or Territories, shall, before such Certificate is granted, produce the like Account under the Hand of the Builder, and take the like Oath as is herein-before reqi'r "d to be produced and taken by Persons applying for the like Certificate in Great iiiitain. \1L\1. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if th- •. ertificatj of the Registry of any Ship or Vessel which shall be obtained m pursuance of this ^.ct, shall happen to be lost or mislaid, a Register and Certificate de novo, in ^^''< Form herein-before directed, shall be granted for such Ship or Vessel, according o the Regulations contained in an Act passed in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of His U late Persons applying for Certificates m Great Britain, &e. to produce a par- ticular Account of the Ships from the Builders, and make Oath to jtheir Identity. Persons making Application in the Colonies after January 1, 1787, to conform to the Pa'-ticulars in the last Clause. If Certificates be Icrt, new ones to be granted actord. ingtoActl50eo. " C.3I. 1S4 26* GEO K Gil III. Cap. 60. late Majesty Eang George the Secorii), intituled * An Act for further regulating the < Plantation Trade » and for Relief of Merchants importing Prize Goods from * America; and for preventing collusive Captures there; and for obliging the ' CUdmers of Vessels seized for Exportation of Wool, or any unlawfiil Importation, ' to give Security for Costs ; and tor allowing East India Goods to b^ faken out. of * Warehouses, in order to be cleai«;u and refreshed.* ,' , XXm. Provided always, nnd be it further enacted by the Aathoruy aforesaid. Security to be given on receiving fresh That in every such Case such Security shall be given as s herein before J' reel Certificates, and -._... . . . . Oath made as herein^before di- rected, instead of the Oath 15 Geo. 2 c.31. and that, in lieu of the Oath directed to be tal >'n bv the loid rectted Act, the like Oath shall be taken and subscribed -dA is herein-heiore direc :: d to be aken and sub- scribed by the Owner or Owners of fuv:h Ships <.\y\ Vessels s- are required to be regit tercd by virtue of this Act. ■ Ships, if altered, XXIV. And be it further enacted by the Authority afort5 , registered de novo, in manner herein-before required, as soon as .«;he x-eturns fc the Port to \vhich she belongs, or to any other Port in which she niuy be legsiUy register-id by virtue of this Act, on Failure whereof such Ship or Vesf el sJaM i;o wi) Intents irnd Purposes be considered and deemed and taken to bfe u Foreign Ship or Vessel. The Condc. .nnation of Frizes, unu the I'arti'iulars oi f ■i Vessels, &c. ni";.!'. be produced to «i>" title to a Certi- ficate of K^stry. Frizes condemned in Guernsey, &e. to be registered at Southampton, 8(c. XXV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Owner or Owners of iill such Ships and Vessels as shall be taken by any of I lis Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or by any private or other Ship or Vessel, and condemned as lawful Prize in any Court of Admiralty, shall, upon registering such Ship or Vessel, before he or they shall obtain such Certificate as aforesaid, produce to the proper Officer of Hi& Majesty's Customs a Certificate of the Condemnation of such Ship or Vessel, under the Band and Sea' of the Judge of the Courc in which such Ship or Vessel shall have been condemned (which Certificate such Judge is hereby authorized and required to grant},, and also a true and exact Account in Writing of all the Particulars contained in the Certificate herein-before set forth, to be made and subscribed by One or more skilful Persons to be appointed by the Court to sur' ey such Ship or Vessel ; and shall also make Oath before the snid Officer (which he is hereby authorized and required to administer) that such Ship or Vessel is the same Vessel which is mentioned in the Certificate cl the Judge aforesaid. XXVI. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, Thai- no Ship or Vessel which shall be taken and condemned as Prize in any Court o^ Admiralty as aforesaid, shall be registered in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or ti.c Isle of Man, although belonging to His Majesty's Subject, residing in those Islands, or in some one or other of them ; but in order that the T" .t,es now by Law due and payable to His Majesty on such Ships and Vessels m.' ; levied and col- lectedj the same shall be registered either at Southampton * .nouth, Exeter, Plymo^^th, Falmouth, Liv^. ol, or Whitehaven, by the . ^'i r and Comptroller at such Ports respective/' .ho arc hereby authorize- >.:..j. inquired, after the Receipt 26°G£OR6li ni. Cap. 60. Receipt of the said Duties, to register such Ship or Vessel, and to grant a Certificate thereof, in the Form and under the Regulations and Restrictions in this Act contained. 155 XXVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all the The Sum on Oath ases where any Ship or Vessel so taken and condemned as aforesaid in any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories aforesaid, shall be registered. Cases where any Ship or Vessel so taken and condemned as aforesaid in any of His *"' which a Prize Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories aforesaid, shall be registered, ^^^f the Colonies and obtain a Certificate of such Registry in manner herein-before directed, an exact to the*Ceitificat«. and particular Account shall be subjoined to such Certificate, of the Sum for which such Ship or Vessel shall have been sold, verified by the Oath of the Person or Persons who shall apply for such Registry and Certificate, in order that the aforesaid Duties due and payable to His Majesty may be the better levied and collected, upon the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel in any Port or Place of Great Britain where such Duties are by Law due and payable. XXVIIL 'And whereas the Trade to and from His Majesty's European Dommions, Certificate to ex- * and the Colonies, Plantations, Islands, and Territories in Asia, Africa, and America, P^ess '" what Pwt * to His Majesty belonging, is now by Law confined to such Ships only as are of the '•'^^hip was built. < Built of Great Britain and Ireland, the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, and of * the said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, and Territories : And whereas Ships wholly *■ owned by British Subjects, and navigated according to Law, can be legally used < and employed only in the European Trade of this Kingdom, and the same are, by < virtue of this Act, allowed to be continued in the said Trade until the same shall be < worn out ; and it is therefore necessary to distinguish such Ships and Vessels ' respectively in the Certificates to be granted pursuant to this Act ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Certificates which shall hereafter be granted in pursuance of this Act, shall distinguish whether such Ships or Vessel be of the Built of Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle of Man, or the Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories aforesaid, or of any Foreign Country ; arid shall, if British-built, be intituled < Certificate of British Plantation Registry •* and if such Ships be Foreign-built, shall be intituled ' Certificate of Foreign Ships Registry ' for the European Trade, British Property,' as the Case may be. XXIX. • And whereas many Foreign-built Ships and Vessels belonging to, or * pretending to belong to. His Majesty's Subjects, have by fraudulent Contrivances, • and under false Pretences, obtained Registers, by virtue of which such Ships and Vessels ' are at pretient used and employed, contrary to the Laws now in force, in the ' Trade to and from His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories in ' Asia, Africa, and America ; and it is therefore expedient and necessary, for detecting ' the Frauds at present committed, and for preventing the same in future, that all < Registers heretofore granted should be called in, and delivered up to the proper • Officer t© be cancelled, an^? that new Registers, of the Form herein-before described, ' should be grantet^ in lieu thereof, in the manner herein-before directed, to all such * Sh i o; ^""essels a;, shall appear to be legally entitled to the same : And whereas it • »? .;vj^c'dleTi. ^ spfxify and direct at what Time and in what Manner all other Ships .lid Vessels, whi.-; are not now by Law required to be registered, should hereafter ' be registered, according to the I^^tent and Meaning of this Act, and should * receive Certificates according to he Form and in the Manner hertin-before directed ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scotland respectively be authorized and required, U 2 and Ships already registered to ex- change their Cer- tificates for new ones, and others now required to be registered, to apply for Certifi- cates, &C. M Times allowed for obtaining such Certificate*. GEDR&II III. Cbp.60. ian(d Ai^ aire heAreby suthorised and required, to give public Notice> b^ all such "^IFays vtA. Wma as they shall \ttitf^ most fHropet and effectual, that ivithin a certain riiasonable Tin^e or Times, as may be best adapted to the Distance of the Ports to which tihe Ships and Vessels oi^ited b|jr Ifis Majesty's Subjects shall respectively beloi^, to 1)6 by them speeded and ptiblished, Certificates of Registry, accordmg to the Form hetwi-befoire described, will be ready to be granted, in manner herein-before directed, to jdl isudi Ships and Vessels as shall be legally entitled thereunto \ and that the Owtttr or Owners of every such Ship or Vessel, not heret<^re required to be itegfetarpd, ishall, on rfi'e first Arrival of every such Ship or Vessel at the Port or Place to wMdl she belongs, after the Expiration of the Notice herein-before directed, cause isuch Ship or Vessefto be registered, and shall obtain a Certificate thereof, in manner ti^ein-babreVlHr£ided ; and that the Owner or Owners of any such Ship or Vessel which shall have been heretofore registered, shall in like manner, upon the first Arrivd of such Ship or Vessel at the Port or Place to which she belongs, after the Expiration of the Notice herein-*>2fore directed, cause such Ship or Vessel to be again registered, and obtain a Certificate thereof, according to the Form and in the Manner herein- before described, and shall then deliver up the Register before granted, if the same be not tost or mislaid ; and if the same shall have been lost or mislaid, shall make Oath brfore the proper Officer of the Customs, that such Register has been lost or mislaid, and shall give Security in like manner as is directed and required by the s.ad Act passed in the Fifteenth Year of the Reiga of His late Majesty King George the Second, in the Case of Registers and Certificates de novo. XXX. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Expiration of the Notice herein-before directed, Tv elve Months shall be allowed to all Ships and Vessels belonging to any of the Ports of Great Britain, or the Islands of •Ouemsey, Jersey, or Man, to be registered, and obtain Certificates, according to the Form and in the Manner herein-before described ; and that in like manner, from and after the Expiration of the Notice herein-before directed, Eighteen Months shall be allowed to all Ships and Vessels belonging to any of the Ports in His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories in Africa or America, to be registered, and to obtain Certificates, according to the Form and in the Manner herein-before described ; and that in like manner, from and after the Expiration of the Notice herein-before directed, Thirty Months shall be allowed to all Ship- and Vessels trading or fishing beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, to be registered, and obtain Certificates, according to the Form and in the Manner herein-before described; and that at the End of the said Term of Twelve Months, with respect to such Ships and Vessels as belong to the Ports of Great Britain, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man ; and in like manner at the End of the said Term of Eighteen Months, with respect to all Ships and Vessels that belong to any of the Ports of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories in Africa or America ; and in like manner at the End of the said Term of Thirty Months, with respect to all Ships and Vessels trading or fishing ijeyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, no other Register or Certificate shall be of Force or Effect, except such as shall be granted in pursuance of this Act ; and that all other Registers and Certificates shall from thenceforth be utterly null and void to all Intents and Pur- poses whatsoever. Certificates may be granted where, from unavoidable XXXI. Provided nevertheles , and be it further enacted by the i^f' rity afore- said, That in case it shall happe.. that any such Ship or Vessel, from any . ■ ojdable iit;cessity ¥ A:^ .^^■i>< ^f^ ■ arafiORGii ui. CBp.oo. ^ ur Necessity or raatiomble Cause, shaH not rettum to the Port to which the beka^s Neceuity, Appli. within th« Time hereia4>efbre bnited, it shall and may be lawhii for the Conuius- cation could not dsnen of His MajeMy'a Cmtoms in Enghad and Scotland iv^MCtively for the tiine ,^' ,"".''* ^n''>°>« behig, and they are hereby required, upon Proof being raade to their Sa tiafac tioa of such imavoidable Neoeenty or feasoiuible Cause, to oauee such Ship or Vessel to be registered upon the Terms and Conditions, and umAot At lUgulations and Rcatnc* tions, directed and reqoined by this Act; any thing herein contained to ^ coatrttrf thereof notwithstanding. XXXII. And be it further enacted bv the Authority aforesaid. That no Sbip m Vessel which by this Act is directed to be hereafter registered, or which is directed, instead of the Register now requh^ by Law, to take out a new Register, according to the Form and m the manner herein-before described, shall be permitted after her first Arrival at the Port to which she belongs, at the Expbation of the Notice herem* before directed, to clear outwards to Foreign Parts or Coastwise, or to proceed to Sea in order to fish on the Coasts, or for any other Purpose whatever, as a British Ship or Vessel, or shall be in anywise entitled to the Privileges of a British Ship or Vessel, unless the Owner or Owners thereof shall have obtained a Certificate according to the Form and in the manner herein-before described ; and in case any such Ship m Vessel shall depart from such Port without being registered, and without having ob- tained a Certificate as aforesaid, every such Ship or Vessel shall be subject to For- feiture, and also all th< Guns, Furnhure, Ammunitton, Tackle, and Apparel, to such Shi| or Vessel belonging. XXXIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority afoi'csudt That if, after the Expiration of the Notice aforesaid, any Ship or Vessel (being Square-nigged) shall be found in any Port within the Distance of Twenty Leagues by Water fiom the.Portto which she belongs, or if any Vessel, not bei* .., 3quare-rigged, be found ■."ithinany Pan other than that to which she belongs, without having obtained the C' . .n> '\te 6i Registry herein-before directed, it shall and may be lawful lO and for th • i imcipal Officer or Officers of such Port, and he or they is and are hereby required, to detain such Ship or Vessel until the Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command thereof, shall, if such Ship or Vessel be under the Burthen of Fifty Tons, give Security by Bond in the Penalty of Fifty Pounds, in manner herein-after directed j and if such Ship or Vessel shall excee.1 the Burthen oi Fifty Tons, and shall not exceed that of One hundred Tons, then until the Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command thereof, shall in like manner give Security by Bond in the Penalty of One hundred Pounds } and if such Ship or Vessel shaU exceed the Burthen of One hundred Tons, then until the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command thereof, shall, together ..f.-'iin (Jne^iiuf^ ficient Security (to be approved by such Principal Officer or Ofiicerij, give Bond to His Majesty, Hio Heirs and Successors, to be taken by such Officer or Officers, in the Penalty of Two hundred Pounds, with Condition that such Master, or other Person so having or taking the Charge or Command of every such Ship or Vessel, shall forth- with repair with her, as sfio ^ as conveniently may be, (or being employed in the Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, and Parts adjacent, at the End of the Fishing Season), r '^e Port to which ...c belongs, and there cause her to be registered, and procurt aficate of such Re^ifitry, in the Form and Manner herein-before directed, and proai e ..«tJ deliver to such Officer or Officers such Certificate of Registry within SMnksvintNit MKhoiitC«rak«M to bcfbiMlcdt 'i ---* v> If Ships be found without the Port to which they belong, without, Certificatei, Bond must be oiven that they shalibe pro- cured. ■'m:- 158 • < ( If Square-rigged Vetuels cannot enter the Ports to which they belong, Certificates may bo obtained upon their being surveyed, &c. at the Port where they touch. 26°G£ORGII III. Cap. 60. ) within the Time limited in the Condition of such Bond ; which Limitation of Time such Officer or Officers is and are hereby authorized to fix according to the Distance which such Ship or Vessel may be from the Port to which she belones, and the Nature of the Voyage in which she may then be engaged ; and on Failure of producinir and delivering such Certificate as aforesaid, such Bond shall be forfeited; but if such Certificate shall be produced ;i p d »« ;% t vh' to such Officer or Officers within the Time so limited in the Bond, such B ^ud 8iu)l ' < void and of none Effect, and he or they is and are hereby authorized a: d cquired tu cancel the same: And in case any Square-rigged Ship or Vessel, after the Expiration of theNodce aforesaid, shall be found in any Port distant more than Twenty Leagues by Water from the Port to which she belongs, or that the VITater at the Entrance of the Port to which such Ship or Vessel belongs shall be so shallow as not to admit her Entrance into the same, without endangering the Safety of such Ship or Vessel, the i/Iaster, or other Pt > ' ing the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall, within Forty eight Hours after tiis Arrival at such Port €i8 aforesaid, make known his Arrival to the Colle>:tor and Coiuptroller of the Customs, or other Principal Officer of such Port, and shall require such Collector and ComptrolU 1 or other Principal Officer, to cause his Ship or Vessel to be surveyed by the proper C icer at such Port, who shall be appointed, pursuant to the Directions of this Act, to (■ urvey Ships and Vessels there, and who shall accordingly muke a perfect and accu -^te Survey thereof, and certify the several Particulars thereof in like manner as is herein-before directed ; and such Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer, shall immediately transmit the said Certificate of Survey to the Persons authorized to register Ships and Vessels, and grant Certificates of Registry, at the Port to which such Jhip or Vessel belongs, who thereupon, and upon all the other Requisites of this Act being complied with, shall register such Ship or Vessel, and grant a Cerdficate uf the Registry thereof, pursuant to this Act } and it sbnU and may be lawful to and for the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer or Officers of the Custom; in the Port where such Ship or Vessel shall be so found, and he or they are hereby authorized and required, to detain such Ship, or Vessel, undl a perfect aid accurate Survey thereof shall be made in manner herein-before directed •. Certificate* 'A Registry to be froduced at every ort on Penalty ofiClOO. XXXIV. And be it further enrrted by the Authority aforesaid. That after the Expiration of the Notice herein-before required, the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of ever\ Ship or Vessel which shall have been registered, and shall have procuied a Certnicate of the Registry, according to the Directions of this Act, shall upon Demand produce such Cerdficate of Registry to the Principal Officer or Officers of every Port in His Majesty's Dominions, or to the British Consul or Chief British Officer in any Foreign Port in which such Ship or Vessel shall arrive, for the Inspection of such Officer or Officers, British Consul or Chief British Officer, in order to satisfy him or them that she has been properly registered, under the Penalty of One hundred Pounds. * By an Opinion of the Attorney General, dated the 9th June 1801, the 29th Section does not extend to any other Shipi or Vessels than those in Esliience when the Act passed, and no others are incltided ir l.V IVords tohich create the Forfeiture under tue 32d Section ; consequently as there remain no Ships or /euek to which the 29th, 30th, 31(^ 32d, and 33d Sections can apply, they are omitted in the Index. XXXV. And ,v /' 28-GE RGII III. Cap. 60. n ClSroper Officer at everv Port and Place where Registers and Certificates shall be granted in pursuance of tnis Act, shall progressively number the same as they shall be severally granted, beginning such progressive Numeration at the Commencement of each and every Year ; and shall enter an exact Ci/py of every such Certificate, with the Number thereof, in ; Book to be kept for that Purpose ; and shall also forthwith or within One Month at the furthest, transmit to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in London and Edinburgh, under whom they respectively act, a true and exact Copy, together with the Nunber of every Certificate which shall be by him so granted •, and that if any such Officer or Officers shall neglect or refuse so to do, he or they so odending shall for the First Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds, and shall for the Second Offence forfeit the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and be dismissed from his or their Office or Offices. .. XXXVI. And be it also further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Com* missioners of His Majesty's Customs in Scotland shall in like manner transmit, at the End of every Month in each Year, to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England, true and exact Copies of all such Certificates as shall be granted by them, or by any Officer or Officers within the Limits of their Commission, in pursuance of this Act. XXXVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in lieu of all Stamp Duties now by Law imposed on such Bonds as shall be entered into by the Owner or Owners of any Ship or Vessel built before the First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, or by any Person or Persons on thek Behalf, upon such Ship or Vessel being first registered, and obtaining a Certificate i\j pursuance of this Act, there shall be paid the Sum of One Shilling, and no more; and that in lieu of" all Fees and Perquisites now payable to any Person or Persons on the Registry of any Ship or Vessel so built before the said First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, there shall be paid, on the First Registry of every such Ship or Vessel, pursuant to this Act, the following Sums, and no more; (that is to say). By all Ships or Vessels decked, or of the Burthen of Fifteen Tons, and not exceeding Fifty Tons, the Sum of One Shilling and Sixpence, and no more ; and by all Ships or Vessels exceeding Fifty Tons, and not exceeding One hundred Tons, the Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence, and no more ; and by all Ships or Vessels exceeding One hundred Tons, and not exceeding Two hundred Tons, the Sum of Three Shillings and Sixpence, and no more ; and by all Ships or Vessels exceeding Two hundred Tons, the Sum of Five Shillings, and no more , which several Sums shall be payable to such Officers respectively, in the same Shares p.nd Proportions in which the Sums now payable are distributed : Provided always, thru the Stamp Duties, Fees, and Perquisites now due and payable upon the Registry of oi Transfer of Property in any Ship or Vessel, shall continue to be paid as heretofore, save and except upon the First Registry, in pursuance of this Act, of any Ship or Vessel built and registered before the First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six. 159 (JertiiicatM. ttc to be numbered, and an Account of them to be trane- mitted to the Com- mintionen of Cuiiomi. Penalty for Neglect. Copiei of Certi. ficates granted io Scotland to be annually trans- Mi 'Ued to the Custoro-houie in England. Sums to be paid on first Registry of Ships built prior to May], 178«, in lieu of Stamp Duties, &c. Stamp Duties to continue to be paid on Transfers of Property. XXXVIII. • And whereas, since the Conclusion of the late War, Registers have p,ivy council may been granted or promised to Ships and Vessels not thereunto by Law entitled, by His order Ships to be Majesty's Governors, or by the Officers of His Majesty's Customs, in consideration roistered, to ■* ■' ' ' •• ' , r whom tliey have been granted or 160 promiMd in oon- ■iilaraiioa of their S«nrkes, though not othtrwiae an* titl««lth«r«to,aic. afi'GEORGll 111. Cap. 60. ^ ' of Senricefl rendered to the Public by the Owners of such Ships and Vv sell, at the * Time of evacuating the .Countries or Towns and Posts held by His Majesty's * Forces in the Countries now belonging to the United States of America, or in « considtYation of the Removal of Families to whom such Ships and Vessels belong, * into the Countries now belonging to His Majesty : And whereas Registers have * ako in some Cases been so granted or promised to other Ships and Vessels by the * Governors of His Majesty's Colonies, Plaautions, Islands, and Territories, under ' Misconception of the Laws relating thereto, and the Property of such Ships or *■ Vesseb has bon4 fide, and without Fraud, been transferred to otheh of His * Majesty's Subjects, who, under the Protection thereof, now use and employ such ■ SMps and Vessels : And whereas it may be therefore just and reasonable, in particular * Cases, where no Fraud or Collusion shall appear to have been practised, that such * Ships and Vessels should be admitted to a Registry, and that a Certificate should be * granted to the Owners thereof, pursuant to this Act •.' Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, to order any such Ship or Vessel, under the Circumstances before mentioned, to be registered, and to have a Certificate thereof, according to the Form and in the Manner herein>before described and directed, if His Miijesty in His Wisdom shall think fit ; and in case any Suit shall have been commenced for the Condemnation of such Ship or Vessel, it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, by Order in Council, to direct all Proceedings thereupon lo be staid, either absolutely, or upon such Terms or Conditions as His Majesty shall think fit *. XXXIX. And be k further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall aiul may be lawful for any Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Comumander in Chief of any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories, and they are hereby respectivelv authorized and required, in any of the Cases aforesaid, if any Suit, Information, Libel, or other Prosecution or Proceeding of any Nature or Kind what- ever, shall have been commenced, or shall hereafter be commenced, in any Court what- ever in any of the said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories respectively, touching the Force and Effect of any Register granted to any Ship or Vessel in any of the Circumstances aforesaid, upon a Representation made to any such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, to cause all Proceedings thereon to be staid, if he shall see just Cause so to do, until His Majesty's Pleasure be known, and certified to him by His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council ; and such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, is hereby required to transmit to one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to be laid before His Majesty in Council, an authenticated Copy of the Procec-dmgs in every such Case, together with bis Reasons for causing the same to be staid, and such Documents (properly verified) as he may judge necessary for the Information of His Majesty. Pemlty on Neglect xL. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person or ** " ^' Persons authorized and required by this Act, in respect of his or their Office or Offices, to perform any Act or Thing directed and required to be done or performed pursuant to any of the Provisions of this Act, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to do Sidts eommeaoed in tiie ColoiiM, toocMng Regnters granted such Shipr*, may be stopped till Hia Majesty's Pleasure be known. * Ai ihit and the following Section apply only to Ships and Vetteia which were in Exittenee when the Act poised, both Sections are omitted in the Index. or 2ff'GEORGn III. Cap.60. \ ifti or Mrform the same, according to the tHie Intent and Meaning of thia Act, every sucn P^raon or Peraons so neglecting or refiiaing shall, on being duly convicted thereof, forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, and for the Second Offence shall forfeit in like manner the Sum of Five hundred Pbunds and shall from thenceforth be rendered inca|>able of serving His Majesty in any Office or Employment relative to the Revenue, or in any CivU Capacity whatever, XLI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Person or Penom making Persons shall falsely make Oath to any of the Matters herein-before required to be so ful** OuKi junty verified, such Person or Persons shall suffer the like Pains and Penalties as are incurred ^^f^fTK^ "^""^ ' by Persons committing wilful and corrupt Perjury \ and that if any Person or Persons JJ^g flji'^^'i. shall counterfeif : f^rase, alter, or falsify any Certificate required or directed to be Aomm. to forftit obtained by this Act, or shall knowingly or wilfully make use of any Certificate so ^£00> counterfeited, erased, altered, or fidsibra, such Person or Persons shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds. •nd what is the OfBcer'k Share. XLn. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all the Penalties How Penaitim are and Forfeitures inflicted and incurred by this Act shall and may be sued for, prose- ^ b« recorered, cuted, and recovered in such Courts, and be disposed of in such manner, and by such Ways, Means, and Methods, as any Penalties or Forfeitures inflicted, or which may be incurred, for any Offence committed against the Laws of Customs, may now In^ly be sued for, prosecuted, recovered, and disposed of; and that the Officer or Omcers concerned in the Seizures or Prosecutions under this Act shall be entitled to and receive the same Share of the Produce arisine from auch Seizures, as in the Case of Seizure for unlawful Importation, and to sucn Share of the Produce arising from any pecuniary Fine or Penalty for any Offence against this Act, as any Officer or Officers 18 or are now by any Law or R^ulation entitled to upon Prosecutions for pecuniary Penalties. ./ ., *e, except ''arts as are ^pealed. XLm. And it is hereby declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, Thi^ a'' Acta relative \o and every Matter contained in the said herein«berore redted Acts, or in any A. ^ cr !^' . * ^ remain Acts of Parliament heretofore passed, touching the Trade, Shipping, and Navig d ^n j,",^.' of Great Britain, and the Colonies, Plantations, Islands, and Territories afj'^. A nori thereunto belonging, which is not hereby expressly altered or repealed, sha ' remain and continue in full Force and E^ect, to all Intents and Purposes whatever j - . !, a) far as the same relate to the Registry of Ships and Vessels, shall be deemed n^) taken to extend and apply in every respect to all Ships and Vessels authorized aiii. required by this Act to be registered, and to have Certiflcates of Registry. XLIV. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Ships and Vessels Ships of Ireland, belonring to His Majesty's- Subjects residing in the Kingdom of Ireland, being duly ^''^l.^^t^j** qualined and 'jgistered accordmg to the Laws now in force, shall continue to enjoy there, to e^oy all the Privileges and Advantages to which such Ships and Vessels were by Law the PriviWes of entitled before the passing of this Act, until the£nd of Four Calendar Months from British-built Sbips» the Commencement of the First Session of the Parliament of Ireland which shall '^* hereafter sit, during the Space of Four Calendar Months, without Prorogation or Dissolution ; and that from the End of that Time, every Ship or Vessel which shall» by virtue of the Authority of any Act that may be passed in the said Parliament of % Ireland* \^ 29" G£ ORG 11 111. Cap. 19. lr«l»Hd, bu <)!Uttlifted asMik registered im any) of the Ports of the K^'dKingclom of Irektiul, ujidev similar Regu^tions and Restiiotions to those herem-before conmiiied, shall continue to enjoy, to all Intents and Purposeti whatsoever, all the Privileges and Advantages of a. Biatish-buih) Ship» or Foreign^built Sikip owned by Wa Majesty's Subjeots^ as the Caas may be, according to the Proviswns of this Act. 9 /7 ~^i .f. V— "^ Z' -V . Old 4 Cap. 19*. ' Preamble reciting 26 Geo. at. c. 60. Vessels registered in Ireland ::^eorH'. ing to an Act of the Parliament of that Kingdom of the present. *" ■ •'ion, to enjoy ■ ^ Privi- leges oi . ^ssels ownea by His Ma- jesty's Subjects. An. Act to enforce and Fendev more effectual: several AetS' passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and other Acts made for the Increase and Encowragement of Shipping ^nd Navigation. TTTHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-sJxth Vear of the Rejgn of His W present Majesty, intituled * An Act for the further Increase and Encourage- mentof Shipping and Navigation, it is enacted, that the Ships and Vessels belong- ing to Kis Majesty's Subjects residing in the Cngdom of Ireland, being duly quali* fted and registered according to the Lavs new in force, shall continue to enjoy all the Privileges and Advantages to which such Ships and Vessels were by Law en- titled before the passing of this Act, imtil the End of Four Calendar Months from the Commencement or the First Session of the Parliament of Ireland which shall hereafter sit during the Space of Four Calendar Months, without Prorogation or Dissolution, and from the End of that Time, every Ship or Vessel which shall by virtue of the Authority of any Act that may be passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, be qualified and registered in any of the Ports of the said Kingdom of Ireland, under similar Regulations and R^tricddns to those therein contained, shall continue to enjoy, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, all the Privileges and Advantages of a British-built Ship or a Foreign-built Ship owned by His Majesty's Subjects, as the Case may be, according to the Provisions, of this Act : And whereas by an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, passed in this present Session of the said Parliament, intituled • An Act for the further Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation,' Regulations and Restrictions for qualifying and register- ing Ships and Vessels in the Ports of the said Kingdom of Ireland are enacted and provided, similar to those coniameu in the said before-mentioned Act of the Parlia- ment of Great Britain :' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That every Ship or Vessel which shall be duly registered in any Port in the Kingdom of Ireland, according to the Regulations and Restrictions of the bsfore- mentioned Act passed in the Parliament of that Kingdom, and shall obtain a Cer- tificate thereof, shall enjoy, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, all the Privileges and Advantages of a British-built Ship or Foreign-built Ship owned by His. Majesty's Subjects, as the C4se may be. II. And (/kj^/Ctj^^M^ arOEORGII III. Cap. 10. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Ship or Vessel belonging to His Majesty's Subjects residing iii the said Kingdom of Ireland, bdng duly quaMed and registered according to the Laws in force at and immediately before the Commencement of the said Act, so passed in the Parliament of that lUngdom, shall Vessels registered there according to Law, previous to the said Act, to continue to enjoy the like Privileges during the Times appointed by the Comnibsioners of Revenue inlreland; but at the Expira- tion of such Time th^ must be re- gistered agreeably to the stud Act. Recital of the Part of the Oath re- quired to be taken by the Act 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. Revenue in the said Kingdom, pursuant to the Powers thereby given to the said Com- missioners to appoint the Times when the Registration required by die said Act is to be made ; but that, at the End or Expiradon of the said Time or Times so to be appointed by the said Commissioners, no Ship or Vessel belongmg to the Kingdom of Ireland, which ought to be registered in the Pom thereof, shall have tn* enjoy such Privileges or Advantages, unless such Ship or Vessel shall have been registered, and shall have obtained a Certificate thereof, in pursuance of the before-mentioned Act passed in the said Parliament of Irdand. . .. .< * > .' - ■^ IV. *■ And whereas, by the before-mentioned Act passed in the Twen^-sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, it is enacted, that no Registry of any Ship or Vessel shall thenceforth be made, imtil the Owner or Owners of such Ship or Vessel shall have taken an Oath therem set forth in manner therdn directed, containing among others the Words following ; ' That I the said A. B. £and the said other Owners, if any3 am [or are] truly and bona fide a Subject [or Subjects] of Great Britain ; and tliat I the said A. B. have not [nor have any of the other Owners, to the best of my Knowledge or Belief] taken an Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign State whatever, except under the Terms of some Capitxdation [describing the Parneulars thereoQ :' Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any Oath which shall have been or may be taken for the sole Purpose of acquiring die Rights of a Gidzen or Burgher in any Foreign City or Town in Europe, to be enjoyed during the Time that the Person or Persons taking such Oath shsdl reside in such City or Town, and i&c a limited 'Hme after such Residence shall have expired, shall not be deemed an Oath of Allegiance to a Fordgn State, within the true Intent and Meamng of the said Act. V. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesud. That nodiing ib the said last- mentioned Act contained shall prevent the Persons thereby authorized from making Registry of Ships and Vessels, and granting Certificates thereof to Ships and Vessels wholly owned by the United Company of Merchants k& England tradmg to the East Indies, or any other Body Corporate within this Kingdom, all other Requisites of the said Act bdng complied with, upon the following Oath being taken and sub- scribed by the Secretary of the said United Company or other Body G<»porate, or by any other Officer authorized bv such Company or Body Corporate (instead of the Oath directed to be taken by the said Act), before the Person or Persons duly autho- rized to make such Registry and grant such Certificates respectively ; which Oath they are hereby respectively empowered to administer. • T A. B. Secretary or Officer of [Name of Company or Corporation] do make Form of the Oath. • A Oath, that the Ship or Vessel [Name] of [Poit or Hace,] whereof [TVIasters * Name] is at pre%nt Master, being [Kind of Built, Burthen, &c. as described^ in * the r^rtificate of the siirveying Officer] was f when and where built, or if Prize, ' Capture and Condemnation] and tliat the same doth wholly and truly belong to ' [Name of Company or Corporation].' X a VI. * And No Oath taken to acquire a tem- porary Right as a Citizen during Residence in a Foreign State, to be deemed an Oath of Alle^ance to such State. Instead of the Oath re«jiiired by the recited Act. the followingOath may be taken by the Person properly authorized by the East India Com- pany, &c. 164 iJ7«GE(>RGll 111. Cap. 19. ) Vmm3unel,l787, the Commissioners of the Customs, &c. may permit the Bond required, on obtaining a Certi- ficate of the Re- gistry of a Vessel, to be executed wherever they think proper. ' VI. * \nd whereas by the said Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year uf His present *■ Majesty's Reign it is «nacted, that at the Time of obtaining the Certificate of ' Registry therein directed, sufficient Security by Bond shall be given to His Majesty, * His Heirs and Successors, by the Master and such of the Owners as shall personally * attend, as is therein required, such Security to be wproved of and taken by the * Person or Persons therein authorized to maJce such Registry, and to grant a Cer- * tificate thereof, at the Port or Place in which such Certificate shall be granted, in * the Penaldes and on the Conditions among others in the said Act mendoned, that such * CertificateshaUnotbesold,lent,or otherwise disposed of: And whereas Doubts have * arisen whether such Bond can be legally executed by the Master of the Vessel at * any other Port or Place than that at which the Vessel is by the said Act reauired to * be registered :' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the First Day of June One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, the Com- missioners of His Majesty's Customs in England for the time being, or any Four oi* more of them, or the Commisaoners of His Majesty's Customs in Scotland for the time being, or any Three or more of them, or the Governor or Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or of the Isle of Man, or of any of the Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories which now belong, or may hereafter belong, or be in thePossession of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Asia, Africa, or America, shall and they are hereby authorized to permit, in any Case where it shall appear to them to be expedient, such Bond to be taken before any Person or Persons whatever, and in such manner and at such Port or Place as they shall res^)ectively judge fitting and necessary ; and every such Person or Persons shall and are hereby authorized to take such Bond, and such Bond when so taken shall be valid, and of the like Force and Effect, to all Intents and Purposes whatever, ' as if the same had been taken by the Person or Persons authorized by the said Act to make a Registry and grant a Certificate thereof. VII. ' And whereas no Provision is made in the said Act passed in the said Twenty- * axth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, requiring fresh Security by Bond to * be given whenever the Master of a Ship or Vessel, registered in pursuance thereof. Whenever the ' shall be changed ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That when Master of a Vessel and so often as the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command is changed, fresh q{ g^y Ship or Vessel registered in manner therein directed shall I . :hanged, the c- ... ♦« » Person who shall become Master, or take the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall give Security by Bond, to be taken in the manner and under the Penal- ties and 'Conditions required by the said Act and this present Act ; and upon such fresh Security being from time to time given, and the same being made to appear by Endorsement on the original Bond by the Officers in whose Custody it shall be, such original Bond, so far as- it relates to the former Master, shall from thencefortli be null and void (except with respect to any Breach or Breaches of the Conditions of such Bond which may have been committed before such Endorsement). Vni. * And whereas, for want of a sufficient Number of proper Officers in the * Island of Newfoundland and its Dependencies, and in some Parts of the Provinces ' of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, Difficulties may occur in carrying * the Provisions of the before-mentioned Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of'^His ' Majesty's Reign into Execution, so far as may relate to small Vessels concerned in * carrying on the Fishery thereof, and in trading Coastwise j' be it therefore further enacted Securi^ to be given, &€• ■■■-TTTv:?-,,- ' . - 2r*G£ORGII IlL Cap. 19. enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Vessel whatever, not exceeding the Burthen of Thirty Tons, and not having a whole or fixed Deck, and being employed solely in the Fishery on the Banks or Shores of Newfoundland, and of the Parts adjacent, or on the Banks or Shores of the Provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulph of Saint Lawrence, and to the North of Cape Canso, or of the Islands within the same, or in trading Coastwise within the said Limits, shall be subject or liable to be registered by virtue or in pursuance of the said Act passed in the said Twenty-sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, or shall be liable to any Hinderance, Molestation, Obstruction, or Detention whatever, for or on account of not being so registered ; any thing in the said Act to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 165 Vessels not ex« ceeding Thirty Tons, and not having a fixed Deck, may be employed in the Fishery at New- foundland, &C. without being registered. ex. ' And whereas mainy Ships or Vessels have been and may hereafter be built in * the said Island of Newfoundland, and in those Parts of the Provinces of Quebec, * Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, adjacent to the' Gulph of Saint Lawrence, and < to the North of Cape Canso, or in the Islands within the said Limits, on account of * Owners residing in His Majesty's European Dominions, which Ships or Vessels, by * reason of the Absence of all the Owners, cannot be registered in those Places, in * pursuance and under the Provisions of the said Act so passed in the said Twenty- < sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign ;' be it therefore further enacted by the Authority foresaid. That such Ships or Vessels shall and may be registered in the said Island of Newfoundland and its Dependencies, or in the Parts of the said Provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulph of Saint Lawrence, and to the Noith of Cape Canso, or in the Islands within the said Limits (before the Persons authorized respectively at those Places to make Registry, and to grant Cer- tificates thereof, in pursuance of the said Act), upon the Husbands or principal Agents of the said Ships or Vessels taking the Oath required by the sdd Act, instead of the same being taken by the Owners thereof; and the Certificate so granted shall be of the like Force and Effect, to all Intents and Purposes whatever, as if they had been granted upon the Oath of the Owners respectively, until such Time as such Ships or Vessels respective! sh. 11 arrive at some Port in His Majesty's European Do- minions, where they m.;y be respectively registered upon the Oath of the respective Owner or Owners thereof, but no longer, any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding; and whenever such Ships or Vessels shall first arrive in any such Port in His Majesty's European Dominions, the Certificates of Registry granted in pursuance of this A'«- shall be utterly null and void, and shall be delivered up to be cancelled ; and such Ships or Vessels shall and are hereby required to be respectively registc-ed de novo upon the Oath of the respective Ownt^rs being taken, and the other Requisitions of the said Act being complied with. XIIL And for obviating all Doubts which may arise touching the Meaning and ' Construction of the said Act made and passed in the Twenty- sixth Year of the * Reign of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act for the further Increase and ' Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation ;' be it enacted and declared, That all Ships and Vessels which by the said Act are declared not to be entittled to any of the Privileges or Advantages of a British-built Ship, or of a Ship owned by British Subjects, and all Ships and Vessels not registered according to the Directions and Regulatiors Vessels built at Newfoundland, &c. for Ekiropean Owners, may be registered there, , upon the Ship's Agents taking the requisite Oath ; but such Ships, on their Arrival in Europe, must be registered agree- ably to 26 Geo. 3. C.60. All Vessels which by 2C Geo. 3. c. 60. arc not to be en- titled to the Privi- leges of a British- built Ship, &c. to be deemed Alien Ships. l^ 27*G£ORGII III. Cap.32. K^i;uUt}(WS of the said Aot* shaU, although such Ships and Vessels may be owned by |lis Majesty's Subjects* be hield and deemed to all Intents and Purposes as Alien Ships, and^udl in all Cases be Ui^e to such and the same Penalties and Forfeitures as Aben $bips HI t|if) like Css«8 are or shall by Law be liable to. I r ' ':-!sfK' onne Commissioners of the Customs may direct the Hull of any Vessel seized in America or the West Indies to be broken up, and the Materials sold, &c. Anno 27« Georgii III. Cap.32. : v An Act for making fyrther Provisions in regard to suck Vessels as are particularly described in an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of iiie Reign of Hiit present M;^esty, for the more effectual Prevention of Smuggling in this Kingaoa), and for extending the said Act to other Vessels and Boats not particularly desoribeti therein ; for taking off the Duties on Flasks in which Wine or Oil in imported ; for laving an additional Duty on Foreign Geneva imported ; for taking on the Duty on Ebony» the Growth of Africa, imported into this Kingdom ; and for amending several Laws relative to me Revenue of Customs. Xn. * A ND whereas several Foreign-buUt Ships or Vessels have been seized snd *J\. condemned in th« British West India Islands for illicit Trade, and now * lie there undisposed of, such Ships or Vessels not being saleable, and there not beis^ * any Law to authorize the Disposal thereof in any other way ',* be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawfid for the Commissioners or His Majesty's Customs in England for the time being, ot any Four or more of them (if they shall think fit), to direct the Hull of every Ship or Vessel which shall have been, or which may hereafter be seLsed and condemned in any of the Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories to His Majesty belonging in America or the West Indies, for any illicit Trade or Commerce, to be broken up, and the Materials thereof sold to the best Advantage, and the Produce of such Sale shall be accounted for and applied by the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officers of the Customs in whose Custody such Ship or Vessel shall be lodged and secured, in like manner as the Produce of Ships or Vessels seized and condemned in the said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories respecdvely, are now by Law directed to be accounted for and applied. i(i»f?iV«^ AniK) 28° Geobgii III. Cap.6. 'i" ;i f mr. ■ 'j An Act for regulating the Trade between the Stibjiects of His Majesty's * ■ ; ■ Colonies and Plantations in North America, artd vh the West India '• i"?' Islando, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, and between His M^jest/s said Sctljects and the Foreign Islands hi the West Indies. * "WT^ER^AS the Rcguhtions made by His Majesty's seire> S! Orders in Council, * ;^ « ▼ T for carrying on the Commerce between ras Majesty's Subjects ir. " ^rth ♦ America and in the West Indies, and thehihabitanrs of the Territories belonging ti* « the United States of America, in pi- rsuance of the Powers vested in His Majesty foi* , • that Purpose by several Acts of Parliament, have by Experience been found to Be < beneficial: And whereas it is now proper that tnc said Regulations should be * est^lished and made permanent j' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excel- lent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords'Spiritual and Tem- poral, and Common^ in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no Goods or Commodities whatever shall be imported oi* brought from any of the Territories belonging to the said United States of America, into any of His Majesty's West India Islands (in which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Isl^ds are included), under the Penalty of rfie Forfeiture thereof, and also of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be s6 imported or birtation U- zbe nitedSt«r«^:« aS'GEQRGII III. Cap. 6. subject and liable if exported to any British Colony or Plantation in America ; and that the said Duties shall be raised, levied, collected, paid, recovered, and applied, in the same manner as the Duties on Cocoa Nuts or Gmger exported to any British Colony or Plantation in America are severally raised, levied, collected, paid, re- covered, and applied : Provided always that no Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, Ginger, or Pimento, nor any other Articles or Commodities whatsoever (except Salt from the Islands called Turk's Islands, being Part of the Bahama Islands), shall be s6 exported, except by British Subjects, and in British^built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, under the uke Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof,, and also of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be so exported, together with her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, TacUe, and Apparel.. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in every Case where, on Exportation of any Goods or Commodities to any British Colony or Plant- arci). in America, a Bond is now or may be hereafter required by Law for the due landing of such Goods or Commodides in such Colony cr Plantation, and a Cer- ti£c tte is required to discharge such Bond, a amilar Bond shall be required, on X.xportation of such Goods or Commodities to the Territories of the United States, for the due landing the sarae in the said Territories ; and such Bond shall and may be discharged upon a Certificate under the Hand Seal of the British Consul ox Vice Consul, provided any such Consul or Vice Consul shall be resident at the Pott or I' where such Goods shall be landed; or in case there shall not be any such Consul or Vice Consul so resident, then under the Hand and Seal of any Officer or Officers who are or m;iy be appointed by the-saMlUaked States, or any of them, for the Purpose of granting such Certiffcate ; and if it shall happen that there shall not be any Officer so appointed, then and in such Case such Bond shall and may be discharged^ upon a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of any Magistrate of the said United States, or any of them« certifying that there is no such Officer at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be landed, and that Oath hath been made before such Magistrate by the Master, or other Person having the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, that the Goods for which such Certificate i» required were duly landed by him at such Port or Place within the Territories belonging to the said United States. ? Vessels coroins in V. * And whereas it is expedient to give due Encouragement to the making of Salt in Ballast from the « the said Islands called Turk's Islands ;' beit therefore fmther enacted by the Authority be"uSn*«Siri?J aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for any Ship or Vessel befongmg to the Islands with Salt. Inhabitants of the said United States of America, coming in Ballast, and not other* wise,, to enter the Ports of the said Islands called Turk's Islands, for the Purpose of being there laden with Salt, and for no other Purpose whatever, under and subject to tl>e Provisions, Regulations, and Restrictions herein-after mentioned ; any thing in this Act, or any Law* Usage, or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Master of such Vessel, on its Arrifal, to make Entry thereof; VI. Provided always. That the Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall, immediately after the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel into any Port of the said Islands, make a just and true Entry upon Oath, before the Collector or other Principal Officer of such Port, of his Ship or Vessel, declaring of what Country she is built, how manned, who was the Master during the Voyage, and who are the Owners thereof, and the Purpose foe which / \J .//' :2// Jiv..' /i) 28'GEORGII III. Cap. 6. which which he enters the said Port, in order that such Ship or Vessel may undergo the Search and Examination of the proper Officers of His Majesty's Customs ; and such Master, or other Person taking the Charge or Command thereof, shall truly answer upon Oath to such Questions touching and concerning the same, as shall be de- manded of him by such Collector or other Principal Officer, upon Pain, for any Default therein, that such Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds ; and the Collector or other Principal Officer of His Majesty's Customs at such Port is hereby authorized and required to administer the said Oaths herein-before required to be taken. ' VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, a Tonnage Duty at and after the Rate of Two Shillings and Sixpence Sterling, payable in Dollars at the Rate of Five Shillings and Sixpence per Ounce, for each and every Ton Burthen of every Ship or Vessel belonging to the Inhabitants of the said United States of America, so coming to the said Islands called Turk's Islands ; and that the Tonnage of every such Ship or Vessel shall be ascertained by Ad- measurement made by such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed for that Purpose by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England for the time being, or any Four or more of them ; which said Officer or Officers so appointed as aforesaid shall admeasure such Ship or Vessel according to the following Method ; videb'cet. Drop a Plumb Line over the Stern of the Ship, and measure the Distance between such Line and the Afterpart of the Stern-post at the Load Water Mark ; then measure from the Top of the said Pkimb Line, in a parallel Direction with the Water, to a perpendicular Point immediately over the Load Water Mark at the f'ore-part of the Main Stem ; subtracting from such Measurement the above Distance, the Remainder will be the Ship's extreme Length, from which is to be deducted Three Inches for every Foot of the Load Draught of Water for the Rake abaft, and also Three-fifths of the Ship's Breadth for the Rake forward, the Remainder shall be esteemed the just Length of the Keel, to find the Tonnage ; and the Breadth shall be taken from Outside to Outside of the Plank, in the broadest Part of the Ship, either above or below the Main Wales, exclusive of all Manner of Sheathing or Doubling that may be wrought upon the Side of the Ship ; then multiply the Length of the Keel for Tonnage by the Breadth so taken, and that Product by Half the Breadth, and di^ading by Ninety- tour, the Quotient shall be deemed the true Contents of the Tonnage. VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the full and true Amount of the smd Tonnage Duty, so ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid into the Hands of the Collector of His Majesty's Customs in the said Islands respectively, at the Port or Place wherein he shall be appointed to reside in any of the said Islands, before any Salt shall be loaJen or laid on board of such Ship or Vessel ; and such Duty shall be under the Management of the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and be raised, levied, collected, paid, and recovered in such and the like manner, and by such and the like Rules, Ways, Means, and Methods respectively, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, as any other Duties now payable to ifis Majesty on Goods imported into any of the said Islands, Plantations, Colonies, or Territories belonging to or under the Dominion of His Majesty in America or the West Indies, are or may b* raised, levied, collected, paid, and recovered by any Y Act ](S9 and to answer upon Oath Hucb Quw- tiovs as shall be demanded of him, on Penalty of j^lOO. Collector autho- rized to administer Oaths. A Duty of 28. 6d, to be paid for every Ton Burthen of Vessels of the United States coming lo Turk's Islands. How the Tonnage IS to ba ascer- tained. Tonnage Duty to be paid before an-' Salt is put on board any Vessuls, and to be under the Management of the Commis. sioners of the CustomSi ^c / ^ m No Goods, except Salt, to be exported from Turk's Islands to His Majesty's Dominions in America or the West Indies ; and no Goods to be exported from those Islands to Great Britain or Ireland, except Salt and such Articles as may by Law be imported from all Countries Duty- free, on Penalty of Forfeiture. Tobacco, &c. im- ported into any British from any Foreign West India Island, to be for- jCeited, with the ' VoMei, &C. Ill Cases of Emer- gency, the Gover- nors of the British West India Islands, with Consent of their Councils, may authorize the Im- portation of Pitch, &c. from Foreign Islands, if imported by British Subjects in British Ships. 38* G£ ORG II III. Cap. 6. Act or Acts of Parliament now in force, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the several Clauses, Powers, Directions, Penalties, and Forfeittires relating thereto, were particularly repeated and again enacted in the Body of this ftresent Act ; and such Duty shall, under such Management, be subject to the Pay- ment of the Salaries of the Officers and other incidental Charges of the Port, and the Residue be paid to the Receiver General of the Customs in Encland for the time being, to be paid by him into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, under the Head of Consolidated Customs. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That no Goods or Commodides whatsoever sh?ll be export J from the said Islands called Turk's Islands, to any Part of His Majesty's Dominion^ in America or the "West Indies, or shall be loaden or laid on board any Ship or Vessel in thb said Islands called Turk's Islands for that Purpose, except Salt ; and that no Goods or Commodides whatsoever shall be exported from the said Islands called Turk's Islands to Great Britain or Ireland, or shall be loaden or laid on board any Ship or Vessel in the said Islands for that Purpose, except Salt, and also except such Goods and Commodities as may now or may here- after be by Law imported into this Kingdom from all other Countries whatsoever, free of all Duties, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Goods or Commo- dities as shall be so exported, loaden, or laid on board, and of the Ship or Vessel in or on board of which the same shall be so exported, loaden, or laid on board, and of all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, I'ackJe, and Apparel. • • X. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, or Lumber of any Sort ; Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, or Grain of any Sort, shall be imported or brought into any Island, under the Dominion of His Majesty, in the West Indies (in which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Islands are included), from any Island in the West Indies under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be imported or brought, together with all her Guns Furniture, Ammunition, I'ackle, and Apparel j any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. • XI. Provided always. That it shall and may be lawful, in case of public Emer- gency or Distress, for any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief for the time being of any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, to authorize the Importation of Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, or Lumbei of any Sort; Bread, Biocuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat,. Rice, Oats, Barley, or Grain of any Sort, for a limited Time, from any Island in the West Indies under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Islands : And provided always, that such Goods and Commodities so authorized to be imported shall not be imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture above mentioned. , . XII. And fism And -r .^ D' /X/y/ti ^-^.^ /: 28*0£OR^II III. Cap.«. J^ // / i- *€ an XII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Goods or Goods ianorted Commodities whatever shall be imported from any of the Territories belonging to the *^^'"' *••* United said United States, into the Provinces of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, or the scotll '&c. ^o Te Islands of Cape Breton, Saint John's, or Newfoundland, or into any Country or forfeited, \vith the Island within their rf>'^^ ~ ctire Government.', under the Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof. Vessel, &c. together with the S:^p or Vessel impoxiing the same, and all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, . ii. Apparel. _: d^m , , i :mo.-,;uj j In case of Emer- gency, tlie Gover- nors of Nova Scotia, &c. with the Consent of their Councils, may authorize the Im- portation of Scant- ling, &c. from the United Stateo, if imported by British Subjects in British Ships. His Majesty in Council may au- thorize the Gover- nor of Newfound- land to permit the Importation of Bread, &c. from the United States, &c. XIII. Provided always. That it shall and maybe lawful, in case of public Emergency or Distress, for any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief for the time being of the Provinces of Nova Scotia or. New Brunswick, or of the Islands of Cape Breton or Saint JohnV, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, to authorize the Imporui jn of Scantling, Planks, Staves, Heading Boards, Shingles, Hoops, or squared Timber of any Sort ; Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, or Live Stock of any Sort ; Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oat" Barley, or Grain of any Sort, for a limited Time, fro any of the Territories belonging to the said United States, for the Supply of t'. Inhabitants of the said Provinc. , Islands or Countries respectively: And prov\i)»'d always, that such Goods and Commodities sq^uthorized ta be imported shall not be imported except by British Subjects^ and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture aboire mentioned : Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty in Council, by Order or Orders to be issued and published from time to time, to authorize, or by Warrant or Warrants under his Sign Manual to empower the Governor of Newfoundland for the time being to authorize, in case of Necessity, the Importation into Newfoundland ox Bread, Flour, Indian Com, and Live Stock, from any of the Territories belonging to tho said United States, for the Supply of the Inhabitants and Fishermen of the Island of Newfoundland for the then ensuing - Season only : And provided always, that such Bread, Flour, Indian Com, and Live Stock, so authorized to be imported into the sland of Newfoundland shall not be imported, except in conformity to such T * ' . Regulations, and Restrictions as shall be specified in such Order or Orders, W.\ \4nt or Warrants respectively, and except by British Subjects, and in British-built S'^i^^d .'wned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, under the Pe lalty of the Forfeiture above mentioned. XIV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Goods or No Goods to be Conunodities whatever shall be imported trom any of the Territories belonging to im{)orted from the the United States of America, by Sea, or Coastwise, into the Province of Quebec, or ^"'^.^'' ^K^xx& by into the Countries or Islands within the vrovernment thereof, or up the River Saint Provkic*e of Lawrence from the Sea, under the Pen''* ,)f the Forfeiture thereof, together with Quebec, &c. the Ship or Vessel importing the sam^, anu all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel.* XVI. And be it further enacted by the A'fhority aforesaid, That all and every the By whom Goods, Goods or Commodities, and all Ships or Vessels forfeited by this Act, shall and may &c. forfeited may be seized by the Commander or Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels ^^ seized, of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or PetfT Officer specially authorized by ' — *■ — ■ — '— — •" ' — .— ■ ■ ' ' — ' ' , ' "I ■ 11 * Seciwn 15. applied only to 27 Geo, 3. c. 27, for ecta&iw/iing Free Ports, which ii rtpealed by 45 G«o. 9. c. 57. TtM Section is therefore omitted. «' .5 him • «4^%- 4.*^l •^ t -l^«/t<' 172 28' GE OR Gil III. Cap. 34. How Forfeiture! him or theiii, or by any OfScer c- Officers of His Majesty's Customs ; and that every "Y *** f^'"*'' Forfeiture and Penalty incurrf ^ by this Act shall and may respectively be sued for, •» "PP ' • prpr, juted, and recovered , < 'ch Courts, and by such nd the like Ways, Means, and Methods, and the Produce thereof respectively disposed of anH plied in such ' I and the like manne'-, and to hucl) and the hke Jses and Purposes, :> y Forfeiture incurred hy any Law req)ecting the Revenue of the Customs may now be sued for, prosecuted!^ or recovered, dinosed of and applied, either in this Kingdom, or in any of His Majesty's Dominions m North America or the West Indies respectively, as the ^ Casemay happen to be. Act to commence XVIL And be it fiuther enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall from April 4, 1788. commence and be in force from and after the Fourth Day of April One thousand seven hundred and eighty<«ight. .■j»«- Goods seized under any Act relative to the Trade of the British Colonies in America may be delivered, on Se- curity being given to answer Double the Value. Directions with regard to taking such Security, &c. Anno28°GEORGii III. Cap. 34. An Act more effectually to secure the Performance of Quarantine, and for amending several Laws relating to the Revenue of Customs. VII. • A NP whereas it is exp^ient, under certain Circumstances, to permit and * ±\. allow the Delivery of Goods or Commodities, upon Security, which shall • or may be seized in pursuance of any Act or Acts of Parliament made in Great ' Britain, relative to rhiff i r;ide and Revenue of the British Colonies and Plantations in ' America;' be it tiit'rtbn.' further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in case any Goods or Con'A^iiitie. shall be seized as forfeited by virtue or in pursuance of any Act or Acts of F;ii-!iament now or hereafter to be made in Great Britain, re- lative to the Trade and Revenue of the said Colonies and Plantations in America, it shall and may be lawful for the Judge or Judges of any Court having Jurisdiction to try and determine such Seizures, to order the Delivery of such Goods or Commo- dities, on sufficient Security by Bond being given to answer Double the Value of such Goods in case of Condemnation ; such Security to be good and sufficient, and to be taken to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by and in the Name of the Collector of His Majesty's Customs in whose Custody the said Goods may be lodged. VIII. And to the End that such Security may be good and sufficient, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs shall, previous to the Execution of the Boud, make strict Inquiry into the Sufficiency of the Sureties proposed to be bound j and if the said Collector and Comptroller shall find them of Ability to answer the Sum or Sums in which they are about to become bound, they shall then certify the same in Writing to the Juvige or Judges of such Court respectively ; and upon the Production of such Certificate, if the Judge is also satisfied with the Sufficiency of the Sureties proposed, the Bond shall and may be executed, but not otherwise j which Bond shall be delivered to and kept in the joint Custody of the said Collector and Comptroller ; and in case the Goods or Commo- dities for which such Security shall be so taken as aforesaid shall be condemned, the Value "^. dS'GEORGII III. Cap.34. Value thereof shall be paid into the Hands of such Collector, conformably to the Condition of tht Bond, who shall thereupon, with the Consent or Privity of his Comptroller, cancel the Bond so given as aforesaid. ' , i^ . ^,('i / ]73 IX. Provided always, and it is hereby declared. That this Act shall not extend or The Caaea in wh!«h be construed to extend to authorize or permit the Delivery of any Goods or Commo- Goods may be ditjp'' whatever, but only in Cases where the same shall be perishable, or where the **«''»e'ed. Informer or Prosecutor shall delay coming to as speedy a Trial as the Course of the Court in which the Prosecution shall be commenced, and the Nature of the Circum- stances, will permit ; any Law, Custom, ' <^e 'o the contrary notwithstanding. XIII* ' And whereas it has been f wilfully and maliciously detained and granted in pursuaii«.v c^ an Act made of the Reign of His late Majesty Kin^ preventing Frauds, and regulating Abus> lasters of Ships and Vessels have Hver up Certificates of Redstry, the Seventh and Eighth Years le Third, intituled ' An Act for 7 & 8 Gul. lantation Trade ;' and also of an 3. G. 22. C.60. on Gxiviction, Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled ' * An Act for the further Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation,' 26 Geo. 3. * to the Prejudice of the Owner or Owners of such Ships and Vessels :' For the reme- dying whereof in future, be it further enacted, That on Complaint made on Oath (by Master maliciouBly the Owner or any of the Owners of any Ship or Vessel whose Cerdficate of Registry detaininj/ Ceni- shall be so detained and refused to be delivered up) of such Detainer and Refusal, to fi^at^NufKogirtry, any Justice of the Peace residing near to the Place where such Detainer and Refusal *** *"^ ^'^ «i(K) shall be, either in Great Britain, or in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, or Man, or in any Colony, Plantadon, Island, or Territory to His Majesty belonging in America, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice, by Warrant unaer his Hand and Seal, to cause such Master to be brought before him to be examined touching such Detainer and Refusal ; and if it shall appear to the said Justice,- on Exanunation of the Master or otherwise, that the same is not lost or mislaid, but is wilfully and maliciously detained by the said Master, such Master shall be thereof convicted, and shall forfeit and pay the Sum of One himdred Pounds ; and on Failure of Payment thereof within the Space of Two Days after such Conviction, he shall be committc d to the Common Gaol, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for such Time as the said Justice shall, in his Discretion deem proper, not being less than Six Months, nor more than Twelve Months. XIV. And be it further enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for the said Justice, and he is hereby required, to issue a Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to cause Search to be made for such Certificate ; and if the same shall be found, the said Justice shall cause th«^ same to be delivered to the Owner, nr such of the Owners as shall have made the said Complaint ; and if the same shall not be found, the said Justice shall and he is hereby required to certify the aforesaid Detainer, Refusal, and Conviction, to the Person or Persons who granted the last Certificate of Registry for such Ship or Vessel, who shall, on the Terms and Conditions of the said Acts being complied with, make Registry of such Ship or Vessel de novo, and grant a Certificate thereof, conformably to the Directions of the said Acts, notifying on the Back of such Certificate the Ground upon which such Ship or Vessel was so registered de novo. Justices may issue Warrants to search for Certificates, &c. and,if not found, to certify the same to the Person who granted the last Certificates, that fresh ones nay be given. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) <^.*^J^ ^Z^ e ^^4^ ^ 1.0 I.I 115 Ui|28 122 ^^ ut Ui |Z2 S? U° 02.0 u llaBi 111.25 II 1.4 U4 ^ 6" — ► ^ .V 7 -^ Photogra{iiic Sciences Corporation 23 WIST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14SS0 (716)873-4S03 '^ # ^ > ,,.'■-;-, 1-- ;,■• ■*.-! IJ* S8*6BORGII III. Up.39. *-'■ i, >«^>3i>ikD,: 4'^;j^'^ .ift- iOjfifl Ijliiia:. 3>..- . .« lo^tai^ ^»»k / '^7 Anno28«GEORGii III. Cap. 39; An Act to allow the ImiM^r^tion of Rum or other Spirits from His M^yefty^s Colonies' |b^ Plantations in the West Indies into the Pro- ^' vince of QuebeOr without Payment of Duty, under certain Conditions and Restrictionii. . •-f>:'tin£i-J h&\ lii s'Xii&l .iW-:VM.:i -M:. "1 ftamAxamt 1« 17ll»Sliifa which evriai Luatber, tec. from Quebec to the West Indie* the lait Voyage, to be permitted to import, Duty-free, into that Province a Quantity of Rum 3ttal to the Value the Lumber, &c. ■o carried. Ships carrying Rum from the West Indies to the said Province, and loading there with (lUraber, &c. to be permitted to enter, Duty-free, a Quan« ntf of Rum equal to the Value of the said Lumber, on oifing Bond as nerem mentioned. * VITHEREAS/ by an Act made and passed in the Fourteenth Tear of the Reign * W of His present Majesty, a Duty of Sixpence is imposed on every Gallon of * Rum, or other Spirits, which shall be' imported or brought into any Part of the * Prpvince of Quebec from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies : ' And whereas it would greatly tend to encourage a proper Commercial Intercourse ' between the said Province and the said Colonies, if Rum imported into the said * Province in any Ship or Vessel which shall carry from thence, and land in any of * His Majesty's Sugar Colonic in the West Indies, a Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, * Horses or Neat Cattle, was exempt from Payment of the said Duty ;' be it there* fore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, hy and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Paiw liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the First Day of August One thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, in all Cases wher§ any Rum, or other Spirits, being the Produce or Manuracture of any ot the said Colonies in the West Indies, shall be legally imported or brought into the said Pro- vince from any of the said Colonies, in any Ship or Vessel which in her last preced- ing Voyage shall have carried to and landed in any of the said Colonies a Car^o of Lumbar and Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, from the said Province, it shall and may be lawful to admit to an Entry and land any Quantity of such Rum or Spirits, not exceeding in Value the Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, so carried and landed, without Payment of the said Duty of Sixpence p^r Gallon. IL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in all Cases where any Rum or other Spirits, being the Produce or Manu&cture of any of the said Colonies in the West Indies, shdl be legally imported or brought into the said Pro- vince from any of the said Colonies, in any Ship or Vessel which, in her next clear- ing out from the said Province after such Importation, shall load with a Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, in the said Province, and shall carry to and land the same in some of the said Colonies, it shall and may be lawful to admit to an Entry and land any Quantity of such Rum or Spirits, not exceeding in Value the Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, so loaded, without Pay- ment of the said Duty of Sixpence per Gallon : Provided always, that the Owner or Owners of such last-mentioned Ship or Vessel, which shall so as aforesaid have legally imported such Rum or other Spirits, or in case of such Owner or Owners not resid- ing in the said Province, the Master or Person having or taking the Charge or Com- ound of such Ship or Vessel, together with One or more sufficient Sureties residing within the said Province, shall, before such Rum or other Spirits shall be so admitted to an Entry without Payment of the said Duty, give Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to be taken by the Two Principal Officers of the Customs there, in the penal penal Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, with Condition that the said Ship or Vessel shall, in her next clearing out from the said Prpvince after such Importation, be l^eii '«nth a Cargo of Lumbef'or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, equal in Value to the Rum or Spirits so admitted to an Entry, vathout Payment of the said Duty as afor&> said ; and that the said Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle^ shall be carried to and landed in some of the said Colonies in the West Indies. IU> And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Value of the Rum and Lomber Rum OT other Spirits so admitted to an Entry as aforesaid, aiidthib Value of the Cargo *ui''*J!*'?** **"**" of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, so loaded as aforesaid in the said ^aed SchJ^. [ Province, shall respectively be estimated and computed according to the Valuations contained in the Schedule annexed to this Act.* •.Difi'''- ■ Its IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That it Valuations in th* shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, by ^''•^'* ™5f m Order or Orders to be issued and published from time to time, to alter the ••*•••" »>y "»• ■••* Valuations contained in the said Schedule whenever it shall appear necessary or proper, upon any Representation or Report made by the Oovemor in Council dF the said Province. jet^ in Onmeil. ::'■* r( rhfl oi '•■nj * A new Schedule ii provided by 53 Geo. 3. c. 37. ' '\ Anno 29«Georgii 111. Cap. 16. ^: i; An Act to enable His Majesty to authorize, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Bread, Flour, Indian Corn, and Live Stock from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America^ into the Province of Quebec, and all the Countries bordering on the,. Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and the Islanc^s within the said Gulf, and to the Coast of Labrador. *. - . * TTTHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. ♦ VV His present Majesty, intituled * An Act for regulating the Trade between repealed, the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North. America, and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America *, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies ;' it is amongst other Things enacted, that no Goods or Commodities whatever shall be imported from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, by Sea or Coastwise, into the Province of Quebec, or into the Countries or Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River Saint Lawrence from the Sea, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, together with the Ship or Vessel importing the same, and all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunitioiu Tackle, and Apparel : And whereas it may be expedient, for the better Supply of ♦ the 176 The King by Order in Counol mav wthoriM the im- porting into Que- bec, &c. Bread, Flour, Inn Stock, •nd Indian Corn ; E'ded thejr be rted, oonform- tosiich Order, bjrBritiahSubJecU in British Ships; othermsetobe foffeited. Ibrfntnrat naj be isiied by Com- annders of Ships of War, fcc. and feooveredand ap- plied as Forfeitures respecting the Customs. 29'GEORGII III. Cap.53. < the Persons employed in the Fisheries carried on as well within the said Province ' as in all the Countries bordering on the Gulph of Saint Lawrence, and on the ' Islands within the said Gulph, and also on the Coast of Labrador, that certain * Sorts of Provision should be imported into the same from the Territories belonging ' to the said United States, when the Necessities of such Persons shall so require :' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritiul and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty in Council, by Order or Orders to be issued and published from time to time, to authorize, in case of Necessity, the bringing or importing of Bread, Flour, Indian Com, and Live Stock, as well into the said Province as into all the Countries bordering on the Gulph of Saint Lawrence, and into the Islands within the said Gulph, and also to the Coast of Labrador, for the then ensuing Season only, from any of the Territories belonging to the said United States of Ajnerica, for the Supply of the Persons employed in carrying on the said Fisheries : Provided always, that such Bread, Flour, Indian Corn, and Live Stock, so authorized to be imported or brought, shall not be imported or brought, except in conformity to such Rules-, Regulations, and Restrictibns as shall be specified in such Order or Orders, and except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, under the Penalty oi the Forfeiture thereof, together wiu the Ship or Vessel importing or bringing the same, and all her Guns, Furniture, Amniunition, Tackle, and Apparel. , . ^^ ^ XL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all and every the Goods or Commodities, and all Ships or Vessels forfeited by this Act, shall and may be seized by the Commander or Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer specially authorized by him or them, or by any Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs ; and that every Forfeiture and Penalty incurred by this Act shall and may respectively be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in such Courts, and by such and the like Way$, Means, and Method^ and the Produce thereof respecti\ Msposed of and applied in such and the like manner, and to such and the lilc °s and Purposes, as any Forfeiture incurred by any Law respecting the Revenue ox the Customs may now be sued for, prosecuted or recovered, disposed of and applied, either in this Kingdom, or in any of His Majesty's Dominions in Noirth America or the West Indies respectively, as the Case may happen to be. .: v .,;.:, Anno29°GEoiiGii III. Cap.53, An Act fpf further encouraging and regulating the Newfoundland, -f! ,v . . Greenland, ana Southern Whale Rsheries. * TXTHEREAS, as well by immemorial Us^ge as by the Provisions of former * y ▼ Laws, the Right and Privilege of frying Fish on the Island of Newfoundland f do nof belong to any of His Majesty's Subjects arriving there, except from Great ' Britain, former undland Great Britain, aiWk^^Mf^Bambikmkk Eurbpe; fior ]ftrey«iu!ag Fniids^ nd.thaebr better'notring «b Hk Vbiestftitud Subjects of Gmat Britain, and of < the other British DcnnSnians sh Europe, the full Advantages o^dife Firiiery carAed < eifc iicom thence, and of drying; Fish en the Shorn of die Island of Newfoundland ;' be it declared and cnaesed :bjr the Kiq^'s most Eatcdlent Majesty, by sind with the Advice and Oonseat of the hotia SfintvaX and Tenqkiral, and Gocnmons, in this present FkrGaanent assembled, and ij the Authority of the same. That no Fbh taken or caurtt t^ any of His jMiyeMy's Subjects or odier Persons arrivine at Newfoundland or its Dependencies, or on the Banks of the said bland, eitopt nom Great Britain, or one ta die British Donunions inEurope, shall be permitted to be landed or dried on the said Uand of Newfoundland, always exceptuig die Riehts granted by Trea^ to the Subjects of Ks most Chrkdan Mi^esty on diat Part of me Isluxd of Newfotmd- land bcgmnii^ at Cape Saint lohh, pasraig to theNordi, and descending by the western Gottt of thesaid Island to the Place called CapeRaye. » vivrtlj ,f>a<; s^lmifi^Kj ' i'l -^i-i Hi/)'ii frrff T ' •>/>«!>'» ■^f!J ,(f Anno29®GEORGii III. Cap. 56. .-1 nt ■•^■^.^'l •: :,>>;;!«! -s^-Y;-;!; nh.^f;,.k' »'7Js>[cM ' "*» ''<•>■ .V- •-j.'^y \- No Fish, unless caught by SublMts of Great Britain, or of the British Dominions in Eu- rope, to be landed or dried v. New- foundland, the Right as ceded to the French ex- cepted. ■f.ii An Act for explaining arid amending an Act, passed in the last Session of Parliamem, intituled * An Act for regulating the Trade between ' the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North ' America, and in this West India Islands, and the Countries belong-« * in^ to the United States of ^n^erica, and between His Majesty's * said Sul^ts and the Foreign Islailds in the West Indies.' ' TTTHEltEAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of: the Reign of His * V y present Majesty, intituled 'An Act for regulating the Trade between the * Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations, in North America and in the < West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America ; < and betii^een His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies ;' ' it is amongst other Things enacted, that no Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentind, * Hemp* Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, < or L^ber of any Sort ; Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheals < Rice, rOatp, Barley, or Gram of any Sort, shall be imported or brought into any * Island ^Qder the Dominion of His Majesty in the West Indies (in which Descrip- < don tht Buhama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Islands are included) from < any IslMd in the West Indies under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sove- < reign or State, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship or Vessel * in which the same shall be imported or brought, together with all her Guns, Fur- < niture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the * contrary notwithstanding : Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for * any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief for the < time being: of any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the Dominion of ' His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, with the Advice and Consent of their re- *• spective Councils, to authorize the Importationof Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Z ' Hemp, ,UiyrUi 28Qeo.3. C.6. recited. n .■■■ '-.•r~(ll'!'!'i't ■/-■'} 178 i^til-''' -!t )<» ■ '.'A ... ■ ■^ (1 «,.,(,.,. _^ ,. . ' ■ V 1 Fhmi Jan. 1790. if aaj of the Articles perniitted by the recited Acta to be imported into the Brituh West India Island* from Foreien West India Islanch shall be ex- Krted, th«w shall forfeited, mth the Vessel. Exporters of such Articles from the West Indies to make Oath that they have not been imported under the Authority of the reeited Act. Persons takine a false Oath to oe deemed guilty of Peijury. 39*OEOROU III. Cap. 56. * Heuq^ Flax, Mattt, Tarda, Bowaprita, Stavea, Heidiiig Boarda, Timber, Sh^lea, * or Lumber of any Sort ; Bread, Biicuit, Flour, Pea% Beana, Potatoea, Wnea^ * Rice, Oata, Barley, or Grain of any Sort, for a limited Hme from any bland h *, the Weat Indiea under die Dominion of an]^ Foreign European Sovereign or State * for the Supply of the Inhabitanta of the aaid lalanda ; and provided suwaya, that * auch Gooda and Gommoditiea ao authorized to be imported ahall not be imported * except by Britiah Subjecta, and m Bnttah'btQk Shipa' owned by Ifia Majeaty's * Subjecta, and navigated according to Law, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture above * mentioned : And whereaa it waa intended that the said several Articlea (herein- * before particularly enumerated) allowed to be imported from any bland in the * Weat Indiea under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, * into the said lalanda in the Weat Indies under the Dominion of Ifia Majeaty, ahould * be for the Supply only of the Inhabitanta of the bland into which the aame were'im< * ported ; and tnere is reason to believie that, contrary to the Intention of the said Act, * such Articlea, after having been so imported, have been re-exported to others of His * Majesty's Islands in the West Indies :' For Prevention whereof be it hereby declared and enacted by the King's most Excellent Ms^eaty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present P^lia< ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the First Day of January One thousand seven hundred and ninety, in case the said Articles, or any of them, which shall have been imported from any Island in the West Indies, under the Dominion of any Fordgn European Sovereign or State, into any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the Dominion of His Majesty, shall after such Importation bie exported, or shall be shipped 6^ laden on boara any Ship or Vessel, or shall be put on board any Boat or other Vessel, or shall be brought to any Quay, Wharf, or other Place whatever, with Intention to be shipped on board any Ship or Vessel for Exportation, then not only the said Articles, but also the said Vessel or Boat on board of which the same shall be shipped or laddi, or intended to be shipped or laden, shall be forfeited and lost, together with her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, andApparel. i ;?■■■: iWiyfr '^tHiHb'•?■'?■■•:,-••..,...: .n : -.r-: .:■;■-' :...:,_.. ; shall 29*OBOROn III. Cap.«d. lt» shall and mayc be prosecuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any of '^ His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West Indies. .. ; . ...,.- IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and erery the By whom forfaited Goods or Commodities, and all Ships or Vessels forfeited by this Act, shall and may Veu«b may b« „ be seized by the Commander or Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or '**'**• '''^^i Vessels of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer specially authorized ^'" by him or them, or 1^ any Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs; and that HowPemlUesmay every Forfeiture and Penalty incurred by this Act shall and may respectivdv be sued be recovered and for, prosecuted, and recovered in such Courts, and by such ana the liike Ways, *Pf^^' Means, and Methods, and the Produce thereof respectively diq;xMed of and applied in such and the like Manner, and to such and the like Uses and Purposes, as any For- feiture incurred by any Law respecdng the Revenue of the Customs nuy now be sued for, prosecuted or recovered, dispos^ of and applied, either in this Kmgdom, or ui any of His Maje^'s Islands in the West Indies respectively, as the Case may h^>pen to be. ■ A.- '■' a »i -7 ,-j American Tobaoco imported mto the West India lalands in Traffic ma^ be from thence im- girted into Great ritain. under the Restrictions herein mentioned. Anno29**GEORGii III. Cap.68. An Act for repealing the Duties on Tobacco and Snuff, and for grant- ing new Duties in lieu thereof. XV. PROVIDED nevertheless That if any Tobacco, of the Growth or Production JL of the said United States, which shall, in the fair and lawful way of Barter or Traffic between the People of the said United States and any of the People of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, be imported or brought from any I^ of the said United States into any of the said Islands by British Subjects, and in British- built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, it shall and may be lawful to export from any of the said Islands the same Tobacco* and to import It directly from thence into some one or other of the said respective .Ports herein-before enumerated, in a British-built Ship or Vessel of the Burthen of Olie hundred and twenty Tons or upwards, so registered and navigated as aforesaid, subject nevertheless to the several Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, and Provisiontt in this Act contained and provided for the Importation into Great Britain of Tobacco directly from His Majesty's said Colonies, Flautations, Islands, or Territories m America. ' XVI. Provided also, That the Name or Names of the several and respective Ships or Names of the Ves- Vessels in which such Tobacco shall be so imported from any Part of the said United "^**x^bi^ States into any of the said Islands in the West Indies, and also tho^sevef;^ and mto T^e West In- respective Names of the several and respectice Masters of such Ships or Vessels, shall dies, to be specified be particularly specified in the Manifest or Manifests, or Content or Contents in in the Manifests. Writing, accompanymg into Great Britain such Tobacco so imported, according to the Directions in this Act. XVO. And be it furdier enacted. That when any Ship or Vessel whatever shall Officers of the have taken on board Tobacco at any Port or Place whatever within His Majesty's Majes^'s Colonies . ' Z a • Colonies, in America to de- w IhrvtothcBlMtMi orV«Ml«,attba ported in pursuance of and according to theDirettions or this Act} any Law, Custom^ or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. ' " t l\K't ^'l»i SiViy ■.( wii .';ir,i Stili at . i d. ■ e 'It t*» . ' ttxi Jji Anno 30r Geobgii HI. Cap. 8^S ir. lU. < '/KiU '(Ala Ad 4ct to amend Two Acts made in the Tvirenty-eighth Year of the . Bei^ oJfHis pres«it Majesty, the one intituied 'An Act for regu- ^ lating the Trade betweoi the Subjects of His Majesty ^s Colonies and Plantakiooft in North America, and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belcngine to the United States of America, and between His Majesty^is said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies;* and the other intituled * An Act to allow the Importation of Rum (nt other Spirits from His Majesty^s Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies into the Province of Quebec,, without Pttyment of Duly, under certain Conditions and Re> Btrictions/ V ^4• 'il;c.*;^ s8«ni»3- j-v^-u)' O'.si ?f-«r<**qmj/xiK ,j;f-;u. .7 2*) Ocok 3. c. 0. iceiud*. XXTHEREAS by an Act passed m the Twenty*eighth Tear of the Rdgn of His ▼ ▼ present Majesty, intituled * An Act for regulating the Trade between the Sui^ts of His Mi^^'s Colonies and E^mtatious in North America, and in the West * India aO'fiEOiUGII iU^ Cap.«. \m •ofllie ■vMhXW (P.r * Indk IilMidi, ud th« GountriM belonginff to tbeUaitiil Stun of, , , * bccwwn Hn Majcity's said Subjects and aie Fordga labnda in.th« West Indies/;' * k is amongst otbar thiiws oaacted, that no Goods or Commodities whatever ahdl * bcJmpoitcd Atom any of the Territories belonging to the United States of Anuric*, * by Sea or Coastwise^ into the Province of Quebec, or. intn^ the^Countiies or Islaads * within the Government theveof, or up the River Saint Lawrence from the Sea>: * And whereas it is found necessary to give to the. Governor of the said Province of *■ Quebec the like Power as is now by Law given' to the Governors of Nova SootJ)i *■ and New Brunswick, with the Advice of their Councils respectively, of authorizing f^ * the Importation, by Sea or Coastwise, into the said Province of Quebto,^ in Gasas>ot' * Emergency, of certain Sorts of Provisions from any of the Territories belonging to * the said United States of America }' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Ex- w. n nu,^ ,'y cettent Majes^, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem» • ' -^ poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and mav be lawful, in case of public Emergency and Distress, In caae of Ener- for the Governor of the said Province of Quebec, or Lieutenant Governor or Com- gfncy theGom«or mander in Chief for the time being, with the Advice and Consent of the Council of JheConMotortlw the said Province, to authorize the Importation, by Sea or Coastwise, into the said Council, mar u- Province of Quebec, or into the Countries or Islands Urithin the Government thereof, thorize the hnport- or up the River Saint Lawrence from the Sea, of Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, Jj*""' ^!f S«* <» or Live Stock of anjr Sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheats JUce^ StSriK. fiw* Oats, Barley, or Grain of any Sort, or Flour madetthereof, for a limited Time, from the United Suta any of the Territories belonging to the said United States, for the Supply of the by British Sutjeeti, Inhabitants of the said Ptovince^ and of the Countries or Islands within the G|ivfrii« ^'"^ BritUh-built m'int thereof: Provided always, that the said Goods and Commodities so autnbrized ''^ to be imported shall not be imported except by British Subjects, and in British- built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, and also of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be so imported, together with her Guns, Furniture, Ammunitiott^ Tackle^ and Apparel. (Uj- n. * And whereas by an Aiit jkssed in the said Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign < of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act to allor.' the Importation of Rum or * other Spirits from His Majesty's Cobnies or Plantw .»r«t in the West Indies into < the Province of Quebec, without Payment of Dut^, ur Jer certain Conditions and * Restrictions ;' Rum, being the Produce or Manuracture of any of His Muesty's * Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, is allowed to be imported from the said Colonies, * without Payment of Duty, into the said Province^ not exceeding in Vdue a Cargo ' of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, carried from the saki Province * and landed in the said Colonies : And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the said ' Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, are thereby required to be of the ' Produce or Growth of the said Province ;' be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Lumber (except White Oak Staves), Proviaons, Horses or Neat Cattle, exported under the Conditions and Regulations of the said Act, shall be of the Growth or Produce of the said Province of Quebec, and no other. III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all and every the Goods or Commodities, and all Ships or Vessels forfeked by this Act, shall zs^d may be seized by any Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs, or by the Coijimander »-••.■ 1 . . 'or 28 Geo. 3. 0.39. \ recited. ■ .I..-' Lumber, &c. ex- ported under the recited Act (except White Oak Staves), to be of the Pro- duce of Quebec. By whom Seizures may be made. 1S2 30*O£ORGII III. Cap. 37- or Omunnden of uw of Hit Majesty'i Ships or VcMcla of War, or aiy Comminioned, How Forfeiturw Wwnot, or Petty Officer apecially authorised by him or them ; and that every an to be recoTwwl Forfeiture and Penalty incurred by this Act shall and nuy respectively be sued for, and applied. prosecuted, and recovered in such Courts, and by such and the like Ways, Means, and Methods, and the Produce thereof respecdvely disposed of and applied in such > "« and the like Manner, and to such and the like Uses and Purposes, as any Forfeiture incurred by any Law respecting the Revenue of the Customs now may be sued for, prosecuted or recovered, dispMea of and implied, either in this Kingdom, or in any of Hia Majesty's Dominions in North America or the West Indies req>ectively, as the Chc may niqipen to be. dommeocement of Act. 'M-. ■ 17. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That this Act shall comfaience and be in force from and after the First Day of May One thousand seven hundred and ninety. rt,'„..i.it»i.i, ' M- From August 1, 1790. SubJecU of the United States of America, settling in the Bahama Islands, tec. may import Nwroes, fcc. Dutj-iree, to the Value herein specified, &c. Anno30"GEORGii III. Cap. 27. !'•» An Act for encouraging new Settlers in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America.. .-;<-r-^ * TXTHEREAS it is expedient that £ncourap;ement should be given to Persons fW that are d^Msedto come and settle m certain of His Majesty's Colonies f and Plantations in America and the West Indies ;' be it therefore enacted by the Erne's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temponl, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of me same. That firom and after the First Day of August One thou- sand seven hundred and ninety, if any Person or Persons being a Subject or Subjects of the Territories or Countries belonging to the United States of America, shall come from thence, together with his or their Family or Families, to any of the j^ama, Bermuda, or Somers Islands, or to any P^ of the Province of Quebec or of Nova Scotia, or any of the Territories belonging; to His Majesty in North America, for the Purpose of residing and settling there, it shall be lawful for any such Person or Persons, having first (Stained a Licence for that Purpose from the Governor, or, in his Absence, the Lieutenant Governor of the said Islands, Colonies, or Provinces respecdvely, to import into the same, in British Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, any Negroes, Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry, or Clothing free of Duty : Provided always, that such Household Fur- niture, Utensils of Husbandry, and Clothibg, shall not in the whole exceed die Value of Fifty Pounds for every White Person that shall belong to such Family ; and the Value of Forty Shillings for every Nenro brought by such White Person ; and if any Dispute shall arise as to the Value of such Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry, or Clothing, the same shall be heard and determined by the Arbitra- tion of Three British Merchants at the Port where the same shall be imported, one of such British Merchants to be appointed by the Governor, or, in his Absence, the Lieutenant Governor of such Island or Province, one by the Collector of the Customs at such Port, and one by the Person so coming with bis Family. II. And 3(r6EOtlGiI m. Cap. 29. 183 t'^ II. And be it further enacted, That all Sales or Barnins for the Sale of any Negro, ii*l« of NegroM, Houaehold Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry, or Clotning so imported, which shall ^"'•.r' !fl!£?'^ be made within Twelve Calendar Months after the Imporution of the same (except Month- tobs raid inCasesoftheBankruptcyorDeathoftheOwner thereof), shall be null and void to ' alllntents and Purposes whatsoever. - •' III. And be it further enacted. That every White Person so coming to reside, if All White Fwien above the Age of Fourteen Years, shall and he is hereby required, immediately after fT'i!''k!°f?l!'*# his Arrival, to take and subwrribe the Oath of Allegiance to His Majestv. His Hairs aiIcSum! ?W and Successors, before the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Chief Magistrate of wa^ of Fourtssn the Place where such Person shall arrive, and at the same time swear that it is his ^*^ <*l<'- Intention to reside and settle in such Island or Province } for which Oaths such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Chief Magistrate, shall receive the same Fee, and no more, as is payable by Law on administering the Oath of Allegiance in Cafes where the same is now by Law required. • , ..,..,. rv. < :\iij ' ' Anno30"GEORGn III. Cap.29. An Act for amending an Act passed in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act for allowing ,' ' * the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods, Wares, and' ' Merchandize in the Ports of Kingston, Savannajh la Mar, Montego ' * Bav, and Santa Lucea in the Island of Jamaiica, in the'l^ort of / * Saint George in the Island of Grenada, in the Port of Roseau, in * the Island of Dominica, and in the Port of Nassau in the Island of * New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, under certain Regu- * lations and Restrictions ;' and for regulating the Duties on the Importation of Goods and Commodities, the Growth and Production ' of the Countries bordering on the Province of Quebec. 11. * A ND whereas it is expedient that Goods or Commodities, the Growth or Pro- *x\. duction of any of tne Countries bordering on the Province of Quebec, and * brought into the said Province in conformity to the Laws of that Province, should * be permitted to be imported into this Kingdom in the same manner and on the * same Terms and Con4itions as such Goods and Commodities sac now imported * from the said Province of Quebec ;' be it further enacted. That from and after the First Day of July One thousand seven hundred and ninety, all Goods and Commo- dities whatsoever, being the Growth or Production of any of the Countries bordering on the Province of Quebec, and brought by Land or Inland Navigation into the said Province, conformably to the Regulations established by Law in the said Province for bringing in the same by Land or Inland Navigation from any of the Countries bordering thereon, shall and nuy be imported into any Part of Great Britain from the said Province of Quebec, and the same respectively shall be admitted to Entry, and be charged From Julv 1. 1790, Goods of the Growth of the Countries border- ing on Quebec, imported into that Province, may be imported into Great Britain from thence. 'M ,sb *ii (It '^i -((I 1 11' .14 31*G£ORQll III. Ciip.lO. chvfKl irilb Daty, or txcMpttd from Datv. itt like «MU«r at Mch Ooodf and Commodkiet mpccdwly would be charged wkh or aMropted from Duty, if dfe eame were of the Growth or Productiun of the said PMvince of Quebec, and w«re imported idirectiy from thence into Great Britain { provided it ahaU appear, by Cer* tiftcate under the Hands and Seals of the Collector and OomptroHar of ihe Customa, and the Naval Officer there, that the same respectively were brought into the Province of Quebec, conformably to the Regtdationa eatabfiabcd by Law in the said Pro- rmcei by Land or by Inland Navigation, from the Countries bordering thereon, «nd specifying from what Places the same were reapectively brought into tlie said Province} and that the like Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, and Conditions «re observed and performed, on their bein^ unported into Great Britain, as are teauired for the like Goods and Commodities respectively imported into Great Britain from the said Province of Quebec, and under and subject to the like Con- ditidns. Penalties, and Forfutures, and to the like Modes for Recovery and Appliouion thereof.' - *-'!Si,*#f- ...i>-j-{.A/; -^m ■;■ ." u *i •J«l^« »/!j yir»jNf AnnoSrCEORGii III. Cap.30. All Act foi' regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, and the Payment of the Duty on Foreign Corn imported, and of the Bounty on British Corn exported, j •/' nn ^odxi «'ir- ,. InhabiianU of Guernsey, &c. may tnuitport directly from thence to Newfoundland, he. for the Use of the Fishery, the Wheat, &c. al- lowed to be im- ported into these Islands, agreeably to 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. On the Importation of Com, as the Growth of Ireland. &c. the Master to bring a Certificate from the Officer of >/' lit xn lade land, or to any other of the British Colonies or Plantations in America where the Fishery is now or shall hereafter be carried on, on board any Ship of Vessel which may lawfully trade there, the whole or so much of the Wheat, Rye, Barley, and Meal, Flour, Malt, Biscuit, or Peas, so allowed to be imported into the said Islands, as shall be fit and necessary for the Fishery in thote Parts, or for the Use and Support of the Mariners or other Persons employed on board the Vessels, or on shore, in carrying on the said Fishery, in the same Manner, and imder the same Limitations and Restrictions, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as are prescribed in and by an Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act to permit the Inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey to export * directly from thence to Newfoundland, or the British Colonies in America, Goods * necessary for the Fishery, imder certain Restrictions, and to import from thence * non-enumerated Goods (except Rum), and to land the same in the said Islands,' as if the same were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this present Act ; any Law or Statute to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. XVn. And be it further enacted, That upon the Importation into C- teat Britain of any Com, Meal, or Flour, as of the Growtn or Production of Ireland, or the Pro- vince of Quebec, or the other British Colonies or Plantations in North America, the Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of the Vessel in or on board of which the same shall be imported or brought, shall bring with him a Cer. 3]*GEOR6II ill. Cap.31. n' CerUficate or Certificates from the Chief Officer or Officers of the Cuatome In the fl>" PorOrhere such Com, Meal, or Flour shall be put on board, expreaiing the Quantity 1^ and Sort of Corn, Meal, or Flour put on board, and mentioned in the BUI or Bills of Lading, with the Name or Namev, Phce or Places of Abode of the Ex- fnrter or Exportere, and the Name or Names, Place or Places of Abode of such other erson or Persons who shall hare sworn that the Com, Mod, or Flour theWiin men- tioned, is boni fide of the Growth or Producdon of Ireland, or the Province of Quebec, or the other British Colonies or Plantations in North America respectiTely, and where and to whom consigned ; and the Master, or other Person having or tddne the Charge or Command of the Vessel importing or bringing in the same, duul on Arrival in Great Britain make Oath before the Collector or Comptroller, or other Chief Ofljcer of the Customs at the Port in Great Britain where such Vessel shall arrive, who arc hereby authorized to administer the said Oath, that the Cora, Meal, or Flour imported or brought in such Vessel, is the same which is mentioiied and contained in the said Certificate or Cerdficates; on Failure whereof, such Com, Meat, or Flour shall be deemed and taken not to be of the Growth or Producdon of Ireland, or the Province of Quebec, or the other Bridsh Colonies or Plantations in North America, but shall be considered, to all Int? its and Purposes, within the Meaning of this Act, as Corn, Meal, or Flour imported or brought into Great Britain from some other Fordgn Country. 185 Port, txpresi* the Quantity, •I :.. An .1 I :' , i \'..*n ■TX'.' ,y-r^-:. • Anno Sr Georgii III. Cap.31. ij n Act to repeal certain Parts of an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for making more effectual * Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North * America ;' and to make further Provision for the Government of the said Province. 11. * A ND whereas His Majesty has been pleased to signify, by His Message to both *XJL Houses of Parliament, His Royal Intention to divide His ftovince of < Quebec into Two separate Provinces, to be called The Province of Upper Canada, * and The Province of Lower Canada ;' be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That there shall be within each of the said Provinces respectively a Legislativie Council, and an Assembly to be severally composed and constituted in the maimer herein-after described ; and that in each of the said Provinces respectively. His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall have Power, during the Continuance of thib Act, by and with the Advice and Consent'of the Legblative Council and Assembly of such Provinces respectively, to make Laws for the Peace, Welfare, and good Government thereof, such Laws not being repugnant to this Act ; and that all such Laws being passed by the Legislative Council and Assembly of dther of the said Provinces respectively, and assented to by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or assented to in His Majesty's Name, by such Person as His Majesty, His Heirs pr Successors, shall from time to time appoint to be the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of such Province, or by such Person as I& Majesty, Mil Heirs andiSuc- A a cesser*, ■ • r ■ M -■» ,■■■-»' Within •sell of the intended Flromce» a Legialativfe Council and A^ sembly to be 000* stituied, by whoSe \dvice His Ifijwty may make Lam for the Gomn-' meal of the Frannca. 186 i* Laws in force at the CommeDce- ment of this Act to continue lo, except repealed or raried bj" '•"■^ &c. l8Geo.3. c. 12. recited. Thit Act not to prevent the Opera- tion of any Act of Parliament, esub- lishing Prohibitions or infiMing Duties for the R^Mlation of Navigation and ('ummerce, &c. 31*GEORGII III. Cap.31. ccssors, Khall-frora time to time appoint to administer the Government within the same, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be, by virtue of and imder the Authority of this Act, valid and binding to all Intents and Purposes whatever, within the Province in which the same, shall have been so passed. , XXXIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances which shall be in force on the Day . to be fixed in the manner herein*afcer directed for the Commencement of this Act, within the said Provinces or either of them, or in any Part thereof respectively, shall remain and con- tinue to be of the same Force, Authority, and Effect, in each of the said Provinces respectively, as if this Act had not been made, and as if the said Province of Quebec had not been divided ; except in so ^ as the same are expressly repealed or varied by this Act, or in so ^ as the same shall or may hereafter, by virtue of and imder the Authority of this Act, be repealed or varied by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Councils and Assemblies of the said Provinces respectively, or in so £ur as the same may be repealed or varied by such temporary Laws or Ordinances as may be made m the manner herein>after specified. XLVL * And whereas by an Act passed in the Eighteenth Tear of the Reign of < His present Majesty, intituled * An Act for removmg all Doubts and Apprehen- * slons concerning Taxation by the Parliament of Great Britain, in any of the * Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in North America and the West Indies ; and ' for repealing so much of an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His < present Majesty, as imposes a Duty on Tea imported from Great Britain into any * Colony or Plantation in America, or relates thereto }' it has been declared, that ' the King and Parliament of Great Britain will not impose any Duty, Tax, or Assess- ' ment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's Colonies, Provinces, and Planr- * ations in North America or the West Indies, except only such Duties as it may be < expedient to impose for the Regulation of Commerce, the Net Produce of such * Dudes to be always paid and applied to and fbr the Use of the Colony, Province, or * Plantation in which the same shall be respectively levied, in such manner as other * Duties collected by the Authority of the respective General Courts or General ' Assemblies of such Colonies, Provinces, or Plantations, are ordinarily paid and * applied : And whereas it is necessary, for the general Benefit of the Bridsh Em- < pire, that such Power of Regulation of Commerce should continue to be exercised * by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, and the Parliament of Great Britain, ' subject nevertheless to the Condition herein-before recited, with respect to the * Application of any Duties which may be imposed for that Purpose :' Be it there- fore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent or affect the Execution of any Law which hath been or shall at any time be made by His Majesty, His Heirs or Succes- sors, and the Parliament of Great Britain, for establishing Regulations or Prohibitions, or for imposing, levying, or collecting Duties for the Regulation of Navigation, or for the Regulation of the Commerce to be carried on between the said Two Pro- vinces, or between either of the said Provinces and any other Part of His Majesty's Dominions, or between either of the said Provinces and any Foreign Country or State, or lor. appointing and directing the Payment of Drawbacks of such Duties so imposed, or to give to liis Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, any Power or Authority by . 31* GE ORG! I III. Cap. 38. by and with the Advice and Consent of such Legislative Councils and Assemblies respectively, to vary or repeal any such Law or Laws, or any Part thereof, or in any manner to prevent or obstruct the Execution thereof. 187 --■v XL VII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Such Duties to be net Produce of all Duties which shall be so imposed shall at all times hereafter be applied to the Use applied to and for the Use of each of the said Provinces respectively, and in such proJSJSr*^"*' manner only as shall be directed by anyXaw or Laws which may be made by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legis- lative Council and Assembly of such Province. Anno Sr Georgii III. Cap.38, An Act to amend an Act made in the Twen^reighth Year of His present Majesty's Eeign, for regulating the Trade oetween the Sub- jects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies ; and also an Act made in the Twenty-seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goodsi, Wares, and Merchandize in the Ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay, and Santa Lucea in the Island of Jamaica, in the Port of Saint George in the Island of Grenada, in the Poit of' Bosea in the Island of Dominica, and in the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, under ceitaio RegUr lations and Restrictions. / /■_■/ ///. ■■■^(j^ WHEREAS, by an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Tear of His present 28 Geo. ^. c. «. Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for regulating the Trade between the recited. Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America ; ^ and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies,* it is amongst other things enacted, that no Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, or Lumber oiF any Sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Pease, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, or Grain of any Sqrt, should be imported or brought into any Island under the Dominion of His Majesty in the West Indies (in which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Islands are included) from any Island in the West Indies under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, under the Penalty of the Fo^rfeiture thefeii^' i^entioned : And whereas it is A a 2 * equally :*T''!"^"<^'^'"T':r^ ; -■■r-. 1B% 3i*G£0RG,II in. Cap. 38. * a^mll); ocpedtient that the said Articles should not be imported, or brought froifi * aav Fpreigii Colony or Plantatioa whatsoever, on the Continent of South America, * belonging to any Foreign European Sovereign or State:' May it therefore please Tour Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty».by and with the Advice and, Consent of the Lords Spiritiud and Temporal, and Gooomons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by. the Authority' of the 8Mne»That from and after the FirstDayof August One. thousand seven hundred and ninety-oDe,. no Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp. Flax, Masts, Yards, Bow- SttitB, Staves, Heading BoardiSt Timber, Shingles, or Lumber of any Sort, Bread, iscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat,, Rice, Oats,. Barley, or Grain of any Sort, shall be imported or brought into any Island under the Dominion of His Majesty in the West Indies (in which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Islands are included) from any Colony or Plantation whatsoever, on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be imported or brought, together with her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel^ to be seized, sued for, prosecuted, and recovered,and the Produce thereof to be disposed of and applied, as any Forfeiture incurred under the said Act. n. Provided always. That it shall and may be lawful, in case of public Emergency or Distress, for any of the Governors^ Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief for the time being of any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the 'Dominion of His Majesty, Hifr Hdrs and Successors, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, to authorize the Importation of Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, or Lumber of any Sort, Bread, Biscnit;. Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, -Wheat, RijB^t Oatc^ Barley, or Grain of any Sort, for a Umited Time, from any Colony or Plantatipn on the Condnent of South America, belonging to any Foreign European Soverdgn or State, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Islands ; and pro- vide always, that such Goods and Commodities so authorized to be imported shall not be imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects and havigated according to Law, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture above mendooed. m. And be it further enacted, That in case the said Articles, or any of them, which shall have been imported from any Colony dr Plantation on the Continent of South America, belonging to any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the Dommion of His Majesty, shall after such Importation be exported, or shall be shipped or laden on board any Ship or Vessel, or shall be put on board any Boat or other Vessel, or shall be brought to any Quay, Wharf, or other Place whatever, with Intention to be shipped on board aay Ship or Vessel for Exportation, then, not only the said Articles, but also the said Vessel or Boat on board of which the same shall be shipped or laden, or intended to be shipped or laden, shall be forfeited and lost> together with her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel. Before aiw of the IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That before any Articles »pecifi«d Articlw yrhich nuy be legally Exported from the. said Islands in the West Indies under the are,«h.ppedforEx. 6 7 F __ Dommion From August 1, 1791. none of the Articles herein specified to be im- ported into the West India Itlsndi bom any Colony in South America, belonging to a Foreign European Sovereign, on Pe- nalty ofForfeiture ; except by the Au« tfaonty of the respective Gover- nors, in Caves of public Emergency, Any such Articles so imported, if attempted to be exporMi, to be forfeited, with the Vessel, &c. ai*G£ORGII lU. Cap.3g. IS» A His Majesty, and which are of the Description or Denomination of any porution, Ouh to :les herein-before oarticularlv enumerated and described, whether in *\\mr be made that they Do»»ii'.' of the ;. ucles herein-before particularly enumerated and described, whether in their '** ""'^" **"* *''*y unmanufactured or manufiwrtured State, shall be shipped for Exportation from any fmirorted ****"'** of the said Islands, the Exporter or Exporters thereof shall make Oath before the. Collector of His Majesty's Customs for the Island from which such Articles are to be exported, (who is hereby authorized and empowered to administer the same), that such Articles, or any Part of them, have not been so imported as aforesaid into the saiil Island, under such Authority as aforesaid, from any Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State. '; ■"V:;:^'%--':'^^'>r';;' "f-^^-'-.- V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if smy Person or Persons taking Persons whatever shall b« convicted of taking a &lse Oath touching any of the F^cts *^ ^^^^ 8»"''X directed or required by this Act to be testified on Oath, such Person or Persons so ** ^'J^'T' conTicted> as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and shall ' be liable to the Pains and Penalties to which Persons are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury, and shall and may be prosecuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West Indies. VI. And belt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That all and every the By whom Goods Goods or Commodities, and all Ships or Vessels forfeited by this Act, shall and may ^^ Vessels for* be seized by the Commander or Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or seized."*'^ * Vessels of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer specially authorized by him or them, er by any Oificer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs ; and that n. every Forfeiture and PeuUty incurred by this Act shall and may respectively- be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in such Courts, and by such and the like Ways, Means, and Methods, and the Produce thereof respectively disposed of and applied m such and the like manner^ and to such and the like Uses and Purposes, as any Forfeiture incurred by any Law respecting the Revenue of the Customs may now be sued for, prosecuted or recovered, dispo«ed of and applied, dtherin this King- dom, or in any of His Majesty's Islands in the West ladies respectively, as the Case may happen^ to bCi . - ' ''v il9p 33* G £ ORG 1 1 III. ^ Cap. 50. »!?¥f*iti. % 28 Cleo. 3. c. 6. Timber of certaia Species may be imported into His Mideitv's West laoia ulacd* from South America, 6ce. Anno33^GEORGii III. Cap.50. An Act to amend an Act, passed in the Twenty-seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for allowing the Importation and Exporta- tion of certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, in Foreign Ships, into and from certain Ports and Places in the West Indies; i^id for '^'^ amending so much of an Act, made in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as relates to permitting the Importation of Sugar into the Bahama and Bermuda Islapds in Foreign Ships; and so much of Two Acts, made in the Twenty- eighth and Thirty*first Years of His present Mwesty's Reign, as prohibits the Importation of Timber into any Island under the iDominion of His Majesty in the West Indies from any Foreign Colony or Plantation in the West Indies or South America ; and su much of the said Act, made in the Twenty-eighth Year of His pre^nt Majesty's Reign, as prohibits the Importation of Pitch, Tar, ^nd Turpentine into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick from any Country belonging to the United States of America. XIII. * A ND whereas by an Act passed in the Twenty-dghth Year of the Rdgn * J\. of His present Majesty, intituled, * An Act for regulating the Trade * between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North Ame- f rica, and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United * States of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands * in the West Indies ;' and by the aforesaid Act passed in the Thirty-first Year of 5 His present Majesty's Reign, it is amongst other Things' enacted, that no Timber f of any Sort shall bie imported or brought into any Island under the Dominion of * His Majesty in the West Indies (in which Description the Bahama Islands and * the Bermuda or Somers Islands are included) from any Island in the West Indies, f or from any Colony or Plantation whatsoever on the Continent of South America, f under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, under the ^ Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall * be imported or brought, togetherwith all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition^ Tackle, * and Apparel ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding: And * whereas it is expedient that the Planters, and others, being His Majesty's Subjects in the * Islands under the Dominion of His Majesty in the West Indies, should, notwithstand- ^ ing the Provisions so made in the said recited Acts passed in the Twenty-eighth and ^ Thirty-first Years of His present Majesty's Reign, be supplied from the Continent of * South America, and from the Islands of Trinidada and Porto Rico, with certain * Species of Timber to be used in the Construction of Mills and other Works * necessary in the Manufacture of Sugar ;' be it further enacted, That from and after the said Tenth Day of July One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, it shall and may be lawful to import in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and re- ^tered according to Law, into the said Islands under the Dominion of His Majesty in the West Indies, or any of th^m, from any Colony or Plantation on the Continent of 33«6EORGIl 111. Cap. 63. • * \ 191 uf South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Soverdgn or State, I"- or from the Islands otTrinidada and Porto Rico in the West Indies, or dthor of them, "\ the following Species of Timber ; that is to sav. Bully Tree, Purple Heart, Green < Heart, Black Heart, Mastic, Wallabaw, Yellow Saunders, Locusts, or Bastard \ Mahogany, bein^ the Growth or Production of any of the said Colonies, Plantations, V orlslsmds, notwithstanding the said recited Acts, or any other Act or Acts of Parlia- V ment now in force. \ XIV. ' And whereas by the aforesaid Act, passed in the Twenty-eighth Tear of His * present Majesty's Reign, it is enacted, that no Goods or Commodities whatsoever * shall be imported from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of * America into the Provinces of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, or the Islands of < Cape Breton, Saint John's or Newfoundland, or into any Country or Island within * their respective Governments, \mder the Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, together < with the Ship or Vessel importing the same, and all her Guns, Furniture, Ammu- * nition, Tackle, and Apparel : And whereas His Majesty's Subjects in the before* ' mentioned Provinces or Nova Scotia and New Brunswick contribute greatly to the ' Navigation of the British Dominions, by building great Numbers of Ships in the < Ports of the said Provinces, but are in want of Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine for the * Purposes aforesaid;' be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful, from and after Pitch, &c. tliePro- the said Tenth Day of July One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, to import duction of the Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, being the Growth or Production of any of the Territo- J^J^jJ/'**** ?^ ries belonging to the said United States of America, from any of the Territories of the inl^^rted from ° said United States, into the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ; provided thence into Non that such Pitch, Tar, or Turpentine shall not be imported except by British Subjects, Scotia and New and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to BritUlTs V'^t XV. And be it further enacted. That all Ships, Vessels, Goods, or Commodities, How Forfeitures or other Things, which shall be forfeited by virtue of any of the Provisions of this "* ^ be prose- Act, shall and may be seized and prosecuted, and the Produce thereof applied and '^^ """ *PP"*d' disposed ot in such and the like manner, and by such and the like Ways, Means, and Methods, as are provided in any of the aforesaid Acts respecting the Seizure and Prosecution of Forfeitures. '\ Anno 33^ Georgii III. Gap. 63. An Act to permit Goods and Commodities of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of. Asia, Africa, or America, legally imported into Ireland, to be imported from thence into Great Britain. * TTTHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twentieth Year of the Reign of His present 20 Geo. 3. c. «. ' V V Majesty, intituled • An Act to allow the Trade between Ireland and the Bri- "f «ed. ' tish Colonies and Plantations in America and the West Indies, and the British Set- ' tlements on the Coast of Africa, to be carried on in like manner as it is now carried ♦ on .•It: 192 aS'GEORGII III. Cap.GS. ' on between Great Britain and the said Colonies and Settlements,' it is among other ' Things enacted, that anv Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, of the Grovrtb, Pro- ' duct, or Manu&cture of tne Bridsh Colonies or Plantations in America or the West ' Indies or of any of the Settlements belonging to Great Britain on the Coast of * Africa, and nrhich by any Act or Acts of Parliament are required to be imported ' from such Colonies, Plantations, or Settlements, into Great Britain } and also any * other Goods which, having been in any way legally imported into the said Colonies, * Plantations, or Settlements, may now or hereafter be legally exported from thence <* for Great Britain, shall and may be laden in and exported from such Colonies, Plant- * ations, or Settlements respectively, and in like manner imported directly from * thence into the Kingdom of Ireland : And whereas it is expedient to permit and * allow, in the manner herein mentioned, the Importation into Great Britain from * Ireland of such Goods so imported into Ireland from the said Colonies, Plantations, * and Settlements, and likewise of other Goods and Commodities of the Growth, <* Production, or Manuiacture of Asia, Africa, or America, legally imported into * Ireland :' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted i and be it «nacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as- Goods legally im- sembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and aner the passing of this ported iQtolrebnd ^^^^ jj g|jjjj j^^ j„^g^ j^ lawful to import into Great Britain from Ireland, in British m blTmTOrtS^' ^ Irish-built Shipi^ owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, any Goods P* f - cr.. . which have been imported into Ireland from the aforesaid Colonies, Plantations^ or Settlements, by virtue of the said recited Act, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament ; and also to import in the Same manner, and subject to the same Rules, Regulations, Provisions, and Restrictions, as the like Goods may by Law be imported into Great Britain from Asb, Africa, or America, any other Goods and Commodities of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Asa, Africa, or America, legally imported into Ireland ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the c(mtrary notwithstanding. into Great Britain froin theDce ia British or Irish- built Ships, owned, ~&c. according to Law ^ provided the re- auiate Certificates from the Revenue Officetft be pro- duced. II. Provided always. That on the Importation of Goods, Wares, and Merchan- dise, of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Settlements, from Ireland into Great Britain, the same shall be accompanied with the like Documents and Certificates from the respective Revenue Officers there^ a» are or hereafter may be required by Law for the like Sort of Goods imported from thoice directly into Great Britain, except as herein is provided ; and the said Officers respectively are hereby authorized and required, on the Elxportation of such Goods from the said Colonies, Plantations, and Settlements respectively, for the Kingdom of Ireland, to grant the like Documents and Certificates as they now are or hereafter may be required by Law to grant on the Exportation thereof for Great Britain directly, under the Penalties and Forfeitures now by Law inflicted and incurred, or hereafter to be inflicted and incurred, on Failure thereof. -'•i 34'GEORGir III. Cap.42r&Cap.68. 193 "l\. Anno 34'' Geo RO 1 1 III. Cap. 42. \ An Act for granting to Foreign Ships, put under His Majesty's Pro- tection, the Privileges of Prize Ships, under certain Regulations and ' '^ Restrictions ; for allowing Aliens in Foreign Colonies, surrendered ''^ to His Majesty, to exercise the Occupations of Merchants or Factors; and for repealing an Act, passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of ^ His late Muesty, intituled * An Act for granting a Liberty to carry '; * Sugars, of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His ;'* Miyesty's Sugar Colonies in America, from the said Colonies * directly to Foreign Parts, in Ships built in Great Britain, and ' ' navigated according to Law ;' and also so much of an Act, passed in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, as amends the said Act. * VI. A ND whereas by an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Kmg 12 Car. 2. e. 18. * xjL Charles the Second, intituled * An Act for the encouraging and increasing recite^. * * of Shipping and Navigation,' it is enacted that no Alien, or Person not bom within * the Ajfegiance of our Sovereign Lord the King, His Heirs and Successors, or ■ ,., v;-; .fy,-. * naturalized or made a free Denizen, shall exercise the Trade or Occupation jof a ' / > •' * Merchant or Factor in any Lands, Islands, Plantations, or Territories to His Ma> ' ■\^ * jesty belonging, or in His Possession, or which might thereafter belong unto or be * in the Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Asia, Africa, or * America, upon Pain of the Forfeiture and Loss of all his Goods and Chattels, or ' which are in his Possession :' Be it enacted, That every Person, although an Alien AUem residing in bom, and not naturalized nor nuu)e a free Denizen, who shall redde in any Island "^^^^ '"'^. or Phce which has surrendered, or which shall hereafter surrender to His Majesty, ^\^ in't^" and be in His Majesty's Possession in the West Indies, and who shall have taken the West Indiw may Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to His Majesty, according to the Terms of the Capi* «ct as Mefcbanto tulation under which such Island or Place shall have surrendered, shall be, and shall "^ I^tors. from the Time of such Surrender be deemed to have been entitled to exercise the Trade or Occupation of a Merchant or Factor in any such Island or Place j any thing in ):t^e s^d Act contained to the contrary notwithstajpid^g. \ ^**«»«r ■ Anno 34® Georgii III. Cap. 68. An Act for the further Encouragement of British Mariners ; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. ' TTTHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of die Reign of His late * V V Majesty Kin^ Charles the Second, intituled < An Act for the epcoura^g ' and increasmg of Shipping and Navigation,* and by several subsequent Acts, Bntisn B b ^ Ships , c. 18. t'-^-^!^,^JMiR..-tf,. '- «*. ,A"*.<' .,^*, I ft'. c '^y/l/^^-<''^<' '■\ 34'G£OROII 111. Cap. 68. , ■(. '<: .*^-. iflr. ■#:^ After Six Months from the Conclu- sion of the present War, no Goods, ko. to be imported into Oreu Britain, hi:. Proportions of British Marinen to be so the whole Voyage, unless in certaio Cases. Act not to alter any Rq;ulation8 for which special Pro'vinon has been made. Who shall be deemed Briush Seamen. * Sliips importing Goods of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Asia, Africa, < or America, are required to be navi^ted with a Master and Three.fourths of the * Mariners British Subjects ; and the hke Ships, importing certain Goods particularly * enumerated and described in the said Acts, are required to be in like manner navi- * gat^d, under the Penalty of Forfeiture of all such Goods a» shall be loaden and < caitiol in any such Ship or Vessel, with the Ship or Veisel, and ad her Guns, < Ammnnition, tackle, and Apparel : And whereat the Safety and Strength of thu * Realm greatly depend on the giving all poesiMe Encouragement to the training up < and Employment of British Marinera^ and it it therefore expedient that all Bntish * Shma and Vessels should be required to be navigated in such manner as will best ' tend to promote that important Object ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most ^jccellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the Expiration of Six Months ftom the Conclusion of the present War, to be notified in manner herein-after mentioned, no Goods, Wares, or Merchandize whatever, shall be imported or brought into any Port or Place in the Kingdom of Great Britain, or in the blands of Guernsey, Jersey, Aldemey, Sark, or Man, on board any Ship or Vessel which is or shall be registered, or which by Law is or shall be required to be registered, as a British Ship or Vessel, unless such Ship or Ymttl shalii be navigated by a Muter and Tlv ee-rourths at least of the Aftuiners Blitiab SubjesiB. ♦ ■ V. And be it forther enacted. That where it is required by this or any other Act that the Mipter^ and the whole or any proportion of the Mariners of any Ship or Vesaeli shall be British Subjects, the true Intent and Meaning is, that the Master and the whdfcor such proportions shall be British Subjects during the whole Voyage, unless in case of Sickness, Death, Desertion, or of the whole or part of the Crew being taken Prisoners in the Voystte, and in such Case the Master, or other Person having the Charge or Command ol such Ship or Vessel, shall specify the same in his Report: Provided also, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be c<»i^ strued to extend to alter or in anywise afik:t any Regulation for navigating or manning of Ships employed in any of the Fisberies earned on from this Kingdom, or any P^rt of His Majesty's Dommions, for which any special Provision has been made by any Act or Acts in force before the Commencement of this Act. VI. * And to prevent all Doubts respecting the various Terms made use of in the < several Laws of Navigation with respect to who are to be deemed and taken to be ' qualified to be Masters of British Ships, or to be British Sailors, Seamen, or * Mariners ;' be it declared and enacted. That no Person shall from henceforth be deemed and taken to be qualified to be the Master of a British Ship, or to be a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, within the Intent and Meaning of this Act, or of any other Act now in force, except the natural-born Subjects oi His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, or Persons naturalized by or by virtue of any Act of Parliament, or made Deniaent by Letters of Denization, or except Persons who have become His Majesty'^ Subjects by virtue of Conquest or Cession of some newly>acquired Country, and who shall have taken the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty, or the Oath of Fidelity reo quired by the Treaty or Capitulation by which such newly-acquired Country came into His Majesty's PossessioU} except as is herein-after provided. VIL 'And r- And 'Z^c<-^'^- ^^*^-«-^ 34*GEOttGU III. Gap. 68. 195 VII. * And whereas it is expedient that Fortigners who hare served or shall serve * faith^Mly on board His Majesty's Ships of War, in the present or any future War, * for the Time and in the Manner herein'«fter mentioned, should be dechtred to be ' British Sailors, Seamen, or Mariners, within the Intent and Meaning of the Laws * of Navigation, under certain Regulations ;' be it further enacted. That every Foreign Sailor, S«unan, or Mariner, who shall have served, or who shall server on board any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, in Time of War, for and during the Space of Three Years, ather in one and the same Ship or Vessel, or in different Ships or Vessels, and who shall have obtained a Certificate or Certificates from the Captain or Commander, Captains or Commanders, of such Ships or Vessels on board of which he shall have so served, or in case of the Death of such Captain or Com- mander, the* upon the Certificate of the Officer then living who shall have been next in Rank to &uch Captam or Commander, testifying that he has so served, and testi- fying his fiuthful Service and good Behaviour during the Time of such Service, and rho shall also have taken the Oath of Allegiance to His Msuesty before some Justice )f the Peace or Principal Magistrate of some City or Town in His Majesty's Dominions, ir before the Principal Officer of His Majes^'s Customs in any Port ot His Majesty's Dominions (which Oath they are respectively hereby authorized to adnpiinister ), and vho shall obtain a Certificate from such Justice of the Peaces Principal Magistrate, or Chief Officer, of his having taken such Oath (which Certificate they are hereby authorized and required to give^ upon the Payment of no greater Fee than that of One Shilling), shall, from and aner the Conclusion of the present War, be entiried to be employed as a Master of a 'British Ship or Vessel, or as a British Sailor, Seaman, or M(amer, on board any British Ship or Vessel, within the Intent and Meaning of this Ad, or any of the Laws now in force : Provided always that no such Foreigner shall be entitled to become the Master of any British Ship or Vessel, or to be employed ^s a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, unless he shall have delivered the before- mentioned Certificate or Certificates of the Time he shall have served, and of his £mhful Service and good Behaviour, and the before .mentioned Certificate of his so having taken the Oath of Allegiance, to the CoUecf;or or other Chief Officer of His M«esty's Customs in the Port of London, or in the Ports of Chatham, Portsmouth, or Plymouth, to be filed by such Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs, who are hereby required to deliver to such Foreign Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, an attested Copy thereof, upon paying the Fee of One Shilling, and no more. .- Vni. Provided always, and be it enacted. That no Person who is or shall become qualified to be the Master of l British Ship or Vessel, or to be a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, by Birth, Naturalization, Denization, Conquest, or Service, in manner hereinbefore mentioned, and who has taken or shall take any Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign Sovereign or Stato whatsoever, for any Purpose whatsoever, except under the Terms of some Capitulation upon the Conquest of any of the Dominions of His Majesty, His Hdrs or Successors, by any Enemy or Enemies, and for the Purpose of obtaming the Benefit of such Capitulation only, shall be deerhed and taken to be qualified to be the Master of a British Ship or ^'es6el, or a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, within the Intent and Meaning of any of the Laws of Navigation, unless such Person shall have takoisuch Oath of Allegiance before he became so qualified \ and any Person who ahalli atter havine become disqualified by takmg such Oath of Allegiance as afore, said, take the Charge or Command of any British Ship or Vessel, as Master or Coinmander thereof, shall for every such Offence forfeit »nd pay the Sum of One . : . B b a hundred Foreign Seanioik ■ervins Thre« Yean in the Navj, in tine of War, mar be employed as Maitera or British Seaneni on Certificate of their S«rTicea,lko. No Person who has taken an Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign Stat«, excupt in certain Cases, to be quali- fied to be a Master or a British Seaman. ft" $ 196 P«nalu on diM)ua> lifled PtTMDi tcliiig. VetMU not to be forfeited, if the Diaquelification wu unknown to the Owners. la America and the West Indies, and to the Eastward of theCaueofOood Hope, Negroes, &c. maj be employed as heretofore. No N^o of a Colony late under the Dominion of the French King to be employed as a Seaman, unless tlte Conditions of 34 O. .r c. 42. bi complied with. \L-t not tp affect my Proclamation under 13G.2.C.3. 34>GE0RGI1 111. Cup. 68. hundred Pounds i and evei^ Penon ^ho shall, after having become so diaqualified aa aforcaaid, engage to serve aa a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, on board any such Ship or Vessel,' shall forMt and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Ten Founds ; such Forfeitures respccdvely to be r ecov e red upon Conviction before a Justice of the Peace, if such Offence shall be committed in Great Britain, and before spectively, or to his Agent or Agents, and to the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel, at the Time of engaging such Person so disqualified to serve on board such Ship or Vessel : Provide always, that in the Navigation on the iSeas of America and the West Indies, from any Port of America and the West Indies to any Port of America and the West Indies, any Negroes belonging to any Person or Persons being or havi** ^ become His Majesty's Subjects in manner aforesaid, and with the Qualifications aforesaid, and in the Seas to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, from any Port to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope to any other Port to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, Lascars and other Natives of any of the Coun- tries to the Eastward of the Cane of Good Hope may be employed as British Sailors, Seamen, or Mariners, in manner heretofore practised : Provided nevertheless, that no Negro belonging to any Person who has become a Subject of His Majesty, in manner before described, in any of the Islands or Colonies late under the Dominion of His most Christian Majesty, shall be entitled to be employed in manner before mentioned as a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, unless all the Conditions required by an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled * An Act for grant- < ing to Foreign Ships, put under His Maiesty's Protection, the Privileges of Prize ' Ships,, under certain Regulations and Restrictions; for allowing Aliens in ' Foreign Colonies, surrendered to His Majesty, to exercise the Occupations of * Merchants or Factors *, and for repealing an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of * the Rdgn of HLs late Majesty, intituled " An Act for granting a Liberty to " carry Sugars, of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's " Sugar Colonies in America, from the said Colonies directly to Foreign Parts, in ** Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law ;" and also cj much ' of an Act passed in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, as amends * the said Act ;' shall have been complied with so long as the said Act shall con- tinue in force. IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to take away or restrain the Effect of any such Proclamation as His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, are empowered to make by virtue of an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled ' An Act for the better Supply * of Mariners and Seamen to serve in His Majesty's Ships of War, and on board' * Merchanf Ships, and other trading Ships Lnd Privateers.' X. And shall jesty, the d4*G£ORGll 111. Cap.68. Act. tobtiorfaitMi, withtbcVMMlilic. 197 X. Aiid be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Goods, Wares, <''x^ imported, or Merchandise whatever, shall be imported or brought, exported or carried Coast* *C'<""»|™7 ** *••'• wise, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, or any of them, all such Goods, Wares, *<*"'•<' and Merchandize, and also the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be so imported or brought, exported or carried Coastwise, with all her Guns, Furniture, Ammuni- tion, Tackle, and Apparel, shall be forfeited ; and also if any Ship or Vessel shall sail in Ballast, or shall sail to be employed in fishing on the Coast in manner herein* before mentioned, or being required to be manned and navkated with a Master and a certain Proportion of British Mariners in manner herein-before directed, shall not be manned and navigated according to the Provisions of this Act, such Ship or Vessel, with all her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel, and all the Goods, Wares, and Merchandize on board the same, shall be forfeited. ^* XL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every the ^y whom Qoodi, Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, and all Ships or Vessels forfeited by this Act, may Jn^ilTowForStwe. and shall be seized by the Commander or Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships mav be sued for. of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer, specially appomted by him and how applied, or them, or by any Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs ; and that every For- feiture incurred by this Act, and whereof the Recovery is not specially provided for by this Act, may and shall respectively be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in ' ' ' * such Courts, and by such and the like Ways, Means, and Methods, and, the Produce thereof respectively disposed of and applied in such and the like Manner, and to such and the like Uses and Purposes, as any Forfeiture incurred by any Law respecting the Revenue of Customs may now be sued for, prosecuted, or recovered, disposed of and applied, either in this Kingdom, or in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, s ' Bark, or Man, or in any of His Majesty's other Dominions in or out of Europe re- spectively, as the Case may happen to be. And XII. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in case any British Ship or Vessel shall be found at Sea, having on board a greater Num- ber of Foreign Mariners than is allowed by this Act, or any Law now in force, or hereafter to be made, and the Master of such Ship or Vessel shall produce a Certifi- cate of the actual Necessity of engaging such Foreign Mariners in some Foreign Port, by Occasion of the Sickness, Death, or Desertion of the like Number of British Mari- ners, or of the same having been taken Prisoners during his Voyage, and that British Mariners could not be engaged at such Foreign Port to supply their Room, and that, for the safe Navigation of such Ship or Vessel, it became necessary to engage and employ such Foreign Mariners, under the Hand of His Majesty's Consul at the Foreign Port wh^re the said Foreign Mariners were so engaged, or if there is not any such Consul there, under the Hands of Two known British Merchants at such Foreign Port, it shall not be lawful for any of the Persons authorized by this Act to make Seizures of Ships or Vessels navigated contrary to the Directions of this Act, to stop or detain any such Ship or Vessel so found at Sea, or to hinder her from proceeding on her Voyage ; but such Persons shall and are hereby required to endorse the Certi- ficate so produced, testifying the Production thereof^ and when and where met with at Sea, and that the Number of Foreign Mariners correspond with the Certificate of such British Consul, or such known British Merchants, for the Consideration and Inves- tigation of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scotland respectively. XIII. And On Production of Certificatea of the Neceflsity of en- gaging Foreign Mariners, no Vesael to be detained, but the Fertions autho- rized to make Seizures to endorse the Certificates for the Consideration of the Commis- sioners of Customs. (•." 198 34*OfiOROII III. Cap^^. NoUAoation in the XIII. And be it furth«r enacted. That for the Purpoiet of thi« Act, the Conclu- J *"^ *^be sion of the present War shall he holden to be from the Time that the Mme ahall be dS? of Wtf ."' "^^'^^ ^1 Proclamation or Order of Hia Majeity in CouncU, to be publiahed in The London Gazette. 30 0«o. 3. 0. 80. raoitad, ud r <*i![W - :■/ after Ju. 1,1795, no Tnuitfcr of Property in any Vmm to be Tuid, unlcu made agree- ably thereto. On Alteration of Property in Veweli in the Port to which they belong after January 1, 1795, the Endorse- ment to be made in a oertab Fomit FurmofEndone- meut. XIV. • And whereat by an Act pasied b the Twcnty-Mcth Tear <\f Ilts Majestv'i * Reign, indtuled * An Act for the further Increase and Encouragemcn* uf Shippui^ * and Navigation,' it ia amongst other Things enacted, that when and so often as the * Plropcrty m any Ship or Vessel belonging to any of His Majesty's Subjccu shall be * tnuuferred to any other or others of His Majetty'a Subjects in whole or in pert, * die Certificate of the Registry of such Ship or Vessel shall be truly and accurately ' recited in Words at length in the Bill or other Instrument of Sale thereof, and that * otherwise such Bill of Sale shall be utterly null and void to all Intents and Pur- * poses : And whereas Doubts have arisen whether, by the said Provision, ever; * Transfer of Property in any Ship or Vessel is required to be made by some Bill c. * other Instrument in Writing, and whether Contracts or Agreements for the Tr^nsfe^ ' of such Property may not be made without anv Instrument in Wr ing; \i<\ it enacted, That no Transfer, Contract or Agreement tlor Transfer of Propert , ir my Ship or Vessel, made or intended to be made after the First Dav of January One thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, shall be valid or effectual for any Purpose whatsoever, either in Law or in Equity, unless such Transfer, or Contract or Agreement for Transfer of Ph)perty in such Ship or Vessel, shall be mad^ by Bill of Sale, or Instrument in Writing, gontaining such Recital as prescribed by the said recited Act. „^ r^ XV. ' And whereas by the Laws now in force, upon any Alteration of Property in * any Ship or Vessel in the same Port to which sucn Ship or Vessel belongs, an £n- ' dorsement upon the Certificate of Registry is required to be made ;' be u enacted, That such Endorsement shall, from aad after the Fust' Day of January One thousand seven htmdred and ninety-five, ut made in the Manner and Form herein-afttr ex- pressed, and shall be signed by ihe Person or Persons transferring the Property of the said Ship or Vessel, by Sal^ or Contract or Aj^reement for Sale thereof, or by some Person legally authorized for that Piupose by him, her, or them ; and a Copy of such Endorsement shall be delivered to the Person or Persons authorized to makeRi||i[ttry, and grant Certificates of Registry, otherwise such Sale, or Contract or Agrcflneikt for the Sale thereof, shall be utterly null and void, to all Intents and Purposes whalloMier } $nd such Person or Persons so authorized to make Registry, and grant Certificates of Registry, are hereby required to cause an Entry thereof to be endorsed on the Oath or Affidavit upon which the original Certificate of Registry of sucl|, ^kip or Vessel was obtained, and shall also make a Memoranduir . th ' sarie in the Btook of Registry, and shall forthwith give Notice thereof to thp <^».n")v'^s^- Tiers of I" Ma- jesty's Customs in England anaScotland under whoni ^^^v ^ sj^cr: vely act: .. ^ Form of JpJidorsement on Change of Property. -^ ' * "Of it remembered. That [I 6t we] [lifames, Residence, and Occupation of the ' XJ ^ Tsons selling] have this Day sold and transferred all [my or our] Right, * Share, c. ' n*:Test, in and to the Ship or Vessel [Name of the Snip or Vessel], men- * tioneJ ic r ^ '«rirhin Certificate of Registry, unto [Names, Residence, and Qccupa- « tion ■fi :)4*GEDR^II III. Cari.tW. • tiun of the i\irchi«e7 $]. Witnesn [my or our Hand or HAHdt] 4iu [Diue iii * Woidi it AjN Length.] 1*1 aoaeni irom mv iivauiiiMMMni •roperty thereof 'ro™ '>>• Port to „ , , / when. Mil- ill. •Din • "gtied in the Prnsence of * [Two Witnfs,se8].' XVl Prorided alwu^ s, That il any Ship or Vemel shall be at Sea, or absent from th« If VMMlib«abMni PWt to which she belong?, at the Time when such Alteration in tin- Pi shall be made as aforesaid, so th. t anEndorsement or C vrtjfirate cannot made, the Sale, or Contract or Agreement for the Sale thereof, shall notwithMt < the Propeny ukall inr be made by a Bill of Sale, or other Instrument in Writing, as before directed \ mu. a Copy of such Bill of Sale, or other Instrument in Writing shall he delivered, and an Entry thereof shall be endorsed on the Oath or Affidavit, .uid a Memoranitutn thereof shall be made in the Book of Registers, and Notice of the aame shall be given to he Commissioners of the Customs, m the manner herein-before directed ; and with n Ten Days after such Ship or Vessel shall return to the Port to which she belong* an Endorsement shall be made and signed by the Owner or Owners, or some Persui legally authorized for that Purpose by him, her, or them, and a Copy ther< >f shall be delivered in manner herein-before mentioned, otherwise such Bill of Sale, ur Con- tract or Agreement for Sale thereof, shall be utterly null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and Entry thereof shall be endorsed, and a Memorandum thereof made, in the manner herein*before directed. be iiMde, th« Salfi til itill be made a fore dirooUtl. XVII. Provided also, and be it enacted. That in all Cases where the burner or f' . Owners of any Ship or Vessel shall reside in any Country not under the Dominion '^''"^- of Hk Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, as Member or Members of some British l^l^;^. Factory, or Agent or Agents for, or Partner or Partners 1. 1, any House or Copart- Counr. nership actually carrying on Trade in Great Britain or Ireland at the Time thciv>, when ne, she, or they shall transfer such Property in any Sh ip or Vessel, so th at an ^*'' **" Endorsement cannot be made immediately, nor a Copy of such Bill of Sale, or other Instrument in Writing, be delivered, nor an Entry thereof endorsed on the Oath or Affidavit, no* a Memorandum thertof made in the Book of Registers, nor Notice of the same gi>4n to the Commissioners of the Customs, in the man ncr before mentioned, ' the same may be done at any Time within Six Months after such Transfer shall have been made ; and that within Ten Days after such Owner or Owners, or some Person legally authorized for that Purpose by him, her, or them, shall arrive in this Kingdom, if such Ship or Vessel shall then be in any Port of this Kingdom, and if not, then within Ten Days after such Ship or Vessel shall so arrive, anEndorsement shall be made by the Owner or Owners, or some Person legally authorized for ti at Purpose by him, her, or them, and a Copy thereof shall be delivered in manner . ereln-before men- tioned, otherwise such Bill of Sale, or Contract or Agreement for Sale thereof, shall be utterly null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever ; and Entry thereof shall be endorsed, and a Memorandum thereof made in the manner herem-before directed. ml tor of Pro- hereOwn* •nany (under ion of .>*c • ", fi-:-',-r-t . :**'^^ XVin. « And whereas by an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign 28 Geo. 3. c. 34. of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act more effectually'to seen re the Perform- anc oF Quarantine, and for amending several Laws relating to the Revenue of Customs,' certain Provisions were, amongst other Thbgs, made to prevent thp Masttrs of Ships or Vessels from wilfully and maliciously detaining and refusing to * dekver .# 20Q ModeofProceed- inn when Masters wuhhold Certifi- cates of Re§|Utry.^ Penultjr for with- holding Certifi- cates. Justices to certify Detuner of Certi- ficates on which gistry may be ::Me de novo. Where Property is transferred, uo \ Vessel to be re- gistered de novo by the Register, unless Instrument of Sale be pro- duced i 34*GEQRGII III. Cap. 68. * deliver up the Certificates of Ships Registry, to the Prejudice of the Owners of ^ such Ships or Vessels : And whereas die good Purposes intended by those Provi- * ^ons have not been effected ; and it is therefore expedient to make further * Provisions for preventing the Masters of Ships or Vessels from withholdine Cer- * tificates of Registry, to the Prejudice of the Owners of such Ships or Vessels r Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesadd. That iq case the Master of any Ship or Vessel who shall have received the Certificate of the Registry thereof (whether such Master shall be a Part Owner or not), shall wilfully detain and refuse to deliver up the same to the proper Officers empowered to make Registry and grant a Certificate thereof, on the Owner or Owners, or the major Part of the Owners of such Ship or Vessel, if such Master has not any Property therein, or on 'the other Owner or Owners, or the major Part of the other Owners of such Ship or Vessel, if such Master hath any Share or Property therein, requiring him so to do, it may and shall be lawful to and for the Owner or Owners, or the major Part of the Owners of such Ship or Vessel, the Certificate of Registry of which shall be detained and refused to b&delivei<:d up as aforesaid, to make Complaint on Oath against the Master of the Ship or Vessel who shall so detain and refuse to deliver up the same, of sach De- tainer and Refusal, to any Justice of the Peace residing near to the Place where such Detainer and Refund shall be in Great Britain, or to any Member of the Supreme Court of Justice, or any Justice of the Peace in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, or Man, or in any Colony, Plantation, Island, or Territory to His Majesty belonging in America or the West Indies, where such Detainer and Refusal shall be in any of the Places last mentioned ; and on such Complaint the said Justice or other Magistrate shall and is hereby required, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to cause such ivlaster to be brought before him, to be examined touching such Detainer and Refusal ; and if it shall appear to the said Justice or other Magistrate, on Examination of the Master, or otherwise, that the said Certificate of Registry \s not lost or mislaid, but is wilfully detained by the said Master, such Master shall be thereof convicted, and shall forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds, and on Failure of Payment thereof he shall be committed to the Common G^ol, there to remain without Bail or Main- prize for such Time as the said Justice or other Magistrate shall in his Discretion deem proper, not being less than Six Months, nor more than Twelve Months. XIX. And be it further enacted. That the said Justice or other ^fagistrate shall and he is hereby required to certify the aforesaid Detainer, Refusal, and Conviction, to the Person or Persons who granted such Certificate of Registry for such Ship or Vessel, who shall, on the Terms and Conditions of Law being complied with, make Registry of such Ship or Vessel de novo, and grant a Certificate thereof conformably to Law, notifying on the Back of such Certificate the Ground upon which the Ship or Vessel wac so registered de novo, XX. * And whereas it is expedient that the Officers empowered to make Registry ' of Ships and Vessels, and to grant Certificates thereof, in case any such Sbp or * Vessel is required to be registered de novo, should be authorized to require the * Production of every Bill, or other Instrument of Sale, by which the Property in ' any Ship or Vessel is transferred ;' be it therefore enacted by the Authority afore- said. That when and so often as the Property in any Ship or Vessel belonging to any of His Majesty's Subjects shall by Sale be transferred, in whole or in part, to any other or others of His Majesty's Subjects, and such Ship or Vessel shall be required to t^^^^^ 34'GEORGII m. Gap.e8. 201 J to be registered de novo, it shall and may be jMrful to and for all and every the Officer and Officers empowered to make Registry of Ships and Vessels, and to grant Certificates thereof, to require, and he and they are hereby authorized and directed to require, the Bill or other Instrument of Sale thereof to be produced to him or them ; and in case such Bill or other Instrument of Sale shall be so required to be produced, and the same shall not be produced to such Officer or Officers, the said Officer or Officers shall not make a Registry, nor grant a Certificate of Registry de novo, for any such Ship or Vessel : Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for the ^.ut the Cummia- Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in Enghmd, or any Four or more of them, s'^n^" of t*>e Cus- and the Conimtioners of His Majesty's Customs in Scotland, or any Three or more SiwtioMfo^rt'he of them respectively, if Application shall be made to the said Commissioners of the Registry. Customs in England and Scotland respectively, and for the Governor, Lieutenant ^ Governor, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or of any Colony, Plantation, Island, or Territory to His Majesty belonging, if such Application shall be made to any of them respectively, upon due Consideration of the particular Circumstances of the Case, to give Direction for registering such Ship or Vessel de novo, and granting a Certificate of such Registry, notwithstanding such Bill or other Instrument of Sale shall not have been produced as aforesaid, and such Registry shall be made, and such Certificate thereof shall be granted accord. ingly : Provided always, that all the other Regulations required by the Laws in force concerning the Registry de novo of Ships and Vessels be complied with. X%.l. * And whereas by an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Tears of the 7&8W.3.C. 22. < Reign of His late Majesty King William the Third, indtuled * An Act fot prevent- < ing Frauds, and regulating Abuses in the Plantarion Trade,* it is amount odier < Things enacted, that in case there be any Alteration of Property in the same Port, < by the Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship after registering thereof, such Side < shall always be acknowledged by Endorsement on the Certificate of the Register • before Two Wimesses, in order to prove that the entire Property in such Ship *■ remains to some of the Subjects of England : And whereas it is expedient to author ' rize and require the proper Officers empowered to register Ships and Vessels, and ' to grant Certificates thereof, to issue Registers de novo in any Case where Part of • the Property of any Ship or Vessel shall be so transferred, if the Owners or Pro- • prietors of such Ship or Vessel, who were Owners thereof at the Time such Ship ' or Vessel was last registered, or whose Property therein has not been so transferred, ' shall be desirous of having a Certificate of Registry de novo, instead of the En- ' dorsement on the old Register, as now required j' be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in case there shall be any Alteration of Property in the same On Alteration of Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship or Vessel after registering l*roperty in Vessels thereof, and the Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors of such Ship or Vessel, [hey mavTe re*- '^' who were Owners or Proprietors thereof at the Time such Ship or Vessel was last gistered de novo, registered, or whose Property therein has not been so transferred, shall be desirous of having the Ship or Vessel registered de novo, it shall and may be lawful to and for the proper Officers empowered to register Ships and Vessels, and to grant Certificates thereof, and such Officers are hereby authorized and required, to register every such Ship or Vessel de novo, provided all the Rules, Regulations, and Conditions of the before-recited Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His present ^ Majesty, and of all other Laws in force concerning the Registry of Ships aid Vessels 'If novo, be complied with. Cc XXIl. «And •'^ri^w^ :: •i02 From March 1, 1795, on Transfer of Property to Persons not Sub« jects of His Ma- jesty, Blasters of Vessels to act as herein direeted; 34«G£0R6II III. Cap. 68. XXII. ' And whereis British Ships or Ves^s, the Property of which is in whole or * in part tnuisferred to Persons not being Subjects of His Majesty, are not entitled to ' the Privileges of British Ships and Vessels ; and to prevent Frauds in the Employ- * ment of such Ships or Vessels as British Ships or Vessels, contrary to the Intention of ' the Laws of Navigation, they are now by Law required in certain Cases to be registered ' de novo ; for which Purpose it is necessary that such Ship or Vessel should proceed ' with all due Diligence to the Port to which she belongs, or to any other Port in which ' die may be legally registered by virtue of the said Act, passed in the Twenty- < sixth Year of lus present Majesty's Reign* in order to be registered de novo ;* be it ena&ed. That from and after the First Day of March One thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, as often as any such Transfer of Property in any Ship or Vessel shall be made, while such Ship or Vessel is upon the Sea, on a Voyage to a Foreign Port or Ports, in case the Master of such Ship or Vessel is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not so privy, as soon as he shall become acquainted there- with, such Ship or Vessel shall proceed directly to the Port or Ports for which the Cargo then on board is destined, and shall sail from such Port or Ports, to which the Cargo then on board is destined, to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions to which she belongs, or to any other such Port in which she may be legally registered by virtue of the said Act, and such Ship or Vessel may take on board, in the Port or Ports for which her original Cargo was destined, or in any other Port or. Ports being in the Course of her Voyage to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions in whicn she may be so registered de novo, such Cargo, and no other, as shall be des- tined and may be legally carried to such Port of His Majesty's Dominions, where she may be so registered de novo ; and if such Transfer of Property shall be made while such Ship or Vessel is in any Foreign Port, and the Master of such Ship or is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not so privy, as soon as he shall become acquainted therewith, such Ship or Vessel, after having delivered the Cargo then on board such Ship or Vessel at the Port or Ports for which it is destined, shall sail from such Port or Ports to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions to which she belongs, or to any other such Port in which she may be legally registered by virtue of the said Act, and may take on board, at the Port or Ports for which her original Cargo was so destined, or at any other Port being in the Course of her Voyage to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions in which she may be so registered de novo, such Cargo, and no Other, as shall be destined and may be legally carried, to such Port of His Majesty's Dominions, where she may be so registered de novo ; and if such Transfer of Pro- perty shall be made while such Ship or Vessel is on a Fishing Voyage, and the Master of such Ship or Vessel is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not so privy, as soon as he shall become acquainted therewith, such Ship or Vessel, after having finished such Fishing Voyage, without touching at any Foreign Port or Ports, except for the Purpose of Repairs or Refreshments, or for delivering any Part of the Cargo she may have on board destined for such Foreign Port or Ports, shall sail to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions to which she belongs, or to any other such Port where she may be legally registered by virtue of the said Act, and may take on board, at the Foreign Port or Ports last described, or at any other Port or Ports being in the Course of her Voyage to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions where she may be so registered de novo, such Cargo, and no other, as shall be destined and may be legally carried to such Port of His Majesty's Dominions, and every such Ship or Vessel as aforesaid shall be registered de novo as soon as she returns to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions to which she belongs, or to any other such Fort in which she may be legally 37*GEORGIl 111. Cap.73. legally registered by virtue of the said Act; on Failure whereof «uch Ship or Vessel shall to all Intents and Purposes be from thenceforth considered, and deemed and taken to be a Foreign Ship or Vessel and shall not again be registered, and be en* titled to the Privileges of a British Ship or Vessel, unless upon special R epresentation of the Circumstances of the Case to Four or more of the Commissioners or His Majesty's Customs in England, or to Three or more of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in Scotland, or to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor^ or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or of any Colony, Plantation, Island, or Territory to His Majesty belonging, as the Case may be, the said Commissioners, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, shall respectively, on Consideration of the special Circumstances of the Case, think fit to order ; and in such Case they are hereby authorize i to order that the said Ship or Vessel shall be registered, and be thereby again entitled to the Privileges of a British Ship or Vessel, and such Registry shall be made, and such Certificate thereof shall be granted accordingly: Provided always, that all the Regulatitms required by th^ Laws in force concerning the first Registry of Ships and Vessels shall in eyery such Case be complied with : Provided nevertheless, that in no case of the Transfer of Property, in whole or in part, of any Ship or Vessel in the manner herein-befpre men- doned, the Ship or Vessel, of which the Property is so transferred, shall be registered de novo, or be entitled to the Privileges of a Bridsh Ship or Vessel, unless such Ship or Vessel shall return to the Port of His Majesty's Dominions to which she belongs, or to such other Port in which she may be registered de novo, within tftp Period of Twelve Months after the Date of such Transfer of Property, if such l^hip or Vp^I shall not be on a Voyage to the East of the Cape of Good Hope, or to ue VTest oiF Ci^ Horn, or within Two Years, if the Ship or Vessel is on a Voyage to t^;^ East of the Cape of Good Hope, or to ttie West of Cape Horn, jat the dme such Tpnsfer of Property shall take place, except by the Order of the said Commissioners, Governor^ Lieutenant Governor, or Conmiander in Chief respectively, upon special Represent- Ition of the Circumstances of the Case in manner herdn-before authorized.. 203 and on Failure of Compliance, the Vessels to be deemed Foreign, and not entitled to the Privileges of British Vessels, unless the Com- missioners of the Customs, &c. think fit, &c. On Traiiafer of Property, Vessels to be registered de novo, within limited Times. Anno3T°GEORGii III. Gap. 73. An Act for preventing the Desertion of Seamen from British Merefaant Ships, trading to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in the West Indies. * TXTHEREAS Seamen and Mariners, after entering into Articles to serve on * V V board British Merchant Ships, during the Voyages from Great Britain to ' His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in the West Indies, and back to Great Bri- * tain, do frequently desert from such Ships on their Arrival at or in such Colonies ' and plantations, on accoimt of the exorbitant Wages given by Masters and Com- ' manders of oth^r British Merchant Ships, by the Run or Gross, to Seamen and ' Manners, when |n such Colonies or Plantations, to induce them to enter on board ' their Snips : And whereas such Seamen and Mariners, upon entering into Articles ' for such Voyages from Great Britain, usually receive large Sums of Money in Ad* ' vance, for the Purpose of their Outfit ; and Monthly Allowances are frequendy C c 2 * paid L.«»r' 204 From July 1, 1 797, Seamen de- sertins from Mer- chant Ships, to or from the West Indies, to forfeit their Wages. Masters hiring Seamen who have deserted from any other Ship, to forfeit dXOQ. No Master sailing from Great Britain after July 1.1797, to hire Seamen in the West Indies at more than Double WagM, unless authdrized by the fJovernor, &c. Contracts contrary to this Act void ; Persons entering into them, &c. to lorleii jflOO. 37-GEORGII HI. Cap. 73. * |Nud to tfadr Families, towards their SuDport and Maintenance, during tibe Al}8encc * of such Seamen and Mariners : And whereas such Desertions have been the Means * of depriving many Merchant Ships of a sufficient Number of Seamen and Mariners * to navigate them back to Great Britain, and thereby occasioned great Losses to the * Merchants trading to the said Colonies and Plantations :' For Remedy whereof, m&y it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of July One thousand seven himdred and ninety-seven, all and every Seaman, Mariner, and other Person who shall desert, at any Time during the Voyaee, either out or home, item any British Merchant Ship trading to or from the said Colonies or Plantations, shall, over and a|[)ove all Punishments, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to which he is now by Law sub- ject, forfeit all the Wages he may have agreed for with, or be entitled to during the Voyage from, the Master or Owner of the Ship on board of which he shall emer, imm^tiately after such Desertion. n. And be It further enacted. That all and every Master or Conmnander of any British Merchant Ship, who shall, from and after the said First Day of July One thou- sand seven hyndi'ed and ninety-seven, hire or engage to serve on board his Ship or Vessel any Seiunan, Mariner, or other Person, who shall, to the Knowledge of such Mast^, have deserted from any other Ship or Vessel, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of One himdred Poufids, to be recovered, levied, and applied as herein'after directed. in. And be it further enacted. That no Master or Commander of any Merchant Ship or Vessel which shall, from and after the First of Day July One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, sail or proceed from any Port or Place in Great Britain, shall hire or engage, or cause or procure to be hired or engaged, any Seaman, Ma- riner, or other Person, at any Port or Place within His Majesty's Colonies or Planfr ations in the West Indies, to serve on board any such Merchant Ship or Vessel at or for greater or more Wages or Hire for such Service than according to the Rate of Double Monthly Wages, contracted for with the Seamen, Mariners, and other Per. sons, hired or engaged to serve onboard such Ship or Vessel at the Time of her then last Departure from Great Britain, being in the same Degree and Station in which such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, shall be so hired or engaged at any such Port or Place as aforesaid, unless the Governor, Chief Magistrate, Collector, or Comptroller of such Port or Place in the said Colonies or Plantations, shall think that greater or more Wages or Hire than Double the Monthly Wages aforesaid should or ought to be given to such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person as aforesaid, and do and shall accordingly authorize or direct the same to be given by Writing under his Hand ; that then and in such Case the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall and may be at Liberty to pay, and the Seaman, Mariner, or other Person on board such Ship or Vessel, to receive such greater or higher Wages as such Governor, Chief Magistrate, Collector, or Comptroller shall direct as aforesaid ; and that all Contracts, Bonds, Bills, Notes, and other Securities, Promises, and Undertakings, which shall be made, entered into, or given contrary to the Intent and Meaning of this Act, shall be null and void to all Intents and Purposes ; and that the Master or Com- mander of any such Merchant Ship or Vessel, or other Person or Persons whomsoever, who shall msike, enter into, or give, or cause or procure to be made, entered into, or given, any such Contract, Bond, Bill, Note, or other Security, Promise, or Under- taking, =T^9" ./ 37"GEORGII in. Cap.73. taking, or who shall hire or engage, or cause or procure to be hired or engaged, any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, to enter on board apy Ship or Vessel contrary to the Intent and Meaning of this Act, or who shall pay, or cause or procure to be paid or given, any greater or more Hire or Wages, or other Gratuity or Advantage whatsoever, to or for any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person so hired or engaged at any such Port or Place within His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies as aforesaid, than is allowed or directed by this Act, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds; to be recovered, levied, and applied in the manner herein>after directed. ,. . ir. . . ; . . IV. And be it further enacted. That all and every Master and Masters of any Merchant Ship or Merchant Ships trading to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in the West Indies, shall have on board his or their Ship or Ships, at the Time of such S^p or Ships clearing out from Great Britain, One Apprent':e, who shall be under the Age of Seventeen Years, duly indented for Three Years, for every One hundred Tons Admeasurement of such Ship or Ships, and so in proportion for every One hundred Tons which such Ship or Ships shall admeasure according to the Certificate of Registry, and the Indenture or Indentures of every such Apprentice shall be duly enrolled at the Custom-house of the Port from whence any such Ship shall clear out, with the Collector or Comptroller, within One Month after the Date or Execution thereof; which said Apprentice and Apprentices shall be, and is and are hereby exempt from serving in His Majesty's Navy for the Space of Three Years from the Date of such Indenture or Indentures ; and all and every Owner or Owners, or Master and Masters, neglecting to enrol the same as aforesaid, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the sum of Ten Pounds, to be paid in manner following ; (that is to say), one Moiety by the Owner or Owners of such Ship or Ships, and the other Moiety by the Master or Masters thereof, to be levied, recovered, and applied in manner herein-after mentioned. , • , V. And be it further enacted. That all and every Master and Masters of such Ship or Ships shall, within Ten Days after their Arrival out at any Port or Ports in the said Colonies or Plantations, and also witliin Ten Days after their Arrival home at any Port or Ports in Great Britain, deliver upon Oath, to be made before the Collector or Comptroller of such Port or Ports respectively (who is hereby autho- rized to administer the same), a true and exact List and Description of all and every the Crew on board such Ship or Ships at the Time of their clearing out from any Port or Ports in Great Britain, and also of the Crew on board the same at the Time of their Arrival in any Port or Ports in the said Colonies or Plantations, and also a true aid exact List and Description of all and every Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, who has or have deserted from buch Ship or Ships, or who has or have died during the Voyage ; and also a true Account of the Wages due to each Seaman, Mariner, or other Person so dying, at the Time of his Death ; and all and every Master and Masters omitting, neglecting, or refusing so to do, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds ; and for which said List and Account so delivered, such Collector or Comptroller shall be entitled to demand and receive, from the Person so delivering the same, the Fee of Two Shillings and Sixpence, and no more ; and it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every Master and Masters of any Ship or Ships, or other Person or Persons, to inspect such List and Lists irom Time to Time, as he or they may think proper ; for which Inspection the said Collector 205 Every Ship trading to the West Indies to have an Ap- prentice under Seventeen Years old, for every 100 Tons Burthen, &c. Apprentices ex- empt from serving in the Navy for Three Years ; Pe- nalty of ^10 for not enrolling them. Masters of such Ships out and home, within Ten Days after Arrival, to deliver Lists containing certain Particulars, on Penalty of ^50. Collector, &c. entitled to 2s. 6d. on Delivery of Lists, which may be inspected on Payment of 1 s. 'w;';- 206 No Seaman enter- ing on board any Vessel in the West Indies, which sailed from England after July!, 1797, to be entUled to greater Wages than herein authorized. Dispoaition of su^h Wif es, if not de- itiitkitA of the Re- ceiver in Three Years. Diiposttion of Penalties. Hecovery of Penalties. 37'GEORGII III. Cap.73. Collector or Comptroller shall be entitled to demand and receive from the Person making the same the Sum of One Shilling, and no more. VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, who shall, at any Port or Place within His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, hire or engage himself to serve, or who shall in the said Colonies or Plantations enter on board any Merchant Ship or Vessel which shall sail from Great Britain after the First Day of July One thousant' seven himdred and ninety- seven, shall be entitled to, nor shall he sue for, recover, or receive, any greater or more Wages or Hire, or other Gratuity or Advantage whatsoever, on account of or for such his Service, than such Wages or Hire as herein-before authorized or directed to be paid or received. * '• '^\' ''•' VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That all and every such Sum and Sums of Money which shall not be lawfully demanded of the said Receiver within the Term of Three Tears after Payment thereof to him in manner aforesaid shall be forfeited, and shall go and be paid to the Use of the Seamen's Hospital of the Port to which such Ship belongs ; but in case there shall be no Seamen's Hospital at the Port to which such Ship belongs, then to and for the Use and Benefit of the old and disabled Seamen of the same Port, and their Families, to be distributed at the Dis- cretion of the Magistrates fojr the County where such Port shall be situate, or any Two or more of them. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Penalties and Forfeitures given by this Act shall be paid and applied in manner following ; that is to say, One Third Part thereof for and towards the Support of Greenwich Hospital i ^ne other Third Part thereof for and towards the Support of the Seamen's Hospital at the Port to which the Ship or Vessel, in respect of which the Forfeiture shall arise, belongs ; but in c^ there shall be no Seamen's Hospital at the Port to which such Ship or Vessel belongs then to and for the Use and Benefit of the old and disabled Seamen of the same Port and their Families, to be distributed at the Discretion of the Persons having the Direction of the Merchants Seamen's Fund at such Port, or in case there shall be no such Establishment there, by the Magistrates or Overseer of the Poor of such Port ; and the other Third Part thereof to and for the Person or Persons who shall inform and sue for the same ; and that such Penalty shall be recovered by Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or such of them as do hot exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, upon Information, on the Oath of One or more Witnesses, before any one or more of His Majesty's Justice or Justices of the Peace in any Part of the Kingdom of Great Britain, who shall not reside more than Ten Miles from the Place of Abode of the Person or Persons com- plained of, which Justice and Justices is and are hereby authorized and required to issue out his or their Warrant or Warrants to bring before him or them every Person charged with any Offence under this Act ; and in case he or they shall refuse or neglect to pay such Penalties or Forfeitures as aforesaid, to issue his or their Warrant or Warrants to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods, • The 7th Section relatei only to the Payment of the Wages of Dead Men to the Receiver of tin- Sispetmy Duty far Greenwich Hotpital, after Ike SAy*' arrival in Great Britain. and ■irwm^'. r ^f-t'S''^»^rr^s»fmqi^-^y- 1. ■'■'^.■. 207 every refuse their roods, Act not to extend to Seamen produc* in^ Certi6catefl of Ducharge. 37'GEOJIGII III. Cap. 73. ^ and in case no Distress can be found, to commit the Offender or Offenders to the Common Gaol of the City, Town, or Place within the Jurisdiction of such respective Justice or Justices, there to remain for the Space of Three Calendar Months, or until he or they shall pay the same. j^ X. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to any Contract or Agreement which shall or may be made with any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person hired or engaged to serve on board any Merchant Ship or Vessel, at any Port or Place within His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, who shall, at the Time of such Hirmg or Engage- ment, produce and deliver to the Master and Commander of such Merchant Ship or Vessel a Certificate, under the Hand of the Master or Commander of the Ship or Vessel on board of which such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person had then last served, signed in the Presence of one or more Witness or Witnesses, stating their usual Puce or Places of Abode, thereby declaring or certifying that such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, had been duly discharged from the Ship or Vessel on board of which he had so last served ; and which Certificate the said Master or Commander shall grint within Three Days next after Application made to him by such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, before a Wimess, or in default thereof shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds, to be levied, recovered, and applied in manner herein- before directed } nor to any Contract or Agreement to be made with any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person hired or engaged to serve on board any Merchant Ship or Vessel, which through Necessity, or on account of very hazardous Service or extra- ordinary Duty, require such Contract or Agreement to be made, and more Wages or Hire given, and of which Necessity, Service, or extraordinary Duty, Proof shall be made on Oath before the Chief Magistrate or Principal Officer of any Port or Place, or before any Justice or Justices of ihe Peace of the said Colonies or Plantations ; and provided also, that such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person so hired or engaged to serve on board any Ship or Vessel so requiring such Service, shall not have deserted from the Ship or Vessel on board of which he had then last served ; and provided also, that no greater or higher Wages or Hire shall be given by any Master or Commander, or taken or received by any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person as afore- said, except in Cases of such Necessity, very hazardous Service, or extraordinary Duty, as aforesaid, than after the Rate of Double the Monthly Wages, or the Wages to be settled or directed by any Governor, Chief Magistrate, Collector, or Comptroller, as herein-before directed to be paid or received as aforesaid. XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the ^'^f' '"'j >. 1797, said First Day of July One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, the Articles to giuere" bto ' ree- be entered into by and between the Masters, Seamen, and Manners of such Merchant ably to annexed Ship or Ships, shall be agreeable and to the Purport and Effect as mentioned in the Scliedule. Schedule hereto annexed, marked with the Letter A. XII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be ^"''''*^ ^'^*' deemed and taken to be Public Act, and all Judges and Justices are hereby required to take Notice (^ it as such without specially pleading the same. Masten to grant such Certificates on Penalty of je20. Act not to extend to any Seaman hired through Necesjitv, &c. The 908 37»G£ORGII III. Cap.73. Ship. i'V' ' H » The SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. '>'">"«»«' " A. -'.1 'txi*. IT is hereby agreed between the Master, Seamen, and Mariners of the Ship now bound for the Port of and the Master or Commander of the said Ship, that in consideration of the Monthly or other Wages against each respective Seaman or Mariner's Name hereumo set, they severally shall and will perform the above*mendoned Voyage ; and the said Master doth hereby agree with and hire the said Seamen and Marmers for the said Voyage at such Monthly Wages, to be paid pursuant to the Laws of Great Britain ; and they the said Seamen and Mariners do hereby promise and oblige themselves to do their Duty, and obey the lawful Commands of their Officers on board the said Ship or Boats thereunto belonging, as become good and faithful Seamen and Mariners, and at all Places where the said Ship shall put in or anchor during the said Ship's Voyage, to do their best Endeavours for the Preservation of the said Ship and Cargo, ai^d not to neglect or refuse doing their Duty by Day or Night ; nor shall go out of the said Ship on board any other Vessel, or be on .shore under any Pretence whatsoever, till the Voyage is ended and the Ship discharged of her Cargo, without Leave first ob> tained of the Master, Captain, or Commanding Qfiicer on board; and in d«£Mult thereof they frtely agree to be liable to the Penalties mentioned in the Act of Parlia- ment made in the Second Year of the Reign of King George the Second, indtuled < An Act for the better Regulation and Government of Seamen in the Merchant ' Service ;' and the Act made in the Thirty-seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled ' An Act for preventing the Desertion of Seamen from British Mer. * chant Ships trading to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in the W^t Indies :* And it is further agreed by the Parties to these presents, that Twenty-four Hours Absence without Leave shall be deemed a total Desertion, and render such Seamen and Mariners liable to the Forfeitures and Penalties contained in the Acts above re- cited ; that each and every lawful Command which the said Master shall think neces- sary to issue for the effectual Government of the said Vessel, suppressing Immorality and Vice of all Kinds, be strictly complied with under the Penalty of the Person or Persons disobeying forfeiting his or their whole Wages or Hire, together with every thing belonging to him or them on board the said Vessel : And it is further agreed, that no Officer or Seaman, or Person belonging to the said Ship, shall demand or be entitled to his Wages, or any Part thereof, until the Arrival of the said Ship at the above-mentioned Port of Discharge, and her Cargo delivered, nor less than Twenty Days in case the Seaman is not employed in the Delivery : And it is hereby further agreed between the Master and Officers ot th? said Shi'>, that whatever Apparel, Fur. mture, and Stores each of them may receive into their Charge, belonging to the said Ship, shall be accounted for on her Return ; and in case any thing shall be lost or damaged through their Carelessness or Insufficiency, it shall be made good by such Officer or Seaman by whose means it may happen to the Master and Owner of the said Ship : And whereas it is customary for the Officers and Seamen on the Ship's Return home in the River, and during the Time their Cargoes are delivering, to go on shore each Night to sleep, greatly to the Prejudice of such Ship and Freighters ; be it further agreed by the said Parties, that neither Officer nor Seaman shall on any Pretence whatsoever be entitled to such Indulgence, but shall do their Duty by Day tn tmorality erson or 1 every agreed, tnandor ip at tlic Twenty further el, Fur. the said lost or by such of the e Ship's to go ighters ; on any by Day a;* G£ ORG 1 1 III. Gap. 73- in Dischane of the Cargo, and keep such Watch bv N as the Master or Com- mander ofthe said Ship shall think necessary in oraer toi. the Preservation of the above : And whereas it often happens that Part of the Cargo is embezded after be^g delivered into Lighters, and as such Losses are made good by the Owners of the Ships ; be it therefore agreed by these Presents, that whatever Oracer or Seaman the Master shall think proper to appoint, shall take Charge of the Cargo in the Lighters, and go with the same to the lawful Quay, and there deliver his Charge to the Ship's Hus- band, or his Representative, or see the same safely wdghed at the King's Beam, and in consequence of their true Fidelity such Officer or Seaman shall beehtided t4 Two Shillings and Sixpence each Lighter, exclusive of their Monthly Play » md should h 80 happen that Lighters are detained a considerable lime at the Quay before they can b« unloaded, such Officer and Seaman so appointed shall in that Case be entitled to T jro Shillings and Sixpence for every Twenty-four Hours, exclusive of their said Monthly Pay } that each Seaman and Mariner who shall well and truly perform the above-mentioned Voyage (provided always that there be no Plunderage^ Embexfele- ment, or other unlawful Acts committied on the said Vessel's Cargo or Stores) shall be entitled to their Wages or Hire that may become due to him, pursuant to this Agreement ; that for the due Performance of each and everv the above-mentioned Articles and Agreements, and Acknowledgment of their bcmg voluntary and with* out Compulsion, or any other clandestine Means beingused, the said Parties nave hereto subscrU>ed their Names, the Day and Month set opposite to their respective Names. Place •ndTiiMof Entry. Men*! NaiBM. '..,.5 ■..-;'';" i Quality. .^ ■•<- 1- --.'r Witnefa to each Man'a ifgning. F$j in the River. Whole. f ■ .%'! •V')5 Half. Wtfpt Mr Moalh, or by thf Run far tb« Whole W»gei. -^*f*i^P 'j:m 'iisO. ->;!; ",;■ ,-^h'c ■iJi.. ■r )4,i!.' .Jj :r .iir'ivv . . ' J' * /'■ Dd 209 sou ■ U ■ ■ a* .t."»}fiv-l •r 210 38' G£ ORG 11 111. Cap. 67. ,tj til "J;;:i: Aimo38"GEORGii 111. Cap. 67. *tf _ J chopper Coin upt beiDs legd Co|p,.. i and Counterfeit Gold or Silver Coin> exported to Maro tiniquct or any of His MaJeity'B.Ca5 loniei in the West Iniiies ftf At"""""! or shipped for that Purpose, may be seized. Penalty on Persons taporting it( &c. An Act to prevent the Exportation of Base Coin to His Majest/s ,.„, Colonies in the West Indies and America. * TT7HEREAS various Base Copper Coins made to the Resemblance and Simi. * yy litnde of the Foeeign Copper Coins, called Tempes and Souse Marques, * have been ecported from this Kingdom to the Island of Martinique in the West * Indies, under the Denomination of Wrought Copper : And Awhereas Base Coin * made to the Similitude and Resemblance of the Foreign Gold and Silver Coin% * called Johannes and Dollars, have been circulated in His Majesty's Islands in the ' West Indii», and in other His Majesty's Colonies in America, to the great Injury * of the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonies :' For preventing the like and similar Evils in future, be it enacted by ihe King's most Excellrnr Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tempore', and Commons, in this present Psurliament assembled, and by tlte Authority of th ARTICLE SIXTH. ' That it be the Sixth Article of Union, That His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain and Ireland shall, from and after the First Day of January One thousand eight hun- dred and one, be entitled to the same Privileses, and be on the same Footing, as to Encouragements and Bounties on the like Articles being the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of either Country respectively, and generally in respect of Trade and Navigation in all Ports and Places in the United Kmgdom and its Dependencies ; and that in all Treaties made by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, with any Foreign Power, His Majesty's Subjects of Ireland shall have the same Privileges, and be on the same Footing, as His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain *. • * The ot1\«r Jrtkle$ of the Union do not affect the Britiih Coloniei and PlmtodoM. Anno 44° Georgii III. Cap. 101. An Act for permitting, unti! the First Day of August One thousafid eight hundred and seven, the Exportation of Salt from the Port of Nassau in the Island of Newr Providence, the Port of Exuma and the Port of Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, in Ships belong- ing to the Inhabitants of the United States of America, and coming in Ballast. ' T^IT^E^EAS it is expedient to give due Encouragement to the making of Salt * ▼ V in all Parts of the Bahama Islands, in the same manner as the making of * Salt has been encouraged in Turks Islands, by the Provisions of an Act passed m D d 2 *the The Subjects of Great Britain and Ireland shall be on the same Footing in respect of Trade and Navigation, and in all Treaties with Foreign Powers the Sub- JecU of Ireland shall have the same Privileges, ak British Subjecu. i va^^K 212 Vnteli or thti lliiited Sutes coming in Ballnot mav enter the Porti of Nutiau, ExuniAi •nd Croolcedliland, for the Purpose of bvii)g ludeo with MiUt. 45*OSORQII III. Cap. 57. * ihe Twenty^ghth Year of the Rdgn of Ms present Majesty, intituled * An Act for ' regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Sanations * in North America and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the * United States of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign * Islands in the West Indies ;* be it therefore enacted by the lung's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, In this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and alter the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and four, and until the First Day of August Ono tnousand eight hundred and seven, it shall and m^ be lawful for any Ship or Vessel belonging to the Inhabitants of the said United States of America, coming in Ballast, and not otherwise, to enter the Porr of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, the Port of Exuma, and the Port ot Crooked Island, Ports in the before-mentioned Islands, for the Purpose of being there laden with Salt, and for no other Purpose whatever ; and subject to the Duties, Pro. visions. Regulations, and Restrictions in the said Act contained respecting Ships and Vessels coming for the same Purpose to Turks Islands. «-i ;. ; r 1 .1 1 • I . .. I . ... I I II,. - ■ TAi$ Att u r7. < should be made perpetual ; and that, in addition to the atbreaaid Ports, the Pvri * of Saint Ann in the Island of Jamaica, the Port of Pitt's Town in Portland Harbour * in Crooked Island, another of the Bahama biands, the Port of Kingston in the ' Island of Saint Vincent, and the principal Port in the Island of Bermuda, should bt * opened under certain Regulations and Restrictions :' May it therefore picasa Your MaJest^ that it mav be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the passing of this Act, Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drugs of all Sorts, Cocoa, Logwood, Fustick, and all Sorts of Wood for Dyers Use, Hides, Skins, and Tallow, Beaver and all Sorts of Furs, Tortoise Shell, Hardwood, or Mill Timber, Mahogany and all other Woods for Cabinet Ware, Horses, Asses, Mules, and Cattle, being the Growth or Production of any of the ' Colonies or Plantations in America, or of any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, and an Coin and Bullion, Diamonds and precious Stones, may be imported from any of the said Countries into the several Ports of Kingston, Savannah La Mar, Montego Bay, Santa Lucea, Antonio, and Saint Ann in the Island of Jamaica, the Port ot Saint George in the Island of Grenada, the Port of Roseau in 'the Island of Do- minica, the Port of Saint John's in the Island of Antigua, the Port of San Josef in th*' Island of Trinidad, the Port of Scarborough in the Island of Tobago, the Port oi Road Harbour in the Island of Tortola, the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, the Port of Pitt's Town in Portland Harbour in Crooked Island, another of the Bahama Islands, the Port of Kingston in the Island of Saint Vincent, and the principal Port in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign Sloop, Schooner, or other Vessel whatever, not having more than One Deck, and being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plant- ations in America, or Countries on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. 213 « aw ' /HI" '•,...111 '4 r\\ The Article! herein mentioned, of tlic Production of any Colony of America, may be imported in certain Foreign VetieU tt>, rertniii Ports in tirj West Indies. ■JVi'iiX 't .-ft rV^Wi? :il':.:\:i-yyi II. And be it further enacted. That, from and after the passing of this. Act, To- bacco, being the Growth or Production of any Island in the West Indies, or of any Country on the Coii Jnent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported from any of the said Islands or Countries into any of the said Ports herein-before enumerated, in the like Foreign Ships and Vessels, and be again exported from thence to any Part of the United Kingdom, urider the same Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, and subject to the like Penalties and Forfeitures, as are in this Act mentioned and contained with regard to the Goods, Wares, and Merchandize herein-befcre enumerated. ■'■>• : • VC »i lit' > •' tit) I'Ut • - .-'ii-'^iii! tii' II ; >.'.,iU nil Tobacco of tiir Growth of the Wcat Indies, &c. may be imported into the Ports above mentioned, and cxp.'.rted from thence to this Kingdom. III. And be it further enacted. That all such Tobacco so imported into any of the ©"t'e" payable en said Ports shall, when imported into any Part of the United Kingdom from any of the said Ports, pay the same Duties or Customs and Excise, and none other, as Tobacco the Growth or Production of any of His Majesty's Plantation i the West Indies, or of the Territories of the United States of America, and be ;. ject to the same Rules, Regulations, Conditions, and Restrictions, and be liable IV. And .•<* p-*-- 214 Sugar and Coffee may be imported in Foreign Ships to Nassau, &c. 45'GEORGII III. Cap. 57. IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful, from and after the pasdng of this Act, to import into the said Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, and into the said Port of Pitt's Town in Portland Harbour in Crooked Island, and into such other Port or Ports in the said Bahama Islands, and into the principal Port in the Island of Bermuda, and into such Port or Ports in the Islands called Caicos, as shall be approved by His Majesty in Council, Sugar and Coffee the Produce of any Foreign Country or Plantation, in suc^ Foreign Ships or Vessels, and subject to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as are prescribed in this Act with respect to the Goods, Wares, and Merchandize herein-before enumerated. and mav be im- V. And be it further enacted. That Sugar and Coffee which shall be imported into ported mto and the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, or the Port of Pitt's Town in expmed from «ich Crooked Island, or into such Port or Ports in the said Bahama Islands, or into the wi ou ay- pj^^pjj Pqpj Jjj ^|jg jgijmd of Bermuda, or into any such Port or Ports in the s^d Islands called Caicos, as have been or may hereafter be approved by His Majesty in Council, may be imported into and again exported from any of the said Ports, without Payment of any Duties of Customs whatsoever ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.* ment of Duty. V»'fc V-'-.-f -li" No Goods, except such as are herein enumerated, shall be imported in Foreign Ships from Amenca to the Ports before men- tioned, on Forfeit- ure thereof, with the Ships. Rum and Negroes may be exported from tlie said Ports to America, &c. in certun Vessels, and also all Goods legally imported, except Masts, &c. from the British Colonies. VII. And be it further enacted. That from and after the passing of this Act, no Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, except such as are herein-before enumerated, shal^ be imported in any Foreign Ship, Sloop, Schooner, or Vessel whatever, from any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or any Countries on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of the beforem>entioned Ports, upon any Pretence whatever, upon Pain of forfeiting the same, together with the Ship, Sloop, Schooner, or Vessel in which the same shall be imported, and the Guns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture of such Ship, Sloop, Schooner, or Vessel ; and in every such Case the same shall and may be seized by any Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs or Navy, who are or shall be authorized or empowered to make Seizures in Cases of Forfeiture, and shall and may be prosecuted in such manner as hereini« IX. And *- r..^ »^.- ^rt^ . V/^«*<-f^ /»♦ ^^ /%*-/'- '***'i-*^/ ck^ic 45GEORGII HI. Cap.57. IX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful to export b any British Ship or Vessel owned and navigated accord- ing to Law, from any of the said Islands in this Act enumerated, to any British Colony or Plantation in America or the West Indies, any Goods or Commodities whatever of the Manufacture of Europe ; and also any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize which shall have been legally imported into any of the said islands from any of the Colonies or Plantations in An erica, or any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or StatCt X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Doubts shall arise whether any such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize intended to be so exported, shall have been legally imported into the said Islands respectively in this Act enumerated, the Legality of such Importation shall be made appear to the Satisfaction of the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port of Exportation, before such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize shall be suffered to be shipped for Exportation. .... i », svi sii ci. .:;..;jfj;! ,.,.;>. .;j(j;uu7, 7 -, yw.K.tv^ ': 1 215 Guods of the Manufacture of Europe may be imported from the said Ports in British Vessels to any British Colony in America, &c. Officers of the Customs to be satisfied as to the Legality of the Importation before Goods are shipped for Exportation. XI. And it is hereby further enacted. That from and after the passing of this Act, Wool. &c. of the all Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drugs of all Sorts, Cocoa, Log Wood, Production of Fustick, and all Sorts of Wood for Dyers Use, Hides, Skins, and Tallow, Beaver, and fj'l,"'^^ '^^^'^ all Sorts of Furs, Tortoise Shell, Mahogany and all other Woods for Cabinet Ware, from thTsaid Ports of the Growth or Production of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or to this Kingdom Countries on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of undc the Regula- any Foreign European Sovereign or State, shall be allowed to be exported from "*"" provided by any of the said Islands in this Act enumerated, to any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under the Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Securitiees, < Penalties, and Forfeitures particularly mentioned and provided in an Act of Par- liament made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation;' and in 12 Car. 2. c. 18. another Act of Parliament made in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled • An Act to prevent the planting of 22 & 23 Car. 2. * Tobacco in England, and for regulating the Plantation Trade ;* and in another Act *^' ^^' of Parliament made in the Twentieth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled • An Act to allow the Trade between Ireland and the British Colonies and Plant- 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. ' ations in America and the West Indies, and the British Settlements on the Coast of ' Africa, to be carried on in like manner as it is now carried on between Great ' Britain and the said Colonies and Settlements ;' or in any of the said Acts, with respect to the Goods, Wares, or Merchandize therein enumerated or described. XII. And be it further enacted. That from and after the passing of this Act, no No Goods of the Goods or Commodities whatever, of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of the K'"*"' j'^","" "I *^® East Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall upon any Pretence i,i,„ii ^e exp'orted whatever be exported from any of tlve Ports enumerated in this Actj to any other from the said Ports British Colony or Plantation in AmerKa or the West Indies, upon Pain of forfeiting t» j»»y British such Goods or Commodities, together with the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall ^c ".^^po^e^tu^Je"' be so exported, and theGuns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture of such Ship or Vessel, thereof. XIII. And be it further enacted. That from and after the passing of this Actf'if Foreign Ships ^ any Foreign Ship or Vessel ivs aforesaid, arriving at or in any of the aforesaid Ports, af riving at any of ' " "^ » 5 7 ' tin; ga,a Ports with , . _^ . ^"^'* Goods of the Pro- 216 45>GBORGII HI. Cap.57. bp forfeited. duction of the Eut shall have on board any Goods or Conunodides whatever, of the Growth, Produc- Indies, &c. shall tion, or Manu£u:ture of the East Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good k. f-rf-u-j Hope, such Goods or Commodides shall be forfeited, together with the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be brought, and all her Guns, Ammunidon, Tackle, and Apparel, whether such Goods or Commodides shall be intended to be landed or not, or whether Bulk shall have been broken or not. No Duty of Gun« powder, or Fee, shall be uken by any Officer for the Entry or Clearance of any Foreign Ship. Penalties and For- feitures whtre to be sued for. ■Vr' v'f '{jf.v ".,■'1 f. XIV. And be it further enacted. That no Duty of Gunpowder, nor any Fee or Reward whatever, shall be demanded, taken, or received by any Officer or Officers whatever in the said Islands respecdvely in this Act enumerated, for any Entry, Coc* quet, Clearance, or Passport, for any Foreign Ship or Vessel, or for any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize imported into or exported from the said Islands respecdvely in such Foreign Ships or Vessels, under the like Pains and Penaldes as are inflicted upon Officers exacdng or receiving greater Fees than are allowed by any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force for regulating the Fees of the Officers of the Customs in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America. ^ XV. And be it further enacted. That all Penaldes and Forfeitures imposed by this Act shall and may be reflectively prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided, in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle of Man, or in any of His Majesty's Colo- nies or Islands in America, in the same Manner and Form, and by the same Rules and Regulations in all respects, in so far as the same are applicable, as any other ' ' Penaldes and Forfeitures imposed by any Act or Acts of I^irliament made for the Security of the Revenue of the Customs, or for the Regulation or Improvement thereof, or for the Reeuladon of Trade or Navigation, and which were in force immediately before the passing of this Act, may be respectively prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided, in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle of Man, or in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Islands in America. Former Acts relat- XVI. And be it further enacted. That all such Clauses, Provisions, Articles, Mat- ing to the (^>«ning ^^^^ ^^^ Things in any former Act or Acts of Parliament contained, as relate to the sh^ b^etealed. op^^S ^'^ establishing any Ports in the Islands herein-before mentioned, or any of them, for the more free Importation and Exportation of ^e Goods, Wares, and Merchandize in this Act enumerated, shall from and after the passing of this Act be ^nd the same are hereby repealed. ini ■4' •i'.f) •^- >• •* •. ' { *^ •^^wiwwSipifWw 4i?'GEORGII III. Cap.68. 217 ^f'A -/ ■.■ , ; ^ ^ it •, 4 .c: •:/-!: ..:J ^ '^- Anno 45°Georgii III. Cap.68. -' An Act for making perpetual and amending several Laws Sot encou- raging the making ol' Sail Cloth in Great Britain, and securing the Duties on Foreign Sail Cloth imported, and for making perpetual several Laws for permitting the Exportation of a certain Quantity of Corn and Grain to Guernsey, Jersey, and Aldemey, and for regu- lating the Fees of Officers of the Customs, and of Naval Officers in the British Colonies in America, and of the Officers of th^ Customs in Newfoundland. , « T T THEP E AS the several Laws and Parts of Laws herein-after mentioned have ' ' V T been found beneficial, and are near expiring ; and it is expedient that the . . < same should be made perpetual ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That so much and such Parts of an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the 12 Ann. st. 1. 0. 16. Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled ' An Act for the better Encourage- " ^gn^B'^^^h^ '**' ' ment of the making of Sail Cloth in Great Britain ;^ and which was to continue in ^^^ Sail'c'loth force for Seven Years, and from thence until the End of the then next Sesvon of Par- made perpetual.' liament ; and which was further continued by several subsequent Acts of Parliament ; and lastly, by an Act made in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, was continued until the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and four, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parlia^ient ; as relate to the Bounty of One Penny for every Ell of British- made Sail Cloth or Canvass exported out of Great Britain by way of Merchandize, and also so much and such Parts of the said recited Act as relate to the Penalty there- by imposed for every £11 of British-made Sail Cloth brought back or relanded in Great Britain, shall be and the same is hereby made perpetual. in. And be it further enacted, That an Act made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled ' An Act for the more ' effectual securing the Duties now payable on Foreign-made Sail Cloth imported into ' this Kingdom, and for charging all Foreign-made Sails with a Duty, and for ex- ' plaining a Doubt concerning Ships being obliged, at their first setting out to Sea, to < be furnished with One complete Set of Sails made of British Sail Cloth,' and which was to continue in force for the Term of Seven Years from the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and forty-six, ^nd which was further continued by several Acts of Parliament, and lastly by an Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of His present Majesty's Reign until the Twenty-ninth Day of September Qne thousand eight hundred and four, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament (except in so far as any of the Provisions thereof relate to the Duties granted by the said Act of the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne upon Foreign Sails imported intp Great Britain, and which have by subsequent Laws been repealed, and other Duties granted in lieu thereof), shall be and the same is hereby made perpetual : Provided always, that all and every the Provisions of the £ e said 19 Geo. 2. c. 27. for securing the Duties on Foreign Sail Cloth, except what relates to the Duties gianted by 12 Ann e, u pon F6reign|Saiyj and which have been repealed, and others granted in lieu, shall be made perpetual, &e. 318 4tf'GE0RGll 111. Cap. 17. said Act of the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, which .relate to (he said Duties granted by ^he said Act of H^ late Majesty Queen Anne, jfifall, ih ao &r as flife iamt are appUciible, b« applied and put in force in relation to any Duties now payable in respect of Foreign Sail Cloth imported iiito Great Btiaih, \i rvyi. •1m\ ^«f-i-(i; T.iu.'nui n v> So much of 10 G. 3. c 37. as relates to the regulating the Fees of OflScers of the Customs, kc. of the British Co- lonies in Americai and so much of 16 Geo. 3. c. 47. as relates to the ten of the Cus- toms in Newfound- land, shall be per- petual. t/ 1.:: -.i V. And be it further enacted. That so n^uch of an Act made in the Tenth Year Qf the Reign of His present Majesty as relates to regulating the Fees of tli^ Oncers \oi the Customs, and of the Naval Officers of the British Colonies in America, wbU^h was to be in force from the First Day of August One thousand seven hu^di'^ and seventy for the "term of Two Years, and from' thence to the End of thiri tKen n^t ^edsSon of Fftrliament ; and which by Four Acts made in the Twelfth, Fotktteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-third Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, wa» further continued until the Ninth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and four, and from thence to the End of the then next Se^bn of Parliamoit ; and also so much of atti Act made in the Sixteenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, us relates to the F£eA of the Officers of the Customs in the Island of Newfoundland, whitfh was to coa- tfaiue b force so long as the Act of the Tenth Year of His present Majesty, and wb*oh was revived and continued by an Act of the Thirty*fourth Year of the Reigh of His pitAent JMMesty, and further continued by an Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of lus present Majesty until the Ninth Day of May One iboustnd dght hua> An Apt to permit, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and nine, the Exportation to the United Kingdom of •Hvool from the British Plantations in America. * TXTHEREAS it is expedient that the Exportation of Wool, being the Product < ▼ V of any of the British Plantations in America, from any of the said Planta- * tions in America to the United Kingdom, should be excepted from ihe Prohibition * of an Act i^assed in the Tenth and Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King * WiHiam the Tliird, intituled ' An Act to prevent the Exportation of Wool out of * thie Kin|;dom8 of Irelamd and England into Foreign Parts, and for the Encourage- * ment of the Woollen Manufactures in the Kingdom of England;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passmg of this ported from any of Aft, it duUl and may be lawful to export from any Place or Parts withui any of the the ^ri^tishPlantap Bi{^ Plantations m America, to the United Kmgdom, any Wool being of the Product . n».,.n. (^ any of die said Briti^ Plantations ; anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstandiDg. 108(nW.3.c.lO. Wool maybeex- tions in America into this Kingdom n. And 48*GBOItGn in. Cap.S8. Sl$ II. And be it enacted. That tb« Cpmnnissioners of the Customs in EngltOld "^ Accounts of Wool Scodahd/respectivel]^, and the Commissipners of the Rotreave in Ireland, ^hdl fwujl |u^ ^'^f^rted to be heteby required to direct Account? to bemade up,on the Fi^ Day of January in sveiy JH of Xluanr' .Year, 6f all Wool imported in pursuan'Q$ of this Ac|« distiti^uishing the Quantities, yearly. and the Ports from whence any such^ W^olj^ha)! have been so imported. III. And be it enacted, That this j^ct ah^ll continue in forc^ ilittil the Twenty-fi^ Contiouance Day of March One thousand eight hundred and nine, and no loinger*. ' of Act. * FUrAer continued untU 25(A Mfitift 4819 ty 49 G«o, i. u tS* .•!•; ' .■ i .■'• •• , vir.'. I'. •••(■• A '-■ I I Anno 46^Georgii III. Cap.52. -jf'v'- Aq Act to prevent the Importation qf Slaves by any of His Majesty's Subjects into any Isls^nds, Colonies, Plantations, or Temlories belonging to any Foreign Sovereign, State or Power, and alio to render more effectual a certain Order made by His Me^^alty in Council on the Fifteenth pay of Augmt One thousand eight hundred and five, for prohibiting thfe Importation of Slaves (except in certain Cases) into any oiF' the Sdttlctn^nt», Islands, Colonies, or Plantations on the Continent of Americ? or in the West Indiesi, which have been surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the present War« and to prevent the fitting out of Foreign Slave Ships ^om British Ports. WHEREAS it is expedient to pr' vent the supplying the Islands, Colonies, and Territories belonging to ay Fordgn Sover^n, State, or Power 5OTth Slaves, by or on account of {my of Hib M^cf(ty'p Subjects, or by means of their Slvps, Capital, or Credit; and Uf ftrevent the fitting out of Foreign Slave Ships mm British Ports : And whereas Hu Majesty bylus Qrder in Council, bearing Recital of Order Date the Fifteenth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and five, was j? Coundl, datwl pleased to order, « that it should not be lawful, except by special Licence as therein *"8"'* "» ''"*• mentioned, for any Slave or Slaves to be landed upon any of the Coasts, or im« ported or brought into any of the Ports, Harbours, Cree^ or Roads, or within the Limits, Jurisdictions, and Territories of any of the Settlements, Island^ Colonies, or Flantatiens on the Continent of America, or in the West Indies, which, liave been surrenderad to His Majesty's Arms during the present War, until further Order, upon Pab that all Slaves so landed or brought contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of that Order, together with the Vessels bringing in the same, or from which the same should be landed, and thdr Cargoes, shoiud become fq^feite^io His. Majesty, His Heirs and Successors; but the said Order recited that 'ft> DUgfat be expedient to permit the annual Introduction of a limited Number of Slaves under due Regulations, for the Purpose of supplying any Waste that should take place in E e a < the 220 lui.'"7 ',0 ,; 46*G£OllGlI III. Cap. 52. the Population on particular Estates ficpm extraordinary or unavoidable Causes, and thereby of keeping up the Cultivation bf the Lands already cleared and cultivated ; and it was therefore further ordered, that any Number of Slaves, not exceeding Three for every Hundred of the whole Number of Slaves in the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations respectively, (Returns whereof were to be made from time to time, in pursuance of Instructions to be transmitted by one of Hiti Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State), might be imported in each Year (provided Casualties to that Extent should appear to have taken place in the preceding Year) under Licences to be previously granted by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor^ or Officer administering the Government of the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations, from any other of His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies, into the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations ; such Licence, or a Copj thereof, to be produced by the Master of the Ship on which such Slaves are laden, as his Authority for having Slaves on beard destined to the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations : Provided always, that until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and seven, such limited Importation might be made from other Places than His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies as aforesaid, and without its being necessary for the Master of the Vessel, if met with at Sea, to pro- duce the said Licence, or a Copy thereof, as his Authority for having the Slaves destined as aforesaid on board, but subject nevertheless to such Licence being hrst had and obtained as aforesaid, before any Slaves should be permitted to be landed or sold from such Vessel in any of the said Settlements : And after further reciting that special Instructions would be immediately transmitted by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to the Governors, lieutenant Governors, or Officers administering the Government of the said Colonies, Settlements, and Plantations respectively, containing the Regulations proper for carrying that Order into effec- tual Execution, directing and empowering them to grant Licences for the, Importa- tion of such limited Number of Slaves as aforesaid, subject to such Regulations as in the said Instructions would be provided, it was thereby declared to be His Majesty's further Order, that such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Officer as afore- said, should be, and they thereby were respectively authorized and empowered to grant such Licences upon such Terms and Conditions, and subject to such Regulations, as, in conformity to and in furtherance of the Object of such Instructions, might from time to time be required: And it was thereby further ordered, that the Prohibition therein before contained should not extend to prevent the importing or landing of any- Slaves which should be imported into the said Colonies, Islands, and Planta- tions, by Licence first had for importing the same, under the Hand and Seal of His Majesty's Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or Officer administering the Government of the Colony, Settlements, or Plantations into which the said Slaves are to be imported, specifying the Ship or Vessel permitted to import the same, in conformity with the Instructions to be received from one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State as aforesaid, but that all Slaves, except such Slaves as may form Part of the Crew of any Vessels, or may be Household Servants to the Passengers therein, which should be landed without such Licence as aforesaid, and without conforming to such Regulations as should be contained therein, should, together with the Vessels bringing the same, or from which the same should be landed, and their Cargoes, become forfeited to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors; and in case any Vessel should contain more Slaves than the Number permitted to be imported in such Vessel by any such Licence or Licences, such Number of the • most 46°G£ORGII III. Cap. 5:?. 221 ,'t most valuable uf the Slaves on board 8uch Vessel (other than such Slaves -m might form Part of the Crew of such Vessel, or might be I^ousehold Servants to the Passengers), as should be equal to the Excess beyond the Number ntentioned in such Licence or Licences, should be forfeited to His Majesty, His Heirs and Suc- cessors, and should be selected and disposed of in such manner as might be in that behalf directed by any Instructions from one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to be given to the respective Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or other Officers administering the Government of such Colonies, Settlements, and Plantations as aforesaid: And it was thereby further ordered and provided, that nothing therein contained should be extended or construed to extend to the land- ing, importing, or bringing in of any Slave or Slaves from or by any Vessel which by Stress of Weather, or by any other Peril, should be driven on the Coast of any such Colonies, Settlements, or Plantations, or compelled to take refuge on sucn Coast, or within the Creeks and Harbours of such Colonies, Settlements, or Planta- tions, provided the Slave or Slaves which should be so imported, landed, or brought in as last aforesaid should be exported to some Place or Places, other than any of the Colonies, Settlements, or Plantadons to which the said Order applied, within Ten Days from the Importation, landing, or bringing in of the same, unless further detained by Stress of Weather, or provided the same should within such Ten Days be sold under the special Licence of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Officer administering the Government of the Colony, Settlement, or Plantation where such Slaves might be, to such Person or Persons as, under the Circumstances of his, her, or their Cases (which Circumstance should be inserted in such special Licence), might at the Date thereof be entitled to obtain a Licence or Licences tq import such Number of Slaves as he, she, or they should in and by such special Licence or Licences be permitted to purchase : And it was thereby further ordered and declared, that One-third of every Forfeiture which should accrue in consequence of that Order to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors,, should be granted to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Officer administering the Government of the Colony, and One-third to the Party who should inform and prosecute the same :' And whereas it is expedient that the Prohibition contained in the said Order of Council should be enforced and rendered more effectual by such auxiliary Regulations and Remeu.es as the Authority of His Majesty in Council was insufficient to provide :' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority r{ the same, Thait from and From Jan. 1,1807, after the First Day of January One thousand eighi hundred and seven, it shall not Slaves not to be be lawful to export, transport, carry, convey, or send any Slave or Slaves (except in tjv°T 's Domi-'^ such special Cases as are herein-after excepted) from any Part of His Majesty's nions to Foreign Dominions to any Island, Settlement, Colony, Plantation, Territory, or Place what- Colonies or Ter- ever, belonging to and under the Dominion of any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power, the Provisions of certain Acts of Parliament made for establishing certain Free Ports in the West Indies, or any other Statute, Law, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding ; and if any Slave or Slaves shall, from and after the Day aforesaid, be so unlawfully exported, transported, carried, conveyed, or sent, or shall be em- barked, put on board, or transhipped at or from any Part of His Majesty's Dominions, with Intent to be so unlawfully exported, transported, carried, conveyed, or sent,all and every such Slave or Slaves, together with every Ship or" Vessel in which the ciamc ■/I ri^Tzes. m 46»G£OB6II III. Cap. 52. Biitnli SuUeoU rMident in His Mi^nty'B Domi- aioni from Africa or dsewhere to IVMipign Colonies or Territories. shall be so exported, transport^, carried, conveyed, sent, embarked, pit on' board,- ot transhipped, together with all her Boats, Guns, Tackle, Apparel, iaad Fumitiicc, shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted as her^<> after it mentioned and provided. • < > < of n. And be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the 2|i*[*^B fliftves by ^g^^ YuBt Day of January One thousand eight hundred aiid aeven it shall not be L a..ui.... |J^^^| jQ Qf f^f y^y Qf Hia Majesty's Subjects^ or any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions^ or Tern* tones thereto belonging,- to export, transport, carry, convey, or send, or cauaie or procwrt (0 be exported^ traaBported, carried, conveyed, orient, or in any naumffr to aid^ l^bet, or assist in the eiiparting, transporting, carrying, conveying, or seadiikg «ny Shve or Slaves from lAftks or elsewhere (except from His Majesty's West India Islands in such special Cases as are hcrein«alter Mpressly excepted and provided for) to any Island, Settlement, Colony, Plantation, Territory, or Mace whatever, b^l;jnging to and under the Dominimi of any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Powar, er to snipj embark, tranship, or put on board, or cauae or procure to be en^arked, shippiad; transhipped, or put on board, or to aid, abet, or assist in the embarking, shipfuig, transhipping, or putting on board any Ship or Vessel whatever, at Africa cir dse- where, any Slave or Slaves (except as aforesaid) with the Intent to the exporting, transporting, carryiiw, conveying, or sending the same to airtr such Foidgu Uand, Settlement, Colony, Plantation, or Territory or Place i and it any Shve or Slaves shall be so unhrarfully exported, transported, carried, conveyed, or sent or embaiked, diqiped, transhipped, or put on board, with such unlawful bitent as aforesaid, all and eveiy such Slave or Slaves, and every Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be so iwUi a ii lly exported, transported, carried, conveyed, or sent, or embarked, shipped, INB8hq>ped, or put on board, together with all her Boats, Guns, Tackle, Aj^wrel, mt ^nditure, so &r as any of His Majesty's Subjects, w any Person or Peiaons RsUent M aforesaid, have or hath any Properhr, Share, or Interest therein, ahaH boSMM fioriaitcd, and shall and may oe seized and prosecuted as herein-afW is mentionad and provided.* ;£(i: . Penalty for export. V. And be it further enacted. That if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Per- Slf ^ co^'*''^to ^^ ^ Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or any of the Islands, Colonies, ttaeTrohibiU^s of Dominians, or Territorin belonging to or ih tUi Pdssewbn of His Mi^esty, His Hdrs this Act, or of the or Successors, shall unla^irfully una, import, send, trainspoit, carry, convey, embark. Older in CohdcU. ship, tranship or p«k or teke on board, or cause or f>rocute to be hnded, imported, exported, sent, tranapoifted, carried, conveyed, embarked^ shipped, transhipped j or ' put or taken on boards or shall be aiding, abetting, or asdating in the laniU^^ imo porting, exporting, sending, ttansporting, carrying, convoying, embarkinJK, shipping, transhipping, or putting or taking on b«rd any Slave or Slaves, OMttcary to any of the Prohibitions in the said Clrder in Couodl or in this Act contaiiicd, evesy ^cb Person or Persons so offending shall respcdbbtrely. for£sit and pay for each indr every Slave so unlawfully landed, imported, exported^ sent, tran4>orted, aayried, confeyedt embarked, shipped, transhipped, or put or take»oia beard, the K^m of Fifty Pbunds • Theid^ any^SUpor Vessel, Goods or Effects, to him or them belonging, in trading in or carrying Slaves from Africa or elsewhere to any Set- Hefntt^ Inland, Colbny, Plantation, Territory, or i^ace belongiilg to and under the Ddifi^liioa of Viy Formn Sovereign, State, or JPowjVi or to ahy of the said Setdementa^ Moulds, Colonies, 01^ ^antations which have been surrenldelred to His Majesty^ Arin$; during the present War (except such limited and licensed Trade to the latter as is by die said Order in Council and by this present Act allowed), or kild*#ingly or vrilfully to lend or advance «ny Sum or Suni$ dF Money, or to become Security m any manner for the Loan or Advance of any Sutti or Sums of «ept in the Case of a bonft fide Purchaser or Holder of any such of the said Seeu. rities as are in thdr Nature negotiable, who may have purchased or obtained the same, without Notice that the same were made or given for or in consideration of any of the unlawful Purposes aforesaid. )r,MtJKK>(«nq<^ ynn "A . Vn. And be it further enacted. That from and after the said First Day of January One thousand dght hundred and seven, if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or within any of the Islande, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereunto belonging, shall knowingly and wilfully insure, or cause or procure to be insured, any Ship, Vessel, Slaves, Guodo, or Gom- modides whatsoever, employed Ot to be employed in the trading in or carrymg of Slaves from Africa or elsewhere, to any Island, Colony, Territory, or Place belong* ing to or under the Dominion of any Foreign Sovereign or State, or to any of the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, or Plantations which have been surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the present War (except such limited and licensed Trade to the latter as is by the said Order in Council and the present Act allowed), any Person or Persons so insuking, or causing or procuring any such Insurance to be made, shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Fiye hun4red Pounds y fuid every such Insurance Bhall b^ absolutely null and void, Ftctories 01) the Coast of Africa Probibitioni from VIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said First Day of January tuppljring Slaves to One thousand dght hum' red and seven, it shall not be lawful for any British Ship Ffinl^uTnif 'i.«' °'^ Vessel, or for her Boats, Officers, or Mariners, to be employed, used, or engaged *""*""' "" " in or at Africa, or on any Pa; • of the Coast thereof, directly or indirectly, in supply- ing with Slaves any Fordgn Si>ip or Vessel, or Factory, Whatsoever or wheresoever, or any Person concerned tor or on account of any Foreign Ship or Vessel or Factory, or for or on account of any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign Soverdgn, State, or Power ; and every such Ship or Vessel which shall be so employed, engaged, or used, or the Boats, Officers, or Mariners whereof, by and with the Consent and Approbation or Direction of the Owners thereof, shall be so employed, engaged, or used contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, shall, with all her Boats, Guns, Furmture, Ammunition, Tackle and Apparel, be forfdted, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted, as i& herein-after mentioned and provided j and the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge and Command of such Ship or Vessel shall forfdt and pay thQ §um of One hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain. .. ,. ,, , ; ,...^ . IX. And be it further enacted. That from and after the Expiration of One Calendar Month to be compute^' from the Time of the passing of this Act, ii shall not be lawful for any Fordgn Ship or Vessel employed or intended to be employed in the African Slave Trade, to be fitted out, equipped, manned, or dispatched at or from any Port of this United Kingdom, or any other Part of His Majesty's Dominions, for a Voyage to Africa, whether that be the Place of immediate Destination, or such Ship or Vessel, before proceeding thither, is destined to touch at some other Port or Place, nor shall it be lawful for any of His Maj'esty's Subjects, or any other Person or Persons what- soever, to ship, lade, or put on board in any Foreign Ship or Vessel, when destined directly or indirectlv to Africa, at any Port in this United Kingdom, or any other Part of His Majesty s Dominions, any Goods, Wares, Merchandize, or Commodities whatsoever, Foreign Ships in- teadra to be em- ployed in the Slave Traide shall not be equipped in any Port of the United Kingdom. T 40'GBOROII lU. Oap.5a. whatsoever, with Intent thM the Mine shall be carried to Afriea, to be there bartered for Slaves, or otherways cmpiojred in the African Slave Trade ; and if any such Foreign Ship or Vessel shall be so unlawfully fitted out, equipped, manned, or die« patched, or if any Goods, Wares, Merchandize, or Commodities shall be so unlaw- fuUy shbped, laden, or put on board in any such Ship or Vessel, with such Intent as aforesaid, at any Port of His Mary's Dominions, such Ship or Vessel, with all her Boats, Outis, Tackle, Apparsl, and Furniture, and all the Goods, Wares, Merchandise^ and Commodities so shl|>ped, laden, or put on board, shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted as hereb«after is mentioned and provided ; find if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident within Ws Mi^bjty^ Dominions, shall knowingly and wiUully fit out, equip, man, or dispatch maJMixth Foreign Ship or Vessel for the Purposes aforesaid, or knowinffly and wilfully romisb the same with any Goods^ Wares, Merchandize, or CommotSties, as aforesaid, witii the Intent and for the Purpose aforesaid, or be knowingly and wilfully aiding, abetticg* or assisting in anv such Offence, every Person or Persons so offending, aiding, abetting, or assisting, shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of One hundred Pounds ; and every Ship or Vessel shall be deemed and taken to be a Foreign Ship or Vessel for the Purposes aforesaid, although owned in whole or in part by British Sul^ jects, which shall not be registered, navigated, and cleared out, in such manner as to endtle her to import Slaves into a British Colony according to the Laws of Navigation, and to an Act made in the Thirty»ninth Tear of the Reign of His present Majesty, intw tuled < An Act for better regulating the Manner of carrying Slaves in British Vessels * from the Coast of Africa.'* Xni. And be it further enacted. That from and after the said First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and seven, no Person shall embark, ship, export, or carry upon the Seas, any Slave at Slaves from any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonging to or under the Dominion of His Majesty, to any oiher Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonging to or under the Dominion of His Majesty, in any Ship or Vessel whatever (except as before mentioned, in British Ships from Africa or the Coast thereof), until the Owner or Exporter therec^ shall make Application in Writing to the Governor of the said Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory, or to the Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port from whence it shaJl be intended to export or embark the said Slave or Slaves, which said Application shall express the Number and Quality of the Slaves 'he shall be desirous to export, transport, carry, or convey, and the Place to which he means to carry them (such Place being always some Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonging to or under the Dominion of His Majesty, into which such Slaves may be lawfully imported without any special Licence, or else some or one of the said Settle- ments, Islands, Colonies, or Plantations which have surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the present War, for importing the said Slaves into which some such special Licence as aforesaid shall have been obtained), and until such Owner or Exporter shall obtain a Licence in Writing for the Exportation of such Slaves from such Island, Colony, Territory, or Plantation wherein such Application is made, specifying the 985 Penaltict. SUvM not be ei* poned from one British Colony to another till Licence obuined, end Bond giren not to esirjr them to Fortkrn Port*. jffd/fa (J ion * The lOih, Uth, and I2th Sectmiu regttlated the Removal of Slmetjrom Africa, whkh are no longer in force, a$ the Trade it «eAo% abottilted by 47 Geo. 8. c. 36. -4 996 Not to oitflnd to Nmio S«ilon and IfiMniMn; Bor to daiairie SUvM attending thair Maiten to Sea on Voyaget to foreign Parts; 4(rO£ORGIl III. Cap.53. PUre of DcMiiMtion ; which Licence under his Hand and Seal the laid Governor, Collector, or Chief Officer is hereby authoriaed and required to grant i but prerioui thereto every such Owner or £jiporter shall also give Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in a penal Sum, equal to the Sum of Fifty Pounds lawful Money of Great Britain, for every Slave so to be carried, and deliver the same to the said Go> vemor, or the Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port or Place from whkh such Slave or Slaves shall be carried { the Condition of which Bond shall be^ that tlie nid Owner or Proprietor shall faithfully and truly huid or deliver the said SUves at the Place to which he shall be so authorised to export or convey the same, and shall, within a Time to be id the said Condition limitea, having respect therein to the ofdinanr Length of the said intended Voy^e, produce a Certificate from the Collector or Chief Officer of th« Customs of the Port or Place to which the said Slave or Slaves shall be so permitted to be exported or conveyed, or, in case there be in that Place no Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs, from Two of the most emi- nent British Merchanu or Inhabitants, certifying that the said Slave or Slaves shall have been landed and left in the said Port or Place, Death or other inevitable Impe- diment, to be proved by Oath of Two credible Witnesses, excepted ; and if any such Slave or Slaves so exported shall not be so landed and left according to the Condition of any such Bond, or such Certificate as aforesaid shall not be duly returned, the said Bond shall become forfeited, and the said Governor or Collector, or Chief Officer, may cause the same to be put in Suit, and the said Owner or Exporter shall not be reliered from the Penalty thereof but on Payment of the Sum of Fifty Pounds lawful Money as aforesaid for every Slave not so landed or left, or not so certified to have been landed and left as aforesaid, nor shall the Party be thereby discharged from any Penalty or Forfeiture incurrMi by the sending or conveying such Slaves to any Foreign Territory or Place, contrary lo tne Prohibition in this Act, or the saidOrder in Council contained : Provided always, that the said Bbnds shall be void, unless prosecuted within Three Years firom the Date thereof : Provided also, that nothing herein con- tained shall prevent or be construed to prevent any Slave from being employed either in Navkation, Fishing, or any other his ordinary Business or Occupation upon the Sew : Vto\nded also, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent any Shve who shall be really and truly the domestic Servant of any Person residing in any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonging to or un^er the Dominion of Jus Majesty, Arom attending such his Owner or Master, or any Part of his Family, by Sea to any Place whatever, whether under the Dominion of His Majesty or of any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power } but if any Slave or Slaves employed in Navigation, or any Fishermen or domestic Slave or Slaves, shall be so employed, embarked, or carried in any Ship or Vessel on a Voyage from any British Island or Colony to any Foreign Colony, Plantation, or Territory, or to any other British Island or Colony, or to any of the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, or Plantations which have been surrenclered to His Majesty's Arms during the pre- sent War, (he Names and Occupations of every such Slave or Slaves (except domes- tfe Slaves attending on the Person of any Passenger or Passengers on board, not exceeding in Number Two such Slaves for every Passenger on board) shall be inserted in or endorsed upon the Clearance or Permit to depart of such Ship or Vessel, by or in the Presence of the Collector, Comptroller, or other Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port or Phce from which such Ship or Vessel shall clear outwards on any such Voyage, who rhall without Fee or Reward certify under his Hand that the Slave or Slaves so embarked or carried were reported and described to him as Seamen, Fisher- mcu;^ ' 40*G£ORGII III. C»p.8a: ^ md)^ or domeidc Stnrmtt, m the Caw may be ; and if any Slaw ot Slates ahall be found on board any Ship or Vessel, bound on any such Voyage as aforesaid, whose Name and IV-cription Names and Descriptions, shall not be inserted in or endorsed upon the Clearance or Permit, and certified as aforesaid (except as aforesaid), or who i ^aji shall be untruly or fraudulently therein or thereup^m described withlntent to violate . .n>DrNavtl Slaves from being put on board any Ship or Vessel by the Order of His M^esty's °' "'''^ Ssnrtct. Commander in Chief, either by Sea or Land, in any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonging to or under the Dominion of His Majesty, in order to be employed in His Majesty's Muitary or Naval Service, and from being by such Order so employed, howsoever or wheresoever the said Service may require } any thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XIV. And it is hereby further enacted. That the granting of Licences, and every Function* of other Act which the Governor of any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory be- Oovernon mny b« longing to or under the Dominion of His Majesty, is by this Act directed or au* »*rciM H; .: CoIoniM turrtn* dered during tha War,ifreeooquered or restored, to be deemed Forcisn Colonies for the Purposes of this Act. XVI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Person Persons taking taking any Oath by this Act authorized or requured to be taken shall thereby commit ^ ??***« *° wilful Penury, or if any Person shall unlawfully procure or suborn any Person to take ^ peijulf. "* any Oath by this Act authorized or required to be taken, whereby such Person shall ' ' commit wilful Perjury, every such Person shall incur and suffer the like Paiiis and F f 2 Penalties a^ How Penahiet may be recovered and applied. -mi -"*vi,! .•^■}ti^9'' ~-'' liJfUt'X'.r. By whom Ships may be seiaed and prosecuted. o 4«*G£ORaiI III. Cap. 58. Penaldes as are fey Law inflicted upon Penofis covamittiiig mUul and <:(»ryptPer|Hjry, or Subomatitm of Perjury respectively. r^ hw 4 ao t,8«o> XVIL And be it further enacted, That the several j>ecunary Penalties or Forfeit. ui«e imposed and inflicted by this Act, or by the said Order in Council, «hall and way be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in any Court of Record in ^j^reat BritaiiL or in any Court of Record or Vice AdmiraHy in any Part of ^i^ Mueaty's Dominions wherein the Ofiinice was committed, or in case t^ Oifender dull be resident in any other Place, 'then in any Part of IU» Majesty's Pominiona wherem such Offender may be ibund ; and that in all Cases of Seizures of any Ships, Vessels, Slaves, Goods, or Effects for any Forfeiture under this Act, or under the said Order in Council, the same shall and may respectively be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any Court of Record or Vice Admiralty in any Part of ifis Majesty's Dominions in or nearest to which such Seizures may be made, or to which*such Ships or Vessels, Slaves, Goods or Effects (if seized at Sea, or without the Limits of any British Jurisdiction), may most conveniently be carried for Trial ; and all the said Penalties and Forfeitures, whether pecuniary or specific, shall go and belong to 8uch Person and Persons in such Shares and Proportions, and shall and may be sued for sad prosecuted, tried, recovered, distributed and applied, in such and the like mamier, and by the same Ways and Means, and subject to the same Rules and Directions, as any Penalties or Forfeitures incurred in Great Britain, and in the British Colonies or Plantations in Americ2t respectively, by force of any Act of Parliament re- lating to the Trade and Revenues of the said Ebitish Colonies or Plantations in America, now go and belong to, and may now be sued for, prosecuted, tried, recovered, dis- tributed, and applied respectively m Great Britain, or in the said Colonies or Plant- ations respectively, under and by virtue, of a certain Act of Parliament made in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for granting certain Duties * in the British Colonies and Pkmtations in Ameriaa ; -for continuing, amending, and ' making perpetual an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty ' King George the Second, intituled " An. Act for the better securing and encourag- *' ing the Trade of His Majesty's Sug^ Colonies in America ; for applying the Pro- « duce of such Duties, and of^the Duties to arise by virtue of the said Act, towards *' defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the said Colonies *< and Plantadons -, for explaining an Act made in die Twenty -fifth Year of the Reign '* of Kmg Charl^ the Second, (indtuled An Act for the Encouragement of the « Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade) ; «* and for akering and disallowing several Drawbacks on Exports from this Kingdom, ** and more effectually preventing the clandestine Conveyance of Goods to and from ■^ the said Colonies and Plantations, and improving and securing the Trade between « the same and Great Britain." . / XVIII. And be it further enacted. That all Ships and Vessels, Slaves, Goods and Effects, that shall or may become forfeited for any Offence committed against this Act, or against the said Order in Council, shall and may be seized by any Officer of His Majesty's -Customs or Excise, or by the Commanders or Officers of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, who. in making and prosecuting any such Seizures, shall have the Benefit of ail the Provisions made by the said Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, or ^y other Act of Parliament for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecuting for any Offcnfce against the said Act, or any other Act of Parliament or 46*GEORGII ill. Cap.72. ParliMoiieiiii: retad&g to the Tra4e and Revenues of the Britiah QfiifO^ or PUatidoitie in Aiiherica. %!%• And \fe it further diacted by the Authorijty aforesaid, That if any Actiq^ or Geneml lame Suit shall be commenced, either in Great Britain or elsewhere %aj|a|st any Perc^n or may be plMdad. Persons for any thing done in pursuance of this A/ct, or pf the said Order in Qo^c^, the jDefendant or Defendants in such Action or $uit may pl^ the Genera,! Issue, and give this Act, or the said Order in Council as herein i;eated, and the special Matte^, in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereMpon, and that the same was done in pu^- ance and by the Authority of this Act, or of the said Order in Council ; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find fyr the Defendant or-Defend^ts ; and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or discon ation into Road Harl)our, and Ex- portution from thence, of such Articles as are pennitted to be imported into the Port of Nassau^ 230 Hit Mi4***f ""V •bo permit the Importation into MO Exportation from Road Har« hour of all Sugar without Payment ofthaDutT of Cnttonu, be. 47''GEORGlI III. Cap.36. Conditions, and Restrictions, as shall from Tim« to Time be directed by His Majesty, by and mth the Advice aforesaid. II. And be it further enacted,' That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by and vith the Advice of His Privy Council, to permit the Importation into the Port of Road Harbour in the said Island of Tortola, and Exportation from thence, without Pay* ment of any Duty of Ctistoms, of all Sugar whatsoever, under and subject to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as may from Time to Time be directed by His Majesty, by such Advice as aforesaid ; and all Sugar imported into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the said Island of Tortola, (other than and except such Sugar as shall actually be of the Growth and Produce of the British Yiffpn Islands, and exported as such under the Certificates of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs of the said Island, which Certificate shall be given in such Form as shall be directed by His Majesty, by and with the Advice of iSs Privy Council, and shall not be given in any one Tear for any greater Quantity than Five millions eight hundred and eighty tnousand Pounds Weight), shall be deemed and taken to be Foreign Sugar, and be imported into the United Kingdom as such, and subject to all Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions relating thereto. ^ From 1807 the Slave Trade ihall be abolished. Anno 47° Georgii III. Cap.36. An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. < "II^TIIEREAS the Two Houses of Parliament did, by their Resolutions of the * ^^ Tenth and Twenty-fourth Days of June One thousand eight hundred and six, * Severally resolve, upon certain Grounds therein mentioned, that they would, with ' all practicable Expedition, take effectual Measures for the Abolition of the African * Slave Trade, in such manner and at such Period as might be deemed advisable : * And whereas it is fit upon all and each of the Grounds mentioned in the said * Resolutions, that the same should be forthwith abolished and prohibited, and de- * dared to be unlawful ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and seven, the African Slave Trade, and all and all manner of dealing and trading in the Purchase, Sale, Barter, or Transfer of Slaves, or of Persons intended to be sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, practised or carried on in, at, to, or from any Part of the Coast or Countries of Africa, shall be, and the same is hereby utterly abolished, prohibited, and declared to be unlawful ; and also that all and all manner of dealing, either by way of Purchase, Sale, Barter, or Transfer, or by means of any other Comract or Agreement whatever relating to any Slaves, or to any Persons intended to be used or dealt with as Slaves, for the Purpose of such Slaves or Persons being removed or transported either immediately, or by Tranship, ment at Sea or otherwise, directly or indirectly from Africa, or from any Island, Country, ■^■fe' 47*G£ORGIl III. Cap.36, 231 St Country, Territory, or Place whatever, in the West Indies, or in any other Part of America, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Ms^esty, to any other Island, Country, Territory, or Place whatever, is hereby in like manner utterly abolished, prohibited, and declared to be imlawftil ; and if any of His Map Penalty for trading jesty's Subjects, or anv Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or >» or purchuinK any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereto belonging, or in His ?'"*"\*|j "'" , Majesty's Occupation or Possesion, shall from and after the Day aforesaid,- by him *'"*'^ "^^^\ ,j or themselves, or by his or their Factors or Agents, or otherwise howsoever, deal or trade in, purchase, sell, barter, or transfer, or contract oraeree for the dealing or trading in, purchasing, selling, bartering, or transferring ot any Slave or Slaves, or any Person or Persons intended to be sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as a Slave or Slaves, contrary to the Prohibitions of this Act, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of One hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain for each and every Slave so purchased, sold, bartered, or transferred, or contracted or agreed for as aforesaid ; the one Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of any Person who shall inform, sue, and prosecute for the same. II. And be it further enacted. That from and after the said First Day of May One Vesaela fitted out thousand eight hundred and seven, it shall be unlawful for any of^His Majesty's '" *k"r^i°*'-^°"L. Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdon, or any of forcarr^ng'on the i'?e Idands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereto belonging, or in His Ma- Slave Trade, aball sty's Possession or Occupation, to fit out, man, or navigate, or to procure to be be forfeited, litted out, manned, or navigated, or to be concerned in the fitting out, manning,^ ox navigating, or in the procuring to be fitted out, manned, or navigated, any Ship os Vessel for the Purpose of assisting in, or being employed in the carrying on o£ the African Slave Trade, or in any other the Dealing, Trading, or Concerns hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful i and every Ship or Vessel which shall hota. and after the Day aforesaid be fitted out, manned, navigated, used, or employed, by any such Subject or Subjects, Person or Persons, or on his or their Account, w by his or their Assistance or Procurement, for any of the Purposes aforesaid, and by this Act prohibited, together with all her Boats, Guns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furai* tare, shall become forreited, and may and shall be seized and prosecuted as hereilU after is mentioned and provided. , ' . III. And be it further enacted. That from and after the said First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and seven, it shall be unlawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident in this United Kingdom, or in any of the Colonies, Territories, or Dominions thereunto belongmg, or in His Majesty's Posses- sion or Occupation, to carry away or remove, or knowingly and wilfully to procure, aid, or assist in the carrying away or removing, as Slaves, or for the Purpose p( being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as Slaves, any of the Subjects or Inha« bitants of Africa, or of any Island, Country, Territory, or Place in the West Indies, or any other Part of America whatsoever, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, either immediately or by Transhipment at Sea or otherwise, directly or indirectly from Africa, or from any such Island, Country, Territory, or Place as aforesaid, to any other Island, Country, Territory, or Place whatever ; and that it shall also be unlawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Per- sons resident in this United Kingdom, or in any of the Colonies, Territories, or Dominions thereunto belonging, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, know- ingly Pevons prohibited, from removing aa SUvea Inhabiunta of Africa, the West Indies, or America, from one Place to another, not being eoBcerned in re- ceiiring them, &C.. &^ Vfludi employed in such Removal, &c. to be forfeited, as alao the Property in the Slaves. Owners, &c. so employed, to forfeit dflOO for each Slave. Subjects of Africa, &c. unlawfully caiTied away and imported into any British Colony, &c. as Slaves* shall be forfeited to His Majesty. 47'GEORGH III. Cap.36. ingly and wilfully to receive, detain, or confine on board, or to be aiding, assisting, or concerned in receiving, detaining, or confining on board of any Ship or Vessel whatever, any such Subject or Inhab'tant as aforesaid, fo.* the Purpose cf his or her being 'So carried away or removed a^ aforesaid, cr of his or her being sold, transferred, used, or d^t with as a Slave, in any Place or Country whatever ; and if any Subject or Iidiabirant, Subjects or Inhabitants of Africa, or of any Island, Country, Terrif y, or Place in the West Indies or America, not being in the Dominion, Pos- seesic ., or Occupation of His Majesty, shall from and alter the Day aforesaid be so unlawfully carried away or removed, detained, confined, transhipped, or received on board of any Ship or Vessel belonging in the whole or ia parf to or employed by any Subjea of Hs Majesty, or Person residing in His Majesty's Dominions or Colo> nies, or any Territory belonging to or ui the Occupation of His Majesty, for any of the unlawful Purposes aforesaid, contrary to the Force and Effect, true Intent and Meaning of the Prohibitions in this Act contained, every such Ship or Vessel in which any such Person or Persons shall be so unlawfully carried away or removed, detained, confined, transhipped, or received on board, for any of the said unlawful Purposes, together with all her Boats, Guns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, shall be for- feited, and all Property or pretended Property in any Slaves or Natives of Africa so unlawfully carried away or removed, detained, confined, transhipped, or received on board, shall also be forfeited, and the same respectively shall and may be seized and prosecuted as herein-after is mentioned and provided ; and every Subject of His Majesty, or Person resident within this United Kingdom, or any of the Islands, Co- lomes. Dominions, or Territories thereto belongmg, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, whos hall, as Owner, Part Owner, Freighter or Shipper, Factor or Agent, Captain, Mate, Supercargo, or Surgeon, so unlawfully carry away, or remove, detun, confine, tranship, or rec^ve on board, or be aiding or assisting in the carry- ings away, removing, detaining, confining, transhipping, or receiving on board, for any of the unlawful Purposes ^foresaid, any such Subject or Inhabitant of Africa, or or of any Island, i'ountry. Territory, or Place, not being in the Dominion, Posses- sion, or Occupation of His Majesty, shall forfeit and pay, for each and every Slave or Person so unlawfully carried away, removed, detained, confined, transhipped, or received on board, the Sum of One hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain ; one Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty, and the other Moiety to the Use of any Pei-son who shall inform, sue, and prosecute for the same. IV. And be it further enacted, That if any Subject or Inhabitant, Subjects or In- habitants of Africa, or of any Island, Country, Territory, cr Place, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, who shall at any Time from and after the Day sdbresaid have been unlawfully carried away or removed from Africa, or from any Island, Country, Terr ry, or Place in the West Indies or America, not being in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of His Majesty, con- trary to any of the Prohibitions or Provisions in this Act contained, shall be im- ported or brought into any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory in the Dominion, Possession, or Occupation of Ftis Majesty, and there sold or disposed of as a Slave or Slaves, or placed, detained, or kept in a State of Slavery, such Subject or Inha- bitant, Subjects or Inhabitants, so unlawfully carried away, or removed and imported, shall and may be seized and r>rosecuted, as forfeited to His Majesty, by such Person or Persons, in such Courts, and in such Manner and Form, as any Goods or Mer- chandize unlawfully imported into the same Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory, may now be seized and prosecuted therein by virtue of any Act or Act? of Parlia- ment 4;*G£ORGn ill. Cap.3(>. 233 ment now in force for regulating the Navigation and Trade of His Ms^esty's Colonies and Plantations, and shall and may, after his or their Coiiuemnation, be disposed of in manner herein-after motioned and provided. .,,.,.,,, V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said First Day of May One Insuroaces on thousand eight hundred and seven, all Insurances whatsoever to be effected upon or Trujaactions coi*. in respect to any of the trading, dealing, carrying, removing, transhipping, or other Xralie^otUwfuU Transactions by this Act prohibited, shall be also prohibited and declared to be un- Penalty j^ioo. and lawful ; and if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident mthin Treble the Amount this United Kingdom, or within any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Terri- °^ '*•* Fremmm. tones thereunto belonging, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, shall knowingly and wilfully subscribe, effect, or make, cr cause or procure to be sub- scribed, effected, or mad^ any such unlawful Insurances or Insurance, he or they shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence .he Sum of One hundred Pounds for every such Insurance, and also Treble the Amount paid or aereed to be paid as the Premiam of any such Insurance ; the one Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of any Person who shall inform, sue, and prosecute for the same. • f VII. < And whereas it may happen, that during the present or future Wars, Ships ' or Vessels may be seized or detained as Prize, on board whereof Slaves or Natives ' of Africa, carried and detained as Slaves, being the Property of His Maje&i^'s ' Enemies, or otherwise liable to Condemnation as Prize of War, may be taken or ' found, and it is necessary to direct in what manner such Slaves or Natives of * Africa shall be hereaRer treated and disposed of ; And whereas it is also necessary * to direct and provide for the Treatment and Disposal of any Slaves or Natives of ' Africa, carried, removed, treated, or dealt with as Slaves, who shall be unlawfully ' carried away or removed contrary to the Prohibitions aforesaid, or any of them, ' cind shall be afterwards found on board any Ship or Vessel liable to Seizure under ' this Act, or any other Act of Parliament made for restraining or prohibiting the ' African Slave Trade, or shall be elsewhere lawfully seized as forfeited under this ' or any other such Act of Parliament as aforesaid ; and it is expedient to encourage ' the Captors, Seizors, and Prosecutors thereof;' be it therefore further enacted, rhat all Slaves and all Natives of Africa, treated, dealt with, carried, kept, or slaves tahcn a» detained as Slaves, which shall at any Time from and after the said First Day of May Prize of War, or next be seized or taken as Prize of War, or liable to Forfeiture under this or any sewed as Forfeit- other Act of Parliament made for restraining or prohibiting the African Slave Trade, di'spnsedof.*' * shall and may, for the Purposes only of Seizure, Prosecution, and Condemnation a& Pr'ze or as Forfeitures, be considered, treated, taken, and adjudged as Slaves and Property, in the same manner as Negro Slaves have been heretofore considered,, treated, taken, and adjudged, when seized as Prize of War, or as forfeited for any Offence against the Laws of Trade and Navigation respectively ; but the same shall be condemned as Prize of War, or as forfeited to the sole Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the Purpose only of divesuitg and barring all other Pro- perty, Right, Title, or Interest whatever, which before existed, or might afterwards be set up or claimed in or to such Slaves or Natives of Africa so seized, prosecuted. * The 6th Seaicn applied only to Slavei landed in the Wett Indies before 1*< March 1808. G g and "T"'- 2b4 '.fj . < Vr: W-i ('■. ;...,,} ' '-jS 47'GEORGII III. Cap.36. and condemned ; and the same nevertheless shall in no case be liable to be sold, disposed of, treated, or dealt with as Slaves, by or on tlie part of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or by or on the part of any Person or Persons claiming or to claim from, by, or under His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, or under or by force of any such Sentence of Condemnauon : Provided always, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and such Officers^ Civil or Military, as shall by any General or Special Order of the King in Council be from time to time appomted and empowered to receive, protect, and provide for such Nadves of Africa as shall be so condemned, either to enter and enlist the same, or any of them, into His Majesty's Land or Sea Service as Soldiers, Seamen, or Marines, or to bind the same, or any of them, whether of full Age or not, as Apprentices for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, to such Person or Persons, in such Place or Places, and upon such Terms and Condidons, and subject to such Reguladons, a^ to His Majesty shall seem meet, and as shall by any General or Special Order of His Majesty in Council be in that behalf directed and appointed ; and any Indenture c^ Apprenticeship duly made and executed by any Person or Persons to be for that Purpose appointed by any such Order in Council, for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, shall be of the same Force and Effect as if the Party thereby bound as an Apprentice had himself or herself, when of full Age upon good Consideration, duly executed the same ; and every such Native of Africa who shall be so enlisted or entered as aforesaid into any of His Majesty's Land or Sea Forces as a Soldier, Seaman, or Marine, shall be considered, treated, and dealt with in all respects as if he had voluntarily so enlisted or entered himself. '> . ^ :' s' >• > ■ i .;.'; ,/ VIII. Provided also, and be it further enacted. That where any Slaves or Natives of Africa taken as Prize of War by any of His Majesty's Ships of War or Privateers duly commissioned, shall be finally condemned as such to His Majesty's Use as aforesaid, there shall be paid to the Captors thereof by- the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy, in like manner as the Bounty called head Money is now paid by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Forty-fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled < An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen, and for the better and more effectually ' manning His Majesty's Navy during the present War,' such Bounty as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall have directed by any Order in Council, so as the same shall not exceed the Sum of Forty Pounds lawful Money of Great Britain for every Man, or Thirty Pounds of like Mone)' for every Woman, or Ten Pounds of like Money for e%'cry Child or Person not above Fourteen Years old, that shall be so taken and condemned, and shall be delivered over in good Health to the proper Officer or Officers, Civil or Military ; .o appointed as aforesaid to receive, pr.tect, and provide for the same ; which Bounties shall be divided amongst the Officers, Seamen, Marines, and Soldiers on board His Majesty'si Ships of War or hired armed Ships, in Manner, Form, and Proportion as, by His Majesty's Proclamation for granting the Distribution of Prizes already issued or to be issued for that Purpose, is or shall be directed and appointed, and amongst the Owners, Officers, and Seamen of any private Ship or Vessel of War, in such manner and proportion as, by an Agreement in Writing that they shall have entered into for that Purpose, shall be directed. Certificates to be IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That in order to entitle the Captors l'-!°u!!Mtf *** *"*"'^ to receive the said Bounty Money, the Numbers of Men, Women, and Children, so taken, condemned, and delivered over, shall be proved to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Bounty to be paid for such Shves to the Captors, in the manner Head Money is paid under 45 Geo. 3. C.72.S0 as the Sums shall not exceed the Rates herein mentioned. to Bounty. 47 GEORGII III. Cai).36. 235 Majesty's Navy, by producing, instead of tlie Oaths and Certificates prescribed by the said Act as to Head Money, a Copy, duly certified, of the Sentence or Decree of Ccndemnation, whereby the Numbers of Men, Women, and Children, so taken and condemned, shall appear to have been distinctly proved ; and also, by producing a Ccrdficate under t!ie Hand of the said Officer or Officers, Military or Civil, so ap- pointed as aforesaid, and to whom the same shall have been delivered, acknowledging that he or they hath or have received the same, to be disposed of according to His Maiesty'c Instructions 9nd Rseulaiions as aforesaid. . . « X. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That in any Cases in which Doubts Claims to Bounty shall arise whether the Party or Parties claiming such Bounty Money is or are en- J^o be determined titled thereto, the same shall be summarily determined by the Judge of the High Adl^i^ajty **' Court of Admiralty, or by the Judge of any Court of Admiralty in which the Prize shall have been adjudged, subject nevertheless to an Appeal to the Lords Commis* sioners ot Appeals in Prize Causes. XL Provided also, and be it further enacted. That on the Condemnation to the On Condemnation Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in manner aforesaid, of any Slaves or °[ ^"'■^®'*'i!'^ °^ Natives of Africa, seized and prosecuted as forfeited for any Offence against this Act, against th'is Act" the or any other Act of Parliament made for restraining or prohibiting the African Slave Rates herein nien- Ti^e (except in the Case of Seizures made at Sea by the Commanders or Officers of tioned shall be His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War), there shall be paid to and to the Use of the P"^' ^''• Person who shall have sued, informed, and prosecuted the same to Condemnation, the Sums of Thirteen Pounds lawful Money aforesaid for every Man, of Ten Pounds like Money for every Woman, and of Three Pounds like Money for every Child or Per- son under the Age of Fourteen Years, that shall be so condemned and delivered over in good Health to the said Civil or Military Officer so to be appointed to receive, pro' tect, and provide for the same, and also the like Sums to and to the Use of the Go- vernor or Commander in Chief of any Colony or Plantation wherein such Seizure shall have been made ; but in Cases of any such Seizures made at Sea by the Com- manders or Officers of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, for Forfeiture imder this Act, or any other Act of Parliament made for restraining or prohibiting the African Slave Trade, there shall be paid to the Commander or Officer who shall so seize, inform, and prosecute, for every Man so condemned and delivered over, the Sum of Twenty Pounds like Money, for every Woman the Sum of Fifteen Pounds like Money, and for every Child or Person under the Age of Fourteen Years the Sum of Five Pounds like Money, subject nevertheless to such Distribution of the said Boun- ties or Rewards for the said Seizures made at Sea as His Majesty, His Heirs and Suc- cessors, shall think fit to order and direct by any Order in Council made for that Pur- pose } for all which Payments so to be made as Bounties or Rewards upon Seizures! and Prosecutions for Offences against this Act, or any other Act of Parliament made for restraining or abolishing the African Slave Trade, the Officer or Officers, Civil or Military, so to be appointed as aforesaid to receive, protect, and provide for such Slaves or Natives of Africa so to be condemned and delivered over, shall, after the .Condemnation and Receipt thereof as aforesaid, grant Certificates in favour of the Governor and Party seizing, informing, and prosecuting as aforesaid respectively, or the latter alone (as the Case may be), addressed to the Lords Commissioners of His Maj^ty's Treasury ; who, upon the Production to them of any such Certificate, and of an authentic Copy, duly certified, of the Sentence of Condemnation of the said G g 2 Slaved 236 Counterfeiting CertificiitesFclonv. Penalties and For- feitures how to be recovered and appDed. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 47»GEORGII III. Cap.36. Slaves or Africans to his Majesty's Use as aforesaid, and also of a Receipt under the Hand of such Officer or Officers so appointed as aforesaid, specifying that such Slaves or Africans have by him or them been received in good Health as aforesaid, shall direct Payment to be made fionr. and out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain of the Amount of the Monies specified in such Certificate, to the lawful Holders of the same, or the Persons entitled to the Benefit thereof respectively. XII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person shall wilfully and fraudulently forge br counterfeit any such Certificate, Copy of Sentence of Condemnation, or Re- ceipt as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, or shall knowingly and wilfully utter or publish the same, knowing it to be forged or counterfeited, with Intent to defraud His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, or any other Person or Persons whatever, the Party so offending shall, on Conviction, suffer Death as in Cases of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy. XIII. And be it further enacted. That the several pecuniary Penalties or Forfeitures imposed and inflicted by this Act shall and may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any Court of Record or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions wherein the Offence was committed, or where the Offender may be found after the Commission of such Offence ; and that in all Cases of Seizure of any Ships, Vessels, Slaves or preluded Slaves, Good3 or Effects, for any Forfeiture under this Act, the same shall and may respectively be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any Court of Record or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions in or nearest to which such Seizures may be made, or to which such Ships or Vessels, Slaves or pretended Slaves, Goods or Effects (^ if seized at Sea, or without the Limits of any British Jurisdiction) may most conveniently be carried for Trial ; and all the said Penalties and Forfeitures, whether pecuniary or specific (unless where it is expresslv otherwise provided for by this Act), shall go and belong to such Person and Persons in such Shares and Proportions, and shall and may be sued for and prosecuted, tried, recovered, distributed and applied, in such and the like man- ner, and by the same Ways and Means, and subject to the same Rules and Directions, as any Penalties or Forfeitures incurred in Great Britain, and in the British Colonies or Plantations in America respectively, by force of any Act of Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the said British Colonies or Plantations in America, now go and belong to, and may now be sued for, prosecuted, tried, recovered, distributed imd applied respectively in Great Britain, or in the said Colonies or Plantations respec- tively, under and by virtue of a certain Act of Parliament made in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act for granting certain Duties in the British ' Colonies and Plantations in America ; for continuing, amending, and making per- • petual an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King • George the Second, intituled ' An Act for the better securing and encouraging the • Trade of His M^iesty's Sugar Colonies in America; for applying the Produce of , * such Duties to arise by virtue of the said Act towards defraying the Expences of * defending, protecting, and securing the said Colonies and Plantations ; for explain- * ing an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, * intituled " An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, " and for the better securing the Plantation Trade, and for altering and disallowing -" several Drawbacks on Exports from this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing "the 4;»G£ORGII III. Cap.36. " the clandestine Conveyance of Goods to and from the said Colonies and Plantations, " and improving and securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain." 237 XIV. And be it further enacted, That all Ships and X'essels, Slaves or Natives of Setiurei mtv bs Africa, carried, conveyed, or dealt with sb Slaves, and all other Goods and Effects '"■('^ by Officen that shall or may become forfeited for any Offence co^nmitted against this Act, shall Ex^jge'T ' *" and may be seized by any Officer of Hw Majesty's Customs or Fxcise, or by the ' Comrtianders ur Officers of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, who, in making and prosecuting any such Seizures, mall have the Benefit of all the Provisions made by the said Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, or any other Act of Parliament made for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecuting for any Offence against the said Act, or any other Act of Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America. XV. And be it further enacted, That all Offences committed against this Act may OflTenceB to be be inquired of, tried, determined, and dealt with as Misdemeanors, as if the same had ''>«l«'''ed of, m if been respectively committed within the Body of the County of Middlesex. Middle»ex. '" His Majesty may make Regulations for Dbposal of Negroes i^ter the Expiration of their Apprenticeship. XVI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty in Council from time to time to make such Orders and Regulations for the future Disposal and Support of such Negroes as shall have been bound Ap* prentices under this Act, after the Term of their Apprenticeship shall have expired, as to His Majesty shall seem meet, and as may prevent such Negroes from becoming at any Time chargeable upon the Island in wh:':h they shall have been so bound Apprentices as aforesaid. , \ .■ XVII. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That none of the Provisions of Negroes enlisted any Act as to enlisting for any limited Period of Service, or as to any Rules or Re- j? "" Majesty's gulaticns for the ^rranting any Pensions or Allowances to any Soldiers discharged to°th^ Benefits of after certain Periods of Service, shall extend, or be deemed or construed in any limited Service, &ci manner to extend, to any Negroes so enliscing and serving in any of His Majesty's Forces. XVIII. And be it further enacted. That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced. General Issue may either in Great Britain or elsewhere, against any Person or Persons for any thing be pleaded, dune in pursuance of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act ; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants ; and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as Defendants have in other Cases by Law. 2S8 4rGEORGIl III. Cai).48. ■?*«**•:•♦■ ,*♦- I.' .,1, »*..U,''l 'li AiBdavits required to prove that tb« Articles are the Produce of the ColoDjr.to be taken by the Collectors and Comptrollers of the CuBtoini, kc. •I. Anno 47"Georgii III. Cap.48. ': An Act to repeal so much of certain Acts as relates to the Regulations or Conditions under whiiDh Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, Sugar and Rice (not being the Produce of the East Indies), are allowed to be secured in Warehouses without Payment of Duty ; and to authorize the Collectors and Comptrollers of the Customs in His Majesty's Colo- nies and Plantations in America and the West Indies to administer certain Oaths. II. ' A ND whereas upon the Importation of certain Articles, the Produce of His 'xJL Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America or the West Indies, a Certificate * is required by Law to be delivered to the Officers of the Customs at the Port of Entry, * signed by the Collector and Comptroller and Naval Officer at the Port where such * Articles are loaded for Exportation, setting forth that Proof has been made before ' Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, by the Grower or Planter of such Articles, * that the same are actually the Growth and Produce of such Planters or Growers * Plantation ; and as no such Justices are or may be resident at some of the Colonies * and Plantations which have been or may be surrendered to His Majesty since the * Commencement of the present Hostilities, it is expedient to make further Provision * with respect to the Persons before whom such Affidavits shall hereafter be made ;' be it therefore enacted. That where by any Act or Acts of Parliament relative to the Trade of the British Colonies and Plantations in America or the West Indies, an Affidavit shall be required to be made by the Planter or Grower of any Article intended to be shipped for Exportation to Great Britain or Ireland, previous to the shipping thereof, in order to prove that such Article is really and truly the Produce of such Colony or Plantation, and there shall not be any Justices of the Peace at such Colony or Plantation before whom such Affidavit can be made, it shall and may be lawful for the Planter or Grower to make the same before the Collector and Comptroller, or other Chief Officer of the Customs, or any Two of them, at the Port or Place from whence any such Articles may be intended to be shipped for Exportation, which Affidavit they are hereby authorized and required to take ; and in the Certificate which the Collector and Comptroller and Naval Officer, or any Two of them, are required by Law to deliver to the Shipper, they shall also certify that there are not any Justices of the Peace resident at or within such Colony or Plantation, and upon the Importation of any such Articles into Great Britain or Ireland, the same shall be admitted to Entry at such and the like Duties as are charged upon Ajrticles when accompanied with the Certificate now required by Law, subject to the several Rules and Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures to which such Articles are liable on Importation into Great Britain or Ireland ; any Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. 48° G£ ORG II III. Cap. 2-2. & Cap. 70. 239 Hi Anno 48" Geo KG 1 1 III. Cap. 22. An Act for making perpetual several Laws relating to permitting the Exportation of Tobacco Pif)e Clay, from Great Britain to the British Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, the Importation of Salt from Europi; into Quebec in America ; and the prohibiting of Foreign ■wrought Silks and Velvets. , . . if- II. A ND be it further enacted, That an Act made in the Fourth Year of the 4Geo.3. c. 19. l\ Reign of His present Majesty, intituled • An Aft for importinir Salt from f"' importing Salt - T-. •" % T% • p r^'' 1 • A • e t' • \ '!■>• t !_• L into Quebec, made ' Europe into the Province of Quebec in America, tor a limited 1 ime, which was perpetual. to continue in force from the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, for the Term of One Year, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament ; and which by several subsequent Acts was further continued until the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and eight, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, shall be and the same is hereby made perpetual. * * The other Luwi dii not relate to the Britiih Colonies or PUintatlotu, y i-^-«... r^ .y ■ . K^'.^ < ( r>/i^'// 'y '"" i\.nno48''GK<)UGji III. Cap. 70. An Act to provide that British Ships which shall be captured by the Enemy, and shall afterwards become the Property of British Subjects, shall not be entitled to the Privilege of British Ships. ;*" "'*' ■^? • XX THERE AS the allowing British-built Ships or Vessels which have been made • V V Prize by the Enemy, and afterwards by Purchase become the Property of * British Subjects, to be registered again as British Ships, renders such Captures more < * advantageous to the Enemy ;' be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, .' by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That From October i, from and after the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and eight, no 1808, no British- British-built Ship or Vessel which has been captured by the Enemy, and which shall ^ "'^^jY*'^^ p'P" not have been registered de novo before the First Day of October One thousand eight gj, Jj a^erwards be hundred and eight, nor any British-built Ship or Vessel which shall hereafter be cap- registered as a tured British Vessel. 840 48-G£ORGll in. Cup. IS.-). tured by the Enemy, shall be registered as a British-built Ship, or shall enjoy any of the Privileges and Advanuges belonj^ing to a British-built Ship; but everv such Ship or Vessel, although owned by a British Subject or Subjects, shall be deemed and taken, to all Intents and Purpt^ses, as a Fureign-built Ship or Vessel ; any Law, Cus. torn or Usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. .v ■WT" .1 «. I, V Anno 48°Geokgii III. Cap. 12.). An Act to permit the Importation of Rice, Grain, and Flour, from an y Foreign Colonies on the Continent of America, into certain Ports in the Weit Indies, nnd to allow certain Articles to be imported Iroiii the United States of America Into the British Provinces in North America, for the Purpose of Exportation to the British Islands tlie West Indies. Ill 88 Geo. .1. r. ft. * TT7*HEREAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of His present ' VV Majesty's Reign, intituled ' An Act fur regulating the Trade between the < Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the ' West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States uf America, * and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies,' * it is enacted, that it shall and may be lawful in certain Cases for any of the * Governors of Provinces in British North America therein enumerated, with the ' Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, to authorize the Importation of * certain Articles for a limited Time from any of the Territories belonging to the * United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the suid Provinces * respectively : And whereas it is expedient that the Importation of such Articles ' should be allowed for the Purpose of supplying other of His Majesty's Colonies ' than are therein mentioned ;' be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, Goveraon. &c. of That it shall and may be lawful for any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Nota Scotia, &c. Commanders in Chief for the time being of the Provinces of Nova Scotia or New ffio*ution'of the Brunswick, or of the Islands of Cape Breton or Saint John's, with the Advice and - - ■ Consent of their respective Councils, to authorize the Importation of the Articles enumerated in the said recited Act for a limited Time from any of the Territories of the United States of America, fpr the Purpose of the same being re-exported to any other of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations. i, II.' ' And whereas it is provided by an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His ' present Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act to consolidate and extend the several ' Laws now m rorce for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods ' and Merchandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies, that certain Articles Articles enumer- ated in the recited Act. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 48*GEOR01I HI. Cap. 130. M ' Articles therein enumerated may be imported into the teferal Ports therein named, ' from Foreign Colonies in the West Indies, and it is expedient that the Permission ' for such Importation s))ould be extended i' be it enacted. That in addition to the Rice, Onin, ud Articles enumerated in the naid Act, it shall be lawful to import, under the like Autho> ^''""■° ")*T be im- rity. Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures provided in the said re. {'^"p'' 'p ** '"][ *' cited Act, the Articles of Rice, Gruin cf all Sorts, and Flour, from any Colonies or We»tXdl!M*fce Plantations in America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of tne Free Ports in Colonies or Plantations oelonging to His Majesty in the West Indies, which are particularly named in the said Act, or in another Act passed in the Forty-seventh Year of His Majesty, respecting the Port of Amsterdam in the Island of Cura^oa, in any Foreign Ship, Schooner, or other Foreign Vessel whatever, not having more than one Deck, and being manned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plantadons belonging to any Foreign Sovereign or State. Anno 48^ Geo RG II III. Cap .30. I An Act for preventing the various Frauds and depredations cctnmitted ' on Merchants, Ship Owners, and Underv iiurs, by Boatmen and others, within the Jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports ; and also for remedying certain Defects relative to the Adjustment of Salvage, under a Statute made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne. XXI. ' A ND whereas it is expedient that the like means of conclusively adjusdng ' x\. and recovering the Quantum of the Monies or Gratuldes to be paid to * the several Persons acting or being employed in the Salvage of any Ship, Vessel, or ' Goods, should subsist and be by Law applicable in Cases where the Salvors shall ' have acted under and by the mere Employment and Authority of the Commander * or other superior Officer, Mariners, or Owners of any Ship or Vessel in Distress* * as are now by Law provided for adju: n^ the Quantum of such Monies or Gra- ' tuities which shall have become due ;<' < ^ ( j;^ f™7t" " 49°&EOAGII III. Clip. 16. 243 Judges and Justices are hereby required to take Notice thereof as such without the same bong specially pleaded. XXV. Provided always, That diis Act shall continue in force for Seven Years, and *■«' *" conUime from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and no longer.* *° ■I • ' t • Purther caiOiitwAfin Seven Yeare from id July 1813 6y 53 Geo. 3. c. 87. ■>i!) f -iiJ !f*M;i !.-iiiT ■l:iJ::.l (i! qsae 411 ; ;'ii: .-.iKi i 1 '■ : .1 ■.'■) ,*.. ■ / ♦. .i»/l-. M . ; . t - y,a ■I .. •• ■•■-' V r '• ;■■ i' Anno 49° Geo AG 1 1 III. Cap. 16. An Act to allow the Importation of Rum and other Spirits from the Island of Bermuda into the Province of Lower Canada, without Payment of Duty, on the same Terms and Conditions as such Im- portation may be made directly from His Majesty's Sugar Colonies m the West Indies. < TT THEREAS it is expedient that c\ commercial Intercourse should be encouraged * VV between the Province of Lower Canada smd thelslnnd of Bermuda, and * betAveen the latter and His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies : And. * whereas certain Duties on Rum and other Spirits imported into Canada are imposed * by an Act of the Fourteenth Year of His present Majesty's Rei^n, intituled 'An Act 14 Geo. 3. c. i * to establish a Fund towards further defraying the Charges of the Administration * of Justice and Support of the Civil Government within the Province of Quebec in < America ;' which Duties are, under certain Conditions and Restrictions, remitted by « an Act of the Twenty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled • An Act * to allow the Importation of Rum or other Spirits from His Majesty's Colonies or * Plantations in the West Indies into the Province of Quebec, without Payment of < Duty, under certain Conditions and Restrictions ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, any Rum or other Spirits, being the Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally imported into -the Island of Bermuda, \inay be legally imported into the Province of Lower Canada, and landed and admitted to an Entry, upon Payment of the same Rate of Duty as if the same had been imported directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, and under the Conditions and Restrictions contained in the said Act, without 'Payment of Duty, in the same manner as if such Rum or other Spirits had been imported directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies. 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. SpiriUt of the Pro> duce of the West Indies, imported into the Provinces of Nova Scotia, &c. niiiy beimported in. to Lower Canada- Hh a 24* )■..,' 49°G£ORGII 111. Cap. ]8. & Cap. 2i?. •.:.. ./'I '-'yi^Jy.it 46 0eo.3. 0. 17. netpeedns the BiJMrUtion of Wool, eontinued till Miueli.25, 1819. ' • : Anno49^GEORGii III. Cap. 18. An Act for continuing until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousfmd eight huncd'ed and fourteen several Acts for the Free Im- portation ofCochineal and Indigo, and until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and nineteen, an Act of the Forty-sixth Year of His present Majesty, to permit the Exportation, of Wool from the British Plantations in America. II. « A ND be it further enacted, That an Act madie in the Forty.sixth Year of His • .l\. present Majesty, intituled * An Act to permit, until the Twenty-fi&h Day of *' March One thousand eight hundred and nine, the Exportation to the United * Kingdom of Wool from the British Plantations in America, shall be and the same ' is hereby continued from the said Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight '- hundred and nine until the Twenty>fifth Day of March One thousand eight * hundred and nineteen.* * The Law retpecting the ImpwMm ofCochintcd andiln^o does not agply to tlie Brilith. Colonies, ot PlauttUiont^ Anno49*'GEORGii 111. Cap. 22. ,,1 / . .' / '^ ' An Act for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods / 1 » l\(j G^- and Commodities into and from, the Port of Falmouth in the Island /It w 46 Oeo. 3. 0. 57. Goodi permittad to be imported into and exported from thePorU of Jamaica may be imported of Jamaica. ' TXTHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty's * W Reign, intituled ' An Act to consolidate and extend the several Laws now ' in force for alio wving the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Mer- * chandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies,' a certain limited Trade is * permitted to be carried on at certaia Ports in the Island of Jamaica in Foreign * Vessels of a particular Description : And whereas it is deemed proper and expedient * that such Trade should in like manner be permitted at the Port of Falmouth in the * said Island ;' be it enacted, by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, all such Goods ar:.! tlommodities as are by the said Act permitted to be imported into and expo* t .d fcoir. the Ports in the Island of Jamaica mentioned in the said Act, may be iinjou'Ai into and exported from the Port 49'GEORGII III. Cap.s;. 245 Pbrt of Falmouth in the said Is^id, in the same Sort of Vessels, under the. same i»to and «xportM Rules, Conditions, Regulations, and Restrictions, and subject to the like Penalties ^o™ »•>•?«« of and Forfeitures for the Breach thereof, as are described, provided, and imposed, m S.nd""' *" ^'*" the said Act, respecting the Importation and Exportation of Goods and Commo- dities into and from the Ports mentioned in the said Act. Aimo49°GEORGii III. Cap.27. An Act for establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of New- foundland, and the Islands adjacent, and for re-annexing Part of the Coast of Labrador, and the Islands lying on the said Coast, to the Government of Newfoundland. XIV. • A ND whereas His Majesty, by His Proclamation of the Seventh Day of Re-annexing Put of the Coast of Labrador, and tht Islftods lying on said Coast, to the GoremmeDt of Newfoundland. October One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, was pleased to ' declare that He had put the Coast of Labrador from the River Saint John to Hud- *■ son's Streights, with the Islands of Anticosti and Madelaine, and all other smaller ' Islands lying on the said Coast, under the Care and Inspection of the Governor of ^ Newfoundland : And whereas by an Act passed in the Fourteenth Tear- of the ' Reign of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for making more effectual Pro- ' vidon for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America,' all such ' Territories, Islands and Countries, as since the Tenth Day of February One thou- ' sand seven hundred and sixty-three had been made Part of the Government of < Newfoundland, were, during His Majesty's Pleasure, annexed to and made Part of the * Province of Quebec, as created by the said Proclamation : And whereas in pursuance ' of an Act passed in the Thirty-first Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled ' • An Act to repeal certain Parts of an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of His 31 Gfeo. 3. c<3i ' Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for making more effectual Provision for the ' Government of the Province of Quebec in North America,' and to make further ' Provision for the Government of the said Province,' the said Province of <)uebec ' was divided into Two Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, the latter including ' the Parts of the Coast of Labrador and the said Islands so formerly annexed to the ' Government of Newfoundland r And whereas it is expedient that the said. Coast ' of Labrador, and the adjacent Islands (except the Islands of Madelaine), should be • re-annexed to the Government of Newfoundl<\nd ;' be it therefore enacted, That such Parts of the Coast of Labrador from the River Saint John to Hudson's Streights and the said Island of Anticosti, and all other smaller Islands so annexed to the Government of Newfoundland by the said Proclamation of the Seventh Day of Octo- ber One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three (except the said Islands of Madelaine^, shall be separated from the said Government of Lower Canada, and be again re-annexed to the Government of Newfoundland; any thing in the said Act passed in the Thirty-first Year of His present Majesty's Reign, or any other Act, to the contrary ooiwithstanding. XVL And e46 AppUcaUon of P«i»ltiet. 49° GEORGII lU. Cap.4I. ''~'XVI. And be k further enacted. That all Fines, Penalties, and Focfdtures im- posed by any Act of Parliament made, or which shall hereafter be made, relating to the Islh id of Newfoundland, or the Fishery thereof, may be recovered in a summary way in the said Supreme Court, or in any Surrogate Court ; and every Penalty and Forfeiture of the S'lm of Ten Pounds or under may be recovered in the Court of Ses^on, or before any one or more Justices of the Peace ; and all Fines, Penaldes, and Forfeitures imposed, paid, or levied in anv Surrogate Court, or in any Court of Session, or before any one or more Justices or the Peace, shall be forthwith estreated and paid into the said Supreme Court by the Surrogate, or by the Justice or Justices of the Peace respectively before whom they were recovered } and it shall be lawful for the said Supreme Court to issue Process for better compelling such Justices and Surrogates to bring to account all Monies which ought to be so paid and accounted for as aforesaid ; and all Money arising from such Fees, Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures, shall be applied and appropriated towards defraying the Expence of carrying this Act into Execution. .^' 1 -'^ J/ . 48 Geo. 3. c. 70. British-buiit Vessels recaptured may be registered, An!no4&°GEORGii III. Gap. 41. All Act to amend an Act made in the Forty-eighth Year of His present Majesty, to provide ihat British Ships captured by the Enemy, becoming the Property of Brf''^ o._i_ ...^ in i ..., i . the Privilege of British Ships. becoming the Property of British Subjects, shall not be entitled to « TT7HEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's « W Reign, intituled ' An Act to provide that British Ships wluch shall be cap- * tured by the Enemy, and shall afterv/ards beconie the Property of British Subjects, * shall not be entitled to the Privilege of British Ships,' it is enacted that no British- * buih Ship or Vessel which has been captured by the Enemy, and which shall not * have been registered de novo before the First Day of October One thousand eight < hundred and eight, nor any British-built Ship or Vessel which ^aall thereafter bt * cuptu/ed by the Enemy, shall be registered as a British-built Ship or Vessel j but * every such Ship or Vessel, although owned by a British SubjtH:t or Subjects, shall * bs deemed and taken to all Intents and Purposes as a Fureign-built Ship or Vessel : ' And whereas it may be an Encouragement to the Recapture of such Ships and * Vessels, if such recaptured Ships and Vessels were admitted to the Privilege of * British-built Ships and Vessels as before their Capture by the Enemy ;' be it there- fore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and and with the x'idvice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par- liament ass ambled, and by the Authority of the same, That every British-built Ship or Vessel recaptured from the Enemy by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or by any Ship or Vessel having Letters of Marque and Reprisal, or by any Ship or Vessel of .49*G£ORGII 111. Cap. 46. m of War belonging to any State in Alliance with His Majesty, may be registered* and and have the Pri- shall be deemed and taken to have the Privileges- of a Bririsb-built Ship or Vessel, ^"fg* of British in the same manner as if it had not been captured by the Enemy ; any thing in the '*"' said Act to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. , . . : J>Oi. ■I «• !■ Anno49"GEORGii III. Cap. 46. ; An Act to authorize the Principal Officers of the Customs in the Britisii Colonies and Plantation» in America and ttie West Indies to examine Witnesses on Oath. ...rl ' T/f/^E^EAS by an Act passed m the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His « V V present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for regulating the Production of Mam- 26 Geo. 3. c. 40. < fests, and for more eifectually preventing fraudulent Practices in obtaining Bounties * and Drawbacks, and in the clandestine relanding of Goods,' the Surveyor General ' or Surveyors General of the Customs in the Port of London, upon Examinations « and Inquiries relative to the Revenue of Customs, and to the Conduct of the Offi- * cers employed therein, are authorized to examine all Persons who may appear * before them upon Oath ; and the like Power is also given to the Collectors and * Comptrollers of the Customs at the Out-Ports of Great Britain by aa A.ct passed * in the Forty-third Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled 'An Act for the further 43G.3. c 128. ' Regulation of the Collection gf the Duties of Customs in Great Britain in certain ' Cases :' And whereas it is expedient, that upon the Uke Examinations and Inquiries * to be made by or before the Collectors and Comptrollers of any of the Ports in the < British Colonies and Plantations in America and the West Indies, or by or before ' such other Person or Persons as the Commissioners of the Customs in England for ' the time being shall deem fit and proper, to examine and inquire into Matters rela- ' tive to the Revenue of Customs and other Duties, and respecting the Conduct of * the Principal Officers, and any Officers whatever employed under them, in the * British Colonies and Plantations in America ..>> the West India's, and shall or may ' from time to time appoint for the Purpose ot iiiaking any such Examinations and ' Iiijquiries, the like Power to examine all Persons who may appear before them ' upon Oath should be given to the said Collectors and Comptrollers, and such ' other Person or I'ersons aforesaid respectively ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent '.T jesty, by and with the Advice ana Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That fro..^ and after the passir. < t this Act, all and I" ^Inttor, n'l: ,. each -md every Person and Persons who shall be examined as .. ' . itnesscr Wirnesses i?-' ''' '■''^'"™?' T . !• II 1 ^ • • r 1 ^ • »-> 1 1 - 1 HltlUiSSPS to LMVe Oil any Inquiry directed by the Commissioners or the Customs m England tor the Testim. -a onOath, dnie being, or any Four or more of them, to be made in Americu or th ' v'est Indies, wlii',l. ■.•rw ; e ad- relative to His Majesty's Revenue of Customs or other Duties there, ortc :ii- Conduct num^-fl' -'' •■ the of the Officers employed in the Collection thereof, by or before any Collector and [h"c'ur'om3 Comptroller 248 Persons making a fiUae Oath to be guilty of Perjur/. 4iJ GEORGll III. Cap. 107. ComptCQ}ler of the Custonis, or either of them, at or belonging to any Port in the British Colbnies and Plantations in America or the West Indies, or by or before such other Person or Persons as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners, or any Four or more of them, for the Purpose aforesaid, snail and the^f rire hereby respectively required to '^leliver his, her, or their Testimony on Oath, to be .-ulmiriistered by the said Officer or Officers, o\ the said other Person or Per^.uvi8 so jppoinu^j as aioresaid respectively, who shall ei^: unine him, her, or them, or beibre ? iiom he, shs,, < : they shall be examined r;s aforcsud ; and such Officer and Ofticers,. aud Person (;, ? ;. sons respectively, are lufeby auihorized to adrrtiniste^ -such Cv-th acvoruin^'y. II. And be it further enacted, That If any Perst;? or Pew^/ns whomsoever cliall be convicted of making a false Oa h touching; any of tht "Facts directed 01 required by tliis Act to be testified on Oath, or of givij^g false Evidence on his, her, or theJr Ex- amination on Oath as aforesaid, by or before ar>y Collector and Comptn iler o- the Customs of, at, or belonging to any Port in th« West Indies or America, Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America) ; for applying the Pro- uuce of such Duties, and of the Duties to arise by virtue of the said Ace, towards defraying the Expetices of defending, protecting, and securing the raid Colonies and Plantations j for explaining an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second (intituled An Act for the Encouragement of the Green- land and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade); and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks on : xports from^liis Kingdom ; and more eflfectually preventing the clandestine T . . ivance of Goods to an' from the said Colonies and Plantations, and impr . and securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain ;' and the othc v .ed in the Eighth Year of His present Ma; . 's Reign, and intituled ' A> '.c r the more easy and effectual Recovery cf t?"-- > -'alties and Forfeitures infii.:^ ..• if he Acts of Parliament relaf'ag ' to *^ 49«6£ORGlI III. Cap. 107. 24» Provision of recited « to the Trade or Revenues of the British Colonies and Plantations in America ;* are • to be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered in certain Courts in the saic' Acts men- < tioned : And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend the Provisions of the said * Acts ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Comn^.ons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all the Pro- visions contained in the said recited Acts, or in any other Acts, as to prosecuting, p*^** .^*?' recovering suing for, and recovering any Penalties or Forfeitures incurred in the British Colonies exceVw tTpro- ' or Plantations in America, under any Law relative to the Trade or Revenue of the said ceedmgs commen- Colonies or Plantations, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except only as to ^ed before October any Proceedings under the said Acts now depending, or which shall be conmienced 8^pJ p^^ \!^^ ^L before the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and nine ; and that be recover«d in any all Buc>> Penalties and Forfeitures which may have been heretofore, or may be here- Court of Record or after ii^^arred, shall and may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered in any Court of Vice Admiralty in Record, or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction, in the Colony or Plantation where Se c!li"?ariJS" the Cause of Prosecution arises ; and in Cases where there shall happen to be no 8cc. such Courts, then in any Court of Record, or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction, in some British Colony or Plantation near to that where the Cause of Prosecution arises ; provided, that in Cases where a Seizure is made in any other Colony than Proceedings in that where the Forfeiture accrues, such Seizure may be prosecuted in any Court of Seizures. Record, or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction, either in the Colony or Plantation where the Forfeiture accrues, or in the Colony or Plantation where the Seizure is made, at the Election of the Seizor or Prosecutor ; and in Cases where there shall happen to be no such Courts in either of the last-mentioned Colonies or Plantations, then in any Court of Record, or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction, in some British Colony or Plantation near to that where the Forfeiture accrues, or to that where the Seizure is made, at the Election of the Seizor or Prosecutor. IL And be it further enacted. That such Seizures, by whomsoever made, shall be S«jure« to be lodged and deposited in the Custody of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs coSector wid** at the Port where they shall be made, or into which they shall be carried for Adjudi- ComptroUer of the cation 'under the aforesaid Provisions, and shall be su^ect, in respect to the Charge, Customs, &c. Care, Sale, and Delivery thereof, to the Rules and Regulations of an Act of tne ^ Twenty-sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for regulating 26 Geo. 3. c.40.,- - ' the Production of Manifests, and for more effectually preventing fraudulent Prac- ' tices in obtaining Bounties and Drawbacks, and in the clandestine relanding of • Goods ;' and shall be deliverable on Security according to the Rules of another Act of the Twenty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled * Aft Act ^^ ®*"- ^' ^- ^^• * more effectually to secure the Performance of Quarantine, and for amending several ' Laws relating to rhe Revenue of Customs,' in Uke manner as if th^ Prov^ons of tfie Two last-recited Acts were herein repeated. ■: 7, »^B ht'ng to li 950 45 Geo. 3. «. 6/. 50*&5rG£ORGII III. Cap. 21. & Cap. 23. '.'•r'rf ,tkO .^Ivrj* ^ ' ihil'^l^fr^^r^ -''^'V^t»^^;^ ^•^■'' a i'<*i.- ', ; »•' Anno 50°Georgii III. Cap. 21. An Act for amending, and continuing so amended, until the Tveenty- ; fifth Day of March One thousand eight handred and twelve, an Act of the Forty-fifth Year of His present Mmesty, for consolidating and extending the several Laws in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies. ■■' a .^.k ■•:>'.,;■ '■•^.u: -'Hni-yy^'^u": r * TTTHEREAS It is expedient that for a limited Time the Trade carried on in * W Foreign Vessels, by virtue of an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His ' present Majesty's Reign, intituled ' An Act to consolidate and extend the several * Laws now in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods * and Merchandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies,* should not be * restricted to Vessels having only One Deck ;' be it therefore enacted by the KingV most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from aoil after the passing of this Act, and until the Twenty-nfth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twelve, it shall and may be lawnil to import and export the Articles m the said Act mentioned, at the Ports therein mentioned, under the Rules and Regulations of the said Act, in any Foreign Sloop, Schooner, or other Vessel, as therein described, although such Sloop, Schooner, or Vessel shall have more than One Deck ; any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.* * Made perpetual by the ^ct 54 Geo. 3. r. 48. Anilo 5P Georgii III. Cap. 23. An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the Forty-seventh Year of His M^esty's Reign, intituled ' An Act for the Abolition of « the Slave Trade.' « TXyTHEREAS the Two Houses of Parliament did, by their Resolutions of the • . V V Tenth and Twenty-fourth Days of June One thousand eight hundred and * six, severally resolve, that the African Slave Trade being contrary to the Principles « of Justice, Humanity, and sound Policy, they would with all practicable Expedition • take efiFectual Measures for the Abolition of the same : And whereas, in conformity ♦ with the said Resolutions, and for all and each of '.' -: Reasons therein stated, the * said Trade was, b' an Act passed in the Forty-seventh Y :i ?f His present Majesty, • ..vi ed 51*GEORGII III. Cap. 23. declared to be unlawful : And whereas it hath been found that divers Penonsr not deterred bv the Provisions and Penalties of the said Act, do still continue to deal and trade in Slaves upon the Coact of Africa and elsewhere, and to carry them for Sale by Sea : And whereas the Commons House of Parliament, by its Resolu- tion of the Fifteenth of June One thousand eight hundred and ten, did express its Indignation at such Practices, and did resolve speedily to take into Con^deration such Measures as might tend effectually to prevent such daring Violations of the Law : And whereas it is fit that such Measures should be exte^ided alcj to the effectual Abolition of the Slave Trade, wheresoever it may be attempteu to practise it ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That if anv Subject or Subjects of His Majesty, or if any Person or Persons residing or being within this United Kingdom, or in any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, Settlements, Factories, or Territories now or hereafter belonging thereto, or being in His Majesty's Occupation or Possession, or under the Government of the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies, shall from and after the First Day of June next, by him or themselves, or by his or their Factors or Agents, or otherwise howsoever, carry away or remove, or aid or assist in carrying away or removing, as a Slave or Slaves, or for the Purpose of being sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as a Slave or Slaves, any Person or Persons whatsoever from any Part of Africa, or from any other Country, territory, or Place whatsoever, either immediately, or by Tranship- ment at Sea or otherwise, directly or indirectly ; or shall import or bring, or aid or assist in the importing or bringing, into any Islaiid, Colonv, Country, Territory, or Place whatsoever, any such Person or Persons as aforesaid, ror the Purpose aforesaid ; or shall knowingly and wilfully ship, embark, receive, det: ...■■.>*- i^ .f -j •.'. - ?■ i ' Act not to iiNvaat the ramoving of Slaves from one British Settlement to another, &c. nar to prerent the TranaporUtion to Foreign Places of Slaves that have been convicted of Crimes. Act pot to txtend to things (lone before certain Periuds. .41 •u:i-^'m- III. And it is hereby further enacted and declared, That such Persons shall not be deemed to be, nor shall be punished as Accessories to Felony } any thing !*' this p-.iient Act to the contrary thereof notwithstandmg. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to subject any Person or Persons to the Pains and Penalties hereby imposed for exporting, removing, or carrying from any present or future British Island, Colony, or Settlement in the Wttt Indies, to any other present or future British Island, Colony, or Settlement in the West Indies, or from one Part of such British Island, Colony, or Settlement in the West Indies to any other Part of the same Island, Colony, or Settlement, or for importing or transporting into or landing in any such Island, ^olony, or Settlement, any Slave or Slaves which have been or shall be born within such Islands, Coloni.'s, or Settlements... or any Slave or Slaves which shall have been or may be lawfully 1 ported or brought into the said Island^', Colonies, or Settlements, or for removing «. . carryirg any Slave or Slaves from one Part of any Foreign Island, Colony, or Settle- ment, to another Part of the same Foreign Island, Colony, or Settlement, or for tran- shipping and assisting at Sea any Slave or Slaves which shall be in any Ship or Vessel in Distress : Provided also, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to prevent the Transportation to any Foreign Colony or Place of any Slave or Slaves that shall have been convicted by due course of Law, in any present or future British Island or Colony, of »r,y Crime to which Jie Punishment of Transportation is or shall be annexed by the Law of such Island or Colony ; but in every such Case a Copy of the Judgment or Sentence, certified by the Court before which the Offender was convicted, shall be put on board in the Ship or Vessel in which any such Convict shall be transported. V. Provided also, aild be it furthf enacted, That nothing herein-before contained shall extend or be construed to \tend to subject any Person or Persons to the Pains and Penalties hereby imposed r an thing done or to be done in Africa, West of the Cape of Good Hope, or ii. me W<. ' Indies or America to the East of Cape Horn, on or before the First Day of September next ; nor for any thing done or to be done in the East Indies, the Island of Madagascar, the Ports and Places of Africa to the East of the Cape of Good Hope, the Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, and the Islands 5 GEORGll 111. Cup. 23. Islands in the East Indian Seas, on or before the First Day of January next ; nor for any thing done or to be dune in New Holland, the Islands in the South Seas, or the Coast of America to the West of Cape Horn, un or before the First Day of May in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twelve ; nor for any thing done or to be done in the High Seas, on board uf any Ship or Vessel which hath or shall have sailed last from any Port in Great Britain or Ireland on or before the First Day of June next, or from any other Port or Piuce h\ Europe on or before the First Day of July next ; or from any Port or Place in Africa West of the Cape of Good Hope, or the West Indies or America to the East of Cape Horn, on or before the First Day of August next ; or from any Port or Place in the East Indies, Madagascar, the Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, the Coast of Africa to the East of the Cape of Good , Hope, and the Islands in the East Indian Seas, on or before the First Day of January ^ next ; or from any Port or Place in New Holland, the Islands in (Ul* South S<;a8, or ■' the Coast of America to the West of Cape Horn, on or before the First Day of May % in the Tear One thousand eight hundred and twelve.* VI. And be it further enacted and declared, That all Offences herein-betbre de- Offflnceatobo tried clared to be Felonies or Misdemeanors, which shall be committed in Afrin, or in ac^cording totht any Country, Territory, or Place, other than this United Kingdom, or on the High "'^'"'"T *="""« "^ Seas, or in any Port, Sea, Creek, or Place where the Admiral has Jurisdiction, shall and may be inquired of either according to the ordinary course of Law, and the Pro- visions of an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled ♦ An Act for Pirates ;' or according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of Kmg Henry the Eighth, intituled • An Act to proceed, by Commission of Oyer and Terminer, against such Persons as • shall confess Treason and Felony, without remanding the same to be tried in the ' Shire where the Offence was committed,' so far as the same Act is now unrepealed ; or according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Third, intituled * An Act passed ' for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy.' VII. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That nothing Act not to ivpeal herein contained shall be construed to repeal, annul, or alter the said Act of the former Acts in Forty-seventh Year of His present Majesty, or an Act made in the Forty-sixth Year J*?P^^* of For- of His present Majesty, for preventing the Importation of Slaves by any of His Majesty's Subjects into any Islands, Colonies, Plantations, or Territories belonging to any Foreign State or Power, in respect of any Forfeitures of Ships or Vessels, Cargoes Goods, oc Effects thereby respectively imposed fct any Offence against the said Acts, or either of them, or the Remedies thereby given foi- the Recovery thereof, or in respect of any p>ecuniary Penalties thereby impact J. ; but that the said Acts ^lall in all other respects be deemed and taken to bo m full Force, except so far as the said Act of the Forty-sixth Year of His present Majesty is altered or extended by the said Act of the Forty-seventh Year of His said Majesty. VIII. * And whereas it is in and by the said Act respectively enacted, That alj • Ships and Vessels, Slaves or Natives of Africa, carried, conveyed, or dealt wiife The Periods having long since elapted, it nuts nnnecettary to notice thii Section in the Index, as 2S4 Oorernor* and Commftnden in Chief, And Persons authoriiedbythem, may leiie Vetseli under other For- feitures. 5rG£ORGlI III. Cap. 23 as Slaves, and all other GnncU and Effects that shall or m?/ become forfeited for any Ott'ence committed against the said Acts respectively, shall and may be seized by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or by the Commanders or Officers of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War : And whereas Ships and Vessels, Slaves, Goods and Effects, liable to Seizure and Forfeiture under the said Acts, for Offences committed on the Coast of Africa, may be safely navigated, carried, or kept upon or near to the said Coast, or in the Ports, Havens, or Rivers thereof, in contempt of the said Acts, by reason of the want of Oflicers of the Customs or Exc.je, or of His Majestv's Ships ur Vessels of War stationed on the said Coast, or on ^uch Parts thereof as may be visited by such Offenders;' be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for all Governors or Persons having the Chief Command, Civil or Military, of any of the Colonies, Settlements, Forts, or Factories belonging to His Majesty, or to the African Company in Africa, or any African Island, and for all Persons deputed and authorized by any such Governor or Commander in Chief, to seize and prosecute all Ships and Vessels, Slaves or Natives of Africa carried, conveyed, or dealt with as Slaves, and all Goods and Effects whatsoever that shall or may become forfeited for any Offence committed against the said Acts of Parliament, or either of them, and which shall be found upon or near to the said Coast, or in any Port, Haven, or River thereof, or within the Limits of any of the said Colonies, Settlements, Forts, or Factories ; which Governor or Commander in Chief, and all Persons by them so deputed and authorized, shall, in making and prosecuting any such Seizures, have the Benefit of all the Provisions made by the said Acts of Parliament, or by an Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty therein recited, or by any other Act of Parliament for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecuting for any Offence against the said last-mentioned Act, or any other Act of Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America. Persons aailin^ in Vessels, giving Information of Offences com- mitted, not to be liable to Punish- ment. IX. Provided also, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Person or Persons, sailing or being in the Capacity of a Petty Officer, or Petty Officer's Servant or Servants, Seaman or Seamen, on board of any Ship or Vessel fitted out for or engaged in the unlawfully carrying, removing, trading, or dealing in Slaves, shall, withm Three Months after the Arrival of the said Vessel at any Fort belonging to His Majesty, give Information on Oath, before any competent Magistrate, against any Owner or Part Owner, or any Captain, Mate, Surgeon, or Supercargo of such Ship or Vessel, who shall havf. committed any Offence against this Act, and shall give Evidence on Oath against such Owner or Part Owner, Captain, Mate, Surgeon, and Supercargo, before any Magistrate or Court before whom such Offender may be tried ; or if such Person or Persons so sailing as aforesaid in the Capacity of a Petty Officer or Petty Officers, Mariner or Mariners, Servant or Servants, shall, within Three Months after his or their Arrival at any Port or Place not within His Majesty's Dominions, give Information to any of His Majesty's Ambassadors, Ministers Plenipotentiary, Envoys, Charges d' Affaires, Consuls, Residents, or other Agents, so that any Person or Persons owning such Ship or Vessel, or navigating or taking charge of the same as Captain, Mate, Surgeon, or Supercargo, may be apprehended, such Person or Persons so giving puch Information and Evidence shall not be liable to any of the Pains or Penal- ties of this Act, or any Fine or other Punishment under the said Acts of the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Years of His present Majesty, or either of them, but srGBORGII 111. Cap. 47. but thall be wholly discharged therefrom ; and HIa Majesty's Ambaandors, Miniri m Plenipotentiary, Envoys, < barges d'Affaires, Cunnuls, Resi.lenta, or other Ag!t <% are hereby required to receive any such Infornution as aforesaid, and to transmit the Particulars thereof without Delay to one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and to transmit Copies of the same to the Commanders 0/ His Majesty's Ships or Vessels then being in the said Port or Place. fiS5 Anno5rGEORGii III. Cap. 47. An Act for carrying into Effect the Provisions of. a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, concluded between His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal. V. A ND be it further enacted. That so much of an Act passed in the Thirty-first .l\ Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act to amend an * Act made in the Twenty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for regulating * the Trade between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies in North America, and in * the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, * and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies ; < and also an Act made in the Twenty-seventh Year of Hid present Majesty's Reign, ' for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods, Wares, and Mer- < chandize in the Ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay, and Santa * Lucea in the Island of Jamaica, in the Port of Saint George in the Islanc' ^ Grenada, * in the Port of Rosea in the Island of Dominica, and in the Port c*Na8.v ! ^ the ' Island of New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, under certain I'ajliJ. ions < and Restrictions,' as prohibits the Importation of Tobacco, Pitch, T.u Piirp' 'ne. Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Sluut^ifS, and Lumber of any Sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potat »is, ^V'h"l^ ' .e, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, being of the Growth or Protl-j :•■■ or oF , oi' the Territories or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal, i\,. ^eing imported directly from any such Territories or Dominions into any Islpjid u' ider the Dominion of His Majesty in the West Indies (in which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermudas or Somers Islands are included), in British-built Ships or Vessels, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. So much of 31 Oeo.d. c. 38. u prohibits th« Importation of I'obncco, &c. of the Production of the Dominioni of Portugal into the WeHt Indies in British Vessels, repealed. VI. And be it further enacted. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons to import or bring into any or the said West India Islands any of the said Goods in British-built Ships or Vessels owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, and in no other Ships or Vessels whatever, such Goods bemg of the Growth or Production of some of the Territories or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South America, and imported into the siiid Islands directly Such Goods, being of the Growth of the Dominions of Portugal in South America, may be imported into the West Indie.'i in British-built Vessels. S86 Continuance of Act. SIGEORGII III. Cap.48. directly from the said Territories or Dominions j the said recited Act, or any other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstandrng. a" 7}*x;i* » .>, j f —.-frMj'- XII. And be it further enacted, That thia Act shall be in force during the Conti- nuance of the said Treaty with His Royal Highness the Princs Regent of Portugal, and shall and may, if necessary, be ahered and varied during the present Session of Parliament. Anno 51° Georgii III. Cap.48. An Act to permit Rum and other Spirits, the Produce of the British Colonies in the West Indies, to be imported into Lower Canada from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the Islands of Cape Breton, Prince Edward, and Newfoundland. * TXTHEREAS it is expedient, under certain Regulations, to permit Rum and * TT other Spirits, the Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies * in the West Indies, to be imported into Lower Canada from any of the Provinces * of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the Island of Cape Breton, Prince Edward's * Island, and the Island of Newfoundland, on Payment of the same Rate of Duty as * if the same had been imported directly from any of His Majesty's said Sugar * Colonies in the West Indies ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the Rum may be im- Same, That from and after the passing of this Act, any Rum or other Spirits, being erted from certain the Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West ovinces into Indies, legally and directly imported into any or either of the said Provinces or Islands in North America from the said Sugar Colonies, or from the Island of Ber- muda, may be exported from any or either of the said Provinves or Islands to the Province of Lower Canada, and landed and admitted to an Entry, upon the Payment of the same Rate of Duty as if the same had been imported directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies. II. * And to prevent the Importation of Foreign Rum and Spirits into fLower * Canada, under Pretejice that the same are the Produce or Manufacture of His * Majesty's Sugar Colonies,' be it enacted. That every Person or Persons loading on board any Ship or Vessel in any of the said Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Bruns. wick, the Island of Cape Breton, or Prince Edward's Island, or the Island of New- foundland, any Rum or Spirits as of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, in order to be exported from tnence to Lower Canada, shall, before the clearing out of the said Ship or Vessel, produce ;\ad deliver to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Loading Port his or their Affidavit, or that of his or their Agent or Factor, signed and sworn to before come Justice of the Peace in the Province or Island where the same shall be shipped, expressing in Words at length, and not in Figures, the Number and Content or Contents Canada. Reg^ulations to be observed to preTent the Importation of Foreign Rum. 2«7 . ; ."> C'.', 1.1. 1 .,(., ,'\ srOEORGII UL Ca{>.62. Cionients of the Cttdu or other PKka||[;e8 contaiiluiig the Rum or odnr Spirks ; also from what Colony or Plantation the same ira« imported, by wiKNn» ami die Time when such Importation took place, which Affidavit shall be attested by the Hand of the B»d Justice of the Peace to have boen sworn to in his Presence who is herd)y required to do the same without Fee or Reward ; and the Collector or other Pna- cipal Officer of the Customs to whom such Affidavit shall be delivered shall there* upon grant to the Master w other Person having the Charge or Command of die Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be loaden, a Certificate under his Hand and < Seal 6f Office (without Fee or Revnurd) of his having received such Affidavit pursuant to the Directi r ■.■!(. ■Jtl'* 'I'lr* UHx) l^tJU*.,' '^t i Anno 5P Georgii III. Cap. 96, H.:UM; An Act to extend the Powers vested in the Commissioners of the Customs of restoring Vessels and Goods seized, to Seizures made by virtue of any Acts relating to the Department of the Customs. , ,, . . WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reien of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for making further Provisions m regard 27 Geo. 3. e. 32. to such Vessels as are particularly described in an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the more effectual Prevention of Smuggling in this Kingdom, and for extending the said Act to other Vessels and Boats not particularly described therein ; for taking off the Duties on Flasks in which Wi. le r^' Oil is imported \ for laying an additional Duty on Foreign Geneva imported , for taking off the Dnty on Ebony, the Growth of Africa, imported into this Kingdom ; and for amending several Laws relative to the Revenue of Customs}' the Commissioners of the Customs in England and Scotland respectively are au- thorised to direct, under the Circumstances and en the Terms and Conditions there* in mentioned, any Goods or Co?.?*nodities whatever, or any Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horses, Cattle or Carriages, which shall have been seized as forfeited by virtue or in pursuance of any Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the Revenue of Customs, to be restored to the Proprietor or Proprietors : And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the Powers and Authorities so vested in the said Commissioners extend to authorize the Delivery of Goods and Commodities, Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horses, Cattle or Carriages, that may have been seized as forfeited by any Officer or Officers of the Customs, or other Person or Persons being duly authorized to make such Seizures by virtue and in pursuance of any other Act or Acts of Parliament : And whereas it is exp'^dient, in order to obviate such Doubts, and to prevent the Delay, Inconvenience, and Expence that would be occasioned by the Detention of Vessels or Goods seized under Circumstances wherein it would be just and reasonable that Relief should be afforded, that the Powers and Authorities so vested in the Com- K k 2 * misaioners m 1^*0£0RGI1 III. Cap.9tf. ■'." ■.'•i.iml 'io Ji"'! ,0 » tfttii' .ji^' tm a on m «! tfM* daMoms in £aj|bBd raid Hootland respectively should estesd and * be eonstnwd to extend to aadiomc the ComnusrioDen of the Customa in England * *nd Sciittlaiid* aeeor^^g to theiv reipectite Jurisdictioa^ to order any Goc^s or « ComffK>d}de« whatever, or any Shipa, VaimIs, Boats, Hotseo^ Cattle or Carriages, * wMeh shall have be«i seized as forfeited by any Officer or Officers of the Customs, * dtt by any other Person or Persons who, by virii'e and under the Authority of any * Act or Acts of Parliament made for the Protection of Trader the Benefit of Com> * in«ree^ o? for the encouragfaig and iiicrceaing of Shipping and Navigation, or in any « teipeet relating to the Depamnent of the Customs, to be restored to the Proprietor * <» Proprietors on the Terms and Conditions herein.after mentioned )' be it there^cue ^acted by the King's most Excellent Maje»y, by and with the Advice and Consent <^ the Lords Sf^ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prnsent Parliament assembled, uid by the Authority of the same, That all the Powers and Authorities vested in the Commissioners of the Customs in England and Scotland respectively by the said re- cited Act passed in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, by virtue of which the Commissioners of the Customs ia England for the time being, or any Four or more of them, or the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland for tb«> time being, or any Three or more of them, are authorized to direct any Goodj - Commodities whatever, or any Ships, Vcosels, Boats, Horses, Cattle, or Carriapc'>, sdzed as forfeited by virtue and in pursuance of any Act or Acts relating to the ' '• venue of Customs, to be restored to the Proprietor or Proprietors, on the Proof zi.^ on the Terms and Conditions in the said Act mentioned, shall extend and be con- strued to extend to authoriee the Commissioners of the Customs in England for the time being, or any Four or raore of them, or the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland for the time being, or any Three or more of them, according to their respecdve Jurisdictions, t* order any Goods or Commodities whatever, oc any Ships, Vefiseb, Boats, Horses', Cattle, or Carriages, that shall have been or shall be seiaod as forfeited either by any Officer or Officers of the Customs, or by any other Perscm or Persons whatsoever, by virtue or m pursuance of any Act or Acts of Psuliament made for the Protection of Trade, the Benefit of Commerce, or the encouraging and in> ttttmag of Shipping and Navigation, or by virtue and in pursuance of any other Act «r Acts c^ ParlianMnt hi any respect relatmg to the Depvtment of the CustiHBs, to be restored to the Proprietor or ProfHrietors, whether such Goods or Commodities, Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horses, Cattle, or Carris^fes, shall have been seized as forfeited in Great Britain or on the High Seas, or in any other of His M^esty'a Domiuions, Colonies, Settlements, or Plantations, in case Evidence shall be given to the Satis&ctaon tf the said Conunissioners, according to their respective Jurisdictions, that the Forfeiture arose without any Design of Fraud in the Proprietor or Proprietors of such Goods or Commodiries, Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horees, Cattle, or Carrijf;es; and also, in case the SeiiEure shall have been made by any such Officer or Officers,or other Person or Persons «s aforesaid in any of Ifis Majesty's Colonies, SettlenMOfts, or Plantsrions, or on i^e H^h 9eafii, and it shall be made appear to the Satisfaction of tlie Comnussioners of the (jitstoms in England for the time being, or any Four or ciore of them, that such iS^ure was occasioned by the Proprietor or Proprietors ^f any such Goods or Cotnmoditi^ Ships, Vessels, Boats, Huves, Cattle, or Carriages, having acted m con- fownity with any Orders or Directions vvMch the Governor or Chief Officer of «ny sudh Colony, Settlement, or Ptantadolik shall hove deemed it esiwdient on any ^akicirhtr Emerjehcy to issue. II. And Sl*G£OR^IJ lU. C(ip.(^» m II. And be it furtbei: cnucteiil* Th»t in any C^c^ wherein th^ mid Comnlftuoi^rs'^e'?*'"^ <« ^« ^ of the Customs in EngUnd and Scotland respectively shall exerciM the Fow«v» herf;!^ "?"° *** **" ^ vested in them, such Goods or Conunodities. Ships, Vessels, Boats. Horses, Canle, ffiK Stttf^ or Carriages, shall he restored to the Propiietor i?x Frqpnet«rs in such wanner and CommUwmfff , ! on such Terms and Conditions as under the Circumi^ces of the Case ^all appear >twU e entitled to any Recompence or Damage on account of the .;,\ Seizure or Detention of such Goods or Commodities, Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horses, ' .-. Cattle, or Carriages, or have or maintain any Action whatever for the same ; any Lav, - X 7 ' CustcMD, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. .- N ^ l^' W^- SrGEOROII III. An Act to regulate the Trade between Places in Ewope Soiilii of Cape Ilnisterre, and certain Port* in the British Colpnies in North ''^^■y.nL -/f_-r. ' TTTHEREAS it is expedient that an Act passed in the Forty-ninth Year of thp ♦ V V Rei^ of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act to permit certain Articles, < the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Europe, to be laden and shipped on < board Ships arriving with British North American Produce, and Fish taken by ' Settlers in the British North American Colonies, at any Port of Europe, in order tp ' be exported to the principal Ports in the British Colotiies and Pltfitations in Nordb • America,' should he repealed, and other Provisions should be made for the En- ' rouragement of the said Trade :' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it ,pijiy be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by ^d witn the Adwice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal* and Commons, in this presept Parliament assembled, and by the Authority oi the same, Tbs^ from apd Rec'ted Act after the passing of this Act, the said recited Act shrfl b* ^ tfep 58We is hetehy ''«?«"««' repealed. II. And Ceruin Produce South of Cape Finiaterre ma^ be shipped in Britlih- buut Ships for Exportation direct to certain Ports of the British Colonies in North America. Sl'GEORGII III. Cap.97. n. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, any Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of any Part of Europe South of Cape flnlsterre, may be shipped and laden in any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Flnisterre, for Exportation direct to any of the several Ports herein>after mentioned ; that is to say, the Port of Saint John's in the Provmce of New Brunswick, Saint John's in the Island of Newfoundland, Quebec in the Province of Canada, Sydney in the Island of Cape Breton, Halifax and Shelbum in the Province of Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince Edward's Island, all in North America, on board of any British Ship or Vessel owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any Port or Place in Europe South of Cape Flnisterre, with > Articles of the Growth or Produce of the said Colonies, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the said Co- ^ lonies or Plantations, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods or Commodities herein-after mentioned from the Province of Canada, whether such Goods and Merchandize shall be the Grorvth or Produce of the Province of Canada, or shall have been brought into the said Province by Land or Inland Navigation. C - : ou such ni. And be it further enacted. That the Articles aforesaM, the Produce of any »>"H>v ; to be the Part of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, shall, before the Importation thereof into G^" ''r..'''^* *^y ^^ ^^^ several Ports before enumerated, be subject and liable to the Payment of from GruTt Britain. ^^^^ Duties as Goods of the Hke Denommation 01 Description are subject and liable to upon being imported into any of the said several Ports from Great j^tajiij^ and no oth er o rhigher Duties; any thing in any Act o^ Acts of Parliament to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. V-j*.-* . ...if-v*V- Y*^«*.'■.(W«^J*.'.•■' Exporter of Carso firom Nova Scotia, &c. to any Port South of Cape Finisterre, to make Oath T certain Particulars. IV. And be it further enacted. That the Merchant or other Person exporting any Cargo from any Port in the Provinces of Nova Scotia or of New Brunswick, for any Port of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, under this Act, shall make Oath at the Port of Shipment in those Provinces before the Chief Officer of the Customs at such Port, or before the Naval Officer in Command at such Port, which Oath such Officer of the CustoiQs or Naval Officer is hereby authorized to administer, that the Cargo so shipped, is the Growth and Produce of the said Provinces, or the Produce of the British Fisheries in North America, really and bond fide taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the said Colonies or Plantations, and such C)fficer of the Customs or Naval Officer at such Port of Ship- ment shall certify such Oath under his Hand, which Certificate shall be produced by the Master or other Person having the Charge or Command of the Ship or Vessel on board of which any such Cargo is shipped, on his Arrival at the Port in Europe withiA the Limits aforesaid to, which such Cargo shall be consigned, or to which such Ship or Vessel shall go for the Delivery of the Cargo ; and the Master or other Person haying or taldng the Charge or Commnnd of such Ship or Vessel shall make Oath before the British Consul there resident, or if there shall be no British Consul there resident, then before Two known British Merchants there resident (which Oath he or they are hereby authorized and required to administer), that the Certificate so produced was the Certificate of the Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly signed by h^al Officer shall grant Certificate thereof signed with his Hand, which Certificate only the Master or other Person ... having Charge of such Ship or Vessel shall be required to produce at the Port of v / Delivery in Europe within the Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath of the Authen- f ticity or such Certificate in mannei aforesaid. VII. And be it further enacted, That any Ship or Vessel, or any Goods, Wares, or Forfeitures how to Merchandize, subject to Forfeiture under the Provisions of this Act, shall and may ^^ \^gj**'*^ ""** be seized by any Officer or Officers of the Customs m the said Colonies or Planta- tions lespectiveiy, or by the Commander of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of Ji War ; and the same shall and may be prosecuted, sued .or, recovered, and divided '/ in the same Manner and Form, and by the same Rules and Regulations in all respects, as far as the same are applicable, as any other Forfeiture imposed by any Act or Acts made for the Security 01 the Revenue, or for the Regulation or Improvement thereofi or for the Regulation of Trade or Navigation, and which were in force on or irame- .^ diately before the passing of this Act, may be prosecuted, sued for, recovered, ,-,-*..! and divided in any British Colony or Plantation in America. ,^^ .^ i; .- Before Shipment of Fish for Exporta- tion from Canada, Oath shall be made that they are the Produce of British . AmericanFisherice. I ;.;?.t.!;.'."jii„ ''■.i'::-;npi r\ Mi .HJ^U'r": ■ ■ ■-■•»}ts» 'in: . Aiu-ii WJJ UlA: .'iVy- Intereoune bt- tween Jamaica and St. Domingo pro- hibited, except ai herein provided. mH, V;. 52»G£OROtI m. Ca|).S5. ' V.i^^-v^i'^:^.! .'^^^ ■>■'" ' fWPRKu VcMtiUI niTupK concireo vc St. OWtalh|;o tidt ■uflelra to ifeAMni Jamaica more than for^-eight hours on Penalty of For- feiture. Anrio52PGEORGii IlL Cap.S5> Ah Act t» pifoliiblt idl Intett»ui^ between Ikie Islftnd of JaiAHicb, and certidn t^tfts of the Islntid of Saint Domingo. * \ftfWltAAt h h etpedietit diat aH intetrcour^e Wtii^e«n die bland of Jamaica ' T T and e^Vtlin Puts and Places of die Island of ISaint IDbmingo should cease ' atld deterttdUe,^ be it ens< 'i-d by the Kibg^s most fijccellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Cotseht of the Lords St>ititual and Temporal, and Commons, itk this presetat Parliaiheht ateembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the If irst Day of July Ohe thousand dght hundf ed and twelve, ttb British Ship or Vessel shall, f6t ahy Purpose bt utoder any Pretenee whatever, sail from aiw Pott or Place in the ^tshaid of JaMiaica to any Port tit iHace in the Island of Saint Dombwo, nor from ahy Port or Place in the Island of Saint Dottiitago to any Pbtt or Place in tne lalaJild dflaihal<^ exce|>ta^ is herdn-afrer prbvided, under the Penalty of the For- feiture of any such Ship or Vessel, together with her Cargo, Guns, Furtiiture, Am- raunidon* Tackle, and Apparel. It. And be tt fdtther ehacted, That no Foi-eltti Shipdr Vessel, whether ladieh^ h fiallast, ishaD come ihto ahy Port in the Islaidd of Jamaicli, if such Ship or Vessd %hatl have come frotti, or ishall to the Course of her Voyaee have touched at any Port or Place in the lislahd of Safait Domingo ; and if anv such Foreign Ship or Vei^l shall land any Person frotn on board the same, or shall continue in any Port or Harbour of the said Island of Jamaica, for Forty-eight Hotits after Notice shall be given by the Principal Offii^^ of the Cu^oitos residoit at the Port to depart thereftt>m, Such Foreign Sbf{> ot Vessel ^afi be forfeited, tt^etbdr tridi heir Cargo, Giins, Furniture Ammiifiitiott, tackle, and Apparel Not to extend to that Part of Saint m. Provided always, and be it furdier enacted, That nothing in this Act contained . . shall eitettd or bo sued for in feitures incurred in the British Colonies or Plantations in America, by force of any ^i^a^^'^n^^'' Act of Parliament relating to the Trade and Revenues of the said Colonies or Plant- "' ations may now be sued for and prosecuted in pursuance of an Act passed in the Fort^>ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for the more * effectual Ri "«;ry of Penalties »i)d Forfeitures incurred in the British Colonies and * Plantations in merica ;' and such Ships, Vessels, and Goods shall be lodged and deposited in the Custody of the Officers mentioned in the said Act, and shall be subject to tae other Provisions thereof in like manner as if the same were hereui repeated ; aad the Commanders or Officers of any Ships or Vessels of War, and the Officers of the Customs, in making and prosecuting any such Seizures, shall have the Benefit of all the Provisions made by any Act of Parliament for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecuting any Ships, V:-.-! . r Goods, for any Offence against any Act of Parliament relating to the Trade anaxlevenuea of the British Colomes or. Plantations in America. v;4.:;! . '.'-jij ta><^ftt»i.*!i.V"t**'i ' VI. And be it furthei enacted, That the Forfeitures incurred by this Act shall go How Forfeitures anu belong to such Person and Persons, and in such Shares and Proportions, as any '^'" ^' disposed Forfeitures incurred in the British v.olonics or Plantations in America now go and belong to and may now be distributed and applied under and by virtue of a certain Act of Parliament made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for granting certa-n Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, and for other Purposes. VII. And be it further enacted, That if any Ship or Vessel, or any Goods laden In case of Dispute thereon, shall be seized under the I'rovisions of this Act, and any Dispute shall arise about the Forfei- whether the said Ship or Vessel had sailed, or the Goods laden thereon had been |."'®' ^'o®' '•>*'• brought from any Port or Place in the Island of Jamaica to any Port or Place in 'the '* "" * *"'*'* Island of Saint Domingo, or from any Port or Place in the Island of Saint Domingo to any Port or Place in the Island of Jamai' i, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, in such Case the Proof tb-^-er hall lie upon the Owper or Claimer of such Ship or Vessel or Goods, and not o-^ mi the Office^ who shall seize or stop the same-; and in case no sufficfent Proof shaki I r (riven by the Owner or Claimer of such Ship or Vessel, or the Goods laden thereon, of tne Port or Place from and to which such Goods had been brought, and such Ship or Vessel did really and bona fide sail, then such Ship or Vessel shall without any further Proceeding be taken and held to have sailed, and the Goods laden thereon shall be taken and held to have been brought from one of the said Islands to the other, contrary to the Provisions of this Act ; any Law, Cus- tom, or Usage in any of the Colon ^s ur Plantations to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstan&jg. , .; • ;i . / • < v ;, :> Vill. And be it further enacted, That in case any Ships or Vessels, or any Goods whatever, shall be seized as forfeited by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of the Customs in England, or any Four or more of them, on Evidence bein^ given to their Satisfaction that the Forfeiture arose without any fraudulent Proceeding, or Design or Intention of Fraud in the Pro- prietor or Proprietors of such Ships or Vessels or Goods, by any Writing signed by them, or any Four of them, to order thie same to be restored to such Proprietor or Proprietors, in such manner and on such Terms and Conditions as under the Cixcum- L 1 stances Coraniissioners of the Customs may restore the Forfei- ture on Conditions, if proved that it was incurred with- out any fraudulent Design. 366 'I 52«OBORGII 111. Cap. 55. stances of the Case shall appear tot the said Commissbners to be just and reasc able, and as they shall fHink fit to direct; and if the said Proprietor or Proprietors shall comply with the i n>' and Conditions prc^rribed by the said Comnussioneri),. the same snail be restore a accordingly ; and it shall not be lawfi ' 'or the OiHcer or Officers who sha'l nave sa^^d such Ships, Vessels, or Goods, or t u\- her Person or Persons whatever on his or their behalf, to proceed in any maiuter for the Condemnation thereof; but if such Proprietor or Proprietors shall not comply with the Terms and Conditions prescribed by the said Commissioners, such Officer or Officers shall be at Liberty, and he and they is and are hereby authorized, to proceed for the Condemnation of such Ships or Vessels, or Goods, as if this Law had not been made : Provided always, that if such Proprietor or Proprietors shall accept the Terms and Conditioas prescribed by the said Commissioners, such Proprietor or Proprietors shall not have or be entitled to any Recompence or Damages on account of the Seizure or Detention of such Ships or Vessels, or Goods, or have or maintain any Action whatever for the same ; any Law, Custom) or Usage to the contrary notwithstarding. ,1 i'h.iUli 1 iirn%- t :::,"'' Anno 52PGEORGII III. Cap. 55. ' An Act to prevent Foreign Goods of certain Descriptions being brought from the United States of America into Canada, and lo allow a greater Quantity of Worstetl Yarn to be exported from Great Britain to Canada, :w HE Vi'.A}'' it K expedient tliat Foreign Goods and Conir.iodities not of the Growth of the Territories of the United States of America, should not be ' brought ivom the ssid Territories by Inland Navigation or Land Carriage into the * Province ot Upper and Lower Canada, to the Prejudice of the Trade carried on by * Sea from the United Kingdom to the said Provinces;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, No Goods, except and by the Authority of the same, That no Goods or Commodities whatsoever, American Produce, except Goods and Commodities of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of the from the'^Unlted Territories of the United States of Amer':a, shall be brought from the Territories States into Canada, of the said United States of America by Inland Navigation or Land Carriage into on Penalty of For- the Provinces of Lower or Upper Canada, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the ('^'>i»rc. said Goods or Commodities, or the Value thereof, together with the Vessel or Carriage in which the same shall be brought ; to be sued for, recovered, and distributed in the ' Kke manner as is directed in any Act in the case of Offences being committed against the Laws of Customs in any of His Majesty's Plantations in Africa or America. • - ■■':'■.; i'.s. : 'H't '%'••■ .■V, 6S»0£0RGII HI. Ciip.79. Ann()52"GEoiiGii III. Cap. 79. J^7 iiitu the said Island in ForeiiMi Ships or Vessels. * TTTHErtEAS it is expedl * TT British Colony or P' ' of Bermuda in British Shi ' George in the said Island * Foreign oi.ip" or Vessels ; . * daction of the lerritoriea ol Island in Foreign Ships or Ve- il! w Sugar and Coffee, the Produce of any the West Indies, imported into the Island is, to be exported from the Port of S$' 'ories of the United States of Americ iA certain Articles of the Growth or Pro- nited States to be imported into the said be re-exported from thence in Brirish- li to built Ships or Vessels tu British Islands in the West Indies ^* be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and 1 emporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for Sugar and Cotiee, the Rritish I'lanuuiou Produce of any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies, imported into the ?"«"■ "•"* Coffee island of Bermuda in any British Ship or Vessel, to be exported from the Port of liru'dTSritUh^'" Saint George in the said Island of Bermuda to any Part of the Territories of the Ships may be "United States of America, in any Foreign Ship or Vessel belonging to any Country exported to in Amity with His Majesty, above the Burthen of Sixty Tons.; any Law now in force ^/"^'''^a "" Foreign to the contrary notwithstanding. Vmeb above Skty 'II. And be it further enactied. That it shall and may be lawful to import Tobacco, Tobacco and other Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Ma^s, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading J^.^oltej |?^^* Boards and Plank, Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, t'i'ence*notwith- Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and Live Stock of any Sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, standing. Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, such Commodi- ties being of the Growth or Production of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, from the said Territories to the Port of Saint George in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship or Vessel belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty ; any thing in an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects jg Geo. 3. c. 6. ' of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America and in the West India ' Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, and between ' His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in tho West Indies,' or in any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any of '^orte^'m?'be''cx-" His Majesty's Subjects to export any of the Articles before enumerated, which shal' Lrted to^the West have been imported in any Foreign Ship or Vessel f iom the Territories of the United Indies in British States into the Island of Bermuda from the said Port of Saint George, to any of His Vessels. Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British^built Ships and Vessels , . . . , ,,; owned and navigated according to Law. LI 2 :yf •:f IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^o /^A^^ V V .5> .^1-^ n4 /L ^ 4^ 1.0 I.I ■^ l&i 12.2 ^ 1^ 112.0 u 11.25 IH 1.4 M 1.6 mil Photographic Sciences Corporation \ iV <^ <% V O^ 33 WIST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14S80 (716)a72-4S03 4> 308, 7 / < ./ 7 r A \X./ic ^ \.'"- 52*G;^RGII ^H; eap.98. ^ ^ ■-/^;' '^^ III. Cap. 98. ■J- ifil •4;« Geo. 3. c. 69. 50 Geo. 3. c. 13. An Act to permit Sugar, CofFfte, and Cocoa to be exported from Hi:^ Majest/s Colonies or Plantations to any Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre« and Com to be imported from any such Port, and from the Coast of Africa, into tne said Colonies and Plantations, under Licences granted by the Collectors and Comptrollers of the Customs. Sugar, Coffee, and Cocoa may be ex- Sorted from His lajesty's PlanU- tions in America to any Port iu fV-'i*-ir-rj .^^ T T * TyHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty.«ighth Year of the Reign of His * ▼ » present Majesty, intituled ' An Act to permit, until the Twenty-fifth Day of * March One thousand dght hundred and ten. Sugar and CoiFee to be exported from * His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations to any Port in Europe to the Southward of ' Cape Fuiisterre, and Com to be imported from such Port, and from the Coast of * Africa into the said Colonies and Plantations ;' which Act, by another Act passed in < the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, mtituled * An Act to continue * an Act made in the Forty-fourdi Year of His present Majesty, for permitting the ' Exportation of Salt from die Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, the ' Port of Exuma, and the Port of Crooked Island, in the Bahama Islands, in American ' Ships coming in Ballast ; and amend and continue an Act made in the Forty-eighth * Year of His present Majesty, for permitting Sugar and Coffee to be exported from ' His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations to any Port in Europe to the Southward of ' Cape Finisterre, and Corn to be imported from such Port, and from the Coast of ' Africa, into the said Colonies and Plantations, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March * One thousand eight hundred and thirteen,' was continued until the Twenty-fifth ' Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and extended to Cocoa * the Growth or Produce of any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, * it is lawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects to ship, in any of His Majesty's Sugar ' Colonies or Plantations in America, any Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa of the Growth and * Produce of any such Colony or Plantation respectively, and to export the same * direct to any Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, Jmd to import < into the said Colonies or Plantations any Sort of Com or Grain direct from any such * Port in Europe, or from any Port or Place on the Coast of Africa to the Northward * of the Thirtieth Degree of North Latitude, in such Ships or Vessels, and under * certain Restrictions, Regulations, and Forfeitures, as are therein particularly ' described, appointed, limited, and enacted for that Purpose : And whereas the ' Provisions under which such Exportation from the British Colonies, and Importa- ' tions into the same to and from the Places in Europe and Africa herein-before * described are allowed, have been found inconvenient ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the First Day of August One u'lou- sand eight hundred and twelve, it shall be lawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects to ship, in any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, any Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa, being of the Growth and Produce of any such Colony or Plantation respectively, and to export the same direct to any Port in Europe to th^ South'vard of Cape i^S' 52'GEORGII Iir. Gap. 9a Cc^ Finisterre ; and to import into the said Colonies or Plantations ally Sort of Gbrn Burope Southwtrd or Grain direct from any such Ports in Europe, or from any Port or Place on the o^CapeFSnUterre; Coast of Africa to the Northward of the Thirtieth Degree of North Latitude, in such JSjorSd SS uy Ships or Vessels, and under such Licences, Entries, Securities, Restrictions, RegiUa- such Pott, 8te... dons. Limitations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, asareherdn*after particularly described, ,| appointed, and limited for that Purpose. ,,^„.vW4j , ;/'.^! II. And be it further enacted. That no Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa shall be shipped Sugv, &c. net to- or laden in any of the said Colonies or Plantations for the Purpose of bein^ carried SriSCbSlt ShV" to a Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finistwre, except in British>built new unleMs Li-'"' Ships owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, nor unless.a Licence shall, omc* isobtaioMi, have been first taken out for that Purpose under the Hands and Seals of the Collector. andtheReguUtiQai and Comptroller of the Port at which such Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa is intended to be ^'jJSJjed! shipped or laden, the Form of which Licence shall be settled under the Direc^ don of the Commisnoners of the Customs in England, subject to the Regulations, and on the Conditions hereafter mentioned; that is to say, that Notice be first given in Writuig by the Master, or by one or more Owner; or Owners of such „ V Ship or Vessel, to the Collector and Comptroller of such Port, of the Intention of such Master or Owner or Owners that such Ship or Vessel shall when laden proceed . direct to some Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, and export from thence, or from some Port or Place on the Coast of Africa to the Northward of the Thirtieth Degree of North Latitude, Com or Grain to be carried direct to the Colony or Plantation from which such Ship or Vessel shall have sailed ; and thei Person or Persons intending to ship such Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa, shall thi^ make Oath before the Collector and Comptroller of the said Port (which Oath dieyr are. hereby authorized and required to administer), that it is his or their full Intentioa and Resolution to load such Ship or Vessel with Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa for Export* ation direct to some Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, and to na , : other Place whatever ; and the Master or Owner or Owners of the Ship or.Vessel^, together with the Person or Persons so intending to ship the said Coffee, shall there* upon enter into Bond to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors,, in Treble the Value of the Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa, with Condition that in case a Licence shall be granted giving Liberty to such Ship or Vessel to lade and carry Sugar, Coffee, and Cocoa from His Majesty's Su. ^ Anjr Vsuel de* •enbed iq 45 0. 3. c 57. nwj oome in Baltut, or import into nnd export from the Bahama Islands the Article* allowed, and ako may export Salt, subject to the Regulatiom iropocedby 28aeo.3. e.6. Salt nay be ex> Krted without ind required by 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. J)' It! '.»«.''■, ;(';'. ti ■;•!» (■)l)'^^«■; . )■(■;■}: n-\ Anno 52? Georgii III. Cap. 100.. i ' •? An Act to permit the Exportation ofWares, Groods, and Merchandizie, - from any of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, to any other of the said Islands, and to and from any of the British Colonies on the Continent of Ameriqa and the m^ Islands and Colonies '■..ir- * 'lllT'HEREAS it is expMi^itit to permit the Exportation of any Goods or Com- « V y modides of the Manu£uture of Europe, and also of any Goods, Wares, or ' Merchandize which shall have been legally imported, and also Prize Goods from ' any one of His Blajes^s Islands m the West Inmes to any other of the said Islands^ • or to any of theBritisn Colonies on the Continent of America, and from any hiii( -ifc-d oit.) :(i .'iLf i'f.i. X-»-f> Goods may be ex' 52*G£ORGIl III. Cap.106. * of the said British Colonies on the Continent of America, to anv of the said Islandii * in the West Indies, or to any other of the said British Colonies on the Continent * of America, in the san^e manner as is permitted from certain Islands named in an * Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act to ' consolidate and extend the several Laws now in force for allowing rhe Importation * and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandize into and from certain Ports in * the West Indies ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Aachonty of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawfiil to and '^/. wLtTndi;' W.nd belon^g to HU Majesty to any r u -^ b ■ • u .> , • to another, and also Colomes on the Contment of America, acd from any one of the said British Colonies from any British jn America to any of the Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or to any other British Colony or Plantation on the Continent of America, any Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the Manufacture of Europe, and also any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or Prize Goodti/ which shall have been legally iin> ported into any of the said Islands or Colonies, under the Rule^ Regulations and Restrictions in the said Act mentioned. : Colony to another in America, &c. ,, twiiiip n 1;-. .'j •• ^MI• Aniio52*'GEoAGii III. Cap.106. ..ft ! A Duty to be pud for Rom imported intoNewfoundland, viz. 6d. per Gallon from the West Indies, Is. 6d. per Gallon from the British Colonies in America, &c. An Act for increasing the Duty on Rum and other Spirits imported ^. into Newfoundland from the British Colonies and Plantations on the C!ontinent of America, and charging a Duty on Spirits im- ported into Newfoundland from His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies. • "¥T7"HEREAS it is expedient that the Duty now payable on Rum and other * V V Spirits imported into the Island of Newfoundland should cease and deter- ' mine, and that other Duties should be imposed in lieu thereof;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Con- sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and twelve, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid upon every Gallon of Rum or other Spirits imported into the said Island of Newfoundland from any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies, a Duty of Sixpence ; and upon every Gallon of Rum or other Spirits imported into the said Island of Newfoundland from any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations on the Continent of America, or from Great Britain or Ireland, a Duty of One Shil- ling and Sixpoice ; such Duties to be sued for, recovered, and apphed in the like manner, and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures, as are provided in an Act made m ' 1 « t • S « o in 53*OEORGII III. Cap.3. 9^5 in the Fifteenth Vear of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled ' An Act for the l5 0«o.3.c.3l. * Encouragement of the Fishenes carried on from Great Britain and Irebnd, and " *^ " * the British Dominions in Europe ; and for securing the Return of the Fishermen, . '* * ' Sailors, and others employed in the said Fisheries to the Ports thereof, at the End « of the Fishing Season.' ^ "J *•■' '-"-' -i- , ;u>« woi ,r. y^.M vMi lh;\i i:>A bi.^. . . . ■. ^ . -i'l: .vwoi.l"fb.„x ,i,-^!w AnnoSS^'GEORGii III. Cap.3. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for pro- hibiting the Intercourse between the Islands of Jamaica and Saint Domingo .^ , ^ , . , 5 WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act to prohibit all Intercourse between the ^^ ^m. 3. t. 35. Island of Jamaica and certain Parts of the Island of Saint Domingo,' it is enacted, that from and after the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twelve no British Ship or Vessel shall, lor any purpose or under any pretence whatever, sail from any Port or Place in the Island of Jamaica to any Port or Place in the Island of Saint Domingo, nor from any Port or Place in the Island of Saint Do- mingo to any Port or Place in the Island of Jamaica, except as is therem-after pro- vided, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture of any such Ship or Vessel, together ■■■•1 i- with her Cargo, Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel : And whereas it is further enacted, that no Foreign Ship or Vessel, whether laden or in Ballast, shall come into any Port in the Island of Jamaica, if such Ship or Vessel -shall have come from, or in the course of her Voyage have touched at any Port or Place in the , Island of Saint Domingo;. and if any such Foreign Ship or Vessel shall land any \ ^ V ! Person from on board the same, or shall continue in any Port or Harbour of the l' :\\o"i said Island of Jamaica for Forty-eight Hours after Notice shrill be given by the - ' !i Principal Officer of the Cusioms resident at the Port to dc/ 1 therefrom, such '; ; , ' ' ' "' Foreign Ship or Vessel shall be forfeited, together with her Cargo, Guns, Furniture, '' ' , . ^ " . 7' Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel : And whereas it is expedient, for the better Pro- t«:tion of the Trade of His Majesty'.^; Subjects, to permit British Ships or Vessels, or Ships or Vessels belonging to any State in Amity with His Majesty, and bound " t'",' Vi to any Port or Place within His Majesty's Dominions, sailing from any Ports or ' ' . „ .„ Places in the s^d Island of Saint Domingo, to call, under certain Restrictions, for Convoy at Ports or Places in the said Island of Jamaica ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That it shall and may be lawful for British Ships or British Vessels, &c. Vessels, or Snips or Vessels belonging to any State in Amity with His Majesty, and saiHuft from any bound to any Port or Place within His Majesty's Dominions, sailing from any Port or ff sj^j^o "*?""** Place in the said Island of Saint Domingo under Convoy of and in Company with may touch "at slwh one of His Majesty's Ships, to touch or call at such Port or Place of the said Island Ports in Jamaiea of Jamaica as may haye been appointed by His Majesty's Naval Officers for the Ren- ■* "'?y ''"™ ^^° ■ Mm a dezvou8»PP<"»tedfor 9lt lUpdtavoMi ar MMmbling for Convoy, fltc. 0:'\^^ 'tf t •'^ I- 53*6BORGU UL Cap.37. (kayout or lamnbliog for tb« ParpoM of Coavoy of the General liomewud-bound Trade : Provided alwayi^ that no Person from on board such Veme\ shall land upon or otherwise communicate with the said Island of Jamaica, without a Special Licence to that Effect under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of the Island, the Admiral commanding in Chief on the Station, or the senior Officer commanding His Majestv's Ships and Vessels appointed to convoy the said Vessel, which Licence they shall not grant except in cases of urgent Necessity } and if any Person belonging to such Vessel shall land or otherwise communicate with the Shore without such Licence, the Forfeiture and Penalties of the said Act shall take Effect ; any thing m this present Act notvirithstanding. ^ > ,. r ^ cr )0 »l>l! Anno 53° Georgii III. Cap.37. 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. ,n Aot to amend an Act of the Twenty- e^hth Year of His [Nreient Majesty, for allowing the Importation of Rum or other Spirits from His Majesty^fl Ck>lonie8 or Plantations in the West Indies, into the Province of Quebec, without Payment of Duty. "" «n <(ui^ mimn na . ' TTTHEREAd it is expedient to amend an Act passed m the Twenty-eighth Tear * W of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled *An Act to allow the Import- * ation of Rum or other Spirits from His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the ' West Indies into the Province of Quebec, without Payment of Duty, under certain * Conditions and Restrictions ;' be it enacted by the Kmg's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- ValuationaofRum mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That and Cuvocs under (^om and a^er the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, Jnjni^ temb^r'j *^ ^"'"^ °^ *® ^""^ °' °**''" ^pirits admitted to an Entry under the said Act, and 1813, be ramputed the Value of the Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, loaded in the according to bcbe- said Province under the said Act, shall respectively be estimated and computed accord- dole annexed. jng jq the Valuations contained in the Schedule annexed to this Act. -i ■ -.,.-- Privy Council may 11. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for alter sucb Valu. His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, by Order or Orders to be atioDs. issued and published from time to time, to alter the Valuations and Articles contained in the said Schedule, whenever it shall ap[ sar necessary or proper, upon any Repre sentation or Report made by the Governor and Coimcil of the said Province. "^-^ )■:. >.:n-.i '^. f, ■ .■%}>.'■■■■ p' ' 7.',P « i.,:>5- fc- ^:u'1 ■''.i Mi- :.vi-,, * , ■■.>:n.'.'HVj • V: 1. ^-'r ;■'■; i. ;,ji'-'>'. 'ITie The The SCHEDULE mentioned and referred to in this Act. '' m t ,t« •I ''.>J\ f>/^ J, ill •■i<:f Jiitlfl^.;,; »-■ ,U.A ,f» Flour, ittSort ..,ir*' ff/.. Ditto, ad Sort K4.'>^"v, Biicuit • •• Wheat - - - Oate '; yj ,f • • Baric* , : ' ' • Flax Set^ Potatoes Indian CorA r'.^^ Salted BMf Ditto Salted Pork Ditto Butter Soap Mould Cilullea Dipped Ditto Salmdn Ditto Hertion and AUwiTcs Shad Fuh - - uj i ? Dry Cod Fiah - , .^^y ,^,,7/ - Seal, Porpotae, and Cod Oil Canadian Porter - j^ Ditto, Burton Ale Ditto, Mild Ditto Onions _ . - Essence of Spruce Oak Timber Squared Ditto, Plank 3 to 4 Inches thick Ditto, - li to 2 Inches thick Puncheon Staves 3! Feet long, 4 Inches 1 broad, and i Inch thiok - - J Puncheon Heading 2| Feet long, 5 to 6 \ Inches broad, and i Inch thick . j Pine Timber Squaicd Pine Boards la F^et long, and upwards, "I and I Inch thick - -J Ditto, 10 Feet long, and i Inch thick Ditto, Ditto, a Inches thick Wooden Hoops 1 4 Feet long Ditto, - . 14 I^'tto iJ-'.i; 10 Ditto 7 Ditto ■^•.■>yy Ditto, * Ditto, Shingleis Puncheon Backs Bar Iroiii • • . * Horses - - .• »',. Homed Cattle Shfep - - - Turkeys Windward and Leeward Island Rum Jamaica, - • Ditto if 3 i I ■ft ! » SMflbii. • /. J, — — per Barrel of i cwt. 3 qtu 17 6 Dittb. ^ ptt Cwi. 5 -' 4 « 3 — 3 — ^ptr Bushel. 51 4 «. 10 — per Tierce. — — ptr Barrel. : ' 15 — per Tierce. .; > 10— per Barrel. .,^ 1- 10 per lb. — 7 ptr lb. J jjporlb. !;in/. if .lit, Ik biW 10 — per Barrel. ■*>«V'(_'"''' pi'-^ i»''''' ij — per Tierce. .'uPMU].im<. <.'i ni .i!'\,5.£ .txtPU Ht J,filiU Vi f. i^E} 10 10 I IS 8 — — per Barrel. 5 — per Ditto. 4i , 16- per Cwt. ..nbni: • per Ditto. ■.»!"^«^" .j;u/L»l&V.r|j(v.' — — per Thousand. I 3 per lb. 1 — per Cubic Foot. — 5 per Superficial Foot. — 3 per Ditto. per 1300 Pieces. > — — per Thousand. • , • . . 4 per Cubic Foot. 111 VJ.irl I I)ti(i|- vi t»{ l.r.H .ini h:fti(>qmi f per Thousand Superficial '5 - { Feet. 5 *- per Hundred Boards. 7 6 Ditto. — — ■ per Thousand Hoops. 10 — Ditto. Ditto. 10 — Ditto. 15 — per Thousatid. 12 — each. -m ■ 10 — per Cwt. Vli . «.>'!»• ,1 I -.i:!;:- 15 — —^ ^ 7< — r^' ***"'*• — 3 fij — I 9 per Gallon. — 2 — Ditto. • ■ 1..; m ' •>(;■■. li 53*GEORGII in. 6ap.80. &Cap.ll2. Anno 53*^ Georoi I III. Cap. 50. ^. An Act for further allowing the Importation and Exportation certain Articles at the Island of Bermuda. of S3 0«o. 3. 0. 79. ArticlM imported into and exported from Saint Oeoive in Bermuda may oe imported into and exported from Port Hamilton. < TTTHEREAS it appears expedient, that the Trade which is perniitted to be car. ' W ried on at the Port ot Saint George in the Island of Bermuda by an Act ' passed in the last Session of Purliament, intituled * An Act to allow British Plantation ' Sugar and Coffee imported into Bermuda in British Ships to be exported to the * Territories of the United States of America in Fpreign Ships or Vessels, and to permit ' Articles the Production of the said United States to be imported into the said Island * in Foreign Ships or Vessels,' should be permitted at the Port of Hamilton in the * said Island ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, iq this present Parliament assembled, and by tne Authority of the same. That all such Articles as may be imported into the Port of Saint George in the Island of Bermuda, and all such Articles as may be exported from the said Port by virtue of the said Act, shall and may be respectively imported into and exported from the Port of Hamilton in the said Island, in like manner, and in none other, as is permitted by the said Act; any thing in the Act passed in the Twenty^^ighth Year of His present Majesty, inti-. tuled < An Act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies * and Plantations in North America and in the West India Islands, and the Countries * belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects, < and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies,' or in any other Act tq the contrary jiioX^ withstanding. r\' ■ nv,'->' (>,T i vfYf.t ■ .^''t-ni t**i 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. Anno53°GEORGii III. Cap. 112. - An Act to enlarge the Time for commencing Prosecutions for For-, feitures, under ciertain Acts relating to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. .t*-'.!'!' '■!' ■ "" ■ i '> -' * "fXTHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His ♦ T T present Majesty, intituled ' An Act to prevent the Importation of Slaves, by • any of His Majesty's Subjects, into any Islands, Colonies, Plantations, or Ter- * ritories belonging to any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power ; and also to render • more effectual a certain Order made by His Majesty in Council, on the Fifteenth « Day of August One thousand ei^ht hundred and five, for prohibiting the Impurta- < tion of Slaves (except in certam Cases) into any of the Settlements, Islands, ♦ Colonies or Plantations on the Continent of America, or the West Indies, which ♦ have been surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the present War ; and to • prevent the fitting out of Foreign Slave Ships from the British Ports : And whereas M?7 ) ) 64*GBORGII III. CAp.48. > "l>r * by another Act passed in the Forty-seventh Year of the Rdgn of His present * Majesty, intituled ' An Act for the Ahnlitjon of the Sbve Trade,' various Penalties ' are imposed on Persons offending against the Provistont of the said Acts respecdvely ^ ' and tne Ships or Vessels and Boats employed in such Offences, and the Goods, < Wares, Merchandizes, and Commodities on board the same, are in various Cases * subjected to Forfeiture, and to be seized and prosecuted as forfeited : And whereas < the Time limited by Law for Prosecutions in such Cases is found by Experience < to be too short in respect of Offiences committed against the said Acts :' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, tnd Commons, in this present Par- liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all Actions, Suits, Bills, Indictments or Informations, for the Recovery of any of the Penalties or Forfeitures provided or imposed by the said Acts of the Fortysuth and Forty-seventh Years of the Reign of His said Majesty, or either of them, and which sh»ll be incurred after the passing of this Act, may be commenced, had, brought, sued, exhibited, or pro- secuted, at any time within Three Years after the Offence committed, by reason whereof such Penalty or Forfeiti^re shall be incurred ( any thing in this or the said recited Acts, or in any other Act, contained to the contr; /y thereof notwithstanding. ^79 47 Oco. 3. t. 30. Further Time allowed for com- mencing Actioni, Suit!, 8(0. for OffbncM againit the AcU fbr Aboli- tion of the Slave Trade. ... /.'.(.ii'iia •'iJU,i tt-.'M*. I'M ot r- ■y ■T/i ;■♦■ *t;; .l:.',.r it ». i'»i V «-%j. Anno 54" Georgii III. Cap. 48. i iift ■\, V ) ■ An Act to revive and make perpetual certain Acts for consolidating and extending the several Laws in force for allowing the Importa- tion and Exportation of certain Articles into and from certain Ports in the West Indies. :W' 'HEREAS an Act was made in the Fiftieth Year of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for amending, and continuing so ^amended, until the 50 Geo. 3. c. 21. ' Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundscd and twelve, an Act of the * Forty-mth Year of His present Majesty, for consolidating and extenduig the several * Laws in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and ' Merchandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies ;' which was continued ' by an Act made in the Fifty-second Year of His present Majesty, until the Twenty- < fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fourteen : And whereas it is * expedient that the said Act should be revived and made perpetual }' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act shall, from and after Recited Act made the said Twenty.fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be perpetual, revived, and the same is hereby revived and made perpetual. ••■I .-( 'I ; ;■■ "^m; t ■'•.•^ ' '■. , f ' ■* .1 1 m Shipg condemned foir Breach of the Law relating to the Slave Trade to be entitled to the Privil^es of Prize Shipa. 54''G£ORGII III. Cap.59. &;Cap.61. "j .. ...1.0; ... 1 . -•■,Y -1.. .^.. .. . .,1-. J , .'. . ■ J/r Anno 54^ Geo RG 1 1 III. Cap. 59. An Act to allow Ships taken and condemned for being used in carrying on the Slave Trade, to be registered as British-built Ships. < "^TTHEREAS it is expedient that Ships and Vessels condemned for Breach of < W any Law now in force relating to the Slave Trade should be entitled to all * the ravileges and Advantages of British SHips, in like manner in every respect as ' Ships and Vessels taken and condemned as Pnzes of War ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That all Ships or Vessels, whether British or Foreign, which shall at any time after the passing of this Act become forfeited under any of the Provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force, or which may hereafter be passed, for the Prevention, Abolition, oi; Regulation of the Slave Trade, and be adjudged to be forfeited in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or which shall be condemned as forfeited in any Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions, for any Offence in relation to the Slave Trade, shall, from and after such Judgment or Condemnation respectively, be entitled to a Certificate of Registry as a British Ship, and thereupon have and enjoy all the Privileges and Advantages of British'built Ships and Vessels, in like manner with Ships and Vessels taken by His Majesty's Ships of War, and condemned as lawful Prize of War in Courts of Admiralty : Provided always, that all such Ships and Vessels shall be subject to the same Duties and Regulations, and shall be registered in the same Manner and Form, and subject to the same Conditions and Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures, and shall be in like manner owned and navigated, a^ Ships and Vessels condemned as lawful Prize are directed and required to be, in order to their obtaim'ng British Registers, and enjoying the Privileges of British Ships owned, re^eteredt and navigated according to Law. ^ 22 Geo. 6. c. 75. Anno54''GEOBGii III. Cap.61. An Act to amend an Act of the Twenty-second Year of His present Majesty, intituled ' An Act to prevent the granting in future any • Patent Office to be exercised in any Colony or Plantation, now or * at any time hereafter belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, * for any longer Term than duting such Time as the Grantee • thereof, or Person appointed thereto, shall discharge the Duty ♦ thereof in person, and behave well therein/ ♦ XX 7"HEREAS an Act passed in theTwenty-second Year of His present Majesty, « W intituled • An Act to prevent the granting in future any Patent Office to • be exercised in any Colony or Plantation, now or at any time hereafter belonging ■ ■■ ■ '■■'-Ti\~H-'^-' M .-'"'' iM*''^: " 54»6£ORtiII III. Cap. 61. < to the Crown of Great Britain, for any longer Term than during such Time as the * Grantee thereof, or Person appointed thereto, shall discharge the Duty thereof in * Person, and behave well therein :' And whereas it is expedient to amend and ex- * tend the Provisions of the said Act ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho- rity of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act no Office in any Colony, No Office in any Settlement, Plantation, or Foreign Possession belonging to the Crown of Great Colony to be grant- Britain, shall be granted either by Patent under the Great Seal, or by Commission '.'' fo' ""y jonger under His Majesty's Sign Manual, or by any other Commission, Warrant, or Instru< th^ Reridence^ ment under which Offices in Colonies have been heretofore or may hereafter be the Grantee, granted, for any longer Term than during such time as the Grantee thereof, or the Person appomted thereto, shall reside in the Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Foreign Possession, and execute the Duty of such Office in Person, and behave well therein. Governon of Colonies to report the Leave of Ab- sence granted by them to the Secre« tary of State for Confirmation. If not confirmed, the Penon is to return forthwith to the Colony. II. < And whereas it is expedient that the Power of granting Leave of Absence < heretofore vested in the Governor or Council of Colonies should be subject to < further Restrictions and Limitatin',' be it therefore enacted, That in all Cases in which the Governor and Council of any Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Foreign Possession, shall hereafter grant Leave of Absence to any Person holding an Office within the same, to which he shall have been appointed subsequent to the passing of this Act, the Governor of the said Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Foreign Posses- sion, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor or other Person administering the Government of the same, shall, within One Week after eranting the same, report the same to one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for Confirmation ; and in case the said Leave of Absence shall not be confirmed within One Monnh from the Date of such Report having been received by the Secretary of State, the Person to whom the said Leave of Absence may have been granted by the Governor and Council as aforesaid, shall forthwith return to the Colony, Settlement, Piantatxon, or Foreign Possession in which his Office is situated ; and in Default thereof shall be deemed to have vacated such Office, and his i^)pointment to such Office shall be considered to all Intents and Purposes void and of none Effect. III. And be it further enacted, That every Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Penalty on Gover- other Person administering the Government of any Colony, Settlement, Plantation, "*" °°^ reporting, or Foreign Possession, who shall omit or neglect to report, in the manner herein- before directed, such Leave of Absence as may have been granted by him, shall for every such Omission or Neglect forfeit a Sum not exceeding One hundred Pounds, to be sued for and recovered by Action of Debt in any of His Majesty's Courts of Westminster, within One Year after the Arrival in England of the said Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government. IV. And be it further enacted. That within Six Weeks after the Opening of A Return to be every Session ofParUament, there shall be laid upon the Table of the House of Jh?H!,use"Jfc5^ Commons, a Return of all Persons holding Offices in the Colonies who may have monj of Pergons been appointed thereto subsequent to the passing pf this Act, who may not be present absent. in the Execution of the Duties of their respective Offices ; and that such Return shall be made in the Form prescribed in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed. tin V. And 54-GEOROII UL Cap.61. T^ Act not to V. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall operate to Grtnte!* "*'"* *® Prejudice of any subsisting Grant of any Office or Offices, or shall be construed to affect any Aj^ointment, or any Leave oi Absence granted previous to the passing of this Act, or any renewed Grant of any Office which may be made in consequence of the Demise of the Crown to any Person now holding the same ; and that no Pro- • • /•_«• A_. 1__lll_ 1*.«1 «•«. ^^*¥» . • :r.n vision of this Act shall be applicable or jf|>lied to any Office granted or to be granted by the United Company of Merchants trading to tah East bidies, or to any Rules, Regulations, or Provisions made by die said Company, with respect to the Appoint- ment or Leave of Absence of any of thdr Civil or Military Servants. SCHEDULEto which this A C T refers. SCHEDULE (A.) ,■•■;(: Name of Um Colony. Afttigua rrinidad Name of Abieut Officer. John Roche James Guer Description of his office. Secretary Surveyor Period for which I^eiT* WIS giwttd in the Colony. 6 Months, to commence from the I St May 1813. 1 3 Months, from ist Oct. 1813. Ciu$e «f Absence. Dtte of Governor's Report to the Stcrettry of Sute. Sickness Private Affairs ad May 1813 1st July 1813 When received by the Seaetary of State, iSt July 18 1 3 I St September 1813. Whether disallowed or codtraed, and for what Period Confirmed for 6 Months. Confirmed for 4 Months. I I.-' «-i'.. .:•.: ..} lu ■>n. RTT^.S' ■'•-'■■*-!*■ ■^K:..: ■■^:-* woBowQU in. c»p.in- •^>rtr''tf*v.> tf i» * Anno 54° Georgii III. Cap. 171. An Act to empower the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to restore Seizures; or remit or n4tu»te Fines, Penalties, or Forfeittife's incurred concerning any Laws rdating to the Customs or Excise* oj: Navigation and Trade of Great Britain. ., ,i. >-/ Sj -.i, »i. . J ^ ^j m^-J ' TTTHEREAS an Act passed in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Rei^ of His < V V present Majesty, intituled * An Act for making further Provisions in regard < to such Vessels as are particulr.rly described in an Act made in the Twenty- ' fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the more effectual Prevention * of Smuggling in this I^gdom, and for extending the said Act to other Vessels and < Boats not particularly described therein ; for taking off the Duties on Flasks in < which Wine or Oil is imported ; for laying an additional Duty on Foreign Geneva * imported ; for taking off the Duty on Ebony, the Growth of Africa, imported intd * this Kingdom ; and for amending severiil Laws relative to the Revenue of Customs :' ' And whereas by the said Act the Comipissioners of the Customs in England and * Scotland respectively are authorized to direct, under the Circumstances and on the * Terms and Conditions therein mentioned, any Goods or Commodities whatever, or < any Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horses, Cattle, or Carriages, which shall have been * seized as forfeited by virtue or in pursuance of any Act or Acts of Parliament relfit- * ing to the Revenue of Customs, tc be restored to the Proprietor or Proprietors : * And whereas another Act passed in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of His present < Majesty, intituled * An Act to extend the Powers vested in the Commissioners of * Customs, of restoring Vessels and Goods seized, to Seizures made by virtue of any * Acts relating to the Department of Customs :' And whereas it is expedient that the * Provisions of the said Acts should be further extended, and that the Commissioners ' of His Majesty's Treasury should be empowered to restore, remit, or mitigate any ' Forfeiture, Fine, or Penalty incurred under any Laws relating to the Revenue of * Customs or Excise, or Navigation and Trade, ^ther before or after the same shall ' have been adjudged in any Court of Law, or by or before any Commissioner of ' Exise, or Justice or Justices pf the Peace ;' be it therefore enacted by the King'$ most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spuitual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, by any Order made for that Purpose under their Hands, to direct any Ships, Goods, or Commodities whatever, seized as forfeited by virtue and in pursuance of any Act or Acts relating to the Re- venue of Customs or Excise, or any Act for the Regqlation of th« Trade and Navi- gation of this Kingdom, to be restored to the Proprietor or Proprietors on the Terms and Conditions which shall be mentioned in any such Order ; and \t shall also be law- ful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them for the time being, to mitigate or remit any Penalty or Forf(9iture which shall have been incurred, or any Part of any such Fine or Penalty under any Law or Laws relating to His Majesty's Revenue of Customs or Excise, or any Act relating to the Trade and Navigation of this Kingdom. N n 2 II. And 27 Geo. 3. c 32. 51 Geo. 3. c. 96. Treasury empow* ered to restore Seiaures to the Proprietors, and to mitigate and remit Penalties incurred under the Laws of CustoiQs and Excise, ^\s*»^ m on luch Conditions u the Treasury think fit. 55*G£0RGI1 III. Cap.29. II. And be it further enactefl, That in any Caae wherein the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury diall exercise the Powers hereby vested in them, such Goods or Commodities shall be restored to the Proprietor or Proprietors, or such Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures, or any Parts thereof remitted or midgated, in such manner, and upon such Terms and Conditions, as to Costs or otherwise, as under the Cir- cumstances of the Case shall appear to the said Commissioners to be reasonable, and as they the said Commissioners, or any Three or more of them, shall think fit to direct i and no Person or Persons shall be entitled to the Benefit of any such Order, unless the Terms and Conditions therein contained shall be complied with. f- tM^ be shipped from Sugar Colonies in America to Malu. ' Anno 55° Georgi I III. Cap.29. An Act to regulate the Trade between Malta and its Dependencies, and His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in Anienca, and also ' between Malta and the United Kingdom. * W/^EREAS it is expedient to grant further Facilities to the Trade between * ' ' Malta and its Dependencies and His Majesty's Sugar Colonies and Plantations * in America, as well as between Malta and its Dependencies and the United King- * dom;"* be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this Ceruin Goods may present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for any of His Majesty's Subjects to ship, in any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, any of the Articles enumerated in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked (A.), being of the Growth and Produce of any such Colony or Plantation, or any such Articles as may now or may hereafter be by Law imported into the said Colonies, and to export the same direct to the Island of Malta or the Dependencies thereof, in such Ships or Vessels, and under such Licences, Entries, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are herein-after particularly mentioned or described. Tobeshiiiped in H. And be it further enacted. That no Articles so allowed to be laden and ex- British-built Ships, ported from His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations as aforesaid shall be shipped or laden in any of the said Colonies or Plar.lations, for the Purpose of being carried to the said Island of Malta or the Dependencies thereof, except in British-built Ships and by Licence.' owned, navigated, and registered according to Law ; nor unless a Licence shall have been first taken out for that Purpose, under the Hands and Seals of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port at which any of the said Articles is or are intended to be shipped or laden, and which Notice must be first given in Writing by the Master of such Ship or Vessel, or the Person intending to ship any of the said Articles, to the Collector and Comptroller of such Port, of such Intention, and that such Ship or Vessel shall, wh'^n laden, proceed direct to the Island of Malta or the Dependencies thereof; and the Owner or Proprietor, or the Person or Persons intending to ship any of the Articles aforesaid, shall then make Oath before the Col. lector Notices. Oath. .h.„ SB" GEOiPi^II III. Cap. 29. ^5 lector and Comptroller of the said ^^t (which Oath they are hereby authorized and required to administer) that it is h^ or their full Intention and Resoludon to load such Ship or Vessel with Articles enumerated in the said Schedule marked (A.), for » Exportadon direct to the Island of Malta or the Dependencies thereof, and to no other Place whatever ; and the Master of the Ship or Vessel, together with the Owner Bond. or Proprietor, or Person intending to ship the said Articles, shall thereupon enter into Bond, to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Treble the Value of such Goods, with Condition that in case a Licence shall be granted giving Liberty to such Ship or Vessel to lade and carry the said Articles from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America to, the said Island of Malta or its Dependencies, that such Ship or Vessel shall proceed direct to the said Island or its Dependencies, and that no Goods whatever, except such as shall be included in the Licence before mentioned, and except such as may now by Law be exported from the said Colonies or Plantations to Malta, shall be taken on board such Ship or Vessel ; and also, that before the Expiration of Two Years from the Date of such Licence, the same shall be given up to the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port where the said Articles were shipped and laden, together with a Certificate signed and sealed by the Governor or Deputy Governor of the Certificate. ] said Island, or by the Principal Officer of the Customs there, certifying the landing of the said Articles, together with the Contents, Weight, or Quantity, and the Marks and Number of the Casks or other Packages of such Articles so landed, together with the Name of the Ship and Master thereof from which such Goods were so landed. III. And be it further enacted. That in case any such Ship or Vessel licensed by Forfeiture of virtue of this Act shall take on board, in any of the said Sugar Colonies or Planta^ ^^n^'^'n "'*.?**"^' tions, or on her Voyage from thence, any other Articles than such as are allowed to ArtUslesThan theie be taken on board and exported by virtue of this Act, all such Articles so taken or allowed. laden on board such Ship or Vessel shall be forfeited and lost, and the Master and Shipper of any such Goods shall severally forfeit Double the Value of the Goods so laden or taken on board contrary to the Directions of this Act ; to be recovered in any Court of Vice Admiralty held in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, or in any other Court of Record in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, at the Election of the Informer or Prosecutor ; One Third Part to be for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, One Third Part to the Governor of the Colony, and the other Third Part to the Informer or Prosecutor. IV.^ And be it further enacted. That before any of the Articles enumerated in Schedule (A.) shall be laden or put on board any Ship or Vessel in the said Colonies or Plantations, or any of them, by virtue of a Licence to be granted under the Autho- rity of this Act, to be carried to the said Island of Malta, or the Dependencies thereof, the Merchant or other Person intending to export the said Articles in such Ship or Vessel shall make an Entry or Entries of all such Articles in Writing with the Col- lector and Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs, expressing the Name of the Ship, and of the Master of the Ship, on board of which the Articles are to be laden, and where she lies, and also the Place, Quay, or Wharf where the same is or are to be laden, or first water-borne in order to be laden, which shall be within such Port only where a Custom-house is established, and where an Officer or Officers are or shall be appointed to attend the lading and shipping thereof, or at such Place or Places as shall Entry to be made of Goods. 996 Penalty. 5S'GEORGII III. Cap. 29. shall be mentioned in a Sufferance or Warrant to be taken out from the Colleetor and Comptroller for that Purpose ; and shall take out from the said Collector and Comptroller a Cocket or Warrant accordingly, whereon shall be endorsed by the Exporter the particular Weight and Quantity, with Marks, Numbers, and Contents, Sorts or proper Denomination of such Articles, and shall deliver the Cocket or Warrant so endorsed to the Searcher or other Officer appointed for the and shipping thereof, and «hall ship or lade the said Articles in the Presence of suet Officer or Officers, and at such Place or Places, as shall be mentioned in the said Sufferance or Warrant, and the proper Officer or Officers may attend the shipfmig thereof ; and such Officer or Officers are hereby empowered to examine the nme before they are put on board ; and if upon examining the Articles which shall be shipped or brought to be shipped by virtue of such Cocket or Warrant, either before or after the shipping thereof, the Weight or Quantity of the Goods, or the Number of Casks or Packages shall be greater than is endorsed thereon ; or if any other Articles of the Description mentioned in Schedule (A.), but such as shall be so endorsed on such Cocket or Warrant taken out and delivered as aforesaid, shall be discovered to have been laden or put on board any Ship or Vessel having Liberty to trade to the said Island of Malta or the Dependencies thereof by virtue of this Act, or shall be brought to be shipped on board such Ship or Vessel, or shall be put into any Hoy, Lighter, Boat, or other Vessel, in order to be put on board such Ship or Vessel, before such Entry, or taking out such Cocket or Warrant, endorsing and delivering of the same, and not bdng shipped in the manner aforesaid, but shall be put on board, or attempted to be put on board, contrary to the Directions of this Act ; all such Articles so shipped or brought to be shipped in any of the Cases aforesaid shall be forfeited and lost, and also the Hoy, Lighter, Boat, or other Vessel or Carriage whatever, employed in shipping or attempting to ship any Goods other than those enumerated in the Schedule marked (A.), together with the Ship or Vessel on which such Goods shall be so laden ; and the Owner shall forfeit Double the Value thereof, to be recovered in any Court of Vice Admiralty held in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, or in any other Court of Record in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, at the Election of the Informer or Prosecutor, One Third Part to be to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, One Third Part to the Governor of the said Colony, and the other Third Part to the Informer or Pro. secutor ; and before such Ship or Vessel shall depart from the said Colonies with any of the Articles enumerated in the Schedule marked (A.) laden as aforesaid, the Master or other Person having or taking Charge thereof shaU receive the said Licence from the Collector or Comptroller, with a Certificate endorsed thereon or affixed thereto, under their Hands and Seals of Office, who are to make Two Copies of such Licence, Endorsements, and Certificates ; for all which Entries, Cockets, Endorsements, and Certificates or Copies, no more shall be taken by the said Officers than the legal and accustomed Fees ; and the Master or other Person having or taking Charge of such Ship shall, before he receives the said Licence, attest the said Copies under his Hand, which are to be left with the Collector and Comptroller, who.are hereby required, as soon as conveniently they can, to transmit one of the said Copies of the Licence, Endorsements, and Certificates to the Commissioners of the Customs in England, and record in a Book to be kept for that Purpose the Notice in Writing of the Owner or Owners of the Ship or Vessel, the Affidavit of the Shipper, the Licence granted for the Exportation of the Articles, together with the Clearance ; but in case any of the Articles enumerated in Schedule (A.) shall be found on board, or carried by any such Ship 287 ... I.-? if 55«GEORGlI III. Cap.29. Ship or Vessel to the said Island of Malta or the Dependencies thereof, odier than such as are mentioned in the said Licence, then the Liberty granted by such Licence shall cease and become void and of none Efllcct ; and such Snip or Vessel, and also the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge of such Ship or Vessel, and all others concerned, shall be subject and liable to all and every the same Penalties and Forfeitures as they would have been subject and liable to in case this Act had not been made. V. And be it further enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for such Ship or Allowing Shifw ts Vessel, or any other Ship or Vessel being British-built, owned, navigated, and regis. ^iSg fo"" tered according to Law, to load at the said Island (^ Malta, or any of the De> theColoniea. pendencies thereof, any of the Articles enumerated in the Schedule marked (B.); here- unto annexed, for Exportation direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plant- ations in America, and any such Article may be landed in any such Colony or Plant- ation, being first duly entered with the proper Officers of the Customs there ; any thing contained in an Act made in England in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of His ' Majestv King Charles the Second, mdtuled 'An Act for the Encouragement of • Traae,* or any other Act or Acts in fore in the United Kingdom, or in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided always. Duties. that the said Articles, Go6d$, Wares, and Merchandize (Wine excepted) shall, upon Importation into any of the said Colonies or nantations, be subject and liable to the Payment of such Duties as Goods of the like Denomination or Description are or may be subject and liable to upon bdng imported info the said Colonies or Planta- '" tions from Great Britain, and no other or higher Duties ; atiy thing in aiiy Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. , VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That any Sort of Wine which by Wine imported virtue ^d in pursuance of this Act shall be imported or bxou^t into any of His into th« Coloniot Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America from the Island of Malta or the ^J^i\^ as we pay- Dependencies thcreofj shall be subject and liable to the Payment of such and the like able on Madeira Duties, and no other, as are due and payable on Madeira Wine when imported into Wine. any of the said Colonies or Plantations directly from the Island of Madeira. i 4i ):iUiTJ Jt VII. And be it further enacted, That^ upon such Licence being returned to the Discharging of Collector and Comptroller of the Customs of the Port where the Articles enumerated "' in Schedule (A.) were shipped, and an Account of the Lading being endorsed thereon or annexed thereto, and also upon such Certificate of the Governor or Deputy Governor or Principal OiBcer of the Customs being produced as aforesaid, and the several other Matters and Things required by this Act being duly complied with,within Two Years from the Date or such Licence, the Bond given before granting such Licence shall be discharged and delivered up, any thing in the said Bond or in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding ; otherwise such Bond shall be forfeited, and shall and may be prosecuted in the manner directed by this Act. VIII. And be it further enacted. That it shall and may be lawful to exp t from Goods may be ex- Newfoundland, the Island of Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Planta- ^Xnles^to Md a tii;H^. jn (§i^ America, any Articles of the Growth, Production, or Manufecture of direct!^^ ° '^ such ass 55'G£ORGII III. Cap.29. such Colony or Plantadon, or any Articles which have been legally imported into such Colony or Plantation, direct to the bland of Malta, or the Dependencies thereof, in such Ships and Vessels, and under such Licences, Entries, Securities, Reguladons, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are herein-before mentioned and described as to Export- ation from His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, Certab Gooda may be imported fiom IX. And be it further enacted. That it shall and may be lawful to import from the ifmita d' act to th ^^^^ of Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, direct into Newfoundland, the Coloniei! ° Island of Bermuda, or any of Wa Muesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, any of the Articles enumerated in the Schedule hereunto annexed marked (B.), in such Ships and Vessels, and under such Regulations and Restrictions, as are herein- before mentioned and described, as to the Importation of the said Articles into any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America. Recovery of Ftndtifli.. General iMue. Treble CoiU. Panisbin^ Persona eounterfeiting Licencea, &e. XIII, And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by this Act (except where it is otherwise provided) shall and may be prosecuted in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster or Dubliii, or the Court of Ex- chequer in Scotland ; one Moiety whereof to be for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to him or them who will sue for, prose- cute, and recover the same } wherein no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of I^w shall be allowed, nor any more than Qne Imparlance. XIV. And be it further enacted. That if any Person or Persons sh^ be sued or prosecuted for any thing done or to be done in pursuance of this Act, such Person or Persons may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence ; and if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, Prosecutor or Prosecutors, shall become Nonsuit, or forbear the Prosecution, or discontinue his, her, or their Action, or if a Verdict shall pass against him, her, or them, the Defendants shall have Treble Costs, and shall have the lu^e Remedy for the same ^ in Cases where Costs are by Law given to Defendants, jj. Xy. And be it further enacted. That if any Person or Persons shall grant a &lse Certificate, or counterfeit, erase, or alter any Licence, Oath, or Certificate which shall be made or given pursuant to this Act, or shall knowingly or wittingly publish or make use thereof, such Person or Persons shall forfeit Five hundred Pounds', to be recovered and disposed of in the manner directed by this Act ; and such Licence, Oath, or Cer- tificate so falttfied, counterfeited, erssfd, or fJtered, ^hall be inyalid and of none pffect, ■;:; "^ '■;, ; • ■ • ■ rf • « * !■ * SCHEDULES SS^GEOROII III. Gap. 29. 289 SCHEDULES to which this Act refei^>v » III >^,i;ii It IBM. offee. Suf Coi Cocoft. Rum. MolasMs. .il.,.i«,«V , SCHEDULE (A.) ' '•■''/_ -'^iC Pimento. "►'^odf^ eaoi;^ai'?*f Indigo. ^ ' ' .ah»;'/i -O'WSrf*'^ sti'tf G'mier. Fasbc, or other Djring Wood. ,')( 'i "i'-^M' SCHEDULE (B.) ' Dry and Wet Fruit in Brandy and lars and T in ditto. >iy and Sugar, in Jars and Bottles. Pickles- .,w, ^ . ^ . dires. . • . 5? '^h't -f'r Figs. Raisins. Currants. ' -/^ '< ; i , -'-'". Fistacdo Nut8>i :u' .'^^^sl^i . •* i>. .<> Ahnonds. ^ - h^' .('iy^Mjf. , > r Dates. 1 r^\' , aiii K> iflr^ftfjj" Gapers. . -i( ' -"'iJi >-' ' * -J**""' Wme. . i . t I -" :." Brandy. OUofOHves. ;. ' Oil of Almonds. > • Gum Arabic. ,'^ ' < '' '> >. *-— Mastic. 1 .-.^ Myrrh. .^' ' > / . -^ Sicily. .— ^ Ammoniae. ■> Opium. Manna. r • ' Senna. ' CantharideSv : Orris Root. Rhubarb. . Jalap. o -'-• '■- ■ ■■ ■-! \- Scamony. ^ Quicksilver. Sarsaparilla. S^Kron. ' i' SaffloweTf Muskc ^ Incense. ■ "".%• OOifl'i/ ■ Essence of Bergamot. Do. of Citron. .ii -»»;■ jfrfci,'*.";? ^iviii-rii'.i •>_» Cork. > ■!,! .biKr^'iawUtfj'if i^'ijfof Aniseed. ii^iu\iv^ti -..: l-,';- ;vf,vf Cumminseed. ^ , I- ,:. - ^' »■ ;- f-i vn^; Ostrich Feathers, vsri .; , >■ bf./: Honey. j.' iv. ■■-. „. -/m! j' Sponges. vn'-iss^ i ?=f'r.M. •;■ •;' t WtJ Amber. vUsHao uw .:o r';m>;i ■'{*•' Coral. ;;./] Vf(j; c ',;iiy:T.j);yvr Mill Timber. : .:-. .-.• 'ir^-y^^-^a ^^'laiW Box Wood. K , . ■,.^,/^/-,,» :iM» ArgOl. .• .,:. V,,,, ..- :M~,V.-!h^i Vermilion. -i.. ,•; ;-, j^/\ui) ,.^ ^:.^ "v..-i'r' Ochres. .{ij-^iuv./ .^Lsii'v;'!^ i'^' ^^j' Cinnabar. Orange Buds and Peel. Juniper Berries. Punk. ;:': ■<.- vP Pumice Stone; y--,-. .. Emery Stone. ,,i':_ ' ■■- Whetstone, Paintings ^ 55*G£0&GU 111. C»p.ll6. Schedule (B.)— continued. ' !. *H„ '< Paintingfl and Prints. in. MoHucWorks. ' Medals. LaTa, and Malta Stone for building. Poszolana. Bullion. ^•^- Predous Stones. • " vn j«i»' Pearls. ■ .i^^Ui. Com< .i-i^i Grain. ' jjkKvd ifii>: ;^ .Jtej Meal or Flour. fT^^H'ji Peas. Rice. • Bfacaroni or Vermicelli, €aseasoo. Parmesan Cheese. .*■♦* . Bologna and other Sausagn. .■:^^- , Anchoyies. .mr>r:; Caviar. .nn'A Botarga. ::A<'r.irt,' / X y "^ <'jV^' '■^^- tl^'; ^ ^^^ Anno S5''Geokgu III. Cap. 116. ^^ An Act to make lurther Regalations for the Registry of Ships built .'TOrfT'^. in India. .*,t)V LuctfstndNativM VI. T^ROVIDED also, and be it further enacted, That no Asiatic Sailors, Lascars' of Indim not to be J; g^ Natives of any 6f the Territories, Countries, Islands, or Places vridnn the SuSntlfe'liSng limits of the Charter of the East India Company, although born in Teiritories, of 34*060. 3. c. 6S. Countries, Islands^ or Places under the Government of His Majesty, or of the Eaist India Company, shall at any time be deemed or taken to be British Sailors, Seamen, or Mariners, within the intent and meaning of the said recited Act of the Hikty- founh Year aforesaid, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the Navigation of British Ships by Subjects of His Majesty, for the Purpose of entitling any Ship or Vessel , to be deented to be a British Ship navigated according to Law, and to have the Privileges and Advantages of British Ships having the Master and Three'fourths of the Mariners Britidi Subjects ; any thing in the said rcdted Act of the Thirty.fourth Year aforesaid, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament or Law or Laws to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided always, that no Ship of Vessel belonging to any Port within the Limits of the Charter of the said Company, or usually navigated by such Asiatic Sailors, Lascars, or Natives aforesaid, as Manners, shall, while carrying on Trade to and from India to the United Kingdom, forfeit any Privileges or Advantages of a British^built Ship, to which she may be by Law entitle^ by reason of having any proportion of such Mariners without the due proportion of British Mariners, until the Expiration of Twelve Months of continued Peace after the conclusion of the present War : Provided also, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by His Royal Proclamation, upon or after the Commencement of any Hostilities, to permit all Merchant Ships or any other Trading Vessels, and all Privateers, to be manned wholly or in any such proportions as shall be specified in any such Proclam* ation, with such Asiatic Sailors, Lascars, or Natives aforesaid, for and during such Periods as shall be specified in' any such Proclamation as aforesaid. . • . • . . vil. • And BB*QtOliQIt III. Cap. 116. ^ Vn. ' And whereas Lascars and other Natives of the East are not deemed to be * equal in Strength and Use to European or other Seamen ; and the requiring the * proportion of Three«fourths of Britwh Seamen in Ships having as part of the Crew ' Lascars and Natives of the East, would compel such Snips to carry a larger Number * of British Somen than other Ships, or to employ a smaller Number of Lascars and * Natives of the East than would be sufficient to make a proper Crew ;* be it there* fore enacted, That every such Ship or Vessel so duly registered, and carrying on Trade to and from India and the United Kingdom as aforesaid, and manned in part with Lascars or Natives of India, and which shall be commanded by a British Master, and naidgated by Seven British Seamen as part of the Crew for every One tiftii^red Tons of her registered Burden, apd so in proportion for any part of a One hundred Tons, shall be deemed, construed, and taken to be navigated aocordinff to Law as to the Crew of any such Ship or Vessel, although the Number of such British Seamen shall not be equal to the proportion of Three>fourths of the whole Crew of such Skip or Vessel { any thing In any Act or Acts of Parliament or Law or Laws to the contrary notwithstanding. 991 A Proportion of Briliah S«ain«n to tha Tonnage of any Ship, partly bv Laacan, lufficient, although not amounting to Thre«.fourtbt of th« Craw. V..., a'i VIII. * And whereas it may not always be possible to procure the due propcxtion ' of British Seamen at Ports in India for Vessels sailing from India,' be it therefore enacted. That it shall be lawful (or any of the Governments of the East India Com* pany in India, or for any Governor or Lieutenant Governor of any Gokmy^ Terri. tory, or Island belonging to His Majesty, within the Limits of the said Charter, «uid they and he aie hereby required, on Application made by the Owner or Commander of any Ship or Vessel, and after having ascertained by due Inquiry that a suffidcnt Number of British Seamen cannot be procured for the Crew oi any Ship or Vessel sailing from India, within Ten Days from such implication to certi^ the same, and license such Ship or Vessel to sail with a less proportion of British Seamen thui re* quired by Law ; and every such Ship having on board such Licence shall be deemed to be navigated according to Law, notwithstanding such Deficiency of British Seamen, until her Arrival at the n>rt of her Destination in the United Kingdom ; but shall on the Vorage back from the United Kingdom have the full and proper proportion of Seven Bntish Seamen to every One hundred Tons. IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament contained, shall extend or be construed to extend to require any number of British Seamen to be on board as part of the Crew or Mbriners of any Ship or Vessel employed in Trade only between Ports and Places within the Limits of the Charter of the said Company, including the Cs^e of Good Hope } or to prevent any such Ship or Vessel, while so employed, being manned and navigated wholly or in any proportion as to Asiatic Sailor^ or Lascars, or Nativies of any Territories, Counlritt, Islands, or Places within the Limits of the ssud Company, In caaea where in India a luAcient Number of Britiah Seamen Cannot be obtained, Qof$f n'on may licenae the Ship (o aail fot Biiropei Act not to require British Seamen ob board Vcwela employed iplMe between Pert tf 4 Port. iapsBifiaqip mmmm Ooi 992 55-GEORGlI III. Cap. 135. ■■■'■ (II ,,!■ , .ijn '1. . •A ' UV Anno 55** Georgi I III. Cap. 135. V xiM > An Act to alter the Conditions and Regulations under which Blubber and Train Oil of Newfoundland are admitted to Entry. . , 49 G«o. 3. c. 98. Coodition* under whioh Blubber and TndnOa of New- foundland ehall be admitted to Bptrjr. ill! • XTTHEREAS it is expedient that the Conditions and Regulations contained in • W an Act passed in the Forty-ninth Year of the Reign of His present Ma- ' jcsty, intituled ' An Act for repealing the several Duties of Customs chargeable in * Oreat Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof,' under which Blubber * and Train Oil, the Produce of Fish, or Creatures living in the Sea, taken and ' caught on the Banks and Shores of Newfoundland, and Parts adjacent, by His ' Majesty's Subjects carrying on such Fishery from that Island, were to be admitt i ' to £ntry as such, should be altered,' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual md Temporal, and Commons^ in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho' rity of the same. That from and after the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifteen, before any Blubber and Train Oil imported into Great Britain, as being taken and caught on the Banks and Shores of Newfoundland, and Parts adjacent, wholly by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on such Fishery frwn that Island, shall be admitted to Entry on Payment of the Duty imposed on sucn Blubber or Train Oil by the said recited Act, the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be imported, shall pro- duce and deliver to the Collector or other Chit^f Officer of the Customs at the Port of Importation a Certificate under the Hand ard Seal of the Governor or Deputy Gover> nor of Newfoundland, or of the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port or Place in Newfoundland where tneTiain Oil or Blubber shall have been taken on board, or if no such Officer or Governor or Deputy Governor shall be residing there, then a Certificate shall be produced under the Hand and Seal of the Naval Officer or other Principal Officer of the said Port or Place, or of one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the District, testifying that Oath had been made before him (who is hereby authorized and required to administer such Oath, and to grant such Certificate) by the Shipper of such Blubber or Train Oil, that the same was really and bona fide the Produce of Fish, or Creatures living in the Sea, actually caught and taken wholly by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on such Fishery, and usually resid- ing in the Island of Newfoundland, or in His Majesty's European ^'.> 'i.iirus; and the Master or other Person having or takina iie Charge or Comnr,a;vj ■•'. ■•- "hip or Vessel in which the Blubber or Train Oil shall be imported intc '.'ic ' bi.uin, shall make Oath before such Collector or other Chief Officer at the Port of Importation (who is hereby authorized and required to administer the same), that the Blubber or Train Oil so imported is the same as mentioned and referred to in the said Certificate ; and the Importt or Importers, Consignee or Consignees of such Blubber or Train Oil. shall also make L ^^ before the Collector or Comptroller, or other proper Officer of the Customs, who v hereby authorized and required to administer such Oath) at the Time of Entry, ilnt n t*.t best of his or their Knowledge and Belief the Blubber or Train Oil so impcrted vfna actually caught and taken by British Subjects usually re- siding 55*GEOROII III. CApMJl siding in the UUnd of Newfound iaitd, or in Hia Majeety't Eurcmcan Dominione ^ and on Failure of tuch Certificate being pre' I need, and Proof on Oath ni ifnrriiii bein^ made, such Blubber and Tra, , Oil thall be (kenned and taken to be of Foroka Fuhtng, and charged with the Duty imponed by the md recited Act paaaed in lie Forty •ninth Tear of the Reign ( His prest. Majesty on such Ankles of Foreign Fishing. ;*<- ;*^w flfiS if.-i Anno 55° Georgii III. Cap. lUk Hit t • -'..t.Jt:... 1 . Aa Act to provide for the Support of captured Slaves during the Period of Adjudication. * XT THEREAS the Acts now in force for the Abolition of the Slave Trade have * V V "°^ sufficiently provided for the Support and Maintenance of Slaves during ' the time when they may be waiting Adjudication as Prize of War , or as forfeited * or liable to Forfeiture to His Majesty, or otherwise proceeded against uncbr and by * virtue of any Law : And whereas it is expedient that further Provisi' iis be made, in * order to insure the necessary Support and Maintenance- for such Slaves during the < time they may be so waiting Adjudication ;' be it therefore enacted by the Kmg'a most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the L )rds Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, anl by the. Au- thority of the same. That from and after the passing of this Act, when any Native or Provisjonii for Natives of Africa, held and treated as Slaves, or other Person or Persons held or Subsiotence of treated as Slaves, within the Provisions of any Act of Parliament passed ft r the Abo- ^'*y*» <'>"ing Ad- lition of the Slave Trade, shall be captured or seized as Prize of War, or as forfeited CJJ',^ *** ''* or liable to Forfeiture to His Majesty, or otherwise proceeded against in ami by virtue of any Law, and brought to Adjudication in the High Court of Admiralty, or in any Court of Vice Admiralty, or in any Court in His Majesty's Colonies or P antationsy or elsewhere within His Majesty's Dominions, which is or may be.authorizeJ to hold Jurisdicdon in such Cases, it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons claiming any Right or Property in or the Possession of such Slaves, and he is hereby required, to put such Slaves on shore ; and it shall be lawful for the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs in such Port or Place in which such Slaves shall be brought to Adjudicadon, aditd he is hereby required, to direct Inquiry to be made, whether the Persons or Person claiming any Right or Property in or the Possession of such Slaves shall have furnished, or shall be willing and able to furnish, sufficient Foo 1 and Necessaries for the Support and wholesome Maintenance of the said Slaves during the Proceedings which may have been or may be instituted respecdng such Slaves ; and such Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs shall, as soon as may be, report to the Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or other Person exercising the Authority of Governor in such Colony or Plantation or Place,, the Result of such Inquiry ; and if it shall appear to, the said Governor, or Lieutenant Governor, or other Person ex- ercising the Autlmrity of Governor,- that sufficient Food.and Necessaries for the whole- some Main cnance of such Slaves during the Proceedings so instituted, or to be in- sututed as aforesaid, have not been furnished j and if the Persons or Person claiming any SM If Subsistence not furnished, the Slaves to be delivered up. 47 Geo. 3. c, 36. Restitution to be made for Slaves. 55*0£ORGII III. Cap. 172. tuny Rightor Property in or to such Slaves shall refuse or afterwards neglect or omit to supply proper Food and Necessaries for the Support and wholesome Maintenance of the said Slaves during such Proceeding, the said Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or other Person exercising the Authority of Governor in such Colony or Plantation or Place, bdng satisfied of the Truth of the Report «o made to him, shall authorize the said Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs to take on himself the immediate Care and Custody of such Slaves, and to provide proper Food and Necessaries for such Slaves during the Proceedings so instituted or to be instituted in any such Court as aforesaid, until the said Court shall have made its Decree, have the Force and Effect of a definitive Sentence condemning or restoring the said Slaves ; and in case the ssdd Court shall by such Decree absolutely restore or condemn such Slaves, the said Court shall, on Application made to him by the said Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs so providing or having provided for the Support and Maintenance of such Slaves as aforesaid, direct the Accounts for the Provisions and Necessaries so supplied for the r.ud Slaves to be brought into the Registry of the Court and ex< amined, and direct the same, when confirmed, to be a Charge on the said Slaves, to be defrayed by the Person receiving Possession thereof under the Decree of such Court. II. Provided nevertheless. That in case the Court shall not immediately restore or condemn the said Slaves by Decree having the Force and Effect of a definitive Sentence, but shall di^ec^ further Proof to be made in the Cause, whereby the Restitution or Condemnation shall be deferred, and the Person claiming any Right 01 Property in or the Possession of the said Slaves, shall not have supphed, or at any time pending Proceedings in that Court shall refuse or neglect to supply, proper Food and Necessanes for the said Slaves, it shall be lawful for the Court to direct a Valuation to be made of such Slaves, and to decree such Slaves, after such Valuation had and approved by the Court, to be delivered over to such Officer or Person as may be appointed by His Majesty to receive Slaves condemned to Ws Majesty's Use, according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Forty-seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade ;' and the same shall be dealt with and treated in all respects according to the Provisions of the said Act ; save and except that the Bounty shall not be due or payable for such Slaves but in the Event of final Condemnation, according to the Provisions of the said Act, ni. And be it further enacted. That if on further Proof the Slaves shall be decreed to be restored, and there be no Appeal, and the said Slaves shall have been delivered over as above directed, Restitution shall be made in the Value of the said Slaves, according to the Valuation as above directed, together with Interest thereon, such Sums being deducted therefrom as may have been expended for the Support and Maintenance of the said Slaves by the Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs as before directed, and shall remain unpaid ; and the Value so adjusted shall be paid by the Treasurer of the Navy in the same manner as Bounties are now paid for Slaves condemned to His Majesty's Use under the aforesaid Act passed in the Forty* seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign, on the Production of the official Copy of the Sentence of Restitution, with the valuation endorsed thereon by the Registrar of the said Court or his Deputy. lY. And 55*GEOR6Il III. Cap. 172. 395 IV. And be it further enacted, That in all Cases in which there shall have been RestTtiition in a Decree havine the Force and Effect cf a defiriitive Sentence restoring or con- ^f'"* *° ** "•«'« demning the said Slaves, and the same shall be suspended by Appeal, it shall be m* wlSuntiei ^ lawful for the Court, notwithstanding such Appeal, and it is hereby required, to proceed forthwith to direct the Slaves so detained to be valued as above directed, and, after such Valuation had and approved by the Court, to be delivered over to such Officer or Person as may be appointed to receive Slaves condemned to His Majesty's Use, according to the Provisions of the aforesaid Act passed in the Forty- seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign, as if the same had been finally condemned to His Majesty ; and such Slav^ shall be treated and dealt with in all respects in the same manner as if they had been finaUy condemned to fiis Majesty ; save and except that the Bounties shall not be due or payable thereon but in the Event of final Con- demnation to His Majesty, according to the Provisions of the said Act. V. And be it further enacted. That in all Cases in which such Slaves shall be In Cases of Appeal finally restored in the Court of Appeal, Restitution in Value shall be made for the Re"*"''""©" »>«aU Use of the Claimant or Proprietor thereof, according to the Valuation made as above Property Is'finallr directed, subject always to Revision in the Court of Appeal, together with Interest restored, thereon, such Sums being deducted therefrom as may have been expended for the Support and Maintenance of the said Slaves by the Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs as above directed i and the Value so adjusted shall be paid by the Trea- surer of the Navy, in the samf \anner as Bounties are directed to be paid for Slaves condemned to His Majesty ui^ tc the aforesaid Act passed in the Forty-seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign, on the Production of an official Copy of the final Sentence of Restitution, with the Valuation of the said Slaves endorsed thereon by the Registrar of the said Court, or his Deputy. VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall Captors liable to extend to prevent the said Courts, or any of them having Jurisdiction in the principal Costs and Damages Cause, from adjudging and decreeing the Captors, Seizors, or Prosecutors in any such notwitlistanding Cause as aforesaid to pay out of their own proper Monies, in addition to the Resti- '"'^^ Restitution. tudon in Value directed to be made as aforesaid, such further Sums in the Nature of Costs or Damages as the said Court shall decree, where it shall appear to such Court that the Capture, Seizure, or Prosecution, or the Appeal thereon on the behalf of the Captor, Seizor, or Prosecutor, shall not be justified by the Circumstances of the Case. this Act. VU. And be it further enacted. That the Provisions of the said Act passed in the Provisions of former Forty-seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for the Disposal of Slaves con- Act extended to demned to His Majesty's Use, and for the Payment of Bounty thereon in Cases of Capture by Ships of War or Privateers, shall be applied to all Cases of Slaves cap- tured or seized and condemned as Prize of War during the last War, or that may hereafter be captured, seized, or condemned as aforesaid, or otherwise forfeited or liable to Forfeiture to His Majesty, or subject to Condemnation by any Law what- soever. 396 56*G£ORGII III. Cap.83. '■'i :'-4'r-:l>*;!-;rit- ■- :^G r< Anno 5& Georgi i III. Cap. 83. >r regulating the carrying of Passengers to an Island of Newfoundland and Coast of Labrador. •:.'r!"l-\ji.i '.: ■ 'urtv An Act for regulating the carrying of Passengers to and from the " " " " ~ of." 48 Geo. 3. c. 56. < '1T7HEREAS an Act was passed in the Forty-third Year of His presetit Majesty's * ^^ Reign, intituled * An Act for regulating the Vessels carrying Passoigers * from the United Kingdom to His Majesty's Plantations and Settlements abro^, or ' to Foreign Parts, with respect to the Number of such Passengers :* And whereas an ' Act was passed in the Forty-fourth Year of His said Majesty's Reign, to exempt * Vessels in the Newfoundland Trade from the Provisions of the above>recited Act * of the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, whereby the Conveyance * of Passengers from the United Kingdom to Newfoundland and Labrador is no ' longer subject to any legal Provisions : And whereas it is expedient to make special * Regulations for the Intercourse between the United Kingdom and the Island of * Newfoundland and Coast of Labrador, so far asi regards the Conveyance of Pas. * sengers, and the providing them with proper Accommodation, and an adequate * Supply of Water and Provisions ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority Muters of Vessels of the same. That before the sailing of any Ship or Vessel from any Port or Place in to enter into Bond the United Kingdom to Newfoundland or the Coast of Labrador with Passengers, the not to take more Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of every such Ship this Act aUowed. ^ °r Vessel, and the Owner or Owners thereof, shall enter into Security by Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in the Penalty of Five hundred Pounds, with Condition that there shall not be taken on board any such Ship or Vessel any more such Passengers than are herein-after permitted and allowed ; which Bond shall be taken by and deposited with the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of His Majesty's Customs at the Fort from which such Ships or Vessels shall sail ; and the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, previous to his leaving the said Port, shall and is hereby required to deliver to the said Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of His Ma- jesty's Customs at the said Port, a List containing the Number of the said Passengers, with their Names, Ages, and Descriptions, for the Purpose of being registered at such Port, together with a Copy of the same^ which Copy shall be certified by the said Officers as being correct and true, and deliver to the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, to be by him kept on board the said Vessel, and subject to the Inspection of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or Vessels in the Service of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, during his Voyage to Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador ; and upon the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel at either of tbe aforesaid Places, the said Master, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall deliver the aforesaid Copy of the List to the Governor of such Place, or other Person acting for him, or to the Naval Officer or Chief Officer of the Customs at the Port of Arrival, or to the nearest Justice of the Peace, who shall be required to examine the Passengers within Twenty-four Hours after their Arrival j and no such Passenger as aforesaid shall be allowed 57«G£ORGlI III. Cap.83v^ : allowed to land until such List is compared with the Passengers by the Governor or other Person acting for him, or some Person authorized by either of them for that Purpose. 38^. II. And be it further enacted, That if the Master, or other Person having or taking Penalty on tnking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, shall take or have on board his '"<"'« than Numbir Ship or Vessel, or if the Owner or Owners of such Ship or Vessel shall engage to ''"°**^' take on board more Persons than the Number allowed, they shall respectively forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds for each Person so taken or engaged to be taken on board. III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the T^assine of this Act it Number of shall not be lawful for any Ship or Vessel from any Place in the Umted Kingdom of ^'"•"■g"'*' Great Britain and Ireland, or from Guernsey and Jersey, to carry to any Part of Newfoundland or Coast of Labrador a greater Num1}er of Passengers than in the following Proportion ; that is to say, any British Ship or Vessel having a Second Deck may take Passengers at the Rate of One for every unoccupied Space being Six Feet in length by two Feet in breadth, and being of the full perpendicular height between the Two Decks ; or any British Ship or Vessel which shall have only One Deck over her Hold may take Passengers at the Rate of One for every Space between the Cargo stowed in the Hold and the Deck, being Six Feet in length and Two Feet in breadth, and being the height of Five Feet perpendicular above the Cargo, and being independent in either Case of the Space which may be requisite for the Stowage of the Water and Provisions and Baggage of the Passengers, and the full Space before mentioned shall accordingly be allotted for the Accommodation of each Passenger so taken on board. IV. And be it further enacted, That every such Ship or Vessel shall be furnished, Quantity of Water, at the Time of her Departure to commence the Voyage, with at least Ten Weeks *'*'• *° *** *"* '"'"■^• Supply of good and wholesome Water, so as to furnish a Supply of Five Pints of Water per Day for every such Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, and the said Supply of Water shall be stowed below the Deck ; and every such Ship or Vessel shall also be furiushed with such a Supply of Provisions as will afford an Allowance for every such Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, during the said Period of Ten Weeks, of One Pound of Bread or Biscuit, and One Pound of Beef, or Three Quarters of a Pound of Pork per Day, and also Two Pounds of Flour, Three Pounds of Oatmeal or Three Pounds of Peas or Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound of Butter, weekly i the weekly Allowance to commence on the Day the Vessel puts to Sea. V. And be it further enacted. That the Master or other Person having or taking Penalty on Master the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel, failing to give out the Allowance "°' delivering out of Provisions and Water herein-before specified, shall forfeit the TSum of Ten Pounds ^™"""^ of lawful Money for each and every such Neglect and Omission. VI. And be it further enacted. That an Abstract of this Act, stating the Number Abstract of ,^ft to of Passengers allowed to be taken, and the daily and weekly Allowance of Water be exposed in some and Provisions, shall be exposed in some conspicuous Part of the Ship or Vessel to "" " * ''"P- which the said Passengers have Recourse ; in future of which, the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel shall forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds. P p Vll. And 298 Masters of VeiseU returning from Newfoundland, &c. to conform to Regulations. 56^GEORGII III. Cap. 83. Vn. And be it further enacted, That the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of any such Ship or Vessel, engaging to take on board any such Passengers from Newfoimdland or the Coast of Labrador, for the Purpose of returning from thence to the United Kingdom, shall conform to the Regulations above enacted as to the Number of Passengers which it shall be lawful for them to take on board, and shall be liable to the like Penalties for any Breach of such Regulations as are herein-before enacted with respect to Vessels proceeding from the United Kingdom to Newfoundland or the Coast of Labrador. VIII. And be it further enacted. That every such Ship or Vessel returning from Newfoundland or the Coast of Labrador to any Port or Place of the United King- dom with Passengers as aforesaid, shall be furnished, at the Time of her Departure to commence the Voyage, with at least Seven Weeks Supply of good and wholesome Water, so as to furnish a Supply of Five Pints of Water per Day for every such Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, and the said Supply of Water shall be stowed below the Deck ; and every such Ship or Vessel shall also be furnished with such a Supply of Provisions as will afford an Allowance for every such Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, during the said Period of Seven Weeks, of One Pound of Bread or Biscuit, and One Pound of Beef, or Three Quarters of a Pound of Pork per Day, and also Two Pounds of Flour, Three Pounds of Oatmeal, or Three Pounds of Peas or Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound of Butter, weekly ; the weekly Allowance to commence on the Day the Vessel puts to Sea. Penalty on not IX. And be it further enacted, That the Master or other Person having taken giving out the the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel, failing to give out the Allowance Md ProvutoiST"'" °^ Provisions and Water herein-before specified, shall forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds of lawful Money for each and every such Neglect and Omission. Vessels returning from Newfound- land, ^c. to be fur- uishedwith acertain Supply of Water and Provisions. Recovery and Application of Penalties. X. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and Forfeitures to be incurred under this Act shall and may be recovered in a summary way, on the Oath of one or more Witness or Witnesses, before any one or more of His Majesty's Justice or Justices of the Peace of any County, County of a City, Riding, Shire, or Place in the United Kingdom where such Ship or Vessel shall depart from or come to in or during such Voyage, or in a summary way in any Surrogate Court or Courts of Session having Jurisdiction in the Island of Newfoundland ; and such last-mentioned Penalties and Forfeitures as shall be recovered in Newfoundland shall be paid to the Governor of Newfoundland for the time being, or other Person acting for him, or some Person authorized by either of them for that Purpose ; to be applied under the Direction of such Governor, or other Person acting for him, or some Person authorized by either of them for that Purpose, for defraying the Passage home of such Persons as ought to be sent to that Country to which they belong. \ct not to afTect ^^' Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act con- tiie Conveyance of tained shall extend or be construed to extend to the Conveyance of any Persons on Persons employed board of any such Ship or Vessel, whether Fishermen, Youngsters, or others, on the Establisli- being hired Servants to be employed on the Establishment of their respective Masters or Hirers in the Prosecution of the Fisheries carried on from Newfound- land or the Coast of Labrador. 5^6*GEORGII III. Cap.91. 299 Anno 56'* Georgii III. Cap.91. • T- -n.' An Act to regu|ate the Trade of the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo ; to allow the Importation into and Exportation from such Colonies of certain Articles by Dutch Proprietors of the European Dominions of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands ; and to repeal an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of His present Majesty, for permitting a Trade between the United Provinces and certain Colonies in His Majest/s Possession. ' TTTHEREAS ai) Act was passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of • VV His present Majesty, intituled • An Act for regulating' the Trade between 28 Geo. 3. c.6. ' the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations m North America and in the ' West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, ' and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West < Indies :' And whereas it is expedient that the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and < Essequibo, situated in the Province of Guiana in South America, should be placed ' , upon the same footing, in reladon to Regulations of Trade, as the British West * India Islands ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That Regulations of from and after the passing of this Act all the Benefits, Privileges, and Advantages, North American and all the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, Penalties ana Forfeitures, in the said recited Act contained and provided with respect to His Britannic Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United State's of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in theWest Indies, shall extend and apply, and be in full Force and Effect as to the said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same were re-enacted in and separately and severally repeated in this Act as to the said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo ; any Act or Acts of Parliament, or Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Colonics to extend to Demerara, &c. 52 Geo. !i. c. 100. II. ' And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-second Year of His present Majesty's ' Reign, intituled < An Act for increasing the Duty on Rum and other Spirits im- ' ported into Newfoundland from the British Colonies and Plantations on the Con- ' tinent of America, and charging a Duty on Spirits imported into Newfoundland • from His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies,* a Duty of Sixpence was imposed ' on every Gallon of Rum or other Spirits imported into the said Island of Newfound- ' land from any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies : And whereas it is ' expedient that Rum imported into the said Island from the aforesaid Colonies of ' Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo, should be placed on the same footing as Rum * imported from the other British Colonies ;' be it therefore enacted. That from and S"'",""!^?/'*'^ '"'^° after the passing of this Act there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid upon ^^.^J^ Demerara every Gallon of Rum imported into the said Island of Newfoundland from the; afore- &c. to pay 6d. per said Colonies of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo, the Sum of Sixpence for every Ciallon. P p 3 Gallon 300 56*GEORGll 111. Cap.91. Gallon, and no more ; such Dudes to be sued for, recovered, and applied in the like manner and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures as are provided by the aforesaid recited Act. ■.,■:' ; 7, Subiects of the HI. * And whereas a Convention of Commerce and Navigation has been concluded Netherlands may c between His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of the' Netherlands: And lll£!&c?the us3" ' whereas it is expedient to pve EflFect to such Parts of the said Convention as Articles of Supply. ' require the Sanction of Parliament ;' be it therefore enacted. That firom and after but not for Trade, the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for any of the Subjects of His said Majesty the King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in such Colonies, to import from the Netherlands into the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, in the Province of Guiana in South America, all the usual Articles of Supply for their Estates in the said Colonies, such Articles being necessary and requisite as Supplies for the Cultivation of the Estates, or the Clothing, Maintenance, and Comfort of the Residents thereon, and not to exceed what may be deemed necessary for the Supply of the particular Estates fa which they are to be imported, and to be actually applied to the Purposes of such Supply, and not for Trade ; and in case of Seizure by any OfHcer of the Customs of any Importations of such Articles, on the ground of their being imported in the way or for the Purposes of Trade, and not as Supplies, the Proof that such Articles are Supplies, and imported under the Conditions of the Con. vention, shall Ue on the Dutch Proprietor importing the same ; and in case of such Proof being made and given, in consequence of any Dispute arising thereupon, before the Collector or Prmdpal OfHcer of the Customs, who is hereby empowered to administer an Oath or take Affidavit for the Purposes of any such Examination and Proof under this Act, the Goods shall be admitted to Entry : Provided always, that the Importer, before such Entry shall be allowed, shall enter into Bond with Two Sureties, in a sufficient Sum, to abide the Decision of the Board of Customs in Wine to pay a Duty England upon such Seizure: Provided also, that Wine, as a Medicine and necessary of lOt. per Ton. Article of Supply, may be so imported to Such a limited Ejctent as may be necessary for the Purposes of such Supply as a Medicine, and shall be liable to the Duty of Ten Shillings per Ton, and no more. Dutch Proprietors IV. And be it further enacted. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall d«"Ehe*ir ^'^ ^® ^^^^"' ^°' ^^ °^ ^^® Subjects of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, being Esutes. ' Dutch Proprietors in such Colonies, to export from the said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, to the Netherlands, the Produce of their Estates. Who are to be con- sidered as Dutch Proprietors. V. And be further enacted. That all Subjects of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, resident in His said Majesty's European Dominions, who were at the Date of the Signature of the said Convention Proprietors of Estates in the said Colo- nies, and all Subjects of His said Majesty who may hereafter become possessed of Estates then belonging to Dutch Proprietors therein, and all such Proprietors as, being then resident in the said Colonies, and being Natives of His Majesty's Domi- nions in the Netherlands, may have declared, within Three Months after the Publi- cation of the aforesaid Convention in the said Colonies, that they wish to continue to be considered as such ; and all Subjects of His said Majesty the King of the Nether- lands, who may be the Holders of Mortgages of Estates in the said Colonies made prior to the Date of the Convention, and who may under their Mortgage Deeds have tile Right of exporting from the said Colonies to the Netherlands the Produce of such 56*G£ORGIl 111. Cap.91. 30) such Estates, shall be deemed Dutch Proprietors under the Provisions of this Act ; ?rovided that where both Dutch and British Subjects have Mortgages upon the same roperty in the said Colonies, the Produce to be consigned to the different Mortga- gees shall be in proportion to the Amount of the Debts respectively due to them. VI. And be it further enacted, That all such Importation from the Netherlands Importation and into the said Colonies for the Supply of Estates therein as afoifesaid, and Exportation ^|?l^^^ ^ *^ !** of the Produce of such Estates to the Netherlands, may be carried on in any Ships J" rte'suWwJJ'of being the Property of Subjects of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, wherever the NetherUnds? built, and without any Restriction or Limitation as to the Mariners navigating the &c. same, for the Space of Five Years, commencing from the First Day of January last : Provided always, that the Master of every such Ship shall produce to the proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs in the said Colonies respectively satisfactory Proof of the said Vessels being owned by a Subject of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands : Provided also, that His said Majesty the King of^the Netherlands may at any time before the Expiration of the said Five Tears,' if he should think proper, order and direct that such Trade shall be carried on only in such Ships as are Dutch-built, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths of the Crew are the Subjects of His said Ma- jesty : And provided always, that after the Expiration of the said Five Years no such Trade shall be carried on except in Vessels Dutch-built, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths of the Crew are Subjects of His said Majesty. Vn. And be it further enacted. That all such Importadons and Exportationa ^all Duties to be the be subject to the same Duties as are payable by His Majesty's Subjects on Importa- "">? " payable b* tions and Exportations of the like Articles, and shall be subject to the same Rules, ^"*»'> Subjects. Regulations, and Restrictions for the due i of any such Produce as aforesaid in the Netherlands, as are provided by any Act now in force for the landing of the like Articles in Great Britain, so for as the same are or can be made applicable. VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons who by virtue of this Act may be entitled to trade between the said Colonies and the Dominions of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, to export the Produce of the before-mentioned Estates within the said Colonies of Demerara, Kssequibo, and Berbice, to any Part of the United Kingdom, or to any other of His Majesty's Dominions in Europet Persons entitled tc trade between the Colonies and the Netherlands, not to export the Pro. duce to this Coun try, &c. IX. ' And whereas, immediately after the signing of the aforesaid Convention, cer- ' tain Vessels may have left the Netherlands, and the Officers of His Majesty's Cus- ' toms in the afores^d Colonies, on being apprized of the aforesaid Convention, may * have, by the Authority or Order of the Governor or otherwise^ been induced to ' act upon such Convention upon the Emergency of the Occasion, as if the same had * been confirmed by Law ; and it is expedient that all Importations and Admissfons * to Entry allowed under the Articles of the said Convention shall be confirmed and ' valid ;' be it therefore enacted, That all Importations and Admissions to Entry, so made in pursuance or in consequence of any of the Articles of the said Convention, shall be and are hereby declared to be lawful, and as good, valid, and effectual as if the same had been made in pursuance of any Act or Acts of Parliament, or this Act i Importations under the Convention to be deemed lawful. soe 54 Geo. 3. c. 72. rap««l«d. 56*&57*6EORGtI III. Cap. 4. & Cap. 10. Act -f '• and all Persons concerned therein shall be and are hereby indemnified in respect thereof. •-■" t t '; I ' 1 ' J!K't'.t'fy I'llf- MjU.'.i I I, 11 X. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, an Act passed in the Fifty>fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled ' An * Act for permittmg a Trade between the United Provinces and certain Colonies now * m His Majesty's Possession,' shall be and the same is hereby repealed. 5S Geo. 3. c. 39. Anno 57® Georgii III. Cap.4. An Act to extend the Privileges of tlie Trade of Malta to the Port of Gibraltar. * TTTHEREAS it is expedient to extend to the Port of Gibraltar all the Privileges * WW which were granted to the Trade of Malta by an Act passed in the Fiity- ' fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act to regulate the * Trade between Malta and its Dependencies and His Majesty's Colonies and Planta- ' tions in America; and also between Malta and the United Kingdom;' be it there- fore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia- ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the passing r^urtobeaarried of this Act the Trade between Gibraltar and His Majesty's Colonies and I^antations in on ns the Trade of America, and also between Gibraltar and the United Kingdom, shall and may be M^u under recited carried on in like manner and under the like Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, and subject to the like Penalties and Forfeitures, as are provided by the said recited Act with respect to Malta and His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and also between Malta and the United Kingdom, as if the same were particularly and expressly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act ; any thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. The Trade of Oib- 43G.3.C.56. Anno 57°Georgii 111. Cap. 10. An Act to regulate the Vessels carrying Passengers from the United Kingdom to certain of His Majesty's Colonies in North America. * TT THEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, ' VV intituled • An Act for regulating the Vessels carrying Passengers from the ' United Kingdom to His Majesty's Plantations and Settlements abroad, or to Foreign ' Parts, with respect to the Number of such Passengers, certain Regulations were ' made with respect to the Number of Passengers to be conveyed on board British ' and 57*6EORGII III. Cap. 10. 303 < and Foreign Vessels from the United Kingdom to His Majesty's Cr' '^>e8 abroad, < and to Foreign Countries: And whereas it is expedient to make spec, .(.egulations ' with respect to the Conveyance of Passengers to certain of His Majesty's Colonies ia < North America \* be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by ' > " and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com. ' ! raons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That Hecited Act not to from and after the passing of this Act nothing in tne aforesaid Act of the Forty-third ?PP'y »«> Britigh Year of His present Majesty shall be deemed or taken to apply to any British Ship or f^^^m^o^ Vessel carrying Passengers to the Provinces of Upper or Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, Canada, &c. New Brunswick, Cape Breton, or Prince Edward's Island ; any thing in the baid Act to the contrary notwithstanding. IL And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act no Ship or Vessel shall sail with Passengers from any Port or Place in the United Kingdom to any Port or Place in Upper or Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, or Prince Edward's Island, unless the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of every such Ship or Vessel, and the Owner or Owners thereof, shall, before the sailing of such Ship or Vessel from any Port or Place as afore- said, enter into Security by Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in the Penalty of Five hundred Pounds, with Condition that there shall not be taken on board any such Ship or Vessel any more such Passengers than are herein-after permitted and allowed, and that every Passenger, if alive, shall be landed at the Port or Place to which such Pass^ger shall have contracted to be conveyed ; which Bond shall be takea by and deposited with the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of His Majesty's Customs at the Port from which such Ships or Vessels shall sail ; and the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, previous to his leaving the said Port, shall and is hereby required to deliver to the said Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of His Majesty's Customs at the said Port, a List containing the Number of the said Passengers, with their Names, Ages, and Descriptions, and the Places to which they are to be respect- ively conveyed for the Purpose of being registered at such Port, together with a Copy of the same, which Copy shall be certified by the said Officers as being correct and true, and delivered to the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel, to be by him kept on board the said Vessel, and subject to the Inspection of any of His Majesty's Ships of War or Vessels in the Service of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, during his Voyage to the aforesaid Colonies; and upon the Arrival of such Ship or Vessel at either of the aforesaid Colonies, the said Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel shall deliver the aforesaid Copy of the List to the Governor of such Place, or other Person acting for him, or to the Naval, Offi- or Chief Officer of the Customs at the Port of Arrival, or to the nearest Justice No Vessel shall sail to Canada, &c. unless the Master enter into Bond that there shall not be taken on board more Pas- sengers than by this Act allowed, &c. List of Passensers to be delivereuin manner herein mentioned. cer of the Peace, who shall be required to examine the Passengers within Twenty-four Hours after their Arriva} ; and no such Passenger as aforesaid shall be allowed to land until such List is compared with the Passengers by the Governor or other Per- son acting for him, or some Person authorized by either of them for that Purpose. III. And be it further enacted, That if the Master or other Person having or Penalty on taking taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel'shall take or have on board [^"J,*/,^"*^"*'^." his Ship or Vessel, or if the Owner or Owners of such Ship or Vessel shall engage to gUowcd! ^^^ ^^ take 304 57*GEORGII III. Cap. 10. take on board, more Pencns than the Number allowed, they shall respectively forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds for each Person so taken or engaged to be taken on board. PuMnmn to li« IV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall ff'ir5i'ToS!l*''** "°* *^ '*^^"' ^°' *"y ^'"'P °' ^*"** ^'°'" *"y ^*"® '" ** United Kingdom of Great oTihe VeiMl!'""*" Britain and .Ireland, or fromOuemsey and Jersey, to carry to any Port or Place in Upper or Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, or Prince Edward's Island, a greater Number of Passengers than in the proportion of one adult Person, or of Three Children under Fourteen Years of Age, for every One Ton and a Half of the Burthen of sr.ch Ship or Vessel ; and every such Ship and Vessel shall be taken to be of such 7ronnage or Burthen as is dt<;scribed and set forth in the re- spective Certificate of the Registry of each and every such Ship or Vessel granted in pursuance of the several Acts in force in Great Britain and Ireland respectively re- lating to such Certificates ; and if any such Ship or Vessel shall be partly laden with Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, then it shall not be lawful for the Master or other Person having the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel to receive or take on board a greater Number of Persons than in the proportion of one adult Person, or of Three Children under Fourteen Tears of Aee, for every One Ton and a Hai' of that Part of such Ship or Vessel remaining unladen. Water and Provi- ■ions how to be apportioned. V. And be it further enacted, That every such Ship or Vessel shall be furnished, at the Time of her Departure to commence the Voyage, with at least Twelve Weeks Supply of good and wholesome Water, so as to furnish a Supply of Five Pints of Water per Day for every such Passenger, exclusive of the Crew ; and the said Supply ^of Water shall be stowed below the Deck ; and every such Ship or Vessel shall also be furnished with such a Supply of Provisions as will afford an Allowance for every such Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, during the said Perio 1 of T.velve Weeks, of One Pound of Bread or Biscuit, and One Pound of Beef, or Three Quarters of a Pound of Pork per Day, and also Two Pounds of Flour, Three Pounds of Oatmeal, or Three Pounds of Peas or Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound of Butter weekly ; the weekly Allowance to commence on the Day the Vessel puts to Sea. Penalty on Failure VI. And be it further enacted, That the Master or other Person having or taking the of giving out the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel, failing to give out the Allowance of Pro- visions and Water herein-before specified, shall forf.Ut the Sum of Ten Pounds of lawful Money for each and every such Neglect and Omission. Allowance of PrO' <&10 nsions. Abstract of Act to be exposed in the Vessel, on Penalty ofjClO. Penalties how to be recovered and applied. VII. And be it further enacted, That an Abstract of this Act, stating the Number of Passengers allowed to be taken, and the daily and weekly Allowance of Water and Provisions, shall be exposed in some conspicuous Part of the Ship or Vessel to which the said Passengers have Recourse ; in failure pf which the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel shall forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds. Vin. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and Forfeitures to be incurred under this Act shall and may be recovered in a summary way, on the Oath of One or more Witness or Witnesses, before any one or more of His Majesty's Justice or Justices of the Peace of any County, County of a City, Ridings Shire, or Place in the United Kingdom, where such Ship or Vessel shall depart from or come to in or during such Voyage, 57*0£0RG1I IJl. Cap. 28. ^ « Voyage, or in a summary way in any Court or Courts of Session having Jurisdiction in the Port or Place at which such Ship or Vessel shall arrive ; and one Moiety of every Penalty to be recovered by virtue of this Act shall go and be applied to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of such Person or Persons as shall first sue for the same. IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall Lawi fur the Hv- extend or be construed to extend to repeal, alter, or affect any Law, Statute, Usage, g"'"""" "/ Ard- or Custom now in force in the United Kingdom, or within Great Britain or Ireland Kingdom'no/to' respectively, for the Restriction or Regulation of Artificers and others from or in be aflected. going or passing from any Part of the United Kingdom to Parts beyond Sea, or to regulate the Ships or Vessels carrying or conveyine such Artificers, or the Masters or Commanders or Persons having Charge of suoi Ships or Vessek ; but that all such Laws, Usages, and Customs shall remain in full Force and Effect to all Intents and Purposes as if this Act had not been made. ber of and sel to other brfeit Anno57°GEORGii III. Cap. 28. An Act to extend the Powers of Two Acts for allowing British Planta- tion Sugar and Coffee, and other Articles imported into Bermuda in British Ships, to be exported to America in Foreign Vessels ; and^ to permit Articles, tlie Produce of America, to be imported into the said Island in Foreign Ships, to certain other Articles. < TT7HEREAS an Act w^ passed in the Fifty-second Year of His present Ma- * VV jesty's Reign, intituled < An Act to allow British Plantation Sugar and * Coffee imported into Bermuda in British Ships to be exported to the Territories of * the United States of America in Foreign Ships or Vessels ; and to permit Articles, * the Production of the said United States, to be imported into tha said Island in < Foreign Ships or Vessels :* And whereas an Act was passed in the Fifty-third Year * of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act for further allowing the Im- * portation and Exportation of certain Artir.les at the Island of Bermuda:' And ' whereas it is expedient that the sMd Acts should be extended so far as regards the ' Articles to be allowed to be imported and exported ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That in addition to the Articles enumerated in the said Acts, it shall be lawful to import from the Unitv^d States into the Ports mentioned in the Acts above recited, in Vessels of the Description therein stated, and under the like Authority, Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, provided in the said recited Acts, the Articles of Fruit and Vegetables being the Produce of the said States ; and in addition to the Articles permitted to be exported by the said above- recited Acts, to export from the said Island of Bermuda to the said United States, in such Vessels and under such Regulations as aforesaid. Rum and Molasses the Produce of any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies, which shall have been legally . imported into the Island of Bermuda in any British Sh^ or Vessel. 52 Geo. 3. e. 79. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. In addition to the Articleii enume- rated in recited Acts, Fruit and Vegetables may be imported, andRum and Molasses may be exported, &c. Qq 306 57*GEOROII III. Cap.29. **7 Anno57°GEORGii III. Cap.29. 52 Geo. 3. c. 100. 45 U«o. 3. c. 57. European Goods, &c. may be ex- ported from New- foundland to the Weit Indie*, &c. and from the West Indies, tic. to Newfoundland. An Act to extend to Newfoundland the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fifty-second Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for permitting the Exportation of Wares, Goods, and Merchandize from any of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies to any other of the said Islands, and to and from any of the British Colonics on the Continent of America, and the said Islands and Colonies. - • * TTTHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-second Year of the Reign of His * W present Majesty, intituled • An Act to permit the Exportation of Wares, * Goods, and Merchandize from any of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies to * any other of the said Islands, and to and from any of the British Colonies on the ' Continent of America, and the said Islands and Colonies ;' it is enacted, that it shall < and may be lawful to and for any of His Majesty's Subjects to export in any British- * built Ship or Vessel owned and navigated according to Law, from any one of the * Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, to any other of the said Islands, * or to any of the British Colonies on the Contment of America, and from any one * of the said British Colonies in America to any of the Islands in the West Indies ' belonging to His Majesty, or to toy other British Colony or Plantation on the * Continent of America, any Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the Manufacture ' of Europe, and also any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or Prize Goods, which * shall have been legally imported into any of the said Islands or Colonies, under * the Roles, Rectdations, and Restrictions contained in an Act passed in the Forty* * fifth Year of His said Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act to consolidate and extend ' the several Laws now in force for allovine the Importation and Exportation of < certain Goods and Merchandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies : ' And whereas it is expedient to extend the Provisions of the said iirat-recited Act * to the Island of Newfoundland ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excel- lent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawftil to and for any of His Majesty's Subjects to export in any British-built Ship or Vessel owned and navigated accorcung to Law, from the said Island of Newfoundland to any of the Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or to any of the British Colonies on the Continent of America, and from any one of the said Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or from any one of the (>aid Bridsh Colonies on the Continent of America, into the said Island of Newfoundland, any Goods or Com.. modities whatsoever of the Manufacture of Europe, and also any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or Prize Goods, which shall have been legally imported into any of the said Islands or Colonies, under the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions contained ir^ the said last-recited Act of the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty. «;'Q£ORGII HI. Cap. 36. & Cap. 42. 3o; Anno 57'' Georgu III. Ca[).36. An Act to iTguUite the Trade to and trom the Places within the Limits of the Chart or p( the Kast India Company, and certain Possessions of His Majesty in the Mediterranean. . /.'■ !«<,!/-i'*( ij X. A ND be it further enacted, That for the Purposes of this Act, and for all other Mnlta deemed to jl\. Purposes whatever, the Island of Malta and its Dependencies shall be ''*' '" Europe. deemed and taken to be in Europe.* ' , . , * By Mm Enactment, Goods, the Production of Malta and Ui Dependencin, are tubject to the $amr Keilrictiom at other European Commoditiei. '.{ Anno 57° Georgii III. Cap.42. An Act to revive and continue, until the Tw«jnty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and nineteen, an Act made in the Forty-fourth Year of His present Mtuesty, for permitting the Ex- portation of Salt from the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, the Port of Exuma and the Port of Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, in American Ships coming in Ballast. . ' ; ; * TX7HEREAS an Act was made in the Forty-fourth Year of the Reign of His « W present Majesty, intituled • An Act for permitting, until the First Day of 44 Geo. 3. c 101. ' August One thousand eight hundred and seven, the Exportation of Salt from the * Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, the Port of Exuma and the Port * of Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, in Ships belonging to the Inhabitants of * the United States of America, and coming in Ballast ;' which said Act was, by Two * Acts of the Forty-seventh and Fiftieth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, * continued until the Twenty-Bfth Day of March One thousand eight hundredf and * thirteen : And whereas it is expedient to revive and contiruic the said Act of the * Forty-fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign :' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act of the Forty-fourth Year of the Recited Act revived Reign of His present Majesty shall from and after the passing of this Act be revived, ?]?<' continued till and the same is hereby revived, and shall continue in force from and after the "*"'"•'•• 25, 1819. passing of this Act to the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Qq 308 57*6£ORGII III. Cap. 45. PenoD* holding; Offices under the Crown during Plea- sure may, at the Demise of His Miriestv, continue to hold the same during the Pleasure of the King or Queen who shall succeed. Anno 57°Georgii 111. Cap. 45. An Act for the Continuation of all and every Person or Persons in any and every Office, Place, or Employment, Civil or Military, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick upon Tweed, Isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Aldemey, Sarke and Man, and also in all and every of His Majesty's Foreign Possesions, Colonies, or Plantations, which he or she shall hold, possess, or exercise during the Pleasure of the Crown, at the Time of the Death or Demise of His present Majesty, until removed or discharged therefrom by the succeeding King or Queen of this Realm. TT yTHEREAS it is expedient to ^ovide by Law as herein-after is enacted, be it VV therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every Person and Persons who upon the Day of the Demise of His present Majesty (whom ' God long preserve) shall hold any Omce, Civil or Military, under the Crown during Pleasure, shall under and by virtue of th^ Act, and without any new or other Patent, Comnussion, Warrant, or Authority, continue and be entitled in all respects, not- withstanding the Denuse of His Majesty, to h(^d and enjoy the same ; but never- theless the same shall be held or enjoyed only during the Pleasure of the King or Queen who shall succeed to the Crown upon the Demise of His present Majesty, and the Right and Title to hold and enjoy the same under the Authority of this Act shall be determinable in such and the like manner by the King oi| Queen who upon the Demise of His present Majesty shall succeed to the Crown, as, the Right or Tkle to any Office, Place, or En^iloyment, granted by such succeeding King or Queen during Pleasure, would by Law be determinable : Provided always, that nothing in tins Act contained shall extend or be construed to esctend to deprive the Heirs and Successors of His Majesty, Kings or Queens of this Realm, of the Power of removing and discharging any Person or Persons from his, her, or thdr respective Offices, Places, and Employments, in such manner as by Law they might have done if this Act or any thing therein contained had never been passed. .-,^„..-: S/oGEORGII III. Cap.74. 309 Anno 57° Georgii 111. Cap. 74. An Act to extend several Acts for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandize to Porta Maria in the Island of Jamaica, and to the Port of Bridge Town in the Island of Barbadoes. 125. WHEREAS it is provided by an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled * An Act to consoUcfate and estend the ^^ ^*^' ^- «• ^7* seyeral Laws now in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandizes into and from certain Ports in theWest Indies,' that certain Articles therein enumerated may be imported into the several Ports therdn named from Foreign Colonies in the West Indies : And whereas by one other Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of His said Majesty's Rdgn, intituled ' An Act to permit ^^ G«o<3 the Importation of Rice, Grain, and Flour from any Fordgn Colonies on the Con- tinent of America into certain Ports in the West Indies; and to allow certain Articles to be imported from the United States of America into the British Provinces in North America, for the Purpose of Exportation to the British Islands in the West Indies,' it is enacted, that in addition to the Articles enumerated in the afore- recited Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, it sh^l be lawful to import, under the like Authority, Restrictions, Rules, RegulatioDs, Penalties, and Forfeitures provided in the said recited Act, the Articles of Rice, Grain of all Sorts, and Flour, from any Colonies and Plaiiutions in America, belonging to and under the Dominion of anv Fordgn European Soyerdgn or State, into any of the Free Ports in Colonies or Plantations belonging to His Majesty in the West Indies which are particularly enumerated in the said Act, or in another Act passed in the Forty-seventh Year of His Majesty respecting the Port of Am- sterdam in the Island of CuraQoa, in any Fordni Ship, Schooner, or other Foreign Vessel whatever, not having more than One Deck, and being manned and navi- gated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plantations belonging to any Foreign Soverdgn or State : And whereas by one other Act passed in the Finieth Year of the Rdgn of His present Majesty, intituled * An Act for amend- ing, and continuing so amended, until the Twenf^r-fifth Day of March One thou- sand eight hundred and twelve, an Act of the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, for consolidating and extending the several Laws in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certam Goods and Merchandizes into and from certain Ports in the West Indies,' it is enacted, that until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twelve, it shall and may be lawful to import and export the Articles in the said Act mentioned at the Ports therein men- tioned, under the Rules and Regulations of the ssdd Act, in any Fordgn Sloop, Schooner, or other Vessel as therein described, although such Sloop, Schooner, or Vessel shall have more than One Deck ; which by a subsequent Act was continued until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand dght hundred and fourteen, and by one other subsequent Act was revived and made perpetual : And whereas it is ex- pedient to permit the like Importation and Exportation df certain Goods and Com- modities into and from the Port Maria on the North Side (^the Island of Jamaica, and into and from the Port of Bridgetown in the Island of Barbadoes, in the West Indies ■,' be 50GM.3. e.21. 'm 310 Such Goods «s by 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. may be imported into and exported from the Ports therein mentioned, and also Rice, Grain, &c. may be imported into and exported from the Fort Maria in Jamaica, and Bridgetown in Bar- badoes, to any Co- lonies in America. 67'GEORGII 111. Cap. 89. be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par- liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That from and after the passing of this Act, such Goods and Commodities as by the afore-recited Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign may be imported into and exported from the Ports therein mentioned, and also Rice, Grain of all Sorts, and Flour, may be also imported into and exported from the Port Maria on the North Side of the Island of Jamaica, and into and from the Port of Bridgetown in the Island of Barbadoes, in the West Indies, from and to any Colonies and Plantations in America, belonging to and under the Dominion t>f any Foreign European Sovereign or State, in the like Ships and Vessels, under such Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, and Conditions, and subject to such Penalties and Forfeitures for Breach thereof, as are contained, described, and provided in the said Acts, and in the aforesaid recited Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of His present Majesty's Reign. 51 Geo.3. c. 97. Anno .5T"Georgii III. Cap.89. An Act to allow the Importation of Oranges and Lemons from the Azores and the Madeiras into the British Colonies in North America. TT7HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-first Year of His present Majesty's V V Reign, intituled ' An Act to regulate the Trade between Places in Europe South of Cape Finisterre, and certain Ports in the British Colonies in North America, it is enacted, that any Fruit, the Produce of any Part of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, may be shipped and laden in any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre for Exportation direct to certain Ports in North America, on buard of any British Ship or Vessel owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any Port or Place in Europe South of Cape Finisterre with Articles of the Growth or Produce of the said Colonies, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the said Colonies or Plantations, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods or Commodities herein-after mentioned from the Province of Canada, whether such Goods and Merchandize shall be the Growth or Produce of the Province of Canada, or shall have been brought into the said Province by Land or Inland Navigation : And whereas it is expedient to allow Oranges and Lemons to be exported direct from the Azores and the Madeiras into the British Colonies in North America in any British-built Ship or Vessel owned, registered, and navigated according to Law ;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. Oranges or temons That from and after the passing of this Act, any Oranges or Lemons, the Produce of niay be imported the Azores or the Madeiras, may be shipped and laden there for Exportation direct to any of the Ports of the British Colonies in North America, and may be imported into the said Ports in any British-built Ship or Vessel owned, registered, and navi- gated according to Law ; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwith- standing. into the British Colonies of AmC' rica from the Azores or thie Madeiras. 57*GEORGII lit Cap. 127. 311 Anno 57"* Georgii III. Cap. 127. An Act to settle the Share of Prize Money, Droits of Admiralty, and Bounty Money payable to Greenwich Hospital, and for securing to the said Hospital all unclaimed Shares of Vessels found derelict, and of Seizures for Breach of Revenue, Colonial, Navigation, and Slave Abolition Laws. VI. A ND be it further enaded, That the said Royal Hufpital for Seamen at -tA. Greenwich shall be and they are hereby declared to be entitled to all forfeited and unclaimed Shares of and in the Proceeds which shall have arisen or shall hereafter arise out of and from all Vessels found dei li£l: by any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels, and out of and from all Seizures for Breach of the Revenue, Colonial, Navigation, and Slave Abolition Laws, made by any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels, and of and from all Bounties given under the Laws for the Prevention of or relating to the Slave Trade ; and all and every the Agent or Agents for the Pay- ment or Distribution of all such Proceeds and Bounty, or other Monies, shall be subjeft to the same Regulations; Rules, Penalties, and Forfeitures, with resped to the unclaimed and forfeited Shares thereof, and the transmitting of Accounts and Payment of Balances to the said Royal Hospital, as Prize Agents were subjed to with respedi to the Transmission of Accounts and Payment of Balances of Prize Money to the said Royal Hospital under an A£t of Parliament passed in the Fifty- fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled < An A6t for regulating * the Payment of Navy Prize Money, and the Transmission of Accounts and Pay- ' ment of Balances to Greenwich Hospital.' Hospital entitled to all forfeited and unclaimed Shares. Agents for the Distribution of the Proceeds to be subject to the Regulations of 54 Geo. 3. c. 93. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strauan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1818. A LONDON: -<«- i .ojf; T'm n^j^ic I .,'1 1 urn i ••"liiit^I^'Hli ^nii->/v .,' ! ii^ >itj'-'.i. ,M. & •^-.^^ % i:> »w>» ^• ' ■-'^, .'(>*? >-,'v. ■j;;'.,:-. ,i'i!4>,.i5, /i i^-Vw wl 4iH .^L-syi fJ /•■'/•i'r! V!':. .V. ".y%; i&vvva ■-:.>■ ^;«^ p^i>jCi'iv:n'^ ■*ii ■# /i-i'T. i V*. ;":/> -■«*.Vi»i«*-'M***a ri*.^>W!«-*' j*^l'*»&*K'u«'iji*'i*'HJ •.(^•4««i;.«fe,^f)Vv>y>Ma<<^' *-'V« ■•■'riMffi.-* 1^ l:?;"^ ! 1 AN INDEX TO Kh$ itn^tnttfi BSLATINO TO THK IN AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES. 1818. X ' 1 ' i' '•''. I INDEX. ! i'i •" )', ACTIONS. I. m In case any Officer in the Plantations shall be sued or mo-"\ ieited for any Thing done in the Execution of his Office* he may I plead the General Issue, and give this and other Custom A£l8 \ m Evidence, and the Judge shall allow thereof i and such Officer f" shall enjoy the like Privileges and Advantages as are allowed i by Law to the Officers of the Customs in England -J 2. — — — In any Action commenced in Great Britain or America,' against any Person for any Thing done in pursuance of this or any Au relating to the Customs, the DeKndant may plead the General Issue, and give the A£l and Special Matter in Evidence upon any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done by Authority of such AC \ and if it shall > appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant ; and if the Plaintiff be nonsuited, or discontinue his Adion after the Defendant shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon Verdi£l or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the De^ndant shall recover Treble Coats ALABASTER, (Rough and Workbd) May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or^ from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies / or plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, (^ or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations America, in British Ships owned, navigated, and according to Law ... See « Gibraltar." " Malta." ALIENS. I . No Alien or Person not born within the Allegiance of the King, or naturalized or made a free Denizen, shall exer'-'.ie the Trade or Occupation of a Merchant or Fa£tor 'a any Island, Plantation, or Territory to His Majesty belonging or \:\ His Possession, upon Forfeiture of all his Goods and Chattels, or which are in his Possession } One Third to His Majesty, One Third to the Governor of the Plantation where such Person shall so offend, and the other Third to the Person that shall sue for the same in any of His Majesty's Courts in the Plantation where such Offence shall be committed a. Every Person, although an Alien born, and neither natura-' lized nor made a free Denizen, who shall reside in any Island or Place which has surrendered or which shall hereafter surrender to His Majesty, and be in His Majesty's Possession, and who shall have taken the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to His Majesty, according to the Terms of the Capitulation under which such i Island or Place shall have surrendered, shall from the Time of ( At, „ North r registered I Rcifo. 7 & 8 W. 3. Chap. 2a St^i. 4 Geo. 3. «5 47 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. «9 4 5.9 I \% Car. 2. 18 3+ Geo. 3. 42 INDEX. ALIENS— ewifiViwA/. such Surrender be entitled to exercise the Trade of a Merchant or Vifkot in any such Island or Place, so Ions as the same shall re- main in the Possession or be under the Proteuion of His Majesty, according to such Laws and Regulations as His Majesty's Sub- je^s shall be liable to in the same Island or Place • - 3. -»— - If any of the King's Subje£ts within this Kinedom, being an Artificer or ManufaAurer of or in Wool, Iron, Steel, Brass, or any other Metal, Clockmaker, Watchmaker, or any other Arti- ficer or Manufa£turer of Great Britain, shall go into any Country out of His Majestr's Dominions there to use or teacK any of the * said Trades or Manufadures to Foreigners, or shall not return within Six Months after warning given him by the British Am- bassador, Minister, or Consul, or any Person authorized by him, or by a Secretary of State, and from thenceforth continually inhabit in this Realm, he shall be deemed an Alien 4. — — The Children of natural-bom Subjects, born out of the ^ Legiance of His Majesty, shall be taken to be natural-born V SubjeAs of this Kingdom to all Intents and Purposes - J 5. 1 All Persons bom, or who hereafter shall be bom out of the Legiance of the Crown of Ghreat Britain, whose Fathers were, or, by virtue of 7 Ann. ch. 5. and 4 Geo. II. ch. 21. shall be . entitled to the Rights and ravileges of natural-bora Subjects of Great Britain, shall be taken to be natural-born Subjedts as if bom in this Kingdom But Persons born, or to be born out of the Legiance of the' 8. Crown of Great Britain are not to be deemed natural-born Sub- jeAs, whose Fathers at the Time of the Birth of such Children were attainted of High Treason, or liable to the Penalties of High Treason or Felony, in case of returning to this Kingdom, or whose Fathers at the Time of the Birth of such Children were or shall be in the Service of any foreign Prince or State then in Enmity with Great Britain, nor to repeal or alter 5 Geo. I. ch. ai. § 7. relative to Artificers and Manu- faAurers _ . . - . His Majesty may at all Times, when it shall be found' necessary to declare War against any Foreign Power, publish a Proclamation to permit all Merchant Ships, and other Trading Vessels and Privateers to be manned with Foreign Mariners and Seamen during such War ; and upon the publishing such Proclamation every such Mariner and Seaman who shall have faithfully served during the Time of War on board any of His Majesty s Ships of War» or any Merchant or other trading Ship or Privateer (which at the Time of such Service shall belong to any of His Majesty's Subje£ls of Great Britain) for Two Years, shall be deemed to be a natural-born Subje^ of Great Britain, and enjoy all the Privileges, Powers, Rights, and Capa- cities which he would have enjoyed in case he had been a natural- born Subject of His Majesty, and actually a Native within Great Britain ..... No Person who shall be naturalized by virtue of this Act shall thereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Mem- ber of either House of Parliament, or to take any Office or ' Place of Trust either Civil or Military, or have any Grant of ; Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, from the Crown to himself, or any other Person in Trust for him R«l|n. Chap. Sect. 5 Geo.' I. a? 7 Ann. 4 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 2. 13 Geo. 3. 5 21 at 21 3 6 7 Ann. 4 Geo. 2. 13 Geo. 3. S 21 21 3 2 2 13 Geo. 2. 2.4 13 Geo. 2. ' '.T\^T'7?VT*TTv INDEX. ALIENS— 'ony under the Seal whereof such Certificate shall be given, shall be deemed to be I a sufficient Testimony and Proof thereof, and of his being a natural-born Subject of Great Britain to all Itttents and ! ' Purposes, and as such shall be allowed in every Court ' within Great Britain and Ireland, or in the said Colonies in America ..... Rtign. Chip. ScO. ■ Every Secretary of the said Colonies shall at the End of every Tear transmit to the Office of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, kept in the City of London or Westmin- ster, a true and perfect List of the Names of every Person who have in that Year entitled themselves to the Benefit of this Act, under the Forfeiture of £^0 for every Neglect or Omission, which Lists shall be regularly entered by the said Commission- sioners in a Book to be kept for that Purpose in the said Office, for public View and Inspection All Foreign Protestants, as "'ell Officers as Soldiers, who' have served in the Royal American Regiment, or as Engineers in America for Two Years, and shall take and subscribe the Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the Declaration before mentioned (See Article 9 & 10.), and shall at the Time of subscrib- ing the said Oaths, and making and subscribing the said Decla- ration, produce Certificates, signed in Manner before directed, of their having received the Sacrament in some Protestant and Reformed Congregation within Great Britain, or some of the said Colonies in Americav within Six Months before that Time, shall be Jeemed to be His Majesty's natural-born Subjects to all Intents and Purposes as if they had been born within this Kingdom . , . . . > 13 Geo. 3. 13 Geo. 2. 13 Geo. 2. a Geo. 3. 25 •■^F'' INDEX. ALUNS c M tiiHud, i6. — — ^ But not to naturalite anr ChiMren whose Fathers M tht' Time of the Birth of such Children were attainted of High Treason, or liable to the Penalties of High Treason or Felony, in case of their reluming to this Kingdom, or whose Fathers at the Time of the Birth of such Children were or shall be in the actual Service of any Foreign Prince or State in Enmity with the Ctx»wn of Great Britain, all which Chil- dren shall remain in the same State and Condition as they would have been if these Acts had not been made 17. Every Person who has or shall become Hia Majesty's" natural-bom Subject bv virtue of these Acts, shall be deemed to be capable of holding any Office or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, and of holding any Grant of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments from the Crown to himself, or to any others in Trust for him, as well under the Great Seal of Great Britain as otherwise (except Offices and Places, and Grants of Land, Tenements, and Hereditaments within Great Britain and Ireland,) but shall not be thereby enabled to be of the i^ivy Council or a Member of Parliament " " " ". ]8. Any Subie£l of the Territoriet belonging to the United* States of America, who shall come from thence together with his Family to any of the Bahama or Bermuda or Somers Islands, or to the Province of Quebec or Nova Scotia, or any of the Terri- tories belonging to His Majesty in North America, for the Pur- pot!' of residing and settling there, having obtained a Licence for that Purpose from the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor of the said Islands, Colonies, or Provinces respedively, may import into the same, in British Ships owned bv His Ma- jesty's SubjeAs, and navigated according to Law, any Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry, or Clothing, free of Duty, not exceeding in the whole the Value of £^0 for every White Person that shall belong to such Family, and the Value of 40s. for every Negvo brought by such White Person See " Settlers." 1 9. No Person shall be deemed qualiBed to be the Mastet of a' British Ship, or to be a British Seaman or Matiner within the Meaning of any Act now in force, except naturaUborn Sufajcctt of His Majesty, or Persons naturalized by Act of ParliaiMent, or made Denizens by Letters of Denization, or except Persons who have become His Mnjesty'e Subjeets by virtue of Conquest or Cession of some newly acquired Country, and who shall have taken the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty, or the Oath of Fidelity required by the Treaty or Capitulation by which such newly acquired Country came into Hia Majesty's Posses- sion, except as is hereinafter provided 20. ■ Every Foreign Seaman or Mariner who shall have served" or who shall serve on board any of His Majesty's Ships of War, in Time of War, for Three Tfears, either in the same Shipor in different Ships, and who shall have obtained a Certiiicatti from the Captain or Captains thereof, or, in cAse of Deftth, upon the Certificate of the Officer who shall have been next in Rank to such Captain, testifying that he h&s so served) and his faithful Service and good Behiviour during the Time of such Service, and who shall alto h*ve takeM tht^ Oath df Allegiance R«i(ii. 13 Geo. a. 20 Geo. a. a Geo. 5. Chip. 7 44 45 i*». 3 Geo. 5. 13 Geo. 3. 25 »5 6 I 30 Geo. 3. a; 34 Geo. 3» 68 INDEX. 31. ALIENS— tfMMimM/. to Hit Majtity before lome Juitice of the Peace or principal Magiitrate of tome City or Town in Hin Majesty'* Dominioni, ur before the principal Officer of Hit Majetty'i Cuitomt in any Port of Hit Majesty • Dominions, and who shall obtain a Certifi- caU from such Justice of the Peace, principal Magistrate, or Chief Officer, of hi* having taken such Oath (which Certificate 'hey are required to give upon Payment of One ShillinK), shall be entitled to be employed as a Master uf a Britiwi Ship, ur as a British Seaman or Mariner on board any British Ship within the Meaning of any of the Laws now in force ; but no such Foreigner shall be entitled to become Master of any British Ship, or to be employed as a British Seaman or Mariner, unless he shall have delivered the beforcmentioned Certificate or Certificates of the Time he shall have served, and of his faithful Service and good Behaviour, and the before-men- tioned Certificate of his so having taken the Oath of Allegiance to the Collector or other Chief Officer of His Majesty's Customs in London, Chatham, Portsmouth, or Plymouth, to be filed by such Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs, who are required to deliver to Huch Foreign Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, an attested Copy thereof upon paying One Shilling ■ No Person qualified to be the Master of a British Ship,* or a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, by Birth, Naturalization or Denization, Conquest,or Service, in manner before-mentioned, and who shall take any Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign Sove- reign or State, for any Purpose except under the Terms of some Capitulation, upon the Conquest of any of the Dominions of His Majesty, by the Enemy, for the Purpose of obtainins the benefit of such Capitulation only, shall be deemed to be qualified t& be the Master of a British Snip, or a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner within the Meaning of any of the Laws of Navigation, unless such Person shaH have taken such Oath of Allegiance before he became so qualified ; and any Person who shall, after hawing become disqualified by takins such Oath of AllMiance, lake the Command of anv British Snip, shall for every Offence forfeit jfioo { and every rerson who shall, after having become to disqualified, engage to serve as a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner on board any such Ship, shall forfeit for every Offence jf lO) such Forfeitures to be recovered upon Conviction before a Justice of the Peace, if any such Offence shall be committed m Great Britain, and before any Member of the Supreme Co«rt of Justice, or any Justice of the Peace, if such Qflence shall be committed in Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, or in any Colony, Plantation, or Territory to His Majesty belonging in America } but no Ship on board whereof any Person disqualified shall be employed as Master, Seaman, or Mariner, shall be forfeited by reason thereof, if the Owners shall show that the Disqualifica- tion of the Master was unknown to such Owners or to their Agent, and that the Disqualifiraclan oi the Seaman or Mariner was unknown to such Owiiers or to their Agent, and to the Master of such Ship, at the Time of engaging such Person so disqualified ; and in Jie Navigation on the Seas of America, and the West Indies, from any Port of America and the West Indies to any Port of America and the West Indies, any Negroes belonging to Persons having become His Majesty's Rtlin. Chap. 8«A. 34 Geo. 3. 6i 34 Geo 3. 68 INDEX. 9 ALIENS— c»N/iff« a/. SuLjecti a* aforeiMid and with the Qualifications aforeiaid, and in the Seas to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, from anjr Port to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, to anjr other Port to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, Lascars and other Natives of any of the Countries to the East- ward of the Cape of Good Hope, may be employed as British Sailors, Seamen, or Mariners, in manner heretofore practised But nothing in thisAct shall extend to take away aa. or ALMONDS, AMBER, ANCHOVIES, ANISEED, }■ ) restrain the EflPect of any Proclamation His Majesty may make by virtue of 13 Geo. HI. c. a. (See No. 7.) May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen-^ (lencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any I of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in ( America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His f Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, \ in British Ships ownedj navigated, and registered according to Law J See «< Gibraltar." "Malta." . . ANTIGUA. The Port of Saint John's in Antigua, one of the Free. Ports for the Imporution and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships See «« Free Ports." ANTONIO. One of the Free Ports in Jamaica for the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships - - See «« Free Ports." APPRENTICES. Every Master of any Merchant Ship trading to His Majesty's Colo- nies and Plantations in the West Indies shall have on board, at the Time of clearmg out from Great Britain, One Apprentice under the Age of if Years, duly indentured for Three Years, for every 1 00 Toi v dmeasurement, according to the Certificate of Registry ; aivd the Indenture of every Apprentice shall be enrolled at the C«istom-house of the Port from whence such Ship shall cl«ar o«t, with the Collector or Comptroller, within One Month after the Execution thereof i and such Apprentice shall be exempt from serving in His Majesty's Navy for Three Years (rom the Date of the Indenture) and the Owners or Master neglecting to enrol the Indenture shall forfeit jf'io. One Moiety by the Owners, and the other by the Master ARGOL. May be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies 'hereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugai Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British Ships owned, navigated, auJ registered according to Law See " Gibraltar." «« Malta." ASHES (Pot and Pearl). I . — No Pot or Pearl Ashes of the Production or Manufacture of the British Plantations in America shall be shipped or con- veyed from any of the said Plantations to any Place, unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Briuin or Ireland, there to be laid on Shore, under the Forfeiture of the Goods, or the full V'Jae thereof, and the Ship B Rtign. 34 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 5 Geo. 3. 37 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. Chap. Sea. 68 ap 4 5. V I 1 2 Car. a. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39 & 40 G .3. 57 57 73 »9 4 5.9 I 18 '5 10 67 18 a? Art. 6 tf INDEX. ASHES (Pot add Pbabl) — continued. a. I For every Ship which ahall sail from Great Britain or Ire-' land for any British Plantation in America, Bond shall .br given wiUi One Surety to the Chief Officers of the Customs of the Port from whence the said Ship shall sail, to the Value of j£'i,ooo if the Ship be of less Burthen than lOo Tons, and of jf 3,000 if of greater Burthen, conditioned, that in case the said Ship shall load any Pot or Pearl Ashes, or any enumerated Article (for the whole of which See « Goods"), at any of the said British Plantations, that the same shall be brought to some other British Plantation, or to Great Britain or Ireland, and be there unloaded (the Danger of. rhe Seas only excepted). And for every Ship coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid Plantations, which are permitted to trade there, the Governor shall, before the Ship be permitted to load any Pot or Pearl Ashes (or any enumerated Article), take Bond in like manner to the Value aforesaid, that such Ship shall carry all the said Goods to some other of His Majesty's British Planta- tions, or to Great Britain or Ireland The Master, before he departs from any British Planta- ' tion, where he receives his Lading, shall take a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs there, that Bond hath been given pursuant to the Directions aforesaid, and the Master shall keep such Certificate till the Voyage is completed, and shall then deliver the same to the Collector or other chief Officer of the Customs at the Place where he shall discharge his Lading in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British American Plantation, on Forfeiture of i^IOO. . - _ . - If any Ship shall take on board any Pot or Pearl Ashes (or other enumerated Article) before Bond is ^ven to the Governor that the Ship shall carry the said Articles to some other British Plantation, or to Great Britain or Ireland, or before Certificate produced from the Officer of some Custom- house of Great Britain or Ireland, that such Bond has been there duly given, or if any Ship shall, contrary to the Tetior of such Bond, carry any of the enumerated Articles to any Port or Place, other than to -some Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britam or Ireland, and there lay the same on shore, every such Ship shall be forfeited, and also the Lading - - - -\ - But the said Acts are not to prevent the Subjects' of the King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in Demarara» Berbice, or Essequibo, in the Province of Guiana, from exporting from die said Colonies to the Netherlands, the Produce of their Estates on board Dutch Sh^)s; and no Person who by virtue of this Act may be entitled to trade between the said Colonies and the Dominions of the King of the Netherlands, shall export the said Produce to any Part of the United Kingdom, or any of His Majefty's Dominions in Europe . _ - - . See " Guiana." — ^ Ih Cases where the Governor t Officers in! any of the" Plantations shall haw reasonable Grounu of Suspicion that the Certificate of having given Security in Great Britain or Iiddnd is false, they shall require sufficient Security for the Disuhaiige Reign. 1 2 Car. a. 22 & 23 Car. a. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 398C40G.3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 33 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 12 Car. 2. aa & 23 Car. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. Chap. Sed. 56 Geo. 3. 18 10 67 'S 10 63 67 18 26 »5 10 67 91 '9 II 27 '.3 An. 6 24 1.3 a Art. 6 «9 It 27 1.3 An. 6 4.8 INDEX. 11 ASHES (Pot and Pearl) — continued. of the Plantation Lading in Great Britain or Ireland i and where there shall be Cause to suspect that the Certificate of having discharged the Lading in Great Britain or Ireland is false or counterfeit, the Governor or Officers shall not cancel .the Security given in the Plantations, until they shall be informed from the Commisuoners of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland, as the Case may be, that the Matter of the said Cer- tificate is true ; and if any Person shall counterfeit, raise, or falsify any Certificate for any Ship or Goods, or knowingly or wilfully make use thereof, auch Person shall forfeit jCjoo, and the Certificate shall be of no EflFect - _ _ 8.. to. II.' ■ If any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland^ shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Pot or Pearl Ashes I (or any enumerated Article) to be carried into any other ( Country or Place, until they have been first put on shore in C some Port in Great Britain or Ireland, every Officer for such I Ofience shall forfeit his Place, and the Value of the Goods -) The Governors or their Commanders in Chief of the said Plantations, are Once a Tear at least, to return to the Officers of the Customs in Ldndon, or to such other Person as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same, a List of all Ships as shall have laden any Pot or Pearl Ashes (or any enumerated Article) in such Plantations, as also a List of all Bonds taken by them ; and in case any Ship belonging to any of His Majesty's Plantations shall be found to have unloaded in anv Port of Europe, other than Great Britain or Ireland, such Ship shall be forfeited and her Lading - - #• - -; In all Bonds to be taken in the. Plantations, the Persons' therein named shall be of known Residence and Ability there for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the Condition of which shall be within i8 Months after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted), to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in one of His Majesty's Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland, otherwise such Bond or Copieis thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal of tlie Governor or Commapder in Chief to whom such Bond was given, shall.be in force and allowed of in any Court in Great Britain, Ireland, or li.> ^ Plantations, as if the Original was produced in Court by the Prosecutor ... I. In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great Britain' or Ireland, in pursuance of any Act, whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great Britain or Ireland, such Bonds shall be with Condition that, within 1 8 Months from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted), a Certificate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall be delivered, that they have been there landed and discharged, otherwise such Bonds shall be forfeited . _ . . _ In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or' Non-performance of the Condition of the Bond within Three Years after the Date thereof, or if upon Prosecution for some Breach or Non performance of the Condition, Judgment be not obtained within TWo Years after Prosecution commenced, then ^ such Bond (in default of such Prosecution to be commenced B % 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 15 Car. 2. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 22&23 Car. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. Chap. 7 & 8 W. 3. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39&4oGeo. 3 15 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40CCU.3 8 Ann. 4 Geo. 3. Sc6t. 22 10 '5 27 10 »»3 Art. 67 6 7 9 15 27 10 ».3 An. 67 6 26 12 '5 *7 10 >. 3 Art. 67 6 22 '3 '5 «7 10 >.3 Art. 67 6 31 6 15 27 IC 1.3 Art. <57 6 13 ^3 »5 27 12 INDEX. •J ASHES (Pot and Pearl) — continued. and Judgment to be obtained within the Times limited) shall be void, and all Bonds so void shall be delivered up by the O^cera to be cancelled, without Fee or Reward ASSISTANCE. See " Writs of Assistance." AZORES. ^ I . — — . Wines of the Growth of the Azores may be there laden for I Exportation to any of the Plantations, Colonies, or Territories | to His Majesty belonging or in his Possession in America -) Oranges and Lemons, the Produce of the Azores, may I.- be shipped there for Exportation direct to any of the Ports in the British Colonies in North America, and may be imported V into the said Ports in British-built Ships owned, navigated, and 1 registered according to Law - » - ' - J BEAVER SKINS. See «« Furs." BAHAMAS AND BERMUDA. No Goods shall be imported from any of the Territories belonging to the United States into the Bahama or Bermuda or Somen Islands, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship, except Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading-boards, Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poul- try, Live Stock of any Siort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, such Commodities being the Growth or Production of any of the Territories of the United States, but not to be so imported, except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships, owned by His Majesty'i^ Subjects, and navigated accord- ing to Law — — - Except also Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry,' and Clothing by Subjects of the United State?, who shall come from thence, together with their Families, for the Purpose of residing and settling in the Islands, having first obtained a Licence for that Purpose from the Governor, or, in his Absence, the Ljeutenant Governor of the Islands respective- ly } provided such Household Furniture, 8cc. are imported in British-built Ships, owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navi- gated according to Law, and shall not exceed in the whole the Value of i£'50 for every White Person that shall belong to the Family, and 40s. for every Negro there brought by such White Person ... - See " Settlers." Any of the Articles enumerated in 28 Geo. III. ch. 6. mayv be imported into the Port of St. George or the Port of Hamilton \ in Bermuda, from the United States, in any Foreign Vessel | belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty -J In addition to the said Articles, it shall be lawful to im-*^ port from the United States, in Ships of the Description men- I tioned in the said A£t8, (Nos. i. and %.) and under the like }■ Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, Fruit and Vegetables, being the Produce of the said States None of the Articles enumerated in 28 Geo. III. ch. 6. I shall be imported into the Bahama, Bermuda, or Somers Islands, from any Island in the West Indies, or any Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, on Forfeiture thereof, and Reign. Chap, 8«Q. 15 Car. 2. 57 Geo, 3. 28 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 31 Si Geo. Geo. 89 ii 2 27 79 50 28 38 50 10 II I 13 INDEX. IS 8.. 10. BAHAMAS AND BERMUDA— C0ff/im not been imported, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South A^merica, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sove- *^ ign or State " " " " V If any Person shall be convicted of taking a. false Oath touching any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, such Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to which Persons are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury, and may be prosecuted in any Court of RecoVd in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Courts of Judica- ture in the West Indies - - - -^ Any Ship belonging to the Inhabitants of the said United ^v ; States of America, coming in Ballast and not otherwise, may ^ enter the Ports of Turks Island, for the Purpose of being there laden with Salt only The Master of such Ship shall, immediately after the Arrival in any Port in the said Islands, make a just and true Entry of his Ship upon Oath before the Collector or other prin- cipal Officer, declaring of what Country she is built, how man- ned, who was the Master during the Voyage, and who are the Owners thereof, and the Purpose for which he enters the Port, in order that such Ship may undergo the Search and Examina- tion of the proper Officers of the Customs i and such Master shall truly answer upon Oath to such Questions concerning the same as shall be demanded of him by such Collector or other principal Officer, upon Forfeiture of jifioo - - ' There shall be paid, for the Use of His Majesty, a Tonnage' Duty of 2s. 6d. Sterling in Dollars, at the Rate of 5s. 6d. per Ounce, for every Ton of every such Ship, and the Tonnage shall be ascertained by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs or any Four of them, who shall admeasure such Ship according to the following Method, viz. « Drop a Plumb Line over the Stem of the Ship, and measure •< the Distance between such Line and the after Part of '« the Stern Post at the Load Water Mark j then measure Chap. 8e£l. 45 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 57 47 2 5 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 38 1,2 3»4 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. a8 Geo. 3. S6 38 3 5 28 Geo. 3. li INDEX. II. 12.' »3' 14. BAHAMAS i^NQ mSLMUDA— continued. *f from the Top of the md Plumb Line, in a fK^rallel Di* <( rection with the Water* to a perpendicular Point imme- « diately over the Ixud Water Mark, at the fore 1: U of « the A^ain Stern { subtracting from such Measurement " the above Distance, the Remainder will be the cihip's *' extreme 1/ -ih, from which is to be deducted Three « Inches fo- v-very Foot of the Load Draught of Water << for the Rake «brft, and also Three-fifths of the Ship's • « Breadth for the Rake 5prward, the Remainder !.iuU be , ir esteemed the Pist Length of the Keel to find the Ton- " nage, and the Breadth shall be taken from Outside to « Outside of the Plank in the broadest Part of the Ship, <* cither above or below the Main Wales, exclusive of all « manner of Sheathing or Doubling that may be wrought " upon the Side of the Ship ; then multiply the Length of " the K,eel for Tonnage by the Breadt'u so taken, and " that Product by half the Breadth, and dividing by 94, ** the Quotient shall be deented the true Contents of the «< Tonnage." . The Tonnage Duty shall be paid to the Collector of the' Customs, at the Port wnere he shall be appointed to reside, before any Salt shall be laid on board, and such Duty shall be under the Management of the said Commissioners, and b(> paid and recovered in the Uke. manner and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as any other Du,tiie« payable to His Majesty on Goods imported into any of the Plantations, Colonies, or Territories belonging to ot under the Dominion of His Majesty in America or the West Indies are pud and recovered, and shall be subject to the Payment of the Sajbries. of the Officers and other inci- dental Charges of the Port; and the Residue shall be remitted to the Receiver General of the Custc as in England, to be paid into the Exchequer under the Head of Cpnsoli^ted Customs No Goods shall W ei^orted from Turks Inland to any' Part of His Majesty's Dom:aions in America or the West Indies, or be laden pr laid on board any Ship for that Purpose, except Salt ; and «o Goods sbaJl be exported from the said Islands to Great Britain or Ireland, or laid on board any Ship for that Purpose, except Salt, and except such Goods as may be imported into Great Britain or Ireland from all other Countries free of Duties, under the Forfeiture of such Goods as shall be so exported or laden, and also of the Ship Until 25th March 28 19, any Ship belonging to the United' States coming in Ballast, and not otherwise, may enter the Por of Nassau in New Providence, the Ports of £xuma and Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, for the Purpose o^ being there laden with Salt only, subject to the Rules,, Rep^ulations, and Restrictions provided by 28 Geo. III. c. 6. refpecting Vessels coming for the same Purpose to Turks Island - -_, Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal Drugs, Cocoa,' Logwood, Fustic, Woods for Dyers Use, Hidei , Skins, Tallow, Furs, Tortoise Shell, Hardwood or Mill Timber, Mahogany Wood for Cabinet Ware, Horses, Asses, Muies, Cattle, Corn, Bullion, Diamonds, Precious Stones, Rice, Grain, and Flour, may be imported into New Providence, Crooked Island, Bermuda, and the Bahamas, in any Voiciga Ship, being owned and Reign. Chap. Sea. 28 Geo. 3. a8 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 57 Geo. 3. 4a 45 Geo. 3 47 Geo. 3 48 Geo. 3 49 Geo. 3 57 34 33 INDEX. fS Sea. BAHAMAS ArT, BERMUDA— continued. navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the Caloniek, Plahtatioiift, or Countries on the Continetit of America, belonging to or uhder the Dominion of any Foreigh Europeiin Soveteign or Stale See " Free Ports.'* Sugar and Coifbe of aily Foreign Coloily or Plantation >5- i6. 17- i8. 19. 20. may be imported into Nassau in New Providence, Pitt's Tovlrh, or Crooked Island, and into stich Ports in the Bihama Is'ands, the principal Port in Bermuda, and such Ports in the Caicosas as shall be approved by His Majesty, in such Foreign Ships, and subject ^ to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as are prbscriDed in this Act with respect to the Goods therein enumerated ; and such Sugar and CofFee may be so imported and eXpotted without Payment of any Duty of Customs - •>, See "Free Ports." — — Any Ship described in 45 Geo. III. c. 57. may come ih' Ballast, or import into any Port of the Bahama Islands where there is a Custom-house, the Articles enumerated in the said Act, and may export the Articles allowed by the said Act to be 80 exported in Foreign Veflels, and ma^ also export Salt, subject to the Duty of Tonnage, and under the Regulations of 28 Geo. III. c. 6. • See «« Free Ports." " Salt." Any British Ship owned and navigated according to LaW^ may export from any Port of the Bahama Islands any Quantity I of Salt, without entering into the Bond and Security requited C by '^ Geo. III. c. 52. - - . -J See '* Goods Non-enumerated." Spirits, being the Produce or Manufacture of any of His' Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally imported into Bermuda, may be exported to the Province of Loii^'er Canada, and admitted to Entry on Payment of the same Duty as if imported directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colo- nies in the West Indies, and under the Conditions and Restric- tions of 18 Geo. III. c. 39. without Payment of Duty, in the same Manner as if such Spirits had been imported directly from the said Sugar Colonies - . . . See « Spirits." Such Spirits legally imported into Nova Scotia, New Bruns 512 Gfeb. 3. 57 0*0. 3. 45 Geo. 3. wick,CapeBreton,PrinceEdward'3lslandofNewfouhdland,from Bernrada, may be exported Jo Lower Canada, and admitted to Etitrj upon Payment of the saim^ Duty is if im^ofted directly from any of His Majesty's Sugaf Colonies under the Regula' tions of this Act - - - See "Spirits." Such Spirits legally imported into Bermuda fr6m His' > Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, may be exported to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Isliand or Newfoundland, and admitted to Entry Upon the sanie Duty as if imported directly from any of His 'Majesty's Said Sugar Colonies, and undei- the Condition^ and Restrictions contained in 28 GcO. HI. ch. ^9. Without' Payrhent of Duty, in the same ManneTf as if impoVttd 4fte6tly ffoitt ffie said Sugar Colonies - - . Sed ««Spi\ivS." 52 Geo. 3. Chip. SeA. 99 H 57 4»5 99 5a Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. S« 6eo. 3. i5 48 62 I. a lb INDEX. BAHAMAS AtiDVERMUDA— continued. 21. 22. 23- Sugar, Coffee, Rum, and MelasKs, the Produce of any^ British Colony in the West Indies, imported into Bermuda in J any British Ship, may be exported from the Port of St. George, f or the Port of Hamilton, to the Territories of the United States, f" in any Foreign Ship belonging to any Country in Amity with I His Majesty, above the Burthen of 6o Tons - -J — - Tobacco, IHtch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Suves, Heading Boards, and Plank Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs. Poultry, and Live Stock of any Sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Pease, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, die Growth or Production of the Territories belonging to the United States, legally imported into St. George, or Hamilton, in the Island of Bermuda, may be exported from the said Ports br any of His Majesty's Subjects to any of His Majestv's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British- built Snips, owned and navigated according to Law — — Any Article the Production or Manufacture of Bennudaj-N which has been legally imported into Bermuda, may on ( or 24. certain Conditions be exported direct to Malta, or the Depend- ^ encies thereof, or to Gibraltar - - -J See " Gibraltar." «« Malta." Certain Articles enumerated in the Schedule marked (B.)*\ of 5$ Geo. III. Ch. 29. may be exported from Malta, or any of I the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar direct to Bermuda ( under the Regulations and Restrictions therein mentioned -J See « Gibraltor." "Malta." BARBADOES, ^ The Port of Bridgtown in Barbadoes, One of the Ports for the Import- V ation and Exportation of certain Articles in Foieign Vessels -J See " Free Ports." BERBICE. See "Guiana." BILLS AT SIGHT. All Foreign Goods which the Officers of the Customs shall permit to be landed, and taken up by Bills at Sight, Bills at View or Sufferance, shall be landed at the most convenient Keys or Wharfs, and not elsewhere $ and there or in His Majesty's Storehouse of the Ports, at the Election of the Officers, shall . be measured, weighed, and numbered by and in their ' resence ; ( which Officers shall perfect the Entry, and thereunto sub- scribe their Names, and the next Day diall give Account and make Report of every Entry so perfected to die Collector and Comptroller, or in Default thereof^ shall forfeit d'loo. unless reasonable Cause can be shewn for the Omission BISCUIT. See « Provisions." BOTARGO. May be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Suga; Colo- nies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, b British-built Ships, owned^ navigated, and registered accord- ing to Law ..... See •* Gibraltar." « Malta." Reign. 52 Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 13 & 14 Car. 2. 7&8W.3. 55 Geo. 57 Geo. Chap. a*et. 79 50 28 79 50 29 4 29 4 57 II 22 21 6 29 4 5»9 I INDEX. W :,l.. tion I I I BOX WOOD. Ste " Wood." BOWSPRITS. See ••Wood." - BREAD. See « Proviiiono." BRIDGETOWN. One of the Free Porta in the British Plantations^ for the Importation and £iportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships See «« Free Forts." BRIMSTONE. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar direct, to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in .\merica, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His MajcGty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-buiit Ships, owned, navigated, and registered accord> ingto Law ■ . - . . See " Gibraltar." . «• Malta.'* BRITAIN. I. England and Scotland united into One Kingdom, by the Name of "'Great Britain," and all the Subjects thereof shall V hare full Freedom and Intercourse of Trade and Navigation 1 within all the Dominions thereunto belonging - -/ 2, —^—— Great Britain and Ireland united intoOne Kingdom, by the' Name of *< '^"he United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," and all the Subjects thereof shall be on the same Footing, as to Encouragement? and Bounties on the like Articles, bemg the Produce cr Manufacture of either Country respectively, and fenerally in respect of Trade and Navigation in all Ports and 'laces in the United Kingdom and its Dependencies, and in all Treaties widi any Foreign Power ; His Majesty's Subjects of Ireland shall have the same Privileges, and be on die same Foot* ing, as His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain BRITISH SUBJECTS. Any of the King's Subjects, being Artificers or Manu- facturers of Great Britain, going to Countries out of His I Majesty's Dominions, to use or teach their Trades or Manufac" ; tures to Foreigners, or not returning after Warning given them I are deemed Aliens ... See « Aliens." lUifn. Oaf, 8«a. 57 Geo. 3. Si Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 74 29 4 5.9 I t.- I 3. ■ As to the Naturalization of Aliens, and how they may I become entitled to be employed as Masters, Seamen, or Mariners y of British Ships - - ' - See « Aliens. BULLION. I . ——— May he imported from any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or from any Country on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into the Free Ports, in any Forewn Vessel owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plantations or Countries - - See " Free Ports." May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies'] thereof, or from Gibraltar direct, to any of His Majesty's Sugar I • By virtue of this Act, the Wordt " England and English," in the several Acts made before the Union with Scotland, are in this Indix changed iolo thi Words «' Great Britain" and " British.^' C 5 Anne • 8 39 8c 40 G. 3. 5 Geo. I. 13 Geo. 2. 13 Geo. 2. 20 Geo. 2. aGfr 3. 34 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 67 Art. 6 27 3 7 24 as 68 57 22 99 74 a>4 I I I 7 IB INDEX. Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Ber- muda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies oi Pkntations in North America, in British portation of Sugar AikI Coffee in Foreign Ships • .J , ,:v.: See « Free Ports." CANADA.* 1 . '—— All the Territories, Islands, and Countries, in North Ame- rica belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, bounded on the South by a Line from the Bay of Chaieurs along the High Lands, which divide the Rivers that empty themselves into the River Saint Lawrence, from those which fall into the Sea, r > a Point, in Forty-five Degrees of Northern Latitude, on the Eastern Bank of the River Connecticut, keeping the same Latitude directly West through the Lake Champlain, until in the same Laiitude it meets the River Saint Lawrence, from thence up the Eastern Bank of the said River to the Lake Ontario, thence through the Lake Ontario, and the River commonly called Niaeara, and thence along by the Eastern and South-eastern Bank of Lake Erie, followmg the said Bank until the same shall b<; intersected by the Northern Boundary granted by the Charter qf the Province of Pensylvania, in case the same shall be so inter- sected, and from thence along the said Northern and Western Boundaries of the said Province, until the said Western Bound- ary strike the Ohio } but in case the said ^'•nk of the said Lake shall not be found to be so intersected, then following the said Bank until it shall arrive at tha*: Point of the said Bank which shall be nearest to the North-western Angle of the said Province of Pensylvania, and thence by a right Line to the said North- western Angle of the said Province, and thence along the Western Boundary of the said Province, until it strike the River Ohio, and along the Bank of the said River Westward to the Banks of the Mississippi, and Northward to the Southern Boundarv of the Territories granted to the Merchants Adven- turers of England trading to Hudson's Bay, and also alA such Territories, Islands, and Countries which have, since the Tenth of February 1763, been made Part of the Government of Newfoundland, shall be annexed to and made Part of the Province of Quebec, as created and established by the Royal Proclamation of the Seventh October 1763 2. . But nothing herein contained, relative to the Boundary of '^ the Province of Quebec shall <" anywise aflPect the Boundaries I of any other Colony - - . -J And nothing in this Act shall extend to make void or to>w alter any Right, Title, or Possession derived >:r.der any Grant, I Conveyance, or otherwise, of any Lands within the said Province, f or the Provinces thereto adjoining - - -J • jit the Time of tie Capture of ibis Provinctt it was denominated " Que- bee" and so described in many Mcts, until the 31 Gee. III. c. 31. by tuhicb ' appears that His Majesty divided it into Two Provinces, to be thereafter called <• Upper Canada and Lower Canada," Reign. Chap. Sea. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 4 57 S»9 I 14 Geo. 3. 83 14 Geo. 3. 14 Geo. 3. 83 INDEX. tt : 8— Such Parts of th« Coast of Labrador, from the Hirer Saint' John to Hudson's Streightt, and the Island of Anticostit and all other smaller Islands annexed to the Governmc'nt of New> foundland by the Proclamation of the Seventh of October 1^61, except the Islands of Madelaine, but afterwards annexed to Canada by 14 Geo. III. c. 83. shall be separated irom Canada, and be annexed to the Government of Newfoundland His Majesty's Subjects professing the Religion ' f the Church of Rome, of and in the said Province of Quebec, may enjoy the free Exercise of the Religion of the said Church, suDJect to the King's Supremacy, declared and established bv I £llzabeth c. i. over all the Dominiom and Countries whicn the.? did or thereafter should belong to the Imperial Crown of this kealm """""< No Person professing the Religion of the Chnrch of I^ome, :i and residing in the said Province, shall be obliged to take the Oath required by the said Statute, or any other Oaths substituted ' by any other Act in the place thereof ; but every such Person who by the said Statute is required to take the Oath therein mentioned, shall take and subscribe the folluw^ing O^th before the Governor, or such other Person in such Court of Record as His Majesty shall appoint, viz. ... A. B. do sincerely promise and swear. That I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to.His Majes'-Y King * George, and him will defend, to the utmost of my Power, ' against all traiterous Conspiracies and Attempts whatso- ' ever which sliail be made against his Person, Crown, and < Dignity } and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose ' and make known to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, ' all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies, and Attempts ' which I shall know to be against him or any of them ; and < all this I do swear without any Equivocation, mental Eva- < sion, or secret Reservation, and renouncing all Pardons and < Dispensations, from any Power or Person whomsoevexvto • the contrary • So help me GOfk' — ■ Every such Person \vho shall neglect or refuse to take the Oath before mentioned, shall be liable to the same Penalties, Forfeitures, Disabilities, and Incapacities, as he would have been liable to for neglecting or refusing to take the Oath required by I Elizabeth --_-._ His Majesty's Canadian Subjects within the Province" of Quebec (the Religious Orders and Communities only excepted) may also hold and enjoy their Property and Posses* sions, together with all Customs and Usage j relative thereto, and all other their Civil Rights, as may consist with their Allegiance to His Majesty, and Subjection to the Crown and Parliament of Great firitain •, and in all Matters of Contro- versy relative to Property and Civil Rights, Resort shall be had to the Laws of Canada as the Rule for the Decision of the same ; and all Causes that shall hereafter be instituted in any of the Courts of Justice to be appointed within and for the said Province by His Majesty, shall, with respect to such Property and Rights, be determined agreeably to the said Laws and Cus- toms of Canada, until they shall be varied or altered by any R«i|n. 49 Geo. 3. Ch»p. 87 8^ 14 ■i 14 Geo. 3. 83 14 Geo. 3. 83 14 Geo. 3. 83 so INDEX. CANADA— M(tfim«^. Ordinance* that ihall be paited in the laid Province by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, by and with the Advice and Content of the Legislative Council for the same .... . 9. — ^— Every Owner of any Lands, Goods, or Credits in the said Province, and that has a Right to alienate the same in his or her Lifetime by Deed of Sale, Gift, or otherwise, may devise or bequeath the same, at his or her Death, by his or her last Will am' Testament, such Will being executed cither according to the Laws of Canada, or according to the Forms prescribed by the Laws of England " * * *: ■ Provided that nothing in this Act shall make void, within' the said Province of Quebec, any Act of the Parliament of Great Britain heretofore made for prohibiting, restraining, or regulating the Trade or Commerce of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America ; but the said Acts, and all Acts of Parliament heretofore made respecting the said Colonies and Plantations, shall be in force within the said Province of Quebec and every Part thereof . - . . — — Within each of the Provinces of Upper and Lower' 10. 11. 14' »3- Canada there shall be a Legislative Council and an Assembly, and His Majesty shall have Power, during the Continuance of this A€t, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly, to make Laws for the Peace, Welfare, and good Government thereof, such Laws not being repugnant to this Act } and all such Laws being passed by the Legislative Council and Assembly of cither of the said Provinces, and assented to by His Majesty, or assented to in His Majesty's Name, by such Person as His Majesty shall appoint to be the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the Province, or by such Person as His Majesty shall appoint to administer the Government withm the same, shall be binding to all Intents and Purposes - _ . . . ■ ■ All Laws and Ordinances in force at the Commence- > ment of this Act, witlyn either of the Provinces, shall continue in force therein, except such as are expressly repealed or varied by this Act, or may hereafter by any Law or Ordinance under the Authority thereof - - — — Nothing in this Act shall prevent or affect the Execution' of any Law which hath been or shall be made by His Majesty and the Parliament of Great Britain, for establishing Regulations or Prohibitions, or for imposing or collecting Duties for the Regulation of Navigation, or for the Regulation of the Com- merce to be carried on between the said Two Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, or between either of the said Provinces and any other of His Majesty's Dominions, or between either of the said Provinces and any Foreign Country or State, or for appointing and directing the Payment of Drawbacks of such Duties so imposed, or to give to His Majesty any Power or Authority, by and with the Advice and Consent of such Legislative Councils and Assemblies respectively, to vary or repeal any such Laws or any Part thereof, or in any Manner to prevent or obstruct the Execution thereof Provided that the Net Produce of all the Duties which' shall be so imposed, shall at all Times hereafter be applied to R(i|n. Chip. 8*a. 14 Geo. 3. 83 iO 14 Geo. 3. 83 18 31 Geo. J. 3' 31 Geo. 3. 3' 31 Geo, 3. 3» 46 INDEX. n iich I C ANA DA — centinutJ. and for the Um of each of the taid Prorincei, and in luch Manner only at ihall be directed by any Lsnr which nay made by His Majeity, by and with the Advice and Ckmsent of the Leffitlative Council and Atiembly of twch Province ^ There ihall be collected and paid to Hit Majesty, upon the following Good* imported and brought into any Part of the Province of Quebec, oyer and above all other Duties now pay- able in the said Province, by any Act of Parliament, the several Duties following ; that is to say, ... For every Gallon of Brandy or other Spirits, of the Manu- facture of Great Britain, Three-pence For everv Gallon of Rum, or other Spirits, which shall be imported from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, Sixpence .... For every Gallon of Rum, or other Spirits, which shall be imported or brought from any other of His Majesty's Colonies or Dominions in America, Nme-pence For every Gallon of Foreien Brandy, or other Spirits of Foreign Manufacture, imported or brougnt from Great Britain, One Shilling For every Gallon of Rum, or Spirits of the Produce or Manufacture of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, not in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty, imported from any other Place except Great Britain, One Shilling .... For every Gallon of Molasses and Syrups which shall be imported or brought into the said Province, in Ships or Vessels belonging to His Majesty's Subjects ii Great Britain or Ireland, or to His Majesty's Subjects ' i the said Province, Three-pence . - - . . For every Gallon of Molasses and Syrups which shall be imported or brought into the said Province in any other Ships or Vessels in which the same may be leg illy imported. Six- pence ; and after those Rates for any greater or less Quantity of such Goods respectively ~ ' ' ~^ i^.- The said Duties shall be deemed to be Sterling Money of^ Gieat Britain, and shall be collected and paid to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain } and may be received according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in .Silver, and shall be raised and recovered in the same Manner, and by such Rules and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, except in such Cases where any Alteration is made by this Act, as any other Duties payable to His Majesty upOn Goods imported into any British Colony oi Plantation in America are or shall be raised and recovered by any Act of Parliament} and all the Mdnies that shall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary Charges of raising the same) shall be paid by the Collector of His Majesty's Customs into the Hands of His Majesty's Receiver General in the said Province, and shall be applied, in the first place, in making a more certain Provision towards defraying the Expences of the Administration of Justice, and of the Support of Civil Government, in the said Province ; and the Commissioners of His Majesty's Trieasury are empowered from Time to Time, by any Warrants under their Hands, to Htlgn. Chip. St^t. 31 Geo. 3. 3» 47 14 Geo. 3. 88 14 Geo. 3. 88 INDEX. CANADA cauie iiuch Money to be applied out of tht Mid Produce of the laid Duties towards defraying the said Expencet i and the Reti- ' due of the Dutiei ihall remain and be reaerved in the Handa of the (aid Receirer General, for the ^ture Diapoaition of Parliament . - - - - i(S.. 17- 18. 19. ■ If any Gooda chargeable with the Duties before men-' tioned shall be brought into the Province by Land Carriage, the sam- shall be carried through the Port of Saint John's near the Ri\v.-r Sorrel \ if by other Inland Navigation than the River Saint Lawrence, such Goods shall be carried upon the River Sorrel by the said -Port, and there entered, and the Duties paid to such Officer as His Majesty shall appoint i and if any such Goods coming by Land Carriage or Inland Navigation as aforesaid shall pass by or beyond the said Place without Entry and Payment of the Duties, or shall be broustht into any Part of the said Province by or through »ny other Place whatsoever, such Goods shall be forfeited, and the Persons assisting in the Removal, or to whose Hands the Goo mation of the Seventh of October 1763, any Quantity of Rum i or other Spirits, notwithstanding the Act 14 Geo. III. c. 88. -J Where Spirits of the British Sugar Colonies in the West' Indies shall be imported into the Provmce of Quebec from the said Sugar Colonies in any Ship which in her last preceding Voyage had exported to and landed in any of the said Colo- nies a Cargo of^ Lumber and Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle from the said Province, it shall be lawful to land any Quantity of Spirits (not exceeding in Value the Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle landed) without Payment of the said Duty of Sixpence per Gallon ... Where Spirits, the Produce of any of the said Colonies,' imported into Quebec in any Ship which, in her next clearing out from the said Province after such Importation, shall load with a Cargo of Lumber, Provisions, Horses, or Neat Cattle, and which shall carry to and land the same in any of the said Colonies, it shall be lawful to admit to Entry and land any Quantity of such Spirits not exceeding in Value the Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, so loaded, without Payment of the said Duty of Sixpence per Gallon ; provided that the Owner of such Vessel which shall have unported such Spirits, or, in case of his not residing in the said Province, the Master of the Ship, with One or more sufficient Sureties residing within the said Province, shall, before such Spirits be admitted to an Entry, give Bond to His Majesty in j^500. with Condition that the Ship shall, on her next clearing out from the said Province, be laden with a Cargo of Lumber, Provisions, Horses, or Neat Cattle, equal in Value to the Spirits admitted to Entry, and that the said Lumber, &c. shall be carried to and landed in some of the said Colonies in the West Jndie? r .. ^ y R Ditto, Burton Ale - Ditto, Mild Ditto - Onions Essence of Spruce Oak Timber Squared Ditto, Plank 3 to 4 Inches \ thick - ./ Ditto, I j to 2 Inches thick - Puncheon Staves 3^ Feet*) long, 4 Inches broad, and > I Inch thick - .J Puncheon Heading 3^ Feet '^ long, 5 to 6 Inches broad, V and I Inch thick -J 2 I I > per Bushel. Sctrling. /. a. — — per Barrel of i cwt. 3 17 6 DiUo. — — per Cwt. n" a — 3 — fl 10 — per Tierce. — — per Barrel. 15 — per Tierce. 10 — per Barrel. — 10 per lb. — 7 per lb. ; ;}pe'ib. 10 — per Barrel. 15 — per Tierce. — — per Barrel. J — per Ditto. qrs. " R«t(n. 30 Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. ! - — 16 — ^», — per Cwt. — — . per Hhd. oj 15 — I per Ditto. — — per Thousand. I 3 per lb. 1 — per Cubic Foot. 5 Galls. — — 5 per Superficial Foot. 3 per Ditto. 10 per laoo Pieces. 10 — --I per Thousand. Si Cko. 3. Chay. 37 ua. 1, 3 37 f« INDEX. CANADA— cwi/iVima/. £ ^} St«ilin|. r. d. - 4 a 15 — 3 5 — per Cubic Foot. { per Thousand Superficial Feet. 5 lO — lO — -n — - 1% — 1 lO — 3 S 5 4 2 ,5 ^ — a 6J per Hundred Boards. Ditto, per Thousand Hoops. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto, per Thousand, each, per Cwt. per Head. Pine Timber Squared Fine Boards i % Feet long, and upwards, and i Inch thick Ditto, 10 Feet long and i \ Inch thick • - j Ditto, Ditto, 2 Inches thick - Wooden Hoops i % Feet long • Ditto, 14 Ditto Ditto, 10 Ditto - Ditto, 7 Ditto - Shingles Puncheon Packs > Bar Iron Horses Horned Cattle Sheep Tu.keys Windward and Leeward ") -, „ Island Rum - -> "~ ' ^ per Gallon. Jamaica, Ditto - - — 2 — Ditto. Any Spirits, being the Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally imported into Bermuda, may be imported into Lower Canada, and landed and admitted to an Entry upon Payment of the same Rate of Duty as if the same had been imported directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, and under the Conditions and Restrictions contained in 28 Geo. 3. ch. 39. without Payment of Duty, in the same Manner as if such Spirits had been imported directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies - - Spirits, being the Pi'oduce or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, Ieg...iy and directly imported into Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland in North America, from the said Sugar Colonies, or from Bermuda, may be exported from either of the Provinces or Islands to Lower Canada, and landed and admitted to an Entry, upon Payment of the same Rate of Duty as if the same had been imported directly from anv of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies under the Regulations of this kOi .... See « Spirits." — — No Goods shall be imported from the United States of 22. 23- America by Sea or Coastwise into Quebec, or the Countries or Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River St. Lawrence from the Sea, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel ... - His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and pub-' lished, may authorise, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Bread, Flour, Indian Corn, and Live Stock, into the Province of Quebec, and into all the Countries bordering on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and into the Islands within the said Gulf, and also to the Coast of Labrador, for the then ensuing Season only, I Reign. Chip. 8«a. 49 Geo. 3. 16 51 Geo. 3. 48 a8 Geo. 3. '4 INDEX. 25 s«a. a?- 28. 39. CANADA.-'-centintieJ. from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, for the Supply of the Persons employed in carrying on the Fisheries, provided that such Bread, &c. shall not be im- ported, except in conformity to such Regulations as shall be specified in such Order, and except by British Subjects, and in firitish-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navi- gated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel 25. ■ In case of public Emergency and Distress, the Governor'' of Quebec, or Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, with the Consent of the Council, may authorize the Importation by Sea or Coastwise into Quebec, or into the Countries or the Islands within the Government thereof, or up ;he River Saint Lawrence from the Sea, of Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, or Live Stock, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, or any Sort of Grain or Flour made thereof, for a limited Time, from the United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the Province, and of the Countries or Islandswithin the Government thereof, provided that the said Articles shall not be brougtit except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Vessel - - - -_ 26. ' Any Subject of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, who shall come from thence, together with his Family, to any of the Bahama, or Bermuda, or Somers Islands, or to the Province of Quebec or Nova Scotia, or any of the Tenitories belonging to His Majesty in North America, for the Purpose of residing and settling there, having obtained a Licence for that purpose from the Governor, or in his Absence the lieutenant Governor of the said Islands, Colonies, or Pro- > vinces respectively, may import into the same, in British Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, any Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry, or Clothing, free of Duty, not exceeding in the whole the value of ^50 - for every White Person that shall belong to such Family, and the Value of 408. for every Negro brought by such White Person . - - - See « Settlers." — — The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts may be seized by the Commanders of any of His " " Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned iited by these Acts may beA of His Majesty's Ships or I issioned. Warrant, or Petty > n, or may be aeized by any I Officer specially authorized by them Officer of His Majesty's Customs No Goods, except of the Growth, Produce, or Manufac-~| ture of the Territories of the United States of America, shall ( be brought from the Territories of the said States, by Inland Navigation or Land Carriage, into the Provinces of Lower or Upper Canada, on Forfeiture of the said Goods, or the Value I thereof, with the Vessel or Carriage in which the same shall f be brought, to be sued for, recovered, and distributed in like manner as is directed in any Act in the Case of Ofiencei being committed against the Laws of Customs in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America ~ ' ~ ~^ ■ ' Any Goods the Growth or Production of any of the j Countries bordering on the Province of Quebec, brought by ( D &«gn. Chap. uet. 29660.3. 16 30 oeo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 27 28 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 6 16 52 Geo. 3. S5 fi(t INDEX. 30- 31- 3a- 33- CAiijM^A*-centitiued. i>and or Inland Navigatioa into the said Province* conform- I ably to the Regulations ctublished bjr Law, nuf be imported • - into any Fart of Great Britain from Quebec, and admitted to i Elntry, and charged with Dtttyi or exempted from Duty, in like manner as such Goods would be charged with or exempted from Duty, if the same were of the Growth or Production of Quebec, and were imported directly from thence into Great Britain $ provided it thall appear by Certificate undet the Hands and Seals of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs, and the Naval Officer there, that the same were brought into the ' Province, conformably to Law, by Land or Inland Navigation, from the Countries bordering thereon, specifying from what Places the same were respectively brought into the said Pro- vince i and provided that the Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, ' , and Conditions are observed on their being imported, as are required for the like Goods imported into Great Britain from the said Province, and subject to the like Conditions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, and to the like Modes for Recovery and Appli- cation thereof - - - - . Salt for the Fisheries may be laden in any Part of Europe, for Exportation direct to Quebec, on board any British-built Vessel owned, navigated, and registered accord- ing to Law I. Any Person inhabiting in the Islands of Jersey or Guernsey may lade in the laid Islands, and transport directly from thence to any bf the British Colonies in America where the Fishery is carried On^ on board any Vessel which may law- fully trade there, any Sort of Craft, Food, Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods fit and necessary for the Fidiery in those Parts, or for the Use and Support of the Mariners or other Persons employed on board the Vessels, or on shore, in carrying on the said Fishery, such Craft, Clothing, or other Goods, being the Produce or Manufacture of Great Britain, or of the said Islands of Jersey or Guernsey, and such Food or Victuals being of the Growth or Produce either of Great Britain or Ireland, or the said Islands of Guernsey or Jersey ... Provided the Master shall produce to the proper Officer" } of the Customs, in the Colony where he shall arrive, a Certifi- cate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, or Commander in Chief, that Oath ha been made by the Shipper before the Magistrates of the Royal Courts in Jersey or Guernsey respec'vely, or any Three of them, that the Goods and Victuals so slupped are of such Growth, Pro- . duct, or Manufacture ; which Certificate shall also be attested f by the Principal Officer of the Customs in the said Island respectively, who shall certify that the said Oath was taken in his Presence ; and on Failure of producing such Certificate, such Food, &c. and the Vessel importing the same, shall be liable to be seized and forfeited, in the same Manner as they would have been liable if this Act had not been made — — Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle of* Man may export from thence, and import into any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, in firitish-bi.iiit Vessels owned, navigated, and registered according to J.-v, Herrings caught and cured by them> in the same Msnnck as Reigrii Chap. 8e&. 30 Geo. 3. 29 4 4 48 Geo. 3. Geo. 3. Geo. 3. '9 22 3« 7 I Geo. 3. 28 9 Geo. 3. 28 Cko. 3. S« INDEX. '17 Se&. 34- CAVf ADA-^contimad. Victuals mav be imported into the laid Coloniei or Plantationi from Ireland . » - • - — — Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle ef^ Man may ship and lad* there, and transport directly from thence to any Part of America where the Fishery is now or shall hereafter be carried on, on board any Vessel which may lawfully trade or fish there, any Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Todls or Implements necessary for and used in the Fishery by the Crews of the Vessels carrying out the same, and the Craft belonging to and employed by such Vessels in the said Fishery, such Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Nettings, or other Tools or Implements, being the Produce and Manu- facture of Great Britain, Irdand, or the Isle of Man - Provided the Master of such Vessel shall produce to the 35- 3<5- 37- 38. proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Plantation where he shall arrive, a Certificate, under the Hand and Seal of the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs in the Port where he shall have fitted out, that Oatlt hath been made before him by the Shipper of such Provisions, tec. that the same are of the Product and Manufacture of Oreat Britain, Ireland, or Isle of Man respectively, as the Fact may be, and that the se-, oral Articles before mentioned, except the Provisions, specifying the Quantities and Particulars of each Sort, are to be used in the Fishery by the Crew of the Vessel carrying out the same, and by the Craft belonging to, and to be employed by such Vessel in the said Fishery, and for no other Use or Pur- pose whatsoever (which Oath and Certificate such Collector or other Officer is hereby authorized and requured to administer and (;rant without Fee or Reward) ; and on Failure of producing such Certificate, or if any soch Hooks, &c. are used or disposed of for any other Purpose, the Articles, and the Vessel having the same on board, shall be forfeited in the same Manner as they would have been if this Act had not been made Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, may be laden io any Port or Place of Europe, for Exportation direct to Quebec, on board any British Vessel owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any Port or Place of £uFope with Articles the Growth or Produce of Quebec, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fishery, from any of the British Colonies in North America, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods herein-after mentioned (see No. 38.) from the Province of Canada, whether the Growth or Produce of Canada, or brought into the said Province by Land or Inland Navigation Upon the Importation thereof into Quebec, the Ooods shall be subject to the Payment of such Duties as Goods of the like Denomination or Description are subject to upon bdng imported into Quebec from Great Britain, and no other or | higher Duties - - . . _ — — The several Articles herein-after mentioned may be ex- ported from Canada in a British-built Vessel owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, into any Port of ^rope within the Limits aforesaid, without any Oath being required of their being the Growth or Produce of the said Province, or X)2 Reign. Chip, ijtft. . ■ ; "< 15 Geo. 3. 3' 15 Geo. 3. 3' 51 Geo. 3. 97 51 Geo. 3. 97 INDEX. CANADA- 'COHtiHued. any Certificate beiii^- required of the Country from whence they raine j that is to say, Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, White Oak Staves and Heading, dressed and undressed Hoops, Pine Plank and Boards; and the Master of any British-built Vessel laden with any of the said Articles shall only be required to produce a Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the said Articles were either the Growth or Drought into Canada conformably to the Regulations established by Law in the said Province (if any), by Land or Inland Navigation, from Countries bordering thereon, (which Certificate such Officer of the Customs or Na/al Officer is hereby authorizer and required to grant upon satisfactory Proof beins m ide upon Oath or otherwise) } and the Master of sucn Vessel shall produce the same at the Port of Delivery in Europe within the Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath before the British Consul there resident, or if there shall be no British Consul, then before Two known British Merchants, that the Certificate produced was the Certi- ficate of the Officer who^e Names it bears, and was duly figned by him . - - - 39. — — — Before shipping any Pickled Fish or Dry Fish, for the Pur- ' 40. pose of Exportation, to any Port ot Europe within rhe Limits aforesaid, the Person in whose Possession the same has continued from the Time of its being landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in the taking it, until the same shall be shipped for Exportation, shall make Oath before the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the same was the Produce of the British American Fisheries, really and bona fide taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the said Colonies ; and, on such Oath being laken at Quebec, the said Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer shall grant Certificate thereof, which Certificate the Master of such Vessel shall be required to produce at the Port of Delivery in Europe within the Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath before the British Consul there resident, or if there shall be no British Consui, then before Two known British Merchants, that the Cenificate produceil was the Certificate of the Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly signed by him ■ His Majesty's Subjects may export from any of His Ma-" jesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America any Articles the Production 01 Manufacture of the said Colonies or Planta- tions, or any Articles which have been legally imported into any such Colony or Plantation, direct to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in British-built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according to Law . - . See '« Gibraltar. " " Malta. " 4'- Oranges and Lemons, the Growth of the Azores or the" Madeiras, may be shipped and laden at tho e Islan Js respectivelv , for Exportation direct to any of the British Colonies m North America, in any British Vessel owned, registered, and navigated . according to Law . . . .^ Reign. Oup. StA. 51 Geo. 3. 97 4.5 51 Geo. 3, 97 4,6 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 29 4 j7Geo. 3. 89 INDEX. «9 CANADA — continued. 42. 43' Veiselsnot exceeding Thirty Tons Burthen, and nothafing a Deck, and being employed solely in the Fisheries on the Banks or Shores of Quebec, or in trading Coastwise there, not required { to be registered - - - -J See« Registry of British Ships." Vessels built at Quebec on account of Owners residing in His Majesty's European Dominions, may be registered upon the Husband or Principal Agent taking the Oath required by 26 Geo. III. c. 60. and the Register shall be of full Force and Effect until the Vessel's Arrival at some Port in His Majesty's European Dominions, where they may be required on the Oath of the Owners, but no longer - . . See " Registry of British Ships." CANTHARIDES May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar direct, to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of the British Colonies in North America, in firitish-built Ships owned, navi- gated, and registered according to Law See « Gibraltar." «« MalU." CAPE BRETON. 1 . ^—-^ No Goods shall be imported from any of the Territories of the United States of America into Cape Breton, on Forfeit- ure thereof and the Vessel ; exc;pt Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, the Production of the said Territories, imported by British Sub- jects, and in British-built Ships owned and navigated according to Law 2. ^— — In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Governor,' Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief for the Time being, with the Advice and Consent of ihe Council of the island, may authorize the Importation of Scantling Planks, Staves, Heading Boards, Shingles, Hoops, squared Timber, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, Live Stock, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, or Grain, for a limited Time, from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the Island ; but such Scantling, &c. shall not be so imported except by British Subject <;, .'ad m British-built Ship''' owned and navigated accordmg ' Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel And Subjects of the United States, who shall come from" Reign. thence, together with their Families, for the Purpose of residing and settling in any British Colony in North America, having first obtained a Licence fc: i! it Purpose from the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, may import House- hold Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry, and Cl> ' 'ting, provided the Articles are imported in British Ships owned, by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, and shall not exceed in the whole the Value of jfe'50 for every White Person that shall belong to the Family, and 40 Shillings for every Negro brought by such White Person . . . See « Settlers." — ^ The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, with the Advice and Consent of the Council of Capi :l 27 Geo. 3. 27 Geo. 3. S5Geo. 57 Geo 28 Geo. 33 Geo. Chap. '9 »9 29 4 6 50 8 States, for the Purpose of Re-expcrtaion tu any other of His Majesty's Coloniet or tlanutions - " - The Goods, and Vessels forfeiud by these Acts may be 1 seized by the Commanders of any oi His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or by any Gvmmitstoncd, Warrant, or Petty , Officer specially authoriseti t>y them, or any Officer of the \ Customs . . . w .J — — Fruit, Wine, Salt, or Cork, th? Produce of Europe' South of Cape Finisterre, may be laden in Mif Port of t: -. rope, for Exportation direct to the Port of Sydney in Cape i-ieton, on boi^.td any British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any such Part of f-uropc, with Articles tha Growth or Pinoda f; of the Bntitih Ccloiiioi in His Majesty's Su{>jtc(' the British Coloiiif;-' ia United Kingocm Koith Aaierica, ox 'ith Fish taken and cured by i carrying '.m the Fisheries, from any of hu>tth Arrtcrica, or from any Part of the 6.- Spirits of His M-ij:' tv's Sug'tr See " Europe." Colonies in the West^ Indies, legaM)' in poited it^tj i/ape Br 'ton from the said Sugar i Colonies, or n oir. Bermuvi?', may be crported from Cape Breton \ to Lower CaiiSv :, and admitted to Entry, on Payment of the r •ame Rat« cf Duty as if imported direcUy from any of the said I Sugar Colonieb - . - -J See «• Spirits." 7.«- Spirits ot His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West IndieSj, imported into Bermuda from the said Colonies, may be exported from Bermuda to Cape Breton, and admitted to Entry on Payment of *hi same Duty as if imported direct from the iSugar Colonies ; and under the Conditio'i of 28 Geo. III. c. 39. m;i ■,' be imported into Cape Breton without Payment of Duty, in tl:.' same manne,. as if imported directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies ... ^ . Sae «« Spirits." 8. Gooils fit and necessary for the Fisherjr iu the British '\ Colonies in America may be exported to Colonies where such > Fishery is carried on, direct from Guernsey or Jerssy -J See " Guernsey." " Jersey." 9. — Herrings cured in the Isle of Man ma^r be exported from^ thence to any of the British Colcmics in the same manner ae I Victuals from Ireland - - - -J See *' Man." 10.— — Tools ind Implements necessary for the sai J .Fishery may ") be exported to the said Coloniee direct from the Ide of Man - J See « Man." II.—— A-^y Article the Production or Manufacture of His"^ Majesty: Colonies c.t Plann- " ns in North America, or an^ ' Article uaich has been legal! ported into any such Colony or Plantation, may lie efpc '"-om thence by His Majesty'r , Subjects direct to Maltn or the Dependencies therec^, or to j Reigii. 4f> Geo, *. Chip. 8tA. «'>■ I I a8 Geo. 3. } <5 I _ 33C..c.^. ,0 .... ,51 Geo. 3. 50 Geo. 3. 9 Geo. 3. 12 Geo. 3. IJ .>tOi 3, ,,», i.eo. 3. ^,'/ Geo. 3. 97 48 da 28 58 31 «9 4 1,2 'jidm. " % "T5T|* - ■'^TlTf?^ . ■ ' INDEX. 31 CAPE BRETQN— wwftViwrf. Gibraltar, in British^built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according to Lavr ... .,j^, See "Gibraltar." "Malta." Oranges and Lemons, the Growth of the Azores or the^V J 13. CAPERS CASCASOO } Madeiras, may be laden at those Islands respectively for Cxporta- I tion direct to any of the British Colonies in North America, ^ in any British Vessel owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - - . _ - May be exported from Malta to any of the Dependencies"\ thereof, or from Gibraltar direct, to any of His Majesty's J Sugar Colonics or Plantations in America, into New- [ foundl d, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plant- ^ acions in North America, in British Ships owned, navigated, I and registered according to Law - - -J See " Gibraltar." « Malta." CATTLE AND LIVE STOCK. I... Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, or Live Stock" of any Sort, the Production of anv of the Territories of the United States, maybe imported from thence into any of His Majesty's West India Islands (in which Description the Bahama Islands and fhe Bermuda or Somers Islands are included), or into the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, in the Province of Guiana; but not to be so imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Vessels owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel 2. -—— Such Cattle and Live Stock may be imported from the said^ 1 States into St. George or Hamilton in Bermuda, in any Foreign Vessel belonging to any lUngdom or State in Amity with His Majesty, and exported from the said Ports to anv of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British-built ^fessels owned and navigated according to Law - • , In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Governors,'' Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or of the Islands of Cape Breton or St. John's, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may auti.orizc the Importation of Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, PoulCrv, or Live Stock of any Sort, for a limited Time, K from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, provided that the said Cattle, &c. shall not be so imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Vessels owned and navigate4 accordin|( to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel — — > His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and pub-' %,hc >. or by vw.~— — If any British Ship, laden in any British Colony or Plant-' ation with any Goods the Produce or Manufacture thereof, shall be discovered by any Officer of the Customs within Two Leagues of the Shore of any such Colony or Plantation, and the Master shall not produce a Certificate that Bond has been given, pur- suant to tne Directions of this or any other Act, as the Case inay require, or if he shall not produce such Certificate to the Coi ■ lector or otl^er Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port where he shall arrive in Great Britain, Ireland, or pny British Colony or Plantation, the Ship shall be forfeited i^. Where, by any Act relative to the Trade of the British' Colonies and Plantations in America or the West Indies, an Affidavit shall be req)r''i"] to be made by the Planter or Grower ; *' any Article intenoed to be shipped for Exportation in Great liritain or Ireland, to prove that such Article is the Produce of sac^ Colony or Plantation, and there shall not be any Justices of the Peace before whom such Affidavit '.an be ihade, the Planter or Grower may ninke the same before the Collector and CompttoUer or othti Chief Officer of the Customs, or any E 12 Car. 2. 7&8W.3. aq Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 18 22 10 67 19 10 I Art. 6 4 Co 3- 39&4QG.3. «5 67 24 Alt. <5 A--'*' ,} Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. 67 25 Art. 6 M INDEX. CERTIFICATES— ffl»/w«/:,,^.;r, they shall also certify that there are not ai y .ii.Jt ccs i . >iic Peace resident at or within such Colony or Planration i and upon .he Importation of such Articles into Grca: Pritain or Ireland, the same shall be If admitted to Entry at such Duties as are charged upon Articles when accompanied with tlte Certificate now required by Law, •abject to the Regulations, itestrictions. Penalties,. and Forfeit- ures to which such Articles arc liable on Importatio:. CHJiESE(PARMASAN).\ Maybe exported from Malt. , ( .- uuf ol ih^' CINNABAR. J Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar direct, to any of His Majesty's Sigar Colo- nics or Plantniiotis in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of A.y Majesty's . Colonies «r Planutions in North America, in l .■ I 4 Geo. 3. io Geo. 3. 33 ^'^°- 3- 35^ & 40 G. 3, ■j 1. 1. .'I ,: i 12 Car. J. 12 8c23 Car. 2 39&40G.3. ao Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 1 ! 56 Geo. 3. 7&8 W.3. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39&40G.3, Chap. 10 67 10 67 18 06 67 10 •5 9» S€«. Arr. 6 »..3 z Art. 6 '9 II Art. 6 '.3 27 4.8 32 10 «5 27 10 ».3 Art. 67 6 96 INDEX. T COFFEE AND COCOA UUTS—cctitiHutJ. 7. If any Officer of the Cuitomt in Great Britain or Ireland ^ •hall give any Warrant for or tufTer any CoiTee or Cocoa Nuti, I or any enumerated Article, to be carried into any other Country ( or Place, until they have been firit put on shore in lome Port f" in Great Britain or Ireland, erery Officer for such Offence ihall 1 forfeit his Place, and the Value of the Goods - -J 8. The Governors or their Commanders in Chief of the said' Plantations are Once a Year at least to return to the Officers of the Customs in London, or to such ether Person as His Majesty shall appoint *«> receive the same, a List uf such Ships as shall have laden any Coffee or Cocoa Nuts, or any enumerated Article, in such Plantations, as also a List of all Bonds taken by them ; and in case any Ship belonging to anv of His Majesty's Plantations shall be found to have unloaded in any Port of Europe other than Great Britain or Ireland, such Ship shall be forfeited, and her Lading 0. — — In all Bonds to be taken in the Plantations, the Persons' 10. ]i.' 12. «3- therein named shall be of known Residence and Ability there for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the Condition of which •hall be, within 18 Months after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas exce')>ted) to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in one of His Majesty'^ Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland ■, otherwise •uch Bond or Copies thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief to whom •uch Bond was given, shall be in force and ullowed of in any Court in Great Britain, Ireland, or the Plantations, as if the Original was produced in Court by the Prosecutor ' In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great Britain or Ireland, in pursuance of any Act whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great Britain or Ireland, such Bonds shall be with Condition, that within 18 Months from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certificate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall be delivered', that they have been there landed and dischareed — — In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or' Non-performance of the Condition of the Bond within Three Years after the Date thereof, or if, upon Prosecution for some Breach or Non-performance of the Condition, Judgment be not obtained within Two Years after Prosecution commenced, then such Bond (in default of such Prosecution to be commenced, and Judgment to be obtained, within the Times limited) shall be void, and all Bonds so void shall be delivered up by the Officers, to be cancelled, without Fee or Reward There shall be paid to His Majesty One Penny for every^ Pound Weight of Cocoa Nuts shipped in His Majesty's Planta- j tions, if Bond is not first given with One Surety to bring the I same to Great Britain or Ireland ; and the said Duty shall be ?' paid at such Places and to such Officers as shall be appointed | to receive the same before the Lading thereof - -J - ■ ■ The Duty shall be deemed to be Sterling Money of Great*! Britain, and shall be paid to the Amount of the Value which | such nominal Sums bear in Great Briton, and according to the > Proportion of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver^ | Rti|n. 15 Car. a. 4 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 22 & 23 Car. a 4 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 398c4oGeo.3 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. 36 Geo. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3 15 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 8 Ann. 4 Geo. 3. 25 Car. 2. I Geo. I.St. 1 4 Geo. 3. Ch

5 27 10 '.3 An. 67 6 31 6 «5 27 10 '•3 Art. 67 6 13 23 '5 27 7 a 12 4 '5 4« COFFEE ANu and (t except 14 »S- INDEX. 9r COFFEE ANu COACO SU'VH—cofitinueJ, 14. »S' 16. !?• 18.. 19. and (the nucciiiury Chnrgci of railing and paying the tamt I excepted) ihall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer -J Tiic Duty (hall be levied by the Commitiioneri of the '\ Cuttomi in luigland, under the Direction! of the Lordi of the > Treasury - - - . -,l In case any Perinn liable to pay the Duty ihall not have"\ Money to answer the same, the Officer ihall accept, instead I of such Money, such a Proportion of the Commodity to be > shipped as shall amount to the Value thereof, according to the | Current Rate of the Commodity in the Plantation -J Notwithstanding the Payment of the Duty, the Cocoa Nuts shall not be shipped until such Security shall be given as is required by 12 Car. 11. c. 18. and aa 8c 33 Car. II. c. a6. to carry the same to Great Britain or Ireland, or to some other ot His Majesty's Plantations, under the Forfeiture of Ship and Goods ..... ' All Laws, Dy>lHws, Usages, or Customs in force or'\ practice in any of the said Plantations, which arc repugnant to I the before-mentioned Laws or any of them, so far as they > relate to the said Plantations, or which are anyways repugnant 1 to this Act, are illegal and void . - •) If the Goods shall be loaden on board any Vessel berore*^ the Duties are paid, every Person assisting or otlierwise con- f cerncd in the Loading, or to whose Hands the same shall knowingly come after the Loading thereof, shall for every I OiTence forfeit Treble the Value of the Goods, to be computed ^ according to the best Price that the Commodity bears at the Place where the OfTcnce is committed, and all the Boats made use of in the Loading shall be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of the Customs .... No Coffee or Cocoa Nuts shall be put on board any Vessel in any of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, until the Planter or Grower, or his known Agent, shall make Oath or Affirmation in Writing before Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in or near the Place where the said CofTee grew, that the same is actually of the Growth and Produce of such Planter's or Grower's Plantation lying in the District, Division, or Parish of , within the Island or Colony of , which Oath or Affirmation shall be produced to the Collector, Comptroller, and Naval Officer, or any of them, by the Person who shall enter or ship such Coffee or Cocoa Nuts, before the Entry and Shipping thereof ; and such Person shall likewise make Oath or Affirmation before the said Officers, or any Two of them, that the Coffee or Cocoa Nuts then to be shipped are the same as mentioned in such Oath or Affirmation j and the Collector and Comptroller, and Naval Officer, shall deliver a Certificate of such Affidavit or Affirmation, under their Hands and Seals, to the Master of such Vessel ; and, before Clearing, such Master shall make Oath that he has received such Coffee on board his Vessel, and that he has no Coffee or Cocoa Nuts on board, other than such for which Proofs shall be made as aforesaid, and that he will not take or receive any more on board before his Arrival in Great Britain or Ireland, and making a Report of his Lading there, for which Affidavit or Affirmation and Certificate the Collector A«i|n. 35 Car. a. 35 Car. a. 78C8W.3. 7 8c 8 W. 3. 4 Geo. 3. Chip. aa aa »S — — » 37 5 Geo. 2. 23 Geo. 3. 3981400.3. 24 79 67 3 7 An. 6 08 INDEX. 20.- 21.- 22. ,33- COFFEE AND COCOA NUTS— «i«//«i/*ay plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence i and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit, or forbear the Prosecution, or discontinue his Action, or if Verdict shall pass against him, the Defendant shall have Treble Costs, and the like Remedy for recovering the same as in Cases where Costs arc by Law given to Defendants _ . - . If any Person shall grant a false Certificate, or counterfeit," erase, or alter any Licence, Oath, or Certificate which shall Lc made pursuant to this Act, or shall knowingly publish or make use thereof, such Person shall forfeit £$00, to be recovered and disposed of in the manner before directed ; and the Licence, Oath, or Certificate so falsified, coumerfeited, erased, 01 altered, shall be of no Effect - _ - The Growth of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonics or A Plantations in America may be shipped and exported direct to J the Island of Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibral- 1 tar, in such Vessels, and under such Licences, Entries, Securities, f Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are herein particularly I mentioned - - - . -J See «« Gibraltar.'' " Maha." There shall be paid to His Majesty upon Coffee, the' Produce of any Colony or Plantation in America not under the Dominion of His Majesty, which shall be imported or brought into any Colony or Plantation in America under the Dominion of His Majesty, the Duties follcwinc \ that is to say, ForeveryHundredWeightAvoirdupoisof sucnForeigiiCoffee, which shall be imported from any Place except Great Britain, Two Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Nine-pence The Du'.ies shall be collected and paid in the same manner," and by such Ways and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures (not otherwise altered by this Act), as are mentioned in 6 Geo. II. c. 13. with respect to the Collection and Payment of the Duties thereby granted upon Sugar ; and all Powers, Penalties, Provisions, Articles, and Clauses in that Act contained y and referred unto, except in such Cases where any Alteration is made by this Act, shall be applied and put in Execution for the raising, levying, collecting, and answering the Duties hereby granted - .... See '• Sugar." ■ The said Duties ^except the necessary Charges of raisingjT paying, recovering, and accounting for the same) shall be paid [ Reign, Clup. Sea. 52 Geo. 3. 98 52 Geo, 3. 98 52 Geo. 3. 9» 1 52 Geo. 3. 98 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 29 4 5.9 1 4 Geo. 3. »5 4 Geo. 3. 15 INDEX. 48 COFFEE AHD COCOA mJTS—cotttinued. into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and be entered separate and apart from all other Monies payable to His Majesty, and shall be there reserved to be disposed of by Pirliinient towards defraying the necessary Expences of defending and securing the British Colonies in America There shall be paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and 40. 41. 1 42. 43- 1 Successors, the Duties herein-after mentioned ; that is to say, i For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of Coffee of the I Growth of any British Colony or Plantation in America, which f shall be imported or brought from thence into any other British \ Colony or Plantation in America, Seven Shillings -J The said Duties shall be deemed Sterling Morn. on Great Britain, and received to the Amount of the Value wkich such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, according to the Proportion and Value of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver, and shall be collected, paid, and recovered by such Rules, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as any other Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported mto the said Colonies or Plantations are or may be collected, paid, and recovered by any Acts of Parliament }- now in force ; and all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary Charges of collecting, recovering, paying, and accounting for the same) shall be paid into the Re- ceipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and entered separate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to His Maje.ny, and shall be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary Expences of defending and securing the Biitisii Colonies and Plantations in America - - -_ But no Duty shall be paid for any British Cv.5 6 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 5a s«a. II 41 52 5a 67 ^S(r C'. ^' f ■ic la '5 Arc. 6 :<*.«•. /r.'»'/».'' At » ■>)- 44 INDEX. COFF££ AND COCOA HUTS—continuai. Entry, and not relanded in any Part of the British Dominions in America; which Bond the Collector and Comptroller, or ether Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port from whence such Foreign CoiFee shall be intended to be exported, are required to take to the Use of His Majesty ( and the said Bond, with respect to such Coffee as shall be exported to Great Britain, Ireland, or to any other Place under the Dominion of His Ma- jesty where Custom-house Officers are or may be established, shall be with funher Condidon to return a Certificate, within Eighteen Calendar Months from the Date of such Bond, from the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the Customs at such Place, that such Coffee has been there landed .tv^cordinely i and with respect to such Coffee as shall be exported to any Place not under the Dominion of His Majesty, or where no such Officers are appointed, such Bond shall continue in force tor 'J'wo Years from the Date thereof ; and in case no Fraud shall .ipj ear within that Time, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England, or any Four or more of ihetn, to direct the said Bond to be cancelled and delivered up ■ If the Importer or Proprietor of any such Foreign Coffee" vnr-f} -^used as aforesaid shall not pay the Duties nor export the . ods wilhin Twelve Calendar Months, the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the Customs may cause the same to be publicly sold, and the Money arising by i such Sale shall be in the first place applied in discharge of ( the Duties and Charges attending the Sale, and the Surplus (if any), after Payment of the said Duties and Charges, shall be paid to the Importer or Proprietor, or to such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive the same Cocoa, the Production of any of the Colonies in America," .4. 45- 46. < 47- or of any Country jn the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dom'nion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported from any of the said Colonies or Coun- tries into the Free Ports in any Foreign Vessel owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies in America, or Countries on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State ..... See " Free Ports." — — ^ Coffee, the Production of any Foreign Colony or Planta-' tion, may be imported into Nassau in New Providence, Pitt's Town in Crooked Island^ or into such Ports in the Bahama Islands, or into the principal Fort of Bermuda, or into such Ports in the Cavoo as have been or may hereafter be approved by His Majesty, in such Foreign Vessels, and subject to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as are prescrihed in this Act with respect to the Goods herein enumerated ; and such Coffee may be so imported and again exported without Payment of any Duty of 6ustoms .... See «« Free Ports." His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, may" permit the Importation into Road Harbour in the Island of Tortola, one of the Virgin Islands, and the Exportation from thence into this Kingdom, of Coffee, in the same manner, and on the same Duties, and subject to tae same. Rules, &c. as are Reifn. 6 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. Chap. 67 StO. 16 An. 6 6 Geo. 52 45 Geo. 3. 57 45 vjeo. 57 4.5 46 Geo. 3. 72 INDEX. '15 COFFEE AND COCOA tiVTS—continutd, provided in 45 Geo. III. c. 57. respecting Importation and Exportation of Coffee from Nassau, and further subject to such Rules, 8cc. as shall be directed by His Majesty See « Free Ports." Anj^ Foreign Vessel described in 45 Geo. JII. c. 57. may■^ ;j 48. COIN. I.- come in Ballast, or import into any Fart of the Bahama Islands I where there is a Custom-house, any Coffee allowed in the said ( Act, to be imported into certain Ports therein mentioned in r Foreign Vessels, and may also export such Coffiee conformably I with the Regulations of the said Act - - -J See «« Free Ports." Copper Coin, not being the Kingdom, and counterfeit Gold let jal Copper Coin of this or Silver Coin made to the Similitude or Resemblance, or intended to resemble, any Gold or Silver Coin ^f this Kingdom, or of any other Country which shall under any Description be exported or put on board any Vessel or Boat for the Purpose of being exported from Great Britain to any of His Majesty's Islands or Colonies in the West Indies or America, shall be forfeited, and may be pro' secuted and recovered in such Courts, and by the like Means, and the Produce thereof disposed of and applied in the like Manner, and to such Uses, as any Forfeiture incurred by any Law respecting the Revenue may now be prosecuted or i^eco- vered, disposed of, and applied in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies ... 3. -^— Every Person who shall export or put on board any' Vessel or Boat, in order to be so exported, or shall cause or procure to be so exported or put on board any Vessel or Boat, or shall have in his Custody in order to be so exported, any such Coin, shall forfeit j£'200, and Double the Value of such Coin, to be recovered by Action or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster 3. — — May be imported from any of the Colonies or Plant-' ations in America, or from any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Vessel owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plantations or Countries See « Free Ports." COPPER ORE. Of the Production of the British Plantations in America, shall not be shipped or conveyed from any of the said Plantations to any Place, unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, on Forfeiture of the Goods or v the full Value thereof, and the Ship - - - The other Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and For- feitures, respecting this Article, arc the same as Pot and Pearl Ashes. See " Ashes, Pot and Pearl." Keigii. CORAL. V.ay be exported from Malu or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to a.iy of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America^ or to Newfoundland, ^ 5 J Geo. 3. 38 Geo. 3. Chjp. a*Q. 38 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 12 Car. 2. 2Z 8c 2<^ Car. 2. 7 8c 8 W. 3. 8 Ann. 8 Geo. T. 4 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39 & 40 G. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 99 67 67 57 22 99 74 18 26 22 »3 18 15 31 10 67 91 29 4 18 19 II a3 24 27 6 '.3 Art. 6 4,8 5*9 40 INDEX. CORAL-— con/inufj Bermuda, or any of His Majetty't Colonics or Plantations North America, in British-built Shipa owned, navigated registered according to Law See «« Gibraltar." «« Malta." CORK. ns in I , and icsame"\ of the I ito any j 1. — The Produce of Europe South of Cape Finistcrre may be shipped and laden in any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, for Exportation direct to any of tlie Ports herein-after mentioned; (that -s to say), *..i;it John's in New Brunswick, Saint John's in Newfoundland, Quebec in Canad?, Sydney in Cape Breton, Halifax and Shelburn in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince Edward's Island, all in North America, on board of any British Ship owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, with Articles of the Growth or Produce of the said Colonies or Plantations, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the s:iid Colonies or Plantations, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods herein-after mentioned, from Canada, whether such Goods shall be the Produce of Canada, or shall have been brought into tho Province by Land or Inland Navigation 1. Upon the Importation of Cork into any of the said Ports, the same shall be subject to the Payment of such Duties as Goods like Denomination are liable to upon being imported into z of the said Ports from Great Britain 3. The Person exporting any Cargo from any Port in the' Provinces of Nova Scotia, or of New Brunswick, for any Port of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, shall make Oath at the Port of Shipment before the Chief Officer of the Customs, or before the Naval Officer in Command at such Port, that the Cargo so shipped is the Growth and Produce of the Pro- vince, or the Produce of the British Fisheries in North America, really taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the Colonies or Plantations i and such Officer shall certify such Oath under his Hand } and the Certificate shall be produced by the Master of the Vessel on board of which any such Cargo is shipped, on his Arrival at the Port in Europe, within the Limits aforesaid, to which such Cargo shall be consigned, or to which such Vessel shall go for the Delivery of the Cargo -, and the Master of such Vessel shall make Oath before the British Consul there resident, or if there shall be no British Consul, then before two known British Merchants there resident, that the Certificate so produced was the Certificate of the Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly signed by him -J ■*■ The Exporter of Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, Bar-"^ ley, Indian Corn, Rye, White Oak Staves, and Heading dressed or undressed, Hoops, Pine Planks, and Boards from Canada, shall not be required to make Oath that the said Articles are the Produce of Canada ; and the Master of the Ship, on his Arrival at any Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, shall only be required to produce a Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the said Articles were of the Growth of or brought into R-f Vi !vuda> in any Foreign Vessel Raign. Chip. a*n. 51 Geo. 3. 97 51 Geo. 3. 97 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 39 4 5.9 I 28 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 6 91 I, 2 48 INDEX. CORN AND GRKW—eontinutd. hc'.nging to any Country i' "< li^y with His Majesty, a.ul ^ exported from the said Ports to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in '^e West ^ndies in British-Duilt Vessels owned and narigated according to Law - - -, 3. _— — — No Flour, Peas, Beans, Wheat, Oats, Barley, or Grain, fchall be imported into His Majesty's West India Islands, in- cluding the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands, or into the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel - . . . .^ In case of public Emergency or Distress, it shall be law-* Rtlgii, Chap. Sta. ful for the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, ur Commanders in Chief of any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the Dominion of His Majesty, or for the Governors ice. of the said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, to authorize the Importation of the said Articles for a limited Time from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, belonging to any Foreign Euro- pean Sovereign or State, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonies, provided that such Articles shall not be so imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Vessels owned ^nd navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of ihe Vessel - - - . —'— None of the said Articles which shall have been im-' ported from any Islmd in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South Ai v;vica, under the Dominion ot any Foreign European Sov' ; gucn State, into any of His Majesty's West India Inlands, or Cctonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Suppi) c/ the Inhabitants, shall be exported from any of the said Islands or Colonies, or put on board any Vessel or Boat, or brought to any Quay with Intent to be so eiqported, on Forfeiture thereof, and also of the Vessel or Boat in which laden } and before shipping of any Article of the like Denomination that may lawfully be exported from any such Islands or Colony, the Exporter shall make Oath that the same or any Part thereof had not been imported for the Supply of the Inhabitants from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony tn the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State .1 Any Person convicted of taking a false Oath touching^ any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, shall be deemed j guilty of Perjury, and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to I whicn Persons are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury, and f may be prosecuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or I in any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in Jhe West IndiesJ Any Grain or Flour may be imported from any of the Colonics or Plantations in America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into certain Ports in the West Indies, in any Foreign Vessel being manned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plantations - Sec «« Free Ports." 52 Geo. 53 G. .. 28 Geo. 3. 31 Geo, 3. 56 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Cieo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 4« Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 79 50 6 91 6 38 9» 56 38 91 56 38 57 125 22 44 74 a. 3 I 10 II 2 I 1,2 3.4 I CORN AND 8 10. II. 13. ■ ^■f-- ■ INDEX. 49 CORN AND GRAIN— rff/f/imW. 8. lO. < II. 12. ■^— During the Contituiance of the Treaty with Portugal, any Person may itoport into any of the said West India Islands, including the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands, or Colonies of Demerart, Berbice, or Essequibo, any Flour, Pease, Beans, Wheat, Oats, Barley, or Grain of any Sort, such Articles being the Growth or l*roduction of some nf the Territories or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South America, and imported direct from the said T< _ . . . British>built Ships owned, navigated to Law In case of public Emergen ■< o Dominions in ItRi ered according rrta. , it shall be Commander Jape Breton, of their rc- >t Flour, Pease, lawful fv^r the Goremor, Lieutenn in Chief c' Mova Scotia or New or Saint John's, . i*h thu Advice .. spectivc Councils, to authorize the Im fieans, Wheat, Oats, Barley, or Grain of any Sort, for a limited Time, from any of the Territories belonging to the said United States, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Provinces and Islands; but such Corn, &c. shall not be so imported, except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship ... - - His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and pub-' lishud, or by Warrant under His Sign Manual, may empower the Governor of Newfoundland to authorize, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Flour and Indian Corn from any of the Territories of the United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants and Fishermen for the then ensuing Season ; provided that such Flour and Indian Corn shall not be so im- Sorted except in conformity to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as shall be specified in such Order or Warrant, and except by British Subjects, in British-built Ships own -d and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship - . . . . Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Com-* manders in Chief for the Time being of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, or of Cape Breton or Saint John's, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of the Articles enumerated in 28 Geo. III. c. 6. (viz. Flour, &c. See No. i.) for a limited Time, from any of the Territories of the United States of America, for the Purpose of being re-exported to any other of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations . - . , His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and published, may authorize, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Flour and Indian Corn as well into the said Province of Que- bec as into all the Countries bordering on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and into the Islands within the said Gulf, and also to the Coast of Labrador, for the then ensuing Season only, from any of the Territories belonging to the United States, for the Supply of the Persons employed m or carrying on the Fish- eries ; provided that such Flour and Indian Com shall not be so imported except in conformity to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as shall be specified in such Order, and except by British Subjects, and in Britishrbuilt Ships owned and G R«i|n, Chjp. Stli. 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 47 9« 28 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 'i 48 Geo. 3. 125 29 Geo. 3. 16 ^, w ^f IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^ 1.0 1.1 US ^" itt Ui £' lift 25 2.2 2.0 liiM 1.4 11.6 ^ ^/ >^' ^, '/ Sciences Corporalion •SJ \ iV <> ^ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14510 (716) •72-4503 ■I'-tW ...y INDEX. CORN AND GJ^An^— continued. navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship - . - . . 13. I In case of public Emergency and Distress, the Governor of Quebec, or the Lieutenant Crovemor or Commander in ChiM, with the Advice and Consent of the Council of the Pro- vince, may authorize the Importation by Sea or Coastwise into V Quebec, or into the Countries or Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River St Lawrence from the Sea, of Pease, Beans, Wheat, Oats, Barley, or any Sort of Grain or Flour ^ made thereof, for a limited Time, from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, for the Supply of the Ihhabitants of the said Province, and of the said Countries and Islands within the Government thereof ; but the said Artir cles are not to be so imported except by British Subjects, in British-built Ships owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship . - 14. — — The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts may be [ seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or I Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty^ ' j Officer specially authorizea by them, or by any Officer of Hit J Majesty's Customs - - - - 1 15. The Master of every Ship, taking on board Com, Meal, or") Flour at Quebec, or any of the British Colonies or Plantations in North America, for Exportation to Great Britain or Ireland, shall bring with him a Certificate or Certificates from the Chief Officer ' 01 OiTic^rs of the Customs in the Port where such Com, Meal, or Flour, shall be put on board, expressing the Quantity and Sort of Com, Meal, or Flour mentioned in the Bill or Bills of Lading, with the Names or Places of Abode of the Exporters, and the Names or Places of Abode of such other Persons who shall have sworn that the Corn, Meal, or Flour therein men- tioned is bonft fide of the Growth or Production of Quebec, or the other British Colonies or Plantations In North America respectively, and where and to whom consigned } and the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of the Ship importing or bringing in the same shall, on Arrival in Great Britain or Ireland, make Oath before the Collector or Comptroller, or other Chief Officer of the Customs at the Port where such Ship shall anive, (who are hereby authorized to administer the said Oath), that the Com, Mesd, or Flour im ported or brought in such. Ship is the same which is mentioned and contained m the said Certificate or Certificates; on Failure whereof, such Com, Meal, or Flour shall be deemed and taken not to be of the Growth or Production of the Province of Que- bec, or the other British Colonies or Plantations in North Ame- rica, but shall be considered within the Meaning of this Act, ; as Com, Meal, or Flour imported or brought into Great Britain ; from some other Foreign Country i6> — — — The several Articles hereafter mentioned may be exported" Reign. from Canada in a British-built Ship owned, navigated, and regtitered according to Law, to any Port of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, without any Oath beiiig required of their being the Growth or Produce of the said Province, or any Certificate, being required of the Country from wheiKe they came ; that is rn <:5i,;. 30 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 39 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. Chip. 8«0. 31 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 6 16 91 30 67 »7 Art. 6 INDEX. m COAN AND GKAW— continued. to say, Wheat, Flour, Peasii, Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian Cam, and Rye ; and the Master of any such British-built Ship laden with any of the said Articles shall only be required to produce a Certificate from the Chief 0£Bcer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the said Articles were either the Growth of or broueht into Canada, conformably . ; to the Regulations established by Law in the said Province (if any), by Land or Inland Navigation, from Countries bordering thereon-, which Certificate such Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer is required to {prant upon satisfactory Proof being made upon Oath or otherwi.;e, and the Authenticity of sura Certificate shall be sworn to by the Master of such veMel at the Port of Delivery in Europe - - . Any Ship having obtained a Licence under this Act* 'T- IS. for the Exporution bf Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies direct to any Part of Europe South* ward of Cape Finistene, may load at the Port of Delivery, or at any Place on the Coast of Africa to the Northward of the Latitude of 30 Degrees North, any Sort of Com or Grain, t^e Produce of Europe, for Exportation direct to the said Sugar Colonies, and there land the same - . -_ See " Europe." Any Com, Grain, Meal, Flour> Beans or Please, may' be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- built Sh^s owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - - ... See "Gibraltar." "Malta." COTTON WOOL. I. I No Cotton Wool of the Production or Manufacture of the British Plantations m America »hall be shipped or conveyed from any of the said Plants tic'is to any Place unless to some other Plantation LvJonging to His Majesty, or to Great Biitain or Ireland, there to be laid on shore, uiider the Forfeiture of the Goods or the full Value thereof, and the Ship a. For every Ship which shall sail from Great Britain or' Ireland for any British Plantation in America, Bond shall be S'ven with One Surety to the Chief Officers of the Customs of e Port firom whence the s«d Ship shall sail, to the Value of .if 1000 if the Ship be of leu Burthen than 100 Tons, and of jfaooo if of ereater Burthen, conditioned that in case the said Ship shall load any Cotton Wool, or any enumv rated Article, ifor the whole of^ which see *< Goods)," at any of the said Iritish Plantations, that the same shall be brought to some other British Plantation, or to Great Britain or Ireland, and be there unloaded (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) ; and for every Ship coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid Plantations which are permitted to trade there, the Governor shall, before the Ship be permitted to load any Cotton Wool, or any enumerated Article, take Bond in like manner to the Value aferesaid that such Ship shall carry all the said Goods to some G 3 Reign. 51 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. 5S Geo- 3- 57 Geo. 3. Chap. Stii. 12 Car. a. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39SC49G.3. I a Car. a. aaScasCa. ao Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 97 98 »9 4 5*9 I 18 '5 10 67 18 27 3 An. 6 18 36 ID 67 19 II »»3 Art. 6 ii INDEX. 6.. J COTTON VfOOL^-continutd. other of His Majesty's British Plantations, or to Great Britain or Ireland . - - . 3. ■ The Master, before he departs from any British Plantation' where he receives his Lading, snail take a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs there, that Bond hath been giTen pursuant to the Directions aforesaid } and the Master shul keep such Certificate till the Voyage is completed, and shall then deliver the same to the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs at the Place where he shall discharge his Lading in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British American Colony, on Forfeiture of ^ j^'ioo - - - - -^ 4. — — If any Ship shall take on board an^ Cotton Wool, (or' other enumerated Article), before Bond is given to the Governor . that the Ship shall carry the said Articles to some other British Plantation, or to Great Britain or Ireland, or before Certificate produced from the Officer of some Custom-house of Great Britain or Ireland that such Bond has been there duly given, or if any Ship shall, contrary to the Tenor of such Bond, carry any ' of the enumerated Arricles to anv Port or Place other than to some Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, and there lay the same on shore, every such Ship shall be forfeited, and also the Lading - -_ 5. ■■ But the said Acts are not to prevent the Subjects of the' King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, ' Berbice, or Essequibo, from exporting from the said Colonies to the Netherlands the Produce of their Elstates on board Dutch Ships } and no Person who by virtue of this Act may be entitled to trade between the said Colonies and the Dominions of the King of the Netherlands, shall export the said Produce to any Part of the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's Dominions in Europe ..... See " Guiana." •—— In Cases where the Governor or Officers in any of the' Plantations shall have reasonable Ground of Suspicion that the Certificate of having given Security in Great Britain or Ireland' is false, they shall require sufficient Security for the Discharge of the Plantation Lading in Great Britain or Ireland , and where there shall be Cause to suspect that the Certificate uf having discharged the Lading in Great Britain or Ireland is filse or counterfeit, the Governor or Officer shall not cancel the Security S- given in the Plantation, until they shall be informed from the Commissioners of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland, as the Case may be, that the Matter cf the said Certificate is true ; and if any Person shall counterfeit, rase, or falsify any Certificate for any Ship or Goods, or knowingly or wilfully make use thereof, such Person shall forfeit df joo, and the Certificate shall be of no Effect ..... If any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland> shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Cotton Wool, or any J enumerated Article, to be canied into any other Country or I Place, until first put on shore in some Port of Great Britain or r Ireland, every Officer for such Offence shall forfeit his Place I and the Value of tlie Goods - - V R(ign. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 398t4oG.3. i» Car. 2. 22 8c 23 Car. 2. 39&40G.3. 20 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 7 & 8 W. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 3980400.3. ij Car. 2. 4 Greo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. Clup. S«Q. 15 10 67 18 26 67 10 15 91 22 IS 10 6l 7 IS 10 67 24 i»3 Art. 6 19 II Art. 6 >.3 27 4>8 10 27 i»3 Art. 6 9 27 i>3 Art. 6 INDEX. 38 COTTON 8.— 10.' II. 12.- »3- 14. WOOL — eontimed. — The Governors or their Commandert in Chief of the said' Plantations are Once a Year at least to return to the Officers of the Customs in London, or to such other Persons as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same, a List of such Ships as shall have laden any Cotton Wool, (or any enumeratedArticle), in such Plantations, as also a List of all Bonds taken by them ; and in case any Ship belonging to any of His Majesty s Plant- ations, which shall have on board any of the said Articles, shall be found to have unloaded in any Port of Europe other than Great Britain or Ireland, such Ship shall be forfeited, and her Ladiuff . • - . -^ In all Bonds to be taken in the Plantations, the Persons' therein named shall be of knoMm Residence and Ability there for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the Condition of which shall be within 18 Months after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged me Goods therein mentioned in one of His Majesty's Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland, other- wise such Bond or Copies thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief to whom such Bond was given, shall be in force, and allowed of in any Court in Great Britain, Ireland, or the Plantations, as if the Original was produced in Court by the Prosecutor ■ ■ In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great Britain' > Reign. Chip. 8«a. 1% ir.a> or Ireland, in pursuance of any Act whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be broueht to Great Britain or Ireland, such Bonds shall be with Condition that within 18 Months from the Date thereof 'the Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certificate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall b? delivered, that tney have been there landed and discharged, otherwise such Bonds shall be forfeited . - . . . In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or"" Non-performance of the Condition of the Bond within Three Tears after the Date thereof, or if, upon Prosecution for some Breach or Non-performance of the Condition, Judgment be not obtained within Two Years after Prosecution commenced, then such Bond, (in default of such Prosecution to be commenced, and Judgment to be obtained, within the Times limited), shall be void, and all Bonds so void shall be delivered up by the Officers, to be cancelled without Fee or Reward Any Person may import any Cotton Wool of Foreien % ia&23C^i 4 Geo. 3 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. Produce into any British Island in the West Indies, in any Ship that may lawfully trade to and from the said Islands, navigated according to Law, without Payment of Duty or other Imposition whatsoever - - - - No Duty or other Imposition whatsoever shall be paid in "1 any British Colony or Plantation in America for any Sort Cotton Wool exported from thence - - —— The Growth of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or of any Country on the Cbntinent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign Euro- pean Sovereign or State, may be imported nrom any of the said Countries into the Free Ports in any Foreign Shipi whatso- 26 10 67 7 8e 8 W. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39 & 40 G. 3, 15 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo, 3. 39&40G. 3. 8 Ann. 4 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. 3. 1 . 6 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 22 10 57 3' 10 67 '3 15 5a 5a 57 12 27 Art. 6 «3 a? ».3 An. 6 6 27 »»3 Alt. 6 43 27 18 19 5* INDEX. POTTON WOQL—continued. r erer, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of | the said Colonies, Plantotioni, or Countries - -J ! See «« Free Ports." 15. Of the Growth of any of the Colonies or Plantations' in America, or Countries on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Fordgn Euro- > pean Sovereign or State, having been imported from any of ' "' the Free Ports, may be exported from the said Ports to any Part of the United Kingdom, under the Rules* &c. of la Qir. II. c. 18. — 22 Sc 23 Car. II. c. a6., and 20 Geo. III. c. 10. with respect to Goods therein enumerated See « Free Poru." CROOKED ISLAND. 1. — The Port of Pitt's Town in Crooked Island, one of the*^ Free Ports for the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles I in Foreign Ships - - - -J See « Free Ports." ':_ a. — — Until 25th March 1810, any Ship belonging to the United"] States comiiu[ in Ballast, and not otherwise, may enter the Port | of Crooked Island for the Purpose of beine there laden with I Salt, and for no other Purpose whatever, ^abject to the Rules, y Provisions, Regulations, and Restrictions of 38 Geo. III. c. 6. respecting Vessels coming for the same Purpose to Turk's Island . . . . , i - See « Bahama Islands." CUMMINSEED.-\ May be exported from Malta, or any of theDepen.' CURRANTS. > dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of DATES. J His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to (^wfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Maiestv's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Snips, owned, navigated and registered according to Law - ». ! ^^^ ' ; See " Gibraltar/' '• V^,': ■'-■'■ ■"> "Malta." DEBTS. I . ' ' In ary Action or Suit brought in any Court of Law or Equity! in any of the British Plantatrons in America, relating to any Debt or Account wherein any Person residing in Great Britain shall be a Partj, the Plaintiif or Defendant, and any Witness to be examined m such AcUon or Suit, may verify or prove any Matter or Thing by Affidavit in Writing upon Oath, or in case the Person making such Affidavit be one of the People called shall reside, to be certified and transmitted under the Common Seal of such City, Borough, or Town Corporate, or the Seal of (he Office of such Mayor or other Chief Magistrate, which Oath and solemn Affirmation every such Mayor and Chief Magistrate is empowered to administer} and every Affidavit or Affirmation so made, certified, and transmitted, shall be allowed to be of the same Force and Effect at if the Person making the same upon Oath or solemn Affirm«tion had appeaired and sworn or affirmed dit Matters contained in Mich Affidavit or Affiimation viv& Rtign. Chap. s«a. 45 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 57 II S7 57 Geo. 3. 4* 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 29 4 W'% DEB DIA M 5 Geo. a. DOl Tl DRl INDEX. 55 DEBTS— cm/imW. vofle in open Court, or upon a Gimmi»iou iwued for the Kxa^ mivation of WitneMes, or of any Pany in any auch Action or Suit retpectirelyt provided that in every tuch AflBdavit and Aftrmation there shall be expreiaed the Addition of the Party making such Afildavit or Affirmation, and the particular Place of his or her Abode - - - . 2. I In all Suits brought in any Court of Law or Equity, by^ or in behalf of His Majesty, in any of the said Plantattons, for , or relating to any Debt or Account \ His Majesty may prove I His Debt and Account, and examine Hia Witnesr es by Amdavit ^ or Affirmation, in like manner as any Subject may do by I this Act - • - . If any Person making such Affidavit or Affirmation shall' be guilty of falsely and wilfully swearing or affirming any Matter or Thing, which, if the same had been sworn upon an Exami- nation in the usual Form, would have amounted to wilful and corrupt Perjury, every Person being thereof lavirfuily convicted, shall mcur the same Penalties and Forfeitures as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm are provided against Persons con- victed of wilful and corrupt Perjury The Houses, Lands, Negroes, and other Hereditaments,' 11 and Real Estates, within any of the said Plantations, belonging to any Person indebted, shall be chargeable with all just Debts, Duties, and Demands owing by any such Person to nis Majesty or any of Mis Subjects, and shall be Assets for the Satisfaction thereof in like manner as Real Estates are by the Law of Elogland liable to the Satisfaction of Debts due by Bond or other Speeulty, and shall be subject to the like Remedies and Pkoccas in any Court of Law or Equity in any of the said Plantations, for seiz- ing, extending, selling, or disposing of any such Houses, Lands, Negroes, ana other Hereditaments and Real Estates, towards the Satisfaction of such Debts, Duties, and Demands, and in like manner as Personal Estates in any of the said Plantations respectively are seized, extended, sold, or disposed of £ar the Satisfaction of Debts - - , . .^ ^ DEMERARA. See •« Guiana." DIAMONDS. i •■ : May be imported from any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or from any Country on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into the Free Ports, in any Foreign S£ip owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries .... See « Free Ports." in Dominica, one of the Free Ports for the f Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign ( Set « Free Ports." DRUGS. • -) I.——— The Growth or Production of any of the Colonies or I Plantations in America, or of any Country on die Coatinent of 1 America, belonging to or under tba Dooumon of any Foreign > DOMINICA. The Port of Rosseau Import Ships Reign. Jy'i't ,»• ;.t -->r 5 Geo. 2. .:■ .11 . 5 Geo. 2. Geo. 2. Chap. sta. 4j Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. o. 57 34 22 57 S7 22 52 Geo. 3. 99 57G«o. 3. I 74 = INDEX. DRUGS— MMffmMkf. European SoTereign nt State, ma/ be imported from any of the ■aid Countries into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Vessel, beins : ownec' and narisated by Persons inhabiting any of the said , Colonies, Plantations or Countries . . - See " Free Ports." , >. The Growth or Production of any of the Colonies or' Plantations in America, or Countries on the Continent of Ai^e- rica, belong'.ng to or under the Dominion of any Foreign Eu> ' ropean SoTereign or State, havbg been imported into the Free . Ports, may be exported from thence to any Part of the United Kingdom under the Rules, &c. of is war. II. c. i8. aa & aj Car. II. c. a6 and ao Geo. III. c. lo. with respect to Goods ' therein enumerated - . • • See " Free Ports." ' DUTIES. l.~ The Customs and other Duties imposed by any Act of Parliament upon Goods imported into or exported from any Btitish Colony or Plantation in America may he put under the Management of such Commissioners, to reside in the said Plant- ations, as His Majesty, bv His Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain, shall juiae to be most for the Adrantage of Trade, and Security of the Revenue of the said Colonies or Plantations 3. — The Commissioners or any Three or more of them shalH have the same Powers and Authorities for carrying into £xecu« tion the Laws relating to the Revenues and Trade of the said Colonies as were exercised by the Commissioners of the Cus- toms in England) and His Majesty in such Commission may make Provision for putting in Execution the Laws relating to the Customs and Trade of the said Colonies 3.. All Deputations and other Authorities granted by the' Commissioners of the Customs in England before the passing of this Act, or which may be granted by them, before any Com- mission shall issue in pursuance of this Act, to any Officer acting in the said Colonies or Plantations, shall continue in force, as if this Act had not been made, until the Deputations or other Authorities so granted to such Officer shall be revoked or made void by the Lords of the Treasury The King and Parliament of Great Britain shall not" 6.. impose any Duty, Tax, or Assessment payable in any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plrorinces, and Plantations in North Ame- rica or the West Indies, except only such Duties as it may be expedient to impose for the Regulation of Commerce i the Net Produce to be applied to the Use of the Colonv, Province, or Plantation wherein levied, in such Manner as otner Duties col- lected by Authority of the General Courts or Assemblies are ordinarily applied . ^ . Payable upon Ships coming in Ballast from the United ^ Sutes of America to tfie Turks Islands, Nassau^ Exuma, and ^ Crooked Island, for the Purpose of being laden with Salt See *« Salt." — ; — Payable upon Dying Wood, Logwood, Tobacco, Indigo,"^ Ginger, and Cocoa Nuu exported from the Britidi Plantations, y IUi|n. • «'.!• 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 7 Geo. 3. 7 Geo. 3. 18 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 25 Car. a. Chapi 57 aa 99 74 41 8«0. 41 7 Geo. 3. 41 12 6 4a INDEX. srj viyrns-'etiitmiiui, if Bond it not given to bring the seme to or Ireland .. • •• - • I 8. 10. II. Gnit Britain I See « Cocoa NttU." •• Ginger." " Indigo." I " Tobacco." : r , ;; « Wood." ■ Payable upon Molaiiet imported into mj British Colony 1 or Plantation - - - - - J See «< Molutes." lUlcn. Chap. S<«. ' Payable upon Sugar, the Produce or Manufacture of any Colony or Plantation in America, not under the Dominion of Hit Majesty, imported into any British Colony or Plantation See «* Sugar." Payable upon Indigo, the Produce or Manufacture ) u-l any Colony or Planution in America, not under the Doml nion of Hit Msjetty, imported into any Britith Colony Plantation - - - See <« Indigo." — - Payable upon Pimento, the Production of any British'^ Colony or ,Plantation, imported into any British Colony or > Plantation ^ ■ - • - - -J See M Pimento," Payable upon Coffee, the Growth of any Colony or Plant ation in America, not under the Dominion of His Majesty, \ imported into any British Colony or Plantation - -J See *< Coffee and Cocoa Nuto." 13. ■ Payable upon Coffse, the Growth of any British Colony ^ I or Plantation in America, imported into any other Britisn Colopy or Plantation ... See « Coffee and Cocoa Nuts. i3...' ' ■ Payable upon Spirits imported into the Province Suebeo, from His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, or any othi aietty's Dommiona in America, or from Great Br Colonies and Plantations not in the Possession of or UIU41 Dominion of His Majesty See " Spirits." 14. - Payable upon Spirits imported into Newfoundland, hom\ any British Colony. or Plantation in the West Indies, or on rht I Continent of America or from, Great Britab or Ireland, or Uie T Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Easequibb - -J See «< Spirits." t j. - Payable upon Wine imported into the British Coloiues or'\ Plantations from Great Britain, Ireland, or the Netherlands, | or from any Island or Place from whence the same may be lawfully imported See «« Wine." 16, — Payable upon Glass, Red Lead, Wlute Lead, Painters "i Colours, and Paper imported into any British Colony or Plant. V 9don from Great Britain or Ireland - - -) See « Lead." . " Painters Colours." 1 : « Paper." H . .'.I '. 6 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. a. 4 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. 3. 14 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo, 3- 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 7 Geo. 3. 5a 13 >5 »S S» >5 5* 88 31 106 91 15 97 91 29 4 46 10 I a I I 4 6 '-L '.^i .:^*sia^4j^-y« . INDEX. DUTIIS— mm/mkm/. 17. . No Duty of Gunpowder shall be received by any Officer*\ in the Free I'orti, for any Entry, Cocket, Clearance, ur Paiiport I for any Foreign Veuel, or any Goodi imported into or exported 1 from tne said Iilanda in such Foreign Veisel - -J Se« •< Free Porti." EMERY STONE. May be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or to any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according to Law . , . ^, - -. See "Gibraltar. •• MalU." ENGLAND and ENGLISH. ^ These Words in the several Acts made before the Union with Scotland { are, in the Quotations in this Index, changed into the Words ( " Great Britam " and " British," by virtue of - -J ESSENCE OF BERGAMOT.'^ May be exported from Malta, or any of^ the Dependencies thereof, or from I Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- I n's Sugar Colonies or Plantations I merica, or to Newfoundland, Ber- ^ muda, or to any of His Majesty's Colonics or Plantations in North America, in British>built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according to Law See «« Gibraltar." «• Malta. ESSEQUEBO. See « Guiana." EUROlPE. \ 1. -i The Island of Malta and its Dependencies shall be deemed I and taken to be in Europe - - • -J 2. ■■ No Commodity, of the Production or Manufacture oC Do. of CITRON. Do. of LEMON. Do. of ORANGE. Do. of LAVENDER. Do. of ROSES. Do. of ROSEMARY. Europe, shall be imported into any Island, Colony, Territory, or Place to His Majesty belonging, or which ihall hereafter belong unto or be in the Poisesiion of His Majesty in America, but what shall be bon& fide and without Fraud laden and shipped in Great Britain or Ireland in British-built Shipping, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, and which shall be carried directly thence to the said Islands, Colonies Territories^ or Places, and firom no other Place, under the Penalty of the Loss of such Commodities s shall be imported from any other Place, by Land or Water, and if by Water, of the Ship in which imported — ' No Vessel shall, upon any Pretence whatsoever be ckared' outwards from any Fort of Great Britain or Ireland, for any Ishnd, Colonv, Territory, or Place to His Majestv belonging, or whidi shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty in America, unless the whole and entire Car^ shall be bonft fide and withont f rand laden and shipped in Great Britain or Ireland ; and any Officer of His Majesty's Customs is empowered to stop any British Ship arriving from any Part of Europe, which shall be discovered within Two Leagues of the Shore of any of the Britirii Colonies or Planta- ;[ lUifii. Chip. Sett. 45 Geo- 3- 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 5 Anne 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 15 Car. 2. 39&40G.S. 57 29 4 «4 5>9 I 29 4 4 Geo. 3. 398e40G.3. 3« 10 67 6 An. 6 15 67 30 Art. 6 INDEX. tions in America, and MJxe ai forfeittd any Oooda* for which the Matter shall not produce a Cocket or Clearance from tht proper Officer of Hia Majeaty's Cuitomi, certtfyiag that the said Goods were laden cm boani the Ship in lome Fort of Gnat Britain or Ireland ... 6.. Salt mar be laden in any Part of Europe for the' Fisheries in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or Quebec | Wines of the Madeiras, and of the Western fslandt of Azores, may be there laden for Exportation to any of the British Colonies or Plantations, and Orantes and Lemons of the Azores or Madeiras, may be snipped from thence for any of the British Colonies or Plan- tations in North America . . ., Any Person inhabitins in Jersey or Guernsey,' may ship in the said Islands, and transport directly from thence to Newfoundland, or to any other of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, where the Fishery is now or shall hereafter be carried on, on board any Ship which may lawfully trade there, any Sort of Craft, Food, Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods fit and necessary for the Fishery in those Parts, or for the Use and Support of the Mariners or other Persons employed on board the Ships or on Shore, in carrying on the said Fishery there, such Craft, Clothing, or other Gooda being the Produce or Manufacture of Great Britain, or of Jersev or Guernsey, and such Food or Victuals being of the Growth or Produce either of Great BritJkin, Ireland, or Jersey or Guernsey . - . ProTidcd th« Matter of such Ship shall pro-' duce to the proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Planta.ion where he ahall arriTe, a Cer- tificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, or Commander ia Chief for the Time being, that Oath had been made by the Shipper of such Goods, before the Magistrates of the Royal Court, or any Three of them, u»t the Goods »xd Victuals so shipped are of such Growth, Product, <>r Manufacture as aforesaid, which Cer- tificate shall also be attested by the Principal Officer of the Customs in the said Islands, who ahall certify that the said Oath was taken in his Presence } and on failure of producing such Certificate, such Craft, Food, Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods found on board any Ship, and the Ship importing the same, shall be liable to be seized and forfeits, in the same manner aa they would have been liable V this Act had not been made ' " ~. And any of His Majesty's Subjects inhabiting' and residing in the Isle of Man, may export from thence to any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, in British-built Ships or Vessels, navi- . gated and registered according to Law, Herrings caught fl and cured by them, in the same manner as Victuals | { Hi 59 Riign. Ch«p. Stt\. rN 4 Geo. 3. J Geo. 3. Geo. 3. 57 Ceo. 3. »5 aa 8p y J I 9 Geo. 3. 28 9 Geo. 3. 29 12 Geo. 58 m INDEX. 1 8.. lUROPl tm ti imd. miLj bt impoRtd into iht Mid Colenict or PUntationi from Ireland - - . . Jo. .— — > Anj of Hit Majfltty't Subjtctt rtiiding in tht lilt of Man miy lade and transport directly from thence to anjr Part of^ America, where the Fithery ii now or •hall nereafter be carried on, oq board any Ship which may lawfully trade or flah there, any Proviaioni, Hooka, Lines, Nettiast, or other Tools of Implements necessary for and used in the Fishery by the Crews of the Ships carrying out the same, and the Craft be- longing to ana employe'l by such Ships in the said Fisheryt suchPrornions, Hooks, Lines, Nettings, or other Tools or Implements beine the Product and Jz Manufacture of Great Britain, Ireland, or the Isle of 2 Man ..... '' - The Master of such Ship shallproduce (o the' proper Officer of the Customs, in the Colony or Plant, ation where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector, or other principal Officer of the Customs, in the Port where he shall hare fitted out, that Oath had been made before him by die Shipper of such Provisions, &c. that the same are the Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Isle of Man, and that the said Articles (except the Pro- visions) specifyins the Quantities and Particular of each Sort, are to be used in the Fishery, by the Crew of the Ship carrying out the same, and by the Craft belonging to and to be employed by such Ship in the Fishery, and for no other Purpose, (which Oath and Certificate is to be administered and granted without Fee or Reward) \ and on Failure of producing such Certificate, or if any such Tools or Implements are used or disposed of fur any other Purpose, the same and the Ship shall be seized : nd forfeited in the same Manner as they would have been if this Act had not been made ... It shall be lawful to export in any British Ship 10. II. owned and navigated according to Law, from any of the Islands enumerated in these Acts, to any British Colony or Plantation in America or the West Indies, any Goods of the Manufacture of Europe, and also any Goods which shall have been legally imported into any of the said Islands from any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or any Cbuntry on the Con* tinent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any foreign European Sovereign or State i and if any Doubts uull arise whether any such Goods have been legally imported into the said Islands, the Legality of such Importation shall be made appear to the Satis- faction of the Collector and Comptroller, or other proper Officer of the Customs at the Port of Exporta- tion, before such Goods shall be suffered to be shipped. See " Free Ports." Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export in") any British-built Sbip» owned and navigated according | IUI|ii. Cb*p. 15 Geo. 3. 3« 15 Geo. 3. 3> 45 Geo. 49 Geo. ja Geo. 57 Geo. 57 22 99 74 9*10 i INDEX. 61 1 EUROPL-^M^imM^ to Law, from ■ny on« of the Iilandu in the Weit IndiM belonsing to Mm Majtity, to any other of the uid ^ Iilandi, or to anj of the Briliah Colonice on the Con> J tinent of America, and from any one of the Mid Britiah 2 Coloniei in America, to any of the Iilanda in the Weat Indies belonging to Hit Maieity, or to any other Britiah Colony or Plantation on the Continent of America, any Oooda of the Manufiacture of Europe, and alio any Oooda or Merchandiiea, or Priie Gooda, which hare been legallv imported into the aaid hiands or £ Coloniea under tne Regulations of 45 Geo. III. c. 57. J ^ I a. Any of Hia Majesty's Subjects may export in'^ ^ 1^ any Britiah«builtVeaael, owned and naviKaied according to Law, from Newfoundland, to anr of the Islands in the West Indies belongingto His Majesty, or to any of the Britiah Colonies on the Continent of America, and from the Islands in the West Indin belonging to Hit Majesty, or from any one of thi British Colonies on the Continent of America, in'.o Newfoundland, any Gooda of the Manufacture of Europe, and also any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or Pri^e Goods, which shall have been legally imported into any of the said litands or Colonies, under the Regulations of 45 Geo. IIL c. <;. - - • Fruit, Wme, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of^ i3« .1 14. Europe, South of Cape Finisterre, may be shipped in any Port or Place of Europe, SouUiof Cape Finisterre, for Exportation direct to any of the several Ports here- in-after mentioned : that is to say, St John's in New Brunswick, Saint John's in Newfoundland, Quebec in Canada, Sydney in Cape Bret(>n,Halifax and Shelbum in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince Edward's Island in North America, on board of an/ British Ship, navigated and registered according to Law, which ahall have arrived at anv Port or Place in Europe with Articles the Growth or Produce of the said Colonies, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the said Colonies, or from any Part of the United IJjngdom, or with any of the Goods herein-after mentioned, from the Pro- vince of Canada, whether the Growth or Produce of Canada, or brought into the aaid Province by Land or Inland Navigation • - • -_ Upon the Importation thereof into any of the' Ports before enumerated, the Gooda ahall be aubject to the Payment of such Duties as Goods of the like Denomination or Description are subject to, upon being imported into any of the said several Porta from Great Britain, and no other «s- The Person exporting any Car^o from any Port' in Nova Scotia, or of New Brunswick, for any Port of Europe, under this Act, shall make Oath at the Port of Shipment before the Chief Officer of the Cus- toms, or the Naval Officer in Command, that the Cargo so shipped is the Growth wid Produce of the Rilia. 5a Geo. 3. Ctup. (Ml. 100 57 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. ■9 97 97 6« INDEX. I s ■S, 9 O •s •a ^ ") said Provinces, or the Produce of the British Fisheries i in North America, really and bon& fide ttken and cured bjr His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the said Colonies ; and such Officer shall cenifr such Oath under his Hand i which Certificate shall be produced by the Master on -his Arrival at the Port in Europe, within the Limits aforesaid^ to which such Cargo shall be consigned, or to which such Ship shall go for the Delivery of the Carso i and the Master shaU make Oath before the British Consul tbsie resident, or if there shall be no British Consul, then before Two known British Mer> chants there resident, that the Certificate so produced J^ was a Certificate of the Officer of the Custom* or g Naval Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly ><- '« signed bv him - » - » ^^ 1 6. Tne following xitUdes may be exported from* Canada in a British-built Ship, navigated, and regis* tered according to Law, into any Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, without any Oath being required ot their bemg the Growth or Produce of the said Province, or any Certificate being required of the Country from whence they came; ihat is to say. Wheat, Flour, Pease, Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian Coin, Rye, White Oak Staves, and Heading dressed or undressed, Heopa, Pine Flank, and Boards } and the Master of any such British-built Ship, lading any of the said Articles, shall only be required to produce a Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Commaitd at Quebec, that dte said Articles were either the Growth, or brought into Canada coaformabiy to the Regulations established by Law in the said Ptrovince (if any), by Land or Inland Navigation from Countries boftlerine thereon) and which Certificate such Officer of uie Customs, or Naval Officer, is hereby required to grant, upon satis- factory Proof being aisde, upon Oath or otherwise ( and tiie Authenticity of such Certificate shall be sworn to in Manner uoresaid, by the Master of such Ship at the Port of Delivery in £un^ within the aforesaid Limits . ^ . . 17. — Before the Shipment on board any such British' Reign. Ship of any pickled Fish, or dry Fish, for the Purpose of Exportation from Canada |o any Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, the Person in whose Possession the aame has continued from the Time of its being landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in the taking it until the same shall be shipped for Exportation, shall make Oath before the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that die same was the Produce of the British American Fisheries, really and bona fide taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries, from some of the said Colonies i and on such Oatli bfiag taken at Quebec, the said Officer Chip. 51 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. s«a. 91 97 51 Geo. 3. 97 INDEX. m EUROPE— fMi/MiW. •a 3 ^^ Si 3 •S - f. J s s. 61 11 PQ t o e (A w •a ••3 o a 3 i8. of the Customs, or Naval Officer, ihall grant Certifi- c.ie thereof, signed with his Hand, which Certificate only the Master shall be required to produce at the Port of Delivery in Europe, within the Limits afore- said, and shall make Oath of the Authenticity of such Certificate in manner aforesaid Any Ship having obtained a Licence under this' Act for the Exportation of Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa, from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies direct to any Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finis- terre, may load at the Port of Delivery, or at any Port 1 or Place on the Coast of Africa to the Northward of ( the Latitude of 30 Degrees North, any Sort of Com or Grain, the Produce of Europe, for Exportation direct to the said Colonies or Plantations, and there land the same . . . - See « Sugar." 30. — — — Any Ship being British-built, owned, navigated, and registere 56 Geo. 3. 9^ m INDEX. EfJRaPEr-retHtimied. Subjects of' 26. *5 Hit Mid MajeMy : Provided alio, that after the Eipintkm of the Five Tean, noauch Trade shall be carried en except in Vcaaels Dotch -built, and whereof the Master and Three Fourths of the Crew are Subjects of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands - - - -^ All such Importations shallbe subject to the same *% Duties as are payable by His Majesty's Subjects on Im- > portations of uie like Articles into the sua Colonies J — ~— Sugar, Cofiee, Cocou, Rum, Melasses, Pimento, Indigo,"" Ginger, Dying Wood, being the Produce of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations, or any Articles which may now or may hereafter be by Law imported into the said Colonies or Plantations, may be exported from thence direct to Malta or the Dependencies uiereof, or to Gibraltar } and any Articles the Production or Manufacture of Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, and any Articles which may have been lawfully imported into New- foundland, &c. may be exported firom thence direct to Malta or the Dependencies therem, or to Gibraltar, under the Rules and Regulations of these Acts , ... See « Gibraltar." ': « Malta." EXUMA. Until 25th March 1810, any Ship belonging to the United State!!, coming in Bdlast and not otherwise, may enter the Port of Exuma for the Purpose of being there laden with Salt, and for no other Purpose whatever, subject to the Rules, Provisions, Regulations, and Restrictions of 28 Geo. III. c. 6. respecting Ships coming for the same Purpose to Turk's Island - - - See << Bahama and Bermudas." FALMOUTH. One of the Free Ports in the Island of Jamaica, for the Imporration and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Shipi See « Free Ports." FEES. The Officers of the Customs in any British Colony or Plantation in America appointed by Deputation or Commis- sion from the Commistiondrs of Hit' Majesty's Customs in England, may receive such Fees as they and their Predecessors have been generally and usually accustomed to receive before 29th September 1764, provided such Fees are not contrary to the Direction of any Act made in Great Britain ; and in every Port in any British Island in the West Indies, where no Fees have been received, such Officers shall be entitled to the same Fees as have been generally and usually rteeived by the like Officers, in the nearest Port in the Island, before the 29th Sep- tember 1 764 } and if no Fees have been received by any Officer in any Port in the Island,' such Officer sha'l be entitled to such Fees as have been generally and usually received by the like Officers in the Island of Barbadoes before the said Day ; and in every Port or Place on 'the Continent of America, within His Majesty's Dominions, where no Fees have been received by. any Officer of the Customs^'such Officer shall be entitled to the Rei|n. Chap. 8«a. 56 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. ■■i>]\ 4S Ge6. 3. ":/ ,v-i -fl ;l1f fj 't 91 29 4 1.8 42 57 INDEX. ^ ¥EtS--eonttnutd, same Feet as hare been ' genenlly and usualW recetvfed'by dte like Officers, in the nearest Pbrt, on or before tnt said Day | and if no Fees have been received by any Officer in such Port, such Officers shall be entitled to such rees as have been generally and usually received by the like Officers, in the nearest Port within any firiti^h Colony or Plantation, on or before the said Day } and if no Fees have been generally and usually received by any Comptrolleir of . His Majesty's Custom for any Port or Place virithin any Colony or Plantation, or if the Fees received -by such' Comptroller before the eaid Day have not been tqual to One Third Part of the Fees received by the Collector of His Majesty's Customs within the same Port or Place, in every such Case such Comptroller mar receive for hit Fees, for «nj Entry, or other Business done oy him in the Execution of hit Employment, a Sum equal to One Third Part of the Fees gene- rally and usually received by such Collector for the like Business) and every such Officer shall have and be entitled to the same Remedy for Reobvery' of such Fees as has been heretofore . . allowed to any Collector or other Officer ; and if any Collector, Comptroller, or other Officer of the Customs in America, shall require or receive any other or greater Feet than herein allowed to be taken, he shall for the First Offence forfeit j£50, and for the Second Offence forfeit his Place, and bje for ever incapable of executing any Office or Employment in the Customs - 2. A Fee not exceeding Two Shillings and Sixpence mav' be taken by Officers of the Customs at Newfoundland for eacn Report of the Master of every Vessel fitted and cleared out , from Great Britain as Fishing Sbips, upon hit First Anrival there, and at his clearing out from thence, and no other Fee shall be taken or demanded by any Officer of the Customs there relative to the said Fishery 3. So long as 10 Oeo. 3. c. 37. shall remain in force*, the' Officers of His Majesty's Customs in Newfoundland shall be entitled to receive sticn Fees for all Business done by them in- thc Execution of their Duty, as were legally demanded and taken by the like Offiicers of the Customs at the Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia oh or before ist January 1768, provided the said Fees are not contrary to the Directions of any Act made in Great Britun j and tjhe said Officers shall have the like Remedy for the same, and be liable to the same Forfeitures and Di8> abilities for receiving any greater or other Fees than are allowed to be taken, as are inflicted in such Cases by 5 Geo. 3. c. 45. and 10 Geo. 3. c. 57' - For every Certificate granted upon the shipping of Coffee*^ and Cocoa Nuts in pursuance of these Acts, die Collector and I Comptroller and Naval Officer shall receive as a Fee or Reward | the Sum of Five Shillings, and no more - -J See « Coffee and Cocoa Nuts." The Fees now payable upon the Registry oi* Transfer of-v Property in any Vessel shall continue to be paid as heretofore, f except upon the First Registry, in pursuance of this Act, of any f Ship built and registered before ist May 1786 - -J See «< Registry of British Ships." * Tkit Act was made perpttual by 45 Geo. HI. c, 68. $ 5. I2 ReigB' CMp. s«a. 5 Geo. 3. 16 Geo. 3. 45 37 •^ la Geo. 3. 3« 16 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 47 68 3 5 5 Geo. 3. 23 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 3. 24 79 60 3 7 37 68 INDEX. ¥f,BS—u*d. 6. \ The Collectors and Comptrollers in the British Colonies and Plantations may receive Two Shillings and Sixpence of the Masters of British Ships upon delivering the List of the Crew on board such Ships at the lune of Arrival in the said Colonies V or Plantations, and also of the Wages due to such as may have I died during the Voyage, and may receive One Shilling from any I Person inspecting sucn List - - -J — — — No Fee shall be demanded or received by any Officer' in the Free Ports, for any Entry, Cocket, Clearance, or Passport for any Foreign Vessel, or for any Goods imported into or exported from the said Islands in any such Foreign Vessels, under the like Pains and Penalties as are inflicted upon Officers receiving greater Fees than are allowed by any Act now in force - - . . - See «« Free Ports." FIGS. May be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or*\ from Gibraltar direct, to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies I or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or I any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, r in British-built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according I to Law . - - . -J See " Gibraltar." « Malu.'* '( I FISHERIES. Salt for the Fisheries of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia > I and Quebec, may be laden in any Part of Europe on board-^ any British-built Vessel owned, navigated, and registered 1 according to Law - - - - V Any Person inhabiting in Jersey or Guernsey may lade' in the said Islands, and transport directly from thence to any of the British Colonies in America where the Fishery is carried on, on board any Ship which may lawfully trade there, any Sort of Craft, Food, Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods, (it and necessary for the Fishery in those Farts, or for the Use and Support of the Mariners or other Persons empbyed on board the Ships, or on shore, in carrying on the said Fishery there ; provided such Craft, Clothing, or other Goods, are the Produce or Manufacture of Great Britain, or of Jersey or Guernsey, and such Food or Victuals are the Growth or Produce either of Great Britain, Ireland, or the said Islands Provided also, that the Master of the Ship produce to' the proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, Deputv Governor, or Commander in Chief, that Oath had been made by the Shipper of such Goods, before the Magistrates of the Royal Court in Jersey or Guernsey, or any Three of them, that the Goods and Victuals so shipped are of such Product or Manufacture, which Certificate shall also be attested by the principal Officer of the Customs in the said Island, who shall certify that the said Oath was taken in his Presence } and on Failure of producing the Certificate, such Food, &c. found on board any Ship, and the Ship importing the same, shall be seized R«i|n. Chap. Sea. 37 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 57 Geo. 15 Car. 2. 2 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 48 Geo. 3. 9 Geo. 3. 9 Geo. 3. 73 57 22 99 74 29 4 S.9 I 7 24 15 19 22 6 7 31 I I 28 28 N,l INDEX, m VISHEMES— continued. nnd forfeited in (he same manner as if this Act had not made - - . 6.- been I ■ Any of Hia Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle or Man may export from thence to any of the British Co- lonies or Plantations in America, in British-built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, Herrings caught and cured by them, in the same manner as Victuals may be imported into the said Colonies or Plantations from Ireland _ - . . — — Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle or Man may ship and lade there, and transport directly from thence to any Part of America where the Fishery is now or shall hereafter be carried on, on board any Ship which may lawfully trade or fish there, any Provisons, Hooks, Lines, get- ting, or other Tools or Implements necessary for and used in the Fishery by the Crews of the Ships carrying out the same, and the Craft belonging to 7m>* employed by such Vessels in the Fishery, such Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Tools or Implements, being the Product and Manufacture of Great Britain, Ireland, or the said Isle of Man Provided the Master of such Ship shall produce to the' proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Plantation where he shall arrive, a Certificate under tne Hand and Seal of the Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs in the Port where he shall have fitted out, that Oaih hath been made before him by the Shipper of such Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Tools and Implements, that the same are of the Product and Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Isle of Man, and that the several Articles before mentioned (except the Provisions), specifying the Quantities and Particu- lars of each Sort, arc to be used in the Fishery by the Crew of the 3hip carrying out the same, and by the Craft belonging to and to be employed by such Ship in the said Fishery, and for no other Use or Purpose whatsoever (which Oath and Cer- tificate such Collector or other Officer is required to administer and grant without Fee or Reward)} and on Failure of producing such Certificate, or if any such Hooks, Lines, Netting, Tools and Implements, are used or disposed of for any other Purpose, the same and the Ship shall be seized and forfeited, as they would have been if this Act had not been made Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying' on the Fishery from any of the following Ports in North America, that is (o say, Saint John's in New Brunswick, Saint John's in Newfoundland, Quebec in Canada, Sydney in Cape Breton, Halifax and Shelbume in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince Edward's Island, or taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fishery from any Part of the United Kingdom, may be exported from any of the said Colonies to any Part of Europe South of Cape Finisterre on board any British-built Vessel owned, navigated, and registered according to Law } and any such Ship, after discharging the Cargo of Fish, may lade in any such Part of Europe Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, for Exportation, direct to the said Colonies, under the Regulations hereafter mentioned ' Reigii. Chip. 8«A. 12 Geo. 3. S8 15 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 3» 51 Geo. 3. 97 INDEX. IFISHEAIES— m«/mim/. 8. lO. II. 12. *3' The Person* eiporting a Cargo from anjr Port in Nora' Scotia or New Brunswick to anv such Part «i Europe South of Cape Finisterre, ahali ptakn Oath at the Port of Shipment before the Chief 0%i>r of thf Customs, or the Naval OiBcer, that the Cargo so shipped is the Produce of the British Fisheries in North America, and bonk fide taken and cured by His Ma- jesty's Subjects carrying on such Fisheries from some of the said Colonies, and such Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer shall certify such Oitth under his Hand, which Certificate shall be produced by the Master, on his Arrival at the Port in Europe to which such Cargo shall be conveyed, or to which she «hall go for the Delivery of the Cargo, and the Master 'shall make Oath before the British Consul diere, or if . no Consul, then before Two known Britiah Merchants, that the Certificate so produced was the Certificate of the Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly signed bjf: him - - - ■ . Before shippmg.ahy Pickled Fish or Dry Fish for Export-^ ation from Canada to anv Port of Europe within ^e Lmtits aforesaid, the Person in wnose Possession tne same has continued from the Time of its being landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in the takihg it, until shipped for Exportation, shall make Oath before "th« Chief Officer of the Customs or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the same was the Produce of the British American Fiaheries, boni fide taken and cured by His Majesty** Subjects, «arr]4ng on the 'said Fishery from some of the uid Colonies } and oh such Oath being taken at Quebec, the said Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer shall grant Certi^ate thereof, signed with his Hand, which Certificate the Master of sucli Ship shall be required toproduce at the Port of Delijvery in Europe within the Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath of the Authenticity: of such Certificate in manner aforesaidi - - Vessels no^ exceeding Thirty Tons Burthen, not having* solely in the Fishery on the Baulcs or Shores ^le Province of Quebec, Nova Scotia, New »t to the Gulph of , Saint Lawrence, and ape Canso^ or the Islands widiin the same, or 1 V a Deck, employi of Newfoundland Brunswick, adjao to the North of C , , _. in trading Coastwise ' within the said Limits, are not required I to be registered - ' - - J See " Registry of British Ships/' — — Certain Articles, the Produce or Manufacture of the^t United States of America,.iDay be imported into Newfoundland \ and Quebec for the Uae of the Fisheries there - -J . : , See ** Newfoundland." "Quebec." The Right of carrying on the Fishery at Newfoundland, and going on shore! for tne Curing, Salting, Drying, and Hu8< banding Fish vested in His Majesty's Subjects See « Newfoundland." ■ ■ Oil and Blubber taken and caught on the Banks and' Shores of Newfodndland by British Sulqects shall not be admitted to Entry as sucl| in Great Britain, unless accompanied with a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, Deputy Governor, Naval Officer, or other Prifidpal Officer, or a Justice of the Peace, testifybg that jCbth had been .nude ) Roign, "1*1 vein f ■■-•^! •;: ..■ •■•I- f-,',- '• 51 Geo. 3. ■ J -,.» •! .1' .• »' •-. i: . -t ' Clup. StU. 97 I ■I .■ • }■: i ,•'-.«>. -.- iv iiV'" * ■ ■■ - 51 Geo. 3. 1 A -y ■■■■ i6 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 10 & li W. 3 13 Geo. 3.- 51 Geo. 3. S5^^'3- 97 60 6 16 as 45 »3 I I 4 2 '25 INDEX. I. FLSHERIES— <«M/imtf FLOUR. See ••Corn." ; li i ■ . ^/' i 1- !;,l-I FREE FORTS. Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drucs of all Sorts, Cocoa, Logwood, Fustib, and all Sorts of Wood for Dyers Use, Hides, Skins, and Tallow, Bearer, and all Sorts of Furs, Tortoise Shell, Hard Wood or Mill Timber, Mahogany, and all other Woods fur Cabinet Ware, Horses, Assei, Mules and Cat. tie, the Growth or Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- tions in America, or of any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Derotnion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, Coin, Bullion, Di»monda, Precious Stones, Rice, Grain of all Sorts, and Flour,maybe imported from any of the said Countries, into the Ports hereafter mentioned) that is to say. Ports. Kingston, Savannah, La Mar, a Montego Bay, Santa Luc- ( ca, Antonio, Saint Ann, r Falmouth, and Maria -J Saint George . . . Roseau . . . Saint John's San Josef > Scarborough Road Harbour Nassau _ . - Pitt's Town Kingston - - The Principal Port Any Port where there Custom-house Bridgetown ere is a\ V'. Islands. Jamaica. Grenada. Dominica. Antigua. Trinulad. Tobago. Tortola. New Providence. Crooked Island. Saint Vincent. Bermuda. Bahamas. Barbadoes. K:.f ft . tt-.f) In any Foreign Sloop, Schooner^ or other Vessel*, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plantations in America, or Countries on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State - - . ' •_ Tobacco, the Growth or Production of any Island- in the* West Indies, or of any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foseign European Sovereign or State^ may be insported from any such Island or Country, into any of the Ports herein-before enumerated^ in the like Foreign Vessels, and be again exported from thence' to any Part of the United Kingdom^ under the same Restrictions; 7 * So much of the 4$ Geo. III. c ^J.as edttfined ibe Tradt t» Vessels not having mere than One Deck, itr^altd by the Acts 50 Geo, III. c. 21. and 54 Geo, III. r. 48. . R«i|n. ....*. 45 48 49 5« 57 Geo. 3. Geo. 3. . Geo. 3. Geo. 3. Geo. 3. ';.... :i;;| 1 ■• . • 1-3 45 Geo. 3. Chip. Mk. 57 "5 99 74 1 '. 57 7« INDEX. 6. FREE PORTS— Mff^'Mw/i. Prnaltiei, and Forfeitures, as are in this Act contained with I regard to the Goods herein-before enumerated - • , 3. — — It shall be lawful to import into the said Port of Nassau in the Island of New Proridence, and into the said Port of Pitt's Town in Portland Harbour in Crooked Island, and into such other Ports in the said Bahama Islands, and into the prin- cipal Port in the Island of Bermuda, and into such Ports in the Islands called Caicos as shall be approved by His Majesty in Council, Sugar and Coffee, th* Produce of any Foreign Country or Plantation, in such Foreign Ships, and subject to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as are prescribed in this Act with respect to the Goods and Merchandize herein- before enumerated) and such Sugar and Coffee may be so imported into and exported from any of the said Ports without Payment of any Duty of Customs . • - -^ 4. His Majesty, by and with the Advice of the Privy Coun-' cil, may permit the Importation into the Port of Road Harbour in the Island of Tortola, one of the Virgin Islands, and the Exportation from the' ce into this Kingdom, of all Goods per- mitted to be impor' .d into the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, and to be exported from thence to this King- dom, in the same manner, on the same Duties and Drawbacks, and subject to the same Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are provided in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. respecting Importation into and Expc -tation from the Port of Nassau, and further subject to such Rules, Regulations, Con- ditions, and Restrictions, as shall from Time to Time be directed by His Majesty, by and with the Advice aforesaid 5. His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council,' may permit the Importation into the Port of Road Harbour in Tortola, and Exportation from thence, without Payment of any Duty of Customs, of all Sugar subject to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as may be directed by His Ma- jesty, by such Advice as aforesaid ) and all Sugar imported into the United Kingdom from Tortola, (except such Sugar as shall be of the Growth and Produce of the British Virgin Islands, and exported as such under the Certificates of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs of the said Islands, which Certificate shall be given in such Form as shall be directed by His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, and shall not be given in any one Year, for any greater Quantity than 5,880,000 Pounds Weight), shall be deemed to be Foreign Sugar, and be imported into the United Kingdom as such, and subject to all Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions relating thereto - - - - No Goods except such as are before enumerated (see No I.) shall be imported in anv Foreign Vessel from any of the Colonies or Plantations in America or any Countries on the Continent of America belonging to or under tlie Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of the before-mentioned Ports, on Forfeiture thereof, with the Vessel in which impcrted, and the same may be seized b/ any Officer or Officers 0/ His Majesty's Customs or Navy authorized to make Seizu>es, and shall and may be prosecuted in manner herein-after directed .... > Rtl|n. Clup. 8«a. 45 Geo. 3. 57 4.S 46 Geo. 3. n 46 Geo. 3. 72 45 Geo. 3. SI I ft tint. FREl PORTS— TMlnnM/. 9.- 10. • II.' I a. It nhall be lawful to ikport from any of the laid Port! (we No. i.) to any of the Colonikt or PlaiiUtion* in Ametica, or any Countries on the Continent of America bvlons* ing to or under the Dominion of any Foreicn Europnm Sovereisn or State* in any Sloop, Schooner, or Ve«Kl owned and navigated by I^iont Inhabiting any such Colony, Planta- tion, or Oountry, Rum of the Produce of any British Island * which shall have been brought into the said Islands in British- built Ships owned, navigated , and registered according to Law, and all Goods which shall have been legally imported Into the said Islands, except Masts, Yards, or Bowsprits, Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, and except such Iron u shall have been brought from the British Colonics of Plantations in America -. — — It shall be lawful to export in any British Ship, owned' and navigated according to Law, from any of Uie said Ports, to any British Colony or Plantation m Aitierica or the West Indies, any Goods of the Manufacture of Europe, and any Goods which shall have been leeally imported into *ny of the said Ports, from any of the Connies or Plantations in America, or any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State . . - _ But if any Doubts shall arise whether any such Qooii* intended to be so exported shall have been legally imported into the said Ports, tne Legality of such Importation shall be made appear to the Satisfaction of the Collector and Coniptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port of Exporta- tion, before such Goods shall be sufltnred to be shipped for Exportation - . - . - All Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drugs of* all Sorts, Cocoa, Logwood, Fustick, and all Soru of Wood for Dyers Use, Hides, Skins, and Fallow Beaver, and all Sorts of Furs, Tortoise Shell, Mahogany, and all other Woods for Cabinet . Ware, of the Growth or Production of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or Countries on Uie Coti- tinent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, shall be allowed to be exported from any of the said Ports, (see N6. i .) to any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Iteland, under the Restrictions, Securities, Penalties, and Forfeitures provided in i2 Car. II. c. 18. 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 26. & 20 Geo. III. c. 10. with respect to the Goods therein enu- merated - . . . _ No Goods of the Production or Manufacture of the East^ Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall be exported from any of the Free Ports to atiy other British Colony or Plantation in America or the West Indies, upon Forfeiture thereof with the Ship ... If any Foreign Vessel, arriving at itij of the aforesaid^ Ports, shall have on board any Goods of the Productioh 6t I Manufacture of the East Indies, or other Places beyond theCape ;^,Jij * Negroes were also alhwed to be exported to Foreign ulmerican Cdonits^ but such Exportation is now prehiHttd by the Aa't J^ MliiUng the Slave Trade. See « Slaves." K Ik CUp. Ml. 45 Geo. 3. 57 45 Geo. 3. 57 J 45G«0'3- 57 10 45 Geo. 3. 4j> Geo. 3. 57 23 II I 45 Geo. 3. 57 12 7« INDEX. I ! J »4' >5- i »6. tf. PORTS *mit uu uJ. of Oodi Hop*, inch Ooodt ihall b* forfoittd, with th« Ship S in which brought, wh«th«r such Good* thall be inltniltd to b« | landed* or whether Bulk liuil hive been broken or not ^J I No Duty of Gunpowder, oot any Fee, ahall be received' bf any Officer in the Free Porta for any Entry, Cockel, Cleaff> ance, or Paaaport for any Foreign VeMel, or for any Gooda inported into or exponed in luch Foreign Shipaor Veatela, under the tike Paina and Penaltiea aa are inAicted upon OAcera receiving greater Feee than are allowml by any Act of Parliament now in force for reculating the Feci of the Offiecra of the Cuitoma in Hia Majeaty'a Coioniea and Plaatatiena in America - - - • -, ' All Penaltiea and Forfeiture! impoaed by thia Act may' b*proaecuted,aurd for, recovered, and divided in Great Britain, or in any of Hia Majeaty'a Q>loniea or lalandi in America, in the aame Manner and Form, and by the aamc Rulea and Regu- lationa in all reipecta, aa fat aa the lame are applicable, aa any other Penaltiea and Forfeituwa impoaed by any Act of Parlia- ment made for the Security of the Revenue of the Cuatoma. or for the Regulation or Improvement thereof, or for the Regula- tion of Trade or Navigation, and which were in force before the paaains of thia Act, maybe proaecuted, aued for, recovered, and divided in any of nil Majeaty'a Coioniea or lalahda in America - - - - . Any Foreign Veaael deicribed in ^ Geo. III. c. 57. may** »•!(*. ClM^ 4 J G«o.3. 57 »3 come in Ballatt into any Port of the Bahama lalanda where there is a Custom houae, and export the Articles allowed by the aaid Act to be eiported, conformably with the RMulalions of the aaid Act, and alao export Salt, lubicc to the Duty of ToAnage, and under the Regulation! innno«ed by 28 Geo. IK. c. 6. " " - . » See '• Salt." Any of Hia Majeaty'a Subject! may export, in any Britiah-' built Vesael owned and navigated according to Law, from any of the lalanda in the Weat Indiea belonging to His Majesty to any other of the aaid lalanda, or to any of the Briliah Coioniea on the Continent tif America, and from anv one of the aaid Briti!h Colonie! in America to any of the lalanda in the West Itwiiea belonging to Hia Majeaty, or to any other British Colony or Plantation on theContinent «tf America,anyGoo«lsof the Munu- lacturr of Europe, and any Gooda ot Priie Goods which have been legally imported into any of the aaid lalanda or Colonies, under the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions of 4.5 Geo. III. c. 57. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may e*.^uirt, in any British.' built Ves»el owned and navigated according to Law, from the aaid Island of Newfoundland to any of the blands in the West Indies belonging to Hia. Maieaty, or to any of the British Colonies on the Continent of America, and from any one oCthe aaid I'lart^s in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or firom any * of the said Biiiish Colonies on the Continent of America, in *T«> yfoundland, any Goods the Manufacture of Europe, arci :>> ' Ctoodr. ur Prize Goods which shall have been legally irnpofi«4 45 Geo. 3. X7 5a Geo. J. 99 'If I ■I t :u*^ 5a Geo. 3. too i7 G*o. 3. 79 .i^Wt£MT'^iS&'i»k^iii^j^i^ikuivi&' I )l D B X. — The Produce of luarope South ol r.ap« FinUlem, m«y' be (hipped and UH^n in my I''"*' of Europe South of Cape Fini*tene, for Lx|> station direct (o iny of the Porta htrein- •fter mentioned { that ia to aay. Saint Johfl'* in New Brana- wick, Saint John'a in Newfoundland, Quebec in Canada, Sydney in Cape Breton, Hu ifax, and niielbum in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince Edward'a ItUnd, all in North America, on board of any Britiih Ship owned, navigated, and regiatered according to Law, which ihaU have arrived at any Port ot Europe So«th of Cape Finte- terre, with Articles of the Growth or Produce of the uid Colonies, or with Fiah taken and cured by His Ma|cstv*s Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the said Colo- nita or Planutions, or from anv Part of the United Kiogdom, or with any of the Oooda herem«after mentioned, (see No. 4.) firom the Ptovince of Caiuda, whether such Goods shall be the Produce of Canada, or shall have been brought iato the said Province by Land or Inland Navigation — ^— Upon the Importation thereof into any of the uid Ports, "v iht same shall be subject and liable to such Dutiea as Goo' > of I the like Denomination are liable to uiMn being imported into | any of the said Ports from Great Britain - •) iL*lf». i% »<:« CiMp. 51 Geo. 3. ■1 ■ 1- •• ■ r 51 Geo. J. l^t.i ,li-ii)V« ■■ ■ ' The Person exporting a Cargo from Nova Scotia )r' New Brunswick, for any Port of Europe South of Cape Finit • tisrre, vhall make Oath at the Port of Snipment before the Chic f Officer of the Customs, or before the Naval Officer in Com- mand at such Port, that the Cargo so shipped is the Growth and Produce of the uid Provinces, or the Produce of the British Fiaberies in North America, really taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the said Colonies or Plantations, and such Officer shall certify •ueh Oatl^under his Hand { which Certificate shall be produced \ ji Geo. 3. by the Master of the Ship on board of which any such Cargo is shipped, on hia Arrival at the Port in Europe, within the Limits aforesaid, to which such Cargo shall be consigned, or to which such Ship shall go, lai the Delivery of the Cargo } and the Master ahall make Oath before the British Consul, or if there shall be no British Coniul, then before Two known British Merchants, that the Certificate so produced was the Certificate of the Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly signed by him - - 97 91 The Exporter of Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, Barley,' Indian Corn, Rye, White Oak Staves, and Heading, dressed or undressed Hoops, Pine IMank and Boards from Canada, shall not be required to make Oath that the said Articles are the Produce of Canada i and the Maater of the Ship, on hia Arrival at any Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, shall only be re^ iuired to produce a Certificate from the Qiief Officer of the !uatom8, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the aaid Ariicies were rhe Growth of or brought into Canada, conformably to the ReguJationa established by Law in the said Province (it any),byLuMi or Inland Navigation, from Countries bordering thereon, and which Certificate such Officer of the Ki , .)■ 97 •A 51 Geo. 3. 97 INDEX. Gtutoms, or Naral Officer, is required to grant upon satisfactory Proof being made upon Oath or otherlrise and tne Authenticity j of such CertiBcate shall be sworn to in manner aforesaid ] by the Master of such Ship, at the Port of Delivery in Europe within the aforesaid Limits . . •_ Before the Shipment of any Pickled Fish or Dry Fish for' Exportation from Canada to any Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, \he Person in whose Possession the same has continued from the Time of its being landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in taking it, until shipped for Exportation, shaU make Oath before the Chief Officier of the Customs, ur the Naral Officer in Command at Quebec, that the same was the Produce of the British American Fisheries, taken and cured by Hia Majesty's Subj<>cts carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the said Cdoniesor Plaptations ; and, upon such Oath being taken, the said Officer of the Customs, or Naral Officer, shaU grant Certificate thereof signed with his Hand, which Certificate only the Master of such Vessel shall be required to produce at the Port of Delivery, and shall make Oath of the Authenticity ol such Certificate m manner aforesaid 6. 77—- Any Goods subject to Forfeiture under this Act may be" seized by any Officer of the Customs in the said Colonies or Pluitations, or by the Commander of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, and may be prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided in the same manner, by the same Rules and Regulations, as far as the same are applicablte, as any other Forfeiture imposed by any Act made for the Security of th« Revenue, or for the Regulation or Improvement thereof, or for the Regulatiori of Trade or Navigation, and which were in force on the passing of this Act - . - — Dry and wbt, im Branov add Suoar, i» Jars and Bottles,' •J. — — May be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies tl^ereof, or from Gibralur direct, to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or PlanUfiona in A^ierica, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of Hii Majesty's Colonies or Planutions in ^orth America, in British-built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - . ._ See «* Gibraltar." " Malta." 8. mi » The Produce of the United States of America may be A imported from the said States into Saint George or Hamilton I in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign Vessel belonging to I any Country in Amity with His Majesty, under the Authority, ?* Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, renaltiesj and Forfeitures 1 provided by 52 Geo. Ill, c. 79, and 53 Geo. III. c. 50. -J See '< Bermuda." FURS. I.— — Of the Production or Manufacture of the British Planta- tions in America, shall not be shipped or conveyed from any q( the said Plantations to any Place, unless to some ether Plant- ation belonging to His Majesty, or to Ghrrat Britain or Ireland, under the Forfeiture o£ tKe Goods, or the full Value thereof,^ and the Ship :. ~ ' ' Reign. (1., 1 w 5J Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. i. 55 Q^' 57 Geo- 57 Geo. 3. 13 Car. 2. 22&23 Car. 3. 78C8W.3. 8 Ann. 8 Geo. I. 4 Geo. 3. Chap. std. 97 97 »9 4 5.9 I 28 18 26 22 '3 IS '5 >9 II '3 23 24 24 27 INDEX. 77 s«a. WBS^centinueJ. 'J-^" vj»^'>«;"««S!«'P'lM»:J ^■«:«»j(3 23 24 24 a? in America, or Countries on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, imported into the Free Ports, may be exported from thence to any Part of the United Kingdom under the Rules &c. of 1 a Car. II. c. 1 8. aa & 33 Car. 11. c. a6. ind ao Geo. III. c. 10. with respeA to Goods therein enumerated • .J , , See « Free Ports." GIBRALTAR. The IVade between Gibraltar and His Majesty's Colonies and Plant-' ations in Amer: shall be carried on in like manner and under the like Rules, . .^sgulations, and Restrictions, and subject to the like Penalties and Forfeitures, as are provided by (5 Geo. HI. c. 2g, with respect to the Island of Malta and His Colonies and Plantations in America, as if the particularly repeated in the Body of this Act See « Malta.**^ GINGER. X. The Production of the British Plantations in America, vhallnot be shipped or conveyed from any of the said Planta- tions to any Place, unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, there to be Iftid on Shore, under the Forfeiture of the Goods, or the full Value thereof, and the Ship . . - .'^ Ihe other Regulatious, Restrictions, Penalties, and For- feitures, to secure the landing in the Plantations, or . in Great Britain or Ireland, are the same as Pot and Pearl Ashes. See " Ashes, Pot and Pearl." g. ■ 1 ■ ■ There shall be paid to His Majesty One Shilling for every S" 112 lbs. Weight^ of Ginger shipped in His Majesty's Plant- J ations, if Bond is not first given with One sufficient Surety ( to brine the same to Great Britain or Ireland ; and the said f" Duty shall be paid at such Places and to such Officers as shall I be appointed to receive the same before the Lading thereof -J 3.^ The said Duty shall be deemed to be Sterling Money oF Great Britain, and shall be paid to the Amount of the Value which such Nominal Sams bear in Great Britain^ and according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver, and (the necessary Charges of raising and paying the same excepted) shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer - - . • » « 45 Geo- 49 Geo. 5a Geo. 57 Geo. Chap. 8ca. 3' ID 67 91 57 aa 99 74 57 aa 99 74 6 »i3 An. 6 4,8 57 Geo. 3« 12 Car. a. aa 8e a3 Car. a< 7&8 W.3. 8 Ann. 4 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 25 Car. a. 18 a6 aa 13 15 3* 10 67 91 Geo. 1. St. 4^Geoi 3. 18 19 II 13 34 a7 6 «»3 Alt. 6 4,8 la 15 4 41 ■■'•it 78 INDEX. GTNGCR— «M/iinM Ginatr shall be shipped until the Security required by j 12 vxt. II. c. i8. and aa and i\ C.\t. II. c. a6.has been given f to ciunry die same to Great Britain or Ireland, or some of T His Itlajesty's Plantations* oa Forfeitufe of Ship and Goods 1 (See No. i.) - - - - -^ 7. « I All Laws, Usages, or Customs, in Force or Practices, in tavf of tiie said Plantations, repugnant to this Act, are null \ andtnid • - - . .J 8. ■■ If the Goods shall be laden before the Duties are every Person assisting or otherwise concerned in the Loading Outwards, or to ^ose Hands the same shall knowingly come after the Loading thereof, shall for every Oflfence forfeit Treble the Value of the Goods, to be computed according to the best Pirice that the Commodity bears at Uie Place where the Oflence ia committed i and all the Boats whatsoever made use of in the Loadtne shall be forfeited, and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His Majesu's Customs ■ ■■ May be exported from the West India Islands to any' Place within the Territories belonging to the UAited States of Ameri«:a, on Payment of the same Duties to which the Article is liable, if exported to any British Colony or Plantation in America » and the said Duties shall be raised, recovered, and applied in the same manner as the Duties on Ginger exported to anj British Colony or Plantation in America { provided that no Ginger shall be so exported other than by British Subjects, and in British>built Ships owned bv His Majesty's Sulnects, and navigated according to Law, under Forfeiture thereof, and also of the Ship - « - . ■ I ■ Where, on Exportation of any Goods to anv British^ Colony or Plantation in America, a Bond is required for the due limding such Goods, and a Certificate is required to dis* charge such Bond*, a similar Bond shall be required on Exportation of sach Goods to the United States) and such Bond (hall be discharged upon Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the British Consul or Vice Consul, or in case there shall not be any such Consul or Vice Consul, then under the Hand and Seal of 9fij Officer who may be appointed by the United States for the Purpose of granting such Certificate i and if there shall not be any Officer appointed, then such Bond shall be discharged upon a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of any Magistrate of the United States, certifying that there is no such Officer at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be landed, and that Oath hath been mtade before such Magistrate by the Master of the Vessel, that the Goods were there duly landed — — ■. - .- ,»-..-■■-■— I ..I I I I — — — -■ '- A Bond is rtquirtd on tbi EKportation of Ginger. See- Ne, i . R(l|ik a5Car. a. 35 Car. \i^^- )■ •jitsw.s. 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. 4G«o.3. Chip. 23 aa a8 Geo. 3. 15 ^,9 37 a8 Geo. 3. " / .?9!ffr-7".'T» w - INDEX GINGER— MM/iW/ II. The Growth of any of His Majestyli Sugar Colonies or^ Plantations in America, may be shipped and exported from f , thence direct to the Island of Malta or the Dependencies ( ' thereof, or to Gibralur, in such Ships or Vessels, and under f" such Licences, Entries, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and I Forfeitures, as are herein particularly mentioned • -J ' See «• Gibraltar." «» Malta." GLASS. I. There shall be paid to His Majesty, upon thj Sorts of Glass hereafter mentioned, not being the Manufacti re of Great Britain or Ireland, which shall lie imported from Great Britain or Ireland into any Colony or Plantation in America under the Dominion of Hi» Mujesty, the Duties following ; that is to say, For every Cwt. Avoirdupois of Crown, I'late, Flint, and White Glass, Four Shillings and Eight-pence For evpry Cwt. Avoirdupois of Green Glass, One Shilling and Two pence • - - - - ■ ' The Duties shall be deemed Sterling Money of Great"* Britain, and shall be recovered and paid to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, and received according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shtllings and Sixpence the Ounce in SJver. ii» the same Manner, and by such Rules, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as any other Duties payable upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Planta- tions may be paid ahd rrcovered ) and all the Monies that shall arise by th«* said 'Duties (except the neceskary Charges of coUectiiig, recovering, and accounting for the lame) shall be applied in making Provision for the Adminiitration of Justice and the Support of Civil Government in such of the said Colo- nies and Plant.itioii8 where it shall be found necessary, and the Residue shall be paid into His Majesty's Exchequer, and be entereii separate from other Monies payable to His Majesty, and shall be tliere reserved to be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary Expencesof protecting and securing the British Colonies and Plantations in America - - His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Royal Sign* 79 2.« 7 Geo. 3. 10 Geo. 3. 398(40 Geo. 3 Manual, counter." igned by the High Treasurer, or any Three of the Commissioners of the Treasury, may cause such Monies to be applied but of the Produce of the Duties granted by this Act, as His Majesty shall think necessary for decaying the Charges of the Administration of Justice and the Support of Civil Government within all or any of the Plantations . . '• >uppott said CohMites or GOODS. Every Person importing by Land any Goods into any' Colony, Territory, or Place to His Majesty belonging to or in His Possession in America, shall deliver to the G()vemor of such Colony, Sec. or to such. Officer as shall be by him thereunto authorized, within Twenty-four Hours after such Impoitation, his Name and Surname, and a true Inventory and Particular of such Goods. No Ship coming to any such Colony, 8cc. shall lade or unlade any Goods, until the Master shall have made known to the Governor, or such Officer so authorized, the Arrival of the said Ship, with her Name, and the Name of the R«ipa. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 15 Car. 2. 7 & 8 W. 3. 3 & 4 Ann. 9/0 Geo. 3. Chip. ay 4 ■•^^, 46 '7 67 I I Art. 6 7 8 23 3 6 2 10 ■ ii ; IN D EX.1 * GOOlDS— CMtfMMt/. Matter, and hata ahown to mmIi GoMlnor .or OScer that the ia Britiih'bttilt, and tegisttred and navigated according to Law; nor until the Master thall have JeliTered to luch Gdvernor or [ Officer a true Inventory or Invoke of the Lading, with the V ' Placet at which die Gooids were taken on board, on Forfeiture •f the Ship, and all such Goods, the Manufacture of Europe, as were not laden in Great Britain or Ireland I, mm,m.m— No Ship required to be registered, and carrying any Goods ' to or from the British Plantations in America, or to or from one Plantation to another, shall be permitted to trade or be deemed qualified for that Purpose, until'the Master shall, upon I OaA (or in case of a Quaker, upon hit solemn Affirmation) before the Governor or Collector ot the Customs of the Plant- ation where he shall arrive, give a true Account of the Name and Burthen of the Ship, and other Particulars, according to the Form following \ that is to say, . . - \ I * A. B. maketh Oath (or, if a Quaker, solemnW affirms) .1 I * that the Ship called the whereof he (tnis Depo- ( * nent or Affirmant) is the Master, or hath the Charge or : j < Command, being of the Burthen of Tona, came I * last from and; that she is, as he verily believes, ■ j * die same Ship or Vessel described, meant, and intended I • in and by the Certificate now produced by him; and that j * the same does now, as he believes, belong wholly to His \ * Majesty's British Subjects, and that no Foreigner has * directly or indirectly any Share, Property, or Interest * therein, to his Knowledge or Belief And in case anv Ship shall unload any Goods in any of His Majesty's Plantations m America before such Proof shall be made, such Ship . shall be forfeited and prosecuted in like Manner as if she had not been registered - - |. The Master of every Ship arriving in any British Colony^ or Plantation in America shall, before he proceeda to the Place of unloading, come directly to the Custom-house for the Port or District where he arrives, and make a just and true Entry upon Oath before the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs there, of the Burthen, Contents, and Lading of such Ship, with the particular Marks or Numbers, Qualities and Contents of every Parcel of Goods therein laden to the best of his Knowledge, auso where and in what Port she took in her Lading, of what Country built, how manned, who was Master during the Voyage, and who are Owners thereof, and whether any and what Goods, during the Course of such Voyage, had or nad not been discharged out of such Ship, and where ; and the Master of every Ship going out from any British Colony or Plantation in America, before he shall lade any Goods to be exported, shall in like manner enter and report Outwards such Ship, with her Name and Burthen, of what Country built, and how manned, with the Names of the Master and Owners thereof, and to what Place he intends to pass or sail ; and, before he shall depart, he shall also deliver unto the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port orPlace where he shall lade, a Content in Writing under his Hand of the Name of every Person who shall have laden any Goods* together with die Marks and Rtifn. 96 Geo. 3. 39SC40G.3. Chip. StA. :. 60 67 I Art. 6 15 & i6Geo. a. 3« -\ 7 Geo. 3. 46 -fe- INDEX. 81 GOODS— etntinutd. Numbers of such G<>ocls, and the Master of erery Ship either coming into or goihs' out of anr British Colony or Plantation, whether laden or in Ballast, shall publicly in the open Custom- house, to the best of his knowledge, answer upon Oath to such guestions as shall be demanded of him by the CpUector and omptroUer, or other principal Officer of the Customs concern- ing such Ship, and the Destination of her Voyage, or concerning any Goods laden on board, upon Forfeiture of ji lOO Sterling Money of Great Britain for every Neglect ; to be prosecuted, recovered, and divided in the same manner, and by the same Rules and Regulations, as other pecuniary Penalties for Offences against the Laws of the Customs, or Trade of His Majesty's Colonies in America - - - -J No Goods shall be imported into or exported out of any Colony or Plantation in America belonging to or in the Pos- session of His Majesty, or shall be laden in or carried from any one Port or Place in the said Colonies or Plantations to any other Port or Place in the same, or to Great Britain or Irelandi in any Ship but what is of the Built of Grfat Britain, Ireland, the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of the Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories in Asia, Africa, or America belonging to or in the Possession of His Majesty { except Ships taken by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or any private or other Ship, and condemned as Prize in any Court of Vice Admiralty, and also except Ships condemned as for- feited in any Court of Record m Great Britain, or in any Court of Admiralty, for any Offunce in relation to the Slave Trade ; such Ships respectively being owned by British SubjectSi navigated and registered according, to Law } on Forfeiture of all Goods otherwise imported, as also the Ship : and the Com- manders of Ships of War are to seize as Prize all Ships offend- ing, and to deliver them to the Court of Admiralty For the Regulations, Restrictions, Pei^Jties, and For I < s feitures respecting the Navigation and Registry of British Shipi See « Navigation of British Ships." «* Registry of British Ships." (i.) Ships belonging to the Inhabitants of the United States of America, from coming in Bal- last to the Turks Islaiids, Nassau, Exuma, or Crooked Island,' for the Purpose of bemg there laden with Salt . . - See «» Salt." (2.) Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal,' Drugs, Cocoa, Logwood, Fustic, Wood for Dyers >'Use, Hides, Skins, Tallow, Furs, Tortoiseshell, Hardwood, or Mill Timber, Mahogany, Wood for Cabinet Ware, Horses, Aeses, Mules, Cattle, Corn, Bullion, Diamonds, and Precious Stones, Rice, Grain and Flour, Sugar and Coffee, from being imported into, and exported from the Free Ports in the West Indies, in any Foreign Ship, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any Colony or Plantation in America, or Country on the Continent of America belonging to or Rtign. Chap. ipsi 12 Car. 2. ySeSW. 3. a5 Geo. 3. 27 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3, 54 Geo 3. •S *' .5'" bo B ■3 o e o 03 a8 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 48 Geo. 50 Geo. 52 Geo. 54 Geo. 8«ft. 18 I 22 3 60 — >9 10 An. 67 6 59 I 57 35 21 99 48 5.6 7 8« INDEX. GOODS— <»fl/Mw o i < •s o e to c B S pq under the Dominion of any Fortign European | Sovereign or State " " " J Sec «« Free Ports." (3.) Any Foreign Ship whatever, deacribed in' 45 Geo. III. c. 57., from coming in Ballast, or importine into any Pott of the Bahama Islands where there is a Custom House, the Articles allowed in the said Act 10 be imported into the Ports therein mentioned, and also exporting the Articles allowed by the said Act to be exported in Foreign Vessels, or exporting Salt subject to the Duty of Tonnage, and under the Regulations of 30 Geo. III. c. 6. - See •• Salt." «« Free Ports." (4.) Sugav, Coffee, Rum, or Molasses, the Pro-' duce of any British Qolony in the West Indies, imported into the Island of Bermuda in any British Vessel, from being exported from the Port of Saint George, or the Porf of Hamilton in the said Island, to any Part of the Territories of the United States of America, in any Foreign Ship belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, above the Burthe.! of 60 Tons (5.) Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp,' Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards and Plank, Timber, Shingles, and Lumber, ^'Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, iPoultry and Live Stock, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, the Growth or Production of any of the Territories of the United States of America, from being imported from the said Territories into the Port of Saint George, or the Port of Hamilton in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship belonging to any State in Amity with His Majesty . _ - . (6.) Fruit or Vegetables, the Growth of the'S United States, from being imported into the Ports mentioned in 52 Geo. III. c. 79. and 53 Geo. III. c. 50. in Vessels of the Description mentioned in the said Acts, and under the like Authority, Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures therein provided (7.) The usual and necessary Articles of Supply for the Estates of Dutch Proprietors in the Colo- nies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo in the Province of Guiana in South America, from being exported from the Netherlands into the said Colo- nies respectively, on board any Ships being the Property of Subjects of the Kikig of the Netherlands, wherever built, and M'ithout any Restriction or Limitation as to the Mariners navigating the same, for the Space of Five Years, commencing from the First Day of January 18 16; but the Master Reign. Chip. sta. 5a Geo. 3. 99 5a Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 79 50 38 $z Geo. 53 Geo. 79 50 57 Geo. 3. 28 INDEX. 8$ GOODS— om/iVmm/. ^' i 6. ».- JO. i. o "2 r o s 4-1 9 I of every such Ship shall produce to the proper Officer of the Customs, in the said Coloniesi satis- factory Proof of the Ship being owned by a Subject of the King of the Netherlands { provided that the King of the Netherlands may, at any Time before the Expiration of the said Five Years, direct that such Trade shall be carried on only in such Ships as are Dutch-built, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths of the Crew are Subjects of his said ^Majesty ; provided also that at the Expiration of ^the said Five Years, no such Trade shall be carried on, except in Ships Dutch-built, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths of the Crew are Subjects of the King of the Netherlands (8.) The Produce of the Estates of Dutch Pro- prietors in the Colonies, of Demerara, Berbice Essequibo, from being exported from the Colonies to the Netherlands, on board such Ships as are described in the preceding Article See *« Guiana." ——^ No Goods shall be imported from any of the Territories' belonging to the United States of America, into any of His Majesty's West India Islands, in which Description the Bahama Islands, and the Bermuda or Somers Islands are included, or into the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province of Guiana, on Forfeiture thereof, and also the Ship ; except Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, Live Stock of every Sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, such Commodities being the Growth or Pre Juction of the Territories of the said States, imported by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law - - . - . See « United States." Except also Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry^ Pro.^ !, orl said > hips I and Cloathing by Subjects of the United States, who may come f to reside in the Bahama or Bermuda Islands, or in'the Province ( of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or any of the Territories belonging to f His Majesty in North America, having first obtained a Licence I for that Purpose _ - - .J See " Settlers." ■ And except Fruit and Vegetables, the Production of theA said States, into the said Islands and Colonies in the like I Description of Ships, and under the same Restrictions, Penal- C ties, and Forfeitures - - - -J None of the Articles so allowed to be imported into tlieWcst' India Islands, or the Colonies of Berbice, Demerara, or Essequibo from the United States (see No. 7.), shall be imported into the said Islands or Colonies from any Island in the West Indies, or any Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship ; except in case of public Emergency or Distress, and except certain Artfcles from L 2 56 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 33 G«o. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 48 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. Chap. 9* 91 6 9» 79 50 27 28 8ea. 3>4 6 4,6 i>2 I 3 1 6 10 II 38 I 50 13 57 2 "J 2 47 5 91 I INDEX. GOODS— coMinutd. the Free Port*, or from the Terrirories or Dominiont beloDgin| 4 <( to the Crown of Pbrtugal in South AnMrica - .«j See •< United States." 11. ■ No Goods shall be imported from any of the Territories' belonging to the United States of Americ:. into the Province of I Nova Scoti.i, New Brunswick, or Quebec, the Island of Cape Breton, Saint John's, or Newfoundland, or any Country or Island within their respective Governments, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship | except certain Articles the Production of the said Territories m Case of Emergency or Distress, and for the Use of the Inhabitants and Fishermen at Newfoundland, or Quebec, and except also Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine into Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick " ** '^ See " Cape Breton." " Newfoundland." « Nova Scotia." "Quebec." «' New Brunswick." « Saint John's." Ja. No Goods, except the Produce or Manufacture of the' 13- 14. IS- Territories of the United States of America, shall be brought firom the said Territories by Inland Navigation or Land Cir- riage into the Provinces of Upper or Lower Canada, on Forfeit. ure thereof, or the Value, with the Vessel or Carriage in which the same shall be brought ; to be sued for, recovered, and distributed in the like manner as in case of Oflfences committed against the Laws of Customs in His Majesty's Plantations in America - - ' See «« United States." No Goods shall be exported from Turk's Islands to any ' Part of the British Dominions in America, or the West Indies, or laid on board any Ship in those Islands, except Salt, nor from Turks Islands to Great Britain, or Ireland, except Sfslt, or such Goods as may be imported into Great Britain or Ireland, from all other Countries free of all Duties, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship ..... See " Turks Islands." Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export, in any British-' built Sl.ip, owned ard navigated according to Law, from anyone of the Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, to any other of the said Islands, or to any of the British Colonies on the Continent of America, and from any of the British Colonies in America, to any of the Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or to any other British Colony on the Continent of America, any Goods the Manufacture of Ilcrope, and also any Goods or Prize Goods which shall have b>;en legally imported into any of the said Islands or Colonies, under the Regulations and Restrictions of 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. See « Europe." Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export in ..«J V. «.A«V A«AMJ«.01-J k*WWJb«*Vi7 AIIUV VAUUlk, III aHy British-built Ship, owned and navigated according to Law, from Newfoundland to any of the Islands in the West Indies, belong, ing to His Majesty, or to any of the British Colonies on the Continent of America, and from any of the said Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or from any of the said British Colonies on the Continent of America, into the said Island of Newfoundland ^ any Goods of the Manufacture of Europe, and also any Goods or Prize Goods which shall have Rtign. a8 Geo. 3. ap Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 33 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. a8 Geo. 5a Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. Chip, la 6 »3 H 16 I 8 I 50 H 55 MU 100 7.8 39 INDEX. 8^ GOODS— eentinued. been under 16.. 17' 18. 19. lenllr imported into any of the said Islands or Colonies, I tne Kegulations and Restrictions of 45 Geo! III. c. 57. -J See " Europe." Any Article legally imported into any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonics or Plantations in America, or any Articles the PrMUCtion or Manufacture of Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, or which have oeen leg illy imported into any such Colony or Plantation, mav, under certain Regulations, be exported to the Island ot Malta, or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar i See «' Gibraltar." •• MalU." No Ship shall be cleared Outwards for any Colony, Ter-' ritory, or Place, to His Majesty belonging, or in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty in America, unless the whole and entire Cargo shall be laden in Great Britain or Ireland ( and an^ Officer of His Majesty's Customs may stop any British Ship arriving from any Part of Europe, which shall be discovered within Two Leagues of the Shore of any such Colo- nies, See, and seize as forfeited any Goods (except as herein- after mentioned) for which the Master shall not produce a Cocket or Clearance from the Collector or proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs, in some Port of Great Britain or Ireland, certifying that the Goods were there laden Any Person who shall counterfeit, erase, alter, or falsify" any Cocket or Clearance required by this Act, or shall knoW' ingly or wilfully make use of any Cocket or Clearance so counterfeited, &c., shall forfeit je5CO, and the same shall be of no Effect .... (i.) Salt laden in any Part of Europe, for the' Fisheries in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, or for any other Placa to which Salt is allowed by Law to be carried for the Use of the Fisheries; Wines laden in the Madeiras of the Growth thereof} Wines of the Growth of the Western Islands or Azores, laden there ; Oranges or Lemons of the Azores or Madeiras, shipped from thence for Exportation, to any of the Ports in the British Colonies in North America - (2.) Goods, the Growth, Produce, orManufac-" ture of Great Britain, Ireland, Guernsey, or Jersey, ^&t and necessary for the Fisheries carried on in any of the British Colonies, shipped by the Inha- bitants of Guernsey or Jersey -, Tools or Implements necessary for the Fishery, manufactured in the Isle of Man; and Herrings cured there and shipped from the said Isle See "Europe." (3.) Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, laden in any Part of Europe, to. the Southward of Cape Finisterre, for Exportation direct to certain Colo- nies in North America, on board any British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according Law, which shall havs arrived at any such Port II oU rS W "S s c " p •• m -^ ^^ 'Tt •S ^ B •" pq p. L Rtl|n. C nil 8«ct. 1 i 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 1 1,8 I 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. »5 10 30 13 39&40G.3. 67 Alt. 6 4 Geo. 3. '5 32 15 Car. a. 2 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 48 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 7 24 22 89 6 7 31 I I I 9 Geo. 3. 12 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. a8 31 4 5 51 Geo. 3. 97 I K INDEX. / Rtign. Chip. 8*0. i of Europe, with the Articln enumerated in this | Act . ' - . .J •:<:Ui:i ;•• f See « Cork." 1 [ . |i- .(...)••.■ :v ••Fruit." . V, i/i' A ,■!■.;. t 1 -.u >. ; '■- !■- ••Oil." ■ 1 1 1 I ••Salt." «• Wine." (4.) Com or Grain laden in any Part of Europe^ to the Southward of Cape Finitterre, for Export- f ation tc/ any of Hit Majeitv's Sugar Colonies, on I board any Ship having landed a Cargo of Sugar, T a .'1 '■' n •8 5» Geo. 3. 98 1 6 CofTee, or Cocoa, imported from the said Sugar Coloraest under the Regulations of this Act -J ■s 1 1 See " Corn and Grair." «« Cocoa." t •« Coffe-." 1 ^ •• Sugar." •8 (5.) Articles requisite as Supplies for the Cijl-'] 1 tivation of the Estates in Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo in the Province of Guiana, or the ^ ^y 2 Clothing, Maintenance, and Comfort of the Resi* > ^6 Geo. 3. 91 4 ■ .a dents thereon, shipped in the Netherlands by the Subjects of the King of the Netherlands, being • M Dutch Proprietors in such Colonies respectively -J i di See •« Guiana." (6.) Articles enumerated in the following Sche-**! dule marked (B.), shipped at Malta, or the Depen- g _ g"^ _ _ »9.-- ^ ■"dencies thereof, or Gibraltar, on board any Britisl- jr Geo. 3. 29 — ~ o built Ship, owned, navigated, and registeret. ^ according to Law, for Exportation direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America •' « ^ . . 57 Geo. 3. 4 — ■< 1 SCHEDULE (B.) 8 Dry &\7et Fruit 1 in Jars Zc Brandy & Sugar /Bottles. Opium. «» m Manna. Pickles in Ditto. Senna. • Olivt*. Cantharides. • Figs. Oris Root. J _B .s 1 Raisins. Currants. Pistaccio Nutb Almonds. Dates. Capers. Wine. Brandy. Oil of Olives. Rhubarb. Mill Timber. Box Wood. Argol. Vermillion. Ochres. Cinnabar. Orange Buds and Peel. s Juniper Berries. m Oil of Almonds. Gum Arabic. Mastic. — — Myrrh. Sicily. Punk. Pumice Stone. Emery Stone. Whetstone. Paintings and Prints. — - Ammoniac. Mosaic Works, I N D B X» 87 GOODS— etntinutd. ^- 19. ao. Medals. Lava and Malta Stone for^ building. Pezzolana. Jalop. •' * Scamonv. '^ QuickiilTer. Sarsaparilla. Saffron. Safflower. ' "■ Music. Incense. ^Essence of Bergamot. Do. of Citron. Do. of Lemon. Do. of Orange. Do. of Lavender. Do. of Roses. Do. of Rosemary. Marble, 7 Rough ai^d Alabaster, J Worked. Brimstone. Corlc. Aniseed. Cumminseed. Where any Vessel of the Burthen of Ostrich Feath^ri. Honey. Sponges. ' * ' Amber. "■ ,' ? Coral. ' ■"' Bullion. Precious Stones. . Pearls. Cyom. Grain. ' * ' ^ " Meal or Flour. Beans, Peas. Lentils. Rice. Maccaroni or Vermi- celli. Cascasoo. Parmesan Cheese. Bologna and otherSau- sages. Anchovies. Caviar. Botarga. Fifty Tons or under," laden with customable or prohibited Goods, shall be found hovering within the limits of any Port on the Coasts of any of the Dominions or Territories belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, and not proceeding on her Voyase for Foreign Parts, Wind and Weather permitting, any Omcer of the Customs may go on board and take an Account of the Lading, and take Security from the Master, by his own Bond to His Majesty, in Treble the Value of such Foreign Goods then on board, with Condition that such Vessel, as coon as Wind and Weather and her State and Condition will permit; shall proceed regularly on the Voyage, and land such Foreign Goods at some Foreign Port $ and if the Ma'iCer shall upon Demand refuse •> enter into such Bond, or having entered into ths same, shall not proceed regularly on such Voyage, as soon as Wind and Weather and the State and Condition of the Vessel will permit (unless suf> fered to make a longer Stay by the Collector, or in his Absence the principal Officer of such Port, not exceeding Twenty Days), then all the Foreign Goods on board shall, by the Direction of the Collector or other principal Officer, be taken out and broitght on Shore, and secured ; and in case the Goods are customable, the Duties shall be paid, and any prohibited or other Goods liable to Forfeiture, which may be found on board, shall be for- feited, and the Officer of the Customs shall prosecute the same, as also the Vessel in case she shall be liable to Condemnation ; and after the Goods are secured, such Bonds shall be void, and delivered up without Fee or Reward, and, not being otherwise discharged, shall, on a proper Certificate returned under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place beyond the Seas, or under the Hands and Seals of Two known British iUitn. ( ; (My 5 Geo. I. 3 Geo. 3, II 32 INDEX. ai. 32. 23. 24. ?s- QOODS-ttntiHutJ. Merchants upon the Place, that auch Ooodi were there landed, I I or upon Proof by credible Periona that luch Goodt Wert taken hj Enemici, or periihed in the Scat, (the Exnminattoii and ' Proof thereof being left to the Judgment of the Commiiiioneri of the Customi) ahail be vacated aiul discharged - - . I If any Foreign Ship shall be found at Anchor, or hovering within Two Leagues of the Shore of any Plantation, Colony, Territory or Place in the Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty in America, and shall not depart from the Coast, and proceed upon her Voyage to some Foreign Port or Place, within 48 Hours after the Master shall be required so to t\o, by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs, unless in case of unavoidable Necessity, and Distress of Weather, such Ship, with all the Goods therein laden, shall be forfeited, whether Bulk shall have been broken or not, and be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs - - . But not to extend to any Ship belonging to the Subjects^ of the French King, which shall be found fishing, and not car- / rying on any illicit Trade, on that Part of the Island of New- I ioundland which stretches from Cape Bonavista to the Northern | Part of the said Island, and from thence running down to the Western Side, reaches as far as Pomt Riche The Officers of the Customs and their Deputies may go 1 1 1 1 on board any Ship of War or Merchant Ship, and bring on Shore all Goods prohibited or uncuttomed (except Jewels) if they be Outwards bound, and if they be Ships Inward bound, from thence to bring on Shore unto His Majesty's Storehouse, all small Parcels of Goods which shall be found in Cabins, Chests, Trunks, or other small Package, or in any private or secret Place, in or out of the Hold of the Ship, which may occasion a just Suspicion that they were intended to be fraudu- lently conveyed away, and all ouier Sorts of Goods for which the Duties were not paid within 20 Days after the First Entry of the Ship, to remain in the Storehouse until H's Majesty's Duties thereupon be satisfied, unless the said Officers shall see Cause to allow a longer Timet and the Officers and their Depu- ties may remain aboard until all the Goods arc delivered and if the Master of any Ship or any other Person shall suffer any Truss, Bail, Pack, Fardel, Cask, or other Package to be opened aboard the said Ship, and the Goods therein to be embezzled, carried away, or put in any other Form or Package, after the Vessel comes into the Port of her Discharge, in every such Case the said Master shall forfeit jt lOO . - __ In case, after the clearing of any Ship, and discharging ^ the Watchmen or Tidesmen from Attendance thereupon, there i shall be found on board any Goods which have been concealed I from the Knowledge of the Officers, and for which the Duties f" due upon the Importation thereof have not been paid, the Master I shall forfeit i^i 00. ... -J All Goods which shall be found concealed in any Place' on board any Ship, at any Time after the Master thereof shall have made Ins Report to the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs, and which shall not be comprized m the said Report, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and prosecuted ^ by any Officer of ^e Custom; i and the Master (in case it can [ R«i|n. Chip. t»a. 4 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 13&14C.2. 7&8W.3. «5 33 IS 3* II ?2 4 6 13 & 14 Car. 2. 78C8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. II 22 15 36 INDEX. «9 ?] GOODS— mm^immJ. i be made appear tHit he wm anywnya contenting or privy sacli Fraud or Concealment, ihall forfeit Trtbie the Value the Good* - - - ' ') -■ • , a5. Anv Onicer authorSted hj Writ of AiiUtanla under the Seal of tnc Superior or Supreme Court of Juiticei having Jurihliction within the Colony or Plantation, may take a Con- I stable, Headborough, or other Public Officer inhabiting near unto the Place, and in the Daytime enter into any House, Shop, Collar, Warehouie, or Room, or other Place, and in case of Ri'iisiance, break open Doori, Chetti, Trunki, and other Package, there to icize and from thence to brinjr any Goodt Srohibited or uncustomed, and secure the same in His Majesty's torehuuse, in the Port next to the Place where such Seiiure shall be made « . > • . a?- a8.. 29. . — — If any Action or Suit shall be commenced in America,' against any Person for any Thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Defendant in such Action or Suit may plead the Gene- ral Issue, and may give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same WSH (lone in pursuance of this Act i and if it shall appear so to have been done« the Jury shall find for the Defendant ( and V if the Plaintiff shall be mnsuited, or discontinue hiit Action aft.-r the Defendant shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the I)efendan!t shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same, as Defendants have in other Cases by I^aw - - - . - If any Goods liable to the Payment of Duties in any' Riign. .. • >,(. 1380 14 Car. 3. 7 8e8W. 3. 7 Geo. 3. British Colony or Plantation in Ametica, shall be loaden on board any Ship outward bound, or shall be unshipped or landed from any Vessel inward bound, before the Duties due thereon ure paid agreeable to Law ( or if any prohibited Goods shall be imported into, or exported out of any of the said Colonies or Plantations, contrary to this or any other Act of . Parliament | every Person who thall be assisting or otherwise conpemed in the loading outwards, or in the unshipping or landing inwards such Goods, or to whose Hands the same shall knowingly come after the loading or unshipping thereof, shall for every Offence forfeit Treble Uie Value of such Goods, to be estimated and computed according to the best Price the Commodity bears at the Place where such Offence was committed ( and all the Boats, Horses, Cattle, and other Carriages whatsoever, made use of in the loading, landing, removing, carriage, or convey- ance of any of the aforesaid Goods, shall also be forfeited, and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of If is Majesty's Customs - - - _ _ Every Merchant passing any Goods inwards pr outwards' shall, by himself, or his known Servant, Factor, or Agent, subscribe one of his Bills of every Entry with the Mrrk, Number, and Contents of every Parcel of such Goods as are rated by the Pjece, or Measure, or Weight of the whole ( Parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the Weight, without which ' the Officer shall not suffer any Entry to pass - • . -' r . t Clup. MX. II 46 5 6 10 7 Oto. 3. 46 II 4 Geo. 3. IS 37 13&1. ar.a. 7&8 vVr.3. II 22 10 6 ' 1 '/,, ■7 fo INDEX. GOODS— 5 39 45 25 15 32 INDEX. 91 GOODS-^ontifiueJ. ane of the same, ^hall forfeit jf loo, and ludi Affidavit, &c. | shall be invalid and of no Efiect - • -J No Qoods shall be laden in vaj of Hia Majesty's Domi>'> 34- 3S' 3«- 37- nions, with Intent to be canied to Africa, to be mere bartered > for Slaves, or othtxways employed in die African Slave Trade -J See « Slaves." — — Goods found upon any Persons that were stolen or'^ carried off from any Ship stranded, or in danger of being I stranded, upon the Coast of any of His Majesty a Dominions, I shall immediately upon Demand be delivered to the Owner, or t in default thereof the Person on whom found shall be liable to I pay Treble the Value, to be recovered by Action at Law -J See (« Ships Stranded." Upon Information on Oath before a Justice of the Peace of any Part of the Cargo or Effects of any Ship lost or stranded upon or near the Coasts of any of His Majesty's Dominions, being unlawfully conveyed away, or concealed in any Place, or of some reasonable Ground of Suspicion thereof, such Justice may grant his Warrant for searching for such Goods { and if they are found in Custody of any Person not legally entitled to keep them, and the Owner or Occupier of the Place, or the Person in whose Custody they are found, shall not immediately deliver them upon Demand to the Owner or Person lawfully authorized to demand them, or not giving a good Account how he came by them, such Person shall be committed to Gaol for Six Months, or until he pays the Owner Treble the Value of the Goods - - - ' - See <5 Ships Stranded." Such Goods suspected to have beoi unlawfully taken Rtifo. 46 Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. 1 2 Ann. St. 3. Ctnp. Saa. > away and offered toSale, may be seized by the Person to whom they are offered, or by any Officer of the Customs or Excise, or any Peace Officer, who shall carry them to or give Notice of the Seizure to a Justice of the Peace, and if the Person who offered them to Sale does not, within Ten Days, prove to the Satisfaction of the Justice the Property to be in him, or the Person who emploved him, the Goods shall, by Order of the Justice, be delivered over to the Use of the Owner, upon Pay- ment of a reasonable Reward for the Seizure, to be ascertained by the Justice, who is also to commit the Person who offered them to Sale to Graol for Six Months, or until he has paid Treble the Value of the Goods to the Owner " See <* Ships Stranded." 38. ■ '■ Before any Ship shall be cleared out for Great Britain' or Ireland, with any Goods from any Port or Place in any Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonging to or under the Dominion of the Crown of Ghreat Britain, the Master of such Ship shall deliver a Manifest or Content in Writing, signed bv such Master, to the Collector of the Customs, if ttiere be su(!h an Officer at or near to such Place, and if there shall not be a Collector there, then to the Chief Officer of the Customs, and if there shall not be any Officer of the Customs, then to the principal Officer or Magistrate, or some other Person by him specially appointed for that Purpose, resident at or nearest to such Place, containing the Names of the Ports or Places where the Goods in such Manifest or Content mentioned shall have Mi 36 18 26 Geo. 2. »9 25 Geo. 2. 19 9» INDEX. GOODS— iuUimud. b«c!n respeciiTely laden, the Name and Built of such Sh|p» I and the trae Tonnage thereof according to the Register, with ' . f the Christian, and Surname of the Master, and Uie Port or Place to which such Vessel truly belongs, and a correct . and particular Account of all the tSirgo, and of all Packages . of Goods taken on board, with the Mkrks thereon, and of the , Particulars of the Cargo which is stowed loose, and of the following Particulars in Words at Length, (that is to say) the Numbers of the Packages, with a particiilar Description thereof, whether Leaguer, Pipe, Butt, Puncheon, Hogshead, Barrel, or other Cask or Package, describing such other Cask or Package by its ordinary Name, whether Case, Bale, Pack, Truss, Chest, Box, Bundle, or other Package, or by such other Name or de- scription as the same is usually called or known } and such Col- lector, Chief Officer, or Magistrate, or other Person by him appointed, shall cause a Duplicate of such Manifest to be made, j and indorse upon the Original his Name, with the Day and ! Tear on which the same was produced, and return the Ori- ginal to the Master on or before the clearing of such Ship ( and such Collector or other Chief Officer or Magistrate, or other Person, shall, upon the clearing of such Ship, immediately trahsmit the said Duplicate to the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port in Great firitrin or Ireland to which the Goods are consigned, and to which the Manifest refers , 39. — — — A Manifest, under the Hands and Seals of the Officers, required for Tobacco ladeit at any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, or Territories, to be conveyed to Great Britain or Ireland - - . _ See « Tobacco." GOODS, (ENUMERATED.) For which Bond is required that the same shall be carried to and landed in some other British Plantation, or in Great Britain or Ireland - - . - - See the several enumerated Articles ; that is to say. Reign. 1} -r:I .is-.- . 26 Geo. 3. 3981400.3. Chip. 40 67 39 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. Pimento. Pitchj Tar, and Turpentine. Rice. Silk (Raw). Skins. Sugar. Tobacco. Whale Fins. Wood, (Dying). Ashes (Pot and Pearl). Coffee and Cocoa Nuts. Copper Ore. Cotton Wool. Furs. Ginger. Hides. Indigo. Masti, Yards, and Bowsprits. Molasses. GOODS, (NON-ENUMERATED.) I. No Iron or Wood called Lumber, the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of any British Plantations, (that is to say) Deals of several Sorts, Timber Balks of several Sizes, Barrel -boards, , _ Clap-boards, Pipe-boards or Pipe-bolt, White-boards for Shoe- makers, Boom and Cant Spars, Bow Staves, Capravens, Clap- bolt, E^ony Wood, Heading for Pipes, Hogsiicads, and Barrels, Hoops for Coopers, Oars, Pipe and Hogshead Staves, Barrel and Firkin Staves, Trunnels, Speckled Wood, Sweet-wood, small Spars, Oak Plank, and Wainscott, shall be laden in any j of the said Plantations until sufficient Bond shall be given, with 13 Car. 2. 3 & 4 Anne 8 Geo. I. 8 Geo. I. 3 Gko. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 68 67 s«a. »»3 An. 6 »7 Art. 6 18 18 5 12 '5 24 22 6 35 16 »5 27 INDEX.' 99 GOODS, (NON. ENUMERATED)— «»/OTwrf. One Surety besides the Master of the Ship, to the Collector or j other principal Oificer of the Customs at the loading Port, in the Penalty of Double the Value of the Goods, with Condition that the said Goods shall not be landed in any Part of Europe, , except Great firit 15 45 67 45 67 39 s«a. 28 as Art. 6 23 An. 6 94 INDEX. GOODS, (NON.ENUMBRATED)— CM/M««J. at any Port or Place in any of the British American Coloniea or Plantations where the VeMel shall be laden, with Condition that such Goods shall not be landed at any Part of Europe to the Northward of Cape Finisterre, except in Great Britain or Ireland ; which Bond shall be discharged in the manner here- after mentioned i that it to aav. For such of the said Goods as ahall be entered for or landed in Great Britain or Ireland, the Condition of the Bond shall be to brins a Certificate in Dis- charge thereof within i8 Months from the Date of such Bond, and within Six Months for such of the said Goods as shall be entered for or landed in any of the British Colonies or Plant- ations in America } which Certificates shall be under the Hands and Seals of the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs resident at the Port or Place where such Cjods shall be landed, testifying the Landing thereof} and for such of the said Goods as shall be entered for or landed at any other Place where the same may be legally landed, to bring the like Certificate within 12 Months, under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate, or under the Hands and Seals of Two known British Merchants residing there) or such Bonds shall be discharged in either of the said Cases by Proof, upon Oath made by credible Persons, that the said Goods were taken by Enemies, or perished in the Seas : and if any such Non-enumerated Goods shall be laden, on board any such Ship in any British Colony or Plantation in America, before such Bond shall be given, the Goods so laden, together with the Ship, shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized by any Officer of the Customs, and prosecuted in such man- ner as any other Forfeiture against the Laws of the Revenue may be prosecuted - - . 5. •. Not to extend to Ships which shall be bound to some of the Ports of Spain within the Bay of Biscay 6. - .■ Any Non-enumerated Goods (except Rum) laden in any' British American Colony or Plantation, may be landed in Guenicey or Jersey \ and all the Regulations of the 6th Geo. III. c. 53., so far as the same relates to the Bond and Security for landing such Non-enumerated Goods in Great Britain, shall extend to Guernsey and Jerwy, at fully as if the said Islands had been excepted and named in the said Act, and may be can- celled and discharged by the Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Magistrates of the Royal Courts of Jersey or Guernsey respectively, or any Three of them, and the Principal Officers of the Customs in the said Islands respectively, testi- fring the landing of such Goods, in the same manner as if the Goods had been landed in Great Britain or Ireland 7. — Every Person having the Charge of any Ship, shall, before' he departs from any British Colony or Plantation where he receives his Lading, take a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs there (which Certificate luch Officers are required to grant, without Fee or Reward), that Bund hath been given pursuant to the Ouections of this or any other Act, as the Case shall require; and tlie Master shall keep such Certificate in his Custody till the Voyaee is completed, and shall then deliver the same up to the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Cus- Reign. i -• -i ■ J 6 Geo. 3. 7 Geo. 3. so Geo. 3. Chtp. S*&. a 10 39&40G.3. 67 6 Geo. 3. 9 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 30 I An. 6 5a 3« 28 15 67 24 Art. 6 INDEX. 9S GOODS, (NON-ENUMERATED)— M»/fnH/r i INDEX. W GOVERNORS- Duties known 6. 8.. 10. • —eintiniud. of such Offices, until the King's Pleasure shall be In all Cases in which the Governor and Council of any' Colony, Plantation, or Foreign Possession, shall hereafter grant Leave of Absence to any Person holding an Office within the •anne, to which he shall have been appoinied subsequent to the passing of this Act, the Qovernor, or Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government, shall, within One Week after granting the L Chip. 8«a. 54 Geo. 3. 61 54 Geo. 3. 61 54 Geo. 3. 61 54 Geo. 3. 61 12 Car. 2. 7&8W. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 18 23 10 67 19 10 I Art. 6 98 INDEX. /..■ L. i3- 14. >5' 16.. -^1' QOVEKKORS— continued. or wilfully make ase thereof, shall forfeit j^5oo, and the Certifi- ! catc shall be of no effect - - • -. »l. ■■. The Govemora or their Commanders in Chief of His*^ Majesty's Plantations, are, once a Year at least, to return to His Majesty's Officers of His Customs in the Port of London, or to such other Person as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the ; same, a List of all such Ships as shaH have laden any enumerated . Goods in such Plantations, as also a List of all the Bonds taken by them «... - la. No Ship coming to any Plantation, Colony, or Place to His Majesty belonging in America, shall lade or unlade any Goods, until the Master shall have made known to the Governor thereof, or such Officer as shall be by him thereunto appointed, the Arrival of the Ship, with her Nane, and the Name of the Master, and shewn that she is British-built, navigated and registered according to Law, nor until he shall have delivered to such Governor or other Officer, a true Inventory or Invoice of the Lading, together with the Plat ts in which the Goods , were taken on board, under pain of the Loss of the Ship, and of all such Goods the Production or Manufacture of Europe as were not bona fide laden in Great Britain or Ireland Sugar, Indigo, or Wine, unshipped or landed before dueS Reign. Chip. 8«A. Entry and Payment of Duties, or without a Warrant figned by I the proper Officer, may be seized by the Governor or Com- > mander in Chief of the Colony or Plantation where so unshipped 1 or landed, or by any Person by him authorized - -j The Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders^ in Chief of the British Colonies or Plantationsj and the principal f Officers of the Customs there, authorized to make Registry C of British Ships, and grant Certificates of such Registry -J See «< Registry of British Ships." - ■ The Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders'! in Chief of the British Colonies or Plantations, shall appoint I Persons to examine and admeasure every Ship previous to I Registry, and who are to deliver a true Account in Writing of > the Particulars of the Built, Description, and Admeasurement of every such Ship, to the Person authorized to make Registry, and grant Certificate thereof - . . See <• Registry of British Ships." The Governors of any Colony or Territory belonging to■^ or under the Dominion of His Majesty, or any Person executing I the Office or Function of Governor, by Authority from His > Majesty, may grant Licence for the Removal of Slaves from I See ** Slaves." one British Colony to another The Govarncr, or Lieutenant Governor, or other Person' exercising the Authority of Governor in any British Colony or Plantation, may authorize the Collector or Chief Officer of the Customs to take the Care and Custody of Slaves captured as Prize of War, or seized as forfeited under any Act passed for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade, during the Proceed- ings, and until the Court shall have made its Decree, condemning or restoring the said Slaves • - - See •« Slaves." i',( 2a 8c 23 C. 2. 15 Car. 2. 7 & 8 W. 3. 4 Ann. 20 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 3. 39 k 40 G. 3. 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 2. 26 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 3. 46 Geo. 5. 51 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 26 7 22 6 10 60 67 »3 '5 3» 60 60 52 23 172 12 Art. 6 12 '3 »4 4 INDEX. 99 GRENADA The Port of Saint George in GrenaJai one of the Free Ports for the Importation and E\ .tatitn of certain Articles in Foreign | Ships . . . . -J See « Free Ports." GUERNSEY AND JERSEY. I. - Any Person inhabiting Jnscy or Guernsey may lade in the said Islands, and transport directly from thence to any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America where the Fish* ery is carried on, on board any Ship which may lawfully trade there, any Sort of Craft, Food, Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods fit and necessary for the Fishery in tliose Parts, or for the Use and Svrport of the Mariners, or other Persons employed on board the Ships, or on Shore, in carrying on the Fishery there ; provided such Craft, Clothing, ur other Goods are the Produce or Manufacture of Great Britain, or of Jersey or Guernsey, and such Food or Victuals are the Produce of Great Britain, Ireland, or of Guernsey or Jersey Provided also that the Master produces to the proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, Lieu- tenant or Deputy Governor, or Commander in Chief, that Oath had been made by the Shipper before the Magistrates of the Royal Courts, or any Three of them, that the Goods and Victuals so shipped are of such Product or Manufacture, which Certificate shall also be attested by the principal Officer of the Customs in the said Islands, who shall certify that the said Oath was taken in his Presence } and on Failure of producing such Certificate, such Food, 8cc. found on board any Ship, and the Ship importing the same, shall be seized and forfeited, in the same manner as they would have been if this Act had not been made - - - _ . 3. Any non-enumerated Goods ^except Runt) laden in any British American Colony, may be landed in Guernsey or Jersey - See « Goods, non-enumerated." GUIANA. I. The Privileges and Advantages, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, in %i Geo. III. c. 6. with respect to Trade between His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America and the West India Islands, and the Corntries belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies, shall extend to the Colonies of Dcmerara, Berbice, and Esse- quibo in the Province of Guiana - - - See " United States." There shall be collected and paid, upon Rum imported' } into Newfoundland from Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, the Sum of Sixpence for every Galon, to be recovered and applied in the like Manner, and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures, as are provided by ^2 Geo. III. c. 106. with respect to Rum imported into the said Island from any British Colony or Plant- ation in the West Indies _ . . See " Spirits." Any of the Subjects of the King of the Netherlands, being Dulvh Proprietors in Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, may N 2 1 Rtign. 45 Geo. 3. Chip. 57 8«built, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths of the Crew arc the Subjects of His said Majesty } and that after the Expiration of the said Five Years, no such Trade ithall be carried on, except in Ships Dutch-built, and whereof the Master and Three fourths of the Crew are Subjects of His said Majesty the King of the Netherlands - - 7. Ail such Importations and Exportations shall be subject' to the same Duties as are payable by His Majesty's Subjects on Importations and Exportations of the like Articles, and be subject to the same Regulations and Restrictions for the due landing of any such Produce in the Netherlands, as arc provided by the Acts now in force for the Landing of the like Articles in Great Britain, so far as applicable - ... 8. fiut it shall not be lawful for Persons who by virtue of this Act may be entitled to trade between the said Ccflonies and the Dominions of the King of the Netherlands, to export the Produce of their Estates wioiin the said Colony to any Part of the United Kingdom, or to any other of His Majesty's Dominions in Europe All Importations and Admissions to Entry made in con-S GUM ARABIC MASTIC. MYRRH. SICILY. AMMONIAC sequence of any of the Articles of the Convention, shall be I lawful and effectual as if the same had been made in pursuance > of this Act, and all Persons concerned therein shall be indem- I nified in renpect thereof - - - -J ' May be exported from Malta or any of the"] Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct ] to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or I Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, > Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or f Plantations in North America, m British-built I Ships, own.d^ navigated, and registered according to Law -J See " Gibraltar." •« Malta." HATS AND FELTS. . . ^ No Hats or Felts shall be put on board any Ship in any I Place within the British Plantations, nor laden upon any Horse, ( Cart, or other Carriage, to the Intent to be shipped off, or con- r veyed out of the said Plantations, to any other of the British 1 Plantations, or to any Place whatever* - -J !.■ If exported, shipped off, or loaden contrary to this Act, shall be forfeited, and the Offender shall forfeit ^"500 for every Offence ; and every Master Mariner of any Ship, or Porter, Carter, Waggoner, Boatman, or other Person knowing such Of- fence, and wittingly aiding and assisting therein, shall forfeit si^oj ^—— Any Person may seize, and secure in His Majesty's next" Warehouse, all such Hats and Felts as he shall discover to be on board any Ship or Boat, or brought or laid on shore at or near the Sea, or any navigable River or Water, to the Intent to ^ * By 52 Geo. III. c. 100. and $>] Geo. III. c. 29. any Goods the Product or Manufacture of "Europe, or any Prize Goods, may be exported from One British Colony to another. See «« Europe." Rtign. Chip. s«a. 56 Geo. 3. 9» 56 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. SS Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 9» 91 29 4 5.9 I 5 Geo. a. 5 Geo. 2. 32 22 5 Geo. 2. 22 102 INDEX. HATS AND TEUTS—ceHtinutd. be exponed, or to be laden upon anv HorK, Cart, or other I Carriase to the Intent to be exported or conveyed into any other Plantation or Place » and such Perion leizing any Coni- modities ihall be indemnified for so doing - -, 4. .. If any Commiiiioncr, or other Omcer of the Customs of any Place within the British Plantations, or any OfTiccr cm- ployed in the Management of the Rerenuea shall take any Entry outward, or sign any Cocket, Warrant, or Sufferance for the shipping or exporting any Hats or Felts, or shall wittin^jly •utter the same to be done, in every such Case such Commis- sioner, Sec. sisning such Cocket, Warrant, or Sufferance, or Jiassing such Entry, or conniving thereat, shall for every Offence orfeit his Office and jf500 - • - j. _— Every Offence against this Act may be inquired of,' heard, and determined in the County where any such Goods shall be laden, or in the County or Place, either in Great Britain or the Plantations, where such Offender shall be apprehended for such Oflfence, or where any of the Goods shall be seized or brought in ; and the Trial shall he in such Manner and Form as if the Oflfence had been wholly committed in the same County or Place where tried in pursuance of this Act HEMP AND FLAX. 1. The Growth or Production of any of the Territories of the United States of America, may be imported from any of the said Territories into any of His Majesty's West India Islands, (in which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Islands are included), or into the Colonics of Pemerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province of Guiana ; but the said Articles shall not be so imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship - - 2. — ^-^ The Growth or Production of the said Territories, may^ be imported from thence into Saint George, or Hamilton in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship beloneinE to any • Country in Amity with His Majesty, and exported from the said Ports to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law .... 3. ■ Not to be imported into His Majesty's West India Islainis,' (including the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands) or into the Colonies of Demerara, Brrbice, or Essequibo, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship ..... 4. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Governors," Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief of any of the said Islands in the West Indies, under the Dominion of His Majesty, or the Governors &c. "-i tiic said Colonies of Deme- rara, Berbice, or Essequibo, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of Hemp and Flax, for a limited Time, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, for the Supply of the R«i|n. Chip. StO. 5 Goo. a. 5 Geo. a. 38 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. a8 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. aa aa 6 91 I, a I 79 50 6 9' ».3 I 10 1 I 6 38 91 II 2 I '■y,r'' INDEX. lOS HEMP AND TLAX—rentinutJ. IiihabitanU of the uid Inlandi and Coloniet reipectiTcljr i , provided tliat luch Hemp and Flax ihall not be so imported except by British Subjects, and in Britiih-built Ships owned and navigated accordmg to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship . - - . . 5. -i^— — Ilavin); been imported from anjr Island in the West' Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of His Majesty's West India Islands or Colonics of Dcmerara, Uerbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of the Inha- bitants as aforesaid, shall not be exported from any of the said Islands or Colonics, or put on board any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, or brought to any Quay with Intent to be so exported, on Forfeit* ure thereof, ami also of the Ship, Vessel, or Boat in which ladun \ and before shipping of any Hemp or Flax, whether in its manufactured or unmanufactured State, that may lawfully be exported from any such Island or Colony, the Exporter shall make Oath that no Part thereof had been imported for the Supply of the Inhabitants from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false Oath' a. touching any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, such Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and be liable to the I'ains and Penalties to which Persons are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury, nnd maybe prosecuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Courts of Judica- ture in the West Indies - - - ■- ■ During the Continuance of the Treatv with Portugal, any Person may import into any of the said West India Ishnds, (including ''<< ti hama and Bermuda or Somers Island ) or Colonic Dcmerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, any Flax or Hnmp being t. (Jrowth or Production of some of the Territories or Doriunions of the Crown of Portugal in South America, pro- vided tl)c same is imported into the said Islands or Colonies litrect ifrom the said Territories or Dominions, in British-built bhipj, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law -_^ >^-— The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts may be^ seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or I Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty V Oflicer specially authorized by them, or by any Officer of His | Majesty's Customs - - - .J HIDES AND SKINS. J . - Of the Production of the British Plantations in America, shall not be shipped or conveyed from any of the said Planta- tions to any Place, unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, on Forfeiture of . the Goods, or the full Value thereof, and the Ship - f The other Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures to secure the landing in the Plantations, or Great Britain or Ireland, are the same as Pot and Pearl Ashes See " Ashes, Pot and Pearl." c, — — The Production" of any of the Colonies or Plantations in" America, or of any Country on the Continent of America Rii|n, 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. Chjp. 5*5 9» 56 38 47 9« 28 Geo. 3. 6 29 Geo. 3. 56 31 Geo. 3. 38 56 Geo. 3. 91 12 Car. 2. a2 & 23 Car. 2. 78C8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 18 26 22 »5 31 10 67 91 Mi. ».3 3»4 ».3 5 18 19 II 13 24 27 6 '.3 Art. 6 4>8 104 INDEX. HIDES AMD SKSHS—centifiueJ. belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, maybe imported from any of the said Coun- I tries into the Free Forts, in any Foreign Vessel whatever, ! being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries . - - See «« Free Ports." I 3. I The Production of any of the Colonies or Plantations in' America, or Countries on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, imported into the Free Ports, may be exported from any of the said Ports to any Part of the United Kingdom, under the Rules &c. of 12 Car. II. c. 18. 22 8c 23 Car. II. c. 26. and 20 Geo. III. c. 10. with respect to Goods therein enumerated See " Free Ports." HOGS. See «« Cattle." HONEY. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dominions thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - - - _ - See « Gibraltar." « Malta." HORSES. See « Cattle." . t HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. See «« Settlers." JALAP. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - - - - - See «« Gibraltar." «« Malta." JAMAICA. ■ Certain Articles allowed to be imported'into and exported from the Island in Foreign Ships - - .J See " Free Ports." — — No British Ship shall, under any Pretence, sail from any^ Place in Jamaica to any Place in Saint Domingo, nor from any | Place in Saint Domingo to any Place in Jamaica, except as > hereinafter provided, under the Forfeiture of such Ship, together 1 with her Cargo _ - - . J No Foreign Ship, whether laden or in Ballast, shall come~ I.< ] i.ito any Port in Jamaica, if such Ship shall have come from, or shall in the course of her Voyage have touched at, any Place in Saint Domingo ; and if any such Foreign Ship shall land any I Person, or shall continue in any Port or Harbour of Jamaica ' for 48 Hours after Notice shall be given by the Principal Officer of the Customs resident at the Port to depart therefrom, such Foreign Ship shall be forfei'°d, together with her Cargo - ■ But not to extend to the p 'hibiting of any Intercourse which may be carried on by any Law now in force between Jamaica and any Port or Place in Saint Domingo, which now is Reign. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo-3- 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3, 52 Geo. 3. Chip. Sttk. 52 Geo. 3. 57 22 99 74 S7 22 99 74 29 4 5>9 29 4 5.9 57 35 35 INDEX. 105 [ JAMAICA— eentinutd. or shall be in the Possession of, and under the Dominion of the Spanish Government, while the same shall continue under such Possession and Dominion } nor to prevent anv of His Majesty's Ships of War from sailing from any Place m Jamaica to any Place in Saint Domingo, nor from any Place in Saint Domingo to any Place in Jamaica " " " "< 5. ' Provided also, that British Ships, or Ships belonging to any State in Amity with His Majesty, and bound to any Place within His Majesty's Dominions, sulmg from any Place in Saint Domingo, under Convoy of One of His Majesty's Ships, may touch at such Port of Jaipaica as may have been appointed by His Majesty's Naval Officers for the Rendezvous or Assembling, for the Purpose of Convoy of the general Homeward-bound Trade } but no Person from on board such Ship shall land upon or otherwise communicate with Jamaica, without a special Licence to that Effect, under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the Island, the Admiral commanding in chief on the Station, or the Senior Officer commanding His Majesty's Ships appointed to convoy the said Ship, which Licence they shall not grant, except in Cases of urgent Necessity ; and if any Person belonging to such Ship shall land or otherwise communicate with the Shore without such Licence, the For- feitures and Penalties of 52 Geo. IIL c. 2^, shall take effect 6. All Ships and Goods liable to Forfeiture under this Act,' may be seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer by him specially authorized, or by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs ; and may be sued for and prosecuted in the like manner, and by the same Rules and Regulations, as any Forfeitures incurred in the British Colonies or Plantations in America, by force of any Act relating to the Trade and Revenues of the said Colonies or Plantations, may now be sued for and prosecuted in pursuance of 49 Geo. IIL c. 107. } and such Ships and Goods shall be deposited in the Custody of the Officers mentioned in the said Act, and be subject to the other Provi- sions thereof, in like manner as if herein repeated ; and the Commanders or Officers of any Ships of War, and the Officers of the Customs, in making and prosecuting any such Seizures, shall have the Benefit of all the Provisions made by any Act for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecuting any Ships or Goods, for any Offence against any Act relating tu the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America. The Forfeitures incurred by this A€t shall belong to such 5a Geo. 3. Persons, and in such Shares, as any Forfeitures incurred in the M British Colonies or Plantations in America now belong to apd rl may now be distributed under 4 Geo. IIL c. 15. - y ' If any Ship or any Goods laden thereon shall be seized" under this Act, and any Dispute shall arise whether the said Vessel had sailed, or the Goods laden thereon had been brought from any Place in Jamaica to any Place in Saint Domingo, or f 3m any Place in Saint Domingo to any Place in Jamaica, con- trary to this Act, the Proof thereof «1|*U lie upon the Qwner or Claimer of such Ship or Goods, and not upon the Officer who shall seize the same ; &nd in case 110 sufficient Proof shall be given by the Owner or Claimer of su^h Ship, or the Goods laden Chip. iS Sea. 3.4 S3 Geo. 5a Geo. 3. 35 59 Geo. 3. 5» Geo. 3. 35 35 106 I N D B X. JAMAICA— rm/tnir^^. thereon, of the Place from and to which such Goods had been biought, and such Ship did really and bonft fide sail, then such Ship shall, without any further Proceeding, be held to have sailed, and the Gk)od8 laden thereon shall be held to have been brought, from one of the said Islands to the other, contrary to this Act 9. In case any Ship or Goods shall be seized as forfeited by pursuance of this Act, the Commissioners of the Customs in England, or any Four or more of them, on Evidence being given to their Satisfaction that the Forfeiture arose without any frau- dulent Proceeding or Intention of Fraud in the Proprietor, may, ' by any Writing sisned by any Four of them, order the same to be restored to such Pnrarietor, on such Conditions as under the Circumstances of the Case shall appear to the said Commis- sioners to be just and reasonable; and if the said Proprietor shall comply with die Conditions prescribed, the same shall be restored, and it shall not be lawful for the Officer or any other Person on his Behalf, to proceed in any manner for the Con- demnation thereof J but if such Proprietor shall not comply therewith, such Officer shall be at Liberty to proceed for the Condemnation of such Ship or Goods, as if this Law had not been made ; provided always, that if such Proprietor shall accept the Conditions, he shall not be entitled to any Recompence or Damages on account of the Seizure or Detention of such Ship or Goods, or have or maintain any Action for the same IMPLEMENTS. See « Fisheries." INCENSE. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesties Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of Hit Majesty's Colonies or I'laiitations in North America, in British-built Vessels, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - - See«« Gibraltar." "Malta." . INDIGO. - 1. The Production or Manufacture of the British Planta- tions in America, shall not be shipped or conveyed from any of the said Plantations to any Place, unless to some other Plant- ation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, on Forfeiture of the Goods, or the full Value thereof, and the Ship - - _ - - . The other Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures to secure the Landing in the Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland, are the same as Pot and Pearl Ashes See " Ashes, Pot and Pearl." 2. ■ There shall be paid to His Majesty Two-pence for every Pound Weight of Indigo shipped in His Majesty's Plantations, if Bond is not given, with ore sufficient Surety, to bring the same to Great Britain or Ireland } and the said Duty shall be paid at such Places and to such Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, before the Landing thereof 3. ■ The Duty shall be deemed to be Sterling Money of Great' Britain, and shall be paid to the Amount of the Value which •uch nominal Sums bear in Great Biilain, and according to the Proportion and Value of $s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver, and (the Reign. Chap. Sea. 52 Geo. 3. 35 SS Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 7 8e:8W.3. 13 Car. 3. 22 & 23 Car. g 4 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 56 Geo. 3. 25 Car. a. I Geo. I. St. I. 4 Geo. 3. 29 4 5.9 22 18 26 15 3' 10 67 91 13 18 II 27 6 3 Art. 6 4>8 12 '5 4 4« INDEX. lojr UUDlCO-^ontinued. ; necessary Charges of raising and paying the same excepted) I shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer - -J , 4. ■ The Duty shall be levied by the Commissioners of the Customs in England, under the Authority and Directions of the Lords of the Treasury ... In case any Person liable to pay the Duty, shall not*^ } have Money wherewith to answer the same, the Officer shall i accept, instead of the Money, such Proportion of the Com- ( modity to be shipped as shall amount to the Value thereof, f according to the current Rate of the Commodity in the Plant- ation 6. — ^— Notwithstanding the Payment of the said Duty, no Indigo I i shall be shipped until the Security and 22 and 23 Car. 11. c. 26. has been to Great Britain or Ireland, or some tions ii.' u of the said Duty, no Indigo"^ required by 12 Car. II. c. 18. 1 been given to carry the same > ne ot His Majesty's Planta- 1 All Laws, Usages, or Customs in force or practice in^ any of the said Plantations repugnant to this Act, are null and V void - - - - -J — ^— If the Goods shall be loaden on board any Vessel before' the Duties due thereon are paid, every Person assisting or otherwise concerned in the loading Outwards, or to whose Hands the same shall knowingly come after the loading thereof, shall for every Offence forfeit Treble the Value, to be com- puted according to the best Price the Commodity bears at the Place where the Offence is committed ; and all tlie Boats made use of in the loading shall be forfeited, and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs .. The Production of any of the Colonies or Plantations in' 10.' America, or of any Country on the Continent of America, be- longing to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported from any of the said Countries into the Free Ports in any Foreign Vessel whatever, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries See " Free Ports." The Production of any of the Colonies or Plantations in' America, or Countries on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, having been imported into the Free Ports, may be ex- > ported from thence to any Fart of the United Kingdom, under f the Rules, &c. of 12 Car. II. c. 18., 22 and 23 Car. II. c. 26., and 20 Geo, III. c. 10., with respect to Goods therein enu- merated . _ - _ _ See «« Free Ports." The Production of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies"\ or Plantations in America, may be shipped and exported direct I to the Island of Malta, or t]ie Dependencies thereof, or to t Gibraltar, in such Ships, and under the Licences, Entries, r Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures herein par- I ticularly mentioned ... .J See « Gibraltar." " Malta." Oa Reign. 25 Car. 2. 25 Car. 2. 7 8t8W. 3. 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Greo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. Chap. 8«a. 22 22 >S 37 57 22 99 74 57 22 99 74 29 4 '■"?*:■ 108 INDEX. 'ciV'.- INDIGO— <»/iftffMn in Ame- rica not under the Dominion of His Maietty, which shall be imported or brought into any Colony or Plantation in America under the D-'niiuion of His Majesty, the Duties following ; that is to say, For eve.y Pound Weight Avoirdupois of such Indigo, Sixpence .«--._ The Duties shall be collected and paid in the same' Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, (not otherwise altered by this Act) as are mentioned and expressed in 6 Geo. II. c. 13. (See « Sugar") with respect to the collecting and Payment of the Duties thereby granted; and all Powers, Penalties, Provisions, Articles, and Clauses in ^at Act contained and referred unto, (except in such Cases wheire any Alteration is made by this Act) shall be applied and put in Execution for the collecting and answering the Duties hereby granted, as effectually as if the same were particularly re-cinacted in this Act - - The Duties (except the necessary Charges of raising,^ > paying, recovering, and amepding for the same) shall be paid mto the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and be entered separate and apart from all othf { Monies payable to His Majesty, and shall be there reserved to be disposed of by Parliament, towards defraying the necessjivy Exponces of defending and securing the British Colonies in America - - — — If the Importer or Proprietor of any Indigo warehoused' as aforesaid, shall not pay the Duties dre for the same, nor export the Goods within 1 2 Calendar Months, the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where ^jch Oocds shall be secured, may cause the same to h" publicly sold to the best Advantage, and the Money arising by such Sale shall be in the first Place applied in Discharge of the Duues, and the Charges attending the Sale, and the Surplus of the Money (if any), after Payment of the said Duties and Charges, shall be paid to the Importer or Pro- prietor who landed and warehoused the Goods, or to such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive the same No Duty whatsoever shall be paid for any Foreign Indigo, which shall be imported or brought into any British Colony or Plantation on the Continent of America, provided, upon the Landing thereof, the same shall be immediately secur'^d in Warehouses at the sole Expence of the Importer or Pre etor of such Indigo, with the Privity and Approbation and under the Care and Inspection of the Collector -.id Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs, and under the Locks of such Officers and the Proprietor; providdd that within 12 Ca- lendar Months the same shall be shipped for Exportation to Great Britain or Ireland, under the like .Securities, Regulations, and Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitu' es, as are particularly mentioned and expressed in any Act of Parliament witn respect to Indigo of the Growth or I'roduce of any British Colony or Plantation - . . — — Nor shall any Duty be paid upon Indigo of Foreign PrO' duce or Manufacture, imported into any British Island in the 1 Reign. 4 Geo. 3. Chip. »5 S«d. 4 Geo. 3. 15 4 Geo. 3. IS II 6 Geo. 3. 5a 17 6 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 52 67 16 Art. 6 1 N D E X. log li9DK<>— landed in the Presence of the proper Officer t otherwise the same I shall be liable to the Duties as if this Act had not been mftde -J INSURANCES. ^ No Person residing within His Majestjr'it Dominions shall eflPect any | Insurance in respect to any of the dealing, ' emoving, or other > Transactions, which by the Acts for restraining or prohibiting 1 the African Slave Trade are declared to be unlawful -J See «« Slaves." IRELAND. 1. Any Goods the Product or Manufacture of the British Colonies or Plantations in America or the V^ e^t Indies, and which by any Act of Parliament are required to be imported from such Colonies or Plantations into Great Britain, and also any ether Goods which, having been in any way legally imported into the said Colonies or Plantations, may now or hereafte/ be legally exported from thence to Great Britain, may be laden in and exported from such Colonies or Plantations, and in like' manner imported directly from thence into Ireland ; and the Officers in the Colonies or Plantations shall grant the like Documents and Certificates for Ireland, the same as for Great Britain, and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures { and any Goods the Production or Manufacture of Ireland, or of Great Britain legally exported from thence into Ireland, or of the Production or Manufacture of any otlier Part of Europe, and any Goods of the Product or Manufacture of the East Indies, or other Places beyond the C&pe of Good Hope, which ar& required to be shipped or laden in Great Britain, to be carried directly from thence to any British Colony or Plantation in America, as also any other Goods which may be legally shipped in Great Britain, to be carried directly from thence and imported into any Colony or Plantation in America or the West Indies, may be shipped at any Port in Ireland, and exported directly from thence, <(nd in like manner imported into any British Colony or Plantation in America or the West Indies, provided that the Ships in or on board which such Goods shall be so imported or exported, shall be subject to the same Rules, Visitations, Searches, Penalties and Forfeitures, to which Ships imporiing or exporting the like Goods from or to Great Britain are subject by the Laws in force . - _ 2. — — — No Goods which by this or any Act may be legally' imported from Ireland into any of the British Colonies or Plant- ations in America or the West Indies, shall be subject to Forfeiture by 4 Geo. III. c. 15. provided the Master of the 1 Ship carrying such Goods shall produce a Cocquet or Clearance ^ from the proper Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs, certifying that the said Goods were laden on board the said Ship in some Port of Great Britain or Ireland respectively -_ But this Act shall not allow any Person to trade to, from," or in any Colony or Plantation in America, during such Time and ill such manner as the Trade or Intercourse of Great Britain with such Colony or Plantaticn is or shall be prohibited or restrained by any Act made or hereafter to be made in this King, dom } but whenever Trade and Inicrcourse shall be permitted IUi(ii. Chip. 8«a. 6 Geo. 3. 46 Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. 5a 36 18 31 3 Se 4 Ann. 18 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 33 Geo. 3. 8 5S 10 63 a. 3 a I 2 20 Geo. 3. 10 20 Geo. 3. 10 m -m no INDEX. IHELAN D i tt n tlnued. between Great Britain and such Coloniea, the aame Trade and Intercourse shall in like manner be permitted and allowed between Iroland and the said Colonies . - -. , ' 4. — — — His itfajestjr's Subjects of Great Britain and Ireland shall ' , be entitled to the same Privileges, and be on the same Footing as to Encouragements and Bounties on the like Articles, being the Produce or Manufacture of either Country, and generally in respect of Trade and Navigation in all Ports and Places in the United Kingdom and its Dependencies } and in all Treaties made by His Majestv, His Heirs and Successors, with any Foreign Power, His Majesty's Subjects of Ireland shall have the same Privilege and be on the same Footing as His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain ... IRON. The Production or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plant- ation in America, shall not be there laden to be carried from thence, until sufficient Bond be given, with Owt Surety \ besides the Master of the Ship, to the Collector or other Prin- cipal Officer of the Customs at the loading Port, in Double the Value of the Goods, with Condition that the same shall not be landed in any Part of Europe, except Great Britain or Ireland } which Bond shall be discharged in the manner hereinaftrr men- tioned ; that is to say, for such Iron as shall be entered for or landed in Great Britain or Ireland, the Condition of the Bond shall be to bring a Certificate iii discharge thereof witliin 18 Months from the Date of the Bond, and within 6 Months for such Iron as shall be entered for or landed in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America ; which Certificates shall be under the Hands and Seals of the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs resident at the Port or Place where landed, testifying the Landing thereof; and for such Iron as shall ' be entered for or landed at any other Place in America, Africa, or /.sia, to bring the like Certificate witliin 12 Months, under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate, or under the Hands and Seals of Two known British Merchants residing there % or such Bond shall be discharged by Proof upon Oath made by credible Persons, that the Iron was taken by Enemies or perished in the Seas . - - _ . JUNIPER BERRIES. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependenc* ^s thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's ougar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registersd>accord- ing to Law - . . . . See « Gibralter." « Malta." JUSTICES. Any Justice of the Peace who shall subscribe his Name to any Paper or Parchment purporting to be an Affidavit, for the Purpose directed by 4 Geo. III. c. 15., and the Person purporting to make such Affidavit shall not have appeared before him, and sworn to the Truth of the Affidavit, every such Justice shall forfeit for every Offence S^o. - - - See "Sugar." " Spirits." Reign. 39&4oGeo.3 4 Geo. 3. 5 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. Chip. Sea, 57 Art, 6 IS 45 67 28 Art. 6 18 Geo. 3. 29 4 S.9 58 INDEX. KINGSTON. One of the Free Ports of Jamaica for the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ship* - - - See «« Free Ports." LAVA. May be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies cr Phntations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty^ Colonies or Plantations in North America, in Brltifli-built Ships, owned, narigated, and registered accord- ing to L ''7 See *' Gibraltar," «• Malta." LAWS. 1. — ^— All Laws, Bye-Laws, Usages, or Customs in practice, or endeavoured or pretended to be in force or practice, in Miy of His Majesty's Plantations in America, which are in anywise repugnant to any Law made in this Kingdom, so far as such Law shall relate to and mention the said Plantations, are illegal and void - - . . ._ 2. — — — The Colonies and Plantations in America are subordinate' unto and dependent upon the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain, and the Parliament hath full Power and Authority to make Laws to bind the Colonies and People of America in all Cases whatsoever ; and all Resolutions and Proceedings in any of the said Colonies or Plantations, whereby such Power and Authority of the Parliament to make Laws is denied or drawn into Question, are null and void - . . •• - ) Rei(n. LEAD. 45 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 4 Geo, 3. 2. • There shall be paid to His Majesty upon Lead hereafter* mentioned, not being the Manufacture of Great Britain or Ire- land, which shall be imported from Great Britain or Ireland into any Colony or Plantation in America under the Dominion of His Maj'^sty, the Duties following ; that is to say, For every Cwt. Avoirdupois of Red Lead or White Lead, Two Shillings . _ - - -_^ The Duties shall be deemed Sterling Money of Great* Britain, and recovered and paid to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, and received accord- ing to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence tlie Ounce in Silver, in the same Manner, and by such Rules, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as any other Duties now payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plantations may be paid and recovered ; and the Monies that shall arise thereby (except the necessary Charges of collecting, recovering, and accounting for the same) shall be applied in making Provision for the Charge of the Administration of Justice, and the Support of Civil Government in such of the Colonies and Plantations where it shall be found necessary, and the Residue shall be paid into the Exchequer, and entered separate and iapart from other Monies payable to His Majesty, and shall be there reserved to be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary Expences of protecting and securing the British Colonies and Plantations in America . r His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Royal Sign' Manual countersigned by the High Treasurer, or any Three or 6 Geo. 3. 7 Geo. 3. 10 Geo. 3. 39 &40 G. 3. Chap. S7 4 Ul 8«aJ 5*9 15 12 46 57 I I Art. 6 7 Geo. 3. 4 Ship in the said Colonies or Plantations, to be carried to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, the Person intending to export the bdd Articles shall make an Entry thereof in Writing with the Collector and Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs, expressing the N-me of the Ship and the Master, and where she lies, and also the Wharf where the Articles are to be first waterborne in order to be laden, which shall be within such Port only where a Custom-house is etitablished, and where an Officer shall be appointed to attend the shipping thereof, or at such Place as shall be meulioned in a Sufi^erance or Warrant to be taken out from the Collector and Comptroller for that Purpose ; and the Exporter shall take a Cocket or Warrant accordingly, whereon shall be indorsed the particular Weight and Quantity, with the Marks, Numbers, and Contents, and proper Denomination of such Articles, and deliver the Cocket or Warrant so ir>dorsed to the Officer ap- P R*ifn. Chip, Sea. 55 57 till -l..\ •„' ,r/ : . lit :L-f' Geo. 3. Geo. 3. 29 4 55 57 Geo. 3. Geo. 3. 29 4 3 I IH INDEX. MALTA AND OIBRALTAR-.a>m/imim/. pointed for the examining and shipping thereof, and shall »hip ' the said Articles in the Presence of such Officer, and at such Place as shall be mentioned in the SuflFerance or Warrant. The proper Officer «hall examine the same before the? are put on Board, and if, before or after shipping, the Weignt or Quantity of Goods, or the Number of Packages, shall be found to be greater than is indorsed, or if my other Articles shall be discovered to have been put on board, or shall be brought to be shipped, or put into any Vessel in order to be put on board such Vessel, before Entry, or taking out such Cocket or Warrant, indorsing and delivering of the same, and not being shipped in the Manner afore- said, but shall be put or attempted to be put on board contrary to this Act, all such Articles shall be forfeited, and also the Boat or other Vessel or Carriage employed in shipping or at> tempting to ship any Goods other than those enumerated in the ■aid Schedule, with the Vessel on which such Goods shall be so laden \ and the Owner shall forfeit Double the Value thereof, to be recovered in any Court of Vice Admiralty held in any of His Ma- jesty's Plantations in America, or in any other Court of Record there. One Third to tlie Use of His Majesty, One Third to the Go- vernor, and the other Third to the Prosecutor } and before such Ship shall depart from the said Colonies with any of the said Arti- cles, the Master shall receive the said Licence from the Collector or Comptroller, with a Certificate indorsed thereon 6r affiled thereto, under their Hands and Seals of Office, who are to make Two Copies of such Elntries, Indorsements, and Certifi- cates, for which Entries, Cockets, Indorsements, and Certifi- cates, or Copies, no more shall be taken by the said Officer than the legal and accustomed Fees } and the Master shall, before he receives the Licence, attest the said Copies under his Hand, which are to be left with the Collector and Comptroller, who are to transmit one of the said Copies of the Licence, Indorse- ments, and Certificates to the Commissioners of the Cujtoms in England, and record, in a Book to be kept for that Purpose, t'he Notice in Writing of the Owner of the Ship, the Affidavit of the Shipper, the Licence granted for the Exportation of the Articles, together with the Clearance ; but in case any Articles shall be found on board, or carried by any such Ship to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar which shall not be mentioned in the Licence, then the Licence shall become void ; and such Ship, and also the Master and all ctliers concerned shall be subject to the same Penalties and Forfeitures as they would have been subject to in case this Act had not been made ..... 6. — .^_ Any such Ship or any other Ship, being British-built," navigated and registered according to Law, may load at Malta or anv of the Dependencies th.'reof, or at Gibraltar, any of the Articles enumerated in the following Schedule, marked (B.), for Exportation direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America ; and any such Articles may be landed in such Colony or Pianta- tion, being first duly entered with the proper Officers of the Customs there ; and the Articles (Wine excepted) shall, upon Importation into any of the said Colonies or Plantations, be Rt'i|n. Chip. s«a. 5S Geo. 57 Geo. 4 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 29 4 S»9 INDEX. lis MALTA AMD GIBRALTAR— ««/««i/* such Duties, and no other, as are payable on Madeira Wine when imported into any of the said Colonies or Plantations directly from Madeira .... H. Upon such Licence being returned to the Collector and* Comptroller of the Port where the Articles enumerated m 10. ■ II. Schedule (A.) were shipped, and an Account of the Lading being indorsed thereon or annexed thereto, and also upon such C^tificate of the Governor or Deputy Governor or Principal Officer of the Customs being produced as aforesaid, and the several other Matters required by this Act being duly com. plied with within Two Years from the Date of such Licence, the Bond given lx:fore granting such Licence shall be discharged and delivered up, otherwise shall be forfeited, and may be pro- secuted in the Manner directed by this Act ■■ It shall be lawful to export from Newfoundland, Bermuda,' or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, direct to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, any Articles of the Production or Manufacture of such Colony or Plantation, or any A 'tides which have been legally imported into such Colony or .'lantation, in such Ships, and under such Licencct), Entries, iecurities, Regulations, Penalties, und Forfeitures, as are herein>before mentioned as to Eiiporta. tion from His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America - - - - - ■ If any Person shall be prosecuted for any Thing done in"] pursuance of this Act, such Person may plead the General Issue, I and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence ; and if I the Plaintiff shall become nonsuit, or forbear Proiecution, or I discontinue his Action, or if a Verdict shall pass against him, ,' the Defendant shall have Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as in Cases wh' re Costs are by Law given to Defendants .-..._ Any Person who shall grant a false Certificate, or coun." terfeit, erase, or alter any Licence, Oath, or Certificate which shall be made or given pursuant to tliis Act, or shall knowingly or wittingly publish or make use thereof, shall forfeit ^500, to be recovered and disposed of in the manner directed by this Act •, and such Licence, Oath, or Certificate, so falsified, coun. terfeited, erased, or altered, shall be invalid Rtiga. •I't'h- f./, 55 Geo. 3. 57 Oto. 3. Chip. M\. .:-iw." 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 5; Ceo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. SCHEDULE (A.) referred to. Sugar. CoflFee. Cocoa. Rum. Molasses. Pimento. Indigo. Ginger. Fustic or other Dying Waod. Pa 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 49 4 6 I 29 4 39 4 »9 > * 89 4 >5 I lib INDEX. MALTA AMD GlhRAVr AH— canl,nutd. ,., , lUlgii. Chip, NtA. ' SCHEDULE (B.) referred to, (See No. 6.) Drj &W«t Fruit in i in Jart 8c Brand V & Sugar /Bottles. , Pickica in Ditto. Jall>|/. '0 '»,.;• ":, ■ :'':. m i ttti'Jl if,i/, ^ Scamonv. ■ ' ."• * Quicksilver. * Sarsaparilla. , OHtci. ■ i'' ; ' 3P . r^,. '■ '■ Saffron. ■ ,. rl-.ai i Rataina. *' Safflower. iU^' .< i: 'rj ii J V ifffi ;; Currants, Musk. ;.: . J/ :■. '■ - PitUCcio Nutt. ;•!/;» t, Incensr. ? f f'.H- • Almonds. - j ,< |,«. Essence of Bcnrgamot. Dates. ' - ,ri,ii Do. of Citron. , i - ... Capers. Do. of Lemon. • wine. Do. of Orange. Brandy. on of Olives. Do. of Lavender. Do. of Roses. ,, , , ^ ' "' ;■* Oil of Almonds. Do. of Rosemary. ' ■ . .!.,-; Gum Arabic. , >...', Marble, 1 Ro«gh and Alabaater, j Worked. , . ' -^Mastic. ,,vj, \ Myrrh. Brimstone. Sicily. Cork. , ' S5G«>-3- o<« '»5 Ammoniac. , Aniseed. f. , . 29 9 Opium. Manna. Cumminseed. ' Ostrich Feathers. . . i ' ' 1 Senna. Honey. » i ! i Cantharides. Sponges. V ' * ■ Oris Root. • Amber. ) Rhubarb. * Coral. Mill Timber. Bullion. ' Box Wood. , Precious Stones. Algol. ' Pearls. Vermillion. Com. Ochres. : < ♦ Grain. Cinnabar. Meal or Flour. ■■/ Orange Buds and Peel. Beans. Juniper Berries. Peas. ■1 • Punk. J ^^ Lentils. Pumice Stone. i •' "■ ' Rice. Emery Stone. Maccaroni or Vermicelli. Whetstone. '"^ Cascasoo. Paintings and Prints. Parmesan Cheese. Mosaic Works. Bologna and other Sausages. Medals. Anchovies. I^Ta and Maha Stone for Caviar. building. Botarga. Pezzolana. MAN, ISLE OF. ' I. No Spirits shall be shipped in any British Colony or Plant- ation in America, bu<-. on Condition that the same shall not be carried to or landed in the Isle of Man, under the like Securities, > 5 Geo. 3. 39 5 Penalties, and Forfeitures as are prescribed and mentioned in 12 Car. IT. c. 1 8. and 25 Car. II. c. 7. with respect to the Goods in those Aas enumerated - - • See <• Goods, enumerated." INDEX. 117 MAN, \SLE. Of— etntitiut J. 3. Anjr of Hit Majeity's SubjecCi reiiding in the Itic of Min may export from thence to any of the Briiiilt Culoniei or Plantations in America, in Brtt'ih>b ilt Shipn navigated and regiitered according to Law, Hcrringi cuught and cured by them, in the lame Manner as Victuals may be imported into the said Colonifs or Plantations from Ireland Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle of* Man may lade and transport directly from thence to any Part of America where the Fishery is carried on, on board any Ship which may lawfully trade or fish there, any Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Nettings, or other Tools or Implements necessary for and used in the Fishery by the Crews of the Ships carrying out . the same, and the Craft belonging to and employed by such Ships in the said Fishery -, luch Provisions, 8 ' . beins the Product and Manufacture of Great Britain, Ireland, or the Isle of Nun 4. — ^— The Master of such Ship shall produce to the proper' Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Plantation wheij he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand anu Seal of t: Col- lector, or other Principal Officer of the Customs in the Port where he shall have fitted out, that Oath hath been made before him by the Shipper of such Provisions, 8cc. that the same are the Product and Manufacture of Great Britain or Ir V'ld, or the Isle of Man, as the Fact may be, and that the sai A.. teles (except the Provisions), specifying the Quantities and 1 irticulars of each Sort, are to be used in the Fitihery, by the Crew of the Ship carrying out the same, and by the Craft beloneing to and to be employed by such Ship in tne Fishery, and for no other Purpose, (which Oath and Certificate is to be administered and granted without Fee or Reward) ; and on Failure of producing such Certificate, or if any such Tools or Implementf are used or disposed of for any other Purpose, the same and the Ship shall be seized and forfeited, in the same manner as they would have been if this Act had not been mada , MANIFESTS. See (•' Goods, No.^') J<^ («' Tobacco, No. 30.") MANNA. ") May be exported from Malta or any of the De-' MARBLE, (Rough *) I pendencies thereof, ' ^rom Gibraltar, direct to and Worked.) )J any of His Majesty's !3ii;.ir Colonies or Plant- ations in America, oi to Newfoundland, Ber- > muda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North I America, in British-built Ships, owne i, navigated, and registered according to Law ... _J See " Gibraltar." «• Malta." MARIA. One of the Free Ports in Jamaica for the Importation and Exportiition of certain Articles in Foreign Ships See " Free Ports." MEAL OR FLOUR. See " Corn and Grain." MEDALS. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any y of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in } R> 3 27 4.8 ■-■^J'T^?!.!,*''' INDEX. 119 MOLASSVS—ctniinutd. and the Dominions of th« King of the Netherlands, shall export I the said Produce to any Part of the United Kingdom, or any of I His Majesty's Dominions in Europe - * , -J See « Guiana." 6. ■ In Cases where the Governor or Officers in any of the' Plantations shall have reasonable Ground of Suspicion that the Certificate of having given Security in Great Britain Or Ireland is false, they shall require sufficient Security for the Discharge of the Plantation Lading in Great Britain or Ireland { and where there shall be Cause to suspect tiiat the Certificate of having discharged the Lading in Gre^it Britain or Ireland is false or counterfeit, the Governor or «~'fficers shall not cancel the Security given in the Plantation until they shall be informed from the Commissioners of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland, as the Case may be, that the Matter of the said Certifi- cate is true ; and if any Person shall counterfeit, rase, or falsify any Certificate for any Ship or Goods, or knowingly or wilfully make use thereof, such Person shall forfeit j€'5oo, and the Certificate shall be of no effect - - -^ If any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland^ 8.. 10. ■ shall give anv Warrant for or sufi«r any Molasses (or any enu- f merated Article) to be carried into any other Country or Place, ( until they have been first put on Shore in some Port in Great T Britain or Ireland, every Officer for such Offence shall forfeit I his Place and the Value of the Goods . - -J The Governors or their Commanders in Chief of the said' Plantations, are Once a Tear at least to return to the Officers of the Customs in London, or to such other Person as His in Majesty shall appoint to receive the same, a List of all Ships as shall have laden any Molasses (or any enumerated Article) in such Plantation, as also a List of all Bonds taken by them } and in case any Ship belonging to any of His Majesty's Plant- ations shall be found to have unloaded in any Part of Europe other than Great Britain or Ireland, such Ship shall be forfeited and her Lading - - - . In all Bonds to be taken in the Plantations, the Persons' therein named shall be of known Residence and Ability there for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the Condition of which shall be, within i8 Months after the Datf thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in One of His Majesty's Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland ; otherwise such Bond, or Copies thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief to whom such Bond was given, shall be in force and allowed of in any Court in Great Britain, Ireland, or the Plantations, as if the Original was produced in Court by the Prosecutor In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great Britain' > Reign, U I III III I or Ireland, in pursuance of any Act whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great Britain or Ireland, such Bond shall be with Condition, that within i8 Months from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certificate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall be delivered, that they have been 7 8e 8 W. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 15 Car. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3; 39&40G.3. 22&:23C. a. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39 & 40 G. 3. 7 & 8 W. 3. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 15 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. Chip. Sea. aa 10 67 7 10 67 a6 10 67 22 10 67 31 10 67 10 27 »>3 An. 6 9 27 »»3 Alt. 6 12 27 •.3 Art. 6 '3 27 Art. 6 6 27 Art. 6 UHi INDEX. such Bonds shall be MOLASSES— cmtitiytd. there landed and discharged, otherwise forfeited - - - 1 1. I -In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or Non>' performance of the Condition of the Bond, within Three Years after the Date thereof, or if upon Prosecution for some Breach or Non-performance of the Condition, Judgment be not obtained ! within Two Years after Prosecution commenced, then such Bond (in default of such Prosecution to be commenced, and Judgment to be obtained within the Times limited) shall be void, and all Bonds so void shall be delivered up by the Officers to be cancelled, without Fee or Reward ... I a. May be exported from the West India Islands to any »3- 14. 15- 16. Place within the United States of America, by British Subjects and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects; and navigated according to Law Where, on Exportation of Goods to any British Colony or' Plantation inAmerica, a Bond is required for the due landing such Goods, and a Certificate required to discharge such Bond *, a similar Bond shall be required on Exportation of such Goods to the United States, and such Bond shall be discharged upon Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the British Consul or Vice Consul, or in case there shall not be any such Consul or Vice Consul, may Consul, then under the Hand and Seal of any Officer who ( be appointed by the United States for the Purpose of grant- A mg such Certificate; and if there shall not be any Officer appointed, then such Bond shall be discharged upon a Certi. ficate under the Hand and Seal of any Magistrate of the United States, certifying that there is no such Officer at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be landed, and that Oath h^th been made before such Magistrate by the Master of the Shi|) that the Goods were there duly landed - -_^ - Hie Growth and Produce [of any of His Majesty's Sugar ^ I Colonies or Plantations inAmerica, maybe shipped and exported I direct to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in I such Ships, and under such Licences, Entries, Securities, Re- r gulations. Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are herein particularly 1 mentioned - - . - , .J See «« Gibraltar." '^ ^ ' " Maka." —^— The Produce of any British Plantation in the West In-'\ dies, which shall have been legally imported into Bermuda in I any British Ship, may e exported from thence to the United > States, in the Description of Vessels and under the Regulations I provided in 5a Geo. III. c. 79. and 53 Geo. III. c. 50. -J See " Bermuda." ■■' There shall be paid unto His Majesty, for every Grallon'\ (Wine Measure) of Molasses and Syrups, which shall be im- I ported or brought (except as is herein-after mentioned) into any > Colony or Plantation in America under the Dominion of His I Majesty, One Penny . . - _ J 17. — The Duty shall not be charged upon Molasses or fyrui-,.?"} imported into any British Colony on the Continent of Am": vica j from Bermuda, for which a Certificate is produced to the Co'- ^^ * A Bond is so required upon the Exportation of Molastts. See N'>, 1. 1 Reign. Chap. Sea. R Ann. 4 Geo. 3. 13 15 23 37 28 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. S5 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. %9 4 57 Geo. 3. 28 6 Geo. 3. 52 6 Geo. 3. 85 rir,'^-s »; V i^vifii^' INDEX. 131 m MOLASSES— continued. lector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at: the Port of Importation, under the Hand and Seal of the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port of Elxportation in Dominica, certifying that the said Duty hath been there paid for such Molasses or Syrups - - -. 1 8. ' The Duty shall be deemed to be Steding Money of Great' Britain, and be received to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, and according to the Proportion and Value of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver, and shall be levied, collected, paid, and recovered in the same Manner, by such Rules and Means, and under such Penalties and For* feitures, as any other Duties payable to Hia Majesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plantations may be levied, collected, paid, and recovered ; and the Monies that shall arise by the said Duty (except the necessary Charges of colIectinK, levying, recovering, paying, and accounting for the same), shul be paid into the Exchequer, and entered apart from all other Monies, and shall be there reserved to be disposed of by Parlia- ment, towards defraying the necessary £}tpences of protecting and securing the British Colonies and Plantations io America - MOSAIC WORKS. May be exported from Maltft or any of thp Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any V of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - - See « Gibraltar." "Malta." MULES. See " Cattle." MUSK. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any y of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in | British-built Snips, owned, navigated, and registered according t to Law _ . _ _ , J See *« Gibraltar." « Malto." NASSAU. 'J I . One of the Free Ports in New Providence for the Import- \ ation and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships -J See " Free Ports." 2. ' Until ajth March 18 19, any Ship belonging to theA United States coming in Ballast, and not otherwise, may enter I the Port of Nassau for the Purpose of being laden with Salt, ( subject to the Rules, Provisions, Regulations, and Restrictions r of a8 Geo. III. c. 6. respecting Vessels coming for the same I Purpose to Turks Islands . . - See ** Bahama Islands. NATURALIZATION. See " Aliens." NAVAL OFFICERS. I . — No Ship coming to any Plantation, Ccdony, or Territory to His Majesty belonging, or in His Possession io America, ^all lade or unlade any Goods until the Master shall have first made known Rtign. Chip. S«ct. 6 Geo. 3. 5a 12 SS Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 89 4 5*9 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 29 4 S>9 45 Geo. 3. 57 57 Geo. 3. 42 129 INDEX. '1 NAVAL OFVICV.RS— continued. to the Goven-or, or suqh Officer as nIuiU be by him appointed, the Arrival of the Ship, w.ith her Name, and the Name of the Matter, and shall have shewn that she is British-built, and registered and navigated according to Law, and h»ve delivered to such Governor or Officer a true Inventory or Invoice of her Lading, with the Places in which the Goods were laden, on Forfeiture of the Ship, and all Goods the Manufacture of Europe as were not laden in Great Britain or Ireland 2, , Within Two Months, or as soon as convenient after their' Entrance upon their Offices, Naval Officers are to give sufBcieut Security to the Commissioners of the Customs, for Hiu Majesty's Usei, for the faithful Performance of their Duty, a.id "n default thereof, shall be disabled to execute the Office} and until such Se- curity is given, and the P irson appointed to the Office be approved by the Commissioners, the Governor shall Ije answerable for any the Offences, Neglects, or Misdemeanors of the Person by him appointed Re«a IS Car. 2. 3 & 4 Ann. 78t8W.3. ao Geo. 3. a6 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 7 & 8 W. 3. In the British Colonies shall be entitled to such Fees as their Predecessors had been generally and usually accustomed to receive, before the a9th September 1 764, and shall have the like Remedy for recovering the same as has been heretofore allowed to any Collector, or other Officer of the Customs -, and if any Naval Officer shall require or receive any greater or other Fees than ar .' allowed by this Act, he shall forfeit for the First Offence J^^o, and for the Second Offence shall forfeit his Office, and be for ever incapable of executing any Office or Employ- ment in the Customs or Navy - - _ NAVIGATION of BRITISH SHIPS. I.——— His Majesty may at all Times, when it shall be found necessary to declare War against any Foreign Power, publish a Proclamation, to permit all Merchant Ships and other Trading Vessels, and Privateers, to be manned with Foreign Mariners and Seamen during such War ; and upon the publishing such Proclamation, every such Foreign Mariner or Seaman, who shall have faithfully served during the Time of War on board any o: His Majesty's Ships of War, or any Merchant or other Trading Ship or Vessel, or Privateer (which at the Time of such Service shall belong to any of His Majesty's Subject? of Great Britain), for the Space of Two Years, shall be deemed to be a natural- born Subject of Great Britain, and enjoy all the Privileges, Powers, Rights, and Capacities which he could have enjoyed in case ho had been a natural-born Subject of His Majesty, and actually a Native within Great Britain No Person who shall be naturalized by this Act, shall A be enabled to be of the Privy Council, a Member of either House / of Parliament, or to take any Office or Place of Trust, either (^ Civil or Military, or have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from the Crown to himself, or any other Person in trust for him 1 No Ship registered or required to be registered a Ship in any of the tVirts of Great Britain, Guern of the Isle of Man, or of any of the Coloniei,, Plantar or Territories belonging to His Majesty, shall be navigati.d but by a Master and Three-fourths at least of the Mariners British Subjects, except as ip herein-after provided i ireiiasa British ^ i.scy, Jersey, or J tatioiis, Islnndf), ' J Ichap. Sttt. 7 8 6 2 22 2 10 I 60 — An. 67 6 1 32 5 i 10 Geo. 3. Geo. 2. 37 13 Geo. 34 Geo. 3. -.4 6a 'W- INDEX. 123 NAVIGATION op BRITISH SHWS—coHtmiud. Where it is required that the Matter and the Whole or any Proportion of the Mariners of any Ship* shall be British Subjects, the Intent and Meaning is, that the Master and the Whole or such Proportions shall be British Suhjecta during the whole Voyage, unless in case of Sickness, Death, Desertion, or of the Whole or Part of the Crew being taken Pritonert in tlie Voyage •, niid in such Case the Master of such Ship shall spe- cify the same in his Report ; but nothing in this Act shall alter or in anywise affect «ny Regulation for the Navigation or Man- ning of Ships employed in any of the Fisheries carried on from this Kingdom, or any Part of His Majesty's Dominions, for which any special Provision has been made before the Com- mencement of this Act - - - - No Person shall be deemed qualified to be the Master of a British Ship, or to be a British Seaman or Mariner within the Meaning of this or any other Act now in force, except the natural-born Subjects of His Majesty, or Persons naturalized by virtue of any Act of Parliament, or made Denizens by Letters of Denization, or except Persons who have become His Majesty's Subjects by VaLe of the Conquest or Cession of some newly-acquired County, and who shall have taken the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty, or the Oath of Fidelity required by the Treaty or Capitulation by which such newly- acquired Country came into His Majesty's Possession, except as IS herein-after prov.dcd « - - - , - Every Foreign Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, who shalP have served or who shall serve on board an^ of His Majesty's Ships of War inThnc of War, during the Space of Three Years, either in one and th« same Ship, or in different Ships, and who shall have obtained a Certificate from the Captain or Captains of such Ships on board of which he shall have so served ; or in case of the Death of any such Captain, then upon the Certifi- cate of the Officer then living who shall have been next in Rank to such Captain, testifying that he has so served, and his faithful Service and good Behaviour during the Time of such Service \ and who shall havi; also taken the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty before some Justice of the Peace, or principal Magistrate of some City or Town of His Majesty's Dominions, or before the principal Officer of His Majesty '^ « 'ustoms in any Port cf His Majesty's Dominions, and wiiu shall obtain a Certificile tiom such Justice of the Peace, principal Magistrate, or chief Officer, of his having taken such Oath, (which Certi- ficate they are thereby authorized and required to give, upon Payment of is.) shall be entitled to be employed as a Master r.f a British Ship, or ■;■•■ ^ British Seaman or Mariner on board any British Ship, within the Meaning of a.' y of the Laws now in force •, provided that no such Foreij^..ei shall be entitled t become the Master of any British Ship, or to be employed a^ a British Seaman or Mariner, unless he shall have delivered the before-mentioned Certificate of the Time he shall have served, and of his faithful Service and good Behaviour, and the before- mentioned Certificate of his so having taken the Oath of Alle- giance, to the Collector or other chief Officer of the Customs in the Port of London, Chatham, Portsmouth, or Plymouth, to be filed by such Collector or chief Officer, who is required to I Reign. Chap. ■•-; '■• S<£t. 34 Geo. 3. (58 34 Geo. 3. 68 34 Geo. 3. 68 « vNSii^ A\ n4 INDEX. NAVIGATION op BRITISH SHlPS—centinutJ. deliver to such Foreign Seaman or Mariner an attested Cop« thereof, upon paying is. - - - -_ 7. -'— — No Person qualified to be the Master of a British Ship," or to be a British ijeaman or M^:>r:ner, by Birth, Naturalization, Denization, Conquest, or Service, in Manner before men- tioned, and who shall take any Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign Sovereign or Fute for an? Purpose, except und» h1 qualified to be the Master of a Eritisa Ship, or i British Sea^> man or Mariner within the Meaning <'f any cl' t:i'i Laws of K'Mvigation, unless such Person shall liave taken such Onth of Allegiance before he became so qualified % and any i'erson .'ho shfi^l, after having become disqualified by laking such Oath of Al'f giance, take me Comiv. 'iid of any British Ship, shall for every I'ucls Offence forJoit ^io:< i and every Person who shall, after having' boconc -yj di;>qualii)t;d, engage to sorve as a British S«!a- man or Matin.-: "i: tK>ut'l ?iiiy such Ship, shall forfeit jiiQi such Forfe'.turc-8 to be is* av- (i upon Cciiviction before a Justice of th(> Peai;e, ix such OSorict- hall be committed in Gre?t Britain, and betorc any Me.ni ./ ov the Supreme Court of Justice, or any Jiutice cf the Pfc,ic<:^. if su>:. a Master and a certain Proj^ . '' of British Mrriners, in -er herein-before directed, cha'l 'ic be manned a!;d n>tvig<. .i ..^cording to the Provisions o, i';* Act, such Ship auu all the Goods on board shall be forfeiced • Reign. Chip. S*(i. 34 Geo. 3. 68 34 Geo. 3. 68 i4 Geo. 3. 68 10 INDEX. 1«5 NAVIGATION of BRITISH The Goods and 10. II.- a. SHIPS— continued. Ships forfeited bjr this Act shall be' seized by the Commander of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer spe- cially appointed by him, or by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs .... In case any British Shm shall be found at Sea, having on' board a greater Number of Foreign Mariners than are allowed by Law, and the Master of such Ship shall produce a Certificate of the Necessity of engaging such Foreign Mariners in some Foreign Port, by occasion of the Sickness, Death, or Desertion of the like !^^umber of British Mariners, or of the same having been tnken l>risoners during his Voyage, and that British Mariner!! could not be engaged at such Foreign Port to supply iheir room, and that for the Navigation of such Ship it became necessary to engage and employ such Foreign Mariners, under the Hand of His Majesty's Consul at the Foreign Port where the said Foreign Mariners were so engaged, or if there is not any such Consul there, under the Hands of Two known British Merchants at such Foreign Port } it shall not be lawful for any of the Persons authorized by this Act to make Seizures of Ships navigated contrary to the Directions thereof, to detain any such Ship, or to hinder her from proceeding on her Voyage, but such Persons are hereby required to indorse the Certificate so pro- duced, testifying the Production thereof, and when and wnere met with at Sea, and that the Number of Foreign Mariners correspond with the Certificate of such British Consul, or such known British Merchants, for the Consideration and Investiga- tion of the Commissioners of the Customs No Asiatic Sailor, Lascar, or Native of any of the' Territories, Countries, or Places within the Limits of me Char- ter of the East India Company, although born in Territories, Countries, or Places under the Government of His Majesty, or of the East India Company, shall at any Time be deemed to be a British Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, within the Meaning of 34 Geo. III. c. 6K., or of any other Act relating to the Naviga- tion of British Ships by Subjects of His Majesty, for the Purpose of entitling any Ship to be deemed to be a British Ship, navi- gated according to Law, and to have the Privileges and Advan- tages of a British Ship having the Master and Three Fourths of the Mariners British Subjects ; but no Ship belonging to any Port within the Limits of the Charter of the said Company, or usually navigated by such Asiatic Sailors, Lascars, or Natives, as Mariners, shall, while carrying on Trade to and from India to the United Kingdom, forfeit any Privileges or Advantages of a British built Ship, to which she may be by Law entitled, by reason o*^ having any Proportion of such Mariners without the vi" " Proportion ot British Mariners^ unril the Expiration of Twelv Months of continued Peace after the Conclusion of the present \v ar ; snd His M-'esty by Proclamation, upon or after the Commenceipent • ■ any Hostilities, may permit Merc?>ant Ships, or any other Trading Vessels, a'.d Privateers, to be manned wholly^ or in any such Troportions, as shall be specified in any such Proclamation, with such Asiatic Sailors, Lascars, or Natives, during such Periods as shall be specified in such Proclamation > . . , . Riign. 34 Geo. 3. Chip. 68 StH. II 34 Geo. 3. 68 12 55 Geo. 3. 116 1«6 INDEX. NAVIGATION op BRITISH SHIPS— ««ri«i/«/. 13- 14. Every such Ship dnly registered, and carrying on Trade' to and from India and the United Kingdom, and manned in Part with Lascars or Natives of India, and which shall be commanded by a British Master, and nav ig^ted by Seven British Seamen, as Part of the Crew, for every 100 Tons of her regis- . tered Burthen, and so in proportion for ^ny Part of a 100 Tons, ( shall be deemed to be navigated according to Law, as to the Crew of such Ship, although the Number of such British Seamen shall not be equal to the Proportion of Three Fourths of the whole Crew . - - - . Any of the Governments of the Hast India Company in J5« India, or any Governor or Lieutenant Governor of any Colony, Territory, or Island belonging to His Majesty within tne Limits of the Charter, are required, on Application made by the Owner or Commander of any Ship, and after having ascertained by due Inquiry that a sufficient Number of British Seamen cannot be procured for the Crew of any Ship sailing from India, within Ten Days from such Application, to certify the same, and licence such Ship to sail with a less Proportion of British Seamen than required by J^aw \ and every Ship having on board such Licence, shall be deemed to be navigaf?d according to Law, notwithstanding such Deficiency of British Seamen, until her Arrival at the Port of Destination in the United Kingdom ; but ehall, on the Voyage back from the United Kingdom, have the full and proper Proportion of Seven British Ser^nen to every 100 Tons . _ - _ - But not to require any Number of British Seamen to be~ Reign. on board as part of the Crew cr Mariners of any Ship employed in Trade only between Ports and Places withii; the Limits of the Charter of the Company, including the Cape of Good Hope, or to prevent any such Ship, while so employed, being manned and navigated wholly, or in any Proportion as to Asiatic Sailors, or Lascars, or Natives of any Territories, Countries, or Places within the Limits of the said Company ... NETHERLANDS. The Subjects of the King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the Pro- vince of Guiana, may import into the said Colonies, from the Netherlands, the necessary Articles of Supply for their Estates, and export to the Netherlands the Produce of their Estates, in Foreign Ships - - - - . See ♦' Guiana." NEWFOUNDLAND. I. Such Parts of the Coast of Labrador from the River Saint John to Hudson's Straits and the Island of Ant>osti, and z!l other smaller Islands annexed to the Government of Newfound- land, by Proclamation of the 7th Day of October 1763, (except the said Islands of Madelaine), but afterwards made Part of Canada by the 14 Geo. III. c.83., shall be separated from the Government of Canada, and be annexed to the Government of Newfoundland - . . - - — — All His Majesty's Subjects residing within Great Britain" or Ireland, or the Dominic thereunto belonging, trading to Newfoundland, and the Seiw, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, Harbours, in or about Newfoundland, c < any of the Islands adjoining or i.- "!;»!;.) 55 Geo. 3. Chap. 116 55 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. StQ 116 116 91 27 14 '■'•yr^ INDEX. 1)27 6. NEWFOUNDLAND—ow/i«M« they carry j and the Masi. r of each By-boat, and each Fishi ^ :ihip, shall make Oath before i^e Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs of the Port from whence such Ship intends to sail, that each Ship and By- boat's Company have such fresh Men therein, as this Act directs } and the said Officer is required to administer the said Oath, and give a Certificate thereof nnder his Hand, without Fee or Reward - " " " -_ Every Master and Owner of any Fishing Ship go'ng to 'v Riign. '{ flit' C.il I io8c II W. 3, 51 Geo. 3. ..t ,1 1 I 108CHW.3. 1 Newfoundland, shall have, in his Ship's Company, every Fifth ^ Man a green Man, (that is to say) not a Seaman, or having been ever at Sea before - . - _ The Master and Crews belonging to any Ships fitted out" and employed in the Fishery, in pursuance of any Act, may occupy and use, for the Purpose of curing, salting, t; -y''i,'^. husbanding their Fish, any vacant or void Space ou at. i r:t of Newfoundland which is not then, occupied and used for the V said Fishery, without any Disturb. Great Britain O' Ireland, or one of the British Dominions in I Europe . - - _ -J The following Shij-s' Rooms, simated in the Town of"j Saint John's, (th?t ij to say), the Sh p's Room No. i. Rotten j 10 8c II W. 3 15 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. Chip. 35 45 «5 25 31 31 53 a*ii. 10 19$ INDEX. II. NEWrOUNDLAND-»«/,«fc.i. Row, or Pye Corner ; Ship'f Room No. a ( Darkus's Ships' Rooms, No. 2. ; Lady's Ships' Rooms, No. a. > Gallows Hill Ship's Room, No. 3.; Breakhcart Hill Ship's Room, No. 3.) Churchill Ship's Room, No .• . T^udsoii's Ship's Room, No. 5. j Admiral Ship'8 Room, l- ■ '' " same are laid dowiijdlstin- ?uished, and name<< wi .1 1'Uii o' lu. Towr and Harbour uf Saint ohn's, dated Octc be 1804, and depr sited in the GovcrnmLnt House there, sliall no lonser be deemed to be Ships Uooms^ and occupied during the Fishing Season as such, biH the s.tme may be granted, let, and possessed as private Property, as any other Portion of Land in Newfoundland may be t. All Ships fitted and cleared out as FiRVjror c :>>( in pur.' suance of this Act, or of 10 8c 11 W. IJ .: ^5. which ' arics for tilt Use of the Fishery, shall not be liable to any Restraint or Re;" 'ation, with respect to Days or Hours of Working, nor to mak' any Entry at the Custom house at Newfoundland, except a Report to be made by the Master on his First Arrival there, anu ac his Clearing out from thence ) and a Fee not exceeding 2s. 6d. may be taken by the Officers of the Customs at New- foundlam! for each Report \ and no other Fee shall be taken by Mj Officer of the Customs there relative to the Fishery 9. " In case . .ly such Fishing Ship shall, at her last clearing ^ out from Newfouudland, have on board or export any Goodaf except Fish, or Oil made of Fish, such Ship and the Goods ( thereon laden shall be liable to the sair.e Securities, Restrictions, ^ and Regulations in all Respects as if this Act had not been I made . - - _ .J io« No Master of any Ship trading to or from Newfoundland^ shall carry r 3 Passergers any Fishermen* Sailors, Artificers, or J others employed in carrying on the Fishery, from the Island to [ any Part of the Continent of America, without the Permission f under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, under the Penalty | ofjcaoo - ... .J No Person residing in or carrying on the Fishery m 12. 13- Newfoundland, shall sMI or exchange any S^ip, Vessel, o.' Boat, or any Tackle, Apparel, )>r Furniture which may be used by any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, or any Seans, Nets, or other Implements or Utensils for catching or curing Fish, or any Bait, or Fish Oil, Blubber, Seal Skins, Peltry, Fuel, Wood, or Timber, to or with any Person except His Majesty's Subjects ' ■ Persons concerned in selling, &c. such Articles to the" 14. Subjects of any Foreign State, may be arrested by Warrant of the Governor, or his Surrogates, or an^ Justice of the Peace, and committed to Prison, on Oath of oi' > more credible Wit- ness, and on Conviction shall forfeit i<' lue f the Articles - — Any Person residing in or Ca;rying o, the Fishery in^ Newfoundland, who shall there purchase, or take in Exchange or I by way of Barter any Goods from the Subject of any Foreign V 5tate, or assist in so doing, may be apprehended and committed 1 to Prison, and shall forfeit Double the Value of Hie Goods -J ■ All Penalties imposed by any Act made or to be made"] relating to the Island of f^ewfoundland^ or the fishery thereof, ( < Keigii. Chai>. Xr«. 5» Geo. 3. 45 15 Geo. 3. 31 15 Or 3' 15 Geo. 3. 3» 12 26 Geo. 3. 26 14 26 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 36 26 '5 16 INDEX. NEWFOUNDLAND— <»»/»««/ the Madeiras and Azores, Wines of the Growth thereof, and I export the Hame to any of the British Colonies or Plantations -J Oranges and Lemons of the Azores or Madeiras may be I laden at the said Islands for Exportation, direct to any of the British Colonies in North America in British Ships, navigated and registered according to Law ... ■ Any Inhabitant of Jersey or Guernsey may transport' direct from thence to Newfoundland, or any of the British Colonies in Ainsrica, where the Fishery is carried on, in any Ships which may lawfully trade there, any Sort of Craft, Food, Victuals, Cloi^thing, or other Goods fit and necessary, for the Fishery in those Parts, or for the Use of Mariners, or other Persons employed on board the Ships or on Shore, in carrying on the said Fi:^hery, such Craft, &c. being the Produce or Ma- nufacture of Great Britain or the said Islands i and such Food or Victuals being the Growth or Produce of Great Britain, Ireland, or the said Islands - - - -^ The Master of the Ship shall produce to the Officer' of the Customs in the Colony where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor, Deputy Governor, or Commander in Chief, that Oath had been made by the Shipper before the Magistrates of the Royal Courts in the said Islands respectively that the Goods are the Produce :»' Manufac- ture aforesiiid ; such Certificate to be attested by die OBxet of the Customs, who shall certify that the said Oath was taken in his Presence } on Failure of producing such Certificate the Goods and Ship shall be forfeited . . _ — — — Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle of Man may export from thence, and import into any of the British Colonies in British Ships manned and navigated accord- ing to Law, Herrings caught and cured by them, in the same Manner as Victuals of and frooi Ireland may be imported into the said Colonies by 15 Car. II. c. 7. - Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle of Man' may ship there and transport directly to Newfoundland, or any Part of America where the Fishery is carried on, on board any R iUifn. Chafi. t«9 Mt. 49 Geo. 3. l^ Geo. 3. a; Geo. 3. 15 Car. 4 Geo. 2. 3- 57 Geo. 3. 17 »9 19 7 >5 89 16 6 3« Geo. 28 9 Geo. 3. 28 Si Geo. 3. 58 ISO INDEX. NEWPOUNDLAND— <«ii/iMw#i/. Ship which may lawfully trad* or fiah there, any Proviaioni, and aUo any Hooksi, Linei, NatUogi or other Tools or Imple- ments iieceisary for and uied in tM Flaherr by the Crcwa of the Ships carrying out the same, and the Craft belonging to and rmployed by (uch Ships in the said Tishery; such Provisions, &c. being the Produce or Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Itlc of Man * - ". 23. ■ The Master of surh Ship shall produce to the proper' Officer of the Customs in the Colony ur Plantation where he shall arrive, a CcrtiBcate unJer the Hand and Seal of the Col- lectorj or other Principal Officer of tho Customs, in the Port where he shall have fitted out, that Oath hath been made before him by the Shipper of such Provisions, Inc. that the same are of the Product or Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Isle of Man, as the Fact may he\ and that the several Articles before mentioned (except the Provisions) specifying the Quantities and Particulars of each Sort, are to be used in the Fishery by the Crew of the Ship carrying out the same, and by the Craft oelonging to and to be employed by such Ship in the Fishery, and for no other Use or Purpose ) and on Failure of producing such Certificate, or if any such Hooks, Sec. are 'used or disposed of for any other Purpose, the same, and the Ship having the Articles on board, shall be seised and forfeited as if this Act had not been made ... a4. 25- 26.' — — Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of Europe" South of Cape Finistcrre, may be laden in any Port of Europe for Exportation, direct to Saint John's in Newfoundland, on board any British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any such Port of Enrope with Articles the Produce of the British Colonies in North America, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the British Colonies in North America, or from any Part of the United Kingdom ..... Sec " Cork." "Fruit." \, "Oil." ' "Salt." ' " Wine." Certain Articles enumerated in the Schedule annexc^d to^ this Act marked (B.) may be imported into Newfoundland I from Maha, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from > Gibraltar, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated. 3nd registered | according to Law . . - -J See '« Gibraltar." ^ « Malta." ' There shall be paid upon Spirits imported into Newfound-' land the following Duties ; that is to say. For every Gallon of Rum or other Spirits imported from any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies, Sixpence For every Gallon of Rum imported from Berbice, Demerara, or Essequibo, Sixpence . . . - ^ For every Gallon of Rum or other Spirits imported from any other of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations on the Continent Hti|ii. Clii|i. M\. 15 Geo. 3. 3' I j Geo. 3. 3» 51 Geo. 3. 97 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 49 4 5a Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. fo6 9' ., ,,..^- . a?- INDEX. NEWFOUNDLAND— ««/«««/> .,„ 3' 106 91 31 106 9' 3» ic6 9i W1 Mil. 28 I 2 3.5 I 2 36 I a 62 I, a 12 PS: ft!' Ids INDEX. NEWFOUNDLANO—conrinurdL 33- 34- 35. 36. But His Majesty in Council, by any Order to be issued' and published, or by Warrant under His Sign Manual, may empower the Governor of Newfoundland to authorize, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Bread, Flour, Indian Corn, and Live Stock, from any of the Territories belonging to the said United States, for the Supply of the Inhabitants and Fisher- men of Newfoundland for the then ensuing Season only \ pro- vided such Bread, Flour, Indian Com, and Live Stock, is im- ported in conformity to such Rules, Regulations, and Restric- tions, as shall be specified in such Order or Warrant, and by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, under the Forfeiture mentioned in (No. 3a.) ^ Goods and Ships forfeited by this Act shall be seized^ by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or I any Commissioned Warrant or Petty OHicer specially authorized c by them, or by any Oflicer of the Customs - -J Articles, the Production or Manufacture of Newfound-^ land, or which may have been legally imported into the Island, I may be exported from thence direct to Malta, or any of the r Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, under certain Regulations J See " Gibraltar." " Malta." Before any Blubber and Train Oil imported into Great' Britain, as being taken and caught on the Banks and Shores of Newfoundland and Parts adjacent, wholly by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fishery from that Island, shall oe admitted to Entry on Payment of the Duty payable on such Oil -, the Master shall deliver to the Collector or other Chief Oflicer of the Customs at the Port of Importation, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Deputy Governor of Newfoundland, or of the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port or Place in Newfoundland where the Oil or Blubber shall have been taken on board i or if no such Officer or Governor or Deputy Governor shall be residing there, then a Certificate shall be produced under the Hand and Seal of the Naval Officer or other principal Officer of the said Port or Place, or of one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the District, testifying that Oath had been made before him (who is required to administer such Oath, and to grant such Certificate) by the Shipper of such Blubber or Oil, that the same was really and bona fide the Produce of Fish or Creatures living in the Sea, actually caught and taken wholly by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on such Fishery, and usually re- siding in the Island of Newfoundland, or in His Majesty's European Dominions ; and the Master of the Ship in which the Blubber or Oil shall be imported, shall make Oath before such Collector or other Chief Officer at the Port of Importation, that the Blubber or Oil so imported is the same as mentioned and referred to in the said Certificate ; and the Importer or Con- signee of such Blubber or Oil shall also make Oath before the Collector or Comptroller, or other proper Officer of the Cus- toms at the Time of Entry, that, to the best of his Knowledge and Belief, the Blubber and Oil so imported was actually caught and taken by British Subjects usually residing in Newfound- land,, or in His Majesty's European Dominions; and on Rcijii. Chap. 8«a. a8 Geo. 3. 13 a8 Geo. 3. 55 51 Geo. 3. Geo. 3. 29 4 16 1 55 55 Geo. 3. •35 INDEX. 183 } NEWFOUNDLAND-^0>rtiW. Failure of such Certificate being produced, and Proof on Oath beine made, such Blubber and Oil shall be deemed to be of Foreign Fishing, and charged with Duty accordingly - . 37. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export in any British/ built Ship, owned and naTisated according to Law, from New* foundland to any of the Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or M any of the British Colonies on the Continent of America, and from the Islands in the West Indies belonging to His Majesty, or from any one of the British Colonies on the Continent of America, into Newfoundland, any Goods the Manufacture of Europe, and any Goods or Prize Goods which shall have been legally imported into any of the I said Islands or Colonies, under the Regulations and Restrictions I contained in 45 Geo. lU. c. 57. - • -J See «« Free Ports." NEW PROVIDENCE. The Port of Nassau, one of the Free Ports for the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships See " Free Ports." NOVA SCOTIA, AND NEW BRUNSWICK. 1 . ■ No Goods shall be imported from the Territories of the United States of America, into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, or any Country or Island within the Governments thereof, on Forfeiture of such Goods, and the Vessel, except Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, the Production of the said Territories, which may be imported into the said Provinces in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law 3. ■ Except also Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry,' and Cloathing, by Subjects of the United States, who shall come from thence together with their Families to Nova Scotia, or any of the Provinces belonging to His Majesty in North America, for the Purpose of residing and settling there, having first obtained a Licence for that Purpose from the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor of the said Islands or Provinces respectively } provided such Household Furniture &c. are imported in British Ships, owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated accordi/g to Law, and shall not exceed in the Whole the Value of ^^50 for every White Person that shall belong to such Family, and Forty Shillings for every Negro brought by such White Person - - . See " Settlers." In case of Public Emergency or Distress, the Governor," R*i(U. Clup. s«a. Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, with the Advice and Consent of the C'^uncil of the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick respectively, may authorize the Importation of Scantling, Planks, Staves, Heading Boards, Shingles, Hoops, Squared Timber, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, Live Stock, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, or Grain, for a limited Time, from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Provinces ; but such Scantling, &c. shall not be so imported except by British Sub- jects, and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof, and the Ship 57 Geo. 3. 39 45 Geo. 3. 38 Geo. 3. 33 <^o- 3' 57 6 50 13 »4 30 Geo. 3. 37 30 Geo. 3. 27 »3 ?»isr""' <3(,;iji- ISi INDEX. NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK— «»/««w' manders in Chief of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of the aforesaid Articles for a limited Time, from any of the Territories of the United States of America, for the Purpose of Re-exportation to any other of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantatioiu Goods and Vessels forfrnted by these Acts may be seized^ by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or I by any CommissioQed, Warrant, or Petty Officer, specially > authorized by them, or by any Officers of His Majesty's 1 Customs - _ . » -J Salt for the Fisheries of Nova Scotia may be laden in any^ Part of Europe for Exportation to any of the British Colonies I or Plantations, on board any British-built Vessel, owned, navi- i gated, and registered according to Law - -J See " Europe Wines of the Madeiras or of the Western Islands of ^ Azores may be there laden for Exportation to any of the British > Colonies or Plantations - - - -J .. Goods fit and necessary for the Fisheries in the British ~t Colonies in America may be exported to Colonies where such l Fishery is carried on, direct from Guernsey or Jersey -jT See " Guernsey." " Jersey." Herrings cured in the Isle of Man may be exported from '^ thence to any of the British Colonies or Plantations, ui the same > Manner as Victuals from Ireland - - -J Sae « Man." Tools and Implements necessary for the Fisheries in the'^ British Colonies may be exported direct to the said Colonies > from the Isle of Man - • - -J See « Man." Spirits of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West"^ Indies, legally imported into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, i from the said Sugar Colonies, or from Bermuda, may be ex- ( ported from the said Provinces to Lower Canada, and admitted T to Entry on Payment of the same Rate of Duty as if in>ported I directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies - -J ■ Spirits the Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, imported into Bermuda from the said Colonies, may be exported from Bermuda into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, and admitted to Entry on Payment of the same Duty, as if imported direct from the said Sugar Colonies, and under the Conditions contained in 28 Geo. III. c. 39, may be imported into the said Provinces without Payment of Duty, in the same Manner as if such Spirits had been imported directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies ..... See " Spirits," (No. ) Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork the Produce or Manu facture of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, may be ^^hipped in any Port of Europe South of Cape Finisterre for Exportation, direct to Saint John's in New Brunswick or Halifax, and Shelburn, in Nova Scotia^ on board any Ship arriving at any Reign. Chap. s«a. 48 Geo. 3. 1*5 :U 28 Geo. 3. 33 Geo. 3. a Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 15 Car. 2. 9 Geo. 3. 12 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 6 50 »4 15 31 28 58 3' 48 I, a I, 7 62 r. 2 97 INDEX. 135 14. NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK— ww/i«iW. Port in Europe with Anicles the Produce of the British Colonies in North America, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from an/ of the said Colonies, or from any Part of the United Kingdom See " Cork." ••Fruit." V" . - "Oil.-"* •■:--! ■' r'- f''^'.'J I'i vi!.;^-l:i■ ••Salt." ''■'•;''■ ■'•■'^'" '-' ••Wine." •"• ' ' ''• '■ '■ Any British-buiit Ship, navigated and registered accord-"\ ing to Law, may load at Malta or any of the Dependencies I thereof, or at Gibraltar, any of the Articles enumerated in the \ Schedule marked (B.) annexed to 55 Geo. III. c. 29. for Ex- f portation, direct to any of His Majssty's Colonies or Plantations I m North America - - - -J See •• Gibraltar." •« Malta." - . Articles, the Production or Manufacture of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, which may have been legally imported into such Colonies or Plantations, may be exported from thence, direct to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in British^built Ships, navigated and registered according to Law - See " Gibraltar. " Malta." Oranges and Lemons, the Growth of the Azores or* Madeiras, may be there laden for Exportation, direct to any of the British r^olonies in North America, on board any British Ship, navigated and registered according to Law Vessels not exceeding 30 Ton^, and not having a Deck," Rtign. CiMp. nvv* ^h !„{•• »5- 16. ir- is. employed solely in the Fisheries on the Banks or Shores of Nova Scotia or ^Tew Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulph of Saint Law- rence I ncl lO the North of Cape Canso, or of the Islands within the same, or in trading Coastwise within the Limits, are not I required to be registered . . - See «♦ Registry of British Ships." Ships or Vessels built in those Parts of the said Pro-"^ vinces adjacent to the Gulph of Saint Lawrence and to the I North of Gape Canso, or in the Islands within the said Limits, (^ on account of Owners who reside in His Majesty's European /' Dominions, may be registered upon the Husband or Agent ! taking the Oath required by 36 Geo. III. c. 60. - -,) See « Registry of British Ships." OCHRES. "V May be exported from Malta, of any of the Dependencies thereof, or from I Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Planta- I tions in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His r Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- I built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law J See « Gibraltar." " Malta." OFFICERS. !.-• The Lords of the Treasury, and the Commissioners of the Customs in England, may constitute and appoint such and so m?.ny Officers of the Customs in any City, Town, River, )> 55 Geo. 57 Geo. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. a7 Geo. 3. 27 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 1 ■A \ 29 4 5^9 7 & 8W. 3. 29 4 89 19 19 29 4 5.9 22 II H '" 136 INDEX. OYFlCERS—centinMeJ. Port, Harbour, or Creek, of or belonging to anv of the Islands, I Tracts of Land, and Properties in America, whm and as often I a« the same shall seem needful - - -J 2. 1 May be appointed by the Governors or Commande/s in*^ Chief in the British Plantations for the Purpose of seizing Sugar, Indigo, and Wine, landed without Payment of Duty, or without a Warrant signed by the proper Officer I 3. 1 -• Every Person who, upon the Day of the Demise of His*! ptesent Majesty, shall hold any Office Civil or Military under i the Crown during Pleasure, shall, without any new or other Patent, Commission, Warrant, or Authority, c mtinue and be [ entitled in all respects, notwithstanding the Demise of His , Majesty, to hold the same during the Pleasure of the King or Queen who shdll succeed to the Crown ; and the Right and 'fitle to hold and enjoy the same under the Authority of rhis Act shall be determinable in such manner by the King or Queen who, upon the Demise of His Majesty, shall succeed to the Crown, as the Right or Title to any Office, Place, or Employ- ment granted by such succeeding King or Queen during i leasure would by Law be determinable; provided that this Act shall not deprive the Heirs and Successors of Hi. Majesty of the Power of removing and discharging any Person from His Office, in such manner as they might have done if this Act had not been passed - 4« ■ Naval Officers are within Two Months, or as soon as' convenient after their Entrance upon their Office, to give suf- ficient Security to the Commissioners of the Customs for His Majesty's Use, for the faithful Performance of their Duly, and in default thereof, shall be disabled to execute the Office ; and until such Security is given, and the Person appointed to the said Office be approved by the said Commissioners, the respec- tive Governors shall be answerable for any the Neglects or Misdemeanors of the Person so appointed 5, ■ No Office in any Colony, or Settlement, Plantation, or' Foreign Possession belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, shall be granted either by Patent under the Great Seal, or by Commission under His Majesty's Sign Manual, or by any other Commission, Warrant, or Instrument, for any longer Time than during such Time as the Grantee thereof shall res'de in the Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Foreign Possession, and execute the Duty of such Office in Person, and behave well therein - - . . r. If any Person holding such Office shall be wilfully absent' from the Colony or Plantation, without a reasonable CsLUse to be allowed by the Governor and Council, or shall neglect the Duty of such Office^ or otherwise misbehave therein, such Governor and Council may amove such Person from any such f' Office } and in case any Person so amoved shall think himself aggrieved thereby, he may appeal therefrom as in other Cases I of Appeal from such Colony or Plantation - -J But the Governor and Council of any Colony or Plant- "j ation may give such Leave of Absence as they shall see Occa- I sion ; and in such Case, as likewise in the Case of Vacancy y occasioned by Death or Amotion, may provide for the due j Reign. Chap. Sea. 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 13 15 3 «.7 57 Geo. 3. 45 7&8W.3. 22 22 Geo. 3. 54 Geo. 3. 75 61 22 Geo. 3. 75 22 Geo. 3. 75 INDEX. 137 J OTFlCERS—contiftued. Discharge of the Duties of such Office, until the King's Pleasure shall be known 8. In all Cases in which the Governor and Council of any Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Foreign Possession shall hereafter grant Leave of Absence to any Person holding an Office within the same, to which he shall have been appomted subsequent to the passing of this Act, the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, or other Person adminis- tering the Government, shall within One Week report the same to. One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for Confirmation ; and in case the Leave of AHoence shall not be confirmed within One Month from the Date of such Report having been received by the Secretary of State, the Per- son to whom the Leave of Absence may have been granted shall forthwith return to the Colony, &c. in which his Office is situated ; and in Default thereof, shall be deemed to have vacated such Office, and his Appointment shall be considered void - - . . - q. -'—— Every Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government of any Colony, &c., who shall omit or neglect to report in Manner before directed such Leave of Absencej shall for every such Omission or Neglect forfeit a Sum not exceeding jf'ico, to be sued fot and recovered by Action of Debt in any of His Majesty's Courts of Westminster, within One Year after the Arrival in England of the said Go- vernor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person admmistering the Government - Within Sir Weeks after the opening of every Session of" 10. II. 12. Parliament, there shall be laid before the House of Commons, a Return of Persons holding Offices in the Colonies, appointed thereto subsequent to the passing of this Act, who may not be present in the Execution of the Duties of their Offices, and such Return shall be made in the Form prescribed in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed - - - - ■ Nothing in this Act shall operate to the Prejudice of any' subsisting Grant of any Office, or shall affect any Appointment or any Leave of Absence granted previous to the passing of this Act, or any renewed Grant of any Office which may be made in consequence of the Demise of the Crown to any Person now holding the same ; and no Provision of this Act shall be applicable to any Office granted or to be granted by the East India Company, or to any Rules, Regulations, or Provisions made by the said Company, with respect to the Appointment or Leave of Absence of any of their Civil or Military Servants The Duties imposed by any Act upon Goods imported' »3- into, exported, or carried from, any British Colony or Plantation in America, may be put under the Management and Direction of such Commissioners, to reside in the said Plantations, as His Majesty, by His Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain, shall judge to be most for the Advantage of Trade and Security of the Revenue - - - -_ ■ The said Commissioners, or any Three of them, shall' have the same Powers and Authorities for carrying into Execu- tion the Laws relating to the Revenues and Trade of the British Colonies in America, as were, before the passing of this Act S Reign. Chap. Saa. 54 Geo. 3. 61 54 Geo. 3. 61 54 oeo. 3. 61 54 Geo. 3. 61 7 Geo. 3. 41 ■■•'?!w*»a? 198 INDEX. OFFICERS -continued. exercised by the CommiuioiMra uf the Customi in England, by * virtue of any Act in force } and His Majesty in such Commis- sion may make Provision for putting in Execution the several Laws relating to the Cnstoms and Trade of the said British Colonies __-.-_ 14. ■■ All Deputations and other Authorities granted by the' Commissioners of the Customs in England, before the passing of this Act, or which may be granted by them before any Commission shall issue in pursuance of this Act, to any OfRcer acting in the said Colonies (»> Plantations, shall continue in . force as fully as if this Act had not been made, until the Depu- tations or other Authorities so granted to such Officer shall be revoked or made void by the Lords of the Treasury Where any Officer shall, by any Person armed with Club' 16. 17- 18. 19. or any mannerof Weapon, be forcibly hindered, abused, beaten, or wounded, either on board any Skip, or upon the I^and or Water, in the due Execution 0/ his Office, every Person so hindering, &c. such Officer, or any Person acting in the Aid or Assistance, shall, by the next Justice of Peace or other Magis- trate, be committed to Prison, there to remain till the next Quarter Sessions ; and the Justices of the Quarter Sessions snail punish the Offender by Fine, not exceeding j^ioo i and the Offiinder shall remain in Prison till he be discharged, both of the Fine and of the Imprisonment, or discover the Person that set him on work, to the end he may be legally proceeded against ...... Or any of their Assistants resisted in seizing Sugar*, Indigo, or Wine, landed without Pavment of Duty, or without a Warrant, the Offenders are to forfeit ^50, and to be impri- soned for Three Months . . . _ See " Indigo." " Sugar." «« Wine." All Officers belonging to the Admiralty, Captains and } Commanders of Ships, Forts, Castles, and Blockhouses, and all Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Sherifl^, Bailiffs, Constables, and Headboroughs, and all the King's Officers, Ministers, ftid Sub- jects whom it may concern, shall be aiding and assisting every Person appointed by His Majesty to manage the Customs, and the Officers of the Customs and their Deputies, in the due Execution of every Act and Thing by these Acts required } and all such who shall be aiding and assisting them in the dae Execution hereof shall be defended and saved harmless In case any Officer in the Plantations shall be sued Reign. 7 Geo. 3. '■.*«", v 7 Geo. 3. :3&c ):4Car. 2 7&8W.3. 6 Geo. a. 4. Geo. 3. jr molested for any Thing done in the Execution of his Office, he may plead the General Issue, and give this and other Custom Acts in Evidence, and the Judge shall allow thereof; and such Officer shall have the like Privileges and Advantages as are allowed by Law to the Officers of the Customs in England If any Action shall be commenced in Great Britain or' America against any Person for any Thing done in pursuance of any Act relating to the Customs, the Defendant may plead ihe General Issue, and give the said Acts and special Matter in Evidence upon any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done by the Avthority of such Act ; and if it shall 13 £c 14 C. 2. 7 & 8 W. 3. 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. Chip. Sea. 4« 4« II 22 »3 IS 3 i«7 II 2i 32 6 22 '5 47 INDEX. lag 20. OFFICERS— ««/i«tt^t/. appear so to have been done, the Jury shall iitid for the Defend- ant ; and if the Plaintiff ahall be nonsuited, or discontinue his Action after the Defendant has appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon Verdict or Demurer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as Defendants have in other cases ■ Any OfRcer of the Customs in Great Britain who shall give iiny Warrant for, or suffer any enumerated Article to be carried into any Country, uniil they have been first unladen in Great Britain or Ireland, such Officer shall forfeit his Place and the Value of the Goods he >hall give Warrant for, or suffer to pass into any other Country If any Person employed in the Customs shall demand or' take any other or greater Sum of Money than by Law is due, or put any Person out of his turn without express Order of the superior Officers, or shall illegally detain the Goods of any Person, or neglect or refuse to make Repayments and Allow- ances which are or shall be due, or shall not, after due Notice, give out and execute his Warrant, he shall be liable to Double Costs and Damages - . . -_ Taking a Bribe, Recompence, or Reward, or conniving" 21.' 22. Reign. Clup. Sea. 15 Car. 2. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 13 Sc 1 4 Car. 2. j7&:8W.3. as- 24- as- 26. at any false Entry, or making any collusive Seizure or Agree- ment, or doing any other Act by which His Majesty shall be defrauded in his Duties, or any Goods prohibited shall be suf- fered to pass, either inwards or outwards, or whereby the Forfeitures and Penalties inflicted by any Act relating to the Customs in America may be evaded, shall forfeit df 500, and be rendered incapable of serving His Majesty in any Employment Civil or Military } and if any Person shall give, offer or promise to give, any Bribe or Reward to any Officer of the Customs, to do, conceal, or connive at any Thing whereby any of the Provisions made by any I^w relating to His Majesty's Customs in America may be evaded or broken, such Person shall for every Offence (whetlier the Offer or Promise be accepted or performed or not) forfeit .^50. - - - - -^ » Allowing the Privilege of a British-built Ship to any Ship'\ coming into any Port and making Entry of any Goods, until 1 Examination whether the Master and Three-fourths of the > Mariners are British, shall for the First Offence be put out of 1 his Office . - - . .J Knowingly conniving at the fraudulent Importation of '\ any Eust India Commodilies, or seizing any of the said Commo- dities, and by Fraud or Collusion desisting or delaying the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, shall forfeit j£'50o, and be incapable of holding any Office or Employment under Majesty Taking any Entry Outwards, or signing any Cocket, I Warrant, or Sufferance, for the shipping or exporting anv Hats or Felts, or suffering the same to be done, or ronniving thereat, forfeit their Office and d'^oo. Knowingly conniving at the fraudulent Importation or }, and ( er His I Landing any Sugar, Indigo, or Wine, or seizing the same for having been landed without Payment of Duty, or without : Warrant signed by the proper Officer, and by Fraud or GoUu- > sion desisting from or delaying the Prosecution thereof to Coo. | 52 4 Geo. 3. 1 2 Car. 2. 7 Geo. X. St. I 5 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 7 10 67 23 9 I Art. 6 34 6 ir. 3» 18 II 21 22 ^3 JS 6 I 140 INDEX. J OFFICERS--c»n/Mi// - - ,, demnation, shall forfeit £$Ot and be incapable of holding any 0£Bcc under His Majesty - - - -_ 37. ■ If any Person required in respect of his Office to perform^ any Act or Thing required to be done, shall wilfully neglect I or refuse to perform the same, he shall on Conviction forfeit ( j^50o i and for the Second Offence j£'6oo, and be rendered /* incapable of serving His Majesty in any Employment relative I to the Revenue, or any civil Capacity whatever - -) a8. All Persons examined as Witnesses on any Inauiry' directed by the Commissioners o' ilie Customs in England, or any Four or more of them, to be made in America cr the West Indies, relative to the Revenue or other Duties there, or to the . Conduct of the Officers employed in the Collection thereof, by or before any Collector or Comptroller of the Customs, or . either of them, at any Port in the British Colonies and Planta- T tions \n America or the West Indies, cr by or before such other Person as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners, or any Four of them, for the Purpose aforesaid, are required to deliver their Testimony on Oath, to be administered by the Officer . . . . . aj). . If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false Oath's touching any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, or I of giving false Evidence on Examination on Oath, the Person ( so convicted shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and be liable C to the Pains and Penalties to which Persons are liable for wilful I and corrupt Perjury - _ . -J OIL. I. — — The Produce of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, may be shipped and laden in any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre for Exportation direct to any of the Ports herein-after mentioned; that is to say. Saint John's in New Brunswick, Saint John's in Newfoundland, Quebec in Canada, Sydney in Cape Breton, Halifax and Shelburn in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince Edward's Island, all in North America, on board of any British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre with Articles the Produce of the said Colonies, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the said Colonies or Plantations, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods herein-after mentioned from Canada, whether such Goods shall be the Produce of Canada, or shall have been brought into the said Province by Land or inland Navigation - - ... Upon the Importation of such Oil into any of the saidS Ports, the same shall be subject and liable to the Payment of I such Duties as Goods of the like Denomination are liable to > upon being imported into any of the said several Ports from | Great firitain - - - . .) The Person exporting any Cargo from Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, for any Port of Europe South of Cape Finis- terre, shall make Oath at the Port of Shipment before the Chief Officer of the Customs, or before the Naval Officer in Command at such Port, that the Cargo so shipped is the Produce of the said Provinces, or of the British Fisheries in North America, Rtipi. Chap. Sitt. 26 Geo. 3. 60 40 49 Geo. 3. 46 49 Geo. 3. 46 51 Geo. 3. 97 51 Geo. 3. 97 I N D P! X. Ul OlLt^continued. really taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries froih some of the said Colonies or Plantations ; and ' said Officer shall certify such Oath under his Hand } whicii ■ .'ertificate shall be produced by the Master of the Ship on bo:' d of which any such Cargo is shipped, on his Arrival at the Fort of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, to which such Cargo shall be consigned, or to which such Ship shall go for the Delivery of the Cargo ; and the Master shall make Oath before the British Consul there resident, or if there ehall be no British Consul, then before Two known British Merchants there ' resident, that the Cerf' Naval Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly signed by him - - • 4 The Exporter of Wheat, Flour, Pease, Beans, Oats,' Barley, Indian Corn Rye, White Oak Staves and Heading, dressed or undressed, Hoops, Pine Plank and Boards, from Canada, shall not be re' lired to make Oath that the said Articles are the Produce of Canada ; and the Master of the Ship, on his Arrival at any Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, shall only be required to produce a Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quei)ec, that the said Articles v/ere the Growth of or brought V into Canada, conformably to the Regulations established by Law in the said Province (if any), by Land or Inland Navigation from Countries bordering thereon; and which Certificate such Officer of the Customs or Navpl Officer is required to grant, upon ' satisfactory Proof being made, upon Oath or otherwise ; and the Authenticity of such Certifi'tte shall be sworn to in manner aforesaid, by the Master of such Ship at the Port of Delivery in Europe within the aforesaid Limits ... 5. Before the Shipment of ly Pickled Fish or Dry Fish' for Exportation from Cana ■ ■•y Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, the Perso'- .i whose Possession the same has continued from the Time ot 1! ^eing landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in the takii j it, until shipped for Exportation, shall make Oath before the Chief Officer of the Cuscoms, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the same was the Produce of the British American Fisheries, really taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the said Colon- >8 or Plantations; and on such Oath being taken at Quebec, the b lid Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer shall grant Certifica^' .hereof, signed with his Hand, which Certificate only the M.-ii'cr of such Ship shall be required to produce at ihe Port of Delivery in Europe within the Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath of the Authenticity of such Certificate in manner aforesaid ... 6. Any Ship or Goods sub; . t to Forfeiture under this Act," may be seized by any Officer of the Customs in the said Colonies or Plantations, or by the Commander of any of His Majesty's Ships of War; and the same may h; prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided in the same m; nner and by the same Rules and Regulations, as far as the same are applicable, as any other Forfeiture imncspd by any Act made for the Security of the Revenue, or ""o ^ '.egulation or Improvement thereof^ Reign. } 51 Geo, 3. Chap. 97 8e«, 51 Geo. 3. 97 51 Geo. 3. 97 51 Geo. 3. 97 143 INDEX. OlL-^-coMtimud. or for the Regulation ^i ."de or Navigation, and which were in force on o- immc' >teijr before the passi.ig of tliis Act, in any Britis'i Colony or Flantation in America y,, Befoi-e any Train Oil or Blubber imported into Great' Britain, as being taken and caught on the Bank* and Shores of Newfoundland and Parts adjacent, wholly by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on auch Fishery from that 'Island, shall be admitted to Entry on Payment of the Duty ^uyable upon such Oil or Blubber, the Master of the Ship in which the same shall be imported shall deliver to the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs at the Port of Importation, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Deputy Governor of Newfoundland, or of the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port or Place in Newfoundland where the T^^n Oil or Blubber shall have been taken on b6ard, or if no such Officer or Governor or Deputy Governor shall be residing there, then a Certificate shall be produced under the Hand and Seal of the Naval Officer or other Principal Officer of the said Place, or of One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the District, testifying that Oath had been made before him by the Shipper of such Oil or Blubber, that the same was really the Produce of Fish or Creatures living in the Sea, actually caught and taken wholly by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on such Fishery, and usually residing in the Island of Newfoundland, or in His Majesty's European Dominions; and the Master of the Ship in which the Blubber or Train Oil shall be imported into Great Britain, ; a»built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law See «« Gibraltar." « Malta," ORANGES. The Produce of the Azores or Madeiras, may be shipped in the said^ Islands for Exportation direct to any of the Ports in the British I Colonies in North America, and may be imported into the said > Ports in any British^built Ship, owned, navigated, and registered j according to Law > « > • J OPIUM. ORANGE Rti|n, Chap. 8»<». 55 Geo. 3. '35 55 51 Geo. 3, Geo. 3. 29 4 5.9 I 57 Geo. 3. 89 INDEX. 143 ORIS ROOT. OSTRICH FEATHERS PAINTINGS. ) May be exported from Malta, or nnjr of the' Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of HU Majesty'* Sugar Colo- nr Plnntations in America, or to nics Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law See " ( libraitar." PAINTERS COLOURS. Not being the Ms" far '• Malta.' I.' ^i t '» 2, ' imported from Great 1' Plantation in America i following Duties shall L aot "very Cwt. Avoiri lings - - - - -. The said Duties shall be deemed Sterling Money of Great Great Britain or Ireland, reland into any Colony or ion of His Majesty, the o say, ters Colours, Two Shil- Britain, and shall be recovered and paid tn the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, and received according to the Proportion and Value of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver, in the same Manner, and by such Rules, Penal- ties, and Forfeitures, as any other Duties now payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plant- ations may be paid and recovered by any Act now in force ( and all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duties (except ^^^ necessary Charges of collecting, recovering, ot accounting for the s.ime,) shall be applied in making a more adequate Provision for the Charge of the Administration of Justice, and the vSupport of Civil Government in such of the said Colonies and Planta- tions where it shall be found necessary ; and the Residue of such Duties shall be paid into the Receipt ol His Majesty's Exche- quer, and entered separate and apart from all other Monies payable to His Majesty, and shall be there tl erved to be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary Expenccs of protecting and securing the British Coio.iieo and Plantations in America - . . . His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Sign Manual,' countersigned by the Hij;h Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury, may cause such Monieo to be applied out of the Produce of the Dnties granted by this Act as His Majesty shall think proper or necessary for defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice, and the Support of the Civil Government within all or any of the said Colonies or Plantations - - . • Rtign. 55 G«o. 3. 57 Geo. 3. Chip, 7 Geo. 3. 10 Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. 29 4 M). S»9 I 10 Geo. 3. PAPER. 67 17 10 Geo. 3. - Upon the respective Sorts of Paper, Pasteboards, Mill- boards, and Scaleboards hereafter mentioned, not being the Manufacture of Great Britp^i or Ireland, which shall be imported from Great Britain or Ireland into any Colony or Plantation in America under the Dominion of His Majesty, the following Duties shall be paid } that is to say, For every Ream of Paper usually called or known by the Name of Atlas Fine, 13 s. For every Ream of Paper called Atlas Ordinary, 6 s. For every Ream of Paper called Bastard or Double Copy, IS. 6d. For every single Ream of Blue Paper for Sugar-Bakers, lo^d. An. 6 17 ■> ,. » ,-"•-■ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) //^.**!^ 1.0 III 121 125 US ^ "^ III f "^ 1^ '^ IE L25 II 1.4 1.6 PliotDgraphic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. MSSO (716)872-4503 */. ' ^^'v':.. ^ 6^ Ai^- 144 INDEX. VAFER—eoHimued. For every Ream of Paper called Blue Royal, i s. 6d. j ! For every Bundle of Paper containing 40 Quires, 6 d. ' 5 $6 Geo. 3. 83 56 Geo. 3. 83 .„.a-^ 146 INDEX. Two Feet in Breadth, and being of the full perpendicular Height between the Two Decks i or any British Ship which shall have only One Deck over her Hold, mav take Passengers at the Rate of One for every Space between the Cargo stowed in the Hold and the Deck, being Six feet in Length and Two Feet Feet in Breadth, and being the Height of Five Feet perpen- licular above the Carso; and being independent in either Case of the Space which may be requisite for the Stowage of the Water and Provisions and Baggage of the Passengers ; and the full Space before mentioned shall accordingly be allotted for the Accommodation of each Passenger taken on board - - - - - - Every Ship shall be furnished at the Time of her Depart- 6.< 8. ure with at least Ten Weeks Supply of Water, so as to supply Five Pints per Day for every Passenger, exclusive of the Crew } and the Water shall be stowed below the Deck, and every Ship shall also be furnished with such a Supply of Provisions as will afford an Allowance for every Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, during Ten Weeks, of lib. of Bread or Biscuit, and lib. of Beef, or Three Quarters of a Pound of Pork per Day, and also albs, of Flour, jibs, of Oatmeal, or 3 lbs. of Peas, or Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound of Butter Weekly, the Weekly Allowance to commence on the Day the Ship puts to Sea - - - - - The Master of any Ship failing to give out tlie Allowance "v of Provisions and Water before specified, shall forfeit j£'io for every Neglect An Abstract of this Act, stating the Number of Passengers^ ) allowed to be taken, and the Daily and Weekly Allowance of I Water and Provisions, shall be exposed in some conspicuous > Fart of the Ship, to which the Passengers have recourse } in I Failure of which the Master shall forfeit j6'io - -J The Master of any Ship engaging to take on board Pas-' sengers from Newfoundland or the Coast of Labrador, for the Purpose of returning from thence to the United Kingdom, shall conform to the Regulations before enacted, as to ue Number of Passengers which it shall be lawful for him to take, and shall be liable to the like Penalties for any Breach of such Regulations with respect to Ships proceeding from the United Kingdom to Newfoundland or the Coast of Labrador Every such Ship returning from Newfoundland or the" Coast of Labrador to any Place of the United Kingdom with Passengers, shall be furnished at the Time of her Departure with at least Seven Weeks Supply of Water, so as to supply Five Pints per Day for every Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, and the Water shall be stowed below the Deck j and every such Ship shall also be furnished with such a Supply of Provisions as will afford the same Allowances before mentioned (see No. 4.) for every Passenger, exclusive of the Crew The Master or Person having Command of any Ship-\ failing to give out the Allowance of Provisions and Water before [ specified, shall forfeit ^10 for every Neglect - -J Reign, Chap. Sea. 56 Geo. 3. 83 56 Geo. 3. 83 56 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 83 83 56 Geo. 3. 83 56 Geo. 3. 83 56 Geo. 3. 83 INDEX. 147 PASSENGERS— <;e«//V»«* 13- J 4. — I — Penalties and Forfeitures may be recovered in a summary Ay^ay, on the Oath of One Witness, before any One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of any Cdunty, City, Riding, Shire, or Place in the United Kingdom, where such Ship shall depart from or come to, ur in a summary Way in any Sunogate Court of Session having Jurisdiction in Newfoundland ( and such last-mentioned Penalties and Forfeitures as shall be reco- vered in Newfoundland, shall be paid to the Governor, or other Person acting for him, or some Person authorized by either of them for that Purpose, to be applied under the Direction of such Governor, Sec. in defraying the Passage home of such Persons as ought to be sent to that Country to which they belong - _ » . But not to extend to the Conveyance of any Pertons on^ board of any such Ship, whether Fishermen, Youngsters, or J others, being hired Servants, to be employed on the Establish- I ment of their Masters or Hirers, in the Prosecution of the r Fisheries carried on from Newfoundland, or the Coast of I Labratlor - . - - -^ No Sliip shall sail with Passengers from any Place in^ the Uiiit-d Kingdom, to any Place in Upper or Lower Canada, Nova Scotta, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, or Prince Edward's Island, unless the Masler and the Owner or Owners shall before the sailing enter into Bond to His Majesty, in j£soo, with Con- dition t' at there shall not be taken on board any more Passengers than are hereinafter allowed, and that every Passenger, if alive, shall be landed at the Place to which such Passenger shall have contracted to be conveyed ; which Bond shall be taken by and deposited with the Collector and Comptroller or other Prin- cipal Officer of the Customs at the Port from which such Ship shall sail ; and the Master, previous to his leaving the Port, shall deliver to the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the Customs, a List containing the Number of the Passengers, with their Names, Ages, and Descriptions, and the Places to which they are to be conveyed, for the Purpose of being registered at such Pore, together with a Copy of the same, which Copy shall be certified by the said Oilicers as being correct, and delivered to the Master, to be by him kept on board the Ship, subject to tlie Inspection of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or Vessels in the Service of the Customs or Excise i and upon the Arrival of such Ship at either of tlie afore- said Colonies, the Master shall deliver the Copy of the List to the Governor or Person acting for him, or to the Naval Officer or Chief Officer of the Customs at the Port of Arrival, or to the nearest Justice of the Peace, who shall examine the Passengers within 24 Hours after their Arrival ; and no Passenger shall be allowed to land until such List is compared with the Passengers by the Governor or Person acting for him, or some Person authorized by them for that Purpose r - - If the Master of such Ship shall take on board, or if the^ Owners shall engage to take on board, more Persons than the > Number allowed, they shall forfeit ^^50 for each Person -J Ships from any Place in the United Kingdom, or from Guernsey and Jersey, shall not carry to any Place in Upper or Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton; T2 il Rtign, Chip. 8«a. 56 Geo. 3. 83 10 $6 Gto. 3. 83 II 57 Geo. 3. 10 57 Geo. 3. 10 li^ 148 INDEX. PASSENGERS- 3 Cr^^.*' ^ and if any such Ship shall be partly laden with Goods, then the Master shall not receive or take on board a greater Number of ' Persons than in the Proportion of One adult Person, or of Three Children under 14 Tears of Age, for every One Ton and a Half of that Part remaining unladen - -^ I J, — — Every such Ship* shall be furnished, at the Time of her' Departure, with at least Twelve Weeks Supply of Water, so as to supply Five Pints of Water per Day for every such Pas- senger, exclusive of the Crew, to be fttowed below the Deck ( and shall be furnished with such a Supply of Provisions as will aiFord an Allowance for every Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, during the said Period of Twelve Weeks, of ilb. of Bread or Biscuit, and i lb. of Beef or Three Quarters of a Pound of Pork per Day, and also 2 lbs. of Flour, 3 lbs. of Oatmeal, or 3 lbs. of Peas or Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound of Butter weekly^ the weekly Allowance to commence on the Day the Vessel p uts to Sea - - The Master of any Ship failing, to give out the Allow' .16. >7- ance of Provisions and Water before specified, shall forfeit i^'io for every such Naglect - - - - An Abstract of this Act, stating the Number of Passengers'^ ?) 18. ■ allowed to be taken, and the daily and weekly Allowance of I Water and Provisions, shall be exposed in some conspicuous > Part of the Ship, to which the Passengers have recourse ; in I Failure of which the Master shall forfeit j^'io - -J Penalties and Forfeitures may be recovered in a sum-*! 19. mjry Way, on the Oath of One Witness, before any One I of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of any County, I City, Riding, Snire, or Place in the United Kingdom, where I sucn Vessel shall depart from or come to, or in a summary I Way in ^^ny Court of Session having Jurisdiction in the Port f or Place at which such Ship shall arrive } and One Moiety of such Penalty shall be applied to the Use of His Majesty, and the other Moiety to the Use of such Person as shall first sue for the same _ . - . . ' ■ But not to afiect any Law or Custom now in force in the United Kingdom, for the Restriction or Regulation of Artificers and others from or in going or passing from the said Kingdom to Parts beyond Sea, or to regulate the Ships con- veying such Artificers, or the Masters of such Ships; but that such Laws and Customs shall remain in force as if^this Act had not been made . • PEARLS. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Ber- muda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships^ owned, navigated, and registered according to Law ... See " Gibraltar." « Malta." I.- Reign. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. Chip. 10 10 10 10 10 57 Geo. 3. 5S Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. ScA. 10 29 4 5>9 I INDEX. PEASE. See "Corn." PENALTIES. 3.- 3- All PenalUei incurred in the British Colonics or Planta< tions in America, under any Law relatire to Trade or Rerenue, shall be sued for and recovered in anj Court of Record or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction in the Colony or Plantation where the Cause of rrosecution arises ( and in Cases where there shall happen to be no such Courts, then in any '^ourt of Record or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction i.i some British Colony or Plantation near to that where the Cause of Prosecution arises, and (the necessary Charges for the Reco- very thereof being first deducted) shall be divided, One Moiety to His Majesty and the other Moiety to the Prosecutor - — — Money imposed as Penalties oy any Act of Parliament*^ relating to ttie Customs, which shall be incurred or recovered in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, shall be deemed to be Sterling Money of Great Britain, and shall be Eaid to the Amount of the value which such nominal Sums ear in Great Britain, and shall be taken according to the Pro- portion and Value of 58. 6d. the Ounce 'u\ Silver ■ The Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three or^ more of them, may mitigate or remit any Penalty which shall have been incurred, or any Part of any such Penalty, V under any Law relating to the Trade and Navigation of this I Kingdom - - - - -J 4. In any Case wherein the said Commissioners of the' Treasury shpll exercise the Powers hereby vested in them, tiuch Penalties, or any Part thereof, shall be remitted or mitigated in such Manner, and upon such Terms and Con- ditions, as to Coats or otherw'se, as under the Circumstances of the Case the said Commissioners shall think fit to di- rect ; and no Person shall be entitled to the Benefit of any such Order unless the Teims and Conditions shall be complied with . . - . PICKLES. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law See " Gibraltar." , , - . " "Malta." ■,:: ,; PIMENTO. i.-i No Pimento of the Production or Manufactiire of the Briiish Plantations in America, ithall be shipped or conveyed from any of the said Plantztions to any Place, unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, there to be laid on shore, under the Forfeiture of the Goods, or the full Value thereof, and the Ship - - 2. - For every Ship which shall sail from Great Britain or* Ireland for any British Plantation in America, Bond shall be given, with One Surety, to the Chief Officers of the Customs of the Port from whence the said Ship shall sail, to the Value of jf'iooo if the Ship be of less Burthen than 100 Tons, and of ^aooo if of greater Burthen, conditioned that in case the said 1 K«!|n. 4 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 54 Geo. 3. 54 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. .1 :'> 12 Car. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 140 Chap. ScA. '5 107 40 I «S 4» 171 171 29 4 5>9 18 >5 10 67 18 27 3 An. 6 130 INDEX. PIMENTO— »»/>mA/. Ship shall load any Piment&> or any enumerated Article, (for the whole of which see " Goods, ") at any of the said British Plant- ations, that the same shall be brought to some other British Plantation, or to Great Britain or Irelaitd, and be there unloaded (the Danger of the Seas only excepted)) and for every Ship coining from anv other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid I PlanUtions, which are permitted to trade there, the Governor ' shall, before the Slyp be permitted to load any Pimento, or any i enumerated Article, take Bond in like manner, to the Value I aforesaid, that such Ship shall carry all the Maid Goods to some i other of His Majesty's British Plantations, or to Great Britain or Ireland - - - - 3. The Master, before he departs from any British Plantation where he receives his Lading, shall take a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector, or other Principal Officer of the Customs there, that Bond hath been given pursuant to the Directions aforesaid ; and the Master shall keep such Certificate till the Voyage is completed, and shall then deliver the same to the Collector, or other Chief Officer of the Customs at the Place where he shall discharge his Lading, in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British American Colony, on Forfeiture of jfioo . . . . . If any Ship shall take on board any IMmento (or other Oi"" enumerated Article) before Bond is given to the Governor that the Ship shall carry the said Articles to some other British Plantation, or to Great Britain or Ireland, or before Certificate produced from the Officer of some Custom-house of Great Britain or Ireland, that such Bond has been there duly given, or if any Ship shall, contrary to the Tenor of such Bond, carry any of the enumerated Articles to any Port or Place other tlian to some Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Bri- tain or Ireland, and there lav the same on Shore, every such Ship shall be forfeited, and also the Lading - - But the said Acts are not to prevent the Subjects of the* Reign. Chap. I a Car. 2. aa 8c 33 Car. a. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. I a Car. 2. 22 & 23 Car. 4 Geo. 3. ao Geo. 2. a. 39&40G.3. King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, Berbice^ or Essequibo in the Province of Guiana, from export- ing from the said Colonies to the Netherlands the Produce of their Estates on board Dutch Ships ; and no Person who by virtue of this Act may be entitled to trade bet\veen the Colonies and the Dominions 01 the King of the Netherlands, shall export the said Produce to any Part of the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's Dominions in Europe ... See " Guiana." -— In Cases where the Governor or Officers in any of the" Plvitations shall have reasonable Ground of Suspicion that the Certificate of having given Security in Great Britain or Ireland is false, they shall require sufficient Security for the Discharge of thi^ Planution Lading in Great Britain or Ireland } and where there shall be Cause to" suspect that the Certificate of having discharged the Lading in Great Britain or Ireland is false or counterfeit, the Governor or Officer shall not cancel the Securitv given in the Plantations until they shall be informed from the Commissioners of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland, as the Case may be, that the Matter of the said Cer- tificate is true ^ and if any Person shall counterfeit, rase, or 56 Geo. 3. 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 398C40G.3. 18 36 '5 10 67 10 67 18 26 «s lO 67 91 22 10 67 >9 II 37 '.3 Art. 6 24 «. 3 Art. 6 19 II 27 »»3 Art. 6 4>8 10 27 Art. 6 INDEX. 151 8.. 10. ' ij. I PIMENTO— Mn/M«n/. falsify any Ctrtiiii.iite for any Ship or Gkwds, or knowingly or wilfully make uie thereof, luch Penon shall forfeit j£'50o, and the Certificate (hall be of no Effect - - • 7 If any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Pimento (or any enu' merated Article) to be carried into any other Country or Place^ until they hare been first put on Shore in some Port in Great Britain or Ireland, every Officer for such Offence shall forfeit his Place and the Value of the Goods llie Governors, or their Commanders in Chief of the said PlantationH, are once a Year at least to return to the Officers of the Customs in London, or to such other Person as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same, a List of all Ships as shall have laden any Pimento (or any enumerated Article) in such Plantations, as also a List of all Bonds taken bjr them i and in case any Ship belonging to any of His Majesty s Plantations shall be found to have unloaded in any Port of Europe other than Great Britain or Ireland, such Ship shall be forfeited and her Lading ..... In all Bonds to be taken in the Plantations, the Persons 12.' therein named shall be of known Residence and Ability there, for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the Condition of which shall be, within Eighteen Months after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in One of His Majesty's Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland ; otherwise such Bond, or Copies thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief to whom such Bond was given, shall be in force and aU lowed of in any Court in Great Britr.in, Ireland, or the Plan- tations, as if the Original was produced in Court by the Prosecutor - - - - - In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great Britain' Rii^ii. I j Car. i. 4 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. 31 8e 33 Car. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. or Ireland in pursuance of any Act whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great Britain or Ireland, '■■rcY. Bond shall be with Condition, that within Eighteen Mouih- from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) b Certificate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller at the Port where such Goods shall be delivered, that thev have been there landed and discharged ; otherwise such Bond shall be forfeited . - . - In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or* Non.performance of the Condition of the Bond, within Three Years after the Date thereof, or if, upon Prosecution for some Breach or Non-performance of the Condition, Judgment be not obtained within Two Years after Prosecution commenced, then such Bond (in default of such Prosecution to be commenced, and Judgment to be obtained within the Times limited,) shall be void ; and all Bonds so void shall be delivered up by the Officer to be cancelled, without Fee or Reward ■ There shall be paid unto His Majesty for every Pound' Weight Avoirdupois of British Pimento, which shall be im- ported or brought into any British Colony or Plantation, One Halfpenny, (except only such British Pimento as shall be warehoused under the Regulations and Restrictions herein- 15 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3« 20 Geo. 3. 398c4oGeo.3< 7 8t 8 W. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39 & 40 G. 3. Chap. 8 Ann. 4 Geo. 3. 7 10 67 36 10 61 23 »5 10 67 3» xo 67 13 15 Setl. 9 27 ii3 Art, 6 12 27 1.3 An. 6 >3 37 ». 3 Art. 6 6 37 1.3 An. 6 33 27 J^(.:% ^f • 1 l,C. fct- • {i >^. 158 INDEX. /iff 1 1 ,^ * t ^ '%:... '"> y >3- 14. '^■uA tmEtrro— continued, after mentioned)) and luch Datf (hall be deemed and taken to be Sterling Money of Great Britain, and be received to the Amount of the Value which luch nomi- nal Sums bear in Great Britain, and may be taken accord- ing to the Proportion and Value of 51. 6d. the Ounce in SuVer - - - " ", The Duty shall be collected, paid, and recovered in the tame Manner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, as a;iy other Duties now payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plantations are or may be coU /, /'J Of!c''* lected, &c. by any Act now in force, as effectually as if the Clauses relating tnereto were particularly repeated and again ' ■' ' enacted in this Act 1 and all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary Charges of collect- ing, levying, recovering, paying, and accounting for the same) shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, entered separate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to His Majesty, and shall be there reserved to be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary Expences of protecting and securing the British Colonies and Plantations in America . . . . . Provided that no Duty shalt be paid for any British' Pimento which shall be imported or brought into any British Colony or Plantation in America, if upon landine thereof it is immediately deposited in Warehouses providea at the sole Expence of the Importer or Proprietor of such Pimento, with the Privity and Approbation and under the Care and Inspection of the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal OiRcer of the Customs at the Port or Place where the Pimento shall be imported, and shall be secured under the separate Locks of such Officers and the Proprietor, and within the Space of Twelve Calendar Months from the Landing and Warehousing the same, be shipped directly from thence for Exporution, either to Great Britain, Ireland, or to some other British Colony or Plantation in America, under the like Securities and Restrictions as are required by Law for the same - - If the Importer or Proprietor of any Pimento ware-' housed as aforesaid, shall not pay the Duty, nor export the Goods within Twelve Calendar Months, the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be secured, may cause the same to be publicly sold to the best Ad', tntage } and the Money arising by such Sale, shall be in the first Place applied in Discharse of the Duties, and the Charges attending such Sale, and the Surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Importer or Proprietor who landed ancl warehoused such Pimento, or to such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive the tame - .... ^— — May be exported from the West India Islands to the Territories of the United States of America by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned by His Majesty's Subjects and navigated according to Law Where, on Exportation of any Goods to anv British") Colony or Plantation in America, a Bond is requirea for the | Rtiin. Chip. s.a. «5- 16. ;} 6 Geo. 3. 6 Geo. 3. #' S3 5a 4 4i 12 6 Gee 3. Sa la «7- 6 Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. sa 67 '5 Art. 6 6 Geo. 3. SJ 17 28 Geo. 3 . INDEX. uti Rtign. Chip, 8tA. 38 Geo. 3. 6 4 55 Geo- 3- 57 Geo, 3. 39 4 1 55' Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 39 4 5>9 13 Car. 3. 33 & 33 C. 3. 7&8W.3. 8 Ann. 18 26 33 13 18 19 II '3 33 4 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. «5 31 10 a4 «7 6 I 39 & 40 G. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 67 91 An. 6 4>8 38 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 6 9' 1.3 I I I I 1 PIMENTO— Mn/iffNfbuilt Ships, owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship • During the Continuance of the Treaty with Portusal, any' Person may import into any of the said West India Jslands, (including the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands], or Colonies of Dcmerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, being the Production or Manufacture of some of the Territories or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Por« tugal in South America ( such Pitch, &c. being imported into the said Islands or Colonies direct from the said Territories or Dominions, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law • ... Having been imported from any Island in the West In*' dies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or Stattf, into any of His Majesty's West India Islands, or Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Eisequibo, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, (see No. 5.} shiMl not be expoVttd from any of the said Islands or Colonies, or put on board any Vessel or Boat, or brot^ht to any Quay with Intent to be so exported, on Forfeiture thereof, and also of the Ship or Boat in which laden { and before shipping any Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, that may lawfully b« exported from any such Island or Colony, the Exporter shall make Oath that ' ao Part thereof had been imported for the Supply of the In. habitants from anv Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State > . - - If any Person shall Be convicted of taking a false Oath," touching any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, such Person shall be decnietl guilty of Vcrjuxj* ind be liable to the. Rtlfn, 5 a Geo. 3. 53 0*0. 3. •-;v a8 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 98 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. ^6 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 09 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. Chap. 8^. 79 50 6 9« a. 3 I 10 I I 6 38 9« II i 47 9» 66 38 9» i>2 3>4 I V t. •i INDEX. U9 ■) PITCH, TAR, AHD TURPENTINK.— «.«/;« W. Pain* and Penalties to which Periona are liabl* for wilful and corrupt Perjury, and may be protccuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any ot Hia MaJMiy*! Courts of Judica- ture in the West Indies - - 9. — — Goods and Vessels forfeited br these Acta may be seiitd' by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or by any CommiHioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer spe- cially authorised by them, or by any Officer of liis Majesty's Customs ... . . 10. ■ Of the Production or Manufacture of any of the Territo-A rics of the United States of America, may be imported from I thence into the i'roviiices of Nova Scotia or New Brunswicit, > by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned by His | Majesty's Subjects and narigated according to Law PITTS TOWN. In Crooked Island, one of the Free Ports for the Importation and Ei portation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships See "Fre.Portl." PORTO RICO. ^ Any Person may import, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and 1 registered according to Law, into the Islands under the Domi- \ nion of His Majesty in the West Indies, from Poito Rico, certain | Species of Timber the Growth or Production thereof -J See " Wood " PORTUGUESE COLONIES. Certain Articles which may be imported into His Majesty's West India Islands, and the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Esse- quibo, from the United States, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered aceotding to Law, may aiko be im- ?irted into the said Islanda and Colonies from any of the erritories or Dominion! belongtng to the Crowm of Portugal in South America « • See *« United States," POULTRY. See *« Live Stock." POZZOLONA. May be imported from Make or any of the Dependenciee thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, &rmuda, or anjr V of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, iii [ British-built Ships, owned, navigatedi and registered according I to Law , . » - .J See « Gibraltar." "Malta." PRECIOUS STONES. T May be imported from any of the Colonies or Plantations I ;1 I.- in America, or from anv Country en the Continent of Amenca I belonging to or under tne Dominion of any Foreign European > Sovereign or State, into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Vessel, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries - ^ See « Free Ports." ii May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies' thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Svgar Colonies or Plantations in Aiiieriea^ or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or nif of His Majesty's Coloaiea or Plantations in R«%n. 19 Geo. 3; 31 Geo. 3. «8 Geo. 3. 39 Geo. J. 31 Geo, J. 56 Geo. J. '-••■^>t»f{ ^ CiMp. 56 38 6 56 9» ua. 33 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. • , ;■ ■•..;i» 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 17 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3, 55 Geo. 57 Geo. 50 57 ii, '^eo. 3. so 47 91 *9 4 57 32 99 74 39 4 3 5 16 4 •4 »3 5 I i*9 5*9 1S6 INDEX. PRECIOUS STO^TES— continued. North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law See " Gibraltar.' '• Malta." PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND. J I.- 6.. Wines of the Madeiras, or of the Western Islands of I Azores, majr be tliorc laden for Exportation to any of the firitish f Colonies' or Plantations - - - -/ .1 Goods fit and necessary for the Fishery in the British "\ Colonies in America, may be exported to Colonics where such % Fishery is carried on, direct from Guernsey or Jersey -J See «« Guernsey." " Jersey." ' Herrings cured in the Isle of Man, may be exported ■% from thence to any of the British Colonies or Plantations, in the i same manner as Victuals from Ireland - -J See « Man." Tools and Implements necessary for the Fisheries in the^ British Colonies, may be exported direct to the said Colonies \ from the Isle of Man - - - -J See " Man." ■ Spirits the Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's "X Sugar Cdlonies in the West Indies, legally imported into Prince I Edward's Island from the said Sugar Colonies, or from Bermuda, (^ may be exported from the said Island to Lower Canada, and admitted to Entry on Payment of the same Duty as if imported directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies See «• Spirits --^^ Spirits the Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's' Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, imported direct into Ber- muda from the said Colonies, may be exported from Bermuda to Prince Edward's Island, and admitted to Entry on Payment of the same Duty as if imported direct from the said Sugar Colonies, and unaer the Conditions of 28 Geo. III. c. 39. may be imported into the said Island without Payment of Duty, in the same manner as if imported directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies - - . . See " Spirits." Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of Europe" South of Cape Finisterre, may be laden in any Port or Place of Europe within the said Limits, for Exportation direct to Char- lotteTown in Prince Edward's Island, on board any British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shaU have arrived at any Port or Place of Europe with Articles the Produce of the said Colonies, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from .any of the said Colonies, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods mentioned in this Act from Canada, whether the Produce of Canada or brought into the Province by Land or Inland Navigation . . - See «*Cork." " Fruit." «« Oil." ! ««Salt." « Wine." Reign. Chap. Sea. 15 Car. 9 Geo. 3. 12 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. a8 58 3« 48 1,2 10. PRIN Mai PROV I.- 51 Geo. 3. 62 I, 2 1.- 51 Geo. 3. 97 S-ri I N D E X. 1^7 PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND^fe«/.>;«/^. 8. Any British-built Ship, navigated and registered according 'N to Law, may load at Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, I or at Gibraltar, any of the Articles enumerated in the Schedule I (B.) annexed to 55 Geo. III. c. 29. for Exportation direct | to an^ of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North I America - - ... -J See « Gibraltar." « Malta." Any Article the Production or Manufacture of any of 10. ■ His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, or any Article which has been legally imported into such Colonies or Plantations, may be exported from thence direct to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in British-built Ships, navigated and registered according to Law See " Gibraltar." " Malta." Oranges and Lemons, the Growth of the Azores or Ma' } dciras, may be there laden for Exportation direct to any of the British Colonies or Plan' .ions in North America, on board any British Ship navigated atiJ 'egistered according to Law PRINTS. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law - - - - See «« Gibraltar." " Malta." PROVISIONS. I. Bread, Biscuit, and Potatoes the Production of any of the Territories of the United States of America, may be im- ported from any of the said Territories into any of His Majesty's West India Islands (in which Description the Bahama and Bermuda or Somcrs Islands arc included), or into Demerara, Berbice, or Esscquibo in the Province of Guiana ; but the said Articles shall not be so imported except by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship Bread, Biscuit, and Potatoes, the Production of the said^ Territories, may be imported from thence into Saint George or Hamilton in Bermuda, in any Foreign Vessel belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, and exported from the said Ports to any of His Majesty's Iklands or Dominions in the West Indies in British-built Ships, owned and navigated accord- ing to Law - - - - — — No Bread, Biscuit or Potatoes shall be imported into' His Majesty's West India Islands (including the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands), or into Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, under the Do- minion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship . _ . . — ' — In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Governor,' lieutenant Governor, or Commanders in Chief of any of the Rei|n. 55 G«0' 3- 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. Chip. 8*a. 29 4 5.9 29 4 89 29 4 5.9 6 9» I. a I 79 50 2.3 I 38 91 10 I I 158 I tJ D E X. PROyiSlOmS—eetntttued. said Islnndg in the West Indies under the Dominion of Hit Majesty, or the Governors, Sec. of Demerara, Berbice, or Esiequibo, with the Advice and Consent of their respectire Councils, may authorize the Importation of Bread, Biscuif, and Potatoes, for a limited Time, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America be- longing to any Foreign European Sorereign or State, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonies { but the said Articles shall not be so imported except by British Sub- jects and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship g. ■ During the Continuance of the Treaty with Portugal,' any Person may import into any of the said West India Islands, (including the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands), or Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, any Bread, Biscuit, or Po- tatoes, being the Growth or Production of some of the Terri- tories or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South America, and imported directly from the said Territories or Dominions in Dritish-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law • -< - 6, ■ None of the said Articles which have been imported from 9r any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of His Majesty's West Indiai Islands, or Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of the inhabitants, (see Mo. 4.) shall be exported front any of the sud Islands or Colonies, or put on board any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, or brou^t to any Quay with Intent to be exported, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship, Vessel, or Boat in which laden; and before shipping any Article of the like Denomina- tion that may lawfully be exported from any such Island or Cplony, the Exporter tihall make Oath that the same or any Part thereof had not been imported for the Supply of the Inha- bitants from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of So^th America, under the Dominion of any Foreign Europeaq 3overign or State - - -^ • If any Person dull be convicted of talung iii false Oath* touchine any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, such Person wall be deemed guilty of PetjurT,and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to vhich Persons are liable for wilful and conupt Perjury, and may be prosecuted in any Court of Record m Great Britain, or in any of (Iig| Majesty's Courts of Jt^dicature in the West Indies T, — — - In case of public Emergency or Distress, the respective') Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and Commanders in Chief of Nova Scotia or New' Brunswick, Cape Breton, or Saint John's, with the Advice and Consent of dieir respective Councils, may authorize the Importstion of Bread, Biscuit, or Potatoes, for a limited Time, from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Provinces or Islands } but such Commodities shall not be imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated accordwg to Law* on forfeiture ^reqf and of the Shi|> - ' T '. Reign. Chap. 3*a. 28 Geo, 3. 31 Geo. a. 56 Geo. 3. 6 38 9> II 2 I 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3, 47 91 %- 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3.S j6Geo*3,^^ S6 38 91 3*4 I 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. ,. $6 38 3 S 28 Geo. 3. 13 INDEX. PROVISION ^.antkuud. lO. II. 12. »3' M- kin Maiestf, by Order in Council to be iaived «nd pttb>' iUhed, or by Warrant under His Sign Manual, may empottrer th« Governor of Newfoundland to authorize, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Bread from any of the Territories belonging to the said United States, for the Supply of the InhabitintB>ana Fishermen of the said Island, for the then ensuing Season onlyi bwt such Bread shall not be imported cRcept in conformity to •uch Regulations and Restrictions as shall be specified in such Order or Warrant, and eieept by British Subjects, in Britieh- built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- feiture thereof, with the Ship • - - i Anv of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Com*' mandcrs w Chief for t!ie Time being of Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick* or Cape Breton, or Saint John's, with tlw Advice and Consent of tneir respective Councfls, may authorize the Importation of Bread, Biscuit, or Potatoes, for a liauted Time, from any of the Territories of the United States of America, for the Purpose of being re-«xpQrted to any other of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations . . « His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and pub-' liflied, may authorize, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Bread as well bto Quebec as into all the Countries bordering on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and into the Islands within the said Gulf, and also to the Coast of Labrador, for the then ensuing Season only, from any of the Territories of the United States of America, lor the Supp'" of the Persons employed in or carrying on the Fisheries i but such Bread shall not be imported except in conformity tt> such Regulations and Restrictions as shall be specified in such Order, and except by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according l» Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship - . . . ■ ■' - In case of public Emergency and Distress, the Governor of Quebec, or the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chie^ with the Consent of the Council of the Province, may autho- rise the Importation, by Sea or Coaftwise into Quebec, or into the Countries or Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River Saint Lawrence from the Sea, of Bread, Biscuit, or Fbtatoes, for a limited Time, from the United States of America, for the Supply of the. Inhabitants of the Province, and of the said Countries and Islands within the Government thereof; but the said Articles (hall not be imported except by Britifli Subjecla, in British-built Ships, owned and navigatied according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and tlieSfa^ ^ ^ . . > ■ I The Goods and Ships forfeited by these Aets may be seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or by any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Offioer spe^'' dally authorized by them, or by any Officer of die Cttstoms - j ~— The Inhabitants of Guernsey and Jersey may hde on' thoK Islands, and transport directly to the British North Ame- rican Colonies where the Kshery is carried on, any Sort of 5ood or Victuals fit and necessary for the Fishery^ or for the upport of the Mariners or Persons on board the Ships or on Shore in carryiii|g on the said Fishery % auch Food or Tictuab Rcifo, at ipecf. 3. 4S Geo. 3. Chap. 29 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 36 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 9Geo.3k 125 16 Sea. 13 6 16 8 38 9» 28 ^\:$»^ :m^ INDEX. ".] PROVISIONS— cm/iViha/. being the Produce or Manufacture of the said Iriands, or of I. I Great Britain or Ireland • . I See." Guernsey." i ] " Jersey." 15. 1' The Inhabitants of the Isle of Man may export from^ thence to th« British Colonies or Plantations in Airierica, in I i ) British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according \ to Law, Herrings caught and cured by them, in the same Man- f I ner as Victuals may be imported into the said Colonies or PUnt- 1 ations from Ireland , «i - - -J ■ ■.W;%;;,v,^;i .^•., See "Man." For the Conditions upon which Vessels which land Pro-'N Reign. ;.:!«-.>i: i^-r- 12 Geo. 3. Chip. 3t9t. 16. ^. ^ visions at any of the British Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, J may import Spirits without Payment of Duty into the following I , Provinces and Islands belonging to His Majesty, in North Ame- f rica, viz. Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick^ Cape Bre- 1 ton. Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland - -J See •« Spirits." PUMICE STONE. \ May be exported from Malta or any of the De-' PUNK. J pendencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Planta- tions in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- built Ships, ownedj navigated, and registered according to Law See " Gibraltar." -':^ V. ••Malta.'' QUEBEC. See " Canada." QtriCKSILVER. -\ May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- kI^ISINS. > dencies thereof,' or from Gibraltar, direct to any of RHUBARB. J His Majesty's. Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any H is Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law , , ,rt, J,. .„-,;^ » r See *• Gibraltar." ' ' '-■ - ^- "Malta." REGISTRY OF BRmSH SHIPS. :|. r — ■ Every Ship or Vessel having a Deck, or being of the Bur- then of Fifteen Tons or upwards, belonging to any of His Majesty's Subjects in Great Britdn, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle- of Man, or of any of the Colonies, Plantations, or Territories ^ in Asia, Africa, or America, in the Possession of His Majesty, - ' shall be registered ; and the Persons claiming Property therein''' shall obtain a Certificate of Registry from the f^ollector and Comptroller of the Customs in Great Britain, or the Isle of Man, or froip the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, and Principal Officers of the Customs in Guernsey or Jersey, or in anv of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Territories } and the Form thereof shall be as follows ; viz. '_ * TN pursuance of an Act paised in the 26th Year of the « -^ Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act « (here insert the Title of the Act, the Names, Occupation, ' ' and Residence of the Subscribing Owners) |having taken * and subscribed the Oath required by this Act, and having t * . sworn that he (or they) together witn (Namcsj Occupation, ^ * and Residence of Non-subscribing Owners) is (or are) *• ' f sole Owner (or Owners) of the Ship or Vessel called the | 28 Geo. 30 Geo. 51 Geo. 53 Geo. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 58 39 8 62 37 29 4 55 Geo. 57 Geo. 5.9 I 29 4 S>9 I INDEX. 161 ••6.- REGISTRY ov BRITISH 8HIPS-<«MfM«A/. (Sbip^t Nunc) of (Place to which the VcMel beloon) wheteof (Maiter** Nune) it at pfeient Matter, and tnat the said Ship or Vesael wai (when and whefe bnilt or cap- tured, and Date of Gmdemnation) | and (Name and Em- ployment of the Surreving OStet) having certified to na that the said Ship or Veuel is (whether British, Foreign, or British Plantation>b«ilt), has (Number of Decks) Decks and (Number of Masts) Muti, that her Length from the Fore-part of the Main Stem to the After«part of the Stem Post Aloft is (Ninnber of Feet and Inches), her Breadth at the broadest Part, whether above or below the Main-Wales (Number of Feet and Inches), her Heighth between Decks (Number of Feet and Inches if more than One Deck, and if not, then the Depth of the Hold, Number of Feet and Inches), and admeasures (Burthen) Tons ) that she is (Kind of Vessel and how built), has -(whether any or no Gallery) Gallery and (Kind of Head, if any) Head % an J the said subscribing; Owners having consented and agreed to the above Description and Admeasurement, and having •caused sufficient Security to be given, as is required by the said Act, the said (Kmd and Name of the Vessel) has been duly registered at the Port of (Name of the Port). * Given under our Hands and Seals of Office, at the * Custom-house in the said Port of (Name of the Port) ( this (Date) Day of (Name of the Month) in the Year * (Words at Length).' No Registry shall m made in anv other Port than that to' which the Ship shall .belong,' (except Snips condemned as Prize in Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, which shall be registered in Manner herein-after directed) % and every Register granted in any Port to which any such Ship does not belong, shall be void, vnless the Officers shall be specially empowered to grant it in any other Port, by Order under the Hands of any Four of the Commissioners ot the Customs in England, or any Three of the Commissioners in Scotland - - ■ The Port to which any Ship shall be deemed to belong, shall be the Pbrt from and to which she shall usually trade, or (bemg a new Ship) shall intend to trade, and at or near which the Husband, or acting and nunaging Owner, usually resides - - ■' No -Ship of War or other Vessel, the Property of His> Majesty w the Royal Family, or any Lighters, Barges, Boats, or ^ Vessels of any Description used solely in Rivers or Inland NaVlgition, shall be required to be registered . •_ No Vessel not exceeding 30 Tent, and not having a wfaofe'l or fixed Oedt, and being employed solely in the Fishery on the ( Banks «r>8horet of Newfoundland, and of the Parts adjacent, I or oa Ae Sankt or Shores of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or New I Brunswkb, adjacent to the Gull of Saint Lawrence, ami. to the ^ North of Otpe Canso, or of the Islands within the fame, or in trading Coaatwiae within the faid Limits, shall be "subject to be rcgisMed ~ , m . • Mo Subject of His Majesty whose usual Residence is in' any Gomtry not under the JDeminion of His Majesty, «hall be entitled (during the Time he shall continue so to reside) to be jr ad Geo. 3. Quf. S«A. 26 Geo. 3. tt6Geo. 3. a6 Geo. 3. 37 Geo. 3. 60 60 60 «9 19» I I? D B X. f i }> ktGtSTRT OF fiKlTISH SHIPS-wm/iffW. the Owner in whole or ia p«rt »f euy Brilhh Ship. reqd««d to j be registered, unl<|tt he W » Memhfr of Mne British flsMorV, ,or Aeent for or Partner mnnj House or Copwtilenhip afctvally caiTjiAfr on Trade it Cr^t Sritaia or Ireland • > > - . No Registrf shall be made uuttl the Mlowing Oath he' taken, before the r«rsons auihoriMd to ttiake RMistry, by the Owner, if owned by- on«| P«i;m9, or if Two Ownttn> then hj both, if both res|deat within Twenty Miles of the Fort where such Register is re^uindi or. by one if one te both of them diall be resident at a greater Dis^oc< from svch Pktrtt or if th«l Nwn- bcr of Owners shall exceed Tw«» thett by the greatet Pan, if the greater Number shall ht rerfdent within Twenty Miles of suoh Port, not in s^ny Ca|e exceeding Thrfee* or by one of such Owners if all shall be resident at a greftter OistttMW r I A. B. of (Place of Residence and OccnpatiAn), do make Oath, That the Ship or Vessel (Name) of (Port or Place) wherepf ^Master's Name) is at (ireaent Master) being (Kind of BuUt, Burthen, &c. as described in the Certificate of the Surveying Officer), Wte (when and where built, or if Prise, Qsptutv and CondeAuiation) { and that I the said A. B* (and the other Owners Names and Occupations if any, and- where they rtspeetively reside, videlicet, Town, Place, or Parish, attd Country t or if Member of and resident in any Factory in Foreign Parts, or in any Foreign Town or City, being an Agent for Or Partner in any House or Copartnership actually carryina on Trade in Great Britain or Ireland, the Name of sncn Factory, Foreign Town, or City, and the Names of such House or Copartnership) am (or Hre) solo Owner (or Owners) of the said Vessel i and that no other Person or Veramis Whatever hath or have any Right, Title, Interest, Share, or Property therein or thereto i and that I the said A. B. (and the said other Owners, if any) am (or are) truly and bon& fide aSubject (or Subjects) of Gteat Britain ( and that I the said A. B. have not (nor have any of the other Owners to the best of my Knewlcd^ and Belief) taken the Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign State whatever, (except under the Terms of some Capitulation, dtddJbing the Particulars thereof, (or that since my taking (or his or their taking) the Oath of Allegiance to (naming the Foreign States respectively, to which he or atiy Of the said Owners shall have tak^n the same) and prior to the passing of an Act in the Twienty^ixth Year of the Reign of King George Third, intituled < An Act for the further ladrease and Encouragement of Shipping atid Navigation,* I have (or he or they hath or have) become a Subject (or Subject*) of Great Britain^either by His Majesty's Lstter* Patent as a Denizen br Denizens, or naturallced Iw Act of Par- liament, as the case may be, naming the Dates of the Letters of Denization, or the Act or Acts of Parliament for Naturalization respectively, or a$ the case may be) I have (or he 6r th^y hath or have) become a Denizen or Denizens or naturwzcd Snbjea or Subjects, as the Case may be) of Great Britain, by His Mej^styfs Letters Pateiit, or by an Act of Pirliament passed since the Firtt DiJy of ClM|L tt Q«o. <|. a6 Ceo. 3. !■-■ V - i. ■ ) /'>t.-';,> ML 60 60 10 x i n I '■i,:f' ■ \ INDEX. 10.- KEGISTRT ov BRITISH SHlPS-^mriHutd. I * January One thoutand Mvtn hundrtd and eighty ««» ( (naming the Times whan such Letten of Dentiation have * been granted respectively, «r the Yeav M Taara in whieh such Act or Acts for Naturalization have passed rcspee* tivelv) I and that no Foreigner, directlf or indtreetly , hath * any Share or Part or Interest in th* said Ship or Veas^K' 8. '»' Any Oath taJcen for the sole Purpose of «oqi|iriiig the Rights of a Citizen or Bureher in any forvign City or To#n In Europe, to be enjoyed during the Time that the Fsrson taking such Oath shall reside in such City or Town, and for a Kmited Time after such Residence shall have expired, shall not be deemed an Oath of Allegiance tQ a forngn State 9. ^ < In case the Number of joint Owners shall amount to Three or more, and Three (hall not parsonally attend Cd take the Oath, then such Owners as shall attend (hall further nitke Oath that the Part Owners then absent are not resMetit within V Twenty Miles of such Port, and have not (to the best of their j Knowledge or Belief) wilfully ^'Mented thcmselvts to avoid t taking the Oath, or are prevented by Illness from attending • J On obtaining Registry of * Ship belonging to the East India Company, or other Body Corporate, the Oath may be taken by the Secretary of suoh Company, ttc. or any other Officer authorized by them, as follows ) videlicet, * I A. B. Secretary or Officer (Name of Company or Cor- * -^ poration) do make Oath that the Ship or Vessel (Name) * of (Port or Place) whereof (Master's Name) is' at present « Matter, being (Kind of Built, Burthen, &c. as described * in the Certificate of the Surveying Officer) was (when and < where built, or if Price, Capture and Condemnation) and * that the same doth wholly and truly bekmg to (Name of * Company or Corporatioii).' • • • . . II. ■ Ships built in Newfoundland, and in these Parts of Quebec,* Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulf uf Saint Lawrence and to the North of Cape Canso, or in the Islands within the said limits, on account of Owners residing in His Majesty's European Dominions, may be registered in Newfoundland and its Dependencice, or in the Ports of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and to die North of Cape Canso, or in the Islands within the said Limits, upon the principal Husbands or Agents of the Ships taking the Oath required inftead of the Owners ^ and the Certificates granted fliall be of the like Force as if granted upon the Oath w the Owners, until such Ships arrive in some Port of Hia Majesty's European Dominions, where they may be registered upon the Oath of the Owners ( and whenever such Ships shall first arrive in «ny such Port of His Majesty's Dominions, die Register granted in pursuance of this. Act shall be void, and b« delivered up to be cancelled, and such Ships shall be registered de novo, upon the Oath of the Owners, and the other Requisitions of 26 Geo. III. c. 66. being complied with ..... 1 J a. ——— Persons appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs,' or by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Coininartder in Chief in Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, or of the Colonics, Planta- tions, or Territories, taking to dwir Assistance (if they . shall lUitn. ChfV/ tea aM. ..Ob. 37 Geo. 3. >9 i6 Ow. 3. 6e II 27 Geo. 3. 19 .v^^ 27 Geo. 3. 19 t \6i IN D EX. REGISTRT Of BRITISH SHIPS— . 60 60 60 8*0. ■' la *3 H ■'* ^.% ^;*-. I N D E X. REQUBiTaT.ot BRITISlI SHIPS— amtimud. I Owners at thall pcrwQally attend, tach Secoritjr to be apfnrovcd : of and taken b7 th^ Ptfaon authoriied to make Regiitrj, in the 1 Peaaltiea following ; (that ip to tay), if a decked Veitd, or al)ore 15 Tons and not ejtceeding 50 Tons, in jf 100 { if exceeding I 5oTonaandnot exceeding too Tons, in if 300 1 if exceeding . 100 Tons and not exceeding aoo Tons, in ttSOOt if exceeding aoo Tons and not exceeding 300 Tons, in if 800 1 and if ex> '. ceedinff 100 Tons, in j£''i,ooo; and the Condition of every Bond shall be, that such Certificate shall not be sold, lent, or otherwise disposed of to any Person, and that the same shall be solely made use of for the Service' of the Ship for which it is granted •, and that in case such Ship shall be lost or taken by the Enemy, burnt or broken up, or otherwise prevented from returning to the Port to which she beloms, the Certificate, if preserved, shall be delivered up within One Month afker the Arrival of the Master in any Port or Place in His Maietty's Dominions, to the Collector and Comptroller of some Port in Great Britain, or of the Isle of Man, or of the British Plant* ations, or to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Com» mander in Chief of Guernsey or Jersev 1 and that if any Fo- reigner, or any Person for his Use and Benefit, shall purchase or otherMfise become entitled to the Whole or any Part or Share of, or any Interest in such Ship, and the same shall be within the Limits of any Port in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or tlie British Colonics, PbntatioiUk Isbnds, or Territories afore- said, then the Certificate of Registry dull, within Seven Days after such Purchase or Transfer ol Property, be delivered up to the Person authoriaed to nuike Registry at such Port 1 and if such Ship shall be in anv Foreign Port when such Thmsfer 9f Property shall take place, tnen, that the same shall be delivered lip to the British Consul or other Chief British Officer residtot at or nearest to such Foreign Port ^ or if such Ship shall be at Sea when such TVauMer of Interest or Property shall take place, then, that the same shall be ddivered up to the British Consul or Chief British Ofiicer at the Foreign Port or Place in or at which the Master shall first arrive after such Purchase or Transfer of Property at Sea, immediately after his Arrival at such Foreign Port i but if such Master who had the Command at the Time of such Purchase or Thinsfer of 'Pr<^rty at Sea, shall not arrive at a Foreign 'Port> but at some Port of Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or His Majesty's said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories, then, that the same shall be delivered up in Manner aforesaid, within Fourteen Days after the Arrival of such Ship, or of the Person who had the Command thereof, in any Port of Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or aay of His Majesty's said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories | and that if any Meditteranean Pass shall have been obtained for any such^p, thcn^thatthe same shall he delivered up at the same Time' with the Certificate of Registry to the Person authorixed la receive such Certificate } and such Certificates so delivered vtp shall for^with be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs in England and Scotland, and such Mediteranean Pas» ihall be transmitted to the Commis" sioners of the Admiralty, in order that the same may be can- I felled. ^ -,.,;■,.., ^^ ». ^ lOff Cktf> CI, 1 , I .. .Mxi:i ■(■:'.•■ i.ri ' i y.ri ■)■ ■ rrt) ■;;r.: . %6 Gt04 3^ ■t' '■ t " V ■ ; ; t 'f ••>• . ■ . ['.' '. •■<'■■ J. 60 J5 ^p. M» INDEX. ftlQlilltl^ or BRtnSli SHIPS— eoHtinueJ. iff. »■ ■ » The Conuai^iooM* of tlw CiutomHor Um Qovtraor or tenant Oorernor ov OonoMnUcr in Cbkf of any of tht AM, PI«nUtio*% or Territoritt btloaging to Hit Majeitf* ia, Africa, or Amtfica, in any CaM where it ahall appear I , »ni expedient, mav ptrmit the wad Bond to be taken before ' anf 'I'kraon and in aucli Manner ai tbcj ihatl judge fitting, and I aucU Bond ihall be of tike like Force as if taken by Perioaa att« thorited to make Regiatry 17, »i .1. When the MMter of any Ship regiitered ahall be changed, j the Person who that beoone Matter thall give Security by &nd , under the Penalties Bad Coaditiont of a6 Geo. III. c. 60. and ' this Act i and on auc|i freth Security being given, and being made to appear by Endors«i|seiit on the orig^nu Bond, by the OlKcers ' in whose Custody i| shall be» tuch original Bond (to far at it I relatet to the former Matter) shall from thenceforth be void, I except with retpect to any Breach of the Conditiont which I may luive been committed before tuch Endortement. |t8. ■■ Upon any Transfer of ftoperty to another Port, the Ship' ahall be registered de novo upon oeiivering up the fcmer Certifi* cate to be cancelled | «nd in «' je there is any Alteration of Pro- Serty in the same Port, by ^..ie Sale of one or more Shares in any hip after registering thereof, tuch Sale shall be acknowledged I by Endorsement on the Register before Two Witnetaes, in order , to prove that the entile Property in such Ship remains i > the Subjects of England, if any Dispute arises concerning the same ■9. I In every Case of any Alteration of the Property in any ; Ship, in the same Port to which she belongs, besides the Endorsement required by 7 and 8 Wm. III. c. 94. there shall also be endorsed on the Certificate of Registry, before Two Witnesses, the Town, Place, or Parish where every Person to whom th.e Property or any Part thereof shall be so transferred ahall reside ; or if such Person usually reside in any Cbuntry not under the Dominion of His Majesty, but in some firitisK Factory, the Name of such Factory of which such Person is a Member, or if such Person reside in any Foreign Town or City, and are not Members of some British Factory, the Name of such Fo< reignTown orCity where such P< rson usually resides ; and also the Kames of the House or Copartnership in Great Britain or Irebmd, jfor or with whom such Person is Agent or Partner, shall be en« horsed on the Certificate; and the Person to whom the Property nhall be so transferred shaUalso4leliver aCopyof such Endortement to the Persons authorized to make Registry and grant Certificates «f R^stry, who are required to cause an Entry thereof to. be endorsed on the Oath or Affidavit upon which the original Re* |;tstry was obtained; and make a Memorandum of the same in the Book of Registers, and forthwith give Notice thereof to the CommissioneTS of the Customs in England or Scotland -J no. ■■■ ' ' " Whenthe Property in any Ship belonging to any of HisMa-^ iesty't Subjects shall be transferred to anv other of His Majesty's J SubjecU, in whole or in part, the Certibcate of the Registry of ( tuch Ship shall be truiy and accurately recited in Words at / Length in the Bill or Instrument of Sale i otherwise such Bill I or lattrument of Sale slull be null and void - -J Bli — ' No Transfer, Contract or Agreement for Transfer of^ Property in any Ship, shall be valid for any Purpose) either -in | lUiju. ci«». 9*a. a? Geo. 3. »9 37 Geo. 3. »9 !' 7 & 8 W. 3. aa 21 atf Geo. 3. 60 16 a6 Geo. 3. 60 17 IK D EX. . J .ii ■ ■ " ' ■■ KEOlisTRY or BRITIS^ SHIPS— ««/i>.«/«/. A..— i«a-2«' , Lawor Equity, unltMbyBiHofSakortiiMniincfit inWritiag ' containing the Recital of th* Rtgiiter in Wordi at Length • . aa. • Upon any Altmtkin of Property in any Ship in tne aam* i Port to which she btlonga, an Endonement on the Megiatef I shall be made in the fomwing Fann, and be eigitcd by the .' Penon transferring the Property, or by some Prrson l^lly authorized for that Purpose ( and a Copy of fiwh Endorarment , shall be delivered to the Person authoriied to grant Registry | I otherwise such Sale, or Coninct or Agreement for Sale, ahall be roid \ and such Persona authoriied to grant Registry are to cause an Entry thereof to be endorsed on the Oath upon which the Orifijinal Certificate was obtained, and to maice a Memonm- dum of the same in the Book of Registry, and give Notice V thereof to the Comn^issioners of the Cnetems - * Form of Endorsement, on Change of Pmperty. * "DE it remembered, that (I or we) ^Names, netidence, * ^ and Occupatbn of the Persons aelling^ have this Day * sold and transferred all («iy or our) Right, Share, or . < Interest in and to tiie Ship or Vessel (Name of the $h^ * or Vessel) mentioned in the within Certificate of Registry * unto (Names, Residence, and Occupation of the Pur- < chasers). Witness (my or our Hand or Hands) this /tn ' Words at full Length). « Signed in the Presence off Two Wttneases).' 23. But if any Ship shall be at Sea, or absent from the Port' to which she belongs, at the Time when such Alteration in the Property shall be made, so that an Endorsement or Certificate cannot be immediately made, the Sale, or Contract or Agree- ment for the Sale thereof, shall notwithsUnding be made br Bill of Sale, or other Inatniment in Writing as before directed, and a Copy of such Bill of Sale or Instrument shall be delivered, and an Entry thereof be endorsed on the Oath, and a Memoran- dum thereof be made in the Book of Registry, and Notice of the same shall be given to the Commissioners of the Customs ; and within Ten Days after each Ship shall return to the Port to which she belong;, an Endorsement shall be made and signed by the Owner, or some Person legally authorized for that Pur- pose, and a Copy thereof shall be delivered in manner before mentioned, otherwise sttch Bill of Sale, or Contract or Agree- ment for Sale, shall be void \ and Entry thereof shall be endorsed, utA a Memorandum theivof made, in the manner before directed 24. ■ Where the Owners of any Ship shall reside in any Coun ONr. i9f 3^ Oed. 3. SB 14 try not under the Dominion of His Majesty, as Member of some British Factory, or Agent for or Partner in any House carrying on Trade in Great Britain or Ireland at the Time when he shall transfer such Property, so that an Endorsement cannot be immediately made, nor a Copy of such Bill of Siile or In- strument in Writing be dvlivcred, nor an Etitry thereof endorsed on the Oath, nor a Memorandum thereof made in the Book of Registers, nor Notice of the same given to the Commissioners of tne Customs, the same may be done at any Time within Six Months after such Transfer ( and within Ten Days after such Owner, or some Person legally authorized for that Purpose, shall arrive in this Kingdom, if such Ship shall then he in any Port of this Kingdom } and if not, thou withmTen Days after »'>1»»ll'».* «. ;' jdni'i .> . \t\t> > 1 i.j i'-jiij 34 Geo. 3. 1 Afrt ;> ■ ' '. • ■ ' l(■■ ,.■.' 'IL"--. - ■; 1 ''' ■ 'J '"1 t i;i 34 Geo. 3. 34 Geo. 3. 66 15 6S i6 4U »7 INDEX. *7. 168 iLBOISniT or BRITISH SHIPS-. Moh SUp iImII M miv% Ml iMiMwiMnttluUl be mad* by tht i ^^ Owatr* or mom Pmmb kgUlj ••thorittd, and « Copf thtrtof I ihall b« dtlitmd fai maaMff brferc mtntiencd, othtrwiM ivch BUt af Salt, or CMtnet or AgrwBMnt, shall b« Toid I and Entry thoioof iImU bt mdoratd, aad a Momonndum thrrcof made, in Uwinuumor btfef* dlroctod •5. t WhM the ProMfty in any Ship balonging to Hit Ma- jaaty'i Subjacta, shall by Sala ba tnasfarrad in whola or in part to any othar of Hia Majasty's Subiacts, ami such Ship shall M raouiiad to ba ragialaiad da novo, tna Officer empowered to { . make Registry auy reqaira the Bill or Initrumeat of Sale to I be prodvced | and in case such Bill or Instrument shall not be Moduced, the Officer shall not' grant a Certificate of Registry I m' da novo, but the Coaunisskmers of the Customs, and the Go- ▼anMir, Lieutenant Oovemor, or Commander in Chief of Guemaey, Jersey, or of any British Plantation, if Application shaU be made to any of them, upon due Consideration of the '^ Case, may give Directions for registering such Ship de novo, . notwithstanding such BUI or Inatrument of Sale shall not have been produced, nrovidad all othar Begulations required by Law be ooospUed wilK . . . - 46. — ~— — In caae there ahall be any Alteration of Property in the same Pbrt, by the Sala of one or more Shares in any Ship, after registering thereof, and the Owners who are Owners thwfof at the Time such Ship was last registered, or whose Property ( therein has not been so transferred, shall be desirous of having \ the Ship registered de novo, the Officers may register such Ship de novo, provided all the Requisites of the Laws concerning the Registry de novo be complied with i Aa often aa any Transfer of Property in an; 3hip shall be' oaade while upon the Sea, on a Voyage to a foroign Pert, in case the Master is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not, as soon as be shall become acquainted therewith, such Ship shall proceed directly to the Port for which the Cargo is destmed, or to the Port to which she belongs, or any other Port in which she may be registered, and may take on board, in the Port for which her orisinal Cargo was destined, or other Port, being in the Courw ■of her Voyage to the Port in which ahe may be registered de novo, such Cargo as shall be destined and may he legally carried to the POrt where she naay be registered de novo i and if auch 'Vransfar shall be made while such Ship is in any Foreign Port, and the Master is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not, as soon -aa he shaU become acquainted the- " 'ith, such Ship, after having delivered the Cargo, shall sail from such Port to the Port to which ahe belongs, or to any other such Port in which she may be registered, and may take on board at the Port to which her orismal Cargo waa destined, or other Port, being in :he Course of her Voyage, to the Port in which she may be're^iaCr-^d de novo, sucn Cargo as shall be destined and may be 'l«ga)i^ tarried to such Port where she may be registered de ninte-. for Repaim or Rcfretb><>cii' , or for dc^-rinf any Part of th* Cargo, thall tail to the Fort to whirh sh* tMloiigt, or any other Port where ihe nuy '10 regiittiiu, t(iH may take on bonnl ait the foreign Port laat de«criMr Master shall forfeit j^too 30, 31- 3»- 33- Every Person wrfio shall api>ly for a Certificate of the' Registry, of any Ship in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle' of Man, shall produce to* the Person authorized to eiant the Certificate a true and fdl Account, under the Hand of the Builder, of the proper Denomination, and of the Time when and the PlsTce where. built, and alfe an exact Account of the Tonnage, with the Name of the first Purchafer, (which Account fuch Builder is required to give under bis Hand on the same Jheing demanded by such Persons fo applying for a Certificate as aforesaid), and shall make Oath before the Person authorized to grant such Certificate, that the Ship for which such Certificate i^ required is the same with that which is se described by the Builden - Every Person who shall apply for such Certificate in any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, or Territories, shall, before such Certificate is granted, produce the like Account under the Hand of the Builder, and take the like Oath, as required to be produced and taken by Persons applying for the like Certificate in Great Britain - - - -. ' If any Ship duly qualified to trade to, from, and in His' Majesty's, said Plantations, shall be in any of the said Planta- tions, and the Certificate of the Register thereof shall be lost or mislaid,, the Master may make Oath (or being a Quaker a solemn Affirmation) before the Governor or Collector of the Customs in the Port where the Ship shall happen to be, in the following Form : < A. B. being Master (or having the Charge) of the Ship or * Vessel called the does swear (or solemnly ' affirm), that the said Ship or Vessel has been, as he verily * believes, registered according ta Law, to qualify her to ' trade, to, from, and. in His Majesty's Plantations in Ame- *-.riCa$ and that he bad. a. Certificate thereof granted at the * Port of but that the same is lost or mislaid, and * that he cannot find the same, and does not know where ' the same is, or what is become thereof, and that the same * hath not been nor shall be, with his Privity or Knowledge, < sold or disposed of to any Person or Persons whatsoever ; ( and that he this Deponent (or Affirmant) and. Three-fourths ' of the Mariners navigating the said Ship, or Vessel are < His Majesty's British Subjects;, and the said Ship or Vessel < does now, as he believes, belong wholly to His. Majesty's < British, Subjects, and that no Foreigner has, to his Know- ' ledee or Belief^ any Share, Property, or Interest therein.' — I— — The Master shall then give Security as. directed by 26 Geo. III. c. 60. to. the Collector of the Port where the Ship shall ba, wjth Condition that the Ship was duly, registered according to Law, for qualifying the same to, trade, to, from, and in His Majesty's Plantations in America, that the Re- gister, if found, shall be delivered up to the Commissioners of the Customs to be cancelled, that no illegal Use has been or shall be made thereof, that, the same has not been and shall not be fraudulently disposed olj that, the Ship does .wholly be- Rcign. Chap. Seil, 26 Geo. 3. 60 20 36 Geo. 3. 60 21 15, Geo. 3. 3' INDEX. REGISTRY or BRITISH SHIPS— f«i/i«««/. long to British Subjects, and that no Foreigner has any Share, Property t or Interest therein } and upon makins such Oath (or Affirmation if a Quaker) and giving svch Bond, the Governor and Collector of the Customs uiall without Fee or Reward give the Master a Certificate, under their Hands and Seals, of his having given such Bond and made such Oath or Affirmation i and thereupon the Ship shaH have Liberty to trade, for that Voy- age only, in the same Manner as if the original Certificate had been produced, and the Oath or Affirmation required by 26G.III. c. 60. (see No. 7.) had been taken } and the Certificate so to be given snail have the same EiFect, during the Voyage only, as if the original Certificate had been produced ; and the Officers taking the Oath and Bond shall transmit an Account thereof to the Commissioners of the Customs - - - If the Certificate of Registry of any Ship shall be lost, and' 34- 35- 36. the Master and one or more of the Owners shall make Proof, to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of the Customs, in case the Owners or any of them shall reside in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey or Jersey, or of the Governor or Collector of the Customs residing in any of His Majesty's Plantations in Ame- rica, in case she was registered in such Plantation, and none of the Owners shall reside in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey or Jersey, of the Los li such Certificate, and likewise of the Name, Burthen, ^ /.It, Property, and other Particulars in- serted in such Certificate } and upon Security being eiven as directed by 26 Geo. III. c. 60., that the original Certificate hath not been nor shall be fraudulently disposed of, or used con- trary to Law, and that the' same, when found, shall be delivered up to the Commissioners of the Customs, to be cancelled ; in such Case the Commissioners of the Customs, and the Governor and Collector of the Customs residing at the Plantations, shall permit the said Ship to be registered de novo, upon the like Oath being taken > and subscribed by the Owner or Owners as is directed by 86 Geo. III. c. 60., and shall deliver a Certificate thereof to the Owners registering the same, in the Manner directed by the said Act, and therein mention the Name by which the Ship was registered, and that such Certificate of a new Register is granted instead of a former Certificate which appears to be lost ; and such new Register and Certificate shall have the same EiFect as an original Register and Certificate ; and a Duplicate thereof shall be transmitted by the Officers who shall grant the same to the Commissioners of the Customs If any Ship after she shall have been registered shall in any Manner be altered in Form or Burthen by being lengthened or built upon, or shall be altered from a Sloop to a Brigantinc, or from any one Denomination to another, by the Mode or Method of rigging or fitting, in such Case such Ship shall be registered de novo, as soon as she returns to the Port to which she belongs, or to any other Port in which she may be legally registered ; on Failure whereof such Ship shall, to all Intents and Purposes, be deemed and taken to be a Foreign Ship — — — The Owners of all Ships taken by any of His Majesty's' Ships or Vessels of War, or by any Private or other Sh'o, and condemned as lawful Prize in any Court of Admiralty, shall, upon registering such Ship, produce to the proper Officer of the Customs a Certificate of the Condemnation under the tTV Reign. Chap. s«a. 15 Geo. 2. i6 Geo. 3. 31 60 I j Geo. 2. 26 Geo. 3. 1; 26 Geo. 3. 60 24 m INDEX. REGISTRT OF BRITISH SHIPS— «fl/i«W. Hand and Seal of th« Judge of the Court in which such Ship •hall have been condemned (\/hich Certificate such Judge is required to grant), and shall also produce a true and exact Account in Writing of all the Particulars contained in the Cer- ficate herein-before set forth, to be made and subscribed by one or more skilful Persons co be appointed by the Court to survey such Ship, and shall also make Oath before the said Officer that such Ship is the same mentioned in the Certificate of the Judge aforesaid *----- — — In all cases where any Ship so taken and condemned as Prize, in any of His Majesty's Colon s, Plantations, or Terri- tories aforesaid, shall be registered, an exact and particular Account shall be subjoined to such Certificate, of the Sum for which such Ship shall have been sold, verified by the Oath of the Persons who shall apply for such Registry, in order that the Duties payable to His Majesty may be the better levied and collected upon the Arrival of such Snip in any Port of Great Britain where such Duties are payable - The Certificates shall distinguish whether the Ship is of 37. S8. 39- 40. the Built of Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle of Man, or the Colonies, Plantations, Islands or Territories aforesaid, or of any Foreign Country ; and shall, if British-built, be intituled " Certificate of British Plantation Registry }" and if Foreign built, shall be intituled " Certificate of Foreign Ships Registry, for the European Trade, British Property " f Tlie Master of every Ship which shall have procured a' Certificate of the Registry, shall upon demand produce such Certificate to the principal Ofiicers of every Port in His Majes- ty's Dominions, or to the Britith Consul, or Chief British Officer in any Foreign Port, in which such Ship shall arrive, for the Inspection of such Officer or Officers, British Consul, or Chief British Officer, in order to satisfy him or them that she has been properly registered, under the Penalty of j£ioc - The proper Officer at every I'ort where Registers and" Certificates shall be granted, shall progressively number the same, beginning such progressive Numeration at the Commence- ment of each Year, and shall enter an exact Copy of such Certificates, with the Number thereof, in a Book, and shall also within One Month transmit to the Commissioners of the Cu<>- toms a true Copy, together with the Number of every Certificate which shall be so granted ; and if any such Officer shall neglect or refuse so to do, he shall for the First OiFence forfeit j^'ioo, and for the Second Offence j^'aoo and be dismissed from his Office - . • . . • The 26th Section applies only to Ships haded as Prize in Guernsey, Jersey, and Man. \The 2gth, 2^th, $lst, 32^ be incurred for any Offences committed against the Laws of Customs may now legally be sued for, prosecuted, recovered, V and disposed of} and theOfficer concerned mSeizures or I^osecu- tions under this Act, shall receive the same Share of the Produce arising from such Seizures, as in the Case of Seizure for unlawful Importation, and to such Share of any pecuniary Penalty for any Offence against this Act, as any Officer is now by any Law or Re- gulation entitled to under Prosecutions for pecuniary Penalties -^ — — Every Matter contained in any Act passed touching the' Trade, Shipping, and Navigation of Great Britain, and the Colonics, Plantations, Islands, and Territories aforesaid there* unto belonging, which is not hereby expressly altered or repealed, shall continue in full force, and so far as the same relate to the ?' Registry of Ships and Vessels, shall be deemed to extend to all Ships authorized and required by this Act to be registered, and I to have Certificates of Registry " " *J Ships registered in Ireland shall enjoy the same leges as are given to British-built or British-owned Ship: England - - - Privi' C ips in/ • Thf 38//; and ^iflh Sections apply only to Ships and Vessels to which Rrjrist/rs had been promised by the Officers of the Customs, or which had been rf^islered under Misconception of the Laws ; and HfS Majesty, with the Advice of the Privy Council, was authorized to order such Ships to be regis- tered, (III J have (I Certificatt thereof, according to the Form and in the Manner hcrciii'b'fore directid. Reign. Chip. 8«A. a6 Geo. 3, %6 Geo. 3. 26000.3. 26 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 3. 27 Geo. 3. 39&4oG,3. 60 60 36 37 60 40 60 41 60 42 60 60 67 43 44 1,2 Art. 6 174 INDEX. REGISTRY OF BRITISH SHIPS— continued. 48. Ships which by 25 Geo. III. c. 60. are declared not to bel entitled to the Privileges of a British-built Ship, or of a Ship I owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and not registered according > to that Act, shall, although owned by His Majesty's Subjects, be deemed Alien Ships, and subject to the same Penalties and Forfeitures as Alien Ships in the like Cases are by Law liable to On Complaint made on Oath by the Owner of any Ship 49- 50- whose Certificate of Registry shall be detained, and refused to be delivered up by the Master thereof to any Justice of the Peace residing near to the Place where sucn Detainer and Refusal shall be, in Great Britain, or Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, ot in any Colony, Plantation, Island, or Territory to His Ma- {'esty belonging in America, the Justice, by Warrant under lis Hand and Seal, may cause such Master to be brought before him, to be examined touching such Detainer and Refusal i and if it shall appear to the Justice, on Examination of the Master, or otherwise, that the same is not lost or mislaid, but is wilfully and maliciously detained, such Master shall be thereof convicted and forfeit j^ioo, and on Failure of Payment within Two Days after such Conviction, he shall be committed to the Common Gaol, to remain without Bail for such Time as the Justice shall deem proper, not being less than Six nor more than Twelve Months _ . - — — The Justice shall issue a Warrant under his Hand and' Seal to cause Search to be made for such Certificate ; and if the same shall be found, the Justice shall cause the same to be delivered to the Owner ; and if the same shall not be found, the Justice shall certify the aforesaid Detainer, Refusal, and Convic- tion to the Person who granted the last Certificate of Registry for such Ship, who shall make Registry thereof de novo, noti- fying on the Back of the Certificate the Grounds upon which such Ship was registered de novo ' ~ ~^ In case the Master of any Ship who shall have received" > the Certificate of Registry, whether such Master shall be a Part Owner or not, shall wilfully detain and refuse to deliver up the same to the proper Officers empowered to make Registry, on the Owners or the major Part of the Owners of such Ship, if such Master has not any Property therein, or on the Owners or the major Part of the other Owners of such Ship if the Master hath any Share or Property therein, requiring him so to do, it shall be lawful for the Owners or the major Part of the Owners of such Ship, to make Complaint on Oath against the Master who shall so detain and refuse to deliver up the same, to any Justice of the Peace residing near to the Place where such Detainer and Refusal shall be, in Great Britain, or to any Member of the Supreme Court of Justice or any Justice of the Peace in Jersey, Guernsey, or Man, or in any British Plantation in America or the West Indies, where such Detainer and Refusal shall be ; and on such Complaint, the Justice or Magistrate shall, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, cause such Master to be brought before him, to be examined touching such Detainer- and Refusal ; and if it shall appear to the Justice or Magistrate, on Examination of the Master or otherwise, that the Certificate of Registry is not k>stor mislaid, but is wilfully detained by the said Master, such R«i(n. Chip. 27 Geo. 3. 19 sta. »3 28 Geo. 3. 34 »3 28 Geo. 3. 34 M 34 Geo. 3. 68 18 INDEX. 17s REGISTRY OP BRITISH SHWS— continued. Master shall be thereof convicted and forfeit j£'joOi and on failure of Payment thereof, be committed to the common Gaol* to remain without fiail of Mainprize for such Time as the said Justice or Magistrate shall in his Discretion deem proper, not eing less than Six nor more than Twelve Months The Justice or Magistrate shall certify the Detainer, Refu- 5^' S3' RICE. sal, and Conviction to the Person who granted such Certificate of Registry, who shall, on the Law being complied with, make Registry of such Ship de novo conformably to Law, notifying on the Back of such Certificate the Ground upon which the Ship was registered de novo All Ships, whether British or Foreign, adjudged to be' forfeited under any Act for the Prevention, Abolition, or Regulation of the Slave Trade, in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or which shall be condemned in any Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions, for any Offence in relation to the Slave Trade, shall be entitled to a Certificate of Registry as British Ships, and thereupon enjoy all the Privileges and Advantages of British built Ships, in like manner with Ships taken and condemned as lawful Prize of War i but such Ships shall be subject to the same Duties and Regulations, and shall be registered in the same Manner, and subject to the same Conditions and Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures, and shall be owned and navigated, as Ships con- demned as lawful Prize are "equired to be, in order to their obtaining British Registers, and enjoying the Privileges of British Ships according to I^vr - - - - I.' Rtign. 34 Geo. 3. Chip. 68 — — — No Rice of the British Plantations in America shall be shipped or conveyed from any of the British Plantations in America to any Place, unless to some other Plantation belong* ing to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, there to be laid on Shore, under the Forfeiture of the Goods, or the full Value thereof, and the Ship . . -_ ■ . For every Ship which, shall, sail from Great Britain or' Ireland for any British Plantation in America, Bond shall be given, with one Surety, to the Chief Officers of the Customs of the Port from whence the said Ship shall sail, to the Value of i£'i,ooo, if the Ship be of less Burthen than 100 Tons,, and of j^* 2,000 if of greater Burthen, conditioned, that in case the said Ship shall load any Rice or any enumerated Article (for the whole of which see " Goods,") at any of the said British Plantations, that the same sh.dl be brought to some other British Plantation, or to Great Brituiii or Ireland,, and be there unloaded (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) ; and for every Ship coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid Plantations, whicn are permitted to trade there, the Governor shall, before the Ship be permitted to load any Rice (or any enumerated Article) take Bond in like Manner to the Value aforesaid, that such Ship shall carry all the said Goods to some other of His Majesty's British Plantations, orl o Great Britain or Ireland - - The Master, before ha departs from any British Plantation'' 54 Geo. 3. 1.2 Gar. 2, 2 & 3 Anne 20 Geo. 3, 39&40G.3. 8«A. >9 59 » 12 Car. 2. 22 & 23 Car. 2 2 8c 3 Ann. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3, where he receives his Lading, shall take a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector or other principal Officer of the 18 5 10 67 18 26 5 10 67 18 12 3 Art. 6 19 II 12 ^3 Art. 6 176 1 N D E X. 6. 8.- RICE— co/i/iViun/. Customs there, that Bond hath been given pursuant to the Directions aforesaid } and the Master shall keep such Certificate till the Voyage is completed, and shall then deliver the same to the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs at the Place where he shall discharge his Lading in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British American Colony, on Forfeiture of jfioo . - - - -. 4. — — If any Ship shall take on board any Rice or other enu-' merated Article oefore Bond is given to tne Governor that the Ship shall carry the said Articles to some other British Planta- tion, or to Great Britain or Ireland, or before Certificate pro- duced from the Officer of (tome Custom House of Great Britain or Ireland, that such Bond has been ihero duly given, or if any Ship shall, contrary to the Tenor of such Bond, carry any of the enumerated Articles to any Port or Place olher than to some Plantation belonging to Hij Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, and there lay the same on Shore, every such Ship shall be forfeited, and also the Lading - ~ ~. 5, ■ But the said Acts are not to prevent the Subjects of the' King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, Berbice, or Esseqiiibe in the Province of Guiana, from export- ing from the said Colonies to the Netherlands the Produce of their Estates, on board Dutch Ships ; and no Person who by virtue of this Act may be entitled to trade between the said Colonies and the Dominions of the King of the Netherlands, shall export the said Produce to any Part of the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's Dominions in Europe See «• Guiana." Rtign. Chap. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3 . 39&40G.3. I a Car. 2. 22 & 23 Car. 2. 2 & 3 Ann. 20 Geo. 3. — — In Cases where the Governor or Officers in any of the" Plantations shall have reasonable Ground of Suspicion that the Certificate of having given Security in Great Britain or Ireland is false, they shall require .sufficient Security for the Discharge of the Plantation Lading in Great Britain or Ireland ', and where there shall be Cause to suspect that the Certificate of having discharged the Lading in Great Britain or Ireland is false or counterfeit, the Governor or Officer shall not cancel the Security given in the Plantation, until they shall be informed front the Commissioners of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland, as the Case may be, that the Matter of the said Certificate is true ; and if any Person shall counterfeit, rase, or falsify any Certifi- cate for any Ship or Goods, or knowingly or wilfully make use thereof, such Person shall forfeit 8 10 12 it3 Art. 6 9 12 '»3 Art. 6 INDEX. 177 IXlCEr-'eOHtiHUtJ. ' as also a List of all Bonds taken by them { and in case any ^ Ship belonging to any of His Majesty's Plantations shall be found to hare unloaded in any Port of Europe other thah Great Britain or Ireland, such Ship shall be forfeited and her Lading - .... 9. -^— — In all Bonds to be taken in the Plantatinns, the Persons' therein named shall be of known Residence and Ability there, for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the Condition of which shall be, within 18 Months after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in one of His Majesty's Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland ; otherwise such Bond, or Copies thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief to whom such Bond was given, shall be in force, and allowed of in any Court in Great Britain, Ireland, or the Plantations, as if the Original was produced in Court by the Prosecutor • - JO. In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great Britain* Ii> ia> »3- «4' or Ireland in pursuance of any Act, whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to he brought to Great Britain or Ireland, such Bond shall be with Condition that within 1 8 Months from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certificate shall be produced from the Collector or Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall be delivered, that they have been tKere landed and discharged ; otherwise such Bond shall be forfeited • In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or' Non-performance of the Condition of the Bond witlun Three Years after the Date thereof, or if upon Prosecution for some Breach or Non-performance of the Condition, Judgment be not obtained within Two Tears after Prosecution commenced, then such Bond (in Default of such Prosecution to be commenced and Judgment to be obtained within the Times lirited) shall be void ( and all Bonds so void shall be delivered up by the Officer to be cancelled, without Fee or Reward - - ._ ■ The Growth of the Territories of the United States of America, may be imported from any of the said Territories into any of His Majesty's West India Islands (in which De- scription the Bahama Islapds and the Bermuda or Somers Islands ate included), or into the Colonics of Demerara, Berbice, \ or Essequibo in the Province of Guiana ; but such Rice shall not be so imported except by British Subjects and in Britisha 9» I 79 a. 3 50 I 6 10 38 I 91 I 178 INDEX. R l C K—rtwwwfc Enropean Soveteign or Sortr, on FVMrfeitan thereof and of the .1 Ship - - - - -. In cake of public Emergency or Diitress, the Governors, TS- Kft 16.. 17. i8.- 19. Lieutenant Govcmer«i or Commanders in Chief of any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the Dominion of His Majesty, or the Governors, &c. vf Demcrara, Rerbice, or Essequibo, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may aulhoriie the Importation of Rice for a limited Time from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plants- I tion on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion f of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonies \ but the said Rice shall not be so ilnported exjccpt by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship - - - — — In case of public Emergency or Distress, the respective' Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief of Nova Scotia, New Btunswick, Cape Breton, or Saint John's, with the Advice of their respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of Rice for a limited Time from any of the Territories of the United States of Amcrigi, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the «aid Provinces and Islands respectively ) provided that no Rice shall be so imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship Having been imported from any Island in the West Indies or Colony on the Continent of South America under the Domi- nion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of His Majesty's West India Islands or Colonics of Demerara, Berbice, or Esseouibo, for the Supply of the Inhabitants as afore- said, shall not be exported from any of the said Islands or Colonies, or put on board any Ship or Boat or brought to any Suay with Intent to be so exported, on Forfeiture thereof, and the Ship or Boat in which laden \ and before shipping of any Rice tha t may lawfully be exported from any such Island or Colony, the Expprter u»U make Oath that no Fah thereof ha^ been imported for the Supply of the Inhabitants fropi any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of Soutli America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State - - ... If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false Oath' touching any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, such Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to wiioh Persons are Uable for wilful and corrupt Perhiry, anil may be prosecuted in any Court of Record in Great r/ftaSiii, oir in imy of His Mafjesty's Courts of Judica- ture in the West Indies • - In case of public Emergency and Distress, the Governor' of Quebec, or the Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, with the Consent of the Council of the Prorinoe, may authorize the In^ortadon by )Sea or Coastwise into Quebiec, or into the Countries and Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River Saint Lawrence from the Sea, of Rice for a limited ^ Rtlgn. 38 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. A .... a\ .■ 28 Geo. 3. •/it ,;f!ii ■ . ' > u! ;V !-?iN. .'•.■^ ;•:: 39 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. +hr -: : . Chap. Sotk. 6 38 9» II % I Til '3 56 38 9» I, a 3i4 I S<5 3« 3 5 30 Geo. 3. I 8 INDEX. m Term, from any of Um Territoritt of tht United StMtl Qt America, for the Supply of the InhabiMiita i provided that no Rice shall be to imported except by Btitiih Subject!, in Britith>built Ships, and navigated aoeordlng to Lavr, on For- feiture thereof and the Ship > ' - • ao. Any of the Governor*, Lieutenant Governor*, or Com>'^ niander* m Chief for the Time being of Nova Scotia or New Rninswick, or of Cape Breton or Saint John'*, with the Advice of their reapective Council, may authoriie the Importation of Bice for « limited Time from any of the Territorie* of the United States of America, fur Re-exportation to any other of Hi* Majesty's Colonies or Plantations . . - a I . ■■ " ■ M»y be impofrted from any of the Colonies or Plantations in America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foi European Sovereign or State, into the FVee Ports in any Foreij Vessel manned and navigated by Persons 'inhabiting any said Colonies or Plantations ... See " Free Ports." atlons'V sreign I oreign > of the I aa. 83- ■ During jthe Continuance of the Treaty with Portugali any' Person may import into any of the m^ West lodia Itlands (including the Bahama and Bermuda or Vomers Islands), or Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, any Rice being the Growth of some of the Territories or Dommions of the Crown of Portugal in South America \ provi ROAD HARBOUR. \ Free Ports (or the Importation and Exporutionl ROSSEAU. J of certain Articles in Foreign Ships - j ^r i, See ««Fr*e Ports." RUM. See •« Spirits." S AFFLOWER. ) May be exported from Malta or anv of the Dependen'^ SAFFRON. 3 cies thereof, or from Gibralur, direct to ant of His I Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, ( or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies r or Plantations in North America, in British.built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law See « Gibraltar.'' « Malta." SAII^. ». — Every Ship built in His Majesty's Plantations in America, shall, upon her first setting out or being first navigated at Sea, be furnished with one full and complete Set of new Sails, made up of Sail Cloth manufactured in Great Britain or Ireland \ and in case any such Ship shall not, on her first setting out, be fitted and furnished with a new Set of Sails, properly belonging to such Ship, made of Sail Cloth of the Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, the Master shall forfeit dso 1 1 1 1 R*i|n. 4l Geo. 3. 135 Chip. tMl. 48 Geo. 3. 1, ■»_ .... 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. ■ rbiit'V '>/^ jvt ;.. 5»9 II 4 Art. 6 180 INDEX. SAINT JOHN^ (ISLAND OF). ^ I. WmMo(thcMa(MrM,orofUwWMtwnl«Umi(ofAiom,l nuy be there Uden for Kxpomtion to uty of the British Colo- 1 niet or Plantationt • - • - ' a. — — — Goodto fit Md iMCMMry for the Piihtrien iit the Britiah ^ Colpnitt in America, may be exported to the Colonio* where > such Fiaheriea are carriad on, direct from Oucriiaey or Jertey •) ) j Sat <« Guemaey." ' •« Jeraey." - J. ■ Herriaga curad in tlia ^aie of Man may be eipoited from'v thence to anv of the Britiah Coloniea or Plantatto»«i in the aame > Manner at Victuala from Inland • - •J See «« Man." TooU and Implentertta neceaaary for the Fiaheriea in lhe"\ 6.' 8.- Briliah Colonie*, may be exported direct from the laid Coloniea > to the lale of Man ... -J Sec •' Man." ■ Any Britith-built Ship, navigated and registered acco/ding^ tti Law, may load at Malta or any of the Oependenciea thereof, I or at Gibraltar, any of the Arttclea enumerated in the Schedule \ marked (B.) annexed to 55 Geo. III. c, 9. f«r Exportation direct ' to anv of Hia Majeaty'i Colonies or Plantation! in North America See J •« Gibraltar." *• Malta." ' ■ Any Article the Production or Manufacture of aiiy uf^ His Majeat^'a Coloniea or Plantations in North America, or any Article which haa been legally imported into such Coloniea or Planutiona, may be exporteo from thence to Malta or the Dependenciea thereof, or to Gibraltar, in Britiih-built Shipa, ' navigated and regiitered according to Law See <« Gibraltar." «« Malta." Oranffes and Lemona the Growth of the Asorea and Ma-< ■' uranses ana i.emona tne urowtn 01 tne Asorea and Ma-- .1' V7 OfO. ,. 38 Geo. 3. CiMp. MMI, 57 (Jeo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 33 Geo. 3. al iia $8 3« 2v r-t 9 ay 4 38 6 50 la 14 •3 1 N I) K X, til SAINT JOIIN'8. (ISLAND ()K)-,«m/i«(m^. i....»JL lOi' The C}t»»»mor, Mpiitriinni C)nv#rnnri or rnminMHitv J»A Chlff lor ihv 'Hmr b«iitg, wiih ihi« A und Conivni nf ih» I Council ol* (h« liUiiti, m«v iiulh«irla» iK« Importntlnn of ihr ( •fortMid ArticWi, forn limllMrrtmti from anynf ih« 'IVrrlHtrlM / III of ihvlhiitMliHtHtta of Amtrloni for iliv Piir|toiiv of Ht<«iipurtii- 1 tion to 11117 nilitr uf Mi* M*)nily'» Colniilv* or IMnnliiiinni •) "'»li''tl l»y »h»i# Ai'U m«y h«^ oi Hit MulMty'ii Nhlna ur I u*ion«(l, WMrmnlt or P«tly > 111 or by uny ()in«»r of ih» 1 Tlip OihmU anil VMirU forlvitiil liy ih»t» M Sep " Cork." , '•'" ^i* '' "Fruli." , ;. .f ... •! ■ I. Oil." "Hilt." " Wln«." SAINT JOHN'S (AN'I lOUA). e for flxportatittii I luebec, lor the Uae V thip, owned, navi- I any I'ort or Place t in those Provinces, before the Chief Officer of the Customs, or Naval Officer in CommaiKi, that the Cargo so shipped is the Produce of the said IVovinces, or the Produce of the British Fisheries in North America, bcnA fide taken and cured by His Majesty's Subject* carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the Bud Colonies t and such Officer of the Customs, or Naval i Officer, shall certify such Oath under his Hand i which Certili* f cate shall be produced by the Master on his Arrival at the Port in Europe within the Limits aforesaid tu which such Cargo •hall be coniigned, or to which such Ship shall go for the Deli« very of the Cargo ; and the Master of such Snip shall make Oath before the British Consul there, or if there shall be no British Consul, then before Two known British Merchants, that the Certificate so produced was the Certificate of the Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly signed by him - - . ■ The Exporter of any Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats," Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, Wheat, Oak Staves and Heading, dressed or undressed. Hoops, Pine Plank, and Boards from Canada, shall not be required to make Oath that the said Articles are the Produce of Canada i and the Master of the Ship, on his Arrival at any Port of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, shall only be required to produce a Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the said Articles were the Growth of Canada, or brought into Canada conformably to the Regulations established by Law in the said Province (if any) by Land or Inlaid Navi> gation, from Countries bordering thereon t and which Certificate such Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer is required to grant, upon satisfactory Proof being made, upon Oath or other- wise, and the Authenticity of such Certificate shall be sworn to in Manner aforetaid, by the Master of such Ship at the Port of Delivery in Europe - - -_^ Before the Shipment of any Pickled Fuh or Dry Fiah for' Exportation from Canada to any Port of Europe within the limits aforesaid, the Person in whose Possession the same has continued from the Time of its being landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in taking it, until the same shall be shipped for Exportation, shall make Oath before the Chief Officer of the Customs or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the same was the Produce of the British American Fisheries, b<>n^ fide taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fisheries from some of the said Colonies t and on such Oath beine taken at Quebec, the said Officer of the Cus- toms or Naval Officer shall grant Certificate thereof, which the Master shall produce at the Port of Delivery in Europe, and shall make Oath of the Authenticity of such Certificate in Manner aforesaid . , . . R(l|n. Ch«p. M\. 1 . .i; v?< f- -^W W. ik yttgi!,>--'}H -fi fr,-\A' '■"/ rf ." ■ - < -^ A 51 Geo. 3. 97 4 "Si .,i» n: i !*f;4 . ; ' fr-r, . ■-. ;■ 7 •■(• • ■if'.i: ni4i.i • K :,■:: f'ii'Si^i : ,,0 . _, I/IA) -/i 51 Geo. 3. 97 5 * * 51 Geo. 3. ■ . ' t : . ■- ' 97 6 ■ ' . * . . ■ '1 1 N D K X. SALT — emttnueJ. 6. ■ ■ Any Ship or Goods lubject to Forfeiture under this Act' shall be ^iied hy any Otiicor of the Cuitemt in (he tiMd Culonie*, or by the Commander of any of Hit Majeity'i Shipi or VcMc!-^ of War \ and the tame may be proMCttted, recovered and dividri in the lame Manner, and bv the tame Regulaliont, ai far at applicable, aa any other Forfeiture imposed by anv Act made for tne Security of the Revenue, or for the Kegulation oi- Improvement thereof, or for the Regulation of Trade or Navi- gation, and which were in Force on the pasting of this Act| may be prowcuted, recovered, and divided in any British Colony or Plantation in America . . .^ 7. ■■ Any Ship belonging to the Inhabitants of the said United -v States of America, coming in Ballast and not otherwise, may I enter the Ports of the Turks Islands, for the Purpose of being t there laden with Salt only ... .J 8. ■■ The Master of such Ship shall immediately after her' Arrival make a true Entry upon Oath before the Collector or other principal Officer of such Port, of his Ship, declaring of > what Countrv she is built, how manned, who was the Master during the Voyage, and who arc the Owners thereof, and the > Purpose for which he enters the said Port, in order that such Ship may undergo the Search and Examination of the proper Officers of the Customs i and such Master shall truly answer, upon Oath, to such Questions concernins the same as shall be demanded of him by such Collector or other principal Officer, and for any Default llierein shall forfeit j£i09 ... 9. There shall be collected, for thmUse of His Majesty, a' Tonnage Dutv of as. 6A. Sterling, payable in Dollars at the Rate of 58. 6A. per Ounce, for every Ton Burthen of such Ship \ and the Tonnage shall be ascertained by Admeasurement made by such Officer as shall be appointed for that Purpose by the Commissioners of the Custonss in } * sure the Distance between such Line and the After-part * of the Stern Post at the Load Water Mark, then mea- < sure from the Top of the said Plumb Line in a parallel < Direction with the Water to a perpendicular Point * immediately over the Load Water Mark, at the Fore-part * of the Main Stern, subtracting from such Measurement * the above Distance, the Remainder will be the Ship's ' extreme Length } from which is to be deducted Three * Inches for every Foot of the Load Draught of Water * for the Rake abaft, and also 3-5th8 of the Ship's Breadth * for the Rake forward, the remaining shall be esteemed < the just Length of the Keel to find the Tonnage { and ' < the Breadth' shall be taken from Outside to Outside of I « the Plank, ii» the broadest Part of the Ship, either above • i * or below the Main Wales, exclusive of dll Manner of * Sheathing or Doubling that may be -wrought upon die < « Side of the Ship i then multiply the Length of the Keel < for Tonnage by the Breadth so taken, and (hat Product * by One-halfithe Breadth, and dividing by 94, the Quotient * shall be deemed the true Contents 0? the Tonnage. Hiiign. ^. \>tm 51 Geo. 3. 38 Ceo. 3. a8 Ceo. 3. u\ -» (• M'. ^,n. <■;■»»■!?'. [■Hi, I ■3A Geo. g. Chap. 91 m ^ S^iH; 184 INDEX. SALT— eofOimted. 10. ■ The Duty shall be paid to the Collector of the Customs' at the Port or Place wherein he shall be appointed to reside, before any Salt shall be laden, and shall be under the Manage- ment of the Commissioners of the Customs, and recovered in the like manner and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as any other Duties now payable to His Majestv, on Goods imported into any of the Plantations or Territories belonging to or under the Dominion of His Majesty in America or thc^ West Indiei, are or may be levied, paid, and recovered, and shall be subject to the Payment of the Salaries of the Officers, and other incidental Charges of the Port, and the Residue be paid to the Receiver General of the Customs in England, to be paid into the Exchequer under the Head of Consolidated Customs . . . . • II. la. ■-■ — — — No Goods shall be exported from the snid Islands to any' Part of His Majesty's Dominions in America or the West Indies, or laden on board any Ship for that Purpose, except Salt i and no Goods shall be exported from the said Islands to Great Britain or Ireland, or laden on board anv Ship for that Purpose, except Salt, and also except such Goods as may be by Law imported into Great Britain or Ireland from all other Countries free of Duties i on the Forfeiture of such Goods as shall be exported or laid on board contrary to this Act, and the Ship ... —— Any Foreign Ship described in 45 Geo. III. c. 57. may come in Ballast into any Port of the Bahama Islands where ' is a Custom House, and export Salt, subject to the Duty Tonnage, and under the Regulations imposed by a8 Geo^ c. 6. • " - » - See «« Free Ports " Reign. Chip. Sea. 28 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 39 & 40 G. 3. 67 9 Art. 6 . may"\ there I ty ofV . III. I »3- 14- ■ I Any British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered'x according to Law, may export from any Part of the Bahama I Islands any Quantity of Salt, without entering into the Bond f required by 6 Geo. III. c. 52 . - .J See " Goods, Non-enumerated." ' ■ Until a5th March 1819, any Ship belonging to the") } United States of America, coming in Ballast and not otherwise, i may enter the Port of Nassau in New Providence, the Ports of I Elxuma and Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, for the > Purpose of being there laden with Salt, subject to the Rules, R^ulations, and Restrictions of 28 Geo. III. c. 6. respecting Ships coming for the same PurpoMe to Turk's Islands SAN JOSEF. 1 Free Ports for the Importation and Exportation of SANTA LUCEA. 3 certain Articles in Foreign Ships See " Free Ports." SARSAPARILLA. ) May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen-" SAUSAGES. J dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations m ' America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built | Shjpsi owned, navigated} and registered according to Law Se« *< Gibrsdur." «« MalU," 5a Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3, 99 99 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo, 3. 42 57 29 4 INDEX. 185 ) SAVANNAH LA MAR. One of the Free Ports in the Island of Jamaica for the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships See « Free Ports." SEAMEN. I. ■ No Master of any Merchant Ship, which shall have proceed- ed from any Place in Great Britain or Ireland, shall hire or engage any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person at any Place within His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, to serve on board any such Ship, at or for greater Wages or Hire for such Service than according to the Rate of Double Monthly Wages contracted for with the said Seamen, Mariners, and other Per- sons, at the Time of the Ship's then last Departure from Great Britain or Ireland, being in the same Degree and Station in which such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person shall be so hired or en- gaged at any such Port or Place, unless the Governor, Chief Ma- eistrate, Collector, or Comptroller of such Port or Place, shall think that greater Wages or Hire ought to be given to such Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, and shall authorize the same by Writing under hisHaiid; and all Contracts and Securities which shall be made contrary to this Act shall be void{ and the Master of any such Merchant Ship, or other Person who shall enter into or give, or cause or procure to be given, any such Contract or other Security, Promise or Undertaking, or who shall hire or procure to be hired any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person to enter on board any Ship contrary to this Act, or who shall pay or procure to be paid any greater Hire or Wages, or ether Gratuity or Advantage, to any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person so hired or engaged, than is allowed by this Act, (hall forfeit i^'ioo - - - - - a. The Master of every Merchant Ship trading to His Ma-* jesty's Colonies and Plantations in the West Indies, shall have on board, at the Time of clearing out from Great Britain or Ireland, One Apprentice who shall be under the Age of Seventeen Years, duly indented for Three Years, for every looTons, and so in proportion for every loo Tons according to the Certificate of Registry ; and the Indenture of every Apprentice shall be en- rolled at the Custom House of the Port from whence such Ship shall clear out, with the Collector or Comptroller, within One Month after the Execution thereof; and such Apprentice shall be exempt from serving in His Majesty's Navy for Three Years from the Date of the Indenture *, and every Owner or Master neglefling to enrol the same, shall forfeit st'io. One Moiety by the Owner and the other Moiety by the Master The Master of such Ship shall, within lo Days after his' Arrival out at any Port in the said Colonies and Plantations, and within I o Days after their Arrival Home at any Port in Great Britain or Ireland, deliver upon Oath, to be made before the Col- lector or Comptroller of such Port, a true List and Description of all the Crew on board at the Time of the clearing out from Great Britain or Ireland, and of theCrew on board at theTime of Arrival at any Port in the said Colonies or Plantations, and also a true List and Description of every Person who has deserted or who has died during the Voyage, and also a true Account of the Wages due to each Person so dying, at theTime of his Death; and every Master neglecting so to do shall forfeit jfjo.) and for each List A a K«iga. Chip s«a. 45 Geo. 3. 57 37 Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. 73 67 3 Art. 6 37 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 73 67 4 Art, 6 i7 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 73 67 S Art. 6 186 INDEX. or Account so delivered, the Collector or Comptroller shall be entitled to 28. 6d. } and any Person may inspect such List, for which Inspection the Collector or Comptroller shall be entitled to One Shdling - - -. 4. . No Seaman, Mariner, or other Person who shall, within' His Majesty's Cdonies or Plantations in the West Indies, engage himself to serve, or who shall in the said Colonies or Plantations enter on board any Merchant Ship which shall sail from Great Britain or Ireland, shall be entitled to receive any greater Wages or Hire, or other Criatuity or Advant;.ge, on account of such Service, than herein authorized - 5. I > But not to extend to any Agreement which shall be' made with any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person hired or engaged to serve on board any Merchant Ship at any Port within His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, who shall at the Time of such Engagement produce to the Master a Certificate under the Hand of the Master of the Ship on board of which such Person had then last: served, signed in the Pre- sence of one or more Witness, stating their Places of Abode, certifying that such Person had been duly discharged ; and which Certificate the Master shall grant within Three Days after Application made to him before a Witness, or in default thereof hh.ill forfeit ^'20. { nor to any Agreement to be made with any Person hired or engaged to serve on board any Mer> chant Ship, which through Necessity, or on account of very ' hazardous Service or extraordinary Duty, require such Agree- ment to be made and more Wages given, and of which Necessity, Service, or extraordinary Duty, Proof shall be made on Oath before the Chief Magistrate or Principal Officer of any Port, or before any Justice of the Peace Of the said Colonies or Plantations; provideil that such Person so hired or engaged shall not have deserted from the Ship on board of which he had then last served, and also that no greater Wages diall be given by any Master, or received by any Seaman, Alariner, or other Person, except in Cases of such Necessitv, very hazardous Ser- vice, or extraordinary Duty, than after the Rate of double the Monthly Wage«, or the Wages to be settled or directed by any Governor, Chief Magistrate, Collector, or Comptroller as herein- before directed ... 6. The Articles to be entered into between the Masters, Seamen, and Mariners of such Merchant Ship, shall be to the Effect mentioned in the Schedule annexed to this Act * SEIZURES. I. ■ Any Officer of the Customs, authorized by Writ of Assist ) ance under the superior cr supreme Court of Justice having Juris* diction within the Colony or Plantation, may take a Constable, Headborough, or other Public Officer inhabiting near the Place, I and in theDay-time enter any House, Shop, Cellar, or other Place, ^ and in case of Resistance break open Doors, Chests, Trunks, and other Packages, there to seize and to bring any kind of prohi- bited or uncustomed Goods to His Majesty's Storehouse in the Port next to the Place where such Seizure shall be made * Tie Form of the Articles is in the Collectian. Reign. 37 Geo. 3. 39 8140 G. 3. 37 Geo. 3. 37 Geo. 3. 13 & i4Car.2. 7 & 8 W. 3. 7 Geo. 3. Chap. Seft. 73 Art. 6 73 10 73 II II 46 5 6 10 I N J) E X. 187 SEIZURES- 3. 6. 'COftttfhttd % If any Action or Suit shall be commenced againkt any' Person for anv Thing done in pursuance of this Act, the De< fendant may plead the general Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done by the Authority of this Act ; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant } and if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited or dis- continue his Action after the Defendant shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the PlantilF, the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as Defendants have in other Cases by Law .... I ■ Siigar, Indigo, and Wine landed in any of His Majesty's Colonic I or Plantations before due Entry and Payment of tlie Duty, ot- without a Warrant for the lanaing and delivering the same by the proper Officer, may be seized Hy the Governor or 1 Commander in Chief of the Colony or Plantation where landed, > or by any Person authorifeed by such Governor or Commander in Chief in that behalf, or by Warrant of any Justice of the Peace, or other Magistvate, or by any Custom-house, Impost, or Excise Officer, or any Person aiding or assisting him Forfeitures incurred in the British Colonies or Plantations in America, under any Law relative tothe Trade or Revenue «f the said Colonies or Plantations, sha'l be proseouted and reoo- vered in any Court of Record, or of Vice Admiralty having .Inrisdiction in the Colony or Plantation where the Cause m Proscculioii arises ; and in Oases where there shall happen to be no such Courts, then in any Court of Record, or of Vice Ad- miralty having Jurisdiction in some British Colony or Plantation near to thai where the Cause of Prosectttion arises; provided that where a Seizure is made in any other Colony than that where the Forfeiture accrues, such Seizure mav be prosecuted in any Court of Record, or of Vice Admiralty iiaving Jurisdic- tion, cither in the Colony or Plantation where the Forfeiture accrues, or in the Colony or Plantation where the Seizure is made, at the Election of the Prosecutor ; and if there are no such Courts in cither of the last-mentioned Colonies or Plantations, then in any Court of Record, or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction in some British Colony or Plantation near to that where the Forfeiture accrues, or to that where the Seizure is made, at the Election of the Prosecutor - I - Prosecuted under the Authority of this Act by wfaomso-'^ ever made, sh>ll be deposited in the Custody of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs, at the Port were made, or into which thoy shall be carried, and shall be subject in respect to the Charge, Care, Sale, and Delivery thereof, to the Rules and Regu- lations of 26 Geo. III. c. 40. and shall be deliverable on Security, according to the Rules of 28 Geo. III. c. 34. (see No. 10 to i3.)_ — No Person shall be admitted to enter a Claim to any Ship' or Goods seised and prosecuted in any of the British Ct^onies or Plantations in America, until sufficient Security be first given by Persons of known Ability, in the Court where such Seizure is prosecuted, in i^'6o. to answer the Costs and Prosecutions, and in Default of giving such Security the Ship or Goods shall be adjudged to be forfeited . . - - Aa i Reign. Chap. s«a. 7 Geo. 3, 46 II 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 13 >5 3 1.7 49 Geo. 3. 107 49 Geo. 3. 107 Geo. ^5 44 188 INDEX. SEIZURES— »«/in(//i. 8.' — ^— On Actions and Informations brought or entered in the' British Plantations, upon any Law concerning His Majesty's Duties, or Ships or Goods to be forfeited by reason of any< unlawful Importations or Exportations, there shall not be any Jury but of such only as are Natives of England or Ireland, or are bom in'His Majesty's Plantations; andupon all such Actions and Informations the OflFences may be laid or alledeed in any Colony, Province, County, Precinct, or Division of any of the said Plantations where such Offences are alledged to be com- mitted at the Pleasure of the Informer - - - . If any Ship or Goods shall be seized for any Cause of Forfeiture, and any Dispute shall arise whether the Duties have been paid, or the same have been lawfully imported or exported, or concerning the Product or Manufacture, or the Place from whence such Goods were brought, in such Case the Proof thereof shall be u^.^:) the Owner or Claimer, and not upon the Officer who shall seize the same - - * *. 9. In case any Information shall be commenced and brought' to Trial in America, on account of any Seizure of any Ship or Goods wherein a Verdict or Sentence shall be given for the Claimer thereof, and it shall appear to the Judge or Court that there was a probable Cause of Seizure, the Judge or Court before whom the same shall he tried shall cevlify on the Record or other Proceedings, that there was a probable Cause for seizing the Ship or Goods i and in such Case the Defendant shall not be entitled to any Costs of Suit, nor shall the Persons who seized the Ship or Goods be liable to any Action or Prosecution on account (if such Seizure } and in case any Action shall be com- menced and brought to Trial against any Person on account of the seizing any such Ship or C^ods where no Information shall be commenced or brought to Trial to condemn the same, and a Verdict or Sentence shall be given upon such Action or Prose- cution against the Defendant, if the Court or Judge before whom such Action or Prosecution may be brought slull certify that there was a probable Cause for such Seizure, then the Plaintiff", besides his Ship or Goods or the Value thereof, shall not be entitled to above Two-pence Damages, nor to any Costs of Suit, nor shall the Defendant be fined above One Shilling 10. ^ In case any Goods shall be seized as forfeited in pursuance" of any Act relative to the Trade and Revenue of the British Colonies and Plantations in America, the Judge of any Court having Jurisdiction to try and determine such Seizure, may order the Delivery of such Goods on sufficient Security, by Bond being given to answer Double the Value in case of Condemna^ tion i such Security to be good and sufficient, and to be taken to the Use of His Majesty, by and in the Name of the Collec- tor of the Customs in whose Custody the Goods may be lodged - The Collector and Comptroller of the Customs shall, pre-' vious to the Elxecution of the Bond, make strict Enquiry mto die Sufficiency of the Sureties proposed } and if found of Ability, they shall then certify the same in Writing to the Judge of such Court } and upon the Production of such Certificate, if the Judge is also satisfied with the Sufficiency of the Sureties, the- 1 Bond shall be executed, and shall then be delivered to and l^ept f |n the joint Custody of the said Collector and Comptroller ; and I II. Reign. 78e8W.3. 4 C5eo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. a8 Geo. 3* 28 Geo. 3. Chap. 22 15 15 34 34 8«a. II 45 46 INDEX. 189 SEIZURES— m»/MM(/. in case the Goods for which such Security shall be so taken shall I be condemned, the Value thereof shall be paid into the Hands I of such Collector, who shall thereupon, with the Consent or I Privity of the Comptroller, caucel the Bond - -J But this Act shall not authorize the Delivery Goods except in Cases where the same shall ' where the Informer shall delay coming to as S[ the Course of the Court in which the Prosecution commenced and the Nature of the Circumstances will permit Goods and Ships which shall be seized in pursuance of^ 12. »3- 14. »5- 16. any Act, relative to the Trade and Revenue of the British Co* I lonies or Plantations, and which shall be condemned there, shall I be sold by Public Auction to the best Bidder at the Custom* I house by the Collector and Comptroller, or Principal Officer of | the Customs for the Island, Colonv, or Plantation, in whose ^ Custody such Ships or Goods shall be secured t and the Pro- duce of such Sale shall be accounted for and applied by such Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer according to Law, subject to the Directions of the Commissioners of the Customs in England, or any Four of them - •, Ships seized and condemned in any Colony, Plantation«* or Territory belonging to. His Majesty in America or in the West Indies, for any illicit Trade, the Commissioners of the Customs in England may direct to be broken up, and the Mate* rials thereof sold, and the Produce to be accounted for and applied in the like Manner as the Produce of other Seizures condemned there are by Law directed to be accounted for and applied - - ■ . . Forfeitures recovered in America under this or any former' Act shall be applied as follows ; that is to say, after deducting the Charges of Prosecution from the pross Proouce thereof, One> third of the net Produce shall be paid to the Collector at the Port where such Forfeitures shall oe recovered, for the Use of His Majesty ; One-third to the Governor or Commander in Chief 01 the Colony or Plantation ; and the ot. ^r One-third to the Person who shall seize and sue for the same , excepting such Seizures as shall be made by the Commanders or Officers of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, duly authorized to make Seizures any where at Sea or upon any River ; and which shall not be actually made on Shore within any British Colony or Plantation in America ; One Moiety of which Forfeitures (first deducting the Charges of Prosecution) shall be paid to the Collector for the Use of His Majesty, and the other Moiety to him who shall seize and sue for the same ( subject to such Distribution of the Produce of Seizures so made at Sea, as well with regard to the Moiety granted to His Majesty, as to the other Aloiety given to the Seizor or Prosecutor, as His Majesty shall think fit to direct by any Order of Council or Procla- mation .... If the Produce of any Seizure made in America shall not' be sufficient to answer the Expences of Condemnation and Sale, or if upon the Trial of any Seizure of any Ship or Goods, a Verdict or Sentence shall b« given for the Claimant, the Charges attending the seizing and prosecuting shall, with the Consent and Approbation of any Four of the Commissioners of the Cu{- R«i|n, 28 Geo. 3. Clup. Mk. 34 26 Geo. 3. 40 33 27 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 5 Geo. 3. 4 Geo- 3« 3» 12 «5 45 4 26 »5 43 ido I IfJ D K X. toms, be paid out J7- i8.- 19. 20.' 21. of dny Br^(:h of khi Revetiue flrlsiiig ih aKy I of the British Coloiliet or PUhtations in America - -J As to the Seizure, PrOsecation, and Disposal Bf " dlavei," and the Bounties allowed to the Seizors Undeir the Acts fdr } restraining and prohibidng the African Slive Tiridi: See " SlaVes." The Royal Hospibl for S^aihfen at t;i«^hitrich shall be' entitled to all forfeited and dncliiihed Shares of ahd In the PirO' cebds which shall h^ve dristeh 6r shall heretift^t arise froin all Seizures for Breach of tH^ RtveHue, Colonial, Navigation, and Slave-Abolition Laws, tnadc by any of His Majesty's Ships ( and die Agents for the Payments or Distribution of such Piroceeds shall be subject to the same Regulations, Penalties, dnd Forfeit tures with respect tb the Unclaimed andjbrfeited Shares thereof, and the trai\smitting of Accounts and Payment of Balai\ceB to the Royal Hospital as Prize Ageats wel^ subject tb with respect to the Transmissioii of Accounts and Payment of Balances of Prize Money to the Ro^al Hospital nnder '^^ tieb. III. c. 2^. The Commissioners of tne CUstoMs ni England oir any " Fbur of them may order any Goods, Shifiti, Boits, Horses, Cattle, or Carriages Seitsed as forfeited bv any Officer, or any other Person, in puirsuanceof any Act made for the Protection of Trade, the Benefit ^f Commerce, or the encouraging and increas- ing of Shipping and Na^gation, or in {iuir&uahce of any other Act in any respect relkting to the Department of the CuStdms, to be restored to the Proprietor, wHedief such Coods, Ships, Boats, Horses, CatVIe, or CahrikgieS sTtall have been seized on the High Seas, or in any of His Majesty's Dominions, Colonies, Settlements, or Plantations, in caise £vidi::hcc shall be ^ given to the SatisJFaction at the said Commissioners, that the Forfeiture arose without any Design of Fraud in die Proprietor, and also in case the Seizure shall nave heeti miide in any of His Majesty's Colonicis, Siittlenients, 6r Plantations, or on tne High Seas, and it shall be teade appear to the Satisfaction of the Com- missioners or any Four of them, that siich Seiicure was occasioned by the Proprietor of Sucli Goods, &c. hkving acted in conformity with any Orders or Directions which the Governor or Chief Officer of any such Colony, Settlement, or Plantation shall have deemed it expedient on any particular Emergency to issue - . Where the Said Commissioners shall exercise the Pow-* ers vested in them, and such Goods, See. shall be restored to the Proprietor oti such Condition as under the Circumstances of the Case shall appear to the Commissioners to be reasonable ; and the Proprietor shall comply with the Terms prescribed, it shall not be lawful for the Officer or any Person who shall have seized such Goods, 8cc. or any other Person on his Behalf, to proceed for the Condemnation; but if such Proprietor shall not comply with the Terms, such Ofl&cer or Person shall be at Liberty to proceed as if this Law had not been made ; or if such Pro- prietor accept the Terms he shall not be entitled to any Recom- pence or Damage on account of the Seizure, or maintain any Action for the same - ■ ... ■ The Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, Or any' Three of them, By any Order made for that Purpose, under their Hands, may direct any Ships, Goods, or ComiAb* Reign 46 Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. Chi|>. 72 36 Matt. 57 Geo. 3. 127 51 Geo. 3. 96 51 Geo. 3. 96 INDEX. SUZVKliS— continued. ditics whatever, leized as forfeited by virtue of any Act relating to the Revenue of Customs or Excise, or any Act for the Regu- lation of the Trade and Navigation of this Kingdom, to be restored to the Proprietor on the Terms and Conditions which shall be mentioned in any such Order ( and the said Com- missioners of His Majesty's Treasury or any Thr^e of them may mitigate or remil any Penalty or Forfeiture which shall have been incurred in any Part of any such Fine or Penalty^ under any Law or Laws relating to His Majesty's Revenue of Customs or Excise, or any Act relating to the Trade and Navi- gation of this Kingdom - - - -. ■ In any Case where the said Commissioners of His Ma«^ jesty's Treasury shall exercise the Powers hereby vested in them, such Goods or Commodities shall be restored to tKe Proprietor or Proprietors, qr such P<.-nalty or Forfeiture, or any Part thereof, shall be remitted or mitigated in such Manner or upon such Terms and Conditions, as to Costs or otherwise, as, under the Circumstances of the Case, shall appear to the said Com- missioners to be reasonable, and as they the said Commission- ers or any Three of them shall think fit to direct ; and no Person shall be entitled to the Benefit of such Order, unless the Terms and Conditions therein contained shall be complied with - - - - - - If any Officer of the Customs shall receive any Bribe or' 22. »3- 24. Reward of any K|nd, or connive at any false Ejitry, or make any collusive Seizure or Agreement, or do any other Act by which His Majesty may be defrauded, or whereby any Goods prohibited shall be suffered to pass either inwards or outwards, or the Forfeitures and Penalties in$)cteA by any Act reUiting to the Customs in Ainarica may ,be evaded, every ,AUfih Omcier diall forfeit jf'joo. and be rendered incapable of serving Hit Majesty in any Office or Employment, Civil or Milituy ; and if any Person shall give, offer, or promuc to give any Qribe or Reward to any Officer uf the Customs, to do, conceal, or connive at any Act whereby any of the Provisions relating to the Customs in America may be evaded or broken, such Person sihull (whether the Offer, Proposal, or Promise be accepted or performed or not) forfeit ^£"500 » - - If any Officer of the Customs shall seize any East India Goods, and by Fraud or Collusion shall desist from, or rjelay '1 |he Prcbecution thereof to Condemnation, he shall forf^"*.. ^^500, and be incapable of holding any Office or Employment under His Majesty - _ . . 2j.— If any Officer of the Customs in any of His Majesty V Colonies or Plantations in America shall seize any Sugar, Indigo, or Wine, for having been landed without Payment of Duty, or without a Warrant signed by the proper Officer, and by Fraud or Collusion desist from or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, he shall forfeit j£'5o. and be incapa- ble of holding any Office under His Mnjesty - ' - SENNA. May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies pr Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, \Beimuda, or gny of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantatiotis in North r 191 Riign. 54 Gep. 3. Chup. Solonies, or Provinces, may import into the same in British Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, any Household Furniture, Utensils of Hus* bandry, or Cloathing free of Duty, not exceeding in the whole the Value of Fifty Pounds for every White Person that shall belong to such Family i and the Value of Forty Shillings for every Negro brought by i»uch White Parson ; and if any Dispute shall arise as to the Value of such Household Furniture, &c. the same shall be determined by the Arbitration of Three British Merchants at the Port where imported ) One of such British Merchants to be appointed by the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, One by the Collector of the Customs, and One by the Person so coming with his Family -, — '— All Bargains for the Sale of any Household Furniture, &c.*\ so imported, which shall be made within Twelve Calendar I Months after the Importation of the same (except in Cases of | the Bankruptcy or Death of the Owner thereof) shall be void - J Every White Person so coming to reside, il' above the'^ 3. Age of Fourteen Years, shall immediately after the Arrival take I and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty, before the I Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Chief Maeistrate at the I Place where such Person shall arrive, and at uie same Time > swear that it is his Intention to reside and settle in such Island or Province ', for which Oath such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Chief Magistrate shall receive the same Fee as is payable by Law on administering the Oath of Allegiance SHEEP. See « CatUe." SHIPS. No Ship Foreign-built (except condemned as Prize in any Court of Admiralty, or condemned as forfeited in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions, for any Offence relating to the Slave Trade), nor any Ship built or re- built upon any Foreign -made Keel or Bottom in the Manner here, tofore allowed, although owned by British Subjects, and navigated according to Law, shall be entitled to any of the Privileges of a British-built or a Lriti^h-owned Ship, which Privileges shall be confined to such Ships only as are wholly of the Built of Great Britain, Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man, or of the British Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories in Asia. Africa, or America} but not to prohibit such Foreign-built Ships as, before the First of May 1786, did wholly belong to any of the People of Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the K(i|n. Chap, St». 30 Geo. 3. 27 30 Geo. 3. a? 30 Geo. 3. 27 I N D £ X. 105 SHT9S—etHtiHutd. Isle of Man. or of any of the aforciaid Colonics, Phntationt, Islandi, or Territuriet *tair such Ship, and shall cause her to be sorveyed by Two fit *u^ proper Persons, to be approved of by such Consul or Chief British Officer, and shall delivir to such Consul or Chief British Officer, in Writing, the Particulars of the Damage sustained, and shall verify upon Oath, or being a Quaker upon Affirmation, (to be administered by such Consul or Chief British Officer), the Particulars and Amount of the Repairs, and that the same were become neces- sary in consequence of Damage sustained during the Voyage to that Port, to enable such Ship to prosecute the Voyajje then intended, and to return to some Place of His Majesty's Domi- nion, which the Consul or Chief British Officer is required to certifv under his Hand and Seal { and if tRere shall not be any firitisn Consul or Chief British Officer resident at or near the Place where such Repairs may be necessary, then such Survey shall be made by Two fit and proper Persons, to be app^bved of by Two known British Merchants residing ; or near such Place i and the Master shall produce to such Men 'iants Vouchers of the Particulars and the Amount of the Repairs, whose Certifi- cate of the same shall b« of the like Force and Effect as that of the British Consul or Chief British Officer i and in case any Ship shall be repaired in any Foreign Place, and the Master thereof shall make Proof upon Oath, or (if a Quaker) by Affirmation, before the Collector or Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the Customs in the Port of His Ma- jesty's Dominions where the said Ship may first arrive, (if required by them so to do, and which Oath or Affirmation the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer, or either of them, is empowered to administer), describing the Nature and Amount of the Expence of such Repairs ; and if such Ex- pence shall appear to exceed 158. for every Ton of the Ad- measurement, and the said Master shall neglect or refuse to deliver to such Collector and Comptroller or Principal Officer of the Customs, or to One of them, the Certificate so required, the Vessel shall be deemed Foreign-built j. ■ No Subject of His Majesty whose usual Residence is in a" Country not under the Dominion of His Majesty, shall be en- titled (during the Time he shall continue so to reside) to be the Owner in Whole or in Part of any British Ship required to be registered, unless he be a Member of some British Factory or Agent for a Partner in any House of Copartnership actually carrying on Trade in Great Britain or Ireland - - . 6. u any Ship after Registry shall in any Manner be altered* in Fomi or Burthen by being lengthened or built upon, or altered from a Sloop to a Brigantine, or from any one Denomi- nation to another, by the Mode of rigging or fitting, such Retgn. Chip. s«a. ■*3 ?«,• 26 Geo. 3. 60 36 Geo. 3. 60 26 Geo. 3. do 24 INDEX. SHiVS—eontiHutJ. Ship shall b« r«gUter«t dt novo, a« soon as she returns to thdf Port to which she belongs, or to any other Port in which she may legally be registered, on Failure whereof such Ship shall be deemed Foreign - - - - -^ 7. ■■ No Foreigner or other Person not being; a natural-bom' Subject of His Majesty shall be entitled to, or shall purchase or contract for, any F^rt or Share of any British Ship belonf^ine only to the natural-born SuUects of Hii Majesty, without first obtain- ing the Consent in Writins of the Owners of Three-fourth Parts in Value at least of sucn Ship, to be endorsed on the Cer- tificate of the Register of such Ship before Two Witneuesi and all Agreements, Contracts, Purchases, and Sales, of any Part or Share of any British Ship belonging onlv to natural-born Subjects of His Majesty, made, contracted tor, or concluded by any such Foreigner or other Person not being a natural-bom Subject of His Majesty, without such Consent endorsed as afore- said, shall be null and void - • • . 8. ■ As often as any Tiransfer of Property in any Ship ihall be 195 made while such Ship is upon the Sea, on a Voyage to a Foreign Port, in case the Master is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not, as soon as he shall become acquainted therewith, such Ship shall proceed directly to the Port for which the Cargo is destined, or to the Port to which she belongs, or any other Port in which she may be registered, and such Ship may take on board in the Pon for which the original Cargo was destined, or other Port, being in the Course of ner Voyage to the Port in which she may be registered denovo, such Cargo as mgy be legally carried to the rort where she may be registered de novoi and if suchTransfer shall be made while such Ship is in any Foreign Port, and the Master is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not, as soon as he shall become acquainted therewith, such Ship, after having delivered the Cargo at the Port for which it is destined, shall sail from such Port to the Port to which she belongs, or to any other Port in which she may be registered, and may take on board at the Port for which her original Cargo was destined, or other Port, being in the Course of her Voyage to the Port in which she may be registered de novo, such Cargo as may be legally cariried to such Port where she may oe registered de novo { and if such Transfer shall be made whUe such Ship is on a Fishing Voyage, and the Master is privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not, as sooq as he shall become acquainted therewith, such Ship, after having finished fishing, without touching at any Foreign Port, except for the Purpose of Repairs or Refreshments, or for delivering any Part of the Cargo, shall sail to the Port to which she belongs, or any other Port where she may be registered, and may take on board at the Foreign Port last described, or any other Port, being in the Course of her Voyage to the Port where she may be registered de novo, such Cargo as may be lega4ly carried to such Port I and such Ship shall be registered de novo as soon as she reituras to the Fo^t to which she belongs, or to any other Port in which she may be registered'; on Failure whereof, such Ship shall be deemed Foreign, and shall not again be registered, unless the Commissionens of die Customs, or the Governor, Lieu- tenant Governor, or Commander iq Chief of Guernsey B b 2 or Rt%n. Chip. 8»a. ■' !U 13 Geo. 3. 3<$ .J. 34 Geo. 3. 68 23 196 INDEX. II. 12. SHfTS—trn tinm l. JttMj, or of an^ British Plantation, on Consideration of the ipecial Circumttancei of the Case, think fit to order the Ship to be registered i prorided that the Regulations reouired by the Laws in force concerning the first Registry of Snips shall be complied with, and that in no Case of tne Transfer of i^operty in whole or in part, the Ship shall be registered de novo, unless •he shall return to the n>rt to whicn she belongs, or to each Port in which she may be registered de novo, within i a Months after the Date of such Transfer, if such Ship shall not be on a Voyase to the East of the Cape of Good Hope, or to the West of Cape Horn, or within Two Years if on a Voyage to the Elast of the Cape of Good Hope, or tu the West of Cape Horn, at the Time of such Transfer taking place, except by Order of the Commissioners, Governor, &c. upon special Representation of the Circumstances of the Case in manner before authorized - ° • 9.' All Ships which by a6 Geo. III. c. 60. are declared not toS be entitled to the Privileges of Dritish>built or Briiish-owned Ships, I and all Ships not registered according to that Act, shall, although y owned by British Subjects, be deemed Alien Ships, and subject ' to the same Penalties and Forfeitures as Alien Ships in the like Cases are or shall be liable to 10. >— — No Ship coming to any Colony, Territory, or Place to' \ 1 His Majesty belonging, or in his Possession, shall lade or unlade any Goods until the Master shall have first made known to the Governor, or such Officer as shall be by him thereunto autho- rised, the Arrival of the Ship, with her Name and the Name of the faster, and shall have shewn that she is British-built, and registered and navigated according to Law, and have delivered to such Governor or Officer a true Inventory or Invoice of her Lading, with the Places in which the Goods were laden ( on Forfeiture of the Ship, and of all Goods the Manufacture of Europe as were not laden in Great Britain or Ireland ■■ No Ship required to be registered, and carrying any' Goods to or from the British Plantations in America, or to or from one Plantation to another, shall be permitted to trade, or be deemed qualified for that Purpose, until the Master shall upon Oath (or in case of a Quaker, upon his solemn Affirmation), before the Governor or Collector of the Customs of the Planta- tion where he shall arrive, give a true Account of the Name and Burthen thereof, and other Particulars, according to the Fbrnn following; videlicet, ' A. B. maketh Oath (or if a Quaker, solemnly affirms) that < the Ship called the whereof he this Deponent or ' Affirmant is Master, or hath the Charge or Command * during the present Voyage, being of the Burthen of < Tons, came last from , and that she is, as * he verily believes, the same Ship described, meant, and * intended in and by the Criiticaie now produced by * him, and that the same uocs now, as he believes, belong « wholly to His Majefly's Subjects, and that no Foreigner * has, directly or irjirectly, any Share, Property or Inte- * rest therein, to his Knowledge or Belief.' ' And in case any Ship shall unload any Goods in any of His Majesty's Plj^ntations in Americaj before such Proof shall Rtlga. 2^ Geo. 3. i; Car. a. 3 &4 Ann. 7 8c 8 W. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 26 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. Chip, «9 7 6 aa 10 60 67 15&16G.3. 8*0. »3 8 2 a I Art. 6 3> p. <*> I N D £ X. SHIPS ct H tinutd. be made, such Ship liioll be forfeited and prowcuted in like manner ai if she had not been regiitcred • -^ 13. —— The Matter of every Ship arriving in any Britiih Colony or Plantation in America , ihall, before he proceeds to the Place of unloading, come directly to the Custom House for the Port or Dintric I where he arrives, and make a just and true Entry t upon Oath, before the Collector and Comptroller or other princi- pal Officer of the Customs there, of the Burthen, Contents, and Lading of such Ship, with the particular Marks, Num- bers, Qualities, and Contents of every Parcel of Goods therein laden, to the best of his Knowledge ; also where and in what Port she took in her Lading, of what Country built, how manned, who was Matter during the Voyage, 'and who are Owners thereof, and whether anv and what Goods, during the Course of such Voyage, had or nad not been discharged out of such i Ship, and where 1 and the Master of every Ship going out from any British Colony or Plantation in America, before he nhail lade any Goods to De exported, shall in like manner enter and report outwards such Ship, with her Name and Burthen, of what Country built, and how manned, with the Names of the Master and Owners thereof, and to what Place he intends to pass or sail) and before he shall depart with such Ship he shall ahu deliver unto the Collector and Comptroller or other principal Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where he shall lade, a Content in Writing under hit Hand of the Name of every Person who shall have laden any Goods, together with the Marks and Numbers , and either coming into or going out of any British Colonv or Plantation, whether laden or in ballast, the Matter shall publicly in the open Custom House, to the best of his Knowledge, answer upon Oath to such Questiout as shall be dt-n uieti .)f him by the Collector and Comptrolle', or other | ^ipal Officer of the Customs, concerning such Ship and the Dettination of her Voyage, or concerning any^ Goods utden on board, upon Forfeiture of j^ioo Sterling Mon«y of Great Britain for every Neglect, to be prosecuted, recovered, and divided in the same manner, and by the tame Rvtkr^ and Regulations, as other pecuniary Penalties for Offences against the Laws of the Customs or Trade of His Majesty's Colonies in America - - - - 14. No Goods shall be imported into or exported out of any 197 Colony or Plantation in America belonging to or in the Posses sion of Hit* Majetty, or shall be laden in or trried from any one Port or Place in the laid Colonies or . lantatjons to any other Port or Place in the same, or to Great Uritain or Ireland, in any Ship hut what is of. the Built of Gre-t Britain, Ireland, the Islandti of Guernsey, jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of the Colonies, Plantations, or Territories in Asia, Africa, or America, belonging to or in the Possession of His Majesty, except Ships taken by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or by any Private or other Ship, and condemned as lawful- Prize in any Court of Vice Admiralty, and alad except Ships con- demned as forfeited in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty, for any Offence relating to the Slave Trade ; such Ships respectively being owned by Britiih Subjects^ navigated and- registered Rtica. Chip. 7 Geo. 3. 46 12 Cah a. 7 & 8 W. 3. a6 Geo. 3. 27 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 54 Geo. 3. 18 22 68 19 67 S9 I 2 10 An. 6 I INDEX. [ mm-rtmitimud. acoording to Law« on Forfeiture of all Goodi otherwise imported, u also the Ship } and the Commanders of Ships of War are to seize at Prize all Ships offending, and to deliver them to the Court of Admiraltjr . _ - _ For the Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, . and Forfei- tures reapecting the Navigation and Registry of British Ships ^ - See « Navigation of British Ships." « R^istrx of British Ships/' I (i.) Ships belonginff to any of the Inhabitants^ of the United States of America from coming in I Ballast to the Turks Islands, Nassau, Exuma or > Crooked Island, for the Purpose of being there I laden with Salt - - -J See "Salt." (2.) Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drugs, C^coa, Logwood, Fustic Wood for Dyers' Use, Hides* Skins, Tallow, Furs, Tortoiseshell, Hardwpod or Mill Timber, Mahogany Wood for Cabinet Ware, Horses, Asses, Mules, Cattle, Corn, Bullion, Diamonds, and Precious Stones, Rice, Grain, Flour, Sugar, and Coffee, from be- ing imported into and exported from the Free Ports in the West Indies^ in any Foreign Ship, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any Colony or Plantation in America, or Country on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State , _ - . See « Free Ports." ,_^„.^ ^ 6 ^ ^3*) ^y Fo^'g" Ship described in 45 Geo. III.' '<5» S ., fc. 57. from comins in Ballast or importing into any Port of the Bahama Islands, where there is a Custom House, the Articles allowed in the said Act to be imported into the Ports therein men- tioned, and also exporting the Articles allowed by the said Act to be exported in Foreign Vessels, or exporting Salt, subject to the Duty of Tonnage and under die Regulationb of 28 Geo. III. c. 6. See «'Salt." "Free Ports." (4.) Suear, Coffee, Rum, or Molasses, the' Produce ofany British Colony in the West Indies, imported into the Island of Bermuda in any British Ship, from being exported from the Port of Saint George or the Port of Hamilton in the said Island to any Part of the Territories of the United States of America, in any Foreign Ship belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, above the Burthen of 60 Tons . . . ^ (5.) Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpent-ne, Hemp,' Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Bpards and Plank, Timbei Shingles, and Lumber, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and Live Stock} Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, i S o< 6 .a I < I o V •3 .S bo B 1 O n Raign. Clup. s»a. 28 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 48 Geo. 3. 50 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 54 Geo. 3. 52 Geo> 5. 52 Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 'S»6 7 57 t25 21 99 48 99 79 28 4- INDEX. i|» I Pa s .9 1 •s e 00 bO o n n SHIPS— <0»/mW. Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, OaU, Barlejr, and Onin of anv Sort, the Growth or Production of *nj of the Territories of the United States of America, from being imported from the said Territories into Saint George or Hamilton, in the Island of Ber- muda, in any Foreign Ship belonging to any State in Amity with His Majesty " " V (6.) Fruit or Vegetables the Growth of the' United States from being imported into the Ports enumerated in 52 Geo. lu. c.79. and 53 Geo. IH. c. 50. in Ships of the Description mentioned in the said Acts, under the like Authority, Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures therein provided - - - - (7.) The usual and necessary Articles of Bup** ply for the Estates of Dutch Proprietors in the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo in the Province of Guiana in South America, from being exported from the Netherlands into the said Colonies respectively, on board any Ships being the Property of Subjects of the King of the Nether- lands, wherever built, and without Restriction or 15. — — — ^ ^ ^Limitation as to the Mariners navigating the same, for the Space of Five Years, commencing from the 1st Day of January 1816 ; but the Master of every such Ship shall produce to the proper Offi* cer of His Majesty's Customs in the said Colonies, satisfactory Proof of the said Ship being owned by a Subject of the King of the Netherlands-: :pro- vided that the said King of the Netherlands may, at any Time before the Expiration of the said Five Years, direct ihat such Trade shall be carried on only in such Ships as are Dutch-built, and whereof the Master and Three Fourths of the Crew are the Subjects of His said Majesty) provided also, that after the Expiration of the Five Years no such Trade shall be carried on, except in Ships Dutch- built, and whereof the Master and Three Fourths of the Crew , -e Subjects of His Majesty (8.) The Produce of the Estates^of Dutch Pro-'S prietors in the said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, J or Essequibo in Guiana, from being exported from f the said Colonies to the Netherlands, on board r such Ships as are described in the preceding I . _, Article, No. 7. - - -J 16. I No Ship shall be cleared Outwards for any Colony, Ter-*^ or Place to His Majesty belonging, or in the Possession the Dominion of His Majesty in America, unless the R«t|ii. Chip. s«a. S« Geo. 3. 5jOeo.3. 79 50 ritory, or under whole and entire Cargo of such Vessel shall be laden in Great Britain or Ireland ■, and any OiHccr of the Customs may stop any British Ship arriving from any Part of Europe, which shall be discovered within Two Leagues of the Shore of any of the Colonies, &c. and seize any Goods (except as herein-after men- tioned) for which the Master shall not produce a Cocket or Clearance from the Collector or proper Officer of His Majesty's 57 Geo. 3. a8 S6 Geo. 3. 91 3.4 6 56 Geo. 3. 91 4,6 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 15 10 67 «5 An. 6 m W' •'.Tf* «00 INDEX. J 18.. ! i I •S e o w O •♦ .9 I a n SHIPS— MrtMirAiL Customs in some Fart of Great Britain or Ireland, certiff ing that the said Goods were there laden 17. Any Person who shall counterfeit, alter, or falsify any^ docket or Clearance required by this Act, or shall knowingly I or wilfully make use of any Cocket or Clearance so counterfeited, > &c shall for every such -Ofience forfeit j£'5oo, and the samel shall be of no eflFect - - - -J (I.) Salt laden in Eurojte for the Fisheries in' Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, or for any other Place to which Salt is allowed to be carried for the Use of the Fisheries ; Wines laden ii>the Madeiras of the Growth thereof ( Wines of the Growth of the Western Islands of Azores, and laden there ) Oranges or Lemons of the Azores or Madeiras, shipped from thence for Exportation direct to any of the Ports in the Briti&h Colonies in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law (a.) GoodH, the Growth, Produce or Manufac- ture of Great Britain, Ireland, Guernsey, or Jersey, fit and necessary for the Fisheries carried on in any of the British Colonies, shipped by the Inhabitants of Guernsey or Jersey ( Tools or Implements neces- sary for the Fishery manufactured in the Isle of Man, or Herrings cured there, and shipped from the said Isle - - • Se« « Europe." (3.) Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, laden in' any Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, for Exportation direct to certain Colo- , ^nies in North America, on board any British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any such Part of Europe with the Articles enumerated in this Act - See " Cork." '* "Fruit." • . ' "Oil." "Salt.". "Wine;* (4.) Cora or Grain laden in any Part of Europe '\ to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, for Exporta- J tion to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, on ( board any Ship having landed a Cargo of Sugar, f CoiFee, or Cocoa imported from the said Sugar 1 Colonies under the Regulations of this Act -J See " Com ^nd Grain." « Coffee." *« Cocoa." " Sugar." (5.) Articles requisite as Supplies for the Cul- tivation of Estates in Demerara, Berbice, or Esse- quibo, or the Clothing, Maintenance, and Com- fort of the Residents thereon, shipped in the J Netherlands by the Subjects of the King of the Reign. 4 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 48 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 9 Geo. 3. 12 Geo. 3. T 2 Geo. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 5» Geo. J. 56 Geo. 3. Chap. R«a. »5 5* »5 19 22 89 3« I I I 28 58 I 5 4 97 98 9« INDEX. mi %WSS—cuitiiiut4. >8.. *) Netherlands, being Colonies respectively I Dutch Proprietors in See ** Demerara.' such I (6.) Articles enumerated in the following Sche-' dale, shipped at Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or at Gibraltar, on board any British-built Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, i for Exportation direct to any of His Majesty's ( Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, New- foundland, Bermuda, or anv of His Majesty's Co- lonies or Plantations in Nortn America See " Gibraltar." ■ ' ","■■._:. v";. " Malta." SCHEDULE (B.) Reign. Chap. s«a. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo- 3* 29 4 5.9 I Dry 8c WetFruit 1 in Jm & in Brandy teSugar j Bottiw. Pickles in Ditto. OliTes. Figs. Raisins. Currants. Pistaccio Nuts. Almonds. Dates. Capers. >Wine. Brandy. Oil of^Olives, Oil of Almonds. Gum Arabic. — — Mastic. Myrrh, — — Sicily. Ammoniac, Opium. Manna. Senna. Cantharides. Oris Root. Rhubarb. Mill Timber. Box Wood. . Argol. Vermillion. Ochres. Cinnabar. Orange Buds and IVel. Juniper Berries. Punk. Pumice Stone. Emery Stone. Whetstone. Paintings and Prints. C c Mosaic Works, Medals, Lava and Malta Stone for building. Pozzolana. Jalap. Scamonv. Quicksilver, ^rsaparilla, Saffron. Safflower. Musk. , Incense. Essence of Bergamot. Do. of Citron. of Lemon. of Orange. of Lavender. of Roses. of Rosemary. Rough & Worked. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Marble, 1 Alabaster, j Brimstone. Cork. Aniseed. Cumminseed. Ostrich Feathers. Honey. Sponges. Amber. Coral. Bullion. Precious Stones. Pearls. Corn. Grain. Meal or Flour. Beans. I Peas. I N D E X. 9HIPS— 8sel of the Burthen of Fifty Tons or under/ laden with customable or prohibited Goods, shall be found hoveringwithin the Limits of anv Port on the Coasts of any of the Dominions or Tenitories oelonging to the Crown of Great Britain, and not proceeding on her Voyage for Foreign Parts, Wind and Weather permitting, any Officer of the Cus- toms may go on board, and take an Account of the Lading, and take Security from the Master, by his own Bond to His Majesty in Treble the Value of such Foreign Goods then on board, with Condition that such Vessel (as soon as Wind and Weather and her State and Condition shall permit) shall pro- ceed regularly on the Voyage, and !and such Foreign Goods at some Foreign Port or Ports t and if such Master shall upon Denriand refuse to eriter into such Bond, or having entered mto the same shall not depart or proceed regularly on luch Voyage (as soon as Wind and Weather and the State and Condition of thei Vessel shall permit) unless suffered to make a longer Stay bv the Collector, or (in his Absence) the Principal Officer of suca Port, not exceeding Twenty Days, then all the Foreign Goods on board shall, by Direction of the Collector or other principal Officer, be brought on Shore and secured ; and in case t'le Goods are customable, the Duties shall be paid, and any prohibited Goods, or other Goobound { and if they be Ships Inward-bound, may brine on Shore into His Majesty's Store- house, all small Parcels of Goods which shall be found m Cabins, Chests, Trunks, or other small Packages, or in any private or secret Place, in or out of the Hold, which may occasion a just Suspicion that they were intended to be fraudulently conveyed away, and all other Sorts of Goods for which the Duties were not paid within Twenty Day* after the first Entry of the Ship, to remain in the Store-house until the Duties be satisfied, unless the Officers shall see a just Cause to allow a longer Time \ and the Officers and their Deputies may remain aboard until all the Goods are delivered; and if any Master, Purser, or Boatswain, or other, taking Charge in any Ship, or any other Person, shall suffer any Truss, Bale, Pack, Fardel, Cask, or other Package to be opened on board the Ship, and the Cioodi therein to be embezzled, carried away, or put in any other Form or Package after the Ship comes into the Port of her Discharge, in every such Case the said Master, Purser, Boats- wain, or other Person shall forfeit j^ioo In case after the clearing of any Ship and discharging the 24. ios Rtign. 4 Geo. 3. 46 Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. Chip. 15 s«a. 34 52 - 36 — i3&;i4C. 2. 78t8W.3. II 22 ^5- Watchmen or Tidemen from Attendance thereupon, there shall befound on board any Goods whichhavc been concealed from the Knowledge of the Officers, and for which the Duties due upon the Importation thereor have not been paid, the Master shall forfeit jf 100 All Goods which 3hail be found concealed in any Place' a6.- on board any euch Ship at any Time after the Master thereof shall have made his Report to the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs, and which shall not be comprized in the said Report, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of the Customs ; and the Master (in case it can be made appear that he was anywise consenting or privy to such Fraud or Concealment) shall forfeit treble the Value of the Goods so found - - . . ._ No Goods shall be laden on board any Ship in any of the' British Colonies or I'lantations in America, to be carried from thence to any other British Colony or Plantation, without a Suf- ferance or Warrant first had and obtained from the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be intended to be put on board ; and the Master of such Ship shall take out a Cocict expressing the Quantil)' C c 7, 13 8c 14 Car. 7&8W.3 2. II 22 4 Gffo. 3. J 5 36 ") /. £04 INDEX. n %'^^V V ; I £/ .' -^ .'t • : ' M f, /a- -■'>' 9 SHlFS^-coHtimud. and Quality of the Goodi» and Marks .of the Packages so laden, \7ith the Merchants Names by whom shipped, and to whom consigned, and if they are Goods liable to Duty upon Importa- tion into or Exportation from the said Colonies or Plantations, the docket shall distinctly specify that the Duties have been paid for the same, referring to the Times or Dates of Entry, and Faytnent of Duties, and by whom thev were paid { which Cocket shall be produced by the Master to ttie Collector or other prin- cipal Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place where the Ship shall arrive, in any of the Bridsh Colonies or Plantations in America, before any Part of the Goods are unladen } and if any Goods shall be shipped without such Sufferance, or the Ship shall depart and proceed on her Voyage without such Cocket, or the Goods shall be landed before such Cocket is produced at the Port or Place of Discharge, or if the Goods do not agree in all Respects therewith, they uiall be forfeited ; and any Officer of the Customs may stop any sizch Ship which shdl be discovered within Two Leagues of the Shore of any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, and seize all Goods which shall be found on board for which no such Cocket shall be produced to him — — ~ Not to require any Sufferance or Cocket for any Goods the Product or Manufacture of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, which are not by any Act of Parliament made in Great Britain liable to Duty upon the Importation into or Expor- tation from the said Colonies or Plantations, and are not prohi- bited to be exported from thence, and which shall be laden in any Boat, Flat, Shallop, or other Vessel without a Deck, not exceeding ao Tons Burthen, in order to be carried within any River, Lake, or other Inland Waters within the said Colonies or Plantations, and not carried out to Sea further than Cne League from the Shore - • -^ - Any Person who shall counterfeit, alter, erase, or falsify^ any Affidavit, Certificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or Clearance j required by !;his Act, or shall knowingly or wilfully make use of the same, sl>.itll forfeit jt'ioo and such Affidavit, &c. shall be invalid and of no Effect ... Every Master of any Ship shall, before he departs from' 27- 28. 29. 30- * / '.'/ any British Colony or Plantation where he receives his Lading, take a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Collectar or other Principal Officer of the Customs there, (which they are to grant without Fee or Reward), that Bond hath . een given pursuant to the Directions of these or any other Acts of Parlia- ment, as the Case shall require; and the Master of such Ship shall keep such Certificate in his Custody till the Voyage is completed, and shall then deliver the same up to the Collector or other Chief Officer uf the Customs at the Port or Place where he shall discharge his Lading in Great Britain, Ireland, or any British American Colony or Plantation, on Forfeiture of jfi'ioo for every Offence - - - If any British Ship laden with any Goods of the' Produce or Manufacture of any British Colony or Planta- tion in America, shall be discovered by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs within Two Leagues of the Shore of any British Colony or Plantation in America, and the Master of ^uch Vessel shall not produce a Certificate that Bond has been R«i|n. Chip. s*a. 4 Geo. 3. »5 39 5 Geo. 3. 45 35 4 Geo. 3. >5 32 4 Geo. 3. 30 3eo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 15 ic 67 24 1.3 An. 6 INDEX. •205 UHlPS—eominmJ. given for the Lsnding such Goods in Great Britain or Irelaml, or some other British Pl;intation ; or if be shall not produce such Certificate to the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs where he shall arrive in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British Colony or Plantation, such Ship, and all the Goods therein laden, shall Ix? forfeited . - . 31, lilvery Ship built in Hia Majeiiiy's Plantations in America, shall, upon her first setting out or being first navigated at Sea, be furnished with one full and complete Set of new Sails, made '.ip of Sail Cloth manufactured in Great Britain or Ireland ; and if such Ship shall not on her first setting out be fitted and furnished with a new Set of Sails, properly belonging to such Ship, made of Scil Cloth of the Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, the Master shall forfeit j^'50 SHIPS (STRANDED.) • I. Upon Application by or on Behalf of the Commander of any Ship stranded, or oeing in Danger of stranding, the Sheriffs or their Deputies, Justices of the Peace, Mayors, BailiiFs, or other Head Officers of Corporations and Port Towns, Con- stables, Headboroughs, Tyihingmen, Officers of the Customs or Excise, Coroners, and Commissioners of the Land Tax, are required to command the Constables of the several Ports nearest the Place where such Ship shall be in Danger, to summon Persons to assist in preserving such Ship and Cargo } and the Officers of the Customs and Constables may command Ships riding at an Anchor near the Place to assist by their Boats, and as many Hands as they can conveniently spare ; and if any Command- er shall refuse or neglect to assist, he shall forfeit :€too to the Commander of the Ship in Distress, together with Costs of Suit J ■2.— Any one or more of the Justices, in case of Need, may in" the Absence of the High Sheriff, take sufficient Power of the County to repeal all unjust Violence, and to enforce the Execu- tion of this Act ; and if any Person (lawfully authorized) shall be assaulted, beaten, or wounded for or on account of his acting in the Salvage of any Goods, Vessels, or Effects stranded, wrecked, or cast on Shore, or lying under Water, in any of His Majesty's Dominions, the Offender, upon Conviction at the Assizes at the General or Quarter Sessions for the County where the Offence is committed, shall be transported for Seven Years 3. I'ersons assembled to save any Ship-, Goods, or Effects,' sliail conform, in the first Place, to the Orders of the Master Rtiga. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. 9 Geo. a. 19 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. • By an Opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown in June 1767, it is considered that these Laws regarding ' Ships stranded, extend to and are in ' force in His Majesty' t Colonies and Plantations in America, as the Title of ' the Act 1% Ann. St, 1, c. 18. expressly imports the same to be an Aff for ' preserving Ships and Goods forced on Shore or stranded en the Coast cf ' Her Majesty's Dominions, and the enaHing Part has Words extending the * Act to Her Majesty's Dominions, notwithstanding the Promulgation of the * Law, and some other Provisions in it, are applicable only to Great Britain.' How far the Clauses of the AEl of Ann. and of the other AEls altering and amending the same, here inserted, can be carried into Execution in the British Colonies and Plantations, will depend upon the Nature of the Public Establish- ments at the Colony or Plantation where a Ship or Goods may be stranded, or near which a Ship may be in Distress or in danger of stranding, or where any Offences may he committed. isAnn. St 2. 4 Geo. I . 26 Geo. 2. 26 Geo. 2. Chap. S«A. «5 10 67 37 27 67 «5 '.3 Art. 6 4 II Art. 6 18 12 »9 19 II 12 «oc INDEX. SHIPS (STRANDED.)— con/i»«/^. or other Officers, or Owners, or Persons employed br them { and for want of thrir Presence or Directions, then to the Orders of the Persons authorized, in the following Subttrdinution i vii. in the first Plaice, toh te Orders of Olficeri* of the Customs \ then of the Officers of Elxcise; :' ..of the Sheriff or his Deputy t then of any Ju^tice of the Peaces then of the Mayor or Chief Magis- trate of a Corporation { then of the Coroner ) then of the Com- missioners of the Land Tax ; then of any Chief Constable ) (hen of any Petty Constable, or other Peace Officer, as nny of the said Persons shall happen to be present } and any Person wilfully acting contrary to such Orders shall forfeit any Sum not exceed- ing ^rj, to be levied by Warrant of a Justice of the Peace \ and for Non-payment the Offender shall be committed to the House of Correction for any Time not exceeding Three Months - 4. ■ If any Person besides those empowered by an Officer nt" the Customs or his Deputy, and the Constables af'resaid, shall endeavour to enter on board any Ship in Distress without the Leave or Consent of the Commander or other Superior Officer of the Ship, or of the Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, or of the Constable, or One of them employed for the Preservation of the Ship ; or in case any Person shall molest any of them in the saving of the Ship or Goods, or endeavour to hinder the saving } or when any such Goods are saved, shall deface the Marks of any such Goods before taken down in a Book for that Purpose provided by the Commander and the First Officer of the Customs } such Person shall within the Space of Twenty Days make Double Satisfaction to the Party grieved, at the Dis- cretion of the Two next Justices of Peace, or in default thereof shall by such Justices be sen. to the next House of Correction, where he shall be employed in hard Labour for Twelve Months; and 9 ly Commander or Superior Offi- cer of the Ship in Distress, or the said Officer of the Cus- toms or Constables on board the same, may repel by force any such Persons as shall, without such Leave or Consent from the said Commander or Superior Officer, or the Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, or such Constables as aforesaid, press on board the Ship in Distress, and thereby molest them in the Preservation thereof - _ . . j. I Goods found upon any Persons that were stolen or carried^ off from any such Ship in Distress, shall immediately upon I demand be delivered to the Owner, or in default thereof the > Person on whom found shall be liable to pay Treble the Value, ( to be recovered by Action at Law . . . J 6. ■ If any Persons shall make, or be assisting in the making"^ any Hole in the Botto Riding, or Division wherein the Fact was committed, who shall I cause the Offender to be proceeded against - .J 10.— Upon Information on Oath befon a Justice of the Peace" II. 12.' «3« of any Part of the Cargo or Effects of any Ship lost or stranded upon or near the Coasts of any of His Majesty's Dominions, being unlawfully conveyed away, or concealed in any Place, or of some reasonable Ground of Suspicion thereof, such Justice mav grant his Warrant for searching for such Goods { and if they are found in Custodt* rf .ny Person not legally entitled to keep them, and if the Owner or Occupier of the Place, or the Person in whose Custody they are found, shall not immediately deliver them, upon Demand, to the Owner or Person lawfully, authorized to demand them, or not giving a good Account how he came by them, such Pe.son shall be committed to Gaol for Six Months, or until he pays the Owner Treble the Value of the Goods " " "-» — — Such Goods suspected to have been unlawfully taken" away and offered to Sale, may be seized by the Person to whom they are offered, 01 by any Officer of the Customs or Excise, or any Peace Officer, who shall carry them or give Notice of the Seizure to a Justice of the Peace ; and if the Person who offiered thum to Sale does not within Ten Days prove to the Satisfaction of the Justice the Property to be in him, or the Person who employed him, the Goods shall, by Order of the Justice, be delivered over to the Use of the Owner, upon Pay- ment of a reasonable Reward for the Seizure, to be ascertained by the Justice, who is also to commit the I'erson who offered them to Sale to Gaol for Six Months, or until he has paid Treble the Value of the Goods to the Owner — — In case any Person not employed by the Master, Mariners,' or Owners, or Persons lawfully authorized, in the Salvage of any Ship or Goods, shall, in the Absence of Persons so em- ployed, save any Ship, Goods, or Effects, and shall cause them to be carried into Port, or to any Custon' House near, or other Place of safe Custody, immediately giving Notice thereof to some Justice of the Peace, Magistrate, or Custom House or Excise Ofiicer,orshall discover to them where such Effects are wrongfully bought, sold, or concealed, such I'erson shall be entitled to a reasonable Reward from the Master or Owners ; to be adjusted, in case of Disagreement, in the Manner hereinafter prescribed Persons acting in the Preservation of any such Ship or' the Cargo shall be rewarded within 30 Days, on Default whereof the Ship and Cargo may be detained by tne Officers of the Cus- toms } and in case of Dispute about the Quantum and Reward R«i|ii. Cbiqi. ikii. 96 Geo. 9. i6 Geo. a. 19 >9 26 Geo. 2. «9 36 Geo. 2. 19 26 Geo. 2. 19 flOB INDEX. SHIPS» 14- 15- i6.- '7- jSTRANDED)- tor luch Service, l8.. \—continutd. Three neighbouring Juiticet of the Peace may adjust the same i provided that if no Peraon appears to claim the Goods saved, the Chief Officer of the Customs in the next Port shall apply to Three of the nearest Justices of the Peace, who shall put him or some other responsible I'erson in Possession thereof i and if nut claimed within Twelve Months, the Goods shall be publicly sold (or, if perishable, forthwith sold) , and after Deduction of Charges the Residue shall be transmitted into the Exchequer, there to remain for the Proprietor, who, upon Proof of his Right to the Satisfaction of One of the Barons, shall upon his Order n ceiye the same out of the Exchequer - • The Justice of the Peace, Mayor, BailiiF, Collector of the Customs, or Chief Constable neare!3 24 27 6 1.3 Art. 6 4,8 ni& SLAVtS—cMti t mtJ. INDEX. No Subject of M» Majeitf, of Pmmtk nMmi in iht' United Kingdom, or »nj of the Dominion* iherato belonginf, •hall export or procurt to be exportedi or in My Muimcr •MIM in exporting, from Africa or eleewhe. , to any Colony or Place whatever belonging to or Qndeff the Dommien of any Foreign State or Power, or embark or trinahip, or aaaiat in the embarking or tranihipping, at Africa or eltewhera, any SlafM, with I L'lit to export tnem to any (ach Foreign Colony or Place ; and evenr Slave ao exported or embarked, or tnnahipped with ■uch unlawful Intent, ihall, together with the Ship and the Boat!, im far ai anj of Hit Majesty's Subjectt, or any Pereon resident ai aforeaaui hate any Intereet therein, ahall be for- feited - - - - -, Any of His Majeity'e Subject*, or any Peraon resident within the United Kingdom, or the Islands, Colonies, or Terri- tories belonging (o or in the Possession of His Majesty, who shall import, convey, ship, or tranship, or cause or procure to be imported, &c. or who shall be aiding or assisting in the importing, ^c. anv Slave contrary to this Act, shall forfeit for each Slave jf'jo { but no Penally or Forfeiture shall be incurred by importing, &c. any Slave, when it shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the Court, that the prohibited Act entirely arose ""om inevitable Accident, of which Proof shall lie on theClaim- ai.t { provided that this Act shall not prevent the Transportation to any Foreign Colony or Place of any Slave that shall have been convicted in any British Island or Colony of any Crime to which the Punishment of Transportation is annexed i but in everv such Case a Copy of the Judgment or Sentence, certified by the Court, shall be put on board the Ship in which such Convict shall be transported ■■ All dealing and trading in the Purchase, Sale, or Transfer' of Slaves, or of Persons intending to be sold or dealt with as Slaves, carried on, in, at, or from any Part of Africa, is unlawful ( and all Manner of dealing, either by way of Purchase, or of any other Contract or Agreement relating to any Slaves, or to any Persons intended to be dealt with as Slaves, tor the Purpose of their being removed or transported, cither immediately, or by Transhipment at Sea, or otherwise, from Africa, or from any Place in the West Indies, or in any other Part of America not bcung in the Dominion or Possession of His Majesty, to any other Place, is prohibited, and unlawful -, and if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person resident within tlie United Kingdom, or any of the Territories thereto belonging or in HisMajesty^ Posses- sion, shall by himself, or his Factor or Agent, or otherwise, deal or contract for the dealing or transferring of any Slave, or any Person intending to be dealt with as a Slave, contrary to this Act, the Person offending shall forfeit j^'ioo for each Slave, One Moiety thereof to His Majesty, and the other to the Person who shall prosecute for the same ... No Subject of His Majesty, or any Person resident as' aforesaid, (see No. 3.) shall remove, or aid or assist in removing, as Slaves, or for the Purpose of being dealt with as Slaves, any nf the Inhabitants of Africa, or of any Territory or Place in America not being ia the Dominion or Possession of His Majesty, either immediately, or by Transhipment at Sea, or R«l«a. Cktp. swt. 46 0«o. 3. 51 Geo. 3. 5a as 46 Geo. 3. 5» 47 Geo, 3. 51 Geo. 3. 36 23 INDEX. «n othcrwiMi from Africa, or from any luch Country < >r Place to any oth«r Country or Place i and no luoh Subjoi t ur Ueiident •hall reccire or confine on board, or h-* atii«ting in the receiving or cunHning on board of any Ship any «uch Inhabitant for the Purpose of hia being lo removed, or of hii being dealt with aH a Slave ; and if any Inhabitant of Africa, or of any Territory or Place in the Weat Indies or America, not being in ;he Poaaeasion of Hit Majcity, shall be lo unlawfully removed, &c. on board of any Ship belonging in the whole or 'in part t6, or employed by, any Subject of His Majesty, or Person residing in His Majesty's Dominions, or any Territory belonging to or in the Occupation of His Majesty, for any of the Purposes aforesaid, every such Ship with her Boats, Sec. shall be forfeited, and all Property in any such Slaves or Natives of Africa shall be for- feited t and every Subjeetof Hia Majesty, or Person reaidcit as aforesaid, who shnU, as Owner, Part Owner, Freighter, Shipper, or Agent, Captain, Mate, Supercargo, or Surgeon, be coni^ rned in removing, 8cc. for any of the unlawful f irposea a** "etaid, any such Subject or InKabitant, shall forfeit for each iPerson jiioo, One Moiety to His Majesty, and the other to any Person who shall prosecute for the same ' , ** $.^ , No Subject of Hia Majesty, or any Person' resident rig afore>' said, (see No. 3.) ihall invest or employ his Money, Vesr .. :'K>ds, or Effects in trading in or carrying Slaves from Afri a or 'Ise- wktlK to any Place under any Foreign Sovereign or State, or to MM of the Colonics or Plantations sunendered to His Ma- jesty*Q Amos during the present War, or knowingly lend any Money, 01 become Security for the Advance of any Monty, Goods, or Sfficts, for the Purpose of being employed in any such Trade, or Carriage of Slaves, or become Security for liny Factor or Agtal to be employed in the Sale of Slaves in or for the Use or Suppl]r«C any such Foreign Place, or Colony or Plantation surrendered to Hit Majesty's Arms during the pre- sent War, or otherwise eng^pfk^directly or indirectly in the supplying with Slaves any sqch Fbmugn Place, or Colony or Plantation surrendered ; upon pain that ev5- 16,- 17- J8.- I. Any Person who shall commit wilful Perju^i or who' shall procure or suborn any Person to commit wilful Perjury, shall suffer the Pains and Penalties for wilful and corrupt Per- jury or Subornation of Perjury « Any Inhabitant of Africa, or any Territory or Place not being in tne Dominion or Possession of His Majesty, unlawfully carried away or removed from Africa, or from the West Indies, or America, not in the Dominion or Possession of His Majesty, who shall be imported or brought into any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Territory in the Diominion or Possession of His Majesty, and there sold or disposed of .aa a Slave, or detained or kept in a State of Slavery, may be seized and prosecuted by such Persons and in such Manner as any Goods unlawfully imported into the same Plantation or Territory may be seized and prosecuted therein, by any Act in force for regulating the Navigation and Trade of His Majesty's Colonies All Insurances efiiKted in respect to any of the Dealing, Removing, or Transactions by this Act prohibted, shall be alio prohibited and unlawful ; and if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person resident as aforesaid, (tee No. 3.) shall knowingly subscribe or procure to be subscribed any such unlawful In- surances, he shall forfeit ;£'ioofor every Insurance, and Tr<»ble the Amount of the Premium ; one Moiety thereof to His Majesty, and the other to the Prosecutor . - _ All Slaves and Natives of Africa dealt with or detained as' Slaves, which shall be seized or t^en as Prize qf War, or liable to Forfeiture under any Act for prohibiting the African Slave Trade, shall, for the Purposes only of Seizure, Prosecution, and Condemnation, be adjudged as Slaves and Property, in the same Manner as Neero Slaves have been heretofore considered and adjudged, but the same shall be condemned to the sole Use to His Majesty, for the Purpose only of divesting and barring all other Property or Interest, and shall in no case be liable to be disposed of or dealt with as Slaves, by or on the Part of His Majesty, or any Person claiming under Him ; but such Officers, Civil or Military, as shall by any Order of the King in Council be empowered to receive, protect, and pro- vide for such Natives of ^i^frica, may enter and enlist any of them into His Majesty's Service, or bind them, whether of full Age or not, as Apprentices, for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Tears, to such Persons and upon such Conditions and Regulations as His Majesty shall, by any Order in Council, direct and appoint ; and any Indenture of Apprenticeship, duly made and executed by any Person to be for ti»« Purpose ap- pointed by any such Order, for any Term not exceeding Four- teen Years, shall be of the sime £ffect as if the Party thereby bound had himself, when of full Age, duly executed the sanhe ■, and every Native of Africa, who shall be so enlisted or entered, shall be treated and dealt with as if he had voluntary enViJcd or entered • • _ . . , Rti|ii, Chap. s«a. 46 Geo. 3. 46 Geo. 3, 5a 5* 14 16 47 Geo. 3. 36 47 Geo. 3, 36 47 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 36 17a 7 7 INDEX. f such Certific. le, and of an authentic Q>py of the Sen- t .'nee of Condemnation, and also a Receipt under the Hand of such Officer appointed as aforeHaid, specifying that such Slaves; oi' Africans tiave been received in good Health, shall direct Payment out of the Consolidated Fund of the Money specified in such Certificate to the -lawful Holders of the same, or the I Persons entitled to the Benefit thereof - - -J 33. Any Person forging or counterfeiting any such Certificate, ^ Copy of Sentence, of Condemnation, or Receipt, or any Ptrt I thereof, or wilfully uttering or publishing the same, knowing [^ it to be forged or counterfeited, with Intent to defraud His / Majesty, or any other Person, shall, on Conviction, suffer I Death without Benefit of Clerfy - - -J —— The pecuniary Penalties or Forfeitures shall be prosecuted and recovered in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or Court of Record or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions wherein the Oflfence was committed, or in case the Ofllender shall be resident in any other Place, then in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions where found ; and in all Cases of Seizures, the same may be prosecuted and recovered in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions, in or nearebt to which such Seizures may be made, ur to which sdch Ships, SI lye;:, Goods, or Effects (if seized at Sea or without the Limits of any Bfitiiih }■ Jurisdiction) may most conveniently be carried for Trial } and all the Penalties and Forfeitures, whether pecuniary or specific (unless where it is expressly otherwise provided), shall go to such Persons in such Shares, and may be prosecuted, distributed, and applied in such Manner and by the same Rules and Directions, as any Penalties or Forfeitures incurred in Great Britain, and in the British Colonies in America, by any Act relating to the Trade and Revenues of the said British Colonies, now go and belong to, and may now be prosecuted, Sic. in Gveat Britain, or in the said Colonies respectively - - - Ships, Slaves, or Natives of Africa conveyed 01 dealt" with as Slaves, and Goods .ind Effects forfeited for any Offence against this Act, may be seized by any Ofiiccr of the Customs or Excise, or by the Commanders orOtficers of any of His Ma- jesty's Ships of War, who shall have the Benefit of all the Provisions of 4 Geo. III. c. 15, or any other Act made for the Protection of Officers, seizing and prosecuting for sny Offence relating to the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America _ . . ',J( All Offences against this Act may be tried, determined, and dealt with as Misdemeanors, as if the same had been re spectivcly committed within the Body of the County Middlt'S(.'x , _ - 27. ■ His Majesty in Council may make such lUgulations for" the Di posal and Support of such Negroes as shall have been' bound Apprentice under this Act, after the Term of their Apprentiti'ship sliali have expired, as shall seem meet, and as may prevent such Negroes from becoming at any Time charge- able upon the Island in which they shall have been bound Apprentices Reign. ^ Clup. ssa. 47 Geo. 3. 36 12 46 Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. 5» 3<5 17 *3 47 Geo. 3. 36 47 Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. 3<5 36 '5 16 INDEX. 217 SLXYES—cttilitiueJ. a8. No Act, as to enlisting for any limited Period Service, or granting any Pensions or Allowances to Soldiers discharged after certain Periods of Service, shal extend to any Negroes enlisted and serving in any of 19. 30. 3I' Majesty's Forces —— Persons against haJ y HU| whom any Action shall be commenced'^ in Great Britain or elsewhere, fur any Thing done in pursuance of these Acts, may plead the General Issue, and give the Acts and the special Matter in Evidence ; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant i and if the Plaintiff be nonsuited, or discontinue his A£lion after the De- fendants have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the PlaiatiiF, the Defendant shall recover Treble Coits - - " •» "_ Actions, Bills, Indictments, or Informations for the Re>S covery of any of the Penalties or Forfeitures imposed by I 46 Geo. III. c. 52. and 47 Geo. III. c. 66. may be brouj^t, > exhibited, or prosecuted at any Time within Three Tears after I the Offence committed - - . . -J All Ships, whether British or Foreign, adjudged to be for-' feited under any Act for tho Prevention, Abolition, or Regula< tion of the Slave Trade in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or which shall be condemned in any Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions, for any Offence in relation to the Slave Trade, shall be entitled to Certificates of Registry as British Ships, and thereupon enjoy all the Privileges and Advantages of British-built Ships, in like manner with Ships taken and condemned as lawful Prize of War •, but such Ships shall be subject to the same Duties and Regulations, and shall be registered in the same Manner, and subject to the same Conditions and Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures, and shall be owned and navigated, as Ships con- demned as lawful Prize are required to be in order to their obtaining British Registers, and enjoying the Privileges of British Ships according to Law - « __ 3a. When Persons held or treated as Slaves within the* Provisions of any Act passed for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, shall be captured or seized as Prize of War, or as for- feited, or otherwise proceeded against and brought to Abjudica- tion, the Person claiming any Right or Property '- or the Possession of 7 46 Geo. 3. 47 Geo. 3. 5/» 36 >9 18 53 Geo. 3 112 54 Geo. 3. 59 55 l"! ^18 I N O E X. 33- 34. 3: -/y. fil.A\ES—tentimud. ate, and the Court shall, on Application by the Chief Officer of the Customs having provided for such Slaves, direct the Accounts to be brought into the RegiKtry of ti>e Court and exa- mined, and direct tlw &.>ne when confirm td to be a Charge on the said Slaves, to be defrayed by the Verson receiving Posses- sion thereof under the Decree . » ■ In case the Court shall itot immodiatel/ restore or con- demn, but shall direct furthe;- Proof in the Cause, and. the Person claiming the Property or Posseaaiion »hall not have sup- pliedj or at any Time pending Proceedings shall refubi or nc^Ieci' to supply Necessaries for the said iSVives, tlic Court ^ay direct a Valuation to be made, and decree ^uch Slav£,'<, ?ani; tf f-.nal Cvvndemnation ' • If on iurthes' J^-<>r>> the Slives shall be decreed to be^ restored, and there be 1 ,■> .A5>pi ' *rid the Stsves shall have been delivered over as above dufcftd, A the Valuation before di- rected, toge(l.fcf with In'fi'tt thereon, such Sums being detiucted as were; ^txpsmlrd fur their Maintenuice } and the Value ")0 adjuati..; shaU be paid by the Treasurer of the Navy in the same Maniier as Bounties paid for Slaves condemned under 47 Geo. III. c. $6, on the production of the Official Copy of the Sentenc? of Restitution, with the Valuation endorsed thereon by the Registrar of the Court - - ._ ■ — — — In case wh'Td there shall have been a Decree having the' Effect of a definitive Sentence, iestoriug or condemning the said Sb^es, and the same shall be suspended by Appen!, the Court atiiill forthwith direct the Slaves to be T<3:ued, aad after such VaUi ifion to be delivered over to such Omcer or Person as may be ap. 'tinted to rec( ive Slaves condemned ; and such Slaves shall l:e dealt with in all Respects as if they had been finally condemned, except ihat the Bounties shall not be due thereon but in the Event of final Condenuiation ,. Where Slaves shall be finally restored in the Co'rt cf' Appeal, Restitution in Value shall be made for the Use of the Proprietor, according to tht; Valuation before directed, subject to Re\rision in the said Court of Appeal, together with Interest thereon, the Sums expended for the Maintenance and Support being (deducted ; and tlie Value sci adjusted shall be paid by the Treasurer of the Navy in the same Maaiter a5 Bounties are paid under 47 Geo. III. 0.3$., on the Production of an Official 'Copy of the final Sentence, with the Valuatior;: of the Slaves en< jrsed diereott by the Registrar of the Court Not to prevent the Courts having Jurisdiction in the' Reign. Chap. 8«a. SI il'- principal Cause from adjudging the Captor, Seizor, or Prose- cutor to -lay, in addition to the Bectitution in Value, such further Sums iu the Nature of Costs or Damages as the Court shall . decree, Wttere it shall appear th„ > Capture, Seizure, or Pro- j j cecuUon, or the Api>eal there- . jll not be justified by the j ' Circumstances of the Case - . .j j 55 Geo. 3. 171 55 (iEeo. 3. 17a 39 55 Geo. 3. 172 55 Geo. 3. 172 40. ?5 173 j^^*' "^ INDEX. fl9 SLWES—ctHlinutd. 38. I If any Subject of His Majesty, or if any Person residing or beingwithin the United Kingdom, or in any of the Islands, Colo- nic*, Uominions, Forts, Settlements, Factories, or Territories be- longing thereto, or being in His Majesty's Possession, or under the Government of the East India Company, shall by himself, or by his Factor or Agent, or otherwise, remove, or aid or assist in the removing, as a Slave, or for the Purpose of being sold or dealt with as a Slave, any Person whatsoever, from any Part of Africa, or any other Country, Territory, or Place, either im- mediately or by Transhipment at Sea, or otherwise ( or shall import, or aid or assist in importing into any Colony, Territory, or Place any such Person as aforesaid, for the Purpose aforesaid \ or hall .knowingly embark, detain, or confine on board any Ship or Boat any such Person for the Purpose aforesaid ; or shall knowingly employ or permit to be employed, or let to freight or on hire, any Ship to be employed in removing or importmg, or for the Purpose of removing or importing, any such Person as a Slave, or for the Purpose of being sold or dealt with as a Slave } or shall fit out or cause to be fitted out, or take the Command of or navigate or embark on board any such Ship as Master or Captam, Mate, Supercargo, or Surgeon, knowing that such Vessel is actually emplryed, or is in the same Voyage for which he shall so embark intended to be employed, in removing, importing, or bringine any such Person for the Purpose of his being sold, used, or dealt with as a Slave; the Persons offending, and their Counsellors, Aiders, and Abettors, shall be declared to be Felons, and be transported for a Term not exceeding 14 Years, or kept to hard Labour for a Term not exceeding Hve Years, nor lew than Three Years, at the Discretion of the Court before whom convicted 39. Any Person who shall embark on board any such Ship" employed or intended to be employed as aforesaid, as a Petty Officer, Servant, or Seaman, knowing that such is the Purpose, or one of the Purposes of the Voyage, or who irfiall underwrite or procure to be underwritten any Policy of Assurance upon any such Ship or Goods, or the Freight, knowing the Pur- pose of the Voyage, shall only be declared to be guilty oi i Ii'iLsdemeanor, and shall be punished by Imprisonment for a Tenit not exceeding Two Years; and such PerMons shall not be deemed to be, nor shall be punished as Acces- sories to Felony - - - - -., 40. —^ — Not to subject any Person to the Pains and Penalties for'' removing or carrying from any British Colony or Settlement in the West Indies to any other such Colony, &c. or from one Part of such British Island, Colony, or Settlement to another ^■xTt of the sam , or for transporting into or landing in any such ' ^iony ^r Settlement any Slave born within such Colonies or Settlementb, or ^ny Slave which shall be lawfully imported into the said Colonies or Settlements, or for removmg or carrying uny S^ave from one Part of ; y Foreign Coiony or Setilecent to another Part of the same, 01 for transhipping and assisting at Sea any Slave which shall be in any Ship in Distress ; nor pre- vent >he Transporution to any Foreign Colony or Place of any Slave convicted by due Course of I^w In any British Colony of iiny Crime to which ihe Punishment of Transportation shall Eel Raiin. Chip. StO. 51 Geo. 3. "3 51 Geo. 3. 23 2.3 51 Geo. 3. 33 990 INDEX. SLAVES— eoiUuiiuJ. 41. 4«. 43- 44- be annexed ) but in every such Case a Copy of the Judgment or I Sentence, certified by the Court, ahall be put on board the Ship J All Felonies or Misdemeanors committed in Africa, or in any Place other than the United Kinedom, or on the High Seas, or in any Place where the Admiral has JuriMliction, shall be inquired of, either according to the ordinary Course of Law, and tiie Provisions of 28 Hen. VIII. mo far as the same Act is now unrepealed, or according to 11 8c I a W. HI. But nothing herein contained shall repeal or alter 46 Geo. III. c. 52. or 47 Geo. III. c. 36. for preventing the Importation of Slaves by any of His Majesty's SuDJccts into any Islands, Colonies, Plantation*) or Territories belonging to any Foreign State or Power, in respect of any Forfeitures of Ships, Cargoes, Goods, or EflRscts thereby imposed for »ny Offence against the said Acts, or the Remedies thereby given for the Recovery thereof, or in respect of any pecuniary Penaltiui thereby imposed - - - — — All Governors or Persons having the Chief Command of any of the Settlements, Forts, or Factories belonging to His Majesty, or the African Company in Africa, or tiny African Island, and all Persons deputed by such Governor o\ Com* mander in Chief, may seize and prosecute all Ships, Slaves, or Natives of Africa conveyed or dealt with as Slaves, and all Goods and ESiicts forfeited for any Oflience aeainst 46 Geo. III. €.52, or 47 Geo. III. c. 36, and which shafl be found upra or near to the said Coast, or in any Port, Hiiven, or River thereof, or within die Limits of any of the said Settlements, Forts, or Factories ; AM such Governor or Commander in Chief, and all Persons by them so deputed, shall have the Benefit cf -ill the Provisions made by any Act for the Protection of OtTicers seizing and prosecuting for any Offence against any Act relbting to the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in America -^— If any Petty Officer, Servant, or Seaman on board any") Ship fitted out for or engaged in the unlawfully removing or dealing in Slaves, shall within Three Months after the Arrival of the said Ship at any Port belonging to His Majesty, give Information on Oath before any competent Magistrate against any Owner, Part Owner, Captain, Mate, Surgeon, or Super- cargo of such Ship, who shall have committed any Offence against this Act, and shall give Evidence on Oath against such Owner, &c. before any Magistrate or Court before whom such O^ender may be tried ; or if such Petty Officer, or Mariner, or Servant, shall, within Three Months after his Arrival at any Place not within His Majesty's Dominions, give Informat m to any of His Majesty's Ambassadors, Ministers, Plenipotentiary Envoys, Consuls, Residents, or other Agents, so that any Person owning such Ships, or navigating or taking Charge of the same as Captain, Mate, Surgeon, or Supercargo, may be apprehended, such Person so giving Information and Evidence bhail not be liable to any Punishment under 46 G?o. III. c. 52, or 47 Geo. Ill, c. 36, out shall be "'holly discharged there- from ; and His Majesty's Ambassc urs, ike. are required to receive such Information, and to transmit the Particulars thereof R«i(n. Chip. Mk. 51 Geo. 3. as 6 51 Geo. 3. ^3 51 Geo. 3. 23 51 Geo. 3. 33 ^-- ■T'wr 1 N D £ X. 221 SLAVES— MMr>m«^. to one of His Majcsty'i Principal Secretaries of State^ and to I transmit Copies of the same to tne Commander of His Majesty's I Ships then m the said Port or Place • -J s Plans. I. — ^ No Rum or other Spirits shall be laden on board any Ship in any British Colony or Piantatton in America, but on Condition that the same shall not be carried to or landed in the Isle of i Man, under the like Securities, Penalties, and Forfeitures as ' prescribed in li Car. II. c. i8. and 25 Car. II. c. 7. * See « Ashes, Pot and Pearl." a. No Rum, the Production of any British Colony or Planta< :} tion in America, shall be landed in Guernsey or Jersey See *< Goods, Non-enumerated." Every Person loading any Spirits, as of the Product or' Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation, shall, before the clearing out of the Ship, deliver to the Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs at the loading Port, an Affi. davit signed and sworn to before some Justice of the Peace in the said British Colonies or Plantations, either by the Shipper or his known Aeent or Factor, expressing in Words at Length the Quality i-'' ;ie Goods, with the Number and Denomination of the Packa(^es, and describing the Name of the Plantation and Colony where the same were produced } which Affi- davit shall be attii;sted, under the Hand of the said Justice of the Peace, to have been sworn to in his Presence, who is required to do the same without Fee o** Reward i and .hu Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs to vho. - such Affidavit shall oe delivered, r ii thereupon grant a Certifi- cate under his Hand and Seal of Office (without ^c ot^ Reward) of his having received such Affidavit; which Certificate shall express the Quality of the Goods, with the Number and Deno- mination of the Packages . . - ._ The Collector or other pvjpcipal Officer of the Customs,- to wJhom such Affidavit shall he delivered, shall (without Fee or Reward) within Thirty Days after the Sailing of the Ship, transmit One exact Copy of the Affidavit to the Secretary's Office for the Colony or Plantation where the Spirits were shipped i and shall al80, within the like Space of Thirty Days, transmit another exact Copy to the Justices and Vestry of the Parishes and Precincts where the Spirits were produced, on Forfeiture of jt 50 for every Omission or Neglect • By 56 Geo. III. c. 91. Subjects of the King cf tie Netherlands , being Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, Berbice, or Ettequibo in Guianaj may export frun thence to the Netherlands any Goods the Produce of their Estates, in Dutch Ships, subject to the :ame Regulations and Restrictions for the due landing of such Produce in the Netherlandsy as are provided by any Act now in far, . 'ir the landing of the > Articles in Great Britain, so far as appli- tttbli : .,..J no Persons entitled ■■> trade between the sad Colonies, and the /?•-(/■. -ciy ff*he King of ihe Niherlands, are allowed to export the Produce vf the .aid Estates to any Part of the Uniitd Kingdom, or to any other of His Majesty's Dorntmons in Europe. Rai(n. Chap. 8«(t. 5 Geo. 3. 9 Geo. 5. Geo. 39 a8 a8 4 Geo. 3. '5 20 18 Geo. 58 vac SPIRITS— mm^wnim/. INDEX. 6.. ^ 8. 10.' II. 12. In caie any Juitice of the Peace thall aubscribe hia Name^ to any Paper or Parchment, purporting to be an Affidavit, for J the Purpuse directed by 4 Geo. III. c. 15., unlets the Person (^ Curportine to make such Affidavit shall - tu .!ly appear before im, and be sworn to the Truth 1 1 .!a A'** \^*u, every such Justice shall forfeit for every Offn ce d'ac -~— If there shall not be any uscicc.<« of the Peace at such' Colony or Plantation, before* wnotn such Affidavit can be made, the Planter or Grower shall tuake the same before th6 Collector and Comptroller or other Chief Officer of the Customs, or any Two of them, at the Port or Place from whence the Spirits may be intended to be shipped \ and in the Certificate whi'*'' the Collector and Comptroller and Naval Officr^ c 9 38 15 18 INDEX. '3' 14. hk'lRlTS—conUnueJ. other Duties paynl)le in the said Province, the Dutiei follow- ing I that is to say, For every Cialion of Brandy or othi-r Spirit! of the Manufac- ture of Great Britain, 'Hiree-pencc : For every Gallon ol' Hum or other Spirits which shall be imported from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonics in the West Indies, Sixpence : For every Gallon of Rum or other Spirits which shall be imported from any other of His Majesty's Colonics or Dominions in America, Nine-pence : For every (lalloii of Foreign Brandy or other Spirits of Foreign Manufacture imported from Great Britain, One Shilling : For every Gallon of Kum or Spirits of the Produce or Manu- facture of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, not in the Possession or under ihc Dominion of His Majesty, imported from any other Place except Great Britain, One Shilling -. Tne said Duties shall be deemed Sterling Money of" Great Britain, and be paid to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, and may be received and taken according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver) and the Duties shall be raised and recovered in the same Manner, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfuituivs (except where any Alteration is made by this Act), as any other Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into any British Colony or Plantation in America may be raised and recovered ; and tlie Monies that shall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary Charees of raising, recovering, and accounting for the same) shall oe paid bv the Collector of the Customs into the Hands of His Majesty s Receiver General in the said Province, and shall be applied in the first Place towards defraying the Ex- pences of the Administration of Justice, and of the Support of the Civil Government in the said Province } and the Commissioners of the Treasury, ur any Three of them, shall by any Warrant under their Hands cause luch Money to be applied out of the l^roduce of the Duties towards defraying the said Expences, and the Residue shall be reserved in the Hands of the Receiver General for the future Disposition of Parliament If any Spirits chargeable with Duties by this Act shall'' be brought into Quebec by Land Carriage, the same shall pass and be carried through the Port of Saint John's near the River Sorrel ; or if by any Inland Navigation other than upon the River Saint Lawrence, the same shall pass and becirricri upon the said River Sorrel by the said Port, and there tntonxi, and the Duties paid to such Officer of liis Majesty's Customs as &hali be there appointed ) and if any such Spirits coming by Land Carriage or inland Navigation, shall pass by or beyond the said Place without £ntry and Payment of the Duties, or shall be brought into any Part of the Province by or throush any other Place, such Spirits shall be forfeited, and the Persons assisting in the Removal, or to whose Hands the same shall come, knowing that they were removed contrary to this Act, shall forfeit Treble the Value, with the Cattle and Carriages made use of in the Removal, and shall be seized by any Officer of the Customs - - - - Rtign. Chip. *iit Swt. 14 Geo. 3. 88 14 Geo. 3. 88 14 Geo. 3. 88 M4 I N D K X. S?lKrTS—<9nHimt.p. »*&. 1 j. ' Hit Majesty's Subjects mijr iireelv bring, by Land Carriage^ or Inland Navigation, into any Parts ot the Province of Quebec not heretofore comprehended whhin the Limils thereof D|r His Majesty's Proclamation of 7th 0£tobvr 1763, «iy Quantity of Spirits, notwithstanding 14 Geo. III. c. 8K. 16. In Cases where Spirits of the British Sugar Colonies in' the West Indies shall be legally imported into Quebec from the said Colonies, in any Ship which in her last preceding Voyage shall have carried to and landed in ,iny of the said Colonies a Cargo of Lumber and Provisions Horses or Neat Cattle, from the said Province, it shall be lawful to land any Quantity of such Spirits (not exceeding in Value the Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle), without Payment of the Duty of 6d. per Gallon - - - • 17. In Cases where Spirits, the Produce or Manufacture of^ any of the said Colonies, shall be legally imported into Quebec from any of the said Sugar Colonies, in any Ship which, in her next clearing-out from the said Province after such Importation, shall intend to load with Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, and carrv to and land the same in some of the laid Colonies, it shall be lawful to land any Quantity of such Spirits (not exceeding in Value the Cargo of Lumber or Pro- visions, Horses or Neat Cattle), without Payment of the Duty of 66. per Gallon { provided the Owner of such Ship, or in case of his not residing in the Province, the Master with one or more sufficient Sureties residing within the said Province, shall, before auch Spirits be admitted to an Entry, give Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to be taken by Two principal Omcers of the Customs, in 4^500, with Condition that the Ship shall, in her next clearing-out from the Province, be laden with a Cargo of Lumber or Proviaions^ Horses or Neat Cattle, equal in Value to tlie Spirits adn^itted to Entry without Payment of the Duty ; and that the Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, shall be carried to and landed in oume of the said Colonies in the West Indies 18. The Lumber (except White Oak Staves), Provibions, ^ Horses, and Cattle, exported under the Condition of the said > Act, shall be the Growth or Produce of Quebec, and no other -J 19. The Value of the Spirits, and the Value of the Cargo of Lumber ur Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, shall be esti- mated according to the Valuations contained in the Schedule annexed to this Act. But His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, by Order to be issued and published, may alter the Valuations and Articles contained in Inch thick INDEX. •urllnf. £ I. d. — 5- — 4 6 — a — — 3 — ^pcr Bushel. — 5 — — I 8 — 4 6. 4 10 ~- per Tierce. 3 — — per Barrel. 6 ij — per Tierce. 4 le -— per Banel. 10 per lb. — — 7 per lb. I ; ;}«*'"'• a 10 — per 3 IJ — per 1 — — per I 5 — pe' — 16 — per 7 per 3 ^ — |p" I — — per — I 3 P«' — I — per Rtiia. Barrel. Tierce. Barrel. Ditto. Cwt. Hhd. of 63 Oalli. Ditto. Thousand. lb. Cubic Foot. -*- — 5 per Superficial Foot. — — 3 P*' Ditto. 10 — per laoo Pieces. Puncheon Heading a| Feet long, 5 to 6 Inches broad and I Inch thick Pine Timber Squared Pine Boards la Feet Ion ;} 10 — — per Thousand. • — — 4 per Cubic Foot. thick - -J ^ } Ditto, 10 Feet long, and i Inch thick Ditto, Ditto, a Inchei thick - Wooden Hoops la Feet long - Ditto, 14 Ditto Ditto, 10 Ditto Ditto, 7 Ditto Shinries Puncneon Backs - Bar Iron * 5 3 7 S — 5 10 4 — a 10 — IS — la I 10 Pf — per Hundred Boards. 6 Ditto. — per Thousand Hoops, — Ditto. — Ditto. — Ditto. — per Thousand. — each. — per Cwt. 53 Geo. 3. 37 Oup. >'t, \: true ; Reign. 12 Car. 2. 22&23 Car. 3. 39 81400. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. Chap. 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 3980400.3. 18 26 10 67 15 10 67 18 26 67 10 »5 91 22 15 10 67 SiW s^. 19 11 1.3 Art. 6 24 >. 3 Art. 6 19 II Art. 6 '.3 27 4,8 10 27 T,3 Art. 6 '■''r^i III < / ' «80 INDEX. SUGAR— ctmtinueJ. and if any Person shall counterfeit, ra»e, or falsify any Ccrtin- cate for any Ship or Goods, or knowingly or wilfully mak: use diereof, such Person shall forfeit J^soo, and the Certificate shall be of no Effect _ - . , 7, If any Oflicer of the Customs in Great Britain or Ireland ^ shall give any Warrant for, or sufier any Sug^ar (or any^uu- j 8. lo.. II. ja. merated Article) to be carried into any other Country or Place ( until first put on Shore in some Fort in Great Briuin or f Ireland, every Officer for such Offence shall forfeit his Place, I . /-< and the Value of the Gwjds - - J 39 « 4© 6,3. The Governors cr their Commanders in Chief of the siid*^ Plantations are Once a Year at least, to return to the Offictis of the Customs in London, or to such other Person as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same, a List of all Ships as shall 'lavc laden any Sugar (or any enumerated Article) in such PLatation, as also a List of all Bonds taken by them ; and in case any Ship belonging to any of His Majesty's Plantations shall be found to have unloaded in any Port of Europe other than Great Britain or Ireland, such Ship shall be forfeited and her Lading . - _ - _ In all bonds to be taken in the Plantations the Persons' therein named shall be of known Residence and Ability there, for the Value mf.ntioned in the Bond, the Condition of which shall be, within Eighteen Months after the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted), to produce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the Goods therein mentioned in One of His Majesty's Plantations, or in Great Britain or Ireland, other- wise such Bond or Copies thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief to whom such Bond was given, shall be in force and allowed of in any Court in Great Britain, Ireland, or the Plantations, as if the Original was produced in Court by the Prosecutor - . In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great Britain* or Ireland in pursuance of any Act whereby the Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great Britain or Ireland, such Bond shall be with Condition that within Eighteen Months from the Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certifi- cate shall be produced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such Goods shall be delivered, that they have been there landed and discharged, otherwise such ^onds shall be forfeited _ _ . . _ In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Breach or* Non-performaiice of the Condition of the Bond within Three Years after the Date thereof, or if upon Prosecution for some Breach or Non-performance of the Condition, Judgment be not obtained within Two Years after Prosecution commenced, then > such Bond (in default of such Prosecution to be commenced, and Judgment to be obtained within the Times limited) shall be void ; and all Bonds so void shall be delivered up by the Officers to be cancelled without Fee or Reward Every Person loading any Sugnrs or Paneles as of the Pro-" duct or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation, shall, before clearing out of tlie Ship, deliver to the Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs at the loading , Port, an Affi- davit signed and sworn to before tome Justice of the Peace in Reign. Chip. s«a. 1 5 Car. a. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 22 &C 23 C. 2- 4 Geo. 3. uo Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 7&8W.3. 4 Geo. 3. 20 Geo. 3. 39&40G. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. aoUeo.3. 39&40G.3. 7 '5 10 67 26 10 67 22 10 67 31 10 67 8 Ann. 4 Geo. 3. >3 »5 9 27 '.3 An. 6 12 27 ».3 Art. 6 «3 27 Art. 6 6 27 Art. 6 23 27 INDEX. «81 HVQAR-'Caitifnitd. the said British Colonies or Plantations, either by the Grower, Maker, or Shipper, or his known Agent or Factor, e;i;pres8inE in Words at I/;ngth the Quality of the Goods so shipped, with the Number and Denomination of the Packages, and describing the Name of the Plantation, and the Name of the Colony where the same grew or were produced and manufactured } which Affidavit shall be attested under the Hand of the said JuHticc of the Peace to have been sworn to in his Presence (who is re- quired to do the same without Fee or Reward) ; and the Collec- tor or other principal Officer of the Castoms, to whom such Affidavit shall be delivered, sha'l thereupon grant to thr Master a Certificate under his Hand and Seal of Office (without Fee or Reward) uf his having received such Affidavit t which Certihv ... shall express the Quality of the Goods shipped, with the Num- ber and Denomination of 'he Packages — — The Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs' to whom such Affidavit shall be delivered shall (without Fee or Reward) within Thirty Days after the Sailing of the Ship trans- mit One Copy of the Affidavit to the Secretary's Office for the Colony or Plantation where the Sugar or Fancies referred to in the said Affidavit were shipped, and shall also within 30 Days transmit another Copy to the Justices and Vestry of the Parish or Precinct where the said Sugar or Faneles grew or were pro- duced and manufactured, unoer the Penalty of jfjo. fo>- every Omission and Neglect .-..._ In case any Justice of the Peace of the said Colonies or' *3- 14. >S' 16.. 17- 18. Plantations shall subsaibc his Name to any Paper or Parchment Writing, purporting to be an AfTidavit for the Purpose directed by 4 Geo. III. c. 15. unless the Persun purporting to make such Affidavit shall actually appear before him, and be sworn upon the Holy Evangelists to the Truth of the said Affidavit, then such Justice shall forfeit for every Offence ji'^o, If there shall not be any Justices of the Peace at such' Colony or Plantation before whom such Affidavit can be made, the Planter or Grower shall make the same before the Collector and Comptroller, or other Chief Officer of the Customs, or any Two of them, at the Port from whence any such Sugar or Paneles may be Intended to b.7 shipped, and in the Certificate ^ which the Collector and Comptroller and Nav^l Officer, or any | Two of them, are required to deliver lo the Shipper, they shall also certify that there are not any Justices of the Peace resident at or within such Colony or Plantation - . »J May be exporfcid from the West India Islands to any of n the Territories belonging to the United States, by British Sub- \ jects and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according [ to Law - ■ - . , J The Produce of any British Colony m ihe West Indies,^ imported into Bermuda in any firitish Snip, may be exported i from Saint George or Hamilton in Bermuda, to any Fart of ' the Territories of the United States of America, in any Foreign Ship, belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty above the Burthen of Sixty Tons Where, on Exportation of any Goods to any British Colony") V or Plantation in America, a Bond is required for the due landing | IUi|n. Chip. sio such Officer at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be landed, and that Oath hath been made before such Magistrate, by the Master of the Vessel, that the Goods were there duly landed - - 19. - r Reign. Cbip. 8e irhereof to His I Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or DuUin, Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; one Moiety whereof Majesty, and the other Moiety to the Prosecutor If any Person shall be sued for any Thing done in pur-' suance of this Act, he may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence ; and if the Plain- tiflF or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit, or forbear the Prosecu- tion, or discontinue the Action, or if Verdict shall pass against him, the Defendant shall hare Treble Costs, and the like Re- medy for recovering the same as in Cases where Costs are by Law given to Defendants - - - -^ . If any Person shall grant a false Certificate, or counter^' feit» erase, or alter any Licence, Oath, or Certificate, which shall be made pursuant to this Act, or shall knowingly publish or make use thereof, such Person shall forfeit ^500 ; to be re^ covered and disposed of in the Manner before directed, and the Licence, Oath, or Certificate so falsified, counterfeited, erased, or altered shall be of no Effect - — — The Produce of any of His Majesty's Sugiir Colonies or"j Plantations in America, may be shipped and exported direct to I Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, ia such ^ Reign. Chap. Stii. $2 Geo. 3. 98 52 Geo. 3. 98 52 Geo. 3. 98 5% Geo. 3. 98 52 Geo. 3. 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 98. 39 4 I N D E X. 955 SUGAR— i-M# not be lawful fof arty Persons who by virtue of this Act may be entitled to trade between the said Colonies and the Dominions of the King of the Netherlands, to export the Produce of the said Estates to any Part of the United Kinp ' om, ' to any other of His Majesty's r ominions in Europe . - - - There shall be paid to H Majesty upon Sugar the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any Colony or Plantation in America, not under the Dominion of His Maje$ty, which shall be imported into any Colony or Plantation in America, under the Dominion of His Majesty, the Dutie^s following i that is to say. For all Sugars and Paneles of such Foreign Growth, &cc. a Duty after the Rate of «j. for every Cwt. Avoirdupois : For White or Clayed Sugar of su<,h Foreign Growth, 8cc. a Duty after the Rate of j^i. as. fo. every Cwt. Avoirdupois : — The Duties shall be deemetl Sterling Money of Great"^ Britain, and shall be collected, recovei^d, and paid to tne Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, and shall be received according to the Proportion and Value of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver, and (exccp lie necessary Charges of collecting, recovering, paying, ai . juncmg for the sanjc) shall be paid into the Exchequer, aiui <>e entered separate from other Monies, and be there reserved t'. ;> disposed of by Par- liament towards defraying the neces' -ry Expences of protcctin'g and securing the British Colonies and Plantationf. in America -^ — — Upon the Importation of such Sugar said Colonies or Plantations, an Entry shall Collector or other proper Officer of the CustomS; where the same shall be imported, a id the Dutii in ready Money before the landing In case the Sugar shall be '■' made, and before the Duties shall a before due Entry be" duly paid, or without a Warrant for the landiag and delivering the same first signed by the proper Officer of the Customs, such Sugar or the Vahie of the same shall be forfeited, and may be seized by the Governor or Commander in Chief of theColtVj or Plantation where landed, or any Person by him authorized in that behalf, or by Warrant of any Justice of the Peac«« or other Magistrate, (which Warrant such Justice or Magistrate is required to give upon Request) or by any Customhouse, Impost, or Excise Officer, or any Person accompanying, aiding, and assisang him; One Third of such Penalty and Forfeiture to His Majesty, to be applied for the support of il'. '^m, , ; . ior of the Colony or Plan- > Rtign. Chip. S«A. 56 Geo. 3. 9» 4>5 6,7 8 6 Geo. a. 4 Geo, 3. '3 «5 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. '5 I II 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. «3 »5 2 1' 6Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. 13 15 3 I iiSti INDEX. SU GAR — continue J. tatiop where the same shall U Gov> rnor or Commander in Ch. Informant or Prosecuto- - If any Fersnr. shall hinder or resist any Customhouse' 34- 35- 3<5. 37- 38. reived i One Third to the and the other Third to the Officer or any of his Assistants in the due Elxecution of his Duty in seizing any such Sugar, he shall forfeft j^'jo. and be liable to be prosecuted for the same by Indictment or otherwise, and being thereof found guilty shall be imprisoned for Three Months without fiail or Mainprize ; and if any Officer of the Customs or his Assistant shall be sued or prosecuted for any Thing done in the Execution of his Duty, he may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence, and the Judges shall allow thereof { and any Officer of the Customs in any of His Majesty's Plantations or Colonies in America, who shall knowingly connive at the fraudulent Importa- tion or Landing of any Sugar contrary to this Act, or if such Officer shall seize the same, and shall by Fruud or Collusion desist from or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, he shall forfeit j^50. and be incapable of holding any Office under His Majesty - - - . ~. If any of His Majesty's Subjects being Master of any Ship shall take in or suffer to be taken in at Sea, or in any Creek or Harbour or other Place, any Sugar in order to be brought on Shore ^tnd landed in any of His Majesty's Plantations in America contrary to this Act, such Master shall forfeit jfioo. Upon all Suits andP'aaccutions for the bringing on Shore' and landing of any Sugar v- .i-y of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America ic,i\nxry to these Acts, the Onus Pro- band! that the same ws r. fhe Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's Color^Ies or I !::vi',Kioiis there, or were duly entered and had paid the Duties thoco-.i before the Landing, shall lie on the Claimer thereof - - - - - No Duty shall be paid for any Foreign Sugar which shall" be imported into any British Colony or Plantation on the Con • tinent of America, if the Sugar upon landing is immediately deposited and secured in Warehouses at the sole- Expence of the Importer, with the Privity and Approbation and under the Care and Inspection of the Collector and Comptroller or other prin- cipal Officer of the Customs, and such Sugar shall be se.ured under the separate Locks of such Officers and the Proprietor, and within 1 2 Calendar Months from the landing and ware- housing shall be shipped for Exportation directly to Great Britain or Ireland, or to some Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, under the like Securities, Regulations and Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures, as British Sugars may be so carried and exported from any British Colony or Plant- ation in America - . - - ., If the Importer of any Sugar warehoused shall not pay' the Duties nor export the Goods within 12 Calendar Months, the Collector or Comptroller or other principal Officer of the Customs shall cause the same to be publicly sold to the best Advantage, and the Money arising by such Sale shall be in the first Place applied in Discharge of the Duties^ next the Charges ( Rtlfn. Chap, S«tl. 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. '3 3 I 6 Geo. 2. 4 Geo. 3. '3 15 7.8 I Geo. Geo. 2. 13 15 6 Geo. 52 16 6 Geo. 3. 52 17 INDEX. «87 SVQfiR—continufd. attending the S.il<-, and the Surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Importer who landed and warehoused such Goods, or to luch other Pcriton as shall be duly authorized to receive the name • - - - - The Produce of any Foreign Colony or Plantation may be* 39. imported into Nassau in New Providence, Pitts Town in Port- land Harbbur in Crooked Island, the Bahama Islands, or into th'> pr^ into such Ports in the Caicos ,|h be approved by ilis Majcsf ' and subject to such Rule: are prescribed in this Act enumerated ; and such Stig. ported will -^ut Payment of a ;t and into such Ports in cipal Port in Bermuda, or " )een or may hereafter tn such Foreign Ships, vs, and Restrictions as •" other Goods herein xirted and again ex- stoms • - ' - Free Ports." 40. - ' His Majesty with the Advice ot the Privy Council may" Eermir the Importation into Road Harbour in Tortola, and the Aport from thence into this Kingdom, of Sugar, in the same Manner, an>.| on the same Duties and Drawbacks, and subject to the same Rules, &cc. as in 4; Geo. III. c. 57. respecting Importation and Exportation of Sugar from Nassau, and fur- thcr subject to such Rules, &c. as shall be directed by His Majesty - - - . See " Free Ports." 41. -^—— His Majesty with the Advice of the Privy Council may" permit the Importation into Road Harbour, and Exportation from thence without Payment of any Duty of Customs, of ill Sugar, subject to such Rules, &c. as shall be directed by His Majesty } and all Sugar imported into Great Britain apd Ireland from Tortola, (other than the Produce of the British Virgin Islands, and exported under such Certificate as shall be directed by His Majesty, and which shall not be given in any me Year for any greater Quantity than 5,880,003 lbs.) shall be deemed to be Foreign Sugars - - - See «« Free Ports." SYRUPS. See " Molasses." TALLOW. 1. The Production or Manufacture of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or of any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign 1 European Sovereign or State, may be imported from any of the f said Countries into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Vessel wha'- ever, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any ot the said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries - _ . See *' Free Ports." 2. — — The Production or Manufacture of any of the Colonies" or Plantations in America, or Countries on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of anv Foreign European Sovereign or State, having been imported into the > • By 52 Geo. III. c. 99. any Foreign Vessel described in 45 Geo. HI. c. 57. may come in Ballast, or import into any Port of the Bahama Islands " -where there is a Custom House" the Articles allowed by the said Act to be so imported i and also to export the Articles allowed by the /aid Act to be so exported conformably ivith the Regulations of the said Act. See ** Free Ports." Rilgn. 45 Geo. 3. 46 Geo. 3. 46 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. Chip. S«A. 57 \ 72 I 72 57 22 99 74 57 34 99 94 IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) M 4^ 4(s « 1.0 I.I 11.25 ■ttlZi Hi ■tt iii& 12.2 M 12.0 6" / y Photographic Sciences Corporation ^1!^ '^.V' 33 WiST MAIN STRUT WEBSTH.N.Y. 14SM (71«) •73-4503 '^ \ 4 y %> m INDEX. ^VfQABi—iiMtinuiJ. Frfe Ports, may be cxpptM ^m thtQioe tQ «iw Put of the Uoited Kingdom, v^ndm tli« ](Uil«*i ^> of %> Car. U, c. 18. aa & as Car. II. c.a<^> 4i>4 aoCko, HI. <;*io<> vitb^ n«p«ct to Goods f herein flnnmerated - - - -. Sac " f Kee Pqr^ft." TAR. Sec «« Pitch, Tar, a|id T^jmeotMM?," TOBACOp. I.' 1— The Production of the 3nti«K ?4Mt»liQn9 id Amerio sh^ not be shippedj of ^Hf C|w4 ^i9 aox Of tbjQ 8fu4 PlMtatfoiM to anj, Eboe, milea? to sioiiiw ot)t9f ^wUtiooi bejbm0»e to His Mijestjr, or to Grejit BritW) qx Uielf^Mt tHww to bp bid. on Shpre, on Forfeiture of tlw Goodf oc thr Cu)l VHlnc ^kreoC, and th^Ship - . - . . /• I - The other Restrictions, Beoal^s, iv^d. Forfeitures to I secure the Landing on th« Plantlktipna, or in Great y ^ Britainor Ireland* are tl)e WW as Stug^r, • ? 9ee " Sugar, Np, v to, ^i." i a. I . There shall be pvd, to Qis I^pt^ Qne Pfwrfor ^verjf Pound Weight of Tbbac(;o shipped in H}« M|t}eat]^s,pifwt#tionB^ if Bon4 is dot first, giycn mm One ^uQ^iei^t Sureity, to briiw th^ same to Great ^ntgip or Ireland ; and the s»id Qut}; stuQ be paid at 8uchPli|cessM)d to suich Qffig^r^ as shall be appointed to collect and receirie the same, before the lading thereof 3. -^— I — The "Dutj shall be deemed SMiQg Money of Great' Britain, and shall be cpHected, recovered, and paid, to ti^«^ Aijiount of the Valu^ whi(^ such Qvmi^l Sumsbew ia Great Britain, tod shall be n^ceired and t^q i^cording to the Frqpo tion and Value of Fiytc^ ^hillings and Sixpence the Ousce in Siliver, and (the necess^Clhargesof raifing and p«yingthB same excepted) shall be p«ud iiitq therSuchequcr 4. — The Business, shall be managed and the Duty, levied by 6. thf Commissioners of the Custom* in Sngiand* by and under th^ Authority of tbf ConuiDitsioners of the Treasury In case any Person liable to pay the Duty shall not have -v ) M^ey wherewitn to pay the sane, the Officers shall accept | initead of the Money such a Proportion of the Commodity to K be. shipped as shall amount to the Value thereof according to | th^ Current Rate of the, Conuqodi^ in sucb^ PbptatioQ • / Nbtwithstan^ne the Payment of the Duty, no Tbbacco"\ :} dull be shipped until u* Security required by la Car, II. c. 18. r ; ud aa & a^ Car. it. e. atfi, has been girea to- carry the same to > Great Britam orltekad, or some of His Majesty^ Plantations, on.Forfeiture of the Vessel vnd Goods 7. " , — All Laws, Usages, or Customs in force or practice in any , of the said Plantations in anywise repugnaqit to the befoiv men^ dWhei and navigated according td Law, on FoffftituM fhMMtf Md (h6 Ship - • - * rf The Growth Of the said Territories ttutf ht impOtM tiomS thence into Saint George of Hamiltott in the Istsnd «f BeflHUda / in any Foreign Ship belonging to My CotttitrjT id Amit)r #tlh I His Majesty, and exported from the said FMte to aAy df Hri ( Majesty's Islands Or Dominhmr in the Wett MdiM, iM BtltiA- 1 built Ships owned and navigated acewding to 1a# v No Tobacco shall be imMttted Hito Hit Majesty's Weit^ India Islands (including the Bahama tnd BcMnoda t>t SoiMtr'tf Islands), or into Demerara, Berbic«j of Ess^toibo^ fn>m any Island in the West Indies, or Colony Or ^UtiUtidn On (h* GcMlu y tinent of South America, uttdef the Dominidn of aiiy' WMtiKH European Sovereign or State, on ForMtUfe thereof And OU Ship - » * « * In case of publitfEfflergenef of Distress, the 6tf#etftort,LiAl-' tenant Governors, or Commandere itr Chief of *tiy it the IslMds in the West Indies under the Dominion of His Majesty, or the Governors, &e. of the said Colonies of DemeMM, Berbice, oi* Essequibo in the Ptrovince of Guiana, with the Advice and Consent of their rewective G)uncUs, may aUlheifiie the Import^ ation of Tobaeoo fdr a limited Time ffom anff Ish*d in the West Indies or Colony or Plantation on the Conthient of South America belonging to or under the Domirtiort of Mj Foreign European Sovereign or Sute, for the Suppic of the Irfhtbitantts of the said Islands and Colonies { but suchTc««ecO shall rtot be SO imported except by British Subjects^ and in Bril9sh<4>(iih Sh^r, owned and navigated' according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship - - -■ • -— — Havingbeettibportedfromanf Mand in (he West Indies' or Colony on the Continent of Sovth Ameriea Undifr die Dd* miiuon of any Foreign European Sovereign Of State, itittf any off His Majesty's West India Islande, Demerara, Berbieei or Me* Juibo, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, shall not be exported :om any of the said Islands or Cdenies, or pfM'otf bMrd aaif Vessel or Boat, or brought to any Qtaav ^th Itltent to be ex* pofted, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Vessel Or Boat fat which laden ; and before shipping any Tobacco, whether in itS' manufactured or unmanufactur^ State, that may lawfully be exported) the Exporter shall make Oath that nO Part thereof had been imported for the Supplv of the Inhabitants from anv Island in the West Indies or Colony on the Continent reign or State - - - - - I If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false Oath' touching any of the Facts required to be testified on Oadi, such Person wall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and be liable to the Pains and Penalties ta which Persons are liable for wilfal and m lUign. Cb.p. St«. i9 Qtoi 31 $6 Geo. 34 6 9> I 5a Geo. 3. ^3 Geo. 3 4 19 JO «i3 I • it ^46. 3- 3ide«.3. 16 Ge6. 3. 6 10 X I ii eluding the Bahama andBermuda or Somer's Islands) urDemerara, Berbice, or Euequibo, anv Tobacco being die Growth of some of the Territories or Dominions of the Crown of Portugal in South America* provided the same is imported into the said Islands or Colonies direct from the said Territories or Dominioiib* ' in British-built Ships* owned* navigated* and registered accord- ing to Law _ . . . k 17. ' The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts may be seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty*' "'-' Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, Warrant, Officer, specially authorized by them, or by any Officer Customs .... i8. If any Tobacco of the Growth or Production of thel United States of America, which shall, in the fair and lawful ' |< way of Barter or Traffic between the People of the said United I States and between any of the People of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, be imported from any Part of the said f United States into any of the said Islands by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law* it shall be lawful to export from any of the said Islands the same Tobacco, and to import it directly frori thence into Great Britain or Ireland, in British-built Ships registered and navigated according to Law - - -_ The Name of the Ship in which such Tobacco shall be^ Rti|n. Chtp S*&. 45 0«o«3' Dts may be^ r's Ships or I t, or Petty > Beer of the I 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 5. a8 Geo. 3. ay Geo. 3. 3i Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. imported from any Part of the said United States into any of the I said Islands in tne West Indies, and also the Name of the > Master, shall be particularly specified in the Manifest orContent I in Writing accompanying such Tobacco - -J ' When any Ship shall have taken on board Tobacco at any ~ Port within His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories in America, in order to convey the same from thence into Great Britain, the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at such Port, (if there shall be such Collector and Comptroller there resident, and in default thereof Two other Chief Officers of the Customs at such Port), shall, on the clear- ing of every such Ship by the proper Officer of the Customs, deliver to the Master a Manifest or Content in Writing under ap Geo. 3. 57 47 9^ 6 9« 68 67 »5 Art. 6 68 :■'*.(' , 16 90 ) I N D 9 X. TOBACCO— . 3. 49 Geo. 3. 5a Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. , '1. _...-.■• 33 Geo. 3. HJifc.,- 57 Geo. J. ^.ii: ir... 55 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3, '.,.;.:T 38 Geo. 3. ^6 Geo. 3. 57 aa 99 74 57 &7 50 »3 28 4 S»9 6 9> Is a INDEX. UNITED STATES— mm/wwa/. built Shipt» owned and navigated according to Law, on For- I feiture thereof and the Ship* . . . - i , . a. ■ Except alto Houaehold FumitBN, Utemila of Huibandryi and Clothing by Subjectt of the Mid Statei, who shall come ftom thence together with their Ftoiiiiea to the Biduuna or Ber- j f muda Islands, or to the Province of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or any of the Territories belonging to His Majesty in North I America, for the Purpose of resiwng and settling tnere, having I first obtained a Licence for that Purpose from the Covemor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, of the said Islands, Pro- I '. i .vinces, or Territories respectively t provided such Household . i Furniture, Sec. are imported in British Ships owned by His I ' i > Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, and shall ■\ ' > not in the whole exceed the Value of i^so for every White I i < Person that shall belong to the Family, and 40s. for every Negro I |1. brought by such White Person ... See » Settlers." 3. ■ Any of the said Articles (enumerated in No. i.) the' , Growth or Production of the United States, may be imported r , j from thence into Saint George or Hamilton in Bermuda, i ... \ in any Foreign Ship belonging to any Country b Amit/ i . ; with His Majesty, and exported from the said Ports to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law • - - . -^ In addition to the said Articles, it shall be lawful to im*^ port from the United States into the Ports mentioned in the said AeUf and in Ships of the Description therein stated, and under V the like Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, Fruit and Vegeta- 1 bles being the Produce of the said States - • .J Any Person may export from the West India Islands to' any Place within the Territories belonging to the United States, any Goods not by Law prohibited to be exported from the said Islands to any Foreign Country or Place in Europe, and also Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, Ginger, and Pimento i and all Cocoa Nuts or Ginger which shall be exported, shall be liable to the same Duties to which the same are now liable if exported to any British Colony or Plantation in America i and the said Duties shall be raised, recovered, and applied in the same Manner as the Duties on Coooa Nuts or Ginger exported to any British Colony or Plantation in America t provided that no Sugar, Molasses, Coflfiee, Cocoa Nuts, Ginger, or Pimento, nor any other Commodities (except Salt from Turks Island, being Part of the Bahama Islands) shall be so eiqported other than by British Subjects, and in British-built Vessels, owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Vessel - - - . . : ,4 ' See « Goods, en—qerated and non-enumerated." * Itt AriifUs here enumtrattd fntuft certain DfscriptioHt cf Timierfrem Trinidad and Parte Rico) an probibittd to ht imfforted info tie Ifert India LJandt, or ittto BtrUee, Dtnurara, or Essequibt, Jr«m Islands anJ Cohnitt under tit Dosmnim rf Foreign European Sovereigns or Statest unless in Cases tf Emergency or Distress, or from the Portuguese Colonies in South America under the Trtfty. with Portugal. See the Articles respectively, fi h 2 Chap. 44a' 8tt). 30 Geo. 3. a; i% Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 70 5c a. 3 1 57 Geo. 3. a8 a8 Geo. 3. INDEX. UNITED ^TATES-AMMiMM^ tf. »■■ Where on Eipfortation of aay Oooda to mj Briiith Cekmy' or ?lant«tion in AoMrica. » Bond it re<|ttired for the due LumUm; such Goodi, and a Certificate U reqvirid to dildiafie mdi BoM« (m« ••Sugar," and other enuraefateii Artidec* and ** Oooda, non- enitaerated,**) a aimaar Bend ahall be required oa BnorUtion of auch Oouda to the United Gtatcn \ a»d auth Bond ahall be dia- charged upon Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Britiah Conaul or Vice Conaul, or in caie there ahall not be any auch Coniul or Vice Conaul, then under the Hand and Seal of any Officer who may be appointed by the TTnitcd Statea for the Purpoae of granting auch Certificate i and if there ahall not j be any Officer appoint^* dten auch Bond shall be discharged • upota a Certificate uiider the Hand and Seal of any Magistrate ot the United States, certifying that there is no such Officer at I the Port or Place where f uch Goods shall have been landed, ' and that Oath hath been made before such Magistrate by the Master of the Vessel, that the Goods were duly landed - ■«■ Any Sugar, Coffin, Rum, and Molasses, the Produce of" I any British Cdonv in iha West Indies imported into Bermuda I in any British Ship, may be exported from the Port of Saint ' George or from thel^ort of Hamilton in the aaid Island, to any Part of the Territories of the United Sutes, in any Fon Ign Veaiel belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, above the Burthen of 60 Tons • - ■ Any Ship belonging to the Inhabitants of the United' States, coming in Ballast and not otherwise, may enter the Porte . of the Islands called « Turks Islands" for die nirpose of being I there laden with Salt, proTided the Master shall, immediately i after the Arrival of sucn Ship in any Port of the laid Iilands, t make a true Entry of his Ship, upon Oath before the Collector i or other principal Officer of such Port, declaring of what Country she is built, how manned, who waa the Master during the Voyage, and who are the Owners thereof, and the Purpose ' for which he enters the aaid Port, in order that such Ship may : undergo the Search and Examination of the proper Officeri of \ His Majesty's Customs ; and such Master shall truly answer * upon Oath to such Questions concerning the same, as ihail be demanded of him by such Collector or other principal Officer, under the Penalty or jf'ioo. - • - • — There shall be paid, for the Use of His Majesty, a' Tonnage Duty after the Rate of Two Shillings and Sixpence -'1 Sterling, payable in Elollars at the Rate of Five Shillings and (■■, Sixpence per Ounce, for every Ton Burthen of every such Ship \ and the Tonnage shall be ascertained by Admeasurement made by such Officer as shsdl be appointed for that Purpose by the ' Commissioners of His Majeaty'sCustoms in England for the Time being, or anv Four or more of them, which Officer shall admea- sure such Ship according to the following Method % viz. ; h| Drop a Plumb Line over the Stern of the Ship, and mea- T %y * sure the Distance between such Line and the After-part I 'i. * of the Stem Post at the Load Water Mark, then mea- )' r < sure from the Top of the said Plumb Line in a parallel I * Direction with the Water to a perpendicular Point * immediately over the Load Water Mark, at the Fore- part of the main Stero, substracting from -stdi l/LeMWf- i ' V * - ^ • . Htign. a8 Geo. 3. •».■»«. i-i lit) '■if, 7V«?.1/M. Clwp- Mi. 79 98 5.6 98 Geo. 3. ■0-t INDEX. >.« 10. UNITED STATE8-<«»/iVMm/. « in«nt thu abov« Dlit«ncei th« Remainder will be the < Ship'i exireint Length i flrcm which if to bt dedueicd I ' Thrcr Inchen for every Foot of the Load Draught of I * Water for the Rakt abef^i and alio Three Pifkhi of the * Shlo't Breadth for the Rake forwani, the Remainder * •hall be eiteemed the Jnrt Length of the Keel to And * the Tonnage | and theBreadth thall be taken from Outnide r to Outiide of the Plank, in the broadent Part of the * Veiael, either above or below the Main Wale*, exclusive ( of all Manner of Sheeting or Doubling that may be * wrouffht upon the Side of the Venel t then multiplvthe * Lengtn of the Keel for Tonnage, bv the Rreadtn lo < taken, and that Product by Half the Breadth, and dhrid- < ing by 04, the Quotient anall ho deemed the true Con- * tcnti of the Tonnage.' '■■■ The Amount of the Tonnage Duty to aicertainod ihall' be paid into the Hand* of the Collector of Hit Majesty's Customs at the Port or Place wherein he shall be appointed to reside, in any of the said Islands, before any Salt shall be loaden ) nnd such Duty shall be under the Management of the Commis* sioners of His Majesty's Customs, and be collected and recovered in the like manner, and by the like Rules, and under such I'enalties and Forfeitures, as any other Duties now payable to His Majesty on Goods imported Into any of the Islands, Colo- nies, or Territories under the Dominion of His Majesty in America, or the West Indies, are or may be collected, paid, and recovered by any Act now in force i and luch Duty shall be subject to the Payment of the Sshiries of the (XRcers, and other incidental Ciiarges of the Port, and the Rtsiduo paid to the Receiver General of the Customs in England, to be by him paid into the Exchequ>.r under the mad of Coniolidntcd Customs - • ' " 'J No Goods shall be exported from Turk's Iilamis to any*^ of His Majesty's Dominions in America '*.- ';he West Indies, or laid on board any Ship in the said IsL . . for that Purpose, except Salt { and no Goods shall be expor M from the said Islands to Greiit Britain or Ireland, or laid 011 board any Ship in the said Islands for that Purpose, except Salt, and also except such Goods as may now, or hereafter be, by Law imported into Great Britain from all other Countries free of Duties; under tha Forfeiture of such Goods, and of the Ship on board of which the same shall be ho exported or laid on board - > Until a5th March 1809, any Ship belonging to the United* II. 12. >3- States, coming in Ballast and not otherwise, may enter the Port of Nassau in New Providence, the Ports of Exuma and Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, for the Purpose of being there laden with Salt, oubject to the Rules, Registrations, and Restric- tions of the 28 Geo. III. c. 6. respecting Vessels coming for the teme Purpose to Turks Islands - ... - No Goods shall be imported from any of the Territories of" the United States into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, ° Cape Breton, St. John's, or Newfoundland, or any Country or bland within their respective Governments, on Forfei- ture thereof, and of the Ship, except Pitch, Tar, and Tur- penUne, the Production of the said Territories, and which Mpu 38 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. ■I »««»■:' 28 Geo. 3. 33 Geo. 3. Chf 42 6 50 12 . > 4 vi-jti^iu M6 INDEX. ■1 p6.. »7- j8. tJNITED STATES-^nMJmM^ nay be imported (ram thence into Nova Scotia or New Bnuw- wick, by Britiah 8ttb|ecta, in Britiah-built Shipe, owned and narigated accoidim to Law . . • - \i, ■■ In caae of ptbUe Emergency or DiatreM, the Governor, Lieutenant OoTeraor, or Commander in Chief of Nora Scotia or New Brunawick, Cape Breton or Saint loha'a, with the Advice and Coment of their reapective Cooncibt may au- thorise the Importation of Scantling, Phnka, Stavea, Head- ing Boarda, Shinglaa, Hoopa, Squared Timber, Horaea, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogt, Poultry, Live Stock, Bread, Biacuit, Flour, Ptaae, Beana, PoUtoea, Wheat, Rice, Oata, Barley, or Grain of any Sort, for a limited Time, from any of the Territoriea of the United. Statca, for the Sup- ply of the Inhabitants of the said Provinces and Islands t but such Scantling, &c. shall not be so imported except by British Subjects and in Britisb^milt Ships, owiwd and navigated ac- cordins to Law, on t'orfeitnre thereof, and the Ship - . IS- • His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and pub- lished, or by Warrant under Hts Sign Manual, may empower the Governor of Newfoundland to authoriie, in case of Nenes- ' sity, the Importation of Bread, Flour, Indian Com, and Live Stock, from any of the Territories belonging to the United States, for the Supply of the Inhabitanta and Fishermen for the then I ^ ensuing Soison only ) provided that audi Bread, &c. shall not ^ "-i:." be so imported, except in conformity to such Rules, Regula- tions, and Restrictions aa shall be specified in such Order or ' Warrant, and except by British Sobiects, in British-built Ships, owned aiid navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Sliip - r - -, -^ Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governorsi or Com- manders in Chief of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, or Cape Breton or Sabt John's, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of the Articles enumerated in AS Geo. III. c.6. (Tobacco, &c. see No. i.), finr a limited Time, from any of the Terri. torica of the United States for the Purpoae of being re- exported to any other of His Majesty's Colonies or pTaqta- tiona p . . . . - ■ '■ No Goods shall be imported from the United Statea by'^ Sea or Coastwise into Quebec, or the Countries or Islands within I the Government there(rf', or up the River Saint Lawrence from | the Sea, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship - -J • His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and pub-' lished, may authoriie, in case of Neceaaity, the importing of Bread, Flour, Indian Com* and lave Stock, aa well into Quebec aa into all the Countries bordering on the Gulf of Saint Law- rence, and mto the Islanda withm the said Gulf, and also to the Coaat of Labrador, for the then ensqing Season only, from any of die Territoriea belonging to the United States, for the Supply of the Persons employed in carrying 16 14 INDEX. UNITED STATES— «w/iffHM/. 19. - In cut of publio Emtritney md Dittrati, tha Oovtrnor' of Quebec , or LitHttiMnt Gevenior, or Commander in Chief » j with the Conient of the Conncil of the f^orince, may authorise ' the Importation by Sea or Coaatwite into Quebec, or into the Countnet or the blanda within the Ooremment thereof, or up the River Saint Lawrence from the Sea, of Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hoga, Poultry, or Live Stock of any Sort, Bread, fiiicuit. Flour, Peaa, Beani, Potatoea, Wheat, Rice, Oata. Barley, or any Sort of Grain or Flour made thereof, for a limite3 1 3 An. 6 4.8 5.9 INDEX. ? r-t**% WINE— «»«r>«Mrf. tioncd ; that i« to ny, SiOnt lohn'i in Ntw Brunawick, Saint John's in Newfoundlaad* Qutbcc iu Canada, Sjrdnty in Capt Brtton, Halifax and Siwlburn in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince Edwaid'a laland, on board any Britiah Ship, owned, navigated, and regtattred according to Law, which shall have arrived at anj luch Port or PiaM ol £m«^ with Articlei the Growth or rtoduct of the miA CoioDiea, or with Fish taken and cured bv His Ma)csty's Subjects carrjriag on the Fisheries from any ot the said Otiooks, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with Wheat, Flour, Peasei Mans, Oats, Barley, Indian Com, Ayt, WhiteOtakk Stavea and Heading, dressed or undressed. Hoops, Pine Planks or fiMrds, from the Province of Canada, whether such Goods are the Produce of Canada, or brought into the Province by Land or Inland Navigation Upon the Imporution of such Wine into any of the said Ports, the same shall be subject to djgPayment of the like Duties, as if imported into the said Portl^OiWt Britain, and no other Duties, (see No. lo.) The Person exporting a Cargo from any Port in Nova at !. r i- O.'l !} Scotia or New Brunawick, tor anv Port of Europe South of CaiM Finisterre, shall make Oath at tne Port of Shipment btfert the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Com- mand, that the Cargo so shipped is the Growth and Prpduce of the said Provinces, or the Produce of the Britiah Fisheries' in North America, taken and cured by His MajeMy's Subjects carrying on the Fishery from the said Colonies t and auch Officer uf the Customs or Naval Officer shall certify such Oath under his Hand, which Certificate shall be produced by the Master on his Arrival at the Port in Europe to which such Cargo shall be consigned, or to which such Vessel shall go for the Delivery of the Cargo i and the Master shall make Oath before the British Consul tnere resident, or if there shall be no British Consul, then before Two known British Merchants, that theCenificate produced waa the Certificate of the Officer whose Name it bears, and wu duly signed by him . The Person exporting any Wheat, Flour, Pease, Beans,^ Oats, Barlev, Indian Com, Rye, White Oak Slaves and Head- ing, dressed or undressed. Hoops, Pine Plank, and Boards, from Canada, shall not be required to make Oath that the Articles are the Produce of Canada, and the Maiter on his Arrival at such Port of Europe shall only be required to produce a Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Customs or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, that the Articles were the Growth of Canada, or brought into Canada conformably to the Regulations established by I^w in the said Province (if any) by Land or Inland Navigation, from Countries bordering thereon ; and which Certificate such Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer shall grant, upon satisfactory Proof being made upon Oath or otherwise ; and the Authenticity of such Certificate shall be sworn to as aforesaid, by the Master of such Ship, at the Port of Delivery in Europe - - ... Before the Shipment of any Pickled Fish or Dry Fish,' .for Exportation from Canada to any Port of Eurq>e within the Limits aforesaid} ^e Person in whose Possession the K. Mi. ^1 Geo. 3. 97 H f/t< Cr 51 Geo. 3. 97 INDEX. ti0 WINExomIJmmJ. Nme hat continufd from tht Tintt of iti bting landtd from th« , Fiihing Vtufli tmploytd in the taking it, ttntU tho Nm« ihall b« } ihipp«d for Eiportation, ihall make Oath btfora tht Chltf Ofiotr of tn« Cuitomt, or tht Naval OfBctr in Command at Qutbtc, ^ that tht tamt wai tht Product of tht British American Fichtritt, 4 taken and cured by' Hit Majeatjr*! 8ub)tcM carrving on tht mid f Fiiheriea from lomt o5 the raid Colonita or Hantationt i and ; on ittch Oath bting taken, tht Officer of tht CuMomi, or Naval Officer, ihall gram Certificate thereof, tigned with hit I Hand, which Certificate tht Maattr thali bt rtquirtd to Moduct at the Port of Dtliverv in Europt, and ihall makt Oath of tht Authenticity of euch Ctrtificatt • • - 7. Any Guodt lubject to Porftituru undtr thia A£k may bt leiied by any Officvr of tht Cnitoma in tht lald Coloniti, or by the Commander of any of Hit Majeity'a SMat of War, and i . the tame may be protecuMd, recovered, and divided in tht eamt i Manner, and by tnt iimt Rulea and Retulationa (aa far aa the 1 .j^ tame are applicable), aa anv other Forltiturt impoatd bj any Act made tor tht Stcurity ot tht Revtnut, or for tht RMufation or Improvement thereof, or for the Regnlatiop M Tradt or Navigation, may bt prottcuttd, kc. in tht Brititti Colonita -, H, ——— May bt exported from Malta or any of the Deptndtncita' 10. II. thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any m Hla Majttty'a dugar ' Cbloniet or Planiationt in America, or to Newfoundland, Ber- muda, or any of Hit Majetty'i Coloniea or Plantation! in North America, in Britiah>built Ships, owned, navigated, and regittered according to Law \ and upon Uie Importation thereof into tuch •Coloniea. thall bt aubject to tht Pavmtnt of tuch Dutitt, and no other, at are payable on Madeura Wint whtn imported into any of tht aaid Coloniea or Plantatione from. Madeira. (See No. 10.) - • Sec « Gibraltar." «• Malta." - Intended at a Medicine and necetiary Article of Supply for the Ettatei of Dutch Proprietort in Demerara, Berbice, or Cite- quibo in the Province of uuiana,not exceeding what may be necet- iary for the Purpotee of tuch Supply, may w imported into the said Coloniei from the Netherlanut, on board Dutch Shipt, and ihall be liable to the Duty of lot. per Ton, and no more See « Guiana.", - There ihall be paid unto Hit Majesty upon all Winea' (except French) imported into any Colony or Plantation in America, under the Dominion ot Hit Majetty, the Dutiei following ( that it to lay, For every Ton of wine of the Growth of the Madeiru, or of any odier Iilaiid or Place from whence tuch Wine may be lawfully imported, and which ihall be 10 imported from tuch liland or Place, the Sum of j^7. For every Ton of Portugal, Spaniih, or any other Wine (except French Wine), imported from Great Britain or Ireland, tht Sum of let., and after thoM Rates for any greater or Icii Quantity . . . . . Ine Duties thall be paid in the tame Manner and Form,' and by tuch Wayt and Meant, and under tuch Penalties and Forfeitures, (not otlierwitt alttred. by thit Act) aa are mentioned I i Ktlsa. Omf. 51 Geo. 3. 97 51 Gee. 3. t 97 55 0«0' 3- 57 Geo. 3. %9 4 5»9 56 Geo. 3. 9' 3>4 4 Geo. 3. 39&40G.3. »5 67 Aft. 6 ■'m:: 250 INDEX. I2.< in 6 Geo. II. c. 13. (lee <*Sugai") with icspcct to the Dutiei thereby granted ; and all Ptowen, Penalties, Pronuont, and Clauses therein contained (except where any Alteration is made t by this Act) shall be practised and pnt in Execution for the leryine and answering the Duties hereby granted - -J If the Importer shall refuse to pay the Duties, die Col- lector or other proper Officer of the Customs shall secure the Wine,, to be publicly sold within Twenty Days after such Re- funl, and at such Tune and Place u such Officer shall, by Four Days public Notice appomtt aad the Money arising bV the Sale shall be applied, first in Biyment of the Duties, witn the Charges occanoned by the Sale, and the Orerplus, if any, ehall be paid to the Importer or other Person authorited to receiTe the same - - - -_ If the Money offered for such Win« shall not be snffi-S 13- X } 14. cient to discharge the Duty and Charges, then the Collector 1 or .other proper Officer sht'l cause the Wine to be spilt or > otherwise destroyed, and shall return the Casks or other Pack- 1 age wherein the same was contained to such Importer • J ■ The Monies arisn^^ by the said Duties (except the*^ necessary Charges of raising, recorering, and accounting for Rtign. 4 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 1 tobe^ to the! 1 Great > ion and I sr -J the same) shall be paid into the Exchequer separate and apart from all other Monies, and shall be there reserved to be dis- ] PJMed of b^ Parliament, towards defraying the necessary , ) Expences of protecting and securing the British Colonies and Plantations in America 15. — All Sums granted by these Acts shall be deemed to be Sterling Money of Great Britain, and shall be paid Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Britain, and mav be received according to the Proportion Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver WITNESSES. !.■ Every Person examined as a Witness on any Inquiry directed by the Commisuonen of the Customs in England, or any Four of them, to be made in America or the West Indies, relative to His Majesty's Revenue of Customs or other Duties ^ there, or to the Conduct of the Officen emploved in the Col- ^ , lection thereof, by or before any Collector ami Comptroller of the Customs, or by or before such other Persons as shall be appointed by the Commissioners or any Four of them, shall de- liver his Testimony on Oath, to be administered by the said Officer or Persons so appointed before whom he shall be ex- amined ....... Any Person who shall be convicted of making a false' WOOD. I. Oath, touching any of the Facts required by this Act to be tes- fified on Oath, or of riving false Evidence on his, her, or their Examination on Oath, by or before any Collector and Comp- troller of the Customs of anjr Port in the West Indies or America, or such other Persons appointed as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and liable to the Pains and Penalties to which Persons are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury > " No Masts, Yards, or Bowsprits, of the Production or Manufacture of the British Plantations in America-, shall be shipped or conveyed from aoy of the said Plantations to any ■r 4 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 4 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 5, Vi 1'^ . fn.tv:,.. ,M ,;:,;' 4 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. Cluip. 49 Geo. 3. iaCar.2. 22&23C. 2. 7 & 8 W. 3. ■* «5 91 »5 91 »5 9" >5 91 7 46 46 18 26 8 3 10 3 4> 3 18 »9 II 22 1 13 X . * INDEX. Sdl "WOOD^-ettitimuiL Place, unleM to some other nantation belonging to Hit Ma- Jeitji or to Great Britain or Ireland, there to be laid on Ihore, on Forfeiture of the Ooodi, or th* full Value thereof, middle Ship ..... The other Rettrictiona, Penaltiea, and Forfeiture!, to secure the landing in the Plantations, or in Great r '■^' tii Britain or Ireland, are the tame u Sugar See " Sugar, No. i. to ii." a. ' " ■ ' No Wood commonly called *< Lumber," thik is to sar,DeaIa' of several Sorts, Tipiber Balks of several Sixes, Barrel Boards, >< Clap Boards, Pipe Boards, or Pipe Bolt, White Boardi for Shoe ' ' Makers, Boom and Cant Spurs, Bow Staves, Caravans, Clap Bolt, Ebony Woody.Hetdings for Pipes, Hogsheads, and Barrels, Hoops for CooperSf Oars, Pipe and Hogwead Suves, Barrel > Staves, Firkin Stavel, Trunnels, Speckled Wood, Sweet Wood, , Small Spars, Oak Hank, and Wamscots, of the ProducUon or ^ - Manufacture of inj of the British Colonies or Plantations in Amertc:., »hall be there laden until Bond be given with One Suretj, l: Jdes the Master of the Ship, to the Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs at the loading Port, in a Penalty of Double the Value of the Goods, with Condition that the same shall not be landed m any Part of Europe except Great Britain or Ireland ( which Bond shall be dischatsed in the man. . ner hereafter mentioned t that i| to say, for such Goods as shall f be entered for or landed in Great Britain or Ireland, the Condi* tion of the Bond shall be, to bring a Certificate in diicharge thereof within Eighteen Months n^ thc^ Date of the Bend, and within Six Months for such Qpiti W^shall be entered for or landed in any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America } which Certificate shall be under the Ha«4a an« Seals of the Collector or other primipal Officer of the Custnuis resident at the Port where such Goods shall be landed, tfftifytng; the landing thereof t and for such Goods as shall be ent«r«4 ror or landed at any other Place in America, Africa, or Asia, to bring the like Certificate within Twelve Months, under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate, or under die Hands and Seals of Two known British Merchants residing there ; or such Bond may be discharged by Proof upon Oath, made b^ credible Persons, that the Goods were taken oy Enemies or perished in the Seas .J J. ..., ... Any of the said Lumber may be expoiled to the Madei." ras, or the Western Isles called the Azores, or to any Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, upon Boml being given in the Penalty directed by 4 Geo. III. c. 15. with Condition that the Goods shall be there landed accordingly, and not in any other Part of Europe, except Great Britain or Ireland, and diat a Certificate testifying the landing shall be produced within Eighteen Months to the Collector or other Principal Officer where Bond shall have been given, under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate, or under the Hand and Seal of the British Consul, or the Hands and Seals of Two known Britidl Merchants wher«) such Goods shall be landed ( and upon pro. ducing such Certificate, or Proof upon Oath by Two credible Persons that the Goods were taken by Enemies, or perished in the Seas, the Bond shall be discharged ^ / i » Rdgn. Chip. 4 Geo. 3. 15 Geo. 3. 90 Geo. 3. 39 & 40 G. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 4G«>«3' ao Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. •Sfii % :.■'■•:, »5 31 10 67 9« Saft. *7 6 3 Alt. 6 4,8 10 67 38 3 An. 6 S Geo. 3. ao Geo. 3. 39 8c 40 G. 3. 45 10 67 as. 3 Alt. 6 mm INDEX. ^OOD—tmtimuti* 6.. H.. ■tfstii^i^i^^ lO. Anj Fuatic or Dying Wood of the Growdi of any of tht-v British CokmiM or PJantatKHis, maj be exported direct to Malta» {■ or the DependeDciet thereof, or to Gibraltar, ui\der the Regur | ladona of thete Acta . . . .J See «« Oibraltor." « Malta.* . — If any Ship ahall take on board any Logwood, Fuitic, or other Dying Wood,'and Bond ahall not m ^rat given with One sufficient Surety to unload the same in Great Briuin or Ireland, eie Dangers of die Seas excepted) there shall be paid to His aiesty 9ie Duties hereafter mentioned ) that u to say, For Logwood the Cwt. conuining 1 1 a lbs. jTj *. For Fustic and other Dying Wood, the Cwt. containing I la lbs. Sixpence. To be collected and pud at such Places, and to such Collectors and Officers, as shall be appointed to receive the same, before the Lading thereof ^ ' - The Duties shall be deemed Sterling Money of Great' Britain, and shall be collected and paid to the Amount of the Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, and shall be received according to the Proportion and Value of Five Shillines and Sixpence the Ounce in Silver, and (the neces- sary Charges of raisiiig and payine the same excepted) shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer - ' •_ —— The Business shall be managed, and the Duty levied i by the Commissioners of the Customs in England, under the i Authority of the Commissioners of the Treasury • • J .^— In case any Person liable to pay the Duty shall not have Money to pay Uie same, the Officers shall accept, ' such Money, such a l^portion of the Commod shipped as shall amount to the Value thereof j the current Rate of the Commodity in such Plantation If the Goods shall be loaden before the Duties are paid, RtilD. 55 0«».3- 57 Geo. 3. 25 Car. a. r - -J f shall not have'X :cept, instead of I nmodity to be > f, according to I intation -J every Person assisting or otherwise concerned or to whose Hands the same shall knowingly come after the Loading, shall for every Offence forfeit Treole the Value of the Goods, to be computed according to the best Price the Commodity bears at the Place where the Offence is committed } and all the Boats made use of shall be forfeited, and prosecuted by any Officer of the Customs - - - - t . Viz. Logwood, Fustic, or other Wood for Dyers' Use, Mahogany, and Woods for Cabinet Ware, the Growth of any of the f Jonies or Plantations in America, or of any Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be exported from any of the Free Ports to any Part of the United Kingdom, under the Regulationii, Restrictions, Securities, Penalties, and Forfeitures provided in 12 Car. II. c. 18. 23 iind 23 Car. II. c. 26. and 20 Geo. III. c. 10. with respect to the Goods therein enumerated - 5- n - See «* Free PorU." I Geo. I.St. I. 4 Geo. 3. 25 Car. a. 35 Car. a. Oup. 39 4 8«a. la »5 .^> -s*;.. 4 Geo. 3. ! * This is tht Sum itated in tbt EJifion ef the Statutes published under the tXrection rf tie Commissunert cf Public Records, but it bat been considered ^mt tit Di^ititended to be levied was only j*. the Cwt. '»," •"■ ' ' ►- i.-3 '■f^l 15 4 41 3' 37 45 Geo. 3. li .f.W*!. 57 13- H- «5- I N D 12 X. WOOD— «Mift'mM/. II. ■ Thtf Mvcra'. Articles htraafter mentiontil may be exporMtf* ' from Canada in • Britiih-built Ship, ownfd, natrif atid, Md regiitered according to Law, to any Port of Earest Sdttfh of Cape Finiaterre, without any Oath being required at tha Port of Shipment, of their being the Growth or Produce of the I'rovince, or any Certificate bein^ reauired of the Country from whence they came} that le to lay, White Oak SMveaignd Heading, dreued or undmied, Hoops, Pine Plank and Boards } and the Master of any British-built Ship laden with any of the said Articles, shall only be required to produce, at lueh Port of Eurtipe within the Limits aforesaid, a Certificate (torn the Chief OiEcer of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Conimand at Quebec, that the Articles were the Growth of Canada, or brought into Canada ^nformably to the Regulations estabMshed by Law in the Province (if any) by Land or Inland Navigation, from Countries bordefins thereon, and which Certificate such Officer of the Customs or Naval OtBcer i« reauired togrint, upon satis- factory Proof being made, upon Oath or otherwise i and the Authenticity of sucn Certificate shall be sworn to by the Master of such Ve»eel, at the Port of Delivery in Europe See •« Canada." t :. Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Tim-' ber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Son, the Production of any of the Territories of the United States, may be imported from any <>f the said Territories into any of His Majekiy's West Indu , Islands (in which Description the Bahama Islands or ihe Bermuda or Somers Islands are included), or into Dcmerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province of Guiana i but not to be so imported except by British Subjects, and in Britiah>buiH Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship - - - . . . — - Any of the said Articles, bemg the Production of the said Territories, may be imported from thence into St. George or Hamilton in Bermuda^ m any Foreign Ship belonging to any Kingdom or State in Amity with His Majesty, and eitported from the said Ports to any of^His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British-built ahipit, owned and navigated according to Law - - - - • » No Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards,'' Timber, Shingles, or Lumber of any Sort, shall be imported into His Majesty 'sWe»t India Islands (including the Bahama and the Bermuda or Somcrs Islands), or into Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, under the Do* minion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, on For- feiture thereof and the Ship • • . . In case of public Emergency or Distress, any of the Go-' vemors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief of any of the Islands in the West Indies under the Dominion of His Majesty, or tlie Governors, &cc. of Demerara, Berbice, or Esacquiho, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of any of the said Articles, for a limited Time, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America, belonging to any Foreign European Sovereign or State, for Hit R«I|D. 51, Geo. 3. ClM|k at Geo. 3. 56 Otp. 3. Si Geo. 3. 53 Geo. 3. 38 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 3d Geo. 3. a8 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 97 6 >9» X I 79 SO 6 38 91 a. 3 I 10 I I 6 38 91 11 2 »■! .i iMH HdW i yMW I fm INDEX. ■#, WOOjy-^mt'uuuJ. Supply of tiw Inhabitanttt but such Articles shkll oot be to imported^ eMept hj Bridsn Subjecti* in Britith-built Vesaels, owned and narigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship i •- - - - -^ i6. Any Person jnay import, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, into the Islands under the Dominion qf His Majesty in the West Indies, from any Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South America under the Dominion of anv Foreign European SoTe> reign or State, or from Trinidada ana Porto Rico in the West Inues, the following Species of Timber, viz. Bully Tree, Purple Heart, Green Heart, Black Heart, Mastic, Wallabaw, Tellow Saunders, LocnstSf or Bastard Mahogany, being the Growth or Production of any of the said Colonies or Plant- ations - ■• - - - . 17.1 Durine the Continuance of the Treaty with Portugal, any ] I Person may import into any of the West India Islands (includ- 1 . ing the Banama and the Bermuda or Somers Islands), or Colo- nies of Demeraraj Berbice, or Esseiyuibo, any Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, and Lum- ber 01 any Sort, being the Production of some of the Territories I or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in Soudi ' America i such Article bebg imported into the said Islands or Colonies directly from the said Territories or Dominions, in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law |8» f ■ No Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, } »9- to.' Timber, Shingles, or Lumber of any Sort, which shall have been imported from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of His Majesty^ West India Idands, or Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, tor the Supply of the Inhabitants, (see No. 15.) shall be exportied from anyof the said Islands or Colonies, or put on board any Vessel I or Boat, or brought to any Quay wid> Inte:.c to be so exported, ( en Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship or Boat in which laden ; and before the shippinffof any Masts, &c. whether manufactured or unmanufactured, uat may lawfully be exported, the Ex- porter jiall make Oath that no Part thereof had been imported for the Supply of the Inhabitants from any Island in the West Indies or Colony on the Continent of South America under the Dosninion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State - — — - If any Person stall be convicted of taking a false Oath* touching any of the Facts required to be testified upon Oath, such Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to which rersoiis are liable for wilful and corrupt F^ury, and may be prosecuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or m any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West Indies - - - ii In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Governors," lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief of Nova Scotia, Ncmr Brunswick, Cape Breton, and Saint ^n, with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, may autho- rize the Importation of Scantling, Planks, Staves, Heading Boards, Shingles, Hot^s, and squared Timber, for a limited V Time, firom any of the T«n|t«nc8 of the United tStateS;, for [ Rdgn. Chap. 8*a. 33 Geo. 3. 50 »3 51 Geo. 3. 56 Geo, 3. 47 91 5 5 ap Geo, 3. 31 Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 56 38 91 1*3 3»4 I 29 Geo. 3. 31 Geo. 3. t 28 Geo. 3. 56 38 3 5 13 1 N D £ X. m WOOD>-«Mift'mM«/. the Sapplf of the InhabitaaU of the said FroTiocee and Itlaodl t but soen Article* shall not be to imported except bf Britiah SaUecta, and in Britiah«built Shipit owned and navigated ac- cording to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship • 31. ~ Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Gofernors, or Com-' manders m Chief of Nova Scotia, New BrunAwkk, Cape Breton, or St. John's, with the Advice of their respective Coun- cils, may authorize the Importation of the said Articles for a V limited Time, from any of the Territories of the United States, | for the Purpose of Re-exportation to any other of His Majesty's I Colonies or Plantations - - - • -J The Goods and Ships forfeited by these Acts may be'v 22. 23- seized by the Commanders of Ships of War, or any Commis- I sioned, Warrant, or Pettv Officer specially authorized by thfm, | or by any Officer of the Customs - - *J Logwood, Fustic, or Wood for Dyera' Use, Hard Wood' 14. iS' or Mill Timber, Logwood, Mahogany, or Wood for Cabinet Ware, being the Growth or Production of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or of anv Country on the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported from thence into the Free Forts in any Foreign Ship, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies^Plantationp, or Countries - - . . . See «« Free Ports." For the Conditions upon which Ships landing Lumber at-\ any of the British Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, are al- I lowed to import Spirits without Payment of Duty inta certain C Colonies in North America - - - .J See " Spirits." Mill Timber or Box Wood may be exported from Malte,or^ any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any I of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or ( to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonics f or Plantations in North America, in British4>uilt Ships, owne^ I navigated, and registered according to Law • -J See « Gibraltar." «* Malta." WOOL. I.- No Wool, Woolfells, Shortlings, Mortlocks, Wool Flocks, Worsted Bay or Woollen Yam, Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth-Serges, Shalloons, or any other Drapery, Stuffs, or Woollen Manufactures, made or mixed with Wool or Wool Floclia of the Manufacture of any of the British Plantations in America shall be loaden on board any Ship within any of the said Plantations, nor upon any Horse, Cart, or other Carriage, to the Intent to be exported or conveyed to any other of the Plantation^, or to any other Place what- ever, on Forfeiture thereof, and j^coo by theOffisnder} and every Ship, Vessel, or Boat wherein any of the ssud Com- mcdities shall be shipped shall be forfeited} and the Master and Mariners thereof, or any Persons knowing such Offence and assisting therein, shall forfeit 1^40 i and all Governors and Commanders in Chief of the PlanutionS} and Officers of the lUIgn, Ouf. flea. 48 Geo. 3. 28 Geo. 3. 29 Geo. 3. 3t Geo. 3. 56 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. a8 Geo. 3. 30 Geo. 3. 59 G«.. 3. 5S Geo. 3. 52 Geo. 3. "5 6 57 39 8 37 ?9 4 a I 5.9J I 10 & II W. 3. 10 2,9 r "^w ■fc, * 856 I N D E X. '1 ■^4 !J VfObh—tmtimml. ^ Cuttoms, or oth«r< Bf*lldiM df Revenue there, alwll take effectual Care thai ijbmhet l>c dult put m Execntion -~— ButqttH 9|tl March i8i9,it shall be lawful to export from^ any PUft within A* Brituh Plantation! in America to the United* > Ki|igd9iB| lUkf Wool, the Product of ai||r of the uitl .Plant|tiofti • J '.[ J. iii j i i • 1^ Growth of any of the Coloniea or Plantations in ,4iiB9'C*t ot ofanv (kHifiry on the Continent of America, , r ''WoBging to or tfomt U)e Dominion of any Foreign European / jBov«re»n pr. Stale, may be imported from any of tiie said Countries into the Ftree Ports in any Foreign Ship, owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Pbntationv, or Countries - • • - i See «• Free Ports." i— — The Growth of any of the Colonies or Plantations in' America, or Countries on the Continent of America, belong- ing to or under the Doipinion of anr Foreign European Sove- reign or State, having been imported into the Free Port!*, may be exported from any of the said Ports to any Part of the United Kingdom, under the Rules, ttc. of iiCar. II. c. i8. 2% and 23 Car. II. c. 96. and ao Geo. III. c. 10. with respect to Goods therein enumerated .... See «« Free Ports." WRITS OF ASSISTANCE. —^ The Superior or Supreme Court of Justice having Juris- diction within any British Colony or^ J'lantation, may grant Rei(n. '4^' y { i^* i^h I i n 2.- Writs of Assistance to empower the Officers of His Majesty's Customs to enter any House, Warehouse, Shop, Cellar, or other Place in the said Colonies or Plantations, to search for and seize prohibited or uncustomed Goods Persona against whom any Action shall be commenced," -f for any Thing done in pursuance of this Act, may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence j and if it shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant j and if the PlaintiiF be nonsuited, > or discontinue his Action after the Defendant shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurer agamst the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall be entitled to Treble Costs . - - . YARDS. See «* Wood." 46 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Gto. 3. 59 Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 45 Geo. 3. 49 Geo. 3. 5 a Geo. 3. 57 Geo. 3. 7 Geo. 3. ■r 7 Geo. 3. ,' i\-' >:• «v» LONDON: Printed by Gsoroe Etsb and Amdbew Strah^, Printers to the King's inpst Exojdllent Majesty. 1818. M '»| '*■'■'■ .m '¥ ->> ^ „.?* I 'HI' ■^.- \. .^:i'\ f).-