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 (From 12 Charles II. to58GEoHoE III. inolusire) 
 
 RELATING TO 
 
 SHIPPING, NAVIGATION. CO.MMERCE, 
 AND REVENUE, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 In AMERICA and the WEST INDIES, 
 
 INCLUDING THE LAWS 
 
 ABOLISHING THE SLAVE TRADE. 
 
 By WILLIAM EARNSHAW, 
 
 SolMtorfor the Customs for the Northern Ports of England and JVales. 
 
 .PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF THE HONOURABLE 
 THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS. 
 
 LONDON: ' 
 
 PRINTBD BY A. STRAHAN, 
 L.iU'-I'RlNTER TO THE KING's MOST EXCELLENT MAJEJTT 
 
 1818. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 JN publishing a Work of this Nature it is 
 necessary to premise that the European 
 Colonies in America and the West Indies are 
 of Two Descriptions— First where the Lands 
 are claimed by Right of Occupancy 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 the 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 distina (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 * 
 
 With respect to Countries gained by Con. 
 quest the Inhabitants, once received under the 
 King s Protection, become Subjects, and are to 
 be umversally considered in that light, not as 
 l^nemies or Aliens ; and although the King 
 
 Commentaries on the Laws of England, 
 
 * without 
 
 l^h5 
 
IV 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 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 Parliament of Great Britain, or give 
 him Privileges exclusive of his other Subjects.* 
 
 The Form of Government in most of the 
 British Colonies is borrowed from that of Eng- 
 land ; and the Laws passed by their General 
 Assemblies and Council, with the Concurrence 
 of the Governor, are of the same Validity in 
 the Colonies, as Acts of Parliament are in the 
 Mother Country ; unless repugnant to any Law 
 made in Great Britain relative to the Colonies, 
 in which Case they are utterly void and of no 
 Effect t. J 
 
 It has been the Policy of the different Nations 
 of Europe, with regard to their Colonies, to 
 secure to themselves respectively the most im- 
 portant of their Productions, and retain exclu- 
 sively 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 Situ- 
 ation from those in North America) are of great 
 Value and Importance, for their Cultivation is 
 devoted to Objects which the Mother Country 
 
 * Campbell v. Hall, (Cowper's Reports. ) 
 t 7&8W.III. Ch.22. 
 
 cannot 
 
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INTRODUCTION. y 
 
 cannot produce, and which, from their exteni 
 sive Consumption, afford the surest Means of 
 balancmg her Foreign Trade. 
 ■ They answer in every point of view all the 
 Purposes and Expectations for which Colonies 
 have at any Time been established. Their Pro- 
 ductions are not only sufficient for the Con- 
 sumption of the Mother Country, but afford the 
 Means of a large 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 Culti- 
 vation of Grain, it is true Economy in the 
 Planter to buy Provisions from others rather 
 tlian raise them by his own Labour. The Trade 
 of the West Indies, therefore, supports and 
 increases British Commerce and Navigation in 
 Time of Peace, and very eminently tends to 
 invogorate her Operations in V/ar. 
 
 A Series of Regulations, Restrictions, and 
 Prohibitions have therefore been devised, 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 Countiy, except 
 certam Articles and Implements for the Fish- 
 
 ^ ^ eries, 
 
Vi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 eries, and Wine from the Madeiras or Azores. 
 Before the lading Sugar, Coffee, and many 
 Articles of Colonial Production, Security must 
 be given to convey them to some other British 
 Colony, or to the United Kingdom. These 
 latter Articles being enumerated in the Navi- 
 gation 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 intended to to be con- 
 veyed to Great Britain j for it had been found 
 that, under colour of shipping the Articles for 
 anothier British Colony or Plantation, they were 
 often Vended at Sea to the Shipping of other 
 Nations, or transported to Europe direct. 
 
 The Enumerated Articles are of Two Sorts — 
 First, such as are either the peculiar Produce 
 of America, or as cannot be produced (or at 
 least are not produced) in the Mother Country j 
 — Secondly, such as are not the peculiar Pro- 
 duce of America, but which are or may be 
 produced in the Mother Country, though not in 
 such Quantities as to afford a sufficient Supply, 
 and have therefore been obtained from European 
 Countries. 
 
 By 
 
iNTRdtfuctroN. viJ 
 
 By confining the Enumerated Articles to the 
 Home Marketj^, the Merchants are not only 
 enabled to buy them cheaper in the Plantations, 
 and consequently sell them at a better Profit at 
 Home, but to establish between the Plantations 
 and Foreign Countries an advantageous carrying 
 Trade, of which Great Britain was necessarily 
 to be the Centre or Emponum, as the European 
 Country into which the Articles were first to be 
 imported. The Importation 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, but, with the Sale of 
 those imported from Foreign Countries, because, 
 by means of proper Duties, they might be ren- 
 dered always dfearer than the former, and yet^ 
 much cheaper than the latter. This was intended' 
 to operate as a Discouragement to the Produce' ' 
 not of Great Britain, but of some Foteig^ 
 Countries with which the Balance of Trade wa^' 
 held to be unfavourable to Great Britain.* 
 
 This System has iri view Two Objects— First 
 the Increase of our Naval Strength ; Secondly' 
 the securing to the Parent State all the Emolu! 
 ments arising by the Monopoly both of the 
 Imports and Exports; and another Advantage 
 1^ that we receive from our Colonies all the 
 Products, Raw, and in the first state, and send 
 to them every thing in the last stage of Manu- 
 facture. But - Laws, which made the Interest 
 
 * Dr. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 " of a whole People subservient to that of 
 " another residing at the Distance of 3,000 
 *• Miles, were not likely to execute themselves 
 *• very readily, nor was it easy to find many on 
 *' the Spot who could be depended upon for 
 •• carrying them into Execution t.** 
 
 More effectually 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 addi- 
 tional 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, Penal- 
 ties, and Forfeitures to which Ships and Goods 
 in England are subject by 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 11. ; 
 that Officers shall be appointed as often as may 
 be needful ; that no British* Ships shall be 
 qualified 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 the proper 
 Officers, nor conveyed from thence without a 
 Cocket, except laden in Boats or small Vessels 
 under Twenty Tons, and carried within inland 
 Waters, and not farther out to Sea than One 
 League J that no Ship carrying Goods to or 
 
 * Mr. Reeve's History of Law of Shipping and Navigation. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. ix 
 
 from the British Colonies, or from one Colony 
 to another, shall be deemed qualified to trade, 
 until the Master shall prove on Oath that she is 
 the identical Ship registered, that she belongs to 
 His Majesty's Subjects, 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 Enumerated 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 New- 
 foundland, Bermuda, and the Colonies in North 
 America; also Oranges and Lemons from the 
 Azores or Madeiras : To extend also the Trade 
 of the North American Colonies and encou- 
 rage the Fisheries, the Lading of other Articles 
 is permitted in Ports of Europe South of Cape 
 Finisterre, on board Ships arriving from the said 
 Colonies, either with 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, and import from 
 thence into those Colonies the necessary Articles 
 of Supply for the Cultivation of such Estates, 
 and the Clothing and Maintenance of the Resi- 
 dents thereon, and the Trade to and from the 
 Netherlands may be carried on in Dutch Ships. 
 
 Such 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 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 Manufacturing Countries, it is not 
 considered that any Injury can arise in con- 
 sequence of the Departure from our Colonial 
 System in favour of those Countries. 
 
 With respect to the Trade " between the Co. 
 lonies,*' both in the Enumerated and the Non- 
 enumerated Commodities, it is perfectly free, 
 except as to Hats, Wool, and Woollen Manu- 
 factures, 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 Bri- 
 tish Colonies, to the Injury of the Export Trade 
 of the Mother Country. 
 
 Ever since the Independence of the " United 
 States," the Trade of the British Colonies has 
 been subject to particular Limitations and Re- 
 strictions, with respect to its Intercourse with 
 that Country. Having broke off their Political 
 Connexion with Great Britain, and become our 
 Rivals in Trade and Manufactures, 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 Consumptipn, and which could 
 not be obtained elsewhere, and to confine the 
 
 " Ea^ports " to some Enumerated Commodities 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 in Europe ; such Articles and Goods being im- 
 ported and exported by British Subjects and in 
 British Ships, except as to Importations into 
 Bermuda of the Articles first-mentioned, and' 
 Exportations 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 Domi- 
 nion of «' Foreign European Sovereigns or 
 States,'' except in Cases of public Emergency 
 or Distress, when the Governors, with the Con- 
 sent of their respective Councils, may authorize 
 the Importation of the Articles for a limited 
 Time from any of the said Islands or Colonies; 
 but an Act passed in the last Session of Parlia' 
 ment* to permit the Importation of some of the 
 Articles for such Supply without Authority Jrom 
 the Governors j and by another Act of the last 
 Sessionst His Majesty is authorized to open Ports 
 m Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for the Im 
 portation of Lumber, Cattle, Corn, Provisions, 
 and other Articles in British Ships or in Ships 
 belonging to the Subjects of any State in Amity 
 with His Majesty, but none of the Articles are 
 to be imported in Foreign Vessels, unless the 
 Produce of the Country to which the Vessels 
 importing the same shall belong. The Act also 
 
 * 58 G, III. Ch. 27. 
 
 ■^niZV'LTv'' ™r^^^-P--y Law to continue 
 m lorce tor Three Years, and unt 1 Six Weeks after th«> r«,„ 
 
 J allows 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 
 allows the Exportation of Goods from those 
 Ports to Foreign Countries either in British or 
 Foreign Vessels, but no Exportations are al- 
 lowed in Vessels of the latter Description, unless 
 they belong to the Country to which the Goods 
 are to be exported. 
 
 A very lucrative Trade had always been con- 
 nived at in the West Indies, between the Spanish 
 and English Colonies ; and Orders in Council 
 were issued soon after the passing of the Naviga- 
 tion Act, which expressly directed that Spanish 
 Ships should be allowed to import into our Colo- 
 nies particular Articles of Commerce, notwith- 
 standing the Provisions of the Navigation Acts.* 
 
 It has since been considered that " opening 
 Ports in the West Indies,*' for the more free 
 Importation and Exportation of Goods under 
 certain Restrictions and Limitations, would 
 be productive of considerable Advantage to 
 the Manufactures of the Mother Country, and 
 be a Means of increasing and extending the 
 Trade and Navigation of His Majesty's Domi- 
 nions : Acts have therefore been passed to per- 
 mit a Variety of Articles to be imported into 
 Ports in the West Indies from 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 
 
 * Mr. Reeve's Law of Shipping. 
 
 and 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XIU 
 
 and the particular Regulations applicable to so 
 important a Branch of Commerce, is a Matter of 
 much Difficulty, owing to the Multiplicity of 
 Articles, and their being subject, in many In- 
 stances, to. distinct Regulations provided by 
 Acts passed at remote Periods, by which the 
 legality of the Importation or Exportation, as 
 the Case may be, will sometimes depend upon 
 the Place or Country where the Article is pro- 
 duced or manufactured, or from whence shipped 
 and brought ; or the Port or Colony into which 
 imported, or from whence exported ; the Built, 
 Property, and Manning of the Ship ; the Neces! 
 sity of the Importation, and whether under pro- 
 per Authority ; and lastly, whether by His Ma- 
 jesty's Subjects or Aliens : These are important 
 Considerations, as affecting our Colonial and 
 Navigation System, and by which the Legislature 
 appears to have been principally influenced in re- 
 gulating and restricting the Trade and Commerce 
 of the British Colonies. Independently of these 
 Considerations, it is to be observed, that some Ar- 
 tides are absolutely prohibited to be exported to 
 Foreign Countries ; others are subject to Duty on 
 Importation under different Circumstances, such 
 as the Place or Country of their Production, or 
 from whence brought j some Articles are liable 
 to Duty on Exportation, according to the Place 
 to which exported, or the Circumstances under 
 which shipped, and many Regulations are pro- 
 vided for the Security of the Revenue, and the 
 regular landing and shipping of the Article. 
 
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XIV 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 III 
 
 It occurred to the Compiler, that the Difficulty 
 arising from the present perplexed state of these 
 Laws could only be obviated, by arranging them 
 under such appropriate Heads and Titles, as the 
 Nature of the Subject might require. The Acts 
 relating to the same Matters would thus be 
 brought into the closest point of view, and ar- 
 ranged in such Order as might best contri- 
 bute to render them intelligible ; this Plan is 
 an Improvement upon all former Compilations, 
 where the Laws are classed under the general 
 Head " Plantations " or " British Dominions 
 Abroad" which occasions tedious and intricate 
 research, whenever it is necessary to refer to 
 the Laws apphcable to a particular Colony or 
 Country, such as " Canada,** " NewfoundUmd** 
 " Europe,** " United States ;** or to particular 
 Commodities, such as " Sugar" " Coffee" 
 " Tobacco" " Wood ;** and a variety of Acts 
 affecting each of these Countries and Articles, 
 have passed at very remote Periods. 
 
 The present Alphabetical Digest has therefore 
 been compleated, in which the whole Law is 
 brought together under the specific Article, 
 Country, or Subject treated of, and the Acts 
 are arranged so as to shew their Connexion with 
 and Dependance on each other. 
 
 In abstracting the different Laws, the Sub- 
 stance thereof is conveyed in the Words used 
 by the Legislature, and although more concise, 
 yet nothing has been omitted which can be in 
 any way material for the Information of the 
 » Reader j 
 
 "mi 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 xy 
 
 Reader ; and to give the utmost Facility to re- 
 search. Marginal Notes have been framed by the 
 Compiler with the greatest Care and Attention. 
 Some of the Acts of Parliament which relate 
 to Trade and Navigation in the British Colonies 
 and Plantations in America, equally apply to 
 Trade and Navigation in the United Kingdom 
 and other Parts of His Majesty's Dominions, 
 particularly the Acts arranged under the Head, 
 « Aliensr " Navigation of British Ships/* and 
 " Eegistn/ of British Ships /' the present Work 
 may therefore be considered of Utility to the 
 Owners and Masters of British Ships generally. 
 The Policj/ of these Laws having been before 
 adverted to, it seems necessary to apprize the 
 Reader, that the Propriety of carrying them into 
 Execution according to their strict enactment, 
 became a Subject of mature Consideration in the 
 Case of the " Betti/ Cathcart^ libelled and con- 
 demned at Jamaica for trading without a Re- 
 gister ; but upon appeal to the High Court of 
 Admiralty, the Sentence was reversed by the pre- 
 sent Judge of that Court; upon which Occasion 
 his Lordship observed, that " the Revenue and 
 " Navigation Laws are certainly to be constmed 
 " and applied with great exactness ; they are 
 " framed for the Security of great national ^n- 
 " terests ; and the Effect of such Laws, founded 
 " on great Purposes of public Policy, must i^ot 
 " be weakened by a minute tenderness to par- 
 " ticular Hardships; at the same time, it is 
 " not to be said, that they are not subject to all 
 
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 JNTRODUCTION. 
 
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 " Considerations of rational Equity. Cases of 
 " unavoidable Accident, invincible Necessity, 
 " or the like, where the Party could not act 
 " otherwise than he did, or has acted at least 
 ** for the best, must be con'^Idered in this System 
 of Laws as in other Systems. Laws that 
 would not admit an equitable Construction to 
 be applied to the unavoidable Misfortunes or 
 " Necessities of Men, or to the exercise of a fair 
 " Discretion under Difficulties, could not be 
 " Laws framed for human Societies. The Court 
 " therefore will not deem it a departure from 
 " the Duty of legil Interpretation in such Cases 
 " to give a fair iittention to Considerations of 
 " this Nature*." 
 
 In furtherance of the Principles here laid 
 down, the Legislature, with a view to afford Re- 
 lief to Merchants and Ship Owners, has empow- 
 ered the Lords of the Treasury and the Commis- 
 sioners of His Majesty's Customs to restore Ships 
 or Goods seized under the Navigation Laws, if 
 it shall appear to their Satisfaction that the For- 
 feiture arose without any Design of Fraud in the 
 Proprietor ; and in Cases where their Lordships 
 or the Commissioners exercise the discretionary 
 Power vested in them, no Proceedings can be 
 had either against the Ship or Goods, or for the 
 Recovery of the Share to which the Seizing 
 Officer would be entitled after Condemnation. 
 * See Robinson's Reports, Vol. 1. 
 
CONTENTS. ^ 
 
 A. 
 
 Actions 
 
 Alabaster 
 
 Aliens 
 
 Almonds 
 
 Amber 
 
 Anchovies 
 
 Aniseed 
 
 Antigua 
 
 Antonio 
 
 Apprentices 
 
 Argol 
 
 Artificers 
 
 Ashes 
 
 Assistance 
 
 Azores 
 
 B. 
 
 Bahamas and Bermuda 
 
 Barbadoes 
 
 Beaver Skins 
 
 Berbice 
 
 Bills at Sight 
 
 Biscuit 
 
 Botargo 
 
 Box Wood 
 
 Bowsprits 
 
 Bread 
 
 Bridgetown 
 
 Brimstone 
 
 Britain 
 
 British Subjects - 
 
 Bullion 
 
 Page 
 
 1 
 
 ib. 
 2 
 9 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 10 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 11 
 
 14. 
 
 ib. 
 
 14 
 21 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 22 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 23 
 
 c. 
 
 CaicOk 
 
 '-"AjxAnA - 
 
 Cantharides 
 
 24 
 ib. 
 39 
 
 Cape Breton 
 
 Capers 
 
 Cascasoo 
 
 Cattle and Live Stock 
 
 Cavier 
 
 Certificates 
 
 Cheese (Parmasan) 
 
 Cinnabar 
 
 Clothing 
 
 Cochineal 
 
 Coffee and Cocoa Nuts 
 
 Coin - _ - 
 
 Copper Ore 
 
 Coral 
 
 Cork - _ _ 
 
 Corn and Grain - 
 
 Cotton Wool 
 
 Crooked Island 
 
 Cumminseed 
 
 Currants _ _ _ 
 
 D. 
 
 Dates - - - 
 
 Debts 
 
 Demerara 
 
 Diamonds - _ _ 
 
 Dominica - - - 
 
 Drugs - - 
 
 Dutch Colonies 
 
 Duties - - - 
 
 E. 
 
 Emerv Stone 
 England and English 
 Essence of Bergamot 
 -^ of Citron 
 
 — of Lemon 
 — OF Orange 
 -"" OF Lavender 
 b 
 
 Page. 
 40 
 42 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 45 
 46 
 47 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 48 
 ib. 
 63 
 64 
 ib. 
 65 
 67 
 74 
 78 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 
 78 
 ib. 
 80 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 82 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 
 85 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 
XVlll 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 EsfJNCE OF Roses - 
 
 OF ROSEMAIIY 
 
 EsSEgUIBO 
 
 Europe 
 
 EXUMA 
 
 F. 
 
 Page. 
 85 
 it. 
 86 
 ib. 
 96 
 
 G. 
 
 Falmouth 
 
 Fees 
 
 Figs 
 
 Fisheries 
 
 Flax 
 
 Flour 
 
 Free Ports 
 
 Fruit 
 
 Furs 
 
 Gibraltar - - -, 
 Ginger - - 
 
 Glass - - - 
 
 Goods _ _ _ 
 
 ■ (Enumerated) 
 
 (Non-enumerated) 
 
 (East India) - - 
 
 Governors - . . 
 Grenada - - - 
 
 Grindstones - 
 
 Guernsey and Jersey 
 Guiana - - 
 
 Gum Arabic - - - 
 
 Mastic 
 
 Myrrh - - - 
 
 Sicily ■- - - 
 
 ■ Ammoniac 
 
 Gypsum -. - - 
 
 H. 
 Hats and Felts 
 Hemp and Flax 
 Hides and Skins 
 Hogs _ - - _ 
 Honey - _ - 
 
 Horses _ _ - 
 
 Household Furniture - 
 
 97 
 
 ' ib. 
 
 99 
 
 ib. 
 
 103 
 
 ib, 
 
 ib. 
 
 109 
 
 113 
 
 113 
 114. 
 116 
 117 
 135 
 136 
 139 
 140 
 145 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 148 
 148 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib* 
 
 ib. 
 149 
 
 1*9 
 150 
 152 
 153 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 I. & J. 
 
 Jalap 
 
 Jamaica 
 
 Implements - 
 
 Incense 
 
 Indigo 
 
 Insurances 
 
 Ireland 
 
 Iron ' 
 
 Juniper Berries 
 
 Justices 
 
 Kingston 
 
 K. 
 
 L. 
 
 P.igc. 
 
 154 
 
 ib. 
 
 156 
 
 157 
 
 ib. 
 
 160 
 
 161 
 
 162 
 
 163 
 
 ib. 
 
 - 163 
 
 Lava - - - 164 
 
 Laws -. - - ib. 
 
 Lead - _ . _ ib. 
 
 Lemons - - - 165 
 
 Lentils - - - ib. 
 
 Live Stock - - - 166 
 
 Logwood _ _ _ /^^ 
 
 M. 
 
 Maccaroni or Vermicelli 166 
 Madeiras and Western 
 
 Islands - - - ib» 
 
 Malta and Gibraltar - ib. 
 
 Man, Isle of - - 172 
 
 Manifests - - - 173 
 
 Manufacturers - - ib. 
 
 Manna - . - - ib' 
 
 Marble - - - ib. 
 
 Maria - - - 174 
 
 Meal or Flour - - ib. 
 
 Medals - - - 174 
 
 Molasses - - . - ib. 
 
 Mosaic Works - - 176 
 
 Mules - ib. 
 
 Musk _ - - - ib. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 w» 
 
 N. 
 
 Nassau - - > 
 Naturalization 
 Naval Officers 
 Navigation of British 
 
 Ships - - - 
 
 Netherlands 
 Newfoundland 
 New Providence 
 Nova Scotia and New 
 
 Brunswick 
 
 o. 
 
 Ochres 
 Officers 
 Oil - - 
 
 Oil op Almonds 
 
 -- Cloves 
 
 Opium 
 
 Orange Buds 
 
 Oranges 
 
 Oris Root 
 
 Ostrich Feathers - 
 
 P. 
 
 Paintings - _ _ 
 Painters Colours - 
 
 Paper - _ _ 
 
 Passengers - . _ 
 Pearls 
 
 Peas - . . _ 
 
 Penalties - _ _ 
 
 Pickles - - _ 
 
 Pimento - _ _ 
 
 PiSTAccio Nuts 
 
 Pitch, Tar, and Turpen- 
 tine - _ _ 
 
 Pitt's Town - - . 
 
 Porto Rico - - _ 
 
 Portuguese Colonies 
 Poultry _ _ _ 
 
 Pozzolona - - _ 
 
 Precious Stones 
 
 Prince Edward's Island ; 
 
 Page. 
 
 177 
 ib. 
 lb. 
 
 178 
 
 184 
 
 ib. 
 
 193 
 
 194- 
 
 Prints 
 Provisions 
 Pumice Stone 
 Punk 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quebec 
 Quicksilver 
 
 XKS 
 
 Page. 
 228 
 
 ib. 
 232 
 
 ib. 
 
 - 233 
 
 - ib. 
 
 I 
 
 R. 
 
 Raisins - . ' _ ggg 
 
 Rhubarb - - - ib 
 Registry of British Ships ib. 
 
 Rice . . _ . g^^ 
 
 Road Harbour - . 259 
 
 ROSSEAU - _ - ib 
 
 Rum . - . _ -^^ 
 
 s. 
 
 Safflower 
 Saffron 
 Sails 
 
 Sant John's (Island of) 
 Saint John's (New Bruns 
 wick) 
 
 Saint John's (Newfound- 
 land) 
 Saint John's (Antigua) 
 Saint George (Granada) 
 Saint Ann (Jamaica) 
 Saint Domingo 
 Saint Lucia - _ . 
 Saint Vincent 
 Salt _ . _ _ 
 San Josep ~ - _ 
 
 Santa Lucea - - _ 
 Sarsaparilla - - _ 
 Sausages - _ _ 
 
 Savannah La Mar - - 
 Seamen - _ ^ 
 
 W T^ TS ■TN *^ 
 
 K.:i:.j:4iJO ■ » ^ 
 
 Seizures - _ _ 
 
 Senna - _ _ 
 
 - 259 
 
 - ib. 
 
 - ib. 
 
 - ib. 
 
 - 261 
 
 ■ ib. 
 262 
 
 ib, 
 • ib. 
 
 ■ ib. 
 ib. 
 
 263 
 
 ib. 
 268 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 269 
 271 
 272 
 279 
 
 I 
 
XX 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Ml t 
 
 I Mil 
 
 I «'i 
 
 Page. 
 
 Settlers _ . - 279 
 
 Sheep - - - - 280 
 
 Ships - - - - 281 
 
 Ships (Stranded) - - 299 
 
 Silk (Raw) - - - 305 
 
 Slaves _ - - - 306 
 
 Spirits - - - - 368 
 
 Sponges - - - 373 
 Stone, viz. Malta Stone ib. 
 
 Sufferance - - - 379 
 
 Sugar _ > _ - ib. 
 
 Syrup - - - - 392 
 
 T. 
 
 Tallow 
 
 - - 392 
 
 Tar 
 
 - ib. 
 
 Tobacco 
 
 - ib. 
 
 Tobago 
 
 - 398 
 
 Tools and Implements 
 
 (Fishery) 
 
 - ib. 
 
 Tortoise Shell 
 
 - 399 
 
 TORTOLA 
 
 - ib. 
 
 Trinidad 
 
 - ib. 
 
 Turk's Islands 
 
 - ib. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vegetables 
 Vermilion 
 
 u. 
 
 United States 
 Utensils of Husbandry 
 
 w. 
 
 Wages of Seamen 
 Whale Fins - 
 Whetstones 
 
 Wine - - - 
 
 Witnesses _ - - 
 Wood - - - 
 
 Wool _ _ - 
 
 Writs of Assistance 
 
 Pag«. 
 
 400 
 
 ib. 
 
 400 
 4.07 
 
 407 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 411 
 
 412 
 
 420 
 
 421 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yards (Wood) 
 
 421 
 
 IhHI: 
 
 Mi 
 pendc 
 of H 
 Amei 
 
 Hi8 ] 
 
 rica, i 
 Accon 
 
 m 
 
S" 
 
 . i 
 
 
 ■Oj/U. 
 
 
 '.! ., 
 
 i. In case any Officer ia the Plantations in America 
 •shall be sued or molested for anvThinff done^n the Exeru- ^"^k'^ '."""f . 
 t.on of his Office he may plead Jhe GeLal Issue, and ^ve ' ' ''"'''' 
 th.s and other Custom Acts in Evidence, and the Judge 
 shall allow thereof; and such Officer shall enjoy the 
 
 to fh. Offi ^^^' rl"^ Advantages as are allowed by' Law 
 to the Officers of the Customs in England. 7 & 8 W S. 
 c. 22. « 6. ** „• ' ^' 
 
 ^. In any Action commenced in Great Britain of 
 America, against any Person for any Thine done in .nvfH"^^"*K.''' 
 in«ce of this or any Act relating^to the^Cmtom^ S/'^'"^ 
 the Dt^endun may plead the Genera! Issue, and giv^ 
 the Act ami Special Matter in Evidence upon any -frial 
 to be had thereupon, and that the same was done by 
 Authority of such Act; and if it shall appear so toL^^e 
 
 h'^L S?'' J^J"'-y. ^^'^^1 «"^^ f«r the Defendant, and 
 1 /^?r^-^ ^^ nonsuited, or discontinue his Action - 
 In t ^'''^^^^\'\f 5-e appeared, or if Judgmen" . 
 
 4 Geo! c!5. H7.^'"' ^'^' ^■^^^"'' ^"^'^ ^-^- • . r, 
 
 >?tlafta0tetr (Rough and Worked). ^ 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the De- r 
 
 rHTs^Ma'*':''"^'^"'^ from Gibraltar/direct to a^ ^tL 
 ot His Majesty's^ Sugar Cotomes or Plantations i« ^-^'^ '"• 
 America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of ''''"'"^• 
 
 i?cl ^T? 1 ^J*°"^'' "•• Piantations in North Ame- 
 iica, in British Slnps, owned, navigated, and registered 
 according to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § i 9. .57 GeH 
 
 ,S^C GiBRAtTAR. ! f . u ;,; 1. ,. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 B 
 
 1. No 
 
li 
 
 I. 
 
 I! 
 
 
 Kot to act »i 
 
 Merchant* or 
 Factors. 
 
 Exrepr in the 
 
 f-'uirend«red 
 
 Colonies 
 
 British Artificers 
 and Manufac- 
 tuters using or 
 teaching their 
 Art in a Foreign 
 Country deemed 
 -Aliens. 
 
 Children of the 
 King's Subjects, 
 born out of Le- 
 f 'ance of His 
 
 *« «-•---».. *_ u_ 
 
 ;v:3jr:-.y, iv uc 
 
 deemed I3fitish« 
 
 1. No Alien, or Person not born within the Allegi- 
 ance of the Kinff, or naturalized or made a free Deni- 
 zen, shall exercise the Trade or Occupation of a Mer- 
 chant or Factor in any Land, Island, Plantation or 
 Territory to His Majesty belonging or in His Possession, 
 or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the Posses- 
 sion of His Majesty, in America, 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 some 
 in any of His Majesty's Courts in the Plantation where 
 such Offence shall be committed. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 2. 
 
 2. Every Person, although an Alien born, and neither 
 naturalized nor made a free Denizen, who shall reside 
 in any Island or Place which has surrendered in the 
 West Indies, or which shall hereafter surrender to His 
 Majesty, and be in His Majesty's Possession, and who 
 shtdl have taken the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to 
 His Majesty, according to the Terms of the Capitulation 
 under whicn such Island or Place shall have surrendered, 
 shall from the Time of such Surrender be entitled to 
 exercise the Trade of a Merchant or Factor in any such 
 Island or Place, so long as the same shall remain in the 
 Possession or be under the Protection of His Majesty, 
 according to such Laws and Regulations as His Ma- 
 jestyfs Subjects shall be liable to in the same Island or 
 Place. 34 Geo. 3. c. 42. § 6. 
 
 3. If any of the King's Subjects within this King- 
 dom, being an Artificfer or Manufacturer of or in Wool, 
 Iron, Steel, Brass, or any other Metal, Clockmaker, 
 Watchmaker, or any other Artificer or Manufacturer 
 of Great Britain, shall go into any Country out of His 
 Majesty's Dominions there to use or teach any of the 
 said Trades or Manufactures to Foreigners, or shal' not 
 return within Six Months afler Warning given huu 5)y 
 the British Ambassador, Minister, or Consul, '^ ' r • , 
 Person authorized by him, or by a Secretary oi buiie, 
 and from thenceforth continually inhabit in this Realm, 
 he shall be deemed an Alien. 5 Geo. 1. c.27. §3. 
 
 4. The Children of natural-born Subjects, born out 
 of the Legiance of the Crown of Great Britain, shall be 
 entitled to the Rights and Privileges of natural-born Sub- 
 
 
 
 born Subjects, as if born in this Kingd(»n ; provided 
 that nothing in these Acts shall repeal or alter 5 Geo. 1. 
 
 c. 27. 
 
 i 
 
Zlitns, 
 
 c. 27. relative to Artificers or Manufacturer. (See 
 No. 3.) 7 Ann. c. 5. § 3. 4 Geo. 2. c. 21. « . 6. 
 13 Geo. 3. c 21.^1. ^ 
 
 5. Provided that Children bom out of theLemance of 
 the Crown of Great Britain, are not to be deemed natural- 
 born Subiects, whose Fathers at the Time of the Birth of 
 such Children were attainted of High Treason, or liable 
 to the Pennlties of Hiffh Treason or Felony in case of 
 returning to this Kingdom, or whose Fathers at the Time 
 ^ot the Birth of such Children were or shall be in the Ser- 
 vicp of any Foreign Prince or State then in Enmity with 
 Grt^t Bntam. 7 Ann. c. 5. § 3. 4 Geo. 2. c. 21. i 2. 
 13 Geo. 3. c. 21. $2. ^ 
 
 6. His Majesty may at all Times, when it shall be 
 tound 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 
 W«r; and upon the publishing such Proclamation every 
 «uch 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 ^r other 
 IradingShipor Privateer (which at the time of such Ser- 
 
 rllJn\ ^°?^ ^ "J^ ''^^'' Majesty's Subjects of 
 Great Britain) for Two Years, shall be deemed to be a 
 natural-born Subject of Great Britain, and enjoy aU the 
 Privdeges, Powers Rights, and Capacities which he 
 
 sl'l f H-''"^?*- '" "^^l"^ *^^ »^» ^ natural-born 
 
 r SifR^ •"'' ?!T*y' ^"^ ^^t"^*y a Native within 
 Ctreat Bntam. 13 Geo. 2. c. 3. § 2. 4. 
 
 A I* ?^, ^f ""V '^^° '^^^ ^^ naturalised by virtue of this 
 Act shall thereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council 
 
 OfficlTpf ""^T^' "^"l' of Parliament, or to take an^ 
 Office or Place of Trust either Civil or Military, or have 
 any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from 
 
 h m Tr o""'""' T ^»y °*»»er Person in Trust for 
 mm. 13 Geo. 2. c. 3. § 3. 
 
 8. All Persons born out of the Legiance of His Ma- 
 jesty^ havitig resided for Seven Years or more n any 
 01 His Mgesty's Colonies in America, and who shl^ 
 not have been absent longer than Two Months at any 
 
 ZsXeftn^^^' ?^'" "^^""^ ^"^ shall take an J 
 subscribe the Oaths, and repeat and subscribe the Deck- 
 
 ^nhr.'rJK^^.T"'?? 'f ' ^^''' ^' ^^- ^3' ^»d shall make and 
 subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, and take the Ab- 
 
 R o • • 
 
 " - juration 
 
 8 
 
 But Children of 
 Persom liable to 
 the Penalties of 
 Treason or 
 Felony, or in 
 the Service of a 
 Foreign Prince, 
 deemed Aliens. 
 
 Seamen serving 
 during War on 
 board Trading 
 Ships or Pri- 
 vateers for Two 
 Years deemed 
 British. 
 
 Naturalized Per 
 sons disqualified 
 from being Offi- 
 cers of State, 
 Members of 
 Parliament, 
 holding Offices 
 of Trust, or 
 hiving Grants 
 of Land. 
 
 Having resided 
 Seven Years in 
 His Majesty's 
 Colonies in 
 America, and 
 taken certain 
 Oaths, ice. to be 
 
 Subjects. 
 
 I 
 
.J 
 
 •4 
 
 I'! 
 
 iiiii 
 
 Ziitm. 
 
 juration Oath, and also make and subscribe the Profes- 
 sion of his Christian Behef, before the Chief Judge or 
 other Judge of the Colony wherein such Persons have 
 so resided, shall be taken to be His Majesty's natural- 
 born Suljects of diis Kingdom to all Intents and Pur- 
 poses, as if born within this Kingdom ; which said Oath 
 or Affirmation, and Subscription of the said Declarations, 
 the Judge of the Colony is empowered to administer and 
 take ; and the taking and subscribing of every such Oath 
 or Affirmation, and the repeating and subscribing every 
 such Declaration, shall be before such Judge in open 
 Court, between the Hours of Nme 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 reside ; and every Judge of such Colony 
 is required to make a proper Entry thereof in a Book to 
 be kept for that Purpose in the said Court, for which 
 Two Shillings and no more shall be paid, under For- 
 feiture of Ten Pounds for every Neglect or Omission ; 
 and every Secretai-y of the Colony wherein any Person 
 shall so talie the said Oaths or Affirmation, and repeat and 
 subscribe the said Declarations respectively, is required 
 to make a proper Entry thereof in a Book to be kept for 
 that Purpose in his Office, upon Notification thereof to 
 him by the Judge, under the like Forfeiture for everj' 
 Neglect or Omission. 13 Geo. 2. c. 7. § 1. 
 
 9. All Foreign Protestants who conscientiously scruple 
 the taking of an Oath, having resided for the Space of 
 Seven Years or more in any of His Majesty's Colonies in 
 America, and not been absent longer than Two Months 
 at any one Tune, and who shall subscribe the Declara- 
 tion of FidrJIty, and affirm the Effect of the said Ab- 
 juration Oath, and also subscribe the Profession of his 
 Christian Belief before the said Judge, shall be taken to 
 be natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom to all Intents 
 and Purposes ; which said Affirmation and Subscription 
 of the said Declaration the Judge is empowered to 
 administer and take ; and the taking of such Affirmation, 
 and the subscribing of such Declaration, shall be in 
 such Manner and Place, and at such Times and Hours 
 and such Entries made thereof, and tor the same Fees, 
 and under the same Penalties, as mentioned ml 3 Geo. 2. 
 c. 7. (See No. 8.) 20 Geo. 2. c. 44, § 1 . 
 
 uci by virtue of tjie Jewish Religion, sliall be naturalized by virtue of 
 
 these 
 
 Protestants who 
 «i.ju))le the 
 taking of aa 
 Oat!,. 
 
 Pcisons nstuiat 
 
^ 
 
 these Acts, unless they shall have received the Sacrament 
 of the Lord's Supper in some Prot'^stant and Reformed 
 Congregation within this Kitigdom, or within some of 
 the said Colonies in Americfi, within Three Months next 
 before their taking and subscribing the said Oaths, or 
 making such Affirmation, and making and subscribin'^ 
 the said Declaration, and who shall at the Time of taking 
 and subscribing the said Oaths, and making and sub- 
 scribing the said Declaration, produce a Certificate sitrned 
 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 Persons shall so reside, as also in the Court 
 where the said Oaths shall be so taken, without any Fee 
 or Reward. 1 3 Geo. 2. c. 7. § 2. 20 Geo. 2. c. 44. § 2. 
 11. Whenever any Person professing the Jewish Re- 
 ligion shall present himself to take the Oath of Abjura- 
 tion, the Words (« upon the true Faith of a Christian ") 
 shall be omitted, and the taking and subscribing the said 
 Oath by such Person professing the Jewish Religion 
 without, the Words aforesaid, and the other Oaths ap- 
 pointed by the said Act, in like Manner as Jews were per- 
 mitted to take the Oath of Abjuration, shall be deemed a 
 sufficient taking the Oaths to entitle him to the Benefit 
 of being naturalized. 13 Geo. 2. c. 7. §3. 
 
 f ^?' A j^^^^™°"i^l o^ Certificate under the Seal of any 
 of the said Colonies, of any Person's having resided there 
 for Seven Years or more, to be specified in su( h Certifi- 
 cate, together with the particular Time of Residence in 
 each Colony (whereof the Colony, under the Seal of 
 which such Certificate shall be given, shall be one), and 
 of his having taken and subscribed the said Oaths or 
 Affirmation, and made and subscribed the said Declara- 
 tion; and in case of a Quaker, of his having made and 
 subscnbed the Declai-ation of Fidelity, and taken and 
 affirmed the Effect of the Abjuration Oath ; and in the 
 Case of a Person professing the Jewish Religion, of his 
 having taken the Oath of Abjuration as afbresaid, within 
 the same Colony under the Seal whereof such Certificate 
 shall be given, snail be deemed to be a sufficient Testi- 
 mony and Proof thereof, and of his being a natural-born 
 Subject of Great Britain to all Intents and Purposes, 
 ana as such shall hp fillnwpH iH o,rorir r^,,"* — ;*i,:- /-i— -- 
 Writam and Ireland, or in the said Colonies in America. 
 13 Geo. 2. c. 7. §4. 
 
 B 3 13. Secre- 
 
 ihese Acts must 
 receive the Sa- 
 ciament, except 
 Quakers mid 
 Jews. 
 
 Jews t.iking the 
 Oath of Ab- 
 juration. 
 
 Certificate of 
 Qualification as 
 British Subjects. 
 
t i 
 
 6 
 
 Lists of Persons 
 qualitied to be 
 entered in a 
 Book. 
 
 I 
 
 Protestant* 
 having served 
 111 the Royal 
 American Re> 
 giment, or as 
 Engineers, 
 deenieil British 
 Subjects. 
 
 Children of Per- 
 sons liable to the 
 Penalties of 
 Treason or 
 Felony, or in the 
 Service of a 
 Foreign Prince, 
 deemed Aliens. 
 
 May hold Offices 
 or Places of 
 'IVust and Grant 
 nf Lands except 
 iu Great Britain 
 and Ireland. 
 
 13. Secretaries of the said Colonieb bhall at the End of 
 every Year transmit to the Office of the Commissioners 
 for Trade and Plantations, k^pt in the City of London 
 or Westminster, a true and perfect List of the Names 
 of every Person who have in that Year entitled them- 
 selves to the Benefit of this Act, under the Forfei.are of 
 ^50 for every Neglect or Omission, which Lists shall 
 be regularly entered by the said Commissioners in a Book 
 to be kept for that Purpose in the said Office, for public 
 View and Inspection. IS Geo. 2. c. 7. § 5. 
 
 14. All Foreign Protestants, as well Officers as Sol- 
 diers, 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 Articles 
 8 & 9.), and shall at the Time of subscribing the said 
 Oaths, and making and subscribing the said Declai'ation, 
 produce Certificates, signed in Manner before directed, 
 of their having received the Sacrament in some Protes- 
 tant and Reformed Congregation within Great Britain, 
 or some of the said Colonies in America, within Six 
 Months before that Time, shall be deemed to be His 
 Majesty's natural-born Subjects to all Intents and Pur- 
 poses, as if they had been born within this Kingdom. 
 2 Geo. 3. c. 25. § 1. 
 
 15. But not to naturalize any Children whose Fathers 
 at the Time of th^ Birth of such Children were attainted 
 of High Treason, or liable to the Penalties of High 
 Ireason or Felony in case of their returning 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 Crown 
 of Great Britain, all which Children shall remain in the 
 same State and Condition as they would have been if these 
 Acts had not been made. 13 Geo. 2. c. 7. 20 Geo. 2. 
 c. 44. 2 Geo. 3. c. 25. 
 
 16. Every Person who has or shall become His 
 Majesty's natural-born Subject by 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 
 fi-om the Crown to himself, or to any others in Trust for 
 him, as well under the Great Seal of Great Britain as 
 
 ' -■TTiav ^vAi-cjjt v/iiiv;ca 
 
 Laud, Tenements, and 
 
 I 
 
 rn 
 
 uuu GriUltij o[ 
 
 Hereditaments within Great 
 
 Britain 
 
 
mime. 7 
 
 Britain and Ireland), but shall not be thereby enabled to 
 be of the Privy Council or a Member of Parliament. 
 2 Geo. 3. c. 25. § 6. 13 Geo. 3. c. 25. §. 1. 
 
 17. Any Subject of the Territories belonging to the Subjects of the 
 United States of America, who shall come from thence S ^tJ^i"'^" 
 together with his Family to any of the Bahama or Ber- FamiUesTcoming 
 muda or Somers Islands, or to the Province of Quebec '" ^^"'<' '" ^er- ' 
 or Nova Scotia, or any of the Territories belonging to ^ mS' ""^ 
 His Majesty in North America, for the Purpose of re- mayimpS^' 
 siding and settling there, having obtained a Licence for ^"•^"'^ure. 
 that Purpose^ from the Governor, or in his Absence the HLftSdrf and 
 Lieutenant Governor of the said Islands, Colonies, or Clothing, Duty 
 Provinces respectively, may import into the same, in a ^'^^^■ 
 British Ship owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navi- 
 gated 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 4<0s. for every Negro brought by such White 
 Person. 30 Geo. 3. c. 27. § 1. 
 See Settlers. 
 18. No Person shall be deemed qualified to be the Persona who 
 Master of a British Ship, or to be a British Seaman or ""yj«°'"« 
 Mariner, within the Meaning of any Act now in force. Masters of 
 except the natural-born Subjects of His Majesty, or Per- British ship., 
 yens naturalized by Act of Parliament, or made Denizens Mlrinew" 
 by Letters of Denization, or except Persons who havd 
 become His Majesty's 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 required by the Treaty or Capitula- 
 tion by which such newly acquired Country came 
 into His Majesty's Possession, except as is herein-after 
 provided. 34 Geo, 3. c. 68. § 6. 
 
 19. Every Foreign Seaman or Mariner who has Serving Three 
 sei-ved or who shall serve on board any of His Maiestv's o^u"'^ °" K"'"^'* 
 Ships of War, in Time of War, for Three Years, either deemed B^"sh 
 m the same Ship or in different Ships, and who shall ""^er panicuiRr 
 have obtained a Certificate from the Captain or Captains SfSons '"'^ 
 thereof, or, in case of Death, upon the Certificate of the ^^" "'°"'* 
 Officer who shall have been next in Rank to such Captain, 
 testfying that he has so served, and his faithful Service 
 and good Behaviour during the Time of such Service, 
 Vy.' "''^' ~""" "*°" iiuvc uiKcn ine v;ain oi Allegiance to 
 His Majesty before some Justice of the Peace or Principal 
 
 B 4 Magistrate 
 
8 
 
 I !■ . ; I! 
 
 
 Persons taking 
 Oath of Alleg'- 
 ance to a Foreign 
 Sovereign or 
 State not to be 
 deemed Britisli 
 Sulijects, unless 
 such Oath was 
 taken before 
 their Qualifiia- 
 tion, except in 
 certain Cases. 
 
 
 Magistrate of some City or Town in His Majesty's Domi- 
 nions, or before the Principal Officer of His Majesty's 
 Customs in miy of His Majesty's Dominions, and who 
 shall obtain a Certificate from such Justice of the Peace, 
 Principal Magistrate, or Chief Officer, of his having 
 taken such Oath (wliich Certificate they are required to 
 give upon Payment of One Siiilling), shall be entitled to 
 be employed as a Master of a Britisli Ship, or 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 before- 
 mentioned Certificate or Certificates 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 Allegiance, to the Collector or 
 other Chief Officer of His Majesty's Customs in London, 
 Chatham, Portsmouth, or Plymouth, or in Dublin, Cork, 
 Galway, or Londonderry, to be filed by such Collector 
 or other Chief Officer of the Customs, who are required 
 tt) deliver to such Foreign Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, 
 an attested Copy thereof iipcn paving One ShiUina. 
 34 Geo, 3. c. 68. § 7- 42 Geo. 3. c! 61. § 8. ^ 
 
 20. 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 Sovereign or State, for any 
 Purpose except under the Terms of some Capitulation, 
 upon the Conquest of any of the Dominions of His Ma- 
 jesty by the Enemy, for tb3 Purpose of obtaining the 
 Benefit of sucli Capitulation only, shall be deemed to be 
 qualified to be the Master of a British Shij), or a British 
 Sailor, Seaman, or Mariner, within the Meaning of any 
 of the Laws of Navigation, unless such Person shall have 
 tiikcn such Oath of Allegiance before he became so quali- 
 fied ; and any Person who shall, after having become die- 
 qualified by taking such Oath of Allegiance, take the 
 Conunand of any British Ship, shall for every Offence 
 forfeit .^100 J and every Person who shall, after having 
 become so disqualified, engage to serve as a British Sailor, 
 Seaman, or Mariner on board any such Ship, shall forfeit 
 for every Offence ^'10 ; nidi Foribiturcs to be recovered 
 upon Conviction before a Justice of the Peace, if any 
 
 such 
 
Ships not for- 
 feited if Dis- 
 qualiHcation 
 unknown to 
 Owners and 
 Master respec- 
 tively. 
 
 Negroes may be 
 employed in 
 Navigation on 
 the Seas of 
 America and tlx 
 West Indies. 
 
 >\\c\\ Offence shall be comniittetl in Great Britain, and 
 before any Member of the Supreme C^ourt of Justice or 
 any Justice of the Peace, if such Offence shall be com- 
 mitted 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*^dis- 
 (jualified shall be employed as Master, Seaman, or Ma- 
 nner, shall be forfeited by jeason thereof, if the Owners 
 shall shew that the Disqualification of the Master was 
 unknown to such Owners or to their Agent, and that the 
 Disqualification of the Seaman or Mariner was unknown 
 to such Owners or to their Agent, and to the Master ot 
 such Ship, at the Time of engaging such Person so dis- 
 (juahfied ; and in the Navigation on the Seas of Ame- 
 rica and the West Indies, from anv 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 Subjects as aforesaid and with the 
 Qualifications aforesaid, and in the Seas to the Eastward 
 of the Cape of Good Ho})e, fronr any Port to the East- 
 ward 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 Countries to the Eastward of 
 the Cape of Good Hope, maybe employed as British 
 .Sailors, Seamen, or Mariners, in manner heretofore 
 practised 34. Geo. 3. c. fiS. § 8. 
 
 21. But nothing in this Act shall extend to take away 
 or restrain the Effect of any Proclamation His Majesty 
 may make by virtue of 13 Geo. 3. c. 2. (See No. 6.) 
 34 Geo. 3. c. 68. §9. 
 
 May l>c ex])orted from Malta or any of the Denen- i 
 denc.es thereof, or from Gibraltar, dire^ct to any of hL SS^m 
 Majesty _s. Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or ^'^''''' 
 <> Newloundhmnd, Bermuda, or any of His Majelty's "'"^'"• 
 Colonics or Plantations in Nordi America, in British 
 fehips owned, navigated, and registered according to Law. 
 o5 Geo. 3. c, 29. §5,9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4-. §1 
 
 See GiBIULTAR. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 d 
 
 Proclamation 
 under 13 Geo. 3. 
 c. 2. 
 
 The 
 
It I 
 
 if 
 
 mM\ 
 
 i 
 
 I' 
 
 M, 
 
 10 
 
 A Tree Port. 
 
 A Free Port. 
 
 Must be taken 
 on board Ships 
 trading to the 
 AVest Indies. 
 
 Importotioii 
 allow ed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Zntisua. 
 
 The Port of Saint John's in Antigua, one of the Free 
 Ports for the Importation and Exportation of certain 
 Articles in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 One of the Free Ports in Jamaica for the Importation 
 and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships. 
 5 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 :apptent(ce0. 
 
 Every Master of any Merchant Ship trading to His 
 Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in the West Indies, 
 shall have on board, at the Time of clearing out from 
 Great Britain, One Apprentice under the Age of 
 17 Years, duly indentui*ed for Three Years, for every 100 
 Tons Admeasurement, according to the Certificate of 
 Registry ; and the Indenture of every Apprentice shall 
 be enrolled at the Custom-house of the Port from whence 
 such Ship shall clear out, with the Collector or Comp- 
 troller, 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 the Owners or Master neglecting 
 to eniol the Indenture shall forfeit jf 10. One Moiety by 
 the Owners, and the other by the Master. 37 Geo, 3. 
 c. 73. § i. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depend- 
 encies 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 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5, 9. 57 Geo 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 Sec Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 :att(ficer0. 
 
 ^'f'*! Artificers jf^ny ©f the King's Subjects within this Kingdom, 
 
 and Manufac- ,. •'...„ ^, n"" . r • -w-n -\ i 
 
 turcrs using bemg an Artincer or ivianuiaciurer 01 or m w ool, xiuu, 
 or tcjchiiig Steel, Brass, or any other Metal, Clockmaker, Watch- 
 
 10 maker. 
 
Zxtifime. 
 
 11 
 
 Must be brought 
 to Great Britain 
 or Ireland, or 
 some British 
 Plantation. 
 
 maker, or any other Artificer or Manufacturer of Great their An in 
 Britain, shall go into any Country out of His Majesty's " ^''"''^'' 
 Dominions, there to use or teach any of the said Trades or Ar"""'^ ''""""^ 
 Manufactures to Foreigners, or shall not return within '"'' 
 Jix Months after warning given him by the British Am- 
 bassador, Minister, or Consul, or any Person authorize<l 
 by him, or by a Secretary of State, and from thenceforth 
 continually inhabit in this Realm, he shall be deemed an 
 Alien. 5 Geo. 1. c. 27. § 3. 
 
 ^Bl)e6 (Pot and Pearl). 
 
 1. No Pot or Pearl Ashes of the Production or 
 Manufacture of the British Plantations in America shall 
 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, there to 
 
 flJfiV T^^''^ """^^^^ *^^ Forfeiture of the Goods, or 
 the full Value thereof, and the Ship. 12 Car.2. c. 18. § 18. 
 
 2. For every Ship which shall sail from Great Britain 
 
 or Ireland for any British Plantation in America, BonS 
 
 shaU be given with One Surety to the Chief Officers of 
 
 he Customs of the Port from whence the said Ship shall 
 
 han ^Oo't "' ""^fT^ '^'^''^^^ ^ of lessB^rthen 
 ^ aI^ J^""^' ^"^ ""^ -^^'^^O '^ «f greater Burthen, 
 conditioned that m case the said Ship sfall load any Pot 
 
 °r , .^ , ;?^"^^' °r ^"y enumerated Ai tide (for the whole 
 of which See - Goods Enumerated," No.l.) at any of the 
 Slid British Plantations, that the same shall be brought to 
 some other British Plantation, or tx, Great Britain or Ire- 
 land, and be there unloaded, the Danger of the Seas only 
 excepted. And for every Ship coming from any other Pm 
 or Place to aijy of the aforesaid Plantetions, which Je per- 
 mitted to trade there, the Governor shall, before the Ship 
 be permitted to load any Pot or Pearl Ashes (or any eni^ 
 nierated Article), take Bond in like manner Jo the Value 
 aforesaid, that such Ship shall carryall the said Goods 
 o some other of His Majesty's British Plantationsror 
 to Great Britain or Ireland. 12 Car. 2 c 18 S lo 
 
 ''".^Z: «• ,*;• '«•§?' ?• 89 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. I. 
 
 ^. xiie Master Uelore he departs from any British 
 
 Plantatton, where he receive, il Lading, S Se a 
 
 Certificate 
 
 Bond to be given 
 not to land 
 elsewliere. 
 
 Certificates to be 
 taken by the 
 Masters of Ships. 
 
12 
 
 m\ 
 
 Forfeiture if 
 shipped before 
 Bond given, or 
 iT carried to 
 other Places. 
 
 But not to ex- 
 tend to the Pro- 
 duce of Estates 
 of Dutch Pro- 
 prietors in 
 Guiana. 
 
 Governors or 
 Officers suspect- 
 ing Certificates 
 to be false not 
 to cancel Bonds, 
 and Penalty on 
 falsifying Cer- 
 tificates. 
 
 ^Ql)tS (Pot and Pearl.) 
 
 Certificate ixntlcr the H^d and Seal of tlie Collector or 
 other principal Officer of the Cnsioms 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 Col- 
 lector 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 .^'100. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 24- 20Geo. 3. clO. § 1,3. 
 33 Geo. 3. c. 63. §2. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 4. If any Ship shall take on board any Pot or Pearl 
 Ashes (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 Artitles tcJ any 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. 
 12Car.2. C.18. § 19. 22&23 Car.2. c.26. § 11. 4Geo.3.' 
 c. 15-§2Y. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1, 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 5. 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 the said Colonies to tKe' 
 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 ex- 
 port the said Produce to any Part of the United Kingdom 
 or any of His Majesty's Dominions in Europe. 56 Geo. 3. 
 C. 91. § 4, 8; See Guiana. 
 
 6. In Cases where the Governor or Officers in any of 
 the Plantations shall have reasonable Ground of Suspi- 
 cion 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 counter- 
 feit, the Governor or Officers shall not cancel the Secu- 
 rity 
 
 11 
 I 
 
ZSlitS (Pot and Pearl). 
 
 1 ity given in the Plantations^, until they shall be informed 
 horn the Commissioners of the Customs in Great Britain 
 or Ireland, as the Case may be, that the Matter of the 
 said Certihcate is true; and if any Person shall counter- 
 teit, rase, or falsify any Certificate fbr any Ship or Goods 
 or knowingly or wilfully make use thereof, such Person 
 shall forfeit ^500, and the Certificate shall be of no Effect 
 7&8 W, 3.C.22410. 4Geo.3.c.l5.§27. 20 Geo 3' 
 c.lO. §1, 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. "^ '^^°- ''• 
 
 T \' ^f V'l ^.^""^^ ""^ *^^ Customs in Great Britain or 
 Ireland shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Pot or 
 ^'earl Ashes (or any enumerated Article) to be carried 
 into any other Country or Place, until they have been 
 hrst put on shore m some Part in Great Britain or Ire- 
 
 Ind fWl ^?fu ^°i '"?^ ^^""^^ ^^^" f«^-f^»t his Place, 
 and the Value of the Goods. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 9. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. I7. Art 6 ^- ^- 10. § 1, 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 
 .1 ^' T/';ip«vernors or their Commoiiders in Chief of 
 o tin ni? "'"''T''. "'-^^^"^^'^ Year at least, to return 
 othei 1 erson as H,s Majesty shall appoint to reqeiv^ the 
 same a List of all Ships as shall havi laden a,^ Pot or 
 f'earl Ashes (or any enumerated Ai-ticle) in such Planti- 
 tions, as also a List of all Bonds taken by them ; ai^ t 
 case any Sh.p belongmg to any of His Majesty's Planta- 
 Uons 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. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c;26 
 
 J9 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 9. In all Bonds to be taken in the Plantations, the Per- 
 .^ns thcvin named shall be of known Residence and 
 Abdity there for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the 
 Condition of which shall be, within 18 Months after tie 
 Date thereof (U.eDanger of the Seas excepted), to produce 
 a Certihcate of having landed and disclLg« the^Goods 
 herein mentioned in one of His Majesty's Plantado„ror 
 
 Co.^'Tk ^'Tt '' '''^^^^ «^^^™- such Bond or 
 Copies thereof, being attested under the Hand and Seal 
 of he Governor or Commander iii Chief to whom siich 
 Bond wasgiven shall be in force and allowed ofMn anv 
 Court in Great Britain, L-eland. or th. PI„n.„.?l „?X 
 
 I To U ?■ 3Q I' L n ^ ^^''' ^' '• ^^- ^ 27' 20 Geo. 3. 
 ^' ^"- $ i, 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 10. In 
 
 13 
 
 Pemlty on 
 Officers sutTerirg 
 Goods to be 
 carried to otlwr 
 Places. 
 
 Governors or 
 tfieir Command- 
 ers in Cfiief to 
 transmit Lists of 
 Bonds yearly fo 
 tile Customs. 
 
 Condition of 
 Bond, and who 
 are to be the 
 Obligors when 
 taken in the 
 Plantations. 
 
14 
 
 When taken in 
 Great Britain 
 or Ireland. 
 
 Bonds void if 
 not prosecuted 
 within Two 
 Years of the 
 Date, or if 
 Judgment not 
 obtained within 
 Two Years after 
 Prosecution. 
 
 MfSl)tB (Pot and Pearl). 
 
 10. In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great 
 Britain or Ireland, in pursuance of any Act, wherebj' the 
 Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great 
 Britain or Ireland, such Bonds shall be with Condi- 
 tion that, within 18 Months from the Date thereof (the 
 Danger of the Seas excepted), a Certificate *haU be pro- 
 duced from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port 
 where such Goods sliall be delivered, that they have been 
 there landed and discharged, otherwise sucli Bonds shall 
 beforfeited. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 6. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1, 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art, 6. 
 
 11. Incase there shaH 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-jretformance 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. 8 Ann. c. 13. 
 § 23. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 
 ;^00i0tanCe* see "WnU of Assistance." 
 
 Wines may be 
 imported from 
 thence ; 
 
 also Oranges 
 and Lemons. 
 
 1. Wines of the Growth of the Azores may be there 
 laden for Exportation to any of the Plantations, Colonies, 
 or Territories to His Majesty belonging or in His Posses- 
 sion in America. 15 Car. 2. c. 7- § 6. 
 
 2. Oranges and Lemons, the Produce of the Azores, 
 may be shipped there for Exportation direct to any of the 
 Ports in the British Colonies in North America, and may 
 be imported into the said Ports in British-built Ships 
 owned, navigated, and registered according to Law. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 89. § 1. 
 
 20a})ama0 and BermuDa. 
 
 1 . No Goods shall be imported from any of the Terri- 
 tories belonging to the United States of America into the 
 Bahamaor Bermuda or Somers Islands, on Forfeiture there- 
 
 No Goods to be 
 
 imported from 
 
 the United 
 
 States, except 
 
 the Articles oi aiiU liic oiiip, csvcpi i. ODuCCO, x^cvli, i, ur, X UrpcniiriC, 
 
 hereinmentioned. Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading- 
 
 -^c 1 ii-_ c<u;_ A rn_i Tv^-i- 
 
 ,ind th( se only in 
 Britihh Ships 
 
 boards, Timbei', S^iingles, and Lumber 
 
 of any Sort, 
 Horses, 
 
»> 
 
 MaUmas anD mtttnuha. 
 
 Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry Live SfnrW 
 uUny Sort, Bread, Biscuit,^Flourfpeas, BL^a'ns7Potfto^s 
 Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, uch 
 Comrnodmes bemg the Growth or Productio^n of ai^; o 
 the Terntorie* of tlie United States, but not to be t. U 
 ported, except by BrittA Subject.,' andTn Bridsh bu^: 
 Sh^ps owned by Hi3 Majesty'^ Subjects, and rv^.^^^ 
 accordnig to Law. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § l, 2 "'^'^S"'"^ 
 
 2. Except also Household Furniture, Utensils of Hus 
 bandry, and Clothing, by Subjects of the Ured §"" " 
 
 fl^tlf Purre'T ^""' 4ether with thei.' Fa^' 
 for tlie Purpose of residmg and settlintr in the Isknrk 
 lumng first obtained a Lice^e for that ^r^ose fromthe 
 Governor or m hzs Absence, the Lieutenant Governor 
 
 Ful^turiTr" '''P^'^^-^yj. provided such Household 
 i^urmture, &c. are imported in British-built Ships owned 
 by His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated accKn? to 
 Law, and shal not exceed in the whoiS the Value ofSi^ 
 for every White Person that shall belong to the Fa^W 
 
 ptr ^0 G^^f r2;.ti. ''-''' '^ -^'^ ^^^ 
 
 See Sbttwers. 
 c fi ' Hy M^ *,^f ^'^''^^^' enumerated in 28 Geo. 3 
 
 import fr^'th?n -^^ f^ ^'''''^''^ '' '^'^^ be lawful to 
 Z^^ T f ^""'^ ®*^*^«' ^» Ships of the DescriD- 
 tion mentioned m the said Act<i m«a i !i ^ x ^T 
 
 ch^fi Sf h°'- *" ^"J'"'^ enumerated in 28 Geo S 
 
 """"""■■" ""'""S'"S to theCown of Portugi" inl^uth 
 
 America, 
 
 15 
 
 and except cer- 
 tiin Articles 
 brought hy 
 Settlers in such 
 Shipping, 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be imported 
 in Foreign Ships 
 into St. George 
 and Hamilton; 
 
 also Fruit and 
 Vegetables. 
 
 The like Articles 
 not permitted to 
 be imported from 
 Colonies under 
 Foreign Euro- 
 pean Sovereigns, 
 except it) Cases 
 of Emergency, 
 ard from Portu- 
 guese Colonies, 
 Trinadado and 
 * orto Ricc*. 
 
 I 
 
WIMU 
 
 if!" 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 
 4^ , 
 
 
 
 1 * 
 
 . i. 
 
 f 
 
 
 ^ifM ' 
 
 m 
 
 Ml 
 
 16 
 
 Articles im- 
 ported for the 
 Supply of the 
 Inhabitants, nut 
 to be exported ; 
 and before ship- 
 ])ing Articles of 
 the like Sort, 
 Proof to be made 
 that they were 
 not imported for 
 such Supply. 
 
 False Oaths 
 ^med Perjury. 
 
 American Ships 
 in Ballast may be 
 laden with Salt 
 in Turks 
 Island. 
 
 Masters to re- 
 port and answer 
 Questions re- 
 specting the 
 Voyage. 
 
 ]iddi)dmd& atiD Betnni&ai 
 
 America, or from the Free Ports, mul except cerfain 
 ArticlcR from Trinidmlo and Porto Rico. 28 Geo. 3. 
 C.6. §10,J1. 3lGeo. 3. c. 38, § 1. 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 13. 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. §2. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 5. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 UnITKD STATE.S. ' ''^^' ■♦' *' ' ' 
 
 6. None of the Articles enumerated in 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 
 (See No. 1.) which have been imported from any Island 
 in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South 
 America, under the Dominion of any Foreign Kurojiean 
 Sovereign or State, into the Bahama, Hermuda, or So- 
 mers Islands, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, shall bo 
 exported from the said Islands, or put on board any Ves- 
 sel or Boat, or b'-ought to any Quay, with intent to be so 
 exported, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Vessel or Boat 
 hi which laden; and before shipping any Article ofthe like 
 Denomination or Description, whetlier in n manufactured 
 or unmanufactured State, that may la\^^■^dly be exported 
 from the said Islands, the Exporter shall make Oath that 
 the same or any Part thereof had not been imported, f<ir the 
 Supply of the Inhabitants, from any Island in the West 
 Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, 
 under the Dorninioh of any Foreign European Sovei-eign 
 or State. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. ^ 1,2. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. §3, 4. 
 
 7. 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 pro- 
 secuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in 
 any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West 
 Indies. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. § 3. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 5. 
 
 8. Any Ship belonging to the Inhabitants ofthe said 
 United States of America, comincf in Ballast and not 
 otherM'iso, may enter the Ports of Turks Island, for the 
 "Purpose of being there laden with Salt only. 28 Geo. 3. 
 C. 6. § 5. 
 
 9. 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 principal Officer, declaring of what Country she 
 is built, how manned, who was the Master during the 
 Voyage, and who are the Owners thereof, and the Pur- 
 pu3c ixji wtiivjii lie ciiiviLs Hit: run, m uiucr mat such uinp 
 
 may undergo the Search and Exa^nination of the proper 
 
 3 Officers 
 
 ( 
 
 a 
 a. 
 
 V 
 c 
 
 a 
 
 n 
 
 SI 
 
 o 
 
 tb 
 
 su 
 
 1] 
 
 ofth 
 
 to re 
 
 Dutj 
 
 missi 
 
 and 
 
 Duti 
 
 any ( 
 
i 
 
 Ii5al)ama0 anb BetmuDa. 
 
 Officers of tJie Customs ; and nndi Maater shall tnilv 
 answer upon Oath to such Questions concerning tlie same 
 lis shaU be (hmunded olhim by such Collector or other 
 principal Oflucr, upon Forfeiture of ^ lOO. 28 Geo S 
 c. 6. ^ 6'. 
 
 10. There shall l>e paid, Ibr the Use of His Majesty, 
 a loimago Duty of 2s. 6d. Sterling in Dollars, at the 
 ftatf of 5s. 6(1. ])or Ounce, for every Ton of every such 
 J>hip, and the Tonnage shall l)e ascertained by such 
 Officers as shall be appointed by the Cormnissioners of 
 the Customs or any Four of them, who sludl admeasure 
 such bhip according to the following Method, viz. 
 
 *' Drop a Plumb Lino over the Stern of the Ship, and 
 " measure the Distance between such Line and the 
 
 r Is, ^^'^^^ ^^"""^ ^"^^ '^t the Load Water 
 
 Mark ; then measure from the Top of the said 
 l^umb Lnie, in a parallel Direction with the 
 Water, to a perpendicuhu- Point inunediately over 
 Uie Load Water Mark, at the fore Part of the 
 Mam Stern subtracting from such Measurement 
 the abov Distance, the Remainder will be the 
 Ship s extreme Length, from which is to be de- 
 ducted Tliree Inches for every Foot of the Load 
 Draught of Water for the Rake abaft, and also 
 Three-fiilhs of the Ship's Breadth for the Rake 
 forward, the Remainder shall be esteemed the just 
 J^^ng^l» o{ the Keel to find the Tonnage, and the 
 
 c. ^'■^it ,'^.^^^''' ^^^'' fr«"^ Outside to Outside of 
 the Plank m 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 Mul- 
 tiply the Length of the Keel for Towage by the 
 Breadth so taken, and that Product b? half the 
 
 ^^ Breadth, and dividing by 94, the Quotient shall 
 be deemed the true Contents of the Tonnage." 
 
 ^8 Oeo. 3. c. 6. § 7. * 
 
 of !h; SonriT^tl^P^' "^'f ^".P^'^ ^^ *^ CoUeCtor Receipt and 
 
 to r. -^ w ' ^^ *^^ ^''''^ "^^^""^'^ he shall be appointed ^Pi'rop'i 
 
 misln i"?'**'"' 5' Management of the said Com- 
 
 ZT T' ^"\he paid and recovered in the like manner 
 SlT't^ri'A^^-^^"^! .-d Forfeitures as anyXr 
 anv of th?Pr''VT- "'^ J.^^HI«fy on Goods imported into 
 ^ny ot the Plantations, Colonies, or Territories belonging 
 
 ^ to 
 
 17 
 
 A Tonnage 
 Duty to be paid, 
 and how tlie 
 Tonnage to lie 
 ascertained. 
 
 
 it 
 
 te 
 <( 
 
 i< 
 
 (I 
 
 t( 
 
 lation 
 uti. 
 
• I 
 
 I! 
 
 ■■'lill: 
 
 18 
 
 Only certain 
 
 Articles in^iy 
 bi; exported 
 from the 'I'urks 
 Islands. 
 
 Amtrican Ships 
 may enter in 
 Ballast certain 
 Ports to be laden 
 witli Salt. 
 
 Articles whicli 
 may be imported 
 into certain Ports 
 in Ships owned 
 rind navigated by 
 Inhabit.ints of 
 Colonics belong. 
 iiij> to Eorcign 
 luropcan States. 
 
 Certain Ports 
 for tile Irfipori- 
 stion of Supai 
 
 U) oi under the Dominion of His Majesty in AmericK 
 or the West Indies are paid and recovered, and shail 
 be subject to the Payment of the Salaries of the Officers 
 and other incidental Charges of the Port; and the 
 Residue shall be remitted to the Receiver General of 
 the Customs in England, to be paid into the Exchequer 
 under the Head of Consolidated Cusiums. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. 6. § 8. 
 
 12. No Goods shall be exported from Turks Islantl 
 to any Part of His Majesty's Dominions in America or 
 the Wesi Indies, or be laden or laid on board any Ship 
 for that Purpose, except Salt ; tmd no Goods shall be 
 exported from the said Islands to Great Britain or Ire- 
 land, or laid on board any Ship for that Purpose, ex- 
 cept Salt, and except such G(K)ds as may be imported 
 into Great Britain or Ireland from all other Countries 
 free of Duties, under the Forieiture of such Goods as 
 shall be so exported or laden, and also of the Ship. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. ^9. 
 
 13. Until 25th March 1819, any Ship belonging to the 
 United States coming in Ballast, and not othei-A^ise, may 
 enter the Port of Nassau in New Providence, the Port* 
 of Exuma and Crooked Island hi the Bahama Islands, 
 for the Purpose of being thei e laden with Salt only, sub- 
 ject to the Rules, Regulations, and Re t lictions provided 
 by the 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. respecting Vessels coming tor 
 the same Purpose to Turks Island. 57 Geo. 3. c. 42. § 1 . 
 
 14'. Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drugs, 
 Cocoa, Logwood, Fustic, Wootls for Dyers Use, Hides, 
 Skins, Tallow, Fm-s, Tortoise Shell, Hardwood (7r Mill 
 Timber, Mahogany Wood for Cabinet Ware, Horses, 
 Asses, Mules, Cattle, Corn, Bullion, Diamonds, Pre- 
 cious Stones, Rice, Grain, and Flour, may be imported 
 into New Providence, Crooked Island, Bermuda, and 
 the Bahamas, in any Foreign Ship, being owned and 
 navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the Colonies, 
 Plantations, or Countries on tlie Continent of America, 
 belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign Euro- 
 pean Sovereign or State. 45 Geo. 3. c 57. 47 Geo. 3. 
 c. 34. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. 4& Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 99. 57 Geo 3. c. 74. 
 
 »SVy L'hli; Ports. 
 
 15. Sugar and Coltee ol'an^ Foreign Colony (jr Plant- 
 ation may be imporleil into Nassau ni New Providence, 
 
 Pitt's 
 
AmericK 
 and shall 
 e Officers 
 
 and the 
 eiieral of 
 Ixchequer 
 8 Geo. 3. 
 
 rks Island 
 merica or 
 any Ship 
 i shall be 
 in or Ire- 
 pose, ex- 
 iniported 
 Countries 
 Goods as 
 the yhip. 
 
 »'ing to the 
 ■wise, may 
 the Port* 
 ii Islands, 
 )nly, snb- 
 s provided 
 )ming tor 
 c. 42. § 1 . 
 aJ, Drugs, 
 se, Hidesj 
 xl or Mill 
 !, Horses, 
 nds, Pre- 
 ; imported 
 fiuda, and 
 iwni'tl and 
 Colonies, 
 America, 
 Mgn Euro- 
 4.7 Geo, 3. 
 >2 Geo. 3. 
 
 or Plant- 
 lovidence, 
 
 Pitt's 
 
 Pitt's Town, or Crooked Island, and into such Ports in 
 the Bahama Islands, the principal Port in Bermuda, 
 and such Ports in the Caicosas shall be approved by 
 His Majesty, in such Foreign Ships, and subject to such 
 Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as are prescribed 
 in this Act witli respect to the Goods therein enumerated ; 
 and such Sugar and Coffee may be so imported and 
 exported without Payment of any Duty of Customs. 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 4, 5. 
 
 Sec Free Ports. 
 16. Any Ship described in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. may 
 come in Ballast, or import into any Port of the Bahama 
 Islands where there is a Custom-house, the Articles enu- 
 merated in the said Act, and may export the Articles 
 allowed by the said Act to be so exported in Foreign 
 Ships, and may also export Salt, subject to the Duty o^" 
 Tonnage, and under the Regulations of 28 Geo. 3 c 6 — 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. $1. 
 
 See Free Por rs. 
 Salt. 
 
 17. Any British Ship owned and navigated according 
 to Law may export from any Port of the Bahama Islands 
 any Quantity of Salt, without entering into the Bond and 
 Security required by 6 Geo. 3. c. 52.-52 Geo. 3. c. 99. § 2. 
 
 See Goods Non-enumerated. 
 
 18. 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 Lower Canada, and admitted to Entry on 
 Payment of the same Duty as if imported directly from 
 any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies 
 and under the Conditions and Restrictions of 28 Geo 3 
 c. 39. without Payment of Duty, in the same Manner* as* 
 It such Spirits had been imported directly from the said 
 Sugar Coloiues. 49 Geo. 3. c. 16. § 1 . 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 19. Such Spirits legally imported into Nova Scotia, 
 New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Island 
 or Newfoundland, from Bermuda, may be exported to 
 Lower Cimada, and admitted to Entry upon Payment of 
 the same Duty as if imported directly from any of His 
 Majesty's b.igar Colonies under the Regulations of this 
 Act. 51 Geo. 3. C.48. §], 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 20. Such Spirits legally imported into Bennuda from 
 Hi« Majesty s Sugar Colonies iu the West Indi.s, may 
 
 C2 ^,1 
 
 19 
 
 and Coffee in 
 Foreign Ships, 
 and the Export- 
 ation thereof. 
 
 Other Articles 
 which may be 
 imported into 
 and exported 
 from the Ba- 
 hamas. 
 
 Exponntion of 
 Salt without 
 Bond. 
 
 Exportation of 
 Spirits from 
 Bermuda to 
 Cannda, 
 
 From Nort!' 
 Americnr. 
 Colonies to 
 Canad;<. 
 
 From Bermuda 
 to certain Nuth 
 Anieiiciii 
 Colunifi. 
 
20 
 
 ' 1 
 
 11 
 
 ■M r 
 
 Exportation of 
 certain Articles 
 to tiie United 
 •States in Foreign 
 Ships from 
 Bermuda : 
 
 Of certain Ar- 
 ticles of the 
 United States to 
 West Indies in 
 British Shiju. 
 
 Other Articles 
 to Malta and 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Articles from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 be exported to Novu Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape 
 Breton, Prince Edward's Island or Newfoundland, ajid 
 •dnutted to Entry upon the same Duty as if imported 
 directly from any of His Majesty's said Sugar Colonies, 
 and under the Conditions and Restrictions contained in 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. without Payment of Duty, in the 
 same Manner as if imported directly from the said Sugar 
 Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. c. 62, § 1, 2. 
 See Spirits. 
 
 21. Sugar, Coffee, Rum, and Melasses, the Produce 
 of any British Colony in the West Indies, imported into 
 Bermuda in any British Ship, may be exported from the 
 Port of St. George, or the Port of Hamilton in Bermuda, 
 to the Territories of the United States, in any Foreign 
 Ship belonging to any Country in Amity with His t£- 
 jesty, above the Burthen of 60 Tons. 52 Geo. 3. c 79. U. 
 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 
 
 22. Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, 
 Masts, Yardi,, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, and 
 PLs.-^: Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, 
 Nc .. 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, the 
 Growth or Producion of the Territories belonging to the 
 United States, legally imported into St. George, or 
 Hamilton in Bermuda, may be exported from the said 
 Ports by any of Plis Majesty's Subj.'cts to any of His 
 Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in 
 British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to 
 Lj.w. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 3. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 1. 
 
 23. Any Article the Production or Manufacture of 
 Bermuda, or which has been legally imported into Ber- 
 muda, may on certain Conditions be exported direct to 
 Malta, or the Depcindencies thereof, or to Gibraltar. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. f8. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. ^ 1. 
 
 Sec Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 24. Certain Articles enumerated in the Schedule 
 mai'kcd (B.) of 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. may be exported 
 from Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from 
 Gibraltar, direct to Bennuda, under the Regulations and 
 Restrictions therein mentioned. 55 Geo. 3. c, 29. 6 9. 
 57G*^o= 3= c=4. 6 1. ' . » ' 
 
 Sec Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 The 
 
 M^. 
 
BarftaDoe0* 21 
 
 The Port of Bridgtown ill Barbadoes, one of the Ports Bridgtown a 
 for the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in P""^" ^°"- 
 Foreign Vessels. 45 Geo. 3, c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 Beatoer ^Mm. see ^ Furs." 
 BerblCe. See " Guiana." 
 
 mmatmsiit 
 
 All Foreign Goods which the Officers of the Customs F^i-eign Goods 
 shall permit to be landed, and taken up by Bills at Sieht, ''"^'='' ""^ ^»- 
 Bills at View or Sufferance, shall be landed at the mosJ aTsfht -"'officLs 
 convenient Keys or Wharfs, and not elsewhere; and to perfect the 
 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 Presence ; which Officers shall 
 perfect the Entry, and thereunto subscribe their Names, 
 and the next Day shall give Account and make Report of 
 every Entry so perfected to the Collector and Comp- 
 troller, or in Default thereof shall forfeit ^100, unless 
 reasonable Cause can be shewn for tlie Omission 
 l3&I4Car.2. c. 11. §21. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 6. 
 
 MietUit ^ee *' Provisions." 
 
 Botargo, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependen- 
 cies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Lavfi .n I Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5, 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Box aJttOOD. See - Wood." 
 1BfiVni*Mft'fft' Q«f. it \xT 1" 
 
 BreaD* See *' provisions." 
 
 C3 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Maka or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
^■t '. 
 
 23 
 
 BniigetDiPn* 
 
 \ ^ 'H 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 The Unior> of 
 England and 
 Scotland ; 
 
 also of Great 
 Britain and 
 Ireland. 
 
 Teaching Trades 
 or Manufactures 
 in Foreign 
 Countries. 
 
 One of the Free Ports in the British Plantations for 
 the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in 
 Foreign Ships. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 10rim0tone, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or 
 to Newfound'.and, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British - 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Britain. 
 
 1. England and Scotland united into One Kingdom, 
 by the Name of " Great Britain," and all the Subjects 
 thereof, shall have full Freedom and Intercourse of Trade 
 and Navigation within all the Dominions thereunto be- 
 longing. 5 Anne, c. 8. § 1.* 
 
 2. Great Britain and Ireland united into One King- 
 dom, by the Name of " The United Kingdom of Great 
 Britain and Ireland," and all the Subjects thereof shall be 
 on the same Footing, as to Encouragements and Bounties 
 on the like Articles, being the Produce or Manufacture 
 of either Country respectively, and generally in respect 
 of Trade and Navigation in all Ports and Places in the 
 United Kingdom and its Dependencies; and in all Treaties 
 with any Foreign Power, His Majesty's Subjects of Ire- 
 land shall have the same Privileges, and be oxi the same 
 Footing, as His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. t 
 
 BtittsJ) S>ub)ectfi. 
 
 1. Any of the King's Subjects, being Artificers or 
 Manufacturers of Great Britain, going to Countries out 
 
 * By virtue of this Jet, the Words " England" and " English," 
 in the several, Jets made before the Union with Scotland, are in 
 this Disest changedinto the Words '' Great Briloin" and "British," 
 
 t This Act for the Union of the Two Countries was agreed 
 to by the Parliament of Ireland, by Jet 40 Geo. 3. t. 38. in 
 which there is a similar Article. 
 
 of 
 
lorn. 
 
 xii' His Majesty's Dominions, to use or teach their Trades 
 or Manutactures to Foreigners, or not returning after 
 Warning given them, are deemed Aliens. 5 Geo. 1. 
 c. 27. §3. 
 
 See Aliens 
 2. 1 he Childien of Natural-born Subjects, born out 
 of the Legiarice ol" the Crown of Great Britain, shall be 
 entitled to the Rights and Privileges of Natural-born 
 Subjects of Great Britain, and shall be taken to be Na- 
 tural-born Siibjects, as if born in this Kingdom ; pro- 
 vided that nothing in these Acts shall repeal or alter 
 5 Geo. 1. c. 27. as to Artificers and Manufacturers. 
 7 Ann. c. I. §3. 4 Geo. 2. c. 21. § 1. 6. 13 Geo. 3. 
 fe: c.21.^51.3. 
 
 *|: See Aliens, No. 3. 
 
 : 3. Persons born out of the Legiance of the Crown of 
 
 Great Britain are not to be deemed Natural-born Sub- 
 jects, 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 re- 
 turnuig to this Kingdom, or whose l-^ithers at the Time 
 ot the Birth of such Children were or shall be in the 
 Service of any Foreign Prince or State then in Enmity 
 with Great Britain. 7 Ann. c. 5.^3. 4 Geo. 2.-c. 21 
 : $.2. 13 Geo. 3. c. 21. §2. 
 
 4. As to the Naturalization of Aliens, and how they 
 may ,become entitled to be employed as Masters, Seamen , 
 or Mariners of British Ships, 
 See Aliens. 
 
 23 
 
 Children of the 
 King's Su'ojects 
 born out of the 
 Legiance of Hij 
 Majesty to be 
 deemed British : 
 
 Ijiit Children of 
 Persons liable to 
 the Penalties of 
 Treason or 
 I'clony, or being 
 in the Service of 
 a Foreign I'rincf, 
 are deemed 
 Aliens. 
 
 Naturalization 
 
 I 'I Aliens. 
 
 ot 
 
 Bullion, 
 
 1. May be imported from any of the Colonies or Plan- May h. im. 
 tations m America, or from any Country on the Conti- ported into the 
 •lent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of ^>". ^'"i;^/ "' , 
 ^uiy Foreign European Sovereign or State, into the Free '"" 
 Ports, in any Foreign Vessel owned and navigated by 
 
 lersons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Planta- 
 tions^ or Countries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 51. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 
 .52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 See Free Pohis. 
 
 2, May be exported from Malta or any of theDepen- hn^orta: u, 
 «encies tiiereot or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 'Howed iVom 
 
 Ian tations in America, 
 
 C4 
 
 to 
 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
f I 
 
 i'lie Boundary 
 and Limits of 
 tite Province of 
 Quebec. 
 
 21 JSulWon. 
 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c.29. § 5.9. 57 Geo. 3. c.4. §1. 
 
 See GlBRALTAlt. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 Caico0. 
 
 May be approved His Majesty authorized to approve Ports in these 
 
 sliScoflee. ^^^^"^« f«'' tl^«^ Importation of Sugar and Coffee in Fo- 
 reign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 4. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 CanaDa/ 
 
 1. All the Territories, Islands, and Countries in 
 North America belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, 
 bounded on the South by a Line from the Bay of Cha- 
 leurs along the High Lands which divide the Rivers 
 that empty themselves into 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 di- 
 rectly West through the Lake Champlain, until 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, and the Ri- 
 ver commonly called Niagara, and thence along by the 
 Eastern and South eastern Bank of Lake Erie, following 
 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 thence 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 followhig the said Bank until it shall arrive at that 
 Point of the said Bank which shall be nearest to the 
 North-western Angle of the said Province of Pensylvania, 
 
 * Jt the Time of the Capture of this Province, it was dcno- 
 viinated " Que bee, " and .so described w many /icts, until the 
 ?A (jco. o. t. .'Jl. hy ulnch it appears that Jih Majestif divided it 
 into Two Pronnccs, to be thereafter eallcd " Upper Canada and 
 Lower Canada.' 
 
 and 
 
 .1 
 
 'S 
 
CanaDa. 
 
 and thence by a right Line to the said North-western 
 Angle of the said Province, and thence along the West- 
 ern Boundary of the said Province, until it strike the 
 River Ohio, and along the Bank of the said River West- 
 ward to the Banks of the Mississippi, and Nortliward to 
 the Southern Boundary of the Territories granted to the 
 Merchants Adventurers of England trading to Hudson's 
 Bay; and also all 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 o!' the Province of Quebec, as 
 created and established by the Koyal Proclamation of the 
 Seventh October 1763. U Geo. .S. c. 83. § I . 
 
 2. But nothing herein contained, relative to the 
 Boundary of the Province of Quebtn; shall in anywise 
 aftect the Boundaries of any other Colony. 14 Geo 3 
 c. 83. jj 2. -^ • • 
 
 3. And nothing in this Act shall extend to make void 
 or to alter any Right, Title, or Possession derived under 
 any Grant, Conveyance, or otherwise, of any Lands 
 within the said Province, or the Provinces thereto ad- 
 joining. 14 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 3. 
 
 4.. Such Parts of the Coast of Labrador, from the 
 Kiver Saint John to Hudson's Streights, and the Island 
 ot Anticosti, and all other smaller Islands annexed to the 
 Government of Newfoundland by the Proclamation of the 
 Seventh ol October 1763, except the Islands of Made- 
 laine, but afterwards annexed to Canada by 14 Geo. 3 
 c. 83. shall be separated from Canada, and be annexed 
 to the Government of Newfoundland. 49 Geo. 3 c 27 
 § 14. 
 
 .1, "'n?'" Majesty's Subjects professing the Religion of 
 the Church of Rome, of and in the said Province of 
 Quebec, may enjoy the free Exercise of the Religion of 
 the said Church subject to the King's Supremacy, de- 
 clared and estabhshel by 1 Elizabeth, c. 1. over all the Do- 
 minions and Countries which then did or thereafter should 
 belong to the Imperial Crown of this Realm. 14 Geo. 3. 
 c. 83. § 5. 
 
 6. No Person professing the Religion of the Church of 
 fnTl' ^"^^'^^'^ingin the said Province, shall be obliged 
 to^take the Oath required by the said Statute, or any 
 ^j-er v.aihs suostituted by any other Act in the Place 
 hereof; but every such Person who by the said Statute 
 is requjred to take the Oath therein mentioned, shaJl take 
 
 and 
 
 25 
 
 Royal Procla- 
 mation in 1763. 
 
 Boundary ot 
 other Colonies; 
 
 not to affect aiiv 
 R'glit to Grant* 
 ofLand», &c. 
 
 Parts of the Coast 
 separated from 
 Canada. 
 
 Free exercise of 
 Religion, 
 
 Oath of Persons 
 profefling the 
 Religion of the 
 Church of 
 Rome. 
 
26 
 
 Disability for iiol 
 taking the Oath. 
 
 His Majesty's 
 Subjects to en- 
 joy their Pro 
 pcrty and Ci\il 
 Rights according 
 to the Laws of 
 Canada. 
 
 Lands may he 
 conveyed and 
 bequeathed. 
 
 iuitl subscribe the following Oath belbre the Governor, of 
 buch other Person in such Court of Record us His Majesty 
 shall appoint, viz, 
 
 ' I ^' ^: ^^^. '''"t^oely promise and swear. That I will 
 ' ^ be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to I lis Ma- 
 ' jesty King (leorge, and hnu will detiend, to the ut- 
 ' most of my Power, against all traitorous Conspiracies 
 
 * and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against 
 ' his Person, Crown, and Dignity; antl J will (lo my 
 ' ;'tmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to His 
 
 * Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, all Treasons and 
 ' traiterous Conspiracies, and Attempts which I sliidl 
 •• 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 renounchig all Par- 
 dons and Dispensations, from any Power or Person 
 
 ' whomsoever to the contrary. So help me GOD.' 
 
 14 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 7. 
 
 7. Every such Person who 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 1 EFizabeth. i4. Geo. 3. 
 C. 83. § 7. 
 
 8. His Majesty's Canadian Subjects within the Pro- 
 vince t)f Quebec (the Religious Orders and Communities 
 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, as may 
 consist with their Allegiance to His Majesty, and Subjec- 
 tion to the Crown and Parliauient of Great Britain ; and 
 in all Matters of Controversy relative to Property and 
 Ci\ il Rights, resort shall be had to the Laws of Canatia 
 as the Rule for the Decision of the same ; and all Causes 
 that shall herciifter he instituted in any of the Courts of 
 Justice to be appointed within and for the said Province 
 b) His Majesty, shall, with respect to such Property and 
 Riglits, be determineil agreeably to the said Laws and Cus- 
 toms of Canada, until they shall be varied or altered by any 
 Ordinances that shall be passed in the said Province by the 
 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Conuuander in Chief, 
 by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative 
 Council for thejsame. 1 4- Geo. 3- <■ 83, § 8. 
 
 9. Every Owner of any Lands, Goods, or Credits in 
 the siiid Province, and that has a Right to alienate the 
 
 1 2 same 
 
cnior, or* 
 > Majesty 
 
 hat I will 
 His Ma. 
 J the ut- 
 ispiracies 
 le against 
 ill (To my 
 vn toPIis 
 Mions and 
 h I shall 
 (1 all thia 
 ital Eva,- 
 r all Par- 
 •r Person 
 c GOD.' 
 
 refuse to 
 e to the 
 apacities, 
 r refusing 
 i Geo. 3. 
 
 the Pro- 
 
 imunities 
 Property 
 d Usages 
 I, as may 
 i Subjec- 
 ain ; and 
 jerty and 
 f Canatla 
 11 Causes 
 Courts of 
 Province 
 Derty and 
 and C us- 
 ed by any 
 ice by the 
 ■ in Chief, 
 egislativc 
 
 L'redits in 
 
 ienatc the 
 
 same 
 
 1 
 
 Canada. 
 
 same in his or her Lifetime by Deed of Sale, Gift, <>»• 
 otherwise, may devise or bequeath the same, at liis or her 
 Death, by his or her last Will and Testament, such Will 
 being executed either according to the Laws of Canada, 
 or according to the Forms prescribed by the Laws of 
 England. 1 4 Geo. 3. c. 83. ^J 1 0. 
 
 10. Provided that nothing in this Act shall make void, 
 within the said Province of Quebec, any Act of the Parlia- 
 ment of Great Britam heretofore made for prohibiting, re- 
 straining, 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 re- 
 specting the said Colonies and Plantations, shall be in 
 force withhi the said Province of Quebec and every Part 
 thereof. 14Geo.3. c.83. §18. 
 
 11. Within each of the Provinces of Upper and Lower 
 Canada there shall be a Legislative Council and an 
 Assembly, and His Majesty shtUl have Power, during the 
 Continuance of this Act, by and with the Advice and Con- 
 sent 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 Coun- 
 cil and Assembly of either of the said Provinces, and 
 assented to by His Majesty, or assented to in His, Majesty's 
 Name, by such Person a& 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 within tlie same, shall be binding to all 
 Intents and Purposes. 3 1 Geo. 3. c. 3 1 . § 2. 
 
 12. All Laws and Ordinances in force at the Commence- 
 ment of this Act, within either of the Provinces, shall con- 
 tuuie in force therein, except such as are expressly re- 
 pealed or varied by this Act, or may hereafter by any Law 
 or Ordinance under the Authority thereof. 3 1 Geo 3 
 C.31. §3. 
 
 13. 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 Commerce 
 to be carried on between the said Two Provinces of 
 
 ■27 
 
 Acts regulatiiit; 
 Trade or Com- 
 niorce to remain 
 in force. 
 
 Le:;islative 
 Council and 
 Assembly may 
 make I^avvs, nor 
 being repugnant, 
 to this A(\, for 
 the Peace and 
 Government of 
 tlio Province. 
 
 Laws not ex- 
 jirc»ly repealed 
 to remain in 
 force. 
 
 Not to affect 
 former L;nvs as 
 to Navigation, 
 Commerce, or 
 Revenue, passed 
 by Parliament of 
 Great Britain. 
 
 Upper and Lower 
 said Provinces 
 
 Canada, or between either of the 
 any other of His Majesty's Dominions, 
 
 or 
 
m 
 
 28 
 
 CanaDa. 
 
 Appropriation 
 of Duties. 
 
 Duty on Spirits, 
 Molasses, and 
 S 
 
 into 
 
 or between either of the said Provinces anil any Foreign 
 Country or State, or for appointing aiul directing the 
 Payment of Drawbacks of such Duties so imposed, or to 
 
 give to His Majesty any Power or Authority, by and with 
 le 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. 31 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 46. 
 
 14. Provided that the Net Produce of all the Duties 
 which shall be so imposed, shall at all Times hereafter be 
 applied to and for the Use of each of the said Provinces, 
 and in such Manner only as shall be directed by any Law 
 which may be made by His Majesty, by and with the 
 Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council and Assem- 
 bly of such Province. 31 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 47. 
 
 1 5. There shall be collected and paid to His Maiestv, 
 yrups, imported upon the toilowmg Goods imported and brought into any 
 »to Quebec. Part of the Province of Quebec, Over and above all other 
 
 Duties now payable 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 
 Manufacture of Great Britain, Three-pence: 
 
 For every Gallon of Rum, or other Spirits, which 
 shall be inip(»j ted from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colo- 
 nies 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 every Gallon of Molasses and Syrups which shall 
 
 nfi imnnrtivl rvr hrniirrV»f infn i\\n eoirl T>--r\'.A-r,r,a in inv 
 
 other Ships or Vessels in which the same may be legally 
 imported. Sixpence; and after those Rates for any 
 
 14 greater 
 
 i 
 
 p.. 
 
f Foreiffii 
 jcting the 
 sc(l, or to 
 ' and with 
 incils and 
 uch Laws 
 )revent or 
 U.§46. 
 he Duties 
 ireafter be 
 Provinces, 
 any Law 
 with the 
 id Assem- 
 
 Majesty, 
 ; into any 
 ! all other 
 ly Act of 
 is to say, 
 ts of the 
 
 ts, wliich 
 ^ar Colo- 
 
 liich shall 
 Majesty's 
 
 jr Spirits 
 )ni Great 
 
 Produce 
 Lations in 
 )oniinion 
 e except 
 
 lich shall 
 in Ships 
 in Great 
 s in the 
 
 ich shall 
 
 in any 
 
 ? legally 
 
 for any 
 
 greater 
 
 
 greater or lesfi Quantity of such Goodu respectively 
 l^iyao. 3. c. 88. §1. ^ J'- 
 
 16. The said Duties shall he deemed to be Sterlinif 
 
 Money of Great Bnta.n, and shall be collected and pai3 
 
 to the Amount ot the Vdue which such nominal Sums 
 
 ear m Great Bnta n ; and may be received accordinHo 
 
 he Proportion and \^alue of Five Shillings and Sixpe^nce 
 
 he Ounce m Silver, and shall be raised mid recovered ^ 
 
 the same Manner, and by such Rules and Means, and 
 
 under such Penalt.es ancl Forfeitures, (except in such Cases 
 
 where any Alteration is niaxle by this Act,) as any other 
 
 ?nvBr!Srr'.'" His Majesty up'on Goods' inportS 
 any British Colony or Plantation in America are or shall 
 anZM'"- »-^"^":^d by^any Act of Parliament; and 
 all the Monies th*t shaU arise by the said Duties rexcent 
 
 b;th:rn''^'''T?? f/--"/''- -meiXn ffl 
 
 of H^ m"T> !«'« Majesty's Customs into the H^nds 
 1 u ^fJ^'^'ty « Receiver Gener^ in the said Province 
 cei^P ^' W"'^' "^ '^'' ^'•'^^ P^'^^-' i^ making aTor^ 
 Admimstration of Justice, and of the Support of Civil 
 
 slnTr?TSi;V'%^^^^'r^^"^^"^^^ ^"^ ^'^ ^oniZ 
 l?me to T.^ f^^y^-^^ty's /reasury are empowered from 
 lime to Time, by any WaiTants under their Hands tn 
 cause such Money to be applied out of tLesaid Produ ^ 
 of he said Duties towards defraying the said Expences^ 
 
 served in the Hands of the said Receiver General for 
 the futureDispositionof Parliament. UgTo. 3. c ss! I 
 mentionod'Z^ k" K *^^^'P.^^^ ^^th the Duties before 
 Can i 1 tl ^'""ut^ "^'^ the Province by Land 
 
 Carnage the same shall be carried through the Port of 
 Saint John's neai- the River Sorrel; if bfolerLUnd 
 Navigation than the River Saint Lawrenc"^, uch gS 
 shall be carried upon the River Sorrel by the said Port 
 
 inc^^b^f ^ ^ shall appoint; and if any such Goods com- 
 ng by Land Carnage or Inland Navigation as aforesaid 
 hall pass by or beyond the said Place without Entry 2l 
 l^yjl''^^'oitheBntie,,or shall be brought intoan^pT 
 
 SL i t. n "^'f be forfeited, and the Persons 
 <i^sistu,g uj the Removal, or to whose Hnnil« th^ n,JK 
 
 id gS '^"^' f'^''' '^r^^^ '^' Va]ue,~whh the CaS: 
 c 88 § " ^' '^''^" "'' *^^ "^"'^ ^^«^«^«'- 1^ Geo. S. 
 
 18. His 
 
 29 
 
 Cullection aad 
 Appioiiriatiori, 
 
 Spirits brought 
 into the Province 
 by Inland Navi- 
 gation or Laud 
 Carriage must 
 pass through 
 certain Places 
 w here Duties 
 are to be paid. 
 
m 
 
 i 
 
 30 
 
 His Maji'ity', 
 Siilijucts nuy 
 bring Spirits into 
 niiy Part* of the 
 Province, 
 
 Ships which have 
 Ijnded Lumber, 
 .<cc. in the Sugar 
 Colonies may 
 land Spirits in 
 Quebec Duty- 
 free ; 
 
 or Ships xvlilch 
 intend to load a 
 Cargo of Lum- 
 ber, &c. for tlie 
 said Colonics in 
 tlieir next clcii- 
 ing out, miy 
 land Spirits 
 Dutv-free. 
 
 The Artitler. 
 must be the 
 Growth of 
 (Quebec 
 
 Value of the 
 S'lints and 
 Lumber, kc to 
 b? '"^tini''i:ej by 
 
 Canada. 
 
 18. His Majesty's Subjects may freely bring bv hand 
 Carrijige or Iniatul Navigiitiqii into any Parts of the Pro- 
 vince not heretofore comprehended within the Limits 
 thereof by Prochiination of the 7th of October 1763, 
 any Quantity of Ilmn or other Spirits, notwithstanding 
 the Act U Geo. 3. c. 88. — 15 Geo. 3. c. 40. § 1. 
 
 19. Where Spirits of the Britisli Sugar Colonies in 
 the West Iiulies «hall be imported into the Province of 
 Quebec from the saitl Sugar Colonies in any Ship which 
 in her last preceding Voyage had exported to and landed 
 in any of the said Colonies n Cargo of Lumber and Pro- 
 visions, 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. 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. § 1. 
 
 20. 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, Provi- 
 sions, 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 ; pro- 
 vided that the Owner of such Vessel which shall have 
 imported such Spirits, or, in case of his not residing in 
 the said Province, the Master of the Ship, with One or 
 more sufficient Sureties reading within the said Province, 
 shall, before such Spirits be admitted to an Entry, give 
 Bond to His Majesty in j^500, with C mdition that the 
 Ship shall, on her next clearing out from the said Pro- 
 vince, be laden with a Cargo of Lumber, Provisions, 
 Horses, or Neat Cattle, equal in Value to the Spirits ad- 
 mitted to Entry, and that the said Lumber, &c. shall be 
 carried to and landed in some of the said Colonies in the 
 West Indies. 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. § 2. 
 
 21. The Lumber (except White Oak Staves), Provi- 
 sions, Horses and Cattle, exported under the Provisions 
 of the said Act, shall be the Growth or Produce of 
 Quebec and no other. SOGeo. 3. 0.8. § 2. 
 
 22. The Value of the Spirits antt of the Lumber, &c. 
 shall be estimated ac<;ording to the \ aluations contained 
 in the Schedule annexed to this Act; provided that His 
 
 Majesty, 
 
 I 
 
 "k 
 
I 
 
 Canada. 
 
 31 
 
 Majesty, with tin- Advice of His Privy Council, by Order tl.e fnll.wing 
 to be issued and published, may alter the Valuations and Sc''*'<"'^' 
 Articles contained in the Schedule, whenever it shall ap- 
 pear necessary or proper, upon any Representation or 
 J{e'j)ort of the Governor and Council of the said I'rovince 
 53 Geo. 3. c. 37. §1,2. 
 
 The SCHEDULE 'mentioned and refbrred to 
 
 in this Act. 
 
 Flour, 1st Sort 
 
 Ditto, 2d Sort 
 
 Biscuit 
 
 Wheat 
 
 Peas(? 
 
 Oats - 
 
 Barley 
 
 Flax Seed - 
 
 Potatoes - 
 
 Indian Corn 
 
 Salted Beef 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Salted Pork - 
 Ditto 
 
 Butter 
 
 Soap - - _ 
 
 Mould Candles - 
 
 Dip])ed Ditto 
 
 Salmon 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Herrings and | 
 
 AUwives \ ~ 
 
 Shad Fish 
 
 Dry Cod Fish - 
 
 Seal, Porpoise, | 
 
 aiul Cod Oil J " 
 Canadian Porter - 
 Dittc. Burton Ale 
 Ditto Mild Ditto 
 Onions 
 
 Essence of Spruce 
 
 Oak i'iinhor 'i 
 
 Squared j 
 
 Sterlin 
 .t' S. 
 
 2 — 
 
 I 17 
 1 — 
 
 (f. 
 
 — per Barrel of 1 cwt. 
 fi Ditto. 
 
 — )er Cwt. 
 
 3 (jrs. 
 
 — 4 () 
 
 4 
 2 
 ti — Vper Bushel. 
 
 - — I 
 4 
 
 - 4 10 
 
 - 3 — 
 
 - G 15 
 
 - 4 10 
 
 — 1 
 
 — 1 
 
 2 10 
 
 3 15 
 
 1 -— 
 
 1 5 
 
 ~ Id 
 
 8 
 
 — per Tierce, 
 
 — per Barrel. 
 
 — per Tierce. 
 
 — per Banfl. 
 10 peril). 
 
 7 per lb. 
 
 J Vper lb. 
 
 — per Barrel. 
 
 — per Tierce. 
 
 — per Barrel, 
 
 — per Ditto. 
 
 — per Cwt. 
 
 ~- {)er Hhd. ol (JM Gal 
 
 1(5. 
 
 3 — 
 3 15 
 3 — 
 1 — 
 - 1 
 
 =j 
 
 — > per Ditto. 
 
 - per Thousand. 
 3 per lb. 
 
 — I — per Cubic Foot. 
 
 Oak 
 
P 32 
 
 €anaM\ 
 
 U f 
 
 % 
 
 j.1^ pel- IGOO. 
 
 _; , ' ■ , Sterling! 
 
 Oak Plank 3 to \_ 
 
 4- Inches thick j 
 Ditto, .{■ to 2 7 _ 
 
 Inches thick - 3 
 Puncheon Staves ^ . 
 
 S\ Feet long, 4 I 
 
 Inches broad^ >10 
 
 and 1 Inch | 
 
 thick - - - ^ 
 Puncheon Head- 
 ing 2V Feet 
 
 long, 5 to 6 
 
 Inches broad, 
 
 and 1 Inch 
 
 thick - - 
 Pine Timber 
 
 Squared 
 Pine Boards 12 
 
 Feet long and 
 
 upwards;, and 
 
 1 Inch thick 
 Ditto, 10 Feet 
 
 long and 1 
 
 Inch thick 
 Ditto, Ditto, 2 ] 
 
 Inches thick 3 
 Wooden Hoops") 
 
 12 Feet long J 
 Ditto, 14 Ditto - 
 Ditto, 10 Ditto - 
 Ditto, 7 Ditto - 
 Shingles - - - 
 Puncheon Packs - 
 Bar Iron 
 Horses 
 Horned Cattle 
 
 5 per Superficial Foot. 
 3 per Ditto. ... 
 
 — per" 1200 Pieces. 
 
 1 -- 
 
 2 15 
 
 2 5 
 
 4 per Cubic Foot. 
 — per Hmuied Boards. 
 
 per Thousand Super- 
 ficial Feet 
 
 3 7 6 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 — per Thousand Hoops. 
 
 „ 5 10 — Ditto. 
 
 _ 4 Ditto. 
 
 - 2 10 — Ditto. 
 15 — per Thousand. 
 
 - — 12 — each. 
 
 - 110 — per Cwt. 
 
 - 15 
 
 - 15 - ~>v 
 -8 I 
 
 - - 15 - f 
 2 6J 
 
 vpcr Head. 
 
 Sheep 
 Turkeys 
 Windward and "j 
 Leeward Island i — I 9 per Gallon. 
 
 TJnm 
 
 
 Jamaica Ditto - — 2 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 53 Geo, 3. c. 37. 
 
CinaDd. 
 
 Any Spirits, being the Produce or Manu%ture of 
 His Majebty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies; leeally 
 imported into Bermuda, may be imported into Lower 
 Canada, and landed and admitted to an Entry upon Pay- 
 ment of the same Rate of Duty as if the same had hem 
 imported directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Co- 
 Jonies in the West Indies, and under the Conditions 
 and Restrictions contained in 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. without 
 Payment of Duty, in the sartie Manner as 4f such Spirits 
 had been imported directly from any of the said Sugar 
 Colonies. 49 Geo. 3. c. 16. 
 See Spirits. 
 23. Spirits, being the Produce or Manufacture of any 
 His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, lecrally 
 aiid directly imported into Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 
 Cajie Breton, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfound- 
 land, lu North America, from the said Sugar Colo- 
 nies, or from Bermuda, may be exported from either 
 of the Provmces or Islands to Lower Cana(;a, and landed 
 andadnntted t« an Entry, upon Payment of the same 
 Kate of Duty as if the same had been imported directly 
 from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies under th^ 
 Keguiatioijs of this Act. 5i Geo. 3. c. 48. § 1. 
 ■See Spirits. 
 
 24. No Goods shall be imported from tlie United 
 States of 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 Forfei- 
 ture thereof and of the Vessel. 28 Goo. 3. c 6 §14. 
 
 25. His^ Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued 
 and published, may authorize, in case of Necessity, the 
 Importation of Bread, .Flour, Indian Corn, and Live 
 Stock, mto the Province of Quebec, and into all tlie 
 
 imn"n ,^°»'^e"»g «'^ ;hc Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 
 into the Islands within the said Gulf; and also to the 
 Coast of Labmdoiv fbr the then ensuing Season only, 
 W any of the Territories belonging to the United 
 States of America, for the Supply of the Persons em- 
 ployed m carrying on the Fisheries ; provided that such 
 u! i &c. shall not be imported except in conformity 
 to such Regulations as shall be specifiod in such Orde/ 
 
 ZiT^^^^^y^ ^'J}''^' ^"^^>^^'^' *"^^'" Bnti«h-built Ships 
 owned by His Majesty's Subjects and navi.mi^d ji. 
 coidmg to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel. 
 ^9 Geo. 3. C.16. §1. 
 
 33 
 
 Spirits may be 
 exported from 
 Bermuda to 
 Lower Canada 
 upon the same 
 Duty and Con- 
 ditions as if im- 
 ported direct 
 from Sugar Co- 
 lonies ; 
 
 also from the 
 North American 
 Colonier. or 
 Bernuu! i to 
 Lower Canada, 
 
 Goods of the 
 United States 
 not to be im- 
 pi rted into 
 Quebec by Sea 
 or Coastwise ; 
 
 except Bread, 
 ^c. by Order in 
 Council, in case 
 of Necessity, for 
 the Supply of 
 Persons carrying 
 on the Fisheries ; 
 
 D 
 
 '26, In 
 
' i ' 
 
 w 
 
 34 
 
 except also, in 
 case of Emer- 
 gency, Live 
 Stock, Sec for 
 the Supply of the 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 Subjects of the 
 United States 
 intending to set- 
 tle in the Pro- 
 vince, may im- 
 port Household 
 Furniture, 
 Utensil<: of Hus- 
 bandry, id 
 Clothing. 
 
 By whom 
 Seizures may be 
 made. 
 
 No Go-^lsto be 
 brought into the 
 Pr.r.iiv:e fram 
 the Uniicd 
 iitates by Inland 
 
 Canada. 
 
 26. jjn case of public Emergency and Distress, the 
 Governor of Quebec, or Lieutenant Governor, or Com- 
 mander 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 theroof, or up the River Saint Lawrencie 
 from the Sea, of Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, or 
 Live Stock, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, 
 "\yheat. 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 Islands within the 
 Government thereof; provided that the said Articles shall 
 not be brought except by British Subjects, and in British- 
 built Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navi- 
 gated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of 
 the Vessel. 30 Geo. 3. c. 8. § 1. 
 
 27. 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 Ber- 
 muda, or Somers Islands, or to the Province of Quebec 
 or Nova Scotia, or any of the Territories belonging to 
 His Majesty in North America, for the Purpose of re- 
 siding and settling there, having obtained a Licence for 
 that Purpose from th€ Governor, or in his Absence the 
 Lieutenant Governor of the said Islands, Colonies, or 
 Provinces respectively, may import into the same, in 
 British Ships owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and na- 
 vigated according to Law, any Household Furniture, 
 Utensils of Husbandry, or Clothing., free of Duty, not 
 exceeding in the whole the Value of ^50 for eveiy White 
 Person that shall belong to such Family, and the Value 
 of 408. for every Negro brought by such V^hite Person. 
 30 Geo. 3. c. 27. §1. 
 
 See Settlerp. 
 
 28. The Goods and Vessels forfeited by die&e Acts 
 may be seized by the Commanders of any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, 
 Warrant, or Petty Oificjer specially authorized by them, 
 or may be seized by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs. 
 28Geo. 3. c. 6. 29 Geo. 3. c. 16. 30Geo.3. c. 8. 
 
 29. ilo Goods, except of the Growth, Produce, or 
 Manufacture of the Territories of the JJnited States of 
 America, shall be brought from the i erritories of the 
 said States, by Inland Navigation or Land Carriage, into 
 
 lo the 
 
 *> 
 
tress, the 
 or Com- 
 ncil, may 
 wise into 
 k^ithin the 
 Lawyencie 
 oultry, or 
 Potatoes, 
 Srain, or 
 lie United 
 ibitants of 
 within the 
 icles shall 
 n British- 
 and navi- 
 o( and of 
 
 ng to the 
 a\ thence, 
 I, or Ber- 
 )f Quebec 
 onging to 
 jse of re- 
 icence for 
 isence the 
 •lonies, or 
 saine, in 
 I, and na- 
 Furniture, 
 Duty, not 
 eiy White 
 the Value 
 te Person. 
 
 these Acts 
 f His Ma- 
 missioned, 
 1 by them, 
 I Customs. 
 
 c. 8. 
 •oduce, or 
 
 States of 
 
 •ies of the 
 
 ria^, into 
 
 the 
 
 the Provinces of Lower or Upper Canada, on Forfeiture 
 of the said Goods, or the Value thereof, with the Vessel 
 or Carriage in which the same shall be brought, to be 
 sued for, recovered, and distributed in Uke manner as is 
 directed in any Act in the Case of Offences being com- 
 mitted against the Laws of Customs in any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Plantations in America. 52 Geo. 3. c 55. § 1. 
 
 30. Any Goods the Growth or Production of any of 
 the Countries bordering on the Province of Quebec, 
 brought by Land or Inland Navigation into the said 
 Provinces comformably to the Regulations established by 
 Law, may be imported into any Part of Great Britain 
 from Quebec, and admitted to Entry, and charged with 
 Duty, 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 
 or Ireland ; provided it shall appear by Certificate under 
 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 border- 
 ing thereon, specifying from what Places the same were 
 respectively brought into the said Province; and pro- 
 vided that the Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, and Con- 
 ditions are observed on their being imported, as are re- 
 quired 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 aitd Application thereof. 30 Geo. 3. c. 29. « 2 
 —39 &; 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 31. 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 
 according to Law. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. $31.4 Geo. 3. c. 19. 
 $7. 48 Geo. 3. c.22. § 1. 
 
 32. Any Person inhabiting in the Islands of Jersey or 
 Guernsey may lade in the said Islands, and transport 
 directly from thence to any of the British Colonies in 
 America where tlie Fishery is carried on, on board any 
 V esse! which may lawfully trade there, any Sort of Craft, 
 i^ood. Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods fit and i^eces- 
 
 sary for the Fishery in tliost» Pnrt« or for «i>« tt. „j 
 
 support of the Manners or other Persons employed oji 
 Ix^arcl the Vessels, or on shore, in cari-ying on the f aid 
 
 D 2 Fifiliory, 
 
 35 
 
 Navigation or 
 Land C'jrriage, 
 except the Pro- 
 duce of the 
 Slates. 
 
 Goods of 
 Countries bor- 
 dering on 
 Quebec, brought 
 into the Province 
 by Land or In- 
 land Navigation, 
 may be imjyorted 
 into Great 
 Britain or Ireland 
 as of the Growth 
 of Quebec. 
 
 Salt may be im- 
 ported from any 
 Pa-rt of Europe 
 for the Fisheries. 
 
 Craft andAr- 
 
 tide'- necessary 
 for the Fishery 
 may be imported 
 trom Jersey or 
 Guernsey ; 
 
i 
 
 36 
 
 upon a Certifi- 
 cate and Oath as 
 herein directed. 
 
 1 (111 
 
 j 
 
 '■i 
 
 Herrings may be 
 imported from 
 tlic Isle of Man ; 
 
 nlso Lines, Nets, 
 Tools, and Im- 
 plements for 
 the Fisiiery ; 
 
 siivJsr certain 
 Oatli and Cer- 
 tificate. 
 
 TUhery, silch Craft, Clothing, or other Goods, being 
 the Produce or Manufacture of Great Britain, or of the; 
 said Islands of Jersey or Giiernsey, and such Food or 
 Victuals being of the Growth or Produce either of Great 
 Britain or Ireland, or the said Islands of Guernsey pr, 
 Jersey. 9 Geo. 3- c. 28. § 1. 
 
 33. Provided the Master shall 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, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, or Com- 
 mander in Chief; that Oath has been made by the Shipper 
 before the Magistrates of the Royal Courts in Jersey or 
 Guernsey respectively, or any Three of them, that the 
 Goods and Victuals so shipped are of such Growth, Pro- 
 duct, or Manufacture; which Certificate shall also be 
 attested by the Principal Officer of the Customs in the 
 said Island respectively, who shall certify that the saitl 
 Ottth was taken in his Presence; and on Failure of pro- 
 ducing such Oeitificate, such Food, &c. and the Vessel 
 importing the same, shall be liable to be seized and for- 
 feited, in the same Manner as they would have been liable 
 if this Act had not been made. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 2. 
 
 34. 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 British- 
 built Vessels 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 Colo- 
 nies or Plantations from Ireland. 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. § 4. 
 
 35. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle 
 of 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 Vessel 
 which may lawfully trade or fish there, any Provisions, 
 Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Tools or Implements 
 necessary for and used in the Fishery by the Crews of 
 the Vessels carrying out the same, and the Craft belong- 
 ing to and employed by such Vessels in the said Fishery, 
 such Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Nettings, or other Tools 
 oi- Implements, being the Produce and Manufacture of 
 Great Britain, Ireland, or the Isle of Man. 15 Geo. 3. 
 c. 31. §5. 
 
 36. Provided the Master of such Vessel shall produce 
 to the pioper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or 
 Plantation where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the 
 
 Haiid 
 
 s,mmm>4a» 
 
s, being 
 >r of the; 
 Food or 
 of Great 
 insey pr 
 
 3 proper 
 
 he shall 
 
 il of the 
 
 jr Com- 
 
 '. Shipper 
 
 Jersey or 
 
 that the 
 
 :th, Pro- 
 
 also be 
 
 js ill the 
 
 the said 
 
 B ofpro- 
 
 le Vessel 
 
 and for- 
 
 sen liable 
 
 §2. 
 
 1 the Isle 
 to any of 
 1 Biitish- 
 iccording 
 the same 
 aid Colo- 
 58. §4. 
 1 the Isle 
 t directly 
 Fishery is 
 ny Vessel 
 rovisions, 
 iplements 
 Crews of 
 it belong- 
 , Fishery, 
 ler Tools 
 facture of 
 5 Geo. 3. 
 
 1 produce 
 
 ;!olony or 
 
 under the 
 
 Haiid 
 
 €maha. 
 
 Hand and Seal of the Collector or otlier Principal Officer 
 of the Customs in the Port where he shall have fitted 
 out, that Oath hath been made before him by the Sliip- 
 per of such Provisions, &c. that the same are of the 
 Product and Manufacture of Great Britain, Ireland, or 
 Isle of Man respectively, as the Fact may be, and that 
 the several Articles before mentioned, except the Provi- 
 swns, specifying the Quantities and Particulars of each 
 >H)rt, are to be used in the Fishery by the Crew of the 
 Vessel carrying out the same, and by the Craft belong- 
 ing to and to be employed by such Vessel in the said 
 fishery, and for no other Use or Purpose whatsoever 
 (which Oath and Certificate such Collector or other 
 Oihcer IS hereby authorized and required to administer 
 and grant without Fee or Reward); and on Failure of" 
 producing such Certificate, or if any such Hooks, &c. 
 are used or disposed of for any other Purpose, the Arti- 
 cles, and the Vessels having the same on board, shall be 
 torfeited in the same Manner as they would have been 
 It this Act had not been made. 15 Geo. S. c. 31 5 6 
 
 37. Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce 
 of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, may be laden in 
 any Port or Place of Europe, for Exportation direct to 
 (Quebec, on board any British Vessel owned, navigated, 
 and registered according to Law, which shairhave 
 arrived at any Port or Place of Europe with Articles the 
 Growth or Produce of Quebec, or with Fish taken and 
 cured by H.s Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fishery, 
 from any of the British Colonies in N?rth America, o^ 
 
 flTr^'l ^'''' ^^ '^ ^"^'"^ Kingdom, or with any of 
 the Goods herein-after mentioned (see No. 39.) from the 
 Piovmce ot Canada, whether the Grcnvth or Produce of 
 Canada, or brought into the said Province by Land or 
 Inland Navigation. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2 
 
 ri!i ^^?r. *''^ ,I.'"P"^tation thereof into Quebec, the 
 Goods shall be ..■bject tothe Payment of such Duties as 
 .^hW. . '^' ^;^' Denomination or Description are 
 ^bject to upon being imported into Quebec from Great 
 
 C.97 "'s ""^ ' ""' ^''^^'' ^''^'^'' -51 Geo. 3.. 
 
 e^nnrfll'^ several Articles her Jn-after mentioned may be 
 ^^??:!rV''""\C^»^^^ in a British-built Vessel, owned. 
 Pm?^f v' ''"" legisl'^^fd according to Law, into any 
 Poit of Europe withm the Limits aSresaid, without any 
 
 ^3 Oath 
 
 
 Vessels from the 
 British Colonies 
 in North Ame- 
 rica, arriving with 
 the Produce 
 thereof at Plates 
 in Europe South 
 of Cape Finis- 
 terre, may im- 
 port from thence 
 Fruit, Wine, 
 Oil, Salt, or 
 Cork, the Pro- 
 duce of Europe. 
 
 Duties payable 
 thereoi). 
 
 Corn, Grain, 
 Lumber, &c. 
 may be tAp<,ittd 
 to Europe w thin 
 the said Limits 
 without any 
 
38 
 
 Canada. 
 
 o«h orCmi- Oath being required of their being the Growth or Pro- 
 ficatc as to the cluce of the Said Provinct or any Certificate being re- 
 quired of the Country from whence they came ; that is 
 to say, Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, Barley, In- 
 dian Corn, Rye, White Oak Staves and Heading, 
 dressed and undressed Hoops, Pine Plank and Boards : 
 and the Master of any British-built Vessel ladcm 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 brought into Canada 
 conformably to the Regiilations established bv Law 
 in the said Province (if any), by Land or Inland Navi- 
 gation, from Countries bordering thereon, (which Cer- 
 tificate such Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer 
 is hereby authorized and required to grant upon satis- 
 factory Proof being made, upon Oath or otherwise) ; 
 and the Master of such 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 pioduced was the Certificate of the Officer 
 whose Name it bears, and was dul}' signed by him. 
 51 Geo. 3. c 07. §4^, 5. 
 
 40. Befox-e shipping any Pickled Fish or Dry Fish 
 for the Purpose of Exportation to ai y Port of Europe 
 or Dry°rish that within the Limits aforesaid, the Person in whose Posses- 
 it is the Prodtice ^jq^ jj^g same has continued from the Time of its being 
 rwhcnes. "^ landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in the taking 
 it, until 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 British Colonies ; and, on such 
 Oath being taken at Quebec, the said Officer of the 
 Customs or Naval Officer shall grant Certificate thereof, 
 which Certificate only 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 
 Bfitisli Consul, then before Two known British Mer- 
 chants, that the Certificate produced was the Certificate of 
 
 the 
 
 Oath must be 
 made before 
 shipping Pickled 
 
 •e 
 
 ti- 
 
1 or Pro- 
 being re- 
 e ; that is 
 irley, In- 
 Heading, 
 i Boards; 
 adwi with 
 ,o produce 
 istonis, or 
 It the said 
 JO Canada 
 
 bv Law 
 and Navi- 
 liich Cer- 
 al Officer 
 ipon satis- 
 therwise) ; 
 
 the same 
 he Limits 
 sh Consul 
 h Consul, 
 , that the 
 he Officer 
 I by him. 
 
 Dry Fish 
 of Europe 
 )se Posses- 
 )f its being 
 the taking 
 >ath before 
 i Officer in 
 Produce of 
 
 fide taken 
 )n the said 
 d, on such 
 cer of the 
 ite thereof, 
 ;el shall be 
 in Europe 
 ath before 
 hall be no 
 itlsh IMer- 
 jrtificate of 
 the 
 
 Cenain Articles 
 may be exported 
 direct to Malta 
 or Gibraltar. 
 
 the Officer of the Customs or the Naval Officer whose 
 Name it bears, and was duly signed by him. 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 97. § 4. 6. 
 
 41. His Majesty's Subjects may export from any of 
 His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America 
 any Articles the Production or Manufacture of the 
 said Colonies or Plantations, or any Articles which have 
 been legally imported into any such Colony or Plan- 
 tation, direct to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or 
 to Gibraltar, m British-built Ships, owned, navigated, 
 and registered according to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. U. 
 57 Geo. 3. C.4. § 1. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 *i' H?".^^' ^"^ Lemons, the Growth of the Azores 
 or the Madeiras, may be shipped and laden at those 
 Islands respectively for Exportation direct to any of the 
 British Colonies m North America, in any British Vessel 
 owned, registered, and navigated according to Law. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 89. § 1. 
 
 ^3. Vessels not exceeding Thirty Tons Burthen, and 
 not having a Deck, and being employed solely in the 
 Fisheries on the Banks or sSores of Quebecf or in 
 Jf P ^ ?*'*'^" < ^^^'"^ "°' required to be registered. 
 
 See Registry op British Ships. 
 44. 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 
 
 h«inf r.'^Tf ^^ ^^^^ ^' "• ^«- ' «"d the Registe? 
 shall be of full Force and Effect until the Vessel's Arrival 
 
 thTl ^''' '", ^'' -^"J^f ^'^ E"^°P«^" Dominions, 
 where they may be registered on the Oath of the Owners 
 but no longer. 27 Geo. 3. c. 1 9. § 9. 
 
 See RfcGisTRY of British Ships. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Denend- importation 
 eucies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to anv of Hi. ^»»-«'»f^°'" 
 
 l^nr£'T^°^^"'^\ V"^^ ov'ToNe'.^ou^J! ^^, 
 land, Bermuda, or any of the British Colonies in North 
 America in British-built Ships, owned, navWed and 
 registered according tn T.w*^ K=p„„' ":§..„' _^"^ 
 
 57Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1 ° " ~ " "• *'* "-■• ^^' 5 ^- ^' 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 39 
 
 Oranges and 
 Lemons noay be 
 imported from 
 the Azores or 
 Madeiras. 
 
 Vessels in the 
 Fisheries not 
 required (o be 
 registeted , 
 
 The Husband or 
 Principal Agent 
 may take the 
 Register Onth 
 if Owners reside 
 in Europe. 
 
 I 
 
 D4 
 
 1. No 
 
40 
 
 No Goods to be 
 imported from 
 ilic United States 
 except Pitch, 
 Tar, iind Tur- 
 pentine. 
 
 lixcept also 
 Lumber, Cattle, 
 Com, &c. ill 
 c.ise of Distress, 
 for tile Supply of 
 tile luliabitants : 
 
 •also Scsiitling, 
 &c. for Re-tx- 
 jiortation to 
 other Colonies ; 
 
 and Household 
 furniture, Uten- 
 sils of Husband- 
 ly, and Cloth- 
 ing, brought by 
 Subjects of the 
 United States 
 who intend to 
 settle. 
 
 Ly v.hr.n 
 .SeiziTwii to 
 
 Iiil 
 
 Cape Btetoiu 
 
 1. No Goods shall be imported from any of the 
 Territories of the United States of America into Cape 
 Breton, on Forfeiture thereof and the V^essel ; except 
 Pitcli, Tar, and Turpentine, the Production of the said 
 Territories, imported by British Subjects, and in British- 
 built Ships owned and navigated accorthng to Law. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 12. 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 14. 
 
 2. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Gover- 
 nor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief for 
 the Time being, with the Advice and Consent of the 
 Council of the Island, may authorize the Importation of 
 Scantling, Flunks, 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 Graiji, 
 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. ;;hall 
 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 Vessel, 28 Geo. 3, 
 c. 6. § 13, 
 
 3. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Com- 
 mander in Chief, with the Advice and Consent of the 
 Council of Cape Bretoii, may authorize -(he Importation 
 of the Articles enumerated in No. 2. for a limited Time, 
 from any of the Territories of the United States, for the 
 Pujpose of Re-exportation to any other of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. § 1. 
 
 4. Subjects of the United States, who shall come 
 from thence, together with their Families, for the Pur- 
 pose of residing and settling in any British Colony in 
 North America, having first obtained a Licence for that 
 Purpose from the Governor, or in his Absence the 
 Lieutenant Governor, may import Household Furni- 
 ture, Utensils of Husbandry, and Clothing, 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 .^^50 for 
 every White Person that shall belong to the Family, 
 and 40 Shillings. for every Negro brought by such White 
 Person. 30 Geo. 3. c. 27- § 1 . 
 
 Sfc Settlers. 
 
 5. The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts may 
 be seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's 
 Ship;; or Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, War- 
 rant, 
 

 Cape Breton. 
 
 rant, or Petty Officer specially authorized by tliera, or any 
 Officer of the Customs. 28Geo.3. c.6. 33Geo.3. c.50. 
 
 6. Fruit, Wine, Salt, or Cork, the Produce or Europe 
 South of Cape Finisterrc, may be laden in any Port of 
 Europe, for Exportation direct to tlic Port of Sydney in 
 Cape Breton, on board any British Ship, owned, navi- 
 gated, and registered according to Law, which shall have 
 arrived at any such Part of Europe with Articles the 
 Growth or 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 m North America, or from any Part of 
 the United Kingdom. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2. 
 
 See Europe. 
 
 7. Spirits of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in tlie West 
 Indies, legally imported into Cape Breton from the said 
 Sugar Colonies, or from Bermuda, may be exported from 
 Cape Breton to Lower Canada, and admitted to Entry, 
 on Payment t)f the same Pi ate of Duty as if imported 
 directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. 
 0.48. §1. 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 8. Spirits of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the 
 West Indies, imported into Bermuda from the said 
 Colonies, may be exported from Bernuuiu to Cape Bre- 
 ton, and admitted to Entry on Payment of the same 
 Duty as if imported direct from the Sugar Colonies ; and 
 under the Condition of 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. may be im- 
 ported into Cape Breton without Payment of Duty, in 
 the same manner as if imported directly from any of the 
 said Sugar Colonies. 50 Geo. 3. c. 62. § 1 . 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 9. Goods fit and necessary for the Fishery in the 
 British Colonies in America may be exported to Colonies 
 where such Fishery is carried on, direct from Guernsey 
 or Jersey. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. §1^2. 
 
 See Guernsey. 
 Jersey. 
 
 10. Herrings cured in the Isle of Man may be ex- 
 ported from thence to any of the British Colonies in the 
 hamc manner as Virfimlo from T.-^Upj 
 e.58. §4. " "" -v.nna. 
 
 Sec Man. 
 
 41 
 
 Vessels arriving 
 with certain 
 Articles at Phces 
 in Europe South 
 of Ctpe rinis- 
 terre, may im- 
 port from thence 
 Fruit, &c. the 
 Produce of 
 Europe, 
 
 Spirits may be 
 exported to 
 Lower Canada 
 on the same • 
 Duty as from 
 Sugar Colonies; 
 
 and may be im- 
 ported from 
 Bermuda on the 
 s.ime Duty and 
 Conditions as 
 from Sugar 
 Colonies. 
 
 Goods for the 
 Fishery from 
 Guernsey or 
 Jersey. 
 
 Herrings from 
 lile of Man, 
 
 1 o /^ .. 
 
 I 
 
 11. Tools 
 
42 
 
 Cape Breton. 
 
 Tools and Iinple- 
 meiits from 
 theno;. 
 
 Certain Arti- 
 cles may be en 
 ported direct to 
 Malta or 
 Oibraltar. 
 
 Oranges and 
 
 Lemons may 
 be imported 
 from the Azores 
 or Madeiras. 
 
 Importation al- 
 lowed frcK 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 May be imported 
 from the United 
 States into West 
 India Islands and 
 Colonies in 
 Guiana, in 
 British Vessels; 
 
 11. Tools and Implements necessary for the saitr 
 Fishery may be exported to the said Colonies direct from 
 the Isle of Man. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 5. 
 
 See Man. 
 
 12. Any Article the Production or Manufacture of 
 Hxs Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, 
 or any Article which has been legally imported into any 
 such Colony or Plantation, may be exported from thence 
 by His Majesty's Subjects direct to Malta or the Depend- 
 encies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in British-built Ships 
 owiied, navigated, and registered accordmg to Law. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §1. 57Geo. 3. c.4. § 1. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 13. Oranges and Lemons, the Growth of the Azores 
 or the Madeiras, may be laden at those Islands respec- 
 tively for Exportation direct to any of the British Co- 
 lonies m North America, in any British Vessel owned, 
 navigated, and registered according to Law. 57 Geo. 3. 
 c.89. §1. 
 
 Capers. Caacaeoo. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 
 Majesty s Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, into 
 NewfouncUand, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in North America, in British Ships 
 owned, navigated, and registered according to Law. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §5.9. 57 Geo. 3. c.4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Came mh JLttoe *tocft. 
 
 1. Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, or Live 
 Stock of any Sort, the Production o? any of the Terri- 
 tories of the United States, may be imported from thence 
 into aay 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 
 JJemarara, Berbice. or F.ocon»,M^ ;« *i,- ti : <: 
 
 ^XT^' A """^ i°. ^? '° imported except by British 
 Subjects, and m British-built Vessels owned and na- 
 
 vigated 
 
 
 4 
 
into 
 
 Came am M,iw ^tocft. 
 
 vigated uccorduig to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of 
 the Vessel. 28 Geo. 3. c.6. §1,2. 56 Geo. 3. c.91. §1. 
 
 2. Such Cattle and Live Stock may be imported from 
 the said States into St. George or Hamilton in Bermuda, 
 in any Foreign Vessel belonging to any Kingdom or 
 State in Amity with His Majesty, and exported from the 
 said Ports to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions 
 in the W^est Indies, in British-built Vessels owned and 
 navigated according to Law. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 2, 3. 
 53 Geo. 3. c 50.§1 
 
 3. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Go- 
 vernors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commander 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 Covmdls, may authorize the Importa- 
 tion of Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, or 
 Live Stock of any Sort, for a limited Time, 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 navigated 
 according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the 
 Vessel. 28 Geo. 3. c.6. § 12. 
 
 4. His Majesty in Council, by 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 Live Stock 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 Live Stock shall 
 not be so imported 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 Vessels owned and navigated according to 
 Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of tlie Vessel. 28 Geo. 8. 
 c.6. §13. 
 
 5. The Govemor, Lieutenant Governor, o/ Com- 
 mander in Chief of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, or 
 Cape Breton or Saint John's, with the Advice and Con- 
 sent of their respective Councils, may authorize the Im- 
 portation of Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, 
 or Live Stock of any Sort, for a limited Time, from any 
 
 America, for Re-exportation to any other of His Ma- 
 jesty's Colonies or Plantations. *8 Geo. 3. c. 1 25. § I . 
 
 6. Any 
 
 43 
 
 and into Ber- 
 in uda in Foreif^ii 
 Veuels, an't 
 f xported by 
 Bntish. 
 
 May be importeri 
 into Nova Scotia, 
 &c. from United 
 States for the 
 Supply of Inha- 
 bitants. 
 
 I.ive Stock may 
 be imported from 
 the said States 
 into Newfound- 
 land, for the Sup- 
 ply of Inhabitants 
 and Fishermen n 
 in case of Ne- 
 cessity. 
 
 Importations inic 
 Nova Scoiia, &c. 
 for Re-exporta. 
 tion to other 
 Colonies, may be 
 allowed b^ the 
 Goverrora. 
 
44 
 
 May be Imported 
 into Nova Scotia 
 or New Bruns- 
 wick ill rorc'ii'.n 
 Vessels, and 
 rx)iortcd to the 
 United Kingdom 
 or any of His 
 M;;je.sty's Pos- 
 sessions ; 
 
 MilijcCt to such 
 Rules and Regu- 
 lations as His 
 Majesty may 
 (hink fit by 
 Order in Council. 
 
 Limitation of 
 the Act. 
 
 Live Stock may, 
 in esse of Ne- 
 cessity, be im- 
 ))orted from the 
 United States 
 into Quebec and 
 Labrador, for the 
 Supply of Per- 
 sons carrying oa 
 the Fisheries ; 
 
 and Cattle, &c. 
 may be imported 
 from the said 
 
 Cattle anh JLVot ^toeft. 
 
 6. Any British-built Vessel owned and navigatxl 
 according to Law, or any V^essel belonging to the Snb- 
 jectfi of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Ma- 
 jesty, may import into such Ports as shall be specially ap- 
 pointed tor that Piu'pose by His Majesty, within the Pro- 
 vince of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, the following 
 Articles ; videlicet, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, 
 Poultry, and Live Stock of any Sort; provided that none 
 of the said Articles shall be imported in p'oreign Vessels, 
 unless of the Growth or Produce of the Country to 
 wliich the Vessel importing the same shall belong; and 
 any of the said Articles may be re-exported, either to the 
 tJnited Kingdom or any other of His Majesty's Possessions, 
 in any British-built Vessel owned and navigated accortl- 
 ing to Law. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 1,2,3. 
 
 7. His Majesty with the Advice of His Privy Councif 
 may make such Rules and Regulations for the Import- 
 ation and Exportation of the said Articles at the said 
 Ports, with such Penalties and Forfeitures for the Breach 
 thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, by 
 and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. §6. 
 
 8. This Act shall continue in force during the Space 
 of Three Years from and after the passing ot tlie same"*, 
 and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the 
 then next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 1 9. § 7. 
 
 9. His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and 
 published, may authorize, in case of Necessity, the Ln- 
 portation of Live Stock as well into Quebec as into all 
 the Countries bordering on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence^ 
 and into the Islands within the said Gulf^ and to the 
 Coast of Labrador, for the then ensuing Season only, 
 from any of the Territories belonging to the United 
 States of America, for the Supply of the Persons em- 
 ployed in carrying on the Fisheries ; provided that such 
 Live Stock shall not be so imported except in conformity 
 to such Ruk -, Regulations, and Restrictions as shall be 
 sjiecified in such Order, and except by British Subjects, 
 in British-built Vessels owned and navigated according to 
 Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel. 29 Geo. 3» 
 c. 16. § 1. 
 
 10. In case of public Emergency and Distress, the 
 Governor of Quebec, or the Lieutenant Governor ov 
 
 * 8th May 1818. 
 
 Commander 
 
Cattle am iltbe .^tocft. 
 
 t'ommandtn- in C'liief, with the Advice and Consent of 
 the Council of the Province, may authorize the Import- 
 ation by Sea or Coastwise into Quebec, or into the 
 Countries or Islands within the Government thereof^ or 
 up the River Saint Lawrence from the Sea, of Neat 
 Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, or Live Stock of any Sort, 
 for a limited Time, from any of the Territories belonging 
 to the United States of America, for the Supply oi the 
 Inhabitants of the Province, and of the Countries and 
 Islands within the Government thereof; but the said 
 Articles shall not be so imported except by British Sub- 
 jects, and in British-built Vessels owned and navigated 
 according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ves- 
 sel. 30 Geo. 3. c. 8. § 1. 
 
 11. Any Article forleited by fhese Acts may be seized 
 by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or 
 Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, Warrant, or 
 Petty Officer specially authorized by them, or by any 
 Officer of His Majesty's Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c.6. § 16. 
 29 Geo. 3. c. 16. § 2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 12. Any Horses, Asses, Mules, and Cattle, being the 
 Production of ajiy Colonies or Plantations in America, 
 or of any Country on the Continent of America belong- 
 ing to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European 
 Sovereign or Slate, may be imported from any of the 
 said Countries into the Free Ports in any Foreign Vessel 
 owned imd navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the 
 said Colonies, PlantationB, or Countries. 45 Geo. 3 c 57 
 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. * 
 
 See Free Port.s. 
 1 ^^'tF^^' ^^^^ Conditions upon which Vessels, which 
 land Horses or Neat Cattle at imy of the British Sugar 
 Colonies m the West Indies, may import Spirits withSut 
 Payment of Duty into certain Provinces and Islands be- 
 longing to His Majesty in North America. 28 Geo. 3 
 c. 39. §1,2. 30Geo.3. c.S. §2. 53Geo.3. c 37. § 1* 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 45 
 
 •Stntes for the 
 Supply of 
 Inh.ibitants of 
 Quebec, in case 
 of public Emtr- 
 gency and Dis- 
 tress. 
 
 By whom 
 
 Seizures to lie 
 made. 
 
 May he imported 
 into the Free 
 Ports iii Foreign 
 Vessels, 
 
 Vessels landing 
 Cattle may im- 
 port Spirits Duty 
 free. 
 
 €aWv. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or the Dependencies importation 
 tiiereot, or trom Gibraltar, direct to any of His Maiestv's ^"o^^«* f'-oi» 
 Sugar Colonies ov Plantations in America, intn Vil J^.^i'l-"' 
 ^Hmdiaucl, BermiKla, or any of His Majesty'rCok^iies ^ ^^ 
 or Plantations in America, in British Ships owned, na- '^ 
 
 vigated, 
 
46 
 
 €aWx. 
 
 vigsited, and registered according to Law. 
 c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 55 Geo. 3. 
 
 Suspected to lie 
 lalse, Bond not 
 to be cancelled. 
 
 Penalty for 
 counterfeiting 
 Of using. 
 
 To be taken by 
 Mastere of Ships 
 of having givon 
 Bond, and to be 
 delivered up at 
 the Port ofDis 
 charge. 
 
 If Masters do 
 not produce such 
 Certificatef, the 
 Ship forfeited . 
 
 I5fl 
 
 Ceittficate0. 
 
 1.* Where the Governor or Officer of the Customs sliall 
 have reasonable ground of Suspicion that any Certificate 
 from the Officers of the Customs in Great Britain or Ire- 
 land, of Bond having been given for carrying enumerated 
 Goods to some other British Plantation, or to Great 
 Britain or Ireland, is false, such Governor or Officers 
 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 Ire- 
 land is false or counterfeit, th6 Governor or Officers shall 
 not cancel the Security given in the Plantation, until in- 
 formed from the Commissioners of the Customs that the 
 Matter of the .said Certificate is true; and any Person who 
 shall counterfeit, rase, or falsify any Certificate for any 
 Ship or Goods, or shall knowingly make use thereof^ 
 shall forfeit ^500, and the Certificate shall be of no effect. 
 12Car.2. c. 18. 5il9. 7 & 8 W.3. c.22. JlO. 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 1. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2. Before the Master of any Ship departs from any 
 British Colony or Plantation where he receives his Lading, 
 he shall take a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the 
 Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs there 
 (to be granted without Fee or Reward), that Bond hath 
 been given pursuant to the Directions of this or any other 
 Act, as the Case s^ all require ; and the Master shall keep 
 such Certificate m his Custody till the Woyage is com- 
 pleted, and then deliver the same to the Collector or other 
 Chief Officer of the Customs at the Port where he shall 
 discharge his Lading in Great Britain or Ireland, or any 
 British American Colony or Plantation, on Forfeiture of 
 ■^'100. 4Geo.3. c. 15. §24. 39 & 40 Geo, 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 3. If any British Ship, laden in any British Colony or 
 Plantation 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 Certifi- 
 cate that Bond has been given, pursuant to the Directions 
 
 of 
 
 
55 Geo. 3. 
 
 istoms shall 
 Certificate 
 ;ain or I re- 
 in umerated 
 r to Great 
 or Officers 
 irge of the 
 sland ; and 
 Certificate 
 Lain or Ire- 
 fficers shall 
 1, until in- 
 is that the 
 Person who 
 ate for any 
 ise thereof, 
 jf no effect. 
 20 Geo. 3. 
 
 s from any 
 his Lading, 
 Seals of the 
 stoms there 
 Bond hath 
 •r any other 
 r shall keep 
 age is corn- 
 tor or other 
 ire he shall 
 nd, or any 
 jrfeiture of 
 .67. Art. 6. 
 1 Colony or 
 lanufacture 
 he Customs 
 Colony or 
 e a Certiii- 
 I Directions 
 of 
 
 of this or any other Act, as the Case may require, or if 
 he shall not produce such Certificate to the Collector or 
 other Chef Officer of the Customs of the Port where he 
 shaU arrive m Great Britain, Ireland, or any British Co- 
 lony or Plantation, the Ship shall be forfeited. 4 Geo S 
 C.15. $23. 39 & 40 Geo. 8. c. 67. Art. 6. * ^^- ^* 
 4. Where, by any Act relative to the Trade rf the 
 iJriUsh 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 Exportetion to Gxeat Britain or Ireland, to pmve 
 that such Article is the Produce of such Coloni or Plant! 
 ation, and there shall not be any Justices of^the P^e 
 before whom such Affidavit can be made, the H^nter^r 
 Grower may make the same before th; Collector .nd 
 Comptroller or other Chief Officer of the CiSoms or 
 any Pwo of them, at the Port or Place from whenS suS^ 
 
 or PkntT Inn! ^T '^''"^f"* ^* °" ^^tJ^"' «"ch Colony 
 
 Penalties, and Forfeitures to whTcSch a JiV^r '1^^^^^^^ 
 on Importation. 47 Geo. 3. c 48 § 2 ''' ^^^^' 
 
 Colonies or PlantatioTn North /,/• ^''- ^^'j^^'^'^ 
 built Ships, owned, navla^ed anS t /'"'/" ^"*^^^- 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. fe! fs 9 ^tFp f 'f ^^^^ 
 See GiBnALTAu. 57Geo.3. c.4. § l. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 ....Afe™?^<=tureofthe British Plan^.f 
 rivmmied to be exported. 
 
 <ClOtI)tn3, See " Settlers." 
 
 47 
 
 To be produced 
 from the Officers 
 of Colonies at 
 which there are 
 not any Justices 
 before w' n the 
 Planters > 
 make Aidavits. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 »-■-.- ill ^iiiiciica, 
 
Coef)ineaU 
 
 
 48 
 
 May be im- 1 . The Production of any of the Colonies <«• Planta- 
 
 ported into the (iOiis in America, or of any Country on the Continent of 
 FortiJlTeisel., Amerfca, belonging 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, being owned and navigated by Persons 
 inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or 
 Countries. 4.5Geo.3. c.57. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 8. 
 c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 2. The Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in America, or Countries on the Continent of Ame- 
 rica, 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 2 Car. 2. c. 1 8. 
 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. and 20 Geo. 3. c 10. with respect 
 to Goods therein enumerated. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 and exported to 
 the United 
 Kiingdom. 
 
 Coffee auD Cocoa jl^uts* 
 
 1 
 
 Must be brought 
 
 some British 
 Plantation 
 
 Bond to be given 
 not to land 
 
 elsewhere. 
 
 A/i hP h 1. No Coffee or Cocoa Nuts of the Production of the 
 
 to Great bSu British Plantations in America shall be shipped or con< 
 or Ireland, or vcycd from any of the said Plantations to any Place, 
 unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Ma- 
 jesty, 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. 12 Car. 2. c. 1 8. § 18. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. §27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. 
 Art. 6. . . 
 
 2. For every Ship which shall sail from Great Britaui 
 or Ireland for any British Plantation in America, Bond 
 shall be given with One Surety to the Chief Officei's of 
 the Customs of the Port from whence the said Ship shall 
 sail, to the Value of -£1000 if the Ship be of less Burthen 
 than 100 Tons, and of ^2000 if of greater Burthen, con- 
 ditioned that in case the said Ship shall load any Coffee 
 or Cocoa Nuts, 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 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, vhich are permitted 
 -^ to 
 
 if 
 
r Plairta- 
 itinent of 
 ri of any 
 imported 
 rts in any 
 J Persons 
 tions, or 
 ;2Geo.^8. 
 
 r Planta- 
 ; of Ame- 
 j Foreign 
 the Free 
 irt of the 
 r.2. C.18. 
 ;h respect 
 h 
 
 on of the 
 i or con- 
 ny Place, 
 
 His Ma- 
 )e laid on 
 full Value 
 
 4 Geo. 3. 
 ). 3. c. 67. 
 
 at Britain 
 ica, Bond 
 )fficei's of 
 Ship shall 
 s Burthen 
 then, con- 
 my Coffee 
 the whole 
 ish Plant- 
 3me other 
 id, and be 
 excepted ; 
 t or Place 
 porniitted 
 to 
 
 Coffee mh Cocoa fSivAs. 
 
 to trade there, the Governor shall, before the Ship be 
 permitted to load Coffee or Cocoa Nuts, or any enu- 
 merated Article, take Bond in like manner to the Value 
 aforeaaid, that such Ship shall carry all the said Goods 
 , to some other of His Majesty's British Plantations, or 
 n to Great Britain or Ireland. 12 Car. 2. c. 18 ^19 
 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. $ 11. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27* 
 . 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. U.3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 ^ 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 Voyaee 
 13 completed, and shall then deUver the same to the Col- 
 lector 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 ^100. 4 Geo 3. c. 15. <^ 24. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. 
 §1.3. 33 Geo. 3. c. 63. § 2. 39 & 40 G. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 4. If any Ship shall take on board any Coffee or Cocoa 
 Nuts, 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 Articles to anj 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 sliall be forfeited, and also the 
 Lading. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 19. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26 
 §11. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10* 
 § 1. 3. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §27. 
 
 5. But the said Acts are not to prevent the Subjects 
 ot the King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors 
 m Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, in the Province ol' 
 Guiana, Irom exporting 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 Doinininns nf t'^" It'iM/v nt' fl... xt„4^i i . i i .> 
 
 .'T "■ V" "'"B ^' -"^ i^cuicj lands, snail 
 
 export the said Pi-CvkIuco to any Part of the United Kin.r- 
 
 F 1 "^ 
 
 49 
 
 CerttficAtes to 
 be taken by the 
 Masters of Ships 
 which lade in 
 the Colonies. 
 
 Forfeiture if 
 shipped before 
 Bond given, or 
 if carried to 
 other Places ; 
 
 but not to extend 
 to the Prokluce 
 of Estates of 
 Dutch Proprie- 
 tors in Cruian.i, 
 
50 
 
 Governors or 
 Officers suspect- 
 ing Certificates 
 to be false, not 
 to cancel Bonds; 
 and Penalty 
 on falsifying 
 Ceitificatos. 
 
 Penalty on 
 Officers suffer- 
 ing 'GooJs to be 
 carried to otlier 
 Places. 
 
 Governors or 
 their Command- 
 ers in Chief to 
 transmit Lists 
 of Bonds yearly 
 to the Customs. 
 
 Coffee anD Cocoa Jl2ut0. 
 
 dom, or any of His Majesty's Dominions in Europe. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §4. 8. 
 See Guiana. 
 
 6. In Cases where the Governor or Officers in any 
 of the Plantations shall have reasonable ground of Sus- 
 picion that the Certificate of having given Security in 
 Great Britain or Ireland is false, they shall require suffi- 
 cient 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 coun- 
 terfeit, the Governor or Officers shall not cancel the 
 Security given in the Plantations, until they shall be in- 
 formed from 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 Certificate for any Ship 
 or Goods, or knowingly or wilfully make use thereof, 
 such Person shall forfeit .£500, and the Certificate shall 
 be J no Effect. 7&8 W. 3. c. 22. §10. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. § 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 7. li any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain or 
 Ireland shall give any Warrant for or suffi;r any Coffee 
 or Cocoa Nuts, or any enumerated Article, to be carried 
 into any other Country or Place, until they have 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. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. 
 §9. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §1.3. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 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 other 
 Person as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same, 
 a List of such Ships as shall have laden any Coffee or 
 Cocoa Nuts, or any eniunerated Article, in such Plan- 
 tations, as also a List of all Bonds taken by them; and in 
 case any Ship belonging to any of His Majesty's Pk - a- 
 tions shall be found to have unloaded in any Poit of 
 Europe other than Great Britiiin or Ireland, such Ship 
 shall be forfeited, and her Lading. 22 & 23 Car. 2. 
 c. 26. §12. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. 
 
 mik 
 
 §1. 3, 39 & 40 Geo 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 9. In 
 
in Europe. 
 
 :ers in any 
 ind of Sus- 
 Security in 
 squire suffi- 
 tion Lading 
 !re shall be 
 ; discharged 
 se or coun- 
 
 cancel the 
 shall be in- 
 ns in Great 
 the Matter 
 'erson shall 
 )r any Ship 
 ise thereof, 
 ificate shall 
 4- Geo. 3. 
 
 40 Geo. 3. 
 
 t Britain or 
 any Coffee 
 
 be carried 
 have been 
 Britain or 
 
 1 forfeit his 
 Har. 2. c. 7. 
 
 10. § 1. 3. 
 
 in Chief of 
 to return to 
 » such other 
 e the same, 
 / Coffee or 
 such Plan- 
 lem ; and in 
 ity'sPk . a- 
 my Poit of 
 , such Sljip 
 k 23 Car. 2. 
 10. 3. c. 10. 
 
 9. In 
 
 Coffee ana Cocoa Mut^. 
 
 51 
 
 V. In all Bc^nds to be taken in the Plantations, the Condition of the 
 Persons therein named shall be of known Residence and ^^""''' ^"'' *''<» 
 Ability there for the Value mentioned in the Bond, the oMig°ors'Jhen 
 Condition of wliich shall be, within 18 Months after the taken in the 
 Date thereof (the Danger of the Seas excepted) to pro- •'''"««■"'"«. 
 duco a Certificate of having landed and discharged the 
 Goods therein mentioned in one of His Majesty's Plan- 
 tations, 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 Planta- 
 tions, as if the Original was produced in Court by the 
 Prosecutor. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. §13. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 
 § 27. 26 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 10. In all Bonds wliich shall be entered into in Great Condition v^i^ 
 Britain or Ireland, ia pursuance of any Act whereby the ''''^^" '" ^''e'" 
 Goods therein enumerated are to be "brought to Great frdand ""^ 
 Britain or Ireland, such Bonds shall be with Condition, 
 tliat within 18 Months from the Date thereof (the Dan- 
 ger 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. 15 Geo, 3. c. 31. § 6. 4 Geo. 3 
 c. 15. § 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §1.3. 39 & 40 G.* 3.* 
 c, 67. Art. 6. 
 
 11. In case there shall be no Prosecution for some Bonds void if 
 Breach or Non-performance of the Condition of the Bond " '^ prosecuted 
 wilain Three Years after the Date thereof, or if, unon v"''"' V"^ 
 
 r% ^- r T-> , -IT 3 ^ "5 ujj».>u \ e:n-s of tlie 
 
 l^iObecutiou tor some Breach or Non-performance of the Date, or if 
 Condition, Judgment be not obtained within Two Years -'"dgment not 
 after Prosecution commenced, then such Bond (in de- ?wo vtar^'after 
 fault ot such Prosecution to be commenced, mid Judgment Prosecution. 
 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. 8 Ann 
 c. 13. §23. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 
 12. There shall be paid to His Majesty One Penny Duty pvai.ie 
 tor every Pound Weight of Cocoa Nuts shipped in His '''"'" ""' '^''TP^'' 
 Majesty's Plantations, if Bond is not first given with One I,;,'?';'''"/''"'"' 
 Surety to bring the same to Great Britain or Ireland: "' "'" " 
 nnn tliP ^i^i/^ Finf,, t.l..>l! K„ ;,i _<. -,--r t->i • 
 
 " ■"" " "V "'""" •"•£ }juia at rjiich j-iaces and to 
 
 such Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, 
 before the Lading thereof. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. § 2. 
 
 E2 iti. The 
 
f'-f 
 
 va I . 
 
 ri2 
 
 To he paid in 
 .Sterling Money. 
 
 To be levied by 
 I he Commission - 
 
 Officers may 
 accept a Propor- 
 tion of the Com - 
 modity. 
 
 Bond to be given 
 although the 
 Duty pdid. 
 
 Laws and Cus- 
 toms in the 
 Plantations re- 
 pugnant to this 
 Act, null and 
 void. 
 
 Penalty on Per- 
 sons concerned 
 in the Loading 
 without Pay- 
 ment of Duty, 
 or to whose 
 Hands the 
 Goods shall 
 come. 
 
 Not to be 
 shipped until the 
 Planter or his 
 
 Coffee anU Cocoa jiJutaf. 
 
 1 3. 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 Britain, 
 and according to the Proportion 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. 1 Geo. 1. st. 1. 
 c. 12. § 4. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §41. 
 
 14. The Duty shall be levied by the Commissioners of 
 the Customs in England, under the Directions of the 
 Lords of the Treasury. 25 Car. 2. c.7. § 3. 
 
 15. In case any Person liable to pay the Duty shall 
 not have Money to answer the same, the OfHcer shall ac- 
 cept, instead 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. 25 Car. 2. c, 7. §4. 
 
 16. 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. 2. c. 18. and 22 & 23 
 Car. 2. c. 26. to carry the same to Great Britain or 
 
 Ireland, or tosome other of His Majesty's Plantations, 
 under the Forfeiture of Ship and Goods. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 c.22. §8. 
 
 17- All Laws, Bye-laws, Usages, or Customs which 
 shall be in practice, or endeavoured or pretended to be 
 in force or practice, in any of His Majesty's Plantations 
 in America, which are anyways repugnant to this Act, 
 or to any other Law hereafter to be made in this 
 Kingdom, so far as such Laws shall relate to and men- 
 tion the said Plantations, are illegal, null, and void. 
 7 &8 W. 3. c.22. §9. 
 
 18. If the Goods shall be loaden on board any 
 Vessel before the Duties are paid, every Person as- 
 sisting or otherwise concerned, or to whose Hands the 
 same shall knowingly come after the Loading thereof, 
 shall for every OiFence forfeit Treble the Value of the 
 Goods, to be computed according to the best Price that 
 the Commodity bears at the Place where the Offence is 
 committed ; and all the Boats made use of in the Loading 
 shall be seized and prosecuted by any Officei of the 
 Customs. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §37. 
 
 Nrs Crsflppr ;:r flnros Niifo shiill be f^sil jn boatd 
 
 IQ 
 
 any Vessel in any of His Majesty's Colonies and Planta- 
 tions 
 
Its. 
 
 ig Money 
 lunt of the 
 at Britain, 
 illings and 
 -y Charges 
 11 be paid 
 o. 1. St. 1. 
 
 issioners of 
 jns of the 
 
 Duty shall 
 er shall ac- 
 ion of the 
 the Value 
 !;!ommodity 
 
 Duty, the 
 curity shall 
 id 22 & 23 
 Britain or 
 'lantations, 
 
 r & 8 W. 3. 
 
 toms which 
 mded to be 
 Plantations 
 
 this Act, 
 ide in this 
 
 1 and men- 
 and void. 
 
 board any 
 Person as- 
 Hands the 
 ng thereof, 
 alue of the 
 it Price that 
 i Offence is 
 he Loading 
 icei of the 
 
 ui on board 
 and Planta- 
 tions 
 
 
 X 
 
 Coffee anh Coeoa i^ntfS. 
 
 tions in America, until the Planter or Grower, or his 
 known Agent, shall make Oath or Affirmation in Wn'Mng 
 before Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in or 
 near the Place where the said Coffee grew, t? at tl same 
 is Hctuaily ol the Growth and Produce of such Planter's 
 or Cirower's Plantation lying in the District, Divii'on, or 
 Parish of , within the Island or Colony of 
 
 ; which Oath or Affirmation shall be pro- 
 duced to the Collector, Comptroller, and Naval Officer, 
 or any of them, by the Person who shall enter or ship 
 such Coffee or Cocoa Nuts, b' <bre the Entry and Ship- 
 ping thereof; and such Person shall likewise make Oath 
 or Affirmation before the said Officers, or any Tv\o of 
 them, that the Coffee or Cocoa Nuts dien to be shipped 
 are the same as mentioned in such OatJi or Affirmation ; 
 and the Collector and Compu oiler, 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 hisV'essel, 
 and that he has no Coffee or Cocoa Nuts on board other 
 than such for which Proofs sliall 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 and Comp- 
 troller, or Naval Officer, shall receive Five ShUlings and 
 no more; and all Certificates of such Affidavits or Affirm- 
 ations shall, by the Master of such Vessel importing the 
 Coffee or Cocoa Nuts into Great Britain or Ireland, be 
 produced to the Collector and Comptroller of the Cus- 
 tonis at the Port where the Vessel shall unlade, at the 
 Time of making his Report, and the Master shall at the 
 same Time deliver to them a Certificate under the Hands 
 and Seals of the Collector and Comptroller of the Cus- 
 toms and Naval Officer of the Place where such Coffee or 
 Cocoa Nuts shall have been shipped (or any Two of them) 
 testifying the particular Quantities laden, and of which 
 such Proofs have been made, specifying the Packages, 
 with the particular Marks, Numbers, and Weights of 
 each ; and the Master shall likewise make Oath, or, if he 
 be one of the People called Quakers, solemnly affirm be- 
 ..... vncii!, tiiiii iiic v/uiicc or v^ocoa rvute mentioned m 
 the Certificate was taken on board as therein expressed, 
 
 E 3 and 
 
 53 
 
 Agent sliall 
 make Oarh of 
 the Growth 
 before Two Jus- 
 tices, of which a 
 Certificnie is to 
 be ?ranted. 
 
 Jif 
 
54 
 
 ,;?!»= »■ ,*;■ 
 
 liilflli£lill> 
 
 Jf ihere are no 
 Justices, the 
 Oatli m;iy lie 
 in.idc before 
 Two |Tincip,il 
 Officers of" the 
 
 Cocoa Nuts of a 
 Poreign Country 
 not to be taken 
 on board cither 
 at Sea or in any 
 Place in America, 
 or landed in the 
 British Planta- 
 liuui.. 
 
 Coffee aiiD Coeoa iQate. 
 
 and that, after his Departure from the Place where sucfi 
 Coffee or Cocoa Nuts was laden, he <lid not take on 
 board his Vessel at Sea or elsewhere any Coffee or Cocoa 
 Nuts, and that all the Coffee or Cocoa* Nuts on board is 
 mentioned in the Certificate. 5 Geo. 2. c. 24. § 3. 
 '23 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 7. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 20. If there are not any Justices of the Peace before 
 whom such Affidavit can be made, the Planter or Grower 
 may 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 (he Article niay 
 b'3 intended to be shipped; and in the Certificate which 
 the Collector and Comptroller f\.nil Naval Officer, or any 
 Two of them, are required 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. 
 47 Geo. 3. c. 48. §2. 
 
 21. No Person having Charge of any Vessel shall take 
 
 m, or 
 
 penalty on tak- 
 ing false Oatiis 
 or counterfeiting 
 CertiHcues. 
 
 Alay be c-cported 
 to United Stales 
 on Payment of 
 Puty. 
 
 permit to be taken in, at any of the British 
 Plantations in America, or at Sea, or in any Place in 
 America, or land or suffer to be landed in any of the 
 said Plantations, any Cocoa Nuts of the Growth of any 
 Foreign Country, (except such as shall be regularly ex- 
 ported from Great Britain,) on Forfeiture thereof, and of 
 ■^200,and likewise shall suffer 12 Months Imprisonment, 
 to be sued for in any Court of Record in Europe or the 
 Plantations; and what shall be recovered in Europe shall 
 be one Moiety to His Majesty, and the other to the In- 
 former ; and in the Plantations, One-third to His Majesty, 
 One-third to the Governor or Commander in Chiefi and 
 the other Third to the Informer. 23 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 8. 
 
 22. Persons falsely making any Oath or Affirmation 
 shall forfeit .^200, and be imprisoned Twelve Months ; 
 and if any Person shall forge or counterfeit a Certificate 
 of the said Oath or Affirmation, or shall publish such 
 Certificate, knowing the same to be forged, shall forfeit 
 ^200, one Moiety to His Majesty, and the other to the 
 Informer. 23 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 9. 
 
 23. Coffee and Cocoa Nuts may be exported from the 
 West India Islands to any Territories belonging to the 
 United States, on Payment of the same Duties to which 
 Coffee and Cocoa Nuts exported to any British Colony 
 are liable ; jmd the Duties i^hall be raised, recovered, and 
 applied in the same Manner as the Duties on Cocoa 
 
 Nuts 
 
1. 
 
 vlicrc sucf* 
 t take on 
 ' or Cocoti 
 n board is 
 c. 24. § 3. 
 St. 6. 
 
 ace before 
 or Grower 
 Jinptroiler 
 y Two of 
 rticle may 
 rate wliicli 
 :er, or any 
 pper, they 
 es of the 
 *Jantation. 
 
 shalltake 
 10 British 
 
 Place in 
 my of the 
 tth of any 
 iiJarly ex- 
 of, and of 
 isonnient, 
 pe or the 
 rope shall 
 
 the Lj- 
 ' Majesty, 
 'hieti and 
 . 79. § 8. 
 [!irmation 
 Months ; 
 'ertificate 
 lish such 
 all forfeit 
 ler to the 
 
 from the 
 ig to the 
 to which 
 
 1 Colony 
 red, and 
 n Cocoa 
 
 Nuts 
 
 :>: 
 
 Coffee anb Cocoa iguw. 
 
 Nuts exported to any British Colony or Plantation in 
 America, are raised, recovered, and applied; but no 
 Coffee or Cocoa Nuts shall be so exported, other than by 
 British Subjects, in British-built Ships owned and navi- 
 gated according to Law, under Forfeiture diereof, and 
 also of the Vessel. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 3. 
 
 24. Coffee, the Produce of any British Colony in the 
 West Indies, imported into the Island of Bermuda in. 
 any British Vessel, may be exported from Saint George 
 or Hamilton in Bermuda to any Part of the Territories 
 of the United States of America, in any Foreign Vessel 
 belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, 
 above the Burthen of 60 Tons. *52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 1. 
 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. 
 
 25. Where, on Exportation of Goods to any British 
 Colony or Plantation in America, a Bond is required for 
 the due Landing thereof;* and a Certificate is 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, then under the Hand and Seal of any Officer 
 who may be appointed by the Umted States for the 
 Puipose of granting such Certificate ; 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 Ofticer 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 Ship, that 
 the Goods were duly landed. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 4. 
 
 26. Cocoa of the Growth or Production of any of tlie 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, or Countries on the 
 Continent of America, belonging to or under the Domi- 
 nion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, im- 
 ported into any of the Free Ports, may be exported from 
 thence to any Part of the United Kingdom, under the 
 Rules and Regulations of 12 Car. 2. c. 18. 22 & 23 Car. 2. 
 0. 26. and 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 1 1. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 55. 
 
 CofTee m.iy he 
 exported from 
 Bermuda to the 
 Unired States in 
 Foreign Vessels. 
 
 If Bond required, 
 when exported to 
 a British Colony, 
 siiiiiLr Bond to 
 be required on 
 Exportation to 
 the United 
 States, 
 
 Cocoa imporreii 
 into the Tree 
 Ports may l>c 
 exported to the 
 United Kins;- 
 do:n. 
 
 * J Bond is required upon the Exportation of Coffee and Cocoa 
 A uts to the British Coionies by 1 2 Cor. 2. c 1 8. § 1 9. See No. 2. 
 
 E 4 27. Any 
 
56 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported from 
 Sugar Colonies 
 to Ports in Eu- 
 rope South of 
 Cape Finistcrre; 
 
 upon Licence 
 and Bond and 
 cartain Regula- 
 tions b«ing com- 
 plied with. 
 
 -i 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 urn 
 
 ! ' » 
 
 M 
 
 i 
 
 iir 
 
 i 
 
 liiiiil' 
 
 Coffee ant Cocoa 51?ut0* 
 
 27. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may ship, in any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonics or Plantations in America, any 
 Coffee or Cocoa t eii )w < \. jf any such Colony or Planta- 
 tion, and may ovoort the s.iuie direct to any Port in Europe 
 to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, and import into the 
 said Colonies or Plantations any Sort of Corn or Grain 
 direct from any such Ports in Europe, or from any Place 
 on the Coast of Africa to the Northward of the Thirt eth 
 Uegree of North Latitude, in RrO: Ships, and under Li- 
 cences, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and 1^ orfeitures 
 herem-after limited for that Purpose. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 1 . 
 28. No Coffee or Cocoa shall be so laden in any of 
 the said Colonies or Plantations, except in British-built 
 Ships 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 Port at which such 
 Coffee or Cocoa is intended to be shipped, subject to the 
 Regulations herein-aiter mentioned ; (that is to say), that 
 Notice be first given in Writing by the Master, or by 
 One or more Owner or Owners of the Ship, to the Col 
 lector and Comptroller of such Port, of their Intention 
 that such Ship shall, when laden, proceed direct to some 
 Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, 
 and export from thence, or from some Place on the Coast 
 of Africa to tlie Northward of the Thirtieth Degree of 
 North Latitutle, Corn or Grain, to be carried directly to 
 tlie Colony or Plantation from which such Ship shall 
 have sailed; and the Exporter shall then make Oath 
 before the Collector and Comptroller of the Port, that it 
 is his full Intention and Resolution to load the Ship with 
 Coffee or Cocoa for Exportation direct to some Port in 
 Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, and to no 
 other^ Place ; and the Master or Owners, together with 
 the Exporter, shall thereupon enter into Bond, to the 
 Use of His Majesty, in Treble the Value of the Goods, 
 with Condition that, in case a Licence shall be granted as 
 aforesaid, such Ship shall proceed direct to some legal 
 Port of Destination, specifying the same ; and that no 
 Goods, except Coffee or Cocoa, shall be taken on board, 
 unless for the necessary Use of such Vessel during her 
 Voyage ; and also that, before the Expiration of Two 
 fears from the Date of such Licence, the same shall be 
 delivered up to the Collector or Comptroller of the Cus- 
 toms of the Port where the Coffee or Cocoa was shipped, 
 
 i o together 
 
 gjgjP 
 
J. 
 
 any of His 
 lerica, any 
 or Planta- 
 ; in Europe 
 )rt into the 
 [1 or Grain 
 any Place 
 e Thirt eth 
 I under Li- 
 f'orfeitures 
 I. C.98. §1. 
 I in any of 
 Iritish-built 
 cording to 
 first taken 
 Seals of the 
 vhich such 
 bject to the 
 o say), that 
 ster, or by 
 to the Col 
 ' Intention 
 2ct to some 
 Finisterre, 
 n the Coast 
 Degree of 
 directly to 
 Ship shall 
 iiake Oath 
 \)rt, that it 
 e Ship with 
 me Port in 
 and to no 
 ^ethcr with 
 3nd, to the 
 the Goods, 
 : granted as 
 some legal 
 nd that no 
 n on board, 
 during her 
 on of Two 
 ne shall be 
 of the Cus- 
 as shipped, 
 together 
 
 Coffee anD Cocoa iUutfi?. 
 
 together with a Certificate, signed and s6aled by the Con- 
 sul, or Two known British Merchants of good Credit at 
 the Port or Place where such Coffee was landed, certify- 
 ing the Landing thereof, with the Number of Casks and 
 other Packages so landed, and the Mark, Number, and 
 Contents of each, together with the Name of the Ship 
 and Muster, and that they verily believe no other Goods 
 than Coffee or Cocoa have been there landed out ot such 
 Ship. 52 Geo. '3 . c. 98. § 2. 
 
 29. In case any licensed Ship shall take on board, in 
 any of the said Sugar Colonies or Plantations, or in her 
 Voyage from thence, any Coffee or Cocoa being the Pro- 
 duce of any Foreign Colony or Plantation, such Coffee 
 and Cocoa shall be forfeited with Double the Value, and 
 the Master and Shipper thereof shall forfeit Double the 
 Value, to be recoveied in the Court of Vice Admiralty in 
 America, or in any Court of Record there, at the Elec- 
 tion of the Prosecutor ; One Third Part to be for the 
 Use of His Majesty, One Third to the Governor of the 
 Colony, and the other One Third to the Prosecutor. 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 3. 
 
 30. Belbie any Coffee or Cocoa shall be laden for any 
 Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, the 
 Exporter shall make an Entry thereof in Writing with 
 the Collector and Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs^ 
 expressing the Name of the Ship and tlie Master, and 
 where she lies, and also the Place, Quay, or Wharf where 
 tlie Goods are to be laden, or first water-borne, which 
 shall be within such Port only where a Custom house is 
 established, and where an Officer shall be appointed to 
 attend the Shipping, or at such Places as shall be men- 
 tioned in a Sufferance from the Collector and Comp- 
 troller ; and the Exporter shall thereon take out from 
 the said Collector and Comptroller a Cocket or War- 
 rant, whereon shall be endorsed by the Exporter 
 the Marks, Numbers, and Contents or Denominations 
 of such Coffee or Cocoa ; and the Cocket or Warrant so 
 endorsed shall be delivered to the Officer appointed for 
 the examining and shipping thereof; and the same shall 
 be shipped in the Presence of such Officers, or at such 
 Places, as shall be mentioned in the Sufferance or War- 
 I'ant, and such Officers shall examine the same before 
 put on board ; and if, before or alter the shipping thereof, 
 the Number of Casks or Packages shall be greater than 
 endorsed, or if there shall bt found any other Coffee or 
 
 Cocoa 
 
 57 
 
 Of a Foreign 
 Colony taken on 
 board in the 
 Siig.ir Colonies 
 nr in tlie Voy»ge 
 from thence. 
 
 Regulations to 
 he observed 
 before lading 
 Coffee or Cocoa 
 Nuts for Ports, 
 in Europe South 
 of Cape finis- 
 terre. 
 
58 
 
 Bond may be 
 discharged on 
 Certificate. 
 
 Coffee anft Cocoa ii?uts. 
 
 Cocoa thun shall be so endorsed, or any other Goods than 
 Coffee or Cocoa shall be discovered on board, or brought 
 to be shipped in or put into any Vessel for that Purpose, 
 before Entry, or taking out such Cocket or Warrant, 
 endorsing and Delivery of the same, and not being ship- 
 ped in the Manner aforesaid, but shall be put on board, 
 or attempted to be put on board, contrary to this Act, 
 such Coffee and Cocoa shall be forfeited, as also the 
 Vessel or Carriage employed therein, with the Ship in 
 which such Goods shall be laden, and the Owner shall 
 forfeit Double the Value, to be recovered in the Court 
 of Vice Admiralty held in any of His Majesty's Planta- 
 tions in America, or in any Court of Record there, at 
 the Election of the Prosecutor ; One Third to be to the 
 Use of His Majesty, One Third to the Governor, and 
 the other One Third to the Prosecutor; and before such 
 Ship shall depart, the Master shall receive the said Li- 
 cence from the Collector or Com{)troller, with a Certifi- 
 cate endorsed thereon, or affixed thereto, under their 
 Hands and Seals of Office, who are to nnike Two Copies 
 of such Licence, Endorsements, or Certificates, for 
 which no more shall be taken than the legal and accus- 
 tomed Fees ; and the Master shall, before he receives the 
 said Licence, attest the Copies which are to be left with 
 the Collector and Comptroller, who are to transmit One 
 of the Copies of the Endorsements or Certificates to the 
 Commissioners of the Customs in England, and record 
 in a Book the Notice in Writing of the Owner of the 
 Ship, the Affidavit of the Shipper, the Licence granted, 
 together with the Clearance; but in case any Goods not 
 allowed by this Act shall be found on board, or carried 
 by any such Ship to any Foreign Port, , then the Liberty 
 granted by such Licence shall become void, and such 
 Ship and the Master, and all others concerned, shall be 
 liable to the same Penalties and Forfeitures as they 
 would have been in case this Act had not been made- 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 4. 
 
 31. Upon such Licence being returned to the Collec- 
 tor and Comptroller of the Customs of the Port where 
 the Coffee or Cocoa was shipped, and an Account of the 
 Lading being endorsed thereon or annexed thereto, and 
 upon such Certificate of the Consul or Two known Bri- 
 tish Merchants of Crnnd Crfclit ht^inn nmrttmarl anA t^a 
 1 I. -HT ° '^ ^ •■■-■■<, ....W!.,, 
 
 several other Matters required being duly complied with 
 within Two Years from the Date of such Licence, the 
 
 Bond 
 
roodb than 
 •r brought 
 
 Purpose, 
 Warrant, 
 m\fr ship- 
 on hoard, 
 
 this Act, 
 s also the 
 ! Ship in 
 ner shall 
 :he Court 
 s Planta- 
 there, at 
 be to the 
 nor, and 
 fore such 
 
 said Li- 
 El Certifi- 
 der their 
 /o Copies 
 atcs, for 
 d uccws- 
 :eives the 
 
 left with 
 smit One 
 ;s to the 
 i record 
 T of the 
 granted, 
 oods not 
 r carried 
 
 Liberty 
 nd such 
 
 shall be 
 
 as they 
 n made. 
 
 I Collec- 
 t where 
 it of the 
 Jto, and 
 wn Bri- 
 n^n6 the 
 ed with 
 ice, the 
 Bond 
 
 Coffee anh Cocoa iSuts. 
 
 59 
 
 Bond shall be discharged and delivered I'p. otherwise 
 shall be foifeited and prosecuted in liie Mj« iner befoK 
 directed. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 5. 
 
 32. Upon the Master or Ownef ofs»nh Vessel con- 
 forming to the Conditions of the LI v w id Bond, and 
 obtaining a Certificate from the Cons i • Two known 
 British Merchants as aforesaid, such V ,scl may load in 
 the Port of Delivery, or at any P- rt »r Place on the 
 Coast of Africa to the Northward of the Latitude of 
 Thirty Degrees North, any Corn or Grain, the Produce 
 of Europe or Africa, for Exportation, direct to the 
 said Colonies or Plantations, and there land the same. 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 6. 
 
 33. All Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by this Act 
 (except where it is otherwise provided) shall be prose- 
 cuted in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at West- 
 Jiiinster or Dublin, or the Court of Exchequer in Scot- 
 land ; one Moiety whereof to be for the Use of His Ma- 
 jesty, and the other Moiety to the Prosecutor ; wherein 
 no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be al- 
 lowed, nor any more than One Imparlance. 52 Geo. 3. 
 c.98. §7. 
 
 34. If any Person shall be sued for any thing done in 
 pursuance of this Act, he may plead tlie General Issue, 
 and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence ; 
 and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit, 
 or forbear the Prosecution, or discontinue his Action, or 
 it Verdict shall pass against him, the Defendant shall 
 have Treble Costs, and the like Remedy for recovering 
 the same as in Cases where Costs are by Law given to 
 Defendants, 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 8. 
 
 35. If any Person shall grant a false Certificate, or 
 counterfeit, erase, or alter any Licence, Oath, or Cer- 
 tificate which shall be made pursuant to this Act, or shall 
 knomngly publish or make v ;e thereof, such Person 
 shall forfeit jf 500, to be recovered 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. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 9. 
 
 36. The Growth of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in America, may be shipped and ex- 
 ported direct to the Island of Malta or the Dependencies 
 
 such vessels, and under such 
 
 Vessels export- 
 ing Coffee and 
 Cocoa Nuts m;iy 
 load Corn ar 
 Orain at I'ons 
 in Europe, or 
 certain Ports in 
 Africa. 
 
 How Penalties 
 and Forfeitures 
 to be recovered. 
 
 General Issue 
 may be pleaded, 
 and Treble Costs 
 sllowed. 
 
 Granting false 
 Certificates or 
 counterfeiting 
 Documents. 
 
 J 
 
 .-.v. «•« n:i 1^ - 
 
 m 
 
 Licences, Entries, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, 
 
 and 
 
 Of the Sugar 
 Colonies may be 
 exported to 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
:f 
 
 60 
 
 Duty u.pon Iin- 
 portation of 
 Foreien CoffW. 
 
 How to be col- 
 lertcd and paid. 
 
 Appropriation 
 tticrcof. 
 
 Duty upon Im- 
 portation of 
 British Coffee. 
 
 Hov\ to he col- 
 lected, recrvprrl 
 and appropii:itc(' 
 
 Coffee am Cocoa JI?uts. 
 
 and Forfeitures, as are herein })arlicularly mentioned. 
 55 Geo. 3. C.29. §5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. §1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 37- 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 im- 
 ported or brought into any Colony or Plantation in 
 America under the Dominion of His Majesty, the Duties 
 following; that is to say, 
 
 For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of such Fo- 
 reign Coffee, which shall be imported from any Place 
 except Great Britain, Two Pounds Nineteen Shillings 
 and Nine-pence. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 1. 
 
 38. The Duties sliall be collected and paid in the same 
 Manner, and by such Ways and Means, and under such 
 Penalties and Forfcituies (not otherwise altered by this 
 Act), as are mentioned in 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. with respect 
 to tlic Collection and Payment of the Duties thereby 
 granted upon Sugar; and all Powers, Penalties, Provi- 
 sions, Articles, and Clauses in that Act coiitained and 
 referred unto, except in such Cases where any Alteration 
 is made by this Act, shall be applied and put in Exec i- 
 tion for the raising, levying, collecting, and answering tne 
 Duties hereby gianted. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 7. 
 
 See SutiAK. 
 
 39. The said Duties (except the necessary Charges of 
 raising, paying, recovering, and accounting *br the same) 
 .shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exche- 
 quer, and be entered separate and apart vrom all other 
 Monies payableto His Majesty, and shall be there re- 
 served to be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying 
 the necessary Expences of defending and securing the 
 British Colonies in America. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 11, 41. 
 
 40. There shall be pail unto His Majesty, His Heirs 
 and Successors, the Duties herein-after mentioned : that 
 is to say, 
 
 For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of f'off'ee 
 of the Growth 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. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 4. 
 
 41. The said Duties shall be deemed Sterling Money 
 ot Great Britain, and received to the Amount of the 
 
 Value 
 
ts. 
 
 mentioned. 
 1. 
 
 ipon Coffee, 
 inierica not 
 shall be ini- 
 lantation in 
 , the Duties 
 
 of such Fo- 
 1 any Place 
 'n Shillings 
 
 in the same 
 ! under such 
 ired by this 
 vith resjiect 
 ties thereby 
 ties, Provi- 
 itained and 
 y Alteration 
 It in Exec i- 
 iswering tne 
 
 Charges of 
 or the same) 
 ity's Exche- 
 m all other 
 be there re- 
 is defraying 
 ecuring the 
 5. § 11, 41. 
 His Heirs 
 tioned : that 
 
 s of f 'off'ee 
 lantation in 
 :)ught from 
 'lantation in 
 
 ling Money 
 
 )unt of the 
 
 Value 
 
 M 
 
 Coffee anti Cocoa i^ats. 
 
 Value which 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 re- 
 covered by such Rules, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as 
 any other Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods 
 nnported into 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 
 hall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary 
 Charges of collecting, recovering, paying, and account- 
 nig for the same) shall be paid into the" Receipt of His 
 Majesty's Excheiiuer, and entered separate and apart 
 from all other Monies paid or payable to His Majesty, 
 and shall be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying 
 the necessary Expences of defending and securing the 
 British Colonies and Plantations in America. 6 Geo. 3 
 c. 52. § 12. 
 
 _ 42. But no Duty shall be paid for i.:iy British Coffee 
 nnported or brought into any British Colony or Planta- 
 tion m Amerioa, if deposited' in Warehouses provided at 
 the sole Expence of the Importer or Proprietor of such 
 Coffee, with the Privity and Approbation and under 
 the Care and Inspection of the Collector and Comp- 
 troller or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the 
 Place where such Coffee shall be imported, and secured 
 under the separate Locks of such Officers and the Pro- 
 prietor, and, within Twelve Calendar Months f.om tlie 
 landing and warehousing the same, shall be shipped 
 d'.recty from thence for Exportation to Great Britain or 
 to Ireland, or some other British Colony or Plantation 
 in America, under the Securities and Restrictions re- 
 quired by Law. 6 Geo. S. c. 52. § 15. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 43. No Duty shall be paid for any Foreign Coffl-e 
 imported or brought into any British Colony or Planta- 
 tion on the Continent of America, if deposited in Ware- 
 houses provided at the sole Expence of the Importer or 
 Proprietor of such Coffee, with the Privity and Appro- 
 bation and under the Care and Insi^ection of the Col- 
 lector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the 
 Customs at the Place where such Coffee shall be im- 
 ported, and shall also be secured under the separate 
 Locks^ot such Officers and Proprietor, and within Twelve 
 '^«iciiuar ivioniiis irom the landing and warehousiiiji the 
 same, shall be shipped for Exportation as herein-atlev is 
 
 CAprcs^ed ; 
 
 61 
 
 British Coffee 
 warehoustd for 
 Exportation to 
 Cireat Britain, 
 Ireland, or some 
 other British 
 Col(/ny, no Duty 
 to he cliareed. 
 
 Foreign CofFec: 
 may be ware- 
 housed on Im- 
 portation into 
 C'lloiiits Oil tlie 
 Ciintinent of 
 Amsrici, mj 
 
 on r.XpOITdlK))! 
 
 thereof Baa J ij 
 
 he jivi'u. 
 
r 
 
 62 
 
 i .Mjin 
 i 
 
 If Duties not 
 paid or the 
 Goods exported, 
 they may he sold 
 by the Officers. 
 
 Cocoi cf Foreign 
 Colonies may be 
 imported into the 
 Free Ports in 
 Foreign VeHeb. 
 
 Coffee anti Cocoa jl?utflf^ 
 
 expressed ; that is to say, before such Foreign Coffee 
 shall be taken out of such Warehouse for Exportation, 
 the Exporter shall become bound with sufficient Security, 
 in the Penalty of ^5 for every Hundred Weight of 
 such Coffee, that the same shall be exported according 
 to the Entry, and not relanded in any Part of the British 
 Dominions in America; which Bond the Collector and 
 Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at 
 the Port from whence such Foreign Coffee shall be in- 
 tended 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 
 Majesty where Custom-house Officers arc or may be 
 established, shall be with further Condition to return a 
 Certificate, within Eighteen Calendar Months from the 
 Date of iiuch Bond, from the Collector and Comptroller 
 or other Principal Officer of the Customs at such Place, 
 that such Coffee has been there landed accordingly ; 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 for Two Years from the Date theieof ; and in 
 case no Fraud shall appear within that Time, it shall be 
 lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs 
 in England, or any Four or more of them, to direct the 
 said Bond to be cancelled and delivered up. 6 Geo. 3. 
 c. 52. § 16. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 44. If the Importer or Proprietor of any such Foreign 
 Coffee warehoused as atbresaid shall not pay the Duties 
 nor export the Goods within Twelve Calendar Months, 
 the Collector and Comptroller or other l'rinci})al Officer 
 of the Customs may cause the same to be publicly sold, 
 and the Money arising by such Sale shall be in the first 
 place applied in Disciiarge of tiie Duties and Charges 
 attending the Sale, and the Sur{)liis (if any) after Payment 
 of the said Duties and Charges, shall be paid to the Im- 
 porter or Proprietor, or to such other Person as shall be 
 duly authorized to receive the same. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 1 7. 
 
 45 Cocoa, the Protluction of any of the Colonies in 
 America, or of any Cojuitry on the Continent of America, 
 belonging to or un<Ier the Dominion of any Foreign 
 European Sovereign or State, may be imported from any 
 of the buiu Colonics or Countrifs iriio trie Free Ports, in 
 any Foreign, Vessel owned and navigated by Persons in- 
 habiting 
 
 •"^ 
 
# 
 
 tff. 
 
 ireign Coffee 
 Exportation, 
 lent Security, 
 I Weight of 
 id according 
 tf the British 
 oUector and 
 e Customs at 
 
 shall be in- 
 to the Use of 
 pect to such 
 lin, Ireland, 
 lion of His 
 or may be 
 
 to return a 
 Lhs from the 
 Comptroller 
 
 such Place, 
 dingly; and 
 :)rted to any 
 ty, or where 
 lall continue 
 eof; and in 
 e, it shall be 
 ty's Customs 
 to direct the 
 6 Geo. 3. 
 
 uch Foreign 
 y the Duties 
 Jar Months, 
 ^ipal Officer 
 ublicly sold, 
 3 in the first 
 ind Charges 
 ler Payment 
 I to the Im- 
 as shall be 
 3. c. 52. §17. 
 Colonies in 
 of America, 
 ny Foreign 
 id from any 
 ree Ports, in 
 Persons in- 
 habiting 
 
 '-£: 
 
 Coffee of Foreign 
 Colonies maybe 
 impoued in 
 Foreign Vessels 
 into Ports to be 
 approved by His 
 Majesty,<>nd ex- 
 ported without 
 Payment of 
 Duty : 
 
 Coffee anD Cocoa jl^uts. 
 
 habiting 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. 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 1. 
 
 See Free Ports, 
 46. Coffee, the Production of any Foreign Colony 
 or Plantation, may be imported into Nassau in New Pro- 
 vidence, Pitt's Town in Crooked Island, or into such 
 Ports in the Bahama Islands, or into the principal Port 
 of Bermuda, or into such Ports in the Caicos as have been 
 or m ly hereafter be approved bv His Majesty, in such 
 Foreign Vessels, and subject to such Rules, Regulations, 
 and Restrictions, as are prescribed in this Act with respect 
 to the Goods herein enumerated; and such Coffee may 
 be so nnported and again exported without Payment of 
 any Duty of Customs. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 4, 5. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 47. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Coun- 
 cil, may permit the Importation into Road Harbour in 
 the Island of Tortola, one of the Virgin Islands, and the 
 ^.xportation from tlience into Great Britain, of Foreign 
 Coffee, m the sameManner, and subject to the same Rulis, 
 Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as 
 are provided in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. respecting Importation 
 and Exportation of Coffee from Nassau, and further sub- 
 ject to such Rules, &c. as shall be directed bv His 
 
 Majesty. 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. $ 1. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 48. Any Foreign Vessel described in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57 
 may come in Ballast, or import into any Part of' the 
 Bahama Islands where there is a Custom-house, any 
 Coffee allowed m the said Act to be imported into cer*- 
 tain Ports therein mentioned in Foreign Vessels, and 
 may also export such Coffee conformably with the Re- 
 gulations of the said Act. 52 Ceo. 3. c. 99. § i. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 Cotn. 
 
 .] . Copper Coin, not '>- u- the legal Copper Coin of Counterfe.r, , 
 u.is Kingdom, and counterfeit Gold or Silver Coin '" ^^^ exported 
 made to the Similifude or Resemblanrp «,• Jnfz,^^ "i . ♦rom Great Bri- 
 resernbio on,r rvi,i oi ^^^"^''^"Ja'jcc, oi intended to lair, to the 
 of u ?. fl' 7^ "'' ?'''''' ^°"' «^ this Kingdom, or British Colonic, 
 
 be cxpou.xlor puc on board any Vessel or Boat lor the 
 
 Purpose 
 
 63 
 
 also into ami 
 from Tortola, 
 under the same 
 Rules, &c. and 
 sucii other as 
 His Majesty 
 niav direct; 
 
 and into and 
 from any Part of 
 the Bahama 
 I-ilands where 
 ti.ere is a Cus- 
 tom-ltouse. 
 
 ^m.} 
 
■ r"i ■ • ■ '1 
 
 64 
 
 
 
 Penalty on the 
 Exporters or 
 Persons having 
 such Coin in 
 their Custfxly. 
 
 Importation al- 
 lowed into the 
 Free Ports in 
 Foreign Vessels. 
 
 Coin. 
 
 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 prosecuted 
 and recovered in such Courts, and by the like Mean^, 
 and the Produce thereof disposed of and applied in the 
 like manner, and to Such Uses, as any Forfeiture in- 
 curred by any Law respecting the Revenue may now be 
 prosecuted or recovered, disposed of, and applied in 
 Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Islands in the 
 West Indies. 38 Geo. 3. c. 67. § 1. 
 
 2. 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 who 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. 38 Geo. 3. c. 67. § 2. 
 
 3. All Coin may be imported from any of the Colo- 
 nies 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 Vessel owned aud 
 navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonief> 
 or Plantations or Countries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57.' 4-9 Geo. 3. 
 c. 22. 52 Geo, 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Pouts. 
 
 "■ 
 
 Must be landed 
 
 ' ■ -WM 
 
 in some other 
 
 
 British Planta- 
 
 
 tion, or ill Great 
 
 
 Britain or Ire- 
 
 
 J.ind. 
 
 Importation 
 
 *iliov\eu Il'oni 
 Malta o-- 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Copper iDre, 
 
 Of the Production of the British Plantations in Ameri- 
 ca, 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. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. §18, 19. 22 & 
 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 1 1. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 1 3. 8 Ann. 
 c. 13. §23. 8Geo. I.e. 18. 4 Geo. 3. c' 15. § 24. 27. 
 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §6. 20 Geo. 3. c 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 
 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to 
 secure the Landing in the Plantations or in Great 
 Britain or Ireland, (See " Ashes, Pot and Pearl.") 
 
 Coral, 
 
 IV/T--. U - ^-J p. -Mr-li.- -_ C il- _ T-\ 
 
 Axjty De CApuricru trurii inaiuj vr any ui un: ucycn- 
 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct fo any of Hif^ 
 
 Majesty's 
 
 f 
 
in to any of 
 Vest Indies 
 
 prosecuted 
 ike Mean^, 
 alied in the 
 rfeiture in- 
 may now be 
 
 applied in 
 anas in the 
 
 it on board 
 ed, or shall 
 
 board any 
 vly in order 
 
 j£200, and 
 covered by 
 sty's Courts 
 I. §2. 
 )f the Colo- 
 Country on 
 
 under the 
 
 rn or State, 
 
 owned and 
 
 lid Colonief" 
 
 ' 49 Geo. 3. 
 
 s in Ameri- 
 any of the 
 some other 
 to Great 
 19. 22 & 
 13. 8 Ann. 
 5. §24.27. 
 . 3. 39 & 
 
 feitures, to 
 ■ in Great 
 ^earl.") 
 
 tU - T-\ 
 
 any of Hi^ 
 
 Majesty's 
 
 -M 
 
 CoraU 
 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or PJantations in North America, in British- 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. ■'. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 
 See GlBRALTAIt. 
 
 Malta 
 
 65 
 
 Cor ft. 
 
 1. 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 
 
 Bieton, 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 said Colonies or Plantations, or from any Part 
 
 of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods herein- 
 
 alter mentioned, Vom Canada, whether such Goods 
 
 ^hall be the L.^duce of Canada, or shall have been 
 
 brought nito the Province by Land or Inland Navi.ra- 
 
 tion. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. ^S 2. * 
 
 2. Upon the Importation of Cork i.ito anv of the said 
 1 orts, the same shall be subject to the Payment of such 
 Uuties as Goods of the like Denomination are liable to 
 up<m being imported into any of the said Ports from 
 Great Britam. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 3. 
 
 3. The Person exporting any Cargo from any Port in 
 ihe Provmces of Nova Scotia or of New Brunswick, for 
 any Port ot Europe South of Cape Finisterre, shall make 
 Oath at the Port of Shipment before the Chief Officer 
 oi the Customs, or before the Naval Officer in Command 
 at sucli Port, that the Cargo so shipped is the Growth 
 and Procluce of the Province, or the Produce of the 
 iintish Fisheries in North America, really taken and 
 
 siUQ 
 
 Vessels from 
 British Colonies 
 in North Atne- 
 rica, arriving with 
 the Produce 
 tliereof at Places 
 ill Europe South 
 of Cc ie Finis- 
 terre, may im- 
 port from thence 
 Cork the I'ro- 
 duce of Europe. 
 
 What Dvities 
 liable to. 
 
 »"ured bv Hie Mn;ocf,A, cu:,^.... „^.,.._-', ' i 
 
 ,.. , . -• --" ••-■'j^^V - >^uHjecL3 carrying on tne saiu 
 
 ishenes from some of the Colonies or Plantations; and 
 
 F 
 
 •jiich 
 
 On Exportation 
 from Nova 
 Scotia or New 
 Brunswick, Oath 
 to be made that 
 the Cargo is the 
 Produ;.c of the 
 Province, 01 of 
 the British 
 fisheries; and 
 Certificate 
 thereof to be 
 prod lit till. 
 
66 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be exported 
 from Canada 
 without such 
 Oath, on pro- 
 ducing the Cer- 
 titicate of the 
 regular Tmporta- 
 tion by Land or 
 Inland Navi- 
 gntion. 
 
 Oath to be made, 
 before shipping 
 Pickled or Dry 
 FishfiomCanaiia, 
 that it is the 
 Produce of the 
 British Fisheries. 
 
 Corft* 
 
 such Oificer 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 afore- 
 said, 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. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 4. 
 
 4. The Exporter of Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, 
 Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, White Oak Staves, and 
 Heading, diessed 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 Cpnada 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 Naval 
 Officer is required to grant, upon satisfactory Proof being 
 made upon Oath or othei'wise ; and the Authenticity of 
 such CertiPcate shall be swoi'n to, in manner aforesaid, 
 by the Master of such Ship, at the Port of Delivery in 
 Europe within the aforesaid Limits. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 5. 
 
 5. Before shipping any Pickled Fish or Dry Fish for 
 Exportation from Canada to any Port of Europe within 
 the Limits aforesaid, the Person in whose Possession the 
 same continued from tlie Time of its being landed from 
 the Fishing V^esscl employed in the taking it, until ship- 
 ped 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 British Colonies; and on such Oath 
 
 tiitr ~ ' " 
 
 
 f I flWJ ^*^v 
 
 ix: y^i.zat.\jis 
 
 4- C^i^y^l^r^r* 4-Urx 
 
 Naval Officer shall grant Certificate thereof signed with 
 
 lO 
 
 his 
 
 
Hand ; and 
 ister of the 
 shipped, on 
 amits afore- 
 or to which 
 Uargo ; and 
 before the 
 hall be no 
 1 Merchants 
 :ed was the 
 aval Officer 
 ;d by him. 
 
 Jeans, Oats, 
 Staves, and 
 Planks, and 
 make Oath 
 9,nada ; and 
 iny Port of 
 be required 
 icer of the 
 at Quebec, 
 
 or brought 
 
 established 
 1 or Inland 
 ereon, and 
 ns or Naval 
 Proof being 
 henticity of 
 I' aforesaid, 
 Delivery in 
 3. C.97. §5. 
 >ry Fish for 
 rope within 
 ssession the 
 landed from 
 
 until ship- 
 e the Chief 
 i Command 
 the British 
 1 and cured 
 id Fisheries 
 
 such Oath 
 or 
 
 .•l^ot.\jllir^ 
 
 signed with 
 ^ his 
 
 Corft. 
 
 his Hand, which Certificate only the Master of the Vessel 
 shall be required to produce at the Port of Delivery in 
 Europe within the Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath 
 of the Authenticity of such Certificate in manner afore- 
 said. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. §6. 
 
 6. Any Ship or Goods subject 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 ot His Majesty's Vessels of War, and shall be prose- 
 cuted ana the Produce divided in the same manner, and 
 by the same Regulations, as any other Forfeiture imposed 
 by any Act made for the Security of the Revenue, or the 
 Regulation or Improvement thereof, or for the Reraila- 
 tion of Trade or Navigation, before the passing ot^this 
 Act, m any British Colony or Plantation in America. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 7. 
 
 7. May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, diret-t to any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in Ainerica, or 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 bhips, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Corn ann (Brain. 
 
 1. Flour, Peas, Beans, Wheat, Oats, Barley, or 
 Gram ot any sort, of the Growth of any of the Territories 
 oi the United States, may be imported from the said 
 lerritories into His Majesty's West India Islands (in 
 which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda 
 or Somer. 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 Ships owned and navigated 
 according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the 
 Vessel 28Geo.3 c.6.§l,2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1 
 «owt^^"*^ ■ s^'d Articles, being the Growth of the 
 sau lerritories, maybe imported from thence into Saint 
 
 FnlP V ^,T'^"' '" ^^'^ ^^^^»d "f Bermuda, in any 
 &;:T;1?1.^^1°"«^"«,^«.-3' Country in Amity witf 
 u;l Tu""^' T*^' TT '''■^F^"«« "^>ni tiiu saui Forts to any of 
 Hi!. Majesty s Islands or Dominions in the West Indies in 
 
 P 2 British- 
 
 67 
 
 By whom Ships 
 and Goods may 
 be seized and 
 prosetuted. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 May be imported 
 from United 
 States into West 
 Jndia Islands and 
 Colonies in 
 Guiana in British 
 Vessels J 
 
 and into Ber- 
 muda in Foreign 
 Vessels. 
 
68 
 
 Not to be im- 
 ported from 
 Colonies under 
 Foreign Eu- 
 io|)ean Sove- 
 reigns, 
 
 Corn mh (Brain* 
 
 except in case of 
 Distress, for the 
 J^upply of the 
 Inhabrtaiit:.. 
 
 So imported for 
 
 the Supply of 
 the Iiihal/itants 
 not to be ex- 
 ported, .ind Oath 
 to be taken 
 before ;;hip|iiiii; 
 Articles of the 
 like Denomi- 
 nation. 
 
 Bi'itish-built Vessels owned and navijrated according to 
 Law 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 2, 3. 53 Geo. 3. c 50. § 1. 
 
 3- No Flour, Peas, Beans, Wheat, Oats, Btir'cy, or 
 Grain, shall be imported into His M.^jesty'8 West India 
 Islands, including; 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 For(>i{rn European Sovereign or 
 State, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Vessel. 28 Geo. S. 
 c 6. § 10. 31 Geo. 3. C.38. § 1. 56 Geo. 3 c. 91. § 1. 
 
 4*. In case of public Emergency or Distress, it shall be 
 lawful for the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or 
 Comniaiulers in Chief of any of the said Islands in the 
 West Indies under the Dominion of His Majesty, or 
 for the Governors &c. of the said Colonies of Deinorara, 
 Berbice, or Es.^equibo, with the Advice and Consent of 
 their respecfive Councils, to authorize the Im[iortation 
 of the said Articles, tor a limited Time, from any Island 
 in the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Con- 
 tinent of South America, belonging to any Foreign 
 European Sovereign or State, ft)r 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 ui British-built Vessels owned and 
 navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of 
 the Vessel. 2S Geo. 3. c. 6. § 11. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 2. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1 
 
 5- None of the said Articles which shall have 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 Colonies of 
 Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of 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 exported, on 
 Forfeiture thereof, and also of the Vessel or Boat in 
 which laden ; and before shippijig of any Article of the 
 like Denomination that may lawfully be exported from 
 any suci* 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 an\ 
 Island in the West Indies, or Cokmy cm Ae Continent 
 of South America, under the Domm^m of any Foreign 
 
 European 
 
 __cfei_ 
 
ording to 
 50. § 1. 
 itii-'cy, or 
 /est India 
 ir Somers 
 erbice, or 
 or Colony 
 ica, under 
 ereign or 
 28 Geo. S. 
 :.91. §1. 
 it shall be 
 mors, or 
 ds in the 
 ajesty, or 
 3eniorara, 
 !onseiit ol' 
 iportation 
 ny Island 
 I the Con- 
 ^^ Foreign 
 ily of the 
 provided 
 except by 
 wned and 
 sol' and of 
 C.38. §2. 
 
 have been 
 Dr Colony 
 le Domi- 
 itate, into 
 !olonies of 
 iply of the 
 lid 1 slands 
 • Boat or 
 orted, on 
 
 Boat in 
 cle of the 
 rted fronn 
 lall make 
 
 not been 
 from an\ 
 Lontinent 
 y Foreign 
 Earope«ui 
 
 ^5 
 
 Corn and (Brain. 
 
 European Sovereign or State. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. § 1,2. 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 3, 4. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 6. Any Person convicted of taking n false Oalii touch- 
 ing iiiiy of the Facts requiretl to be testified on Oath, 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 
 Record in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Courts 
 of Judicature in the West Indies. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. § 3. 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 5. 
 
 7. Grain of all Sorts or Flour may be iropurted from 
 any Colonies or Plantations in America, belonging to or 
 under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign 
 or State, into the Free Ports in tlie West Indies, in any 
 Foreign Vessel manned and navigated by Persons inha- 
 biting any of the said Colonies or Plantations belonging 
 to any Foreign Sovereign or State, under the like Autho- 
 rity, Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and For- 
 feitures provided in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. Vt^ith respect to 
 Articles therein enumerated. 45 Geo. 3. c.57. 48 Geo. 3. 
 c. 125. §2. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 5'2 Geo. 3. c. 44. 57 
 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 8. During the Continuance of the Treaty with Portu- 
 gal, any Person may import into any of the said West 
 India Islands, including tiie Bahama and Bermuda or 
 Somers Islands, or Colonies ofDejnerara, Berbice, or 
 Essecjuibo, any Flour, Peas, Beans, Wheat, Oats, 
 Barley, or Grain of any Sort, such Articles being tlie 
 Growth or Production of .some of tl'.e Territories or 
 Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South 
 America, and imported direct from the i-aid Territories 
 or Dominions in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, 
 and registered according to Law. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 5. 
 36 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 9. Grain, Peas, Beans, and Flour may be imported 
 into any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the 
 West Indies, or en the Continent of America, for the 
 Supply of the Inhabitants thereof, in British-built Ships, 
 registered and navigated according to Law, from any 
 Colony or Plantation in the W\'st Indies, or on the Con- 
 tment ol America, under the Dominion of any Foreign 
 European Sovereign or State. 58 Geo. 3. c 27. f, 1. 
 
 10. Peas and Beans, the Growth of any of the Colonies 
 or Possessions in the West Indies or on the Continent of 
 
 F 3 America, 
 
 69 
 
 Persons takin|; 
 fals'j Onths. 
 
 Grain and Flour 
 may be imponed 
 ill Foreign Ver- 
 seta into the 
 Tree Ports. 
 
 Of the Portu- 
 guese Settlc- 
 mer may be 
 imported into 
 the West Indies 
 or Colonics ia 
 Guia;;a. 
 
 May be imparted 
 into the XV'est 
 Iniios and Co- 
 lii:;! ", on the 
 CvM'.inciit, for 
 tile Siipiily of 
 '.I:-.' Inhabitants, 
 fro'n Colonies 
 11 n ! r l''nreigu 
 liuTi'i'can 
 .SovtTjigns. 
 PcJa and Beans 
 of C'rlonies undor 
 I'oicign Eu- 
 
70 
 
 lopean Sove- 
 reign.-, may he 
 imported into 
 i.lu- Free Ports 
 in Foreign 
 Vfssels. 
 
 May he imported 
 from the United 
 States for the 
 Supply of In- 
 i)ahitiintsof Nova 
 Scotia, &c. 
 in case of 
 Distress : 
 
 and Flour and 
 Indian Corn for 
 the Supply of 
 the Inhiiliiiants 
 and Fishermen 
 at Newfound- 
 land ; 
 
 und Flour, &c. 
 for the Purpose 
 i.'f being re-ex- 
 
 Corn anU (Brain. 
 
 Anicika, hclongiiijr to en under the Doiniaion of any 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported 
 into any of the Ports in His Majesty's Colonies or Plan- 
 tations in the "West Indies enumerated in 45 Geo. 3. c.57. 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c 99. and 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. in Vessels of the like Description, and 
 subject to the like Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions 
 as are required by the aforeb,:iid Acts, permitting certain 
 Articles to be imported into the Ports enumerated therein 
 in \Vssels of the like Description, and subject to the like 
 Rules, &c. as are required by 50 Geo. 3. c. 2 1 . * — 58 Geo 3, 
 c. 27. § 2. 
 
 11. In case of public Emergency or Distress, it shall 
 be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or 
 Commander in Chief of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, 
 Ca})e Breton, or Saint John's, with the Advice and Con- 
 sent of their respective Councils, to authorize the Im- 
 portation of Flour, Peas, Beans, Wheat, Oats, Barley, 
 or Grain of any Son, for a limiteil Time, from any of 
 the Territories belonging to the saitl United States, for 
 the Sap|)]y of the InhalMlunts of the s.iid Provinces and 
 Islands; but such Corn, ivic. shall not be so imported, 
 except l)y British Subjccls, and in British built Ships 
 owned tind navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture 
 thereof and of the Ship. 2S Geo. 3. c. 6. §13. 
 
 12. His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued 
 and published, or by Warrant under His Sign Manual, 
 may empower the Governor of Newfoundland to autho- 
 rize, in case of Necessity, the Importation of Flour and 
 Indian Corn from any of the Territories of the United 
 States of Ainerica, for the Supply of the Inhabitants and 
 Fishermen for the then ensuing Season; provided that 
 such Flour and Indian Corn shall not be so imported 
 except in conformity to such Rules, Regulations, and 
 Restrictions as shall be specified in such Order or War- 
 rant, and except by British Subjects, in British-built 
 Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 feiture thereof :n.ti of :he Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 13. 
 
 13. Any ol the Governors, Lieut(.aant Governors, or 
 Coujuiantlers in Chief for the Time being of Nova Scotia 
 
 *^ litis Act (which was made perpetual hy .54 Geo. 3. c. 48.) 
 permitted the Importation and Exportation of the Articles under 
 the Rules and Regulations of 4o Geo. 3. c. 57. in any Foreign 
 f'essel, although havins more than One Deck. 
 
 Oi- 
 
Corn anD <0ratn. 
 
 n 
 
 n\ of any 
 imported 
 i or Plan- 
 O.3. C.57. 
 :. 99. and 
 )tion, and 
 estrictions 
 (ig certain 
 ed therein 
 :o the like 
 -58 Geo 3, 
 
 B, it shall 
 ernor, or 
 runswick, 
 and Con- 
 the Im- 
 s, Barley, 
 111 any ot" 
 itates, tor 
 inces and 
 irnpoited, 
 lilt Ships 
 :'\)rfeiturc 
 
 be issued 
 Manual, 
 to autho- 
 Hour and 
 e United 
 tants and 
 ided that 
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 ons, and 
 or VVar- 
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 mors, or 
 va Scotia 
 
 3. c. 48.) 
 cles under 
 y Foreign 
 
 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. 3. c. 6. (viz. Flour, &c. See No. 1.) for a 
 limited Time, from any of the Territories of the United 
 StatCB of America, for the Purpose of being re exported 
 to any other of His Majesty';, Colonies or Plantations. 
 4S Geo. 3. c. 125. § 1. 
 
 1 4. Any British Vessel owned and navigated accord- 
 ing to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Subjects of 
 any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Majesty, may 
 import into such Ports as shall be specially appointed 
 within the Province of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, 
 the following Articles; videlicet, Flour, Peas, Beans, 
 Wheat, Oats, Barley, or Grain of any Sort ; provided 
 that none of the said Articles shall be 1 iported in Foreign 
 Vessels, unless of the Growth or Produce of the Country 
 to which the Vessel importing the same sb.nil belong ; 
 and any of the «aid Articles may be re-exported, either to 
 the United Kingdom, or any other of His Majesty's Pos- 
 sessions, in any British-built Vessel owned and navigated 
 according to Law. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § J, 2, 3. 
 
 15. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, 
 may make such Rules and Regulations for the Import- 
 ation and Exportation of the said Articles at the said 
 Ports, with such Penalties and Forfeitures for the Breach 
 thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, 
 by and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 16. This Act shall continue in force for the Space of 
 Three Years from and after the passing of the same,* 
 and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the 
 then next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 17. 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 Quebec as into all the Countries bordering 
 OH 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 be- 
 longing to the United States, for the Supply of the Per- 
 sons employed in or carrying on the Fisheries ; provided 
 that such Flour and Indian Corn shall not be so imported 
 except in conlbrmity to such Rules, Regulations, and 
 
 ported from 
 Nova Scotia, 
 he. to 6th<;r 
 
 Colonies. 
 
 May be imported 
 either in Oritisli 
 or Foreign Ve - 
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 approved of in 
 flic Province of 
 Nova Scotia or 
 New Brunswick, 
 and re-exported 
 to the United 
 Kingdom or 
 other of His 
 Majesty's 
 Possessions, 
 
 under svich Re- 
 giklatiimb as Hi* 
 Majesty may 
 think fit. 
 
 Limitation of 
 the Act. 
 
 Flour nnd Indian 
 Corn may be 
 imported ftj 
 British Ships 
 from I he United 
 Slates into 
 Quebec and 
 Labrador for 
 the Use of Per- 
 sons carrying 
 on the Fishery, 
 in case of Ne- 
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 TO t1 V^P\ ^OGeo. 3. C.8. §1. 
 
 Ships o Vessel of Wr!? 'r''''' '^""^ "^"^^'"^ ^^i^^ty'. 
 rant, or Pettv Offi-- ^f ^^ ^"J Commis^oned, War- 
 by an"6&1'S;f'^'^">;r'^^-^-d by than, or 
 
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 9n Ti ivr ^^* ■S6Geo.3. c. 91. 
 
 Meal' or F^lTorr^'^P' '"'^"'e »" '"'•■"■'> C"™. 
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 taui oi Upland, make Oath before the Collec- 
 tor 
 
 
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 ler, and ex- 
 Ships owned 
 ture thereof 
 
 )istress, the 
 lor or Corn- 
 sent of the 
 [mportation 
 e Countries 
 or up the 
 as. Beans, 
 > ov FJour 
 3ftheTer- 
 nerica, for 
 vince, and 
 overnment 
 imported 
 il^s, owned 
 re thereof 
 
 these Acts 
 Majesty'g 
 
 led, War- 
 thein, or 
 
 ?8 Geo. 3. 
 
 !0 Geo. 3. 
 
 trd Corn, 
 ish Colo- 
 rtation to 
 a Certifi- 
 ers of the 
 or Flour 
 and Sort 
 r Bills of 
 Export- 
 her Per- 
 )r Flour 
 Produc- 
 Planta- 
 ?re and 
 Person 
 le Ship 
 rival in 
 Collec- 
 tor 
 
 Corn anU &xain. 
 
 tor or Comptroller, or other Chief Officer of the Cus- 
 toms at the Port where such Ship shall arrive (who are 
 hereby authorized to administer the said Oath), that the 
 Corn, Meal, or Flour imported or brought in such Ship 
 is the same which is mentioned and contained in the said 
 Certificate or Certificates; on Failure whereof, such Corn, 
 Meal, or Flour shall be deemed and taken not to be of 
 the Growth or Production of the Province of Quebec, 
 or the other British Colonies or Plantations in North 
 America, but shall be considered within the Meaning 
 of this Act, as Corn, Meal, or Flour imported or 
 brought into Great Britain from some other Foreign 
 Country. 31 Geo. 3. c. 30. §17. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 G. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 21. The several Articles hereafter mentioned may be 
 exported from Canada in a British-built Ship, owned, na- 
 vigated, and registered according to Law, to any Port of 
 Europe South of Cape Finisterre, without any Oath being 
 required of their being the Growth or Produce of the 
 ^ak\ Province, or any Certificate being required of the 
 Country from whence they came; that is say. Wheat, 
 Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian Corn, 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 Officer of the 
 Customs, or the Naval Officer in Command at Quebec, 
 that the said Articles were either the Growth of or brouo-ht 
 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 grant upon satisfactory Proof being made 
 upon Oath or otherwise, and the Authenticity of such 
 Certificate shall be sworn to by the Master of such Vessel 
 atthePortofDelivery in Europe. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. §5. 
 22. 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 
 oi Europe Southward of Cape Finisterre, may load at 
 the Port of Delivery, or at any Place on the Coast of 
 Ainca to the Northward of the Latitude of 30 Degrees 
 North, any Sort of Corn or Grain, the Produce of 
 Lurope, for Exportation direct to the said Sugar Colo- 
 nies, and there land the same. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98? U. 
 5ee Europe. 
 
 23. Any 
 
 73 
 
 Such Oath net 
 to be required 
 on Exportation 
 from Canada to 
 Places South of . 
 Qipe Finisterre, 
 but a Certificate 
 must be produced 
 of the Importa- 
 tion by Land or 
 Inland Naviga- 
 tion. 
 
 Of Europe may 
 be laden at cer- 
 tain Parts of 
 Europe or 
 Africa, for Ex- 
 portation to 
 Sugar Colonies. 
 
74 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Must be brought 
 to Great Britain 
 or Ireland, or 
 some British 
 riantation. 
 
 Bond to be given 
 not to land 
 elsfrwhere. 
 
 Certi<tcate to be 
 taken bj thb 
 
 Corn anh (Brain. 
 
 23. Any Corn, Grain, Meal, Flour, Beans or Peas, 
 may be exported from Malta, or any of the DenenI 
 dcncies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 
 Majesty s Sugar Colonies or Plantations, or to New- 
 foumlland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies 
 or Plantations m North America, in British-built Ships 
 owned, navigated, and registered according to Law 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § if 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Cotton mooL 
 
 1 . No Cotton Wool of the Production or Manufacture 
 of the British Plantations in America shall 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, there to be laid on shore! 
 under the Forfeiture of the Goods, or the full Value 
 thereof, and the Ship. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 18. 4 Geo 3 
 c. 15. § 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 3. 39 & 40 Geo.' 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 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 .=^1000 if the Ship be of less Burthen 
 thaii 100 Tons, and of a€2000 if of greater Burthen, 
 conditioned that in case the said Ship shall load any 
 %""""/^"^^' o'* 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 Ireland, and 
 be there unloaded (the Danger of the Seas only ex- 
 cepted); and for every Ship coming from any other Port 
 or 1 lace 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 aforesaid that such Ship shall carry all the said 
 Lroods to some other of His Majesty's British Plant- 
 ations, or to Great Britain or Ireland. 12 Car. 2 
 
 n \^n i W ^^ ^ ^^ ^^"- ^- ^-26. § 11. 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 3. The Master, before he departs from any British 
 Plantation where he receives his Lading, shall take a 
 
 Certificate 
 
ns or Peas, 
 
 the Depeii- 
 
 any of His 
 
 )r to New- 
 t's Colonies 
 ■built Ships 
 ? to Law. 
 
 Cotton aciool. 
 
 [anufacture 
 shipped or 
 any Place, 
 !is Majesty, 
 
 I on shore, 
 full Value 
 
 4 Geo. 3. 
 to Geo. 3. 
 
 iat Britain 
 rica, Bond 
 Officers of 
 Ship shall 
 5s Burthen 
 
 Burthen, 
 
 load any 
 the whole 
 ish Piant- 
 )me other 
 land, and 
 
 only ex- 
 >ther Port . 
 vhich are 
 jefore the 
 } or any 
 er to the 
 
 the said 
 ih Plant- 
 } Car. 2. 
 Geo. 3. 
 
 y British 
 
 II take a 
 efiificatc 
 
 Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector or Masters of Sh,. 
 other l-'rincipal Othcer of the Customs there, that Bond ^^hich lide in the 
 hath been given pursuant to the Directions aforesaid ; Colonies. 
 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 
 Britam or Ireland, or any British American Colony, on 
 Forfeiture of ^100. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 24. 20 Geo 3 
 c. 10. §1.3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 4. If any Ship shall take on board any Cotton Wool, Forfeiture if 
 for other enumerated Article), before Bond is given to shipped tefoie 
 the Governor that the Ship shall carry the said Articles .^''"'' s'^f"« °' 
 to some other British Plantation, or to Great Britain or LTrmJ.:-, 
 Ireland, or before Certificate produced from the Officer 
 of some Custom House of Gre.:t Britain or Ireland that 
 such Bond has been there duly given ; or if any Shin 
 shall, contrary to the Tenor of such Bond, carry any of 
 the enuinerated Article ^ to any Port or Place other than 
 to some Plantation be; onging 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 
 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 19. 22 .i 23 Car. 2. c. 26. S 11 
 
 fie^^Tu. Ill- ^" '- '' ^^^- '• '' ^«- § ^- ^• 
 
 tlwf Kh.'l' *^?r'\f '? ''r T *" P'^^^»^ ''^^ Subjects of but not to ex 
 
 the King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors '«"'! to the F,o- 
 in Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, from exoortina ''r 't^ °^^^"'' 
 iroru the said Colonies to the Netherlands theTod;"! F^f i^' 
 of their Estates on board Dutch Ships; mid no Person °"'^"*' 
 ;vho by virtue of this Act may be eiltitled to trade be- 
 tween the said Colonies mid the Dominions of the Khf. 
 
 Pa t 'o? th n "f ', t'' ^"P"^^ '^' «-d P^«d-e to a y , 
 Pait of the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's ^ 
 Dommions in Europe. 56 Geo. 3. €191. § 4. g'''^''''^' 
 >^6? Guiana. 
 
 6. In Cases where the Governor nr nffl«^«. • 
 of the Plantations ^h..U h "°^^^"°^ or Oftcers in any Governors or 
 
 orine riantations shall have reasonable ground of Sui Officers suspect- 
 picion that the Certificate of having givtn Secur tv h^ ing Certi Jte to 
 Great Britain or Ireland is fiUp t]?^.rlulu '^^^"."^^ *" be false, not to 
 
 ficient Sprnrltv L lu t^.f ' ^^^^ ^hall require suf- cancel Bonds; 
 
 ncent feecuiity for the Discharge of the Plantation -"^ Penalty o., 
 Ltuiing in Great Britain or Ireland; and wlier "Xre f:^^-^ C- 
 
 tcWd'thVl T^"' ^I^^^ the Certificate of hiding """^• 
 mschaiged the Lading m Great Britain or Ireland is 
 false or counterfeit, the Governor or Officer sS not 
 
 cancel 
 
 on 
 
76 
 
 Cotton mool. 
 
 Penalty on 
 Officers sufFerii 
 Goods to be 
 carried to other 
 Places. 
 
 Goveii:ors or 
 their Com- 
 manders in 
 Chief to tr.iiis- 
 ir.it Lisis of 
 Bonds ye.irly to 
 the Customs. 
 
 Condition of the 
 Bor.d, and who 
 are to be the 
 Obligcrs vhen 
 taken in the 
 Plantations. 
 
 cancel the Security given in the Plantation until they 
 shall be informed from the Commissioners of the Cus- 
 toms 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 falsily any Cer- 
 tificate for any Ship or Goods, cr knowingly or wilfully 
 make use thereof, such Person shall forfeit i/;.500, and 
 the Certificate shall be of no Effect. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 c. 22. $ 10. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. $ 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. (I 1.3. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 7. If any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain or 
 s Ireland shall give any Warrant for or 'suffer any 
 
 Cotton Wool, or any enumerated Article, to be carried 
 into any other Country or Place, until first put on shore 
 in some Port of Great Britain or Ireland, every Officer 
 for such Offence shall forfeit his Place and the Value of 
 the Goods. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 9. 4 t-eo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 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 other Per- 
 sons as Plis Majesty shall ajjpoint to receive the same, a 
 List of such Ships as shall have laden any Cotton Wool 
 (or any enumerated Article) in such Plantations, as also a 
 List of all Bonds taken by them; and in case any Ship be- 
 longing to any of His Majesty's Plantations, 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 
 Lading. 22 & 23 Car. 2 ':. 26. §12.4 Geo. 3. c. 1 5. § 27. 
 20 Geo. 3 c.iO. §l.b 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 9. In all Bonds to be taken in the i'lantations, 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 pro- 
 duce a Certificate of having landed and discharged the 
 Gcods therein mentioned in one of His Majesty's Plant- 
 ations, 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 Pro- 
 secutor. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 13. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 
 
 § 27. 
 
 f 
 
 .!• 
 
 
 of 
 
1 until they 
 of the Cus- 
 ise may be, 
 rue; and if 
 ^ any Ger- 
 \f or wilfully 
 i^.'.500, and 
 & 8 W. 3. 
 c.lO, § 1.3. 
 
 t Britain or 
 * sulfcr any 
 
 be carried 
 \xt on shore 
 k-ery Ollicer 
 le Value of 
 c. 15. § 27. 
 . Art. 6. 
 Chief of the 
 'turn to the 
 other Pcr- 
 he same, a 
 )tton Wool 
 IS, as also a 
 ny Ship bc- 
 DV'hich shall 
 [1 be tbund 
 than Great 
 ed and her 
 C.15. §27. 
 )7. Art. 6. 
 utions, the 
 idence and 
 Bond, the 
 IS after the 
 d) to pro- 
 larged the 
 ty's Plant- 
 ^wise such 
 the Hand 
 eftoAvhom 
 iliowed of 
 lantations, 
 Mhe Pro- 
 
 3. c. 15. 
 § 27. 
 
 Cotton amool. 
 
 § 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 5. c. 67. 
 Art. 6. 
 
 10. 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 Dan- 
 ger 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. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. $ 6. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 20 Geo. 3. c, 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 1 1 . 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 .Judg- 
 ment 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. 8 Ann. 
 c. 13. § 23. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 
 12. Any Person may import any Cotton Wool of Fo- 
 reign 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. 6 Geo. 3. 
 c. 52. § 18. 
 
 13. No Duty or other Imposition whatsoever shall be 
 paid in any British Colony or Plantation in America for 
 any Sort of Cotton Wool exported from thence. 
 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 19. 
 
 14. The Growth 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, may be imported 
 from any of the said Countries into the Free Ports in any 
 1 oreign Ship whatsoever, being owned and navigated by 
 Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, 
 or Countries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 1. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 15. Of the Growth of any of the Colonies or Plant- 
 ations m America, or Countries on the Continent of 
 
 America, 
 
 77 
 
 Condition when 
 t.iken in Great 
 Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 Bonds void if 
 not prosecuted 
 witiiin Three 
 Yi-ars of the 
 D ite, or if 
 J ;d^ment not 
 o'ritained witl.in 
 '1'h'o Years after 
 Prosecution. 
 
 Of Fore ign Pro- 
 duce may be 
 imported into 
 West Indies 
 Duty-free. 
 
 Exportation 
 Duty-free. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed into 
 the Free Ports 
 in Foreign 
 Vessels. 
 
 May be exported 
 from the Free 
 
 Ports to the 
 United Kingdom, 
 
7« 
 
 Pitt's Town :i 
 Tree Port. 
 
 Foreign Vessels 
 may be there 
 laden with Salt. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malt* or 
 Giliralf.ir. 
 
 In Actions of 
 Debt, Affidavits 
 made before the 
 Magistrates in 
 Great Britain to 
 be of the same 
 Force as if the 
 Party had ap- 
 peared and 
 
 Cotton mool 
 
 America, belonging to or under tlio Dominion of any Fo- 
 reign Eu.opean Sovereign or State, impo.ted into the 
 tree Ports, may he exported Iron, the said l^orts to any 
 1 art of the United Kingdom, under the Rules, &c. of 
 12 Car. 2. c. 18—22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26., and 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. with respect to Goods therein enumerated. 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 11. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 CroofteD3l0ianD. 
 
 r V V^^ ^T ""^ ^^"'' '^°^" ^« Crooked Island, one 
 ot the 1-ree Ports for the Importation and Exportation of 
 certain Articles in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 8. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 2. Until 25th March 1819, any Ship belonging to 
 the United States coming in BaUast, and not otherwise, 
 may enter the Port of Crooked Island for the Purpose of 
 being there laden with Salt, and for no other Purppse 
 whatever, subject to the Rules, Provisions, Regulations, 
 and Restrictions of 28 Geo. 3. c.6. respecting Vessels 
 coming for the same Purpose to Turk's Island. 57 Geo. 3 
 C.42. $ 1. 
 
 See Bahama Islands. 
 
 €ummimtti), Currants?, 2Date0, 
 
 May be exported from Malta, or any of die Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or 
 to Isiewfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Cp- 
 lomes or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered accordingto Law. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta, 
 
 a?ebt«. 
 
 1. In any Action or Suit brought in any Court of Law 
 1- Equity in any of the British Plantations in America, 
 relating to any Debt or Account wherein any Person re- 
 siding in Great Britain shall be a Party, the Plaintiff or 
 Defendant, and any Witness to be examined in such 
 I 1^^ j^'' ^"^*' ^^^ verify or prove any Matter or Thing 
 by Affidavit m Writing upon Oath, or ui case the Person 
 
 or 
 
 makinir -^^S 
 
» of any Fo- 
 ted into the 
 l^orts to any 
 ules, &c. of 
 i 20 Geo. 3. 
 jnumerated. 
 
 Island, one 
 Dortation of 
 c. 57. 
 
 ?longing to 
 t otherwise, 
 
 Purpose of 
 er PurpQse 
 regulations, 
 ng Vessels 
 
 57 Geo. 3. 
 
 he Depen- 
 any of His 
 merica, or 
 jesty's Cp- 
 ritish-built 
 ngto Law. 
 
 irt of Law 
 
 America, 
 Person re- 
 'laintifF or 
 1 in such 
 
 or Thing 
 he Person 
 
 KnEViII*' " ■■-■ 
 
 making mvh Affidavit he one of the People called 
 Quakers, then upon his solemn Affirmation, made before 
 any Mayor or other Chief Magistrate of the City, Borough, 
 or Town Corporate in Great Briti^n where or near to 
 which the Person shall reside, to be certified and trans- 
 mitted undsr 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 so- 
 lemn Affirmation every such Mayor and Chief Magis- 
 trate is empowered to administer ; and eveiy Affidavit 
 or Affirmation so made, certified, and transmitted, shall 
 be allowed to be of the same Force and Effect as if the 
 Person making the same upon Oath or solann Affirma- 
 tion had appeared and sworn or affirmed the Matters 
 contamed in such Affidavit or Affirmation viva voce in 
 open Court, or upon a Commission issued for the Exa- 
 mmation of Witnesses, or of any Party in any such Action 
 or Suit respectively ; provided that in every such Affidavit 
 »"" Affirmation there shall be expressed the Addition of 
 the Party making such Affidavit or Affirmation, and the 
 particular Place of his or her Abode. 5 Geo. 2. c. 7. f 1. 
 
 2. In all Suits brought in any Court of Law or Equity, 
 i^y or on behalf of His Majesty, in any of the said Planta- 
 ttons, for or relating to any Debt or Account, His Ma- 
 &^^-^^ P^'«vc I^'s Debt and Account, and examine 
 His Witnesses by Affidavit or Affirmation, in like manner 
 as any Subject may do by this Act. 5 Geo. 2. c. 7. § 2. 
 
 3. If any I'erson makii,^ 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 Examination in the usual Form, would have 
 amounted to wilful and corrupt Perjury, every Person, 
 being thereof lawf\illy convicted, shall incur the same 
 Penalties and Forfeitures as by the Laws and Statutes of 
 this Kealm are provided against Persons convicted of wil- 
 ful and corrupt Perjury. 5 Geo. 2. c. 7. § 3. 
 
 4. The Houses, Lands, Negroes, and other Heredita- 
 ments, and Real Estates, within any of the said Planta- 
 tions, belonging to any Person indebted, shall be charae- 
 able with all just Debts, Duties, and Demands owing by 
 any such Person to His Majesty or any of His Subjects, 
 and shall be Assets for the Satisfaction thereof, in like 
 manner as Real Estates are by the Law of England liable 
 to the Satisfaction of Debts due by Bond or other Spe- 
 "alty, and shall be subject to the like Remedies and 
 
 Process 
 
 7^ 
 
 sworn to the 
 Matters viva 
 voce in Court. 
 
 Witnesses may 
 be examined in 
 like manner on 
 behalf of His 
 Majesty. 
 
 Persons taking 
 false Oaths. 
 
 Property in the 
 Plantations may 
 be seized 
 towards satisfy- 
 ing Debts and 
 Duties due to 
 His Majesty. 
 
80 
 
 Wtbte. 
 
 ProcoBs in nny Court of Law or Equity in any of the said 
 Plantations, for seizing, extending, selling, or disposing 
 of any such Houses, Lands, Negroes, and other Heredita- 
 ments and Real Estates, towards the Satisfaction of such 
 Debts, Duties, and Demands, and in like manner, as Per- 
 sonal Estates in any of the said Plantations respectively 
 are seized, extended, sold, or disposed of for the Satis- 
 faction of Debts. 5 Geo. 2. c. 7. § 4. 
 
 JDemerara^ See » Guiana." 
 
 Importation al- 
 lowed into the 
 Free Port< in 
 Foreign Ve sieb 
 
 aDiamoni)0, 
 
 May be imported from any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions 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 Ship owned and navigated by Persons in- 
 habiting any of the said Colonics, Plantations, or Coun- 
 tries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 47 Geo. 3. c. 34. 49 Geo. 3. 
 c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 A Free Port. 
 
 Governor's 
 Orders for the 
 Importation and 
 £x)iorcation of 
 Articles in 
 Foreign Vessels 
 declared valid. 
 
 SPominica. 
 
 1. The Port of Rosseau in Dominica, one of the Free 
 Ports for the Importation and Exportation of certain 
 Articles in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57w 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 2. Whereas His Majesty's Governor of tlie Island of 
 Dominica has found himself under the Necessity of open- 
 ing, with the Advice of his Council, the Ports of the 
 said Island, for a limited Time, for the Importation of 
 certain Articles necessary for tlieir Supply in Foreign 
 Bottoms, and in like Manner for the Exportation of 
 certain Articles the Produce of the said Island in return 
 for the same : And whereas such Importation and Ex- 
 portation as aforesaid are contrary to 12 Car. 2. and 
 other Acts, but being permitted from the Necessity of the 
 Occasion, the same ought to be justified and rendered 
 valid and of due Force in Law ; and all Persons advising 
 or issuing any Order or Permission of the said Governor, 
 
 or Person acting as such, ought to be respectively justi- 
 
 £ J . 
 
"'m 
 
 aoomim'ea* 
 
 i^i 
 
 of the said 
 disposing 
 Heredita- 
 jn of such 
 er, as Per- 
 espectively 
 the Satis- 
 
 »> 
 
 I. 
 
 or Planta- 
 Continent 
 Ion of any 
 ''ree Ports, 
 ersons in- 
 or Coun- 
 1<9 Geo. 3. 
 
 ' the Free 
 of certain 
 
 Island of 
 J of open- 
 *ts of the 
 trtation of 
 I Foreign 
 rtation of 
 in return 
 and Ex- 
 r. 2. and 
 ity of the 
 rendered 
 5 advising 
 jfovernor, 
 vely justi- 
 fied: 
 
 fied ; be it therefore enacted, That the sai<l Orders and 
 
 Permissions be and he deeuiL-J valid accordingly, and of 
 
 «iue Force in Law; and that all personal Actions and 
 
 Nuits, Indictments, Informations, and all Prosecutions 
 
 juut Pjococdings whatsoever, which have been or shall 
 
 be hereafter prosecuted or commenced against any Per, 
 
 son /i)r having advised or issued or carried into Execution 
 
 any such Order or Permission at any Time before the 
 
 passing of this Act, shall be discharged and made void by 
 
 virtue ot this Act; and if any Action or Suit shall be 
 
 prosecuted or commenced against any Person for or by 
 
 reason of any such Act, Matter, or Thing so advised, 
 
 commanded, or done, he may plead the General Issue, 
 
 and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence ; 
 
 and it the Plaintiff in any Action or Suit so to be prol 
 
 secuted or commenced in that Part of the United Kinij- 
 
 (lom called England, or that Part called Ireland, or in 
 
 the said West India Islands, shall become nonsuit, orlbr- 
 
 bear further Prosecution, or suffer Discontinuance, or if 
 
 a \erciict shall pass against such Plaintiff, the Defendant 
 
 shall recover his Double Costs, for which he shall have 
 
 the like Remedy as in C:ases where the Costs by Law are 
 
 given to the Defendants; and if any such Action or Suit 
 
 sliall be commenced or jjiosecuted in that Part of Great 
 
 Bntaui called Scotland, the Court before which such 
 
 Action or Suit shall be commenced or prosecuted shall 
 
 allow to the Defender the Benefit of the Discharge and 
 
 Indemnity thereby provided, and shall further allow him 
 
 his Double Costs of Suit in all such Cases. 58 Geo 3 
 
 c. 7. § 1. 
 
 3. If any Action or Suit hath been already commenced -^''^ '<" any Ac- 
 against any Person for any such Act, Matter, or Thinrr ';'""^ ''^'''o^ght, 
 so ivdvised, commanded, or done, the Defendants or De- LXtd.""""' 
 fenders in such Actions or Suit respectively, in whatever 
 Court m the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
 Ireland, or in the said West India Islands, such Action 
 or Suit shall have been commenced, may apply to such 
 Court to stay all Proceedings thereon respectively, by 
 Motion in a summary Way, and such Court is hereby 
 required to make Order for that Purpose accordingly • 
 and the Court making such Order shall award to the De- 
 tendants or Defenders respectively Double Costs of Suit, 
 lor which they shall respectively have the like Remedy as 
 in Cases where the Costs are by Law given to the Defen- 
 dants or Defenders. 58 Geo. 3. c. 7. § 2. 
 
 G 
 
82 
 
 Importation al- 
 owed intu the 
 Free I'ortii in 
 Foreign Vessels. 
 
 Imported '.nio 
 the Free Port-, 
 may bu ex|iorttHl 
 to the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 1 . The Growtli or Protluction of any of the Coluni«i 
 or Plantations in America, or of any Country on the Con- 
 tinejit of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of 
 any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be im- 
 ported from any of the said Countries uito the Free Ports, 
 in any Foreign Vessel, being owned and navigated by 
 Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, 
 or Countries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 49 Geo, 3. c. 22. 32 
 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 2. The Growth <»• Production of any of the Coloni<>8 
 or Plantations in America, or Countries on the Continent 
 of America, belonging to or under tlie 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 12 Car. 2. 
 c. 18. 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 26. and 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. 
 with respect to Goods therein enumerated. 45 Geo. 3. 
 c. 57. § 11. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 '^ 
 
 th 
 
 2DUtel) COlOmeS. see » Oniana." 
 
 May be put 
 under the 
 Management of 
 Commissioners 
 residing it- the 
 Colonies. 
 
 To iiave the 
 same Powers as 
 Commissiouc-rs 
 in England. 
 
 1 . The Customs and other Duties imposed by any Act 
 of Parliament upon Goods imported into or exported from 
 any British Colony or Plantation in America, may be put 
 under the Management of such Commissioners, to reside 
 in the said Plantations, as His Majesty, by His Commis- 
 sion under the Great Seal of Great Britp'n, shall judge to 
 be most for the Advantage of Trade, and Security of the 
 Revenue of the said Colonies or Plantations. 7 Geo. 3. 
 c. 41. § 1. 
 
 2. The Commissioners or any Three or more of then« 
 shall have the same Powers and Authorities for carrying 
 into Execution the Laws relating to the Revenues and 
 Trade of the said Colonies, as were exercised by the Com- 
 missioners of the Customs in England ; and His Majesty 
 in such Commission may make Provision for putting in 
 
 10 Execution 
 
he CuloniM 
 m the Con- 
 )umiiiiun of 
 nay be im- 
 Free Ports* 
 ivigated by 
 ;^luntution8, 
 c. 22. 32 
 
 lie Colonios 
 ; Continent 
 lion of any 
 »tl into the 
 any Part of 
 '12 Car. 2. 
 t. 3. c. 10. 
 45 Geo. S. 
 
 'I 
 
 iiiana. 
 
 »> 
 
 by any Act 
 lorted from 
 nay be put 
 5, to reside 
 Is Commis- 
 11 judge to 
 irity of the 
 7 Geo. 3. 
 
 re of then» 
 )r carrying 
 enues and 
 / the Gom- 
 [is Majesty 
 putting in 
 Execution 
 
 2Dtttte». 
 
 Execution the Laws rehiting to the Customs and Trade ol 
 the siiid Colonies. 7 Geo. 3. c. 41. !j 2. 
 
 3. All D«'putiitions and other Authorities gnuited by 
 the Coiimiissioners of the ('ustoins in England beforo the 
 passing of this Act, or which may be granted by them 
 before any Commission shall issue in pursuance of this Act, 
 to any Officer acting in the said Colonies or Plnntutions, 
 shall continue in force, as if this Act had not been n)adts 
 until the Deputations or other Authorities so granted ta 
 such (Xficer shall be revoked or made void by the Lords 
 of the Treasury. 7 Geo. 3. c. 41. § 3. 
 
 4. The King and Parliament of Great Britain shall not 
 impost; any Duty, Tax, or Assessment payable in any of 
 His Majesty's Colonies, Provinces, arul Plantations in 
 North America or the West Indies, except only such 
 Duties as it may be expedient to impose for the Regula- 
 tion of Commerce ; the Net Pr(Kluce to be applie ' to the 
 Useof theGolony, Province, or Plantation where m levied, 
 in such Manner as other Duties collected by Authority of 
 the General Courts or Assemblies are ordinarily applied. 
 18 Geo. 3. c. 12. § 1. 
 
 5. Payable upon Ships con)ing in Ballast from the 
 
 United States of America to the Turks Islands, Nassau, 
 
 Exuma, and Crooked Island, for the Purpose of being 
 
 laden with Salt. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 5. 57 Geo. 3. c. 42. § 1. 
 
 Sec Salt. 
 
 G. Payable upon Dying Wood, Log\vood, Tobacco, 
 Indigo, Ginger, and Cocoa Nuts exported from the British 
 Plantr.tions, if Bond is not given to bring the Siime to 
 Great Britain or Ireland. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. § 2. 
 
 Sec Cocoa Nuts. Tobacco. 
 
 GiNGEii. Wood. 
 
 Indigo. 
 
 ^ 7. Payable upon Molasses imported into any British Molasses, 
 Colony or Plantal ion. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. ^H- 
 See Molasses. 
 
 8. Payable upon Sugar, the Produce or Manulhcture Sugar. 
 ot any Colony or Plantation in America, 5)ot under the 
 Dominion of His Majesty, imported into any British 
 Colony or Plantation. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. <S 1. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. § 1. • 
 
 See SuGAn. 
 
 G2 9, Payable 
 
 8S 
 
 nfpiit;itions 
 ihmiUlcI ill Eng- 
 Jiid to l>u ill 
 force . 
 
 Not to lie im- 
 posed except for 
 the Regulation of 
 Commerce, and 
 to be applrtd for 
 the U«e of the 
 Colony. 
 
 Tonnage Duty 
 on American 
 Ships. 
 
 Dying Wood, 
 Logwood, 
 Tobacco, 
 Ginger, 
 Cocoa Nuts. 
 
84 
 
 Indigo. 
 
 Pimoftto. 
 
 Foreign Coffee. 
 
 Btkinh Coffee. 
 
 Spirits ijito 
 Quebec. 
 
 Spirits into 
 Neufoumlland, 
 
 Wine. 
 
 Glass, Lead, 
 Painters 
 Cviuuia, tttid 
 Pajters. 
 
 SPuttes. 
 
 9. Payable upon Indigo, the Produce or Manufacture 
 of any Colony or Plantation in America, not under the 
 Dominion of Tlis Majesty, imported into any British 
 Colony or Plantation. 4 Geo. 3. c. IS. § 1. 
 
 See Indigo. 
 
 10. Payable upon Pimento, the Production of any 
 British Colony or Plantation, imported into any British 
 Colony or Plantation. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 4. 
 
 See Pimento. 
 
 11. Payable upon Coffee, the Growth of any Colony 
 or Plantation in America not under the Dominion of 
 His Majesty, imported into any British Colony or Plant- 
 atic.i. 4. Geo. 3. c. 15. § 1. 
 
 See Coffee and Cocoa Nuts. 
 
 12. Payable upon Coffee, the Growth of any British 
 Colony or Plantation in America, imported into any other 
 British Colony or Plantation. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 4. 
 
 See Coffee and Cocoa Nuts. 
 
 13. Payable upon Spirits imported into the Province 
 of Quebec, from His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, or any 
 other His Majesty's Dominions in America, or from 
 Great Britain, or Colonies and "Plantations not in the 
 Possession of or under the Dominion of His Majesty. 
 14 Geo. 3. c. 88. §1. 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 14. Payable upon Spirits imported into Newfound- 
 land, from any British Colony or Plantation in the 
 West Indies, or on the Continent of America or from 
 Great Britain or Ireland, or the Colonies of Demerara, 
 Berbice, or Essequibo. 15 Geo. 3. c.31. §10. 52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 106. § 1. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §2. 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 15. Payable upon Wine imported into the British 
 Colonies or Plantations from Great Britain, Ireland, or 
 the Netherlands, or from any Island or Place from 
 whence the same may be lawfully imported. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. § 1. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 1. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 4. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 6. 51 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See Wine. 
 
 i« 
 
 
 
 . . ipon uiass, Red Lead, White Lead, 
 
 Painters Colours, und Paper, imported into any British 
 
 Colony 
 
 i 
 
fanufacture 
 t under the 
 my British 
 
 ion of any 
 any British 
 
 my Colony 
 ominion of 
 y or Plant- 
 
 any British 
 o any other 
 2. §4. 
 
 SDuttefif* 
 
 m 
 
 Prov 
 
 .'ince 
 ies, or any 
 \, or from 
 not in the 
 s Majtssty. 
 
 Colony or Plantation from Gr«»t Britain or Ireland.. 
 7 Geo' 3. c. 46. § 1. 
 
 See Glass. 
 Lead. 
 
 Painters Colours. 
 Paper. 
 
 17. No Duty of Gunpowder shall be received by any Of Gunpowder 
 
 Officer in the Free Ports for any Entry, Cocket, Clear- "^J^'^^j'*^,, 
 
 ancc, or Passport for any Foreign Vessel, or any Goods Foreign Vessels 
 
 imported into or exported from the said Islands in in the Freo 
 
 such Foreign Vessel. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 14. ^'"■"• 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 6merp S)tone, 
 
 May be exported from Malta, or any of the Depen- importation ai- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 'owed from 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or fj']).' '"' ^"^ 
 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §5.9. 51 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 '^ewfound- 
 on in tlie 
 !a or from 
 Demerara, 
 52 Geo. 3. 
 
 ae British 
 reland, or 
 iace from 
 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 91. §4. 
 
 ite Lead, 
 
 :iy British 
 
 Colony 
 
 €nslana ana (Snglisl). 
 
 These Words, in the several Acts made before the Alte.sd by the. 
 Union with Scotland, are, in the Quotations in this Digest, .Vb^",^°." 
 changed into the Words " Great Britain" and " British," 
 by virtue of 5 Anne, c. 8. § 1. 
 
 600erTce0 of Bersamot, Cttron, 
 S^emort, €)range, 3LabenDer, 
 lRoge0, anD iRosemarp, 
 
 May bo exported from Malta, or any of the Depen- Imponation ai. 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His l7?' ^'*"" 
 
 ■» «• • . . ^ , . - •> ivlalta or 
 
 iviajesty s jjugur Colomus or Plantations in America, or Gibraltar. 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or to any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations in North ^mcrica, in British- 
 
 G 3 built 
 
m 
 
 Malta deemed 
 in Europe. 
 
 Ocfflds of 
 Europe must be 
 laden in Great. 
 Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 Vessels not to 
 be cleared imt 
 from Great 
 Britain or Ire- 
 land unless tlie 
 wliolc C'jrgo 
 there laden. 
 
 esetmte of mttsamot, ^c. 
 
 built Ships owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See G IE R ALTAR. 
 
 Malta. 
 €mtqUtbd. See " Guiana.- 
 
 Curope. 
 
 1. The Island of Malta and its Dependencies shall 
 be deemed and taken to be in Europe. 57 (^eo 3 
 
 c. 3(;. ) 10. 
 
 2. No Commodity, of the Production or Manufacture 
 ot Europe, shall be imported into any Island, Colony, 
 1 erritory, or Place to His Majesty belonging, or which 
 .shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His 
 Majesty, m America, but what shall be bona fide and 
 without Fraud laden and shipped in Great Britain or 
 Ireland ni Bntish-built Shipping, owned, navigated, and 
 registered according to Law, and which shall be carried 
 directly thence to the said Islands, Colon' es, Territo- 
 ries, or Places, and from no other Place, under the 
 Penalty of the Loss of such Conunodities as shall be im- 
 ported from any other Place, by Land or Watei", and if 
 by Water, of the Ship in which imported. 15 Car. 2. 
 c. 7. § 6. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 3. No Vessel shall, upon any Pretence whatsoever, be 
 cleared outwards from any Port of (ireat Britain or 
 Ireland, for any Island, Colony, Territory, or Place to 
 His Majesty belonging, or which shall hereafter belong 
 unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty, in America, 
 unless the whole and entire Cargo shall be bona fide and 
 without Fraud hulen 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 British Colonies or 
 limitations in America, and seize as forfeited any Goods 
 lor which the Master shall not produce a Cocket or 
 Clearance from the projier Officer of His Majesty's 
 Gusiums, cenifynig that the said Hoods were laden on 
 board the Ship in some Port of Great Britain or Ireland. 
 4 Gtx). 3. c. 15. § 30. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 4. Salt 
 
according 
 
 Europe* 
 
 87 
 
 ncies shall 
 57 (jleo. 3. 
 
 anufacture 
 J, Colony, 
 , or which 
 ion of His 
 1 fide and 
 Britain or 
 ^ated, and 
 be carried 
 , Territo- 
 inder the 
 lall be im- 
 ter, and it" 
 15 Car. 2. 
 
 soever, be 
 Jritain or 
 I' Place to 
 ;er belong 
 America, 
 a fide and 
 Britain or 
 'ustoms is 
 from any 
 thin Two 
 tlonies or 
 ly Goods 
 Jocket or 
 Majesty's 
 laden on 
 • Ireland. 
 irt. 6. 
 4. Salt 
 
 
 
 a 
 
 o 
 
 e5 
 
 "« 
 V 
 
 t 
 
 o 
 s 
 
 o 
 "a 
 
 K 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 a 
 
 ■♦* 
 
 -e 
 o 
 
 a, 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 a 
 
 e 
 
 4. Sah may be laden in any Part of Europe 
 for the Fisheries in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, 
 or Quebec ; Wines of the Madeiras, and of the 
 Western Islands of Azores, may be there laden 
 for Exportation to any of the British Colonies 
 or Plantations ; and Oranges and Lemons of the 
 Azores or Madeiras, may be shipped from 
 thence for any of the British Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in North America. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 31. 
 4. Geo. 3. c. 19. $ 1. 48 Geo. 3. c. 22. § 1. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 89. 
 
 5. Any Person inhabiting in Jersey or Guern- 
 sey, 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 here- 
 after be carried on, on board any Ship which 
 may lawfully trade there, any Sort of Craft, Food, 
 Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods fit and neces- 
 sary for the Fishery in those Parts, or for the 
 Use and Support of the Mariners or other Per- 
 sons employed on board the Ships or on Shore 
 in carrying on the said Fishery there, such Craft, 
 
 ► Clothing, or other Goods being the Produce or 
 Manufacture of Great Britain, or of Jersey or 
 Guernsey, and such Food or Victuals being of the 
 Growth or Produce either of Great Britain, Ire- 
 land, or Jersey or Guernsey. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1 . 
 
 6. 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 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 
 Court, or any Three of them, that the Goods 
 and Victuals so shipped are of such Growth, 
 Product, or Manufacture as aforesaid; which 
 Certificate shall also be attested by the Principal 
 Officer of the Customs in the said Isi ids, who 
 shall 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 
 
 I il^e Ship importing the same, shall be liable to 
 J G 4 be 
 
 Exception as to 
 Salt, Wine, 
 Oranges, and 
 
 also Articles 
 necessary for 
 the Fishery ; 
 
 provided a Cer- 
 tificate is pro- 
 duced as herein 
 directed. 
 
88 
 
 Kvcept nlfo 
 Herrings from 
 the Ible of Mail. 
 
 €\ttopt 
 
 Tfi;)Is and Impte- 
 Ti-.ents for the 
 Fishery from the 
 said Isle. 
 
 Provided a Cer- 
 tificate is pro- 
 duced as herein 
 directed. 
 
 L 
 
 ^ 
 •^ 
 
 .'3 
 
 "C5 
 O 
 
 •to 
 
 05 
 
 a 
 v. 
 
 
 bn 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 la 
 
 
 o 
 
 a. 
 
 
 o 
 
 I" 
 =5 
 
 ^ be seized and forfeited, in the same Manner as 
 they would have been liable if this Act had not 
 been made. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 2. 
 
 7. 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, navigated and registered according to 
 Law, Herrings caught and cured by them, in 
 the same Manner as Victuals may be imported 
 mto the said Colonies or Plantations from Ire- 
 land. 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. §4. 
 
 8. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in 
 the Isle of Man may hide and transport directly 
 from thence to any Part of America where the 
 Fishery is now or shall hereafter be cairied on, 
 on board any Ship which may lawfully trade or 
 fish there, any Provisions, Hooks, Lines, Net- 
 tings, 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 be- 
 longing to and employed by such Ships in the 
 said Fishery; such Provisions, Hooks, Lines, 
 
 >- Nettings, or other Tools or Implements, being 
 the Product and Manufacture of Great Britain, 
 Ireland, or the Isle of Man. 1 5 Geo. 3. c. 3 1 . § 5. 
 
 9. The Master of such Ship shall produce to 
 the proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony 
 or Plantation where he shall :.irive, a Certificate 
 under the Hand and Seal of the Collector oi' 
 other principal Officer of the Customs in the 
 Port where he shall have fitted out, that Oath 
 had been made before him by the Shipper of 
 such Provisions, &c. that the same are the 
 Manufacture of Great Britlan or Ireland, or the 
 Isle of Man, and that the said Articles (except 
 the Provisions) specifying the Quanlities 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 Certifi- 
 cate is to be administeied and granted without 
 Fee or Reward) ; and on Failure of producino- 
 such Certificate, or if any such Tools or Impk- 
 ments are used or disposed of for any other Pur- 
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 pose, tlie same and the Ship shall be seizt^i and 
 forfeited in the same Manner as they would have 
 been if this Act had not been made. 15 Geo. 3. 
 c. 31. § 6. 
 
 10. It ?hall be lawful to export in any British 
 Ship 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 Mami- 
 facture of Europe, and also any Goods which 
 shall have been legally imported into any of the 
 said Islands from any of the Colonies or Plant- 
 ations in America, or any Country on the Con- 
 tinent of America, belonging to or under the 
 Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign 
 or State ; and if any Doubts shall arise whether 
 any such Goods have been legally imported into 
 the said Islands, the Legality of such Importa- 
 tion shall be made appear to the Satisfaction of 
 the Collector and Comptroller, or other proper 
 Officer of the Customs at the ^rt of Exporta- 
 tion, before such Goods shall be suffered to be 
 shipped. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 9, 10. 49 Geo. 3. 
 
 Vc. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 11. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export 
 in any British-built Ship, 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 Continent of America, 
 and from any one of the said British Colonies in 
 America, to any of the Islands in the Yv'est 
 Indies belonging to His Majesty, or to any other 
 British Colony or Plantation on the Continent 
 of America, any Goods of the Manufacture of 
 Europe, and also any Goods or Merchandizes, 
 or Prize Goods, which have been legally imported 
 into the said Islands or Colonies under the Regula- 
 tions of 45 Geo. 3. C.57.— 52 Geo. 3. c. 100. § 1. 
 
 1 2. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export 
 in any British-l)uilt Vessel, owned and navigated 
 
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 Colonies on the- 
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 on the Continent of America, into Newfound- 
 land, any Gooils 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 Regulations of 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. — 
 57 "Teo. 3. c. 29. 
 
 13. Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the 
 Produce of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, 
 may bo shipped in any Port or Place '^f Europe 
 South of Cape Finisterre, for Exportation direct 
 to any of the several Ports herein after men- 
 tioi ed ; tliat is to say, St. John's in New Bruns- 
 wick, Saint John's in Newfoundland, Quebec in 
 Canada, Sydney in Cape Breton, Halifax and 
 Shelburn in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town 
 in Prince lulward's Island, in North America, on 
 board of any British Ship, navigatoil and regis- 
 tered according to Law, which shall have arrived 
 at any 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 Kingdom, or with any of the Goods 
 herein-after mentioned from the Province of 
 Canada, whether the Growth or Produce of 
 Canada, or brought into the said Province by 
 Land or Inland Navigation. 51 Geo. 3. c.97. §2. 
 
 14. L^pon the Importation thereof into any of 
 the Ports before enumei'ated, the Goods shall be 
 subject 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 Ports from Great Britain, and no 
 other. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 3. 
 
 15. The Person exporting any Cargo 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 Ofiicer of the Customs, «>!• the Naval Offi- 
 cer in Command, that the Cargo so shipped is 
 the Growth and Produce of the said Provinces, 
 or the Produce of the British Fisheries in North 
 
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 America, really and bona fide taken and cured 
 by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on tlie said 
 p^isheries from some of the said Colonies ; and 
 such Officer shall certify such Oath under his 
 Hand ; 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 Cargo ; and the Mas- 
 ter shall m.tke Oath before the British Consul 
 there resident, or if there shall be no British 
 Consul, then before Two known British Mer- 
 chants there resident, that the Certificate so pro- 
 duced was a Certificate of the Officer of the 
 Customs or Naval Ofliccr whose Name it bears, 
 and was duly signed by him. 5 1 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 4. 
 
 16. The following Articles may be exported 
 from Canada in a British-built Ship, navigated 
 and registered according to Law, into any Port 
 of Europe within the Limits aforesaid, without 
 any Oath being required of their being the 
 Growth or Produce of the said Province, or any 
 Certificate being required of the Country from 
 
 > whence they came ; that is to say, Wheat, Flour, 
 Peas, Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, 
 White Oak Staves, and Heading, dressed or 
 undressed. Hoops, Pine Plank, and Boards ; and 
 the Master of any such British-built Ship, lading 
 any of the said Articles, shall only be retjuired 
 to produce a Certificate from the Chief Officer 
 of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Com- 
 mand at Quebec, that the said Articles were 
 either the diowth, or brought into Canada con- 
 f(:)rmably 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 Cus- 
 toms, or Naval Officer, is hereby required to 
 grant, upon satisfactory Proof being made, upon 
 Oath or otherwise ; and the Authenticity of such 
 Certificate shall be sworn to in Manner afore- 
 said, by the Master of such Ship at the Port of 
 Delivery in Europe within the aforesaid Limits. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. §5. 
 
 17. Before the Shipment on board any such 
 British Ship of any Pickled Fish, or Dry Fish, 
 
 for 
 
 On Ejiportatioii 
 of certain 
 Articles from 
 Canada, such 
 Oath may be 
 dispensed with. 
 
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 Custody Pickled 
 or Dry Fish has 
 
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 make Oath to 
 the Identity. 
 
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 Except a] so 
 Corn or Grain 
 on board certain 
 I/icensed 
 Vessels. 
 
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 Articles herein 
 enumerated 
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 Ciibraltar. 
 
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 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 Ejfporta- 
 tion, shall make Oath before the Chief Officer 
 of the Customs, or the Naval Officer in Com- 
 mand at Quebec, that the same was the Pio- 
 duce 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 taken at Quebec, the said Officer of the 
 Customs, or Naval Officer, shall grant Certi- 
 ficate thereof, signed with his Hand, which Cer- 
 tificate only the Master shall be required to pro- 
 duce at the Port of Delivery in Europe within 
 the Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath of the 
 Authenticity of such Certificate in manner afore- 
 said. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. §6. 
 
 1 8. 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 Finisterre, may load at the Port of Deli- 
 very, or at any Port or Place on the Coast of 
 Africa to the Northward of the Latitude of 30 
 Degrees North, any Sort of Corn or Grain, the 
 Produce of Europe, for Exportation direct to the 
 said Colonies or Plantations, and there land the 
 same. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 1. 6. 
 See Sugar. 
 20. Any Ship being British-built, owned, na- 
 vigated, and registered according to Law, may 
 load at the Island of Malta, or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or at Gibraltar, any of the Arti- 
 cles enumerated in the following Schedule, mark- 
 ed (B.), for Exportation direct to any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in Ame- 
 rica, or into Newfoundland, the Island of Ber- 
 muda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or 
 Fiantations in North America; and any of the 
 said Articles may be landed in any such Colony 
 or Plantation, being first duly entered with the 
 proper Officer of the Customs, provided that the 
 
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 cepted) shall, upon Importation into any of the said 
 Colonies or Plantations, be liable to the Payment 
 of such Duties as Goods of the like Denomina- 
 tion or Description are or may be liable to upon 
 being imported into the said Colonies or Planta- 
 tions from Great Britain, and no other Duties. 
 55 Geo. 3. c.29. §5.9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 SCHEDULE B. 
 
 Dry and Wet"! In Jars 
 
 Safflower. 
 
 Fruit, Brandy > & 
 
 liUsk. 
 
 and Sugar ) Bottles 
 
 Incense. 
 
 Pickles in Ditto. 
 
 Essence of Bergamot. 
 
 Olives. 
 
 Do. of Citron. 
 
 Figs. 
 
 Do. of Lemon. 
 
 Raisins. 
 
 Do. of Orange. 
 
 Currants. 
 
 Do. of Lavender. 
 
 Pistaccio Nuts. 
 
 Do. of Roses. 
 
 Almonds. 
 
 Do. of Rosemary. 
 
 Dates. 
 
 Marble, \ Rough & 
 Alabaster, J Worked. 
 
 Capers. 
 
 ► Wine. 
 
 Brimstone. 
 
 Brandy. 
 
 Cork. 
 
 Oil of Cloves. 
 
 Aniseed. 
 
 Oil of Almonds. 
 
 Cumminseed. 
 
 Gum Arabic. 
 
 Ostrich Featliers. 
 
 — — Mastic. 
 
 Honey. 
 
 Myrrh. 
 
 Sponges. 
 
 Sicily. 
 
 Amber. 
 
 Ammoniac, 
 
 Coral. 
 
 Opium. 
 
 Bullion. 
 
 Manna. 
 
 Precious Stones. 
 
 Senna. 
 
 Pearls. 
 
 Cantharides. 
 
 Corn. 
 
 Oris Root. 
 
 Vermilion. 
 
 Rhubarb. 
 
 Ochres. 
 
 Mill Timber. 
 
 Cinnabar. 
 
 Box Wood. 
 
 Orange Buds and Peel. 
 
 Argol. 
 
 Juniper Berries. 
 
 Jalop. 
 
 Punk. 
 
 Scammony. 
 
 Pumice Stone. 
 
 1 Quicksilver. 
 
 Emery Stone. 
 
 Sarsaparilla. 
 
 Whetstone. 
 
 SaflProu. 
 
 Paintings ^xid Prints;. 
 
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 Duties to be paid 
 upon VVine. 
 
 Kxcept also 
 ueressHry Sup 
 plies from the 
 Netherlands for 
 the Estates of 
 Dutth Proprie- 
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 Medals. 
 Java and Maha Stone 
 
 for building. 
 Poiizolana. 
 ( irain. 
 
 Meal or Flour. 
 Beans. 
 Peas. 
 Lentils. 
 
 Rice. 
 
 Maccaroni or Vermi- 
 
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 Cascasoo. 
 Parmesan Cheese. 
 Bologna and other 
 
 Sausages. 
 Anchovies. 
 Caviar. 
 Botarjjo. 
 
 21. Any Wine, which in pursuance of these 
 Acts shall be imported into any of His Majesty's 
 Sugar Colonies or Plaiitsitions in America or 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, 
 fi-om the Island of Malta, or the Dependencies 
 thereof, or from Gibraltar, shall tfb subject to the 
 Payment of such Duties, and no other, as are 
 payable on Madeira Wine when imported into 
 any of the said Colonies or Plantations diiectly 
 from Madeii-a. 55 Geo. 3. c.29. §6. 57Geo.3.c.4. 
 
 22. Any of the Subjects of the King of the 
 Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in the Co- 
 lonies of Demcrara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the 
 Province of Guiana, may import from the Nether- 
 lands into the said Colonics all the usual Articles 
 of Supply for their Estates in the said Colonies, 
 being necessary and requisite as Supplies for the 
 Cultivation of such Estates, or the Clothing, 
 Maintenance, and Comfort of the Residents 
 thereon, and not to exceed what may be deemed 
 necessai-y for the particular Estates for which they 
 nrc to be imported, and to be actually applied to 
 such Purposes, and not for Trade; and in case of 
 Seizure by any Officer of the Customs of any 
 such Articles, on the Ground of their being im- 
 ported not as Supplies, the Proof that such Arti- 
 cles are Supplies, and imported under the Condi- 
 tions of the Convention concluded between His 
 Majesty and the King of the Netherlands, shall 
 lie on the Duttli Proprietor importing the same; 
 and in case of such Proof being given, in conse- 
 quence of any Disjnite arising thereupon, before 
 the Collector or Principal Officer of the Customs, 
 (who is hereby empowered to administer an Oath, 
 or take Affidavit for the Purposes of any such 
 
 Examination 
 
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 Exnminalion and Proofi) the Goods shall he ad- 
 mitted to Entry, provided the Importer, before 
 Entry, enter into Bond, with Two Sureties, in a 
 sufficient Sum, to abide the Decision of the Hoai^d 
 of Customs in Enghmd upon such Seizure : Pro- 
 vided also, that Wine, as a Medicine and neces- 
 sary Article of Supply, may be so imjxirtcd, to 
 such a limited Extent as may be necessary for the 
 Purposes of such Supj)ly as a Medicine, and shall 
 be liable to the Duty of 10s. per Ton, and no 
 more. 5<) Geo. 8. c.91. §4. 
 
 23. All Subjects of the King of the Nether- 
 lands, resident in His said Majesty's European 
 Dominions, who were, at the Date of the Sig- 
 nature of the said Convention, Proprietors of 
 Estates in the said Colonies ; 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 Dominions in 
 the Netherlands, may have declared within 
 Three Months after the Publication of the afore- 
 ► said 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 
 Netherlands, who may be the Holders of Mort- 
 gages of Estates in the said Colonies, made prior 
 to the Date of the Convention, and who may, 
 under their Mortgage Deeds, have the Right ctf 
 exporting from the said Colonies to the Nether- 
 lands the Produce of such Estates, shall be 
 deemed Dutch Proprietors under this Act; 
 provided that where both Dutch and British 
 Subjects have Mortg.ages upon the same Property 
 in the said Colonies, the Pi-oduce to bo consigned 
 to the different Mortgagees shall be in proportion 
 to the Amount of the Debts respectively due to 
 them. 56 Geo. 3. c.91. § 5. 
 
 24-. All such Importation from the Nether- 
 lands into the said Colonies, for the Supply of 
 Estates therein, may be carried on in any Sliips 
 beino" the Pronprtv of Siihiprts of thp Kino- of 
 the Netherlands, wherever built, and without any 
 Restriction as to the Mariners navigating the 
 same, for Five Years commencing from the 
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 in tiie s.iid 
 Colonies. 
 
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 Supply of the 
 Estates m.ny be 
 imported from 
 the Netherlands 
 in Dutch Ship?. 
 
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 Articles allowed 
 to be exported 
 direct to Malta 
 or Gibrjitar. 
 
 Vessels of the 
 United States 
 may be there 
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 Master of every such Ship shall produce to the 
 proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs in the 
 said Colonies, satisfactory Proof of the said 
 Vessels being owned by a Subject of His Majesty 
 the King of the Netlieriands ; and his said Ma- 
 jesty the King of the Netherlands may at any 
 Time before the Expiration of the Five Years, 
 if he should think proper, order that such Trade 
 shall be carried on only in such Ship , 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 Expira- 
 tion of the Five Years, no such Trade shall be 
 carried on except in Vessels Dutch-built, and 
 whereof the Master and Three Fourths of the 
 Crew a^-e Subjects of His Majesty the King of 
 the Netherlands. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 6. 
 
 25. All such Importations shall be subject to 
 tl:e same Duties as aro payable by His Majesty's 
 Subjects on Importations of the like Articles into 
 l_ 05 J the said Colonies. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 7. 
 26. Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa, Rum, Melasses, Pimento, 
 Indigo, Ginger, Dying Wood, being the Produce o^' any 
 of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations, or uny 
 Articles which may now or may hereafter be by Law im- 
 ported lato the said Colonies or Plantations, may be ex- 
 ported from thence direct to Malta or the Dependencies 
 thereof, 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 
 Newfoundland, &c. may be exported from thence direct 
 to Malta or the Dept; : « m as ihereof, or to Gibraltar, 
 under the Rules and R^luL'-i r of these Vas. 55 Geo. 3. 
 c. 29. § 1. 8. 57 Gee. j. _. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Until 25th March 1819, any Ship belonging to the 
 United States, coming in Ballast 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. 3. 
 
28 .Geo. S. c. 6. respecting Ships coming lor the same 
 Purpose to Turk's Island. 57 (ieo. 3. c. 42. § 1. 
 See Bahama and Bermudah. 
 
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 One of the Free Ports in the Island of Jamaica, for A Free Port. 
 the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles 
 in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § i. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
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 Majesty's 
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 ictions of 
 i Geo. 3. I 
 
 1. The Officers of the Customs in any iBritish Colony Allowed to 
 or Plantation in America appointed by Deputation or ^''^^e" °f t*'* 
 Commission from the Commissioners of His Majesty's SmeTaand 
 Customs in England, may receive such Fees as they and the loiands in 
 their Predecessors have been generally and usually the West indies. 
 accustomed to receive before 29th September 1764, 
 provided such Fees are not contrary to the Direction of 
 any Act made in Gi'eat 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 received 
 by the like Officers, in the nearest Port in the Island, 
 before the 29th September 1764; and if no Fees have 
 been received by any Officer in any Port in the Island, 
 such Officer shall 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 same Fees as have been generally and usually received 
 by the like Officers, in the nearest Port, on or before 
 the said Day ; and if no Fees have been received by any 
 Officer in such Port, such Officers shall be entitled to 
 such Fees as have been generally and usually received by 
 the like Officers, in the nearest Port within any British 
 Colony or Plantation, on or before the said Day ; and 
 it no Fees have been generally and usually received by 
 any Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs lor any Port 
 or Place within any Colony or PJantalionj or if the Fees 
 received by such Comptroller before the said Day have 
 not been equal to One Third Part of the Fees received 
 
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 allowed. 
 
 Upon (Mill Hi'- 
 purt ol' l-'isliiiii; 
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 NewtoL.iiol '.uj. 
 
 Ollicers in New. 
 Ibundl.tiid to 
 \i»\\; tlic same 
 Fees for all 
 lUisincss doiii.' 
 a" were alhnved 
 at Haliiax. 
 
 For Certificates 
 upon shi|5piii''; 
 C'ortee, 
 
 jfecis. 
 
 by the Collector of His Majesty's Customs within the 
 same Port or Plrtce, in every such C'ase such Comptroller 
 may receive for his Fees, for any Entry, or other Busi- 
 ness (lone l»y hun in the Execution of his Employment, 
 a iSum ecjual to One Third Part of the Fees generally 
 and nsually received by such Collector for the like Busi- 
 ness ; and every such OHicer shall liave and be entitled 
 to the same Remedy for Recovery of such Fees as has 
 been here! ofore allow ed to any Collector or other Officer ; 
 and ii' any Collector, Comptroller, or other OfTicer of 
 the Customs in America, shall re(}uire or receive any 
 other or ".neater I'^ces than herein allowed to be taken, 
 he shall for the First Offence forfeit £50, and for the 
 yecondOtfence forfeit his Place, and be for ever incapable 
 bf executing any Office or Employment in the Customs. 
 5 Geo. S. c. ^r>. § 28. 10 Geo. f^. c. 37. § 1. 
 
 2. A Fee not exceeding Two Shillings and Sixpence 
 may be taken by OHicei s of the Customs at Newtbund- 
 land for each Report of the Master of every Vessel fitted 
 and cleared ont from Great Britain as Fishing Ships, 
 upon his first Arrival there, and at his clearing out from 
 thence, and no other Fee shall betaken or demanded by 
 any OlHcer of the Customs there relative to the said 
 Fishery. V2 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 7. 
 
 S. So long as 10 Ceo. 3. c. 37. shall remain in force*, 
 the Officers o'.' His Majesty's Customs in Newfoundland 
 shall be entitled to receive such Fees for all Business done 
 by them in the Execution of their Duty, as were legally 
 demanded and taken by the like Officers of the Customs 
 at the Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia on or before 1st 
 January 17()S, provided the said lees are not contrary to 
 the Directions of any Act made in Great Britain; and 
 the said Officers shall have the like Remedy for the same, 
 and be liable to the same Forfeitures and Disabilities 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. 37. — 16 Geo. 3. e. 47.* § 3. 45 Geo. 3. 
 c. G8. § 5. 
 
 4. For every Certificate granted upon the shipping of 
 Coffee and Cocoa Nuts in i)nrsuance of these Acts, the 
 Collector and Comptroller and Naval Officer shall re- 
 
 * Thii Acl was madt ptrpttual by 45 Geo, 3. c, 68. § 5. 
 
 ceive 
 
ithiii the 
 rnptroller 
 ler Busi- 
 )loynient, 
 generally 
 ike Busi- 
 e entitled 
 3s a» has 
 r Oflicor ; 
 JHicer of 
 ;cive any 
 )C taken, 
 :1 for the 
 incapable 
 Customs. 
 
 Sixpence 
 ewtbuntl- 
 sscl fitted 
 njv Ships, 
 out from 
 landed by 
 • the said 
 
 in force*, 
 bundland 
 ncss done 
 re legally 
 Customs 
 )cforc 1 St 
 )ntrary to 
 tain ; and 
 the same, 
 jilities for 
 llowed to 
 ». 3. c. 45. 
 k5 Geo. 3. 
 
 lipping of 
 
 Acts, the 
 
 shall re- 
 
 i8. §5. 
 ceivc 
 
 •5 
 
 ftte. 
 
 celvcasa P'H^ or Reward the Sum of Five Shillings, and 
 no more. 5 (Jeo. 2. c. 24. § 3. 23 (ico. 3. c. 79. § 7. 
 
 Src COFKKK AND CoCOA NuTS. 
 
 f). The Fees now jiayahle upon the Registry or Trans- 
 fer of Rro})erty in any Vessel shall continue to he paid as 
 horelofore, oxc(!pt upon the l''irst Registry, ii! pursuance 
 of this Act, of any Ship built and registered before 1st 
 May 178^;. 26 Ceo. 3. c. 60. $ 37. 
 
 See llEdiSTifv OK British Ships. 
 
 (>. The CoHectors and Comptrollers in the British 
 C^olonies and Plantations may receive Two Shillings and 
 .Sixpence of the Masters of British Ships upcm delivering 
 the List of the Crew on board such Ships at the Time of 
 Arrival in llie said Colonies or Plantations, and also of 
 the Wages duo to such as may have died during the 
 Voyage, and n)ay receive One Shilling from any Person 
 inspecting sijcli List. .37 (ieo. 3. c. 73. §.5. 
 
 7- No Fees shall be demanded or received by any Of- 
 ficer in the ]''jee Poi'ts, for any Entry, Cocket, Clear- 
 ance, or Piiss])ort for any Foreign Vt?ssel, or for any 
 Goods iiuj)orted 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. 
 45 (ieo.3. c. 57. 49 Ceo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 9y. 
 57 (jeo. 3. c. 71'. 
 
 See Free Ports, 
 
 May be exported from Malta, or any of the Depen- Impcmation al- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, (Mrect to any of His 1""^' *'^°'" 
 
 M. , , o /I I • T■>^ L ^- • 4 " • Malta or Gib. 
 
 ajesty s Sugar C olomes or Plantations ui America, 6r nitar. 
 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- 
 built Ships^ owuied, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 
 M \LTA. 
 
 99 
 
 ITjion the Re- 
 gistry or Trans- 
 J'fr of British 
 Ships. 
 
 On the Delivery 
 of Lists of the 
 Crew and Wages 
 (hie to sue!) as 
 have died, and 
 for inspecting 
 tlio same. 
 
 ^^ot to be paid 
 for Vessels or 
 Goods tinder the 
 Free Port Ath. 
 
 iFts|)evte0. 
 
 1. Salt for the Fisheries of NewfonndJ-and. Nnvii .Srntiru ^-i'' miv ba 
 
 im- 
 
 and Quebec, may be laden in any Part of Evnope on JMn'ff I'-'T.'^.'^ 
 
 )I n • ' I 1 • I ■« T 1 -I I till (,1 ijUroiio, 
 
 joard any British- built Vessel owned, navigated, and 
 
 112 
 
 registered 
 
100 
 
 jFisljerieg. 
 
 c. 7. § 6. 
 4- Geo. 3. 
 
 Also Goods 
 tit and necessary 
 for the Fishery 
 from Guernsey 
 cr Jersey ; 
 
 upon the Con- 
 ditions herein 
 ment'oned. 
 
 Tlf ningf. mny 
 bp imiiorted 
 from the Isle of 
 Mail ; 
 
 !ihoT';ols and 
 Tmplenients 
 tVom the said 
 Isle ; 
 
 registered according to J^aw. 15 Car. 2. 
 2 Geo. 3. C.24.. §7. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §31. 
 c. 19. §1. 48 Geo. 3. c. 22. §1. 
 
 2. Any Person nhabiting 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 law- 
 fully 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 ; 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. 9 Geo. 3. c.28. § 1. 
 
 3. 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, Deputy 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 Pre- 
 sence ; and on Failure of producing the Certificate, such 
 Food, &c. found on board any Ship, and the Ship im- 
 porting the sam.e, shall be seized and forfeited, in the same 
 Manner as if this Act had not been made. 9 Geo. 3. 
 c.28. §2. 
 
 4. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle 
 of Man may export froni tht^nce to any of the British 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, in British-built Ships- 
 owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, 
 Herrings cauglit and cured by them, in the same Man- 
 ner as Victuals may be imported into the said Colonies 
 or Plantations from Ireland. 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. § 4. 
 
 5. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle of 
 Man may ship and lade there, and trans})ort directly from 
 thence to any Part of America where the Fishery is now 
 or shall iiyreafler be carried on, on board any Ship whicii 
 may lawfully trade or fish there, any Provisions, Hooks, 
 
 10 Linvi 
 
 
, c. 7. § 6. 
 4- Geo. 3. 
 
 ernsey may 
 from thence 
 where the 
 ch may law- 
 d. Victuals, 
 ary for the 
 
 Support of 
 1 board the 
 aid Fishery 
 ther Goods, 
 ritain, or of 
 uals are the 
 
 Ireland, or 
 
 Ihip produce 
 olony where 
 d and Seal 
 [nmander in 
 )per of such 
 al Court in 
 m, that the 
 Product or 
 attested by 
 said Island, 
 I in his Pre- 
 tificate, such 
 lie Ship im- 
 , in the same 
 . 9 Geo. 3. 
 
 f in the Isle 
 the British 
 i-built Ships 
 ig to Law, 
 siimc Man- 
 lid Colonies^ 
 58. § 4. 
 in the Isle oi 
 lirectly from 
 hery is now 
 Ship whicii 
 3ns, Hooks, 
 Lin«s 
 
 fiBffttitS. 101 
 
 Lines, Netting, or other Tools or Implements necessary 
 for and used ,n the Fishery by the Crews of the Ships 
 carrymg out the same, and the Craft belonging to and 
 employed by such Vessels in the Fishery; such Provisions, 
 Hooks, Lines, Nettuig, or other Tools or Implements 
 being he Product and ManulUcture of Greaf Britain 
 Ireland, or the said Isle of Man. 15 Geo. 3. c, 31. 5 5 
 
 6. Provided the Master of such Ship shall produce to Upon the Co„. 
 tiie proper Ulhcer of the Customs in the Colony or ^lant- ''"'°"» ''"«'" 
 ation where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the "'^"'*°"^'^- 
 Hand and Seal of the Collector or other principal 
 Officer ot the Customs in the Port where he shall have 
 htted out, that Oath hath been made before him by the 
 Shipp^ of suoh 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 Quan- 
 tities ana 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 belonging to and to be employed by 
 such Sh.p in the said Fishery, and for no other Use or 
 Purpose whatsoever (which Oath and Certificate such 
 Collector or other Officer is required to administer and 
 grant without Fee or Reward) ; and on Failure of pro- 
 
 nS/t P^'^^^^f^' "^ i*"«ny «uch Hooks, Lines, 
 rMetting, Tools, and Implements, are used or disposed of 
 tor any other Purpose, the same and the Ship ^hall be 
 seized and forfeited, as they would have been if this Act 
 had not been made. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 6. 
 
 cJrZ''^' ^^tVl"^ '^/^'^ ^y '^'^ Majesty's Subjects Fish n,,y he 
 carrymg on the Fishery from any of the followin.. Ports -xporte/to .ny 
 in North America, that is to say, Saint John's hi New ^Zn^fT'' 
 Brunswick, Saint John's in Newfoundland, Quebec'" S;;.'^^^ 
 Canada, Sydney m Cape Breton, Halifax and Shelburne 
 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 Pait of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, on 
 
 liZtP' ^'''f-^'''^' y^««^l o^ned, navigated, and re- 
 g Stored according to Law; and any suJh Ship, after 
 discharcrinnr tho Poi-^^ ..f t?:_u - "i , . "^ t > "*«^«^i 
 
 P-irf r,Fv^ T^"".o"„';i ■"'="' '"''>■ ^sae in any such 
 
 Part of Europe Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, for 
 
 H3 
 
 Ex- 
 portation 
 
102 
 
 iFisijerres* 
 
 m 
 
 Oalli to be made 
 
 m 
 
 th.il the Fi.jh is 
 
 .': ,■ - 
 
 Britiih t.iken 
 
 /5 : ' 
 
 1 - ,: 
 
 Jiid cured, and 
 
 
 Certificate pro- 
 
 M 
 
 duced at the 
 
 vl 
 
 Port of Arrival 
 
 f' 
 
 m Europe. 
 
 
 
 I'lie Person in 
 whose Possession 
 the Fish con- 
 
 tinbr(1 i:ntil 
 siiii-pcd, lO make 
 Oalh (c the 
 liii'iitity,ot"wh'.ch 
 :i Ccrlilicace is 
 to be granted. 
 
 Ve^oci;. em- 
 ployed in the 
 Fishery, or in 
 trading Coast- 
 vvibejnotreijuirf d 
 to be registered. 
 
 jiortation (111*001 to the saul Colonies, under the Regula- 
 tions licrcafter mentioned. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2. 
 
 8. I'he Persons exporting a Cargo from any Port in 
 Nova Scotia or New Brunswick to any such Part of 
 Europe South of Cape Finisterrc, shall make Oath at the 
 Port of Shipment before the Chief Oflicer of the Customs, 
 or tlie Naval Officer, that the Cargo so shipped is tlie 
 Produce of the British Fisheries in North America, and 
 bona fide taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects 
 carrying on such Fisheries from some of the said Colo- 
 nies, and such Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer 
 *jhall 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 conveyed, 
 or to which she shall go for the Delivery of the Cargo, 
 and the Master shall make Oath before the British Con- 
 sid there, or if no Consul, then before Tv.o known 
 Britisii Merchants, that the Certificate so produced was 
 the Certificate of the Officer whose Name it bears, and 
 was duly signed by him. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 4. 
 
 9. Before shipping any Pickled Fish or Dry Fish for 
 p]xportation 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 the taking it, until 
 shipped for Exportation, shall make Outli before the 
 Chief Oflicer of the C'ustoms or the Naval Officer in 
 Command at Quebec, that the same was the Produce of 
 the British American Fisheries, bona fide taken and 
 cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said 
 Fishery from some of the said Colonies ; and on such 
 Oath being taken at Quebec, the said Officer of the 
 Customs or Naval Officer shall grant Certificate thereof^ 
 signed with his Hand, which Certificate the Master of 
 such Ship shall be required to produce at the Port of 
 Delivery in Europe within the Limits aforesaid, and shall 
 make Oath of the Authenticity of such Certificate in 
 Manner aforesaid. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 6. 
 
 10. Vessels not exceeding Thirty Tons Burthe:i, not 
 having a Deck, employed solely in the Fishery on tlic 
 Banks or Shores of Newfoundland, the Province of 
 Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, adjacent to the 
 Gulf of Saint Lav,rcivjc, and to the North of Cape 
 Can&o, or the Islands within the same, or in trading 
 
 (^ Coabtwise 
 
 m 
 
iftel)erie«. 
 
 103 
 
 ossession 
 
 CoatitwibC within the said Limits, are not required to be 
 registered. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. 
 
 See Registry of British Ships. 
 
 11. Certain Articles, the Produce or Manufacture of 
 the United States of America, may be imported into 
 Newfoundland and Quebec for the Use of the Fisheries 
 there. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 13. 29 Geo. 3. c. 16. § 1. 
 
 See Newfoundland. 
 Quebec. 
 
 12. The Right of carrying on the Fishery at New- 
 foundland, and going on Shore for the Curing, Salting, 
 Drying, and Husbanding Fish, vested in His Majesty's 
 Subjects. 10 & 1 1 W. 3. c. 2.5. § 1. 12 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 4. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 45. § 2. 
 
 See Newfoundland. 
 
 13. Oil and Blubber taken and caught on the Banks 
 and Shores of Newfoundland by British Subjects shall 
 not be admitted to Entry as such in Great Britain, 
 unless accompanied with a Certificate under the Hand 
 and Seal of the Governor, Deputy Governor, Naval 
 Officer, or other Principal Officer, or a Justice of the 
 Peace, testifying that Oadi had beer made before him 
 that the Oil and Blubber was really tl.c P'-oduce of Fish, 
 or Creatures living in the Sea, taken by His Majesty's 
 Subjects carrying on such Fishery, and usually residing 
 in Newfoundland, or in His Majesty's European Domi- 
 nions. 55 Geo. 3. c. 125. 
 
 Sec Newfoundland. 
 
 flax. See " Hemp." 
 iFlOUr* See " Corn." 
 
 Articles may be 
 imported from 
 the United 
 
 States. 
 
 The Right of 
 Fishing <ind 
 curing Fish at 
 Newfoimdland. 
 
 Certificate re- 
 quired oil Ex- 
 portation of Oil 
 and Bhibher 
 from Newfoind- 
 Tniid. 
 
 L-oabtwise 
 
 iFiee i^ort0. 
 
 I . Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drugs of 
 all Sorts, Cocoa, Logwood, Fustic, and all Sorts of Wood 
 for Dyers Us(>, Hides, Skins, and Tallow, Beaver nnd all 
 Sorts of Fur«, Tortoise Shell, Hard Wood or Mill Tim- 
 ber, Mahogany, and all other Woods (or Cabinet Ware, 
 Horses, Asses, Mules and Catfe, the Growth or Produc- 
 tion of any of the Colonies or Plnntations in America^ or 
 of any Country on the Continent of America, belonging 
 to or u.ndcr the Dominion of any Foreign European 
 
 H 1' Sovereign 
 
 Ceit.iiii Artifles 
 may he imported 
 into the Free 
 Ports hcr«in 
 mentiwncd in 
 Vessels owned 
 and n.nvigated by 
 Persons inhabit- 
 ing Colonics 
 under lorcign 
 European States. 
 
104 
 
 'l"ob;u\o niav 
 he iTiporti'd ill 
 vvicli Vessels, 
 and cxportfd to 
 llie United 
 Kingriom, 
 
 JFree i&orts» 
 
 Sovereign or State, Coin, Bullion, DiamondR, PreciouH 
 Stones, may be imported I mm any of the said Countries, 
 into the Ports Iiereatter mentioned; that is to say, 
 
 Ports. 
 
 TSLANJDS. 
 
 Kingston, Savannah La' 
 
 Mar, Monlego Bay, 
 
 Santa Lucea, Antonio, 
 
 Saint Anne, Falmouth, 
 
 and Maria 
 Saint Cioorgo 
 
 Roseau - _ - 
 
 Saint John's 
 
 San .losct" - - _ 
 
 Scarbort)ugh 
 Road Harbour 
 Nassau - - _ 
 
 Pitt's l\)wn 
 
 Kingston - - _ 
 
 The Principal Port 
 Any Port where there is | 
 
 a C'ustom-house - ) 
 
 Bridgetown - _ „„„v^v». 
 
 In any Foreign Sloop, Schooner, or other Vessel ', Dein^ 
 owned and navigated by Persons inhabithig any of the 
 said C\)lonies or Plantations in Aiiieriea, or Couiuries on 
 the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Do- 
 nunion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State. 
 *5 (leo. 3. c. 57. 49 Geo. 3. e. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 
 57 Geo. 3. c- 74. 
 
 2. Tobacco, the Growth or Production of any Island 
 m tho West Indies, or of any Country on the Continent of 
 America, belonging to or under the 'Dominion of any Fo- 
 reign i.uropean Sovereign or State, may be imi)orted 
 from any such Island or Comitry, into any of the Ports 
 lerein-before enumerated, in the like Foreign Vessels, and 
 be again exported from thence to any Part of the United 
 Kin^rdom, under the same Restrictions, Penalties, and 
 I orteitures, as are in this Act contained with regard to the 
 Goods herein-before enumerated. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57 § '^ 
 
 Jamaica. 
 
 Grenada. 
 
 Dominica. 
 
 Antigua. 
 
 Trinidad. 
 
 Tobatro. 
 
 1 ortola. 
 
 New Providence. 
 
 Crooked Island. 
 
 Saint Vincent. • 
 
 l^ermuda. 
 
 Bahamas. 
 
 Barbadoes. 
 
 So niMiih ot the. -1.5 ^^,0, 'i 
 
 57. us cvn/ined the Trade iu 
 
 f, , r ■^. ^.^1. lio iunjuitii lilt Aiaae 10 
 
 rnT o 'Z"'^ """''^ '''"" ^"^' ^^''*' « repeakd by the Jets 
 50 Geo. 3. f. 2 1 . and 54 Geo. 3. c. 48. 
 
 3. It 
 
1 ^ being 
 ly of the 
 in tries on 
 • the Do- 
 or State. 
 3. c. 99. 
 
 ny Island 
 itinent of 
 f any Fo- 
 inijxnted 
 he Ports 
 sscls, and 
 e United 
 ties, and 
 rd to the 
 .57. §2. 
 
 Ti'ude Lo 
 y the Acts 
 
 3. It 
 
 Jftee i^otts* 
 
 3. It slmll be lawftd to import into the saitl Port of 
 Nassau in the Island of New I'rovidcnee, and into the 
 said Port of Pitt's Town in Portland I larbour in Crooked 
 Ishnid, and into such other Ports in the said Bahama 
 Islands, and into the principal Port in the Island of IJer- 
 nuida, and into such i\)rts in thclslands caller! Caicos as 
 shall be approved by Mis Majesty in Council, Sugar and 
 Coffee, the Produce of any Foreign Country or Planta- 
 tion, in such Foreign Ships, and subject to such Rules, 
 Regulations, and Restrictions, as are prescribed in this 
 Act with respect to the CJoods 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 Dnty of Customs. 45 Geo. 3. 
 c. r»i. § 4, 5. 
 
 4. His Majesty, by and with the Advice of the Privy 
 Council, may permit \he Importation into the Port of 
 Road Harbour in the Island of Tortola, one of tiie Vir- 
 gin Islands, and the Exportation from thence into this 
 Kingdom, of all Cioods permitted to be imported into the 
 Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, and to 
 be exported from thence to this King«lom, 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. re- 
 specting Importation into and lOxportation from the Port 
 of Nassau, and further subject to such Rules, Regula- 
 tions, Conditions, and Restrictions, ashluill from Time to 
 Time be directed by I lis Majesty, by and with the Ad- 
 vice aforesaitl, 40 Geo. 3. c. 72. § 1. 
 
 5. His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy 
 Council, may permit the Iin})ortation 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 directe(( by His Majesty, by such Advice as 
 aforesaid ; and all Sugar imported into the United King- 
 dom from Tortola, (excei)t 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 I.-,iaiidfi, 
 which Certificate shall be given in such Form as sliall be 
 — ..,...v, L-j j.xi.', iViajLsty, uy imu wiui inc Auvicu oi xlis 
 Privy Council, and shall not be given in any one Year 
 for any greater Quantity than 6,880,000 Pounds Weight), 
 
 shall 
 
 105 
 
 iSiiR.ir and Coffep 
 (if Foreign Colo- 
 nits may le im- 
 ported into cer- 
 tain I'orts in 
 such Vctoil.s. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 permitted to be 
 imiiorted intft 
 ai]d exported 
 from Road 
 Harlioiir in 
 Tortola in 
 Foreign Vesbel.-.; 
 
 also Sugar 
 without Pay- 
 ment of Duty. 
 
106 
 
 iTree |&om. 
 
 Kicc, Grain, 
 and rlour may 
 he imported into 
 the Ports enu- 
 merated in 
 No. 1. nnd in 
 Foreign Vessels. 
 
 N'l otlier GooJ., 
 to be imported 
 into the Tree 
 Ports in Foreign 
 Ve'^Seli. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be exported 
 from ihe said 
 Ports in Foreign 
 \'csselj. 
 
 shall be deemed to be Foreign 8iigar, and be imported 
 into the Unite«l Kingdom as such, and subject to all 
 Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions relatinir thereto.- 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. § 2. 
 
 6. In addition to the Articles enumerated in 45 Geo. 3. 
 c. 57. It shall be lawlui to imi)ort, under the like Autho- 
 rity, Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and For- 
 feitures provided in the said Act, Rice, CJrain of all 
 KSorts, and Flour, from any Colonies or Plantations in 
 America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any 
 Foreign European .Sovereign or State, into any of the 
 1 orts enumerated in No. 1, in any Foreign Vessel what- 
 ever, manned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of 
 the said Colonies or Plantations. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. § 2. 
 
 7. No Goods except such as are before enumerated 
 shall be imported in any Foreign Vessel from any of the 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, or any Countries on 
 the Continent of America, belonging to or'under the Do- 
 minion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, 
 into any of the before-mentioned Ports, on Forfeiture 
 thereof, with the Vessel in which imported ; and the same 
 inay be seized by any Otficer or Officers of His Majesty's 
 Customs or Navy authorized to make Seizures, and shall 
 and may be prosecuted in manner herein-after directed. 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 7. 
 
 8. It shall be lawful to export from any of the said 
 Ports (See No. 1.) to any of the Colonies or' Plantations 
 in America, or any Countries on the Continent of Ame- 
 rica, belonging-to or under the Dominion of any Foreign 
 European Sovereign or State, in any Sloop, Schooner, or 
 Vessel owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any 
 such Colony, Plantation, or Country, Rum of the Pro- 
 duce 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 as shall 
 have been brought from the British Colonies or Flanta- 
 tions in America, 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 8. 
 
 * Negroes cere also allowed to be exported to Foreign American 
 Colnmcs. but suck Erpr^rfationis now prohlbiied by Hie Jcl, Jof 
 
 abohslnng the Slave Trade. See " Slaves.' 
 
 Vj 
 
 9. It 
 
iFree i^orts: 
 
 107 
 
 ^SGco. 3. 
 ke Autho- 
 , and For- 
 lin of all 
 itations in 
 on of any 
 ny of the 
 ssel wliat- 
 ng any of 
 125. §2. 
 iimerated 
 ny of the 
 m tries on 
 r the Do- 
 or State, 
 ''orfeiture 
 the same 
 Majesty's 
 and shall 
 directed. 
 
 f the said 
 
 antatious 
 
 of Ame- 
 
 / Foreign 
 
 ooner, or 
 
 iting any 
 
 the Pro- 
 
 ive been 
 
 s owned, 
 
 ; and all 
 
 into the 
 
 s, Pitch, 
 
 as shall 
 
 • Planta- 
 
 American 
 Avid Jilt 
 
 
 9. It 
 
 9. It shall be lawful to export in any British Ship, 
 owned and navigated according to Law, from any of thfe 
 said Ports to any British Colony or Plantation in Ame- 
 rica or the West Indies, any Goods of theManiifactnre of 
 Euro{)<', and any Goods which shall have been legally im- 
 ported into any of the said Ports from any of the Colonies 
 or Plantations in America, or in any Country on the Con- 
 tinent of America belonging to or under the Dominion 
 of any Foreign European Sovereign or State. 45 Geo. 3. 
 c. 57. $i 9. 
 
 10. But if any Doubts shall arise whether any such 
 (ioods intended to be so exported shall have been legally 
 imported into the said Ports, the Legality of such Ini}>or- 
 tatiou shall be made appear to the Satisfaction of the 
 Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Ofliccr of 
 the Customs at the Port of Exportation, before such 
 Goods shall be suffered to be shipped lor Exportation. 
 4-5 Geo. 3. c. 57.^ 10. 
 
 11. All Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, 
 Drugs of ?\\ Sorts, Cocoa, Logwood, Fustick, and all 
 Sorts of Wood for Dyers Use, Hides, Skins, and Tallow, 
 Beaver and all Sorts of Furs, Tortoise Shell, Mahogany, 
 and all other Woods lor Cabmet Ware, of the Growth or 
 Production of any of the Colonies or Plantations in Amc- 
 ricp, or Countries on the Continent of America, belong- 
 ing 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 No. ]) to any Part of the 
 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under 
 the Restrict'.ans, Securities, Penalties, and Forfeiture? 
 provided in 12 Car. 2. c. 18. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. and 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. with respect to the Goods therein enu- 
 merated. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § l\. 49 Geo: 3. c. 22. § 1. 
 
 12. No Goods of the Production or Manuiacture of 
 the East Indies, or other Places beyond the Cape of Good 
 Hope, shall be exported from any of the Free Ports to 
 any other British Colony or Plantation in America or 
 the West Indies, upon Forfeiture thereof with the Ship. 
 4 5 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 12. 
 
 13. If any Foreign A^essel, arrivijig at any of the afore- 
 .said Ports, shall have on board any Goods of the Protluc- 
 tion or Manuficture of the East Indies, or other Places 
 beyond the Cape of Good Hope, such Goods shall be for- 
 ieitctl, will) the vShip in which brought, whether such 
 
 Goods 
 
 Goods of Europe, 
 or which hnvo 
 been imjxjrt.d 
 into the Free 
 Ports, mny i)e 
 exported from 
 thence to other. 
 British Culonics. 
 
 Tn eases of 
 Doiiljt, the Lc- 
 vnlity of Im- 
 p^)rtation to ho 
 made r.ppear tc 
 tiie Ol.'iten. 
 
 Tlie Article' 
 imported into 
 tlio Free Port;- 
 mav be ex- 
 pi;ntd to the 
 United King- 
 dom. 
 
 Last India 
 Goods not to iif 
 exported to an) 
 otlier British 
 
 Colony. 
 
 Fnst Indi;i Good' 
 found on bor.rd 
 Foreign Vessel? 
 forfeited, 
 
108 
 
 No Fees to be 
 charged by the 
 Officers. 
 
 How Penalties 
 and Forfeitures 
 to be recovered 
 and divided. 
 
 Peas and Beans 
 may be imported 
 into the Ports 
 enumerated in 
 No. I. and in 
 the like Vessels. 
 
 jTrce i^orts* 
 
 Goods shall be intended to be landed, or whetlier IJulk 
 shall have been broken or not. 4-5 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 13. 
 
 14. No Duty of Gunpowder, nor any Fee, shall be re- 
 ceived by any Officer in the Free Ports tor any Entry, 
 Cocket, Clearance, or Passport for any Foreign Vessel, 
 or for any Goods imported into or exported in such Fo- 
 
 reign Ships or Vessels, under the like Pains and Penalties 
 as are inflicted upon Officers receiving greater Fees than 
 are allowed by any Act of Parliament now in force for 
 regulating the Fees of the Officers of the Customs in His 
 Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America. 45 Geo. 3. 
 c. 57. § 14. 
 
 15. All Penalties and Forfeitures imposed by this 
 Act may be prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided 
 in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Colonies or 
 Islands in America, in the same Manner and Form, and 
 by the same Rules and Regulations in all respects, as far 
 as the same ai'o a})pHcable, as any other Penalties and 
 Forfeitures imposed by any Act of Parliament made for 
 the Security of the Revenue of the Customs, or for the 
 Regulation or Improvement diereof, or for tlie Regula- 
 tion of Trade or Navigation, and which were in force 
 before the passing of this Act, may be prosecuted, sued 
 for, recovered, and divided in any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Islands in America. 45 Geo. 3. c, 57. § 15. 
 
 16. Peas and Beans, the Growth of any of the Colo- 
 nies or Possessions in the West Indies, or on the Continent 
 of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported 
 into any of the Ports in His Majesty's Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in the West Indies enumerated in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 
 and 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. in Vessels of the like Description, 
 and subject to the like Rules, Regulations, and Restric- 
 tions, as are required by the said Acts, permitting certain 
 Articles to be imported into the Ports enumerated therein 
 in Vessels of the like Description, and subject to the like 
 Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as are required by 
 50 Geo. 3. ' 
 
 21.* 58 Geo. 3. c. 27. §2. 
 
 * Tliia Act (which was made perpetual by 54 Geo. 3. c. 48.) 
 permitted the Importation and Exportation of the Articles, under 
 the Rules and Regulations of 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. in any Foreign 
 Vessel, although having more tlian one Deck. 
 
 17. Any 
 
 i 
 
 ■3( 
 
 Pi 
 
JFree i&ortsf. 
 
 109 
 
 licr Hulk 
 7. § 13. 
 all be re- 
 ly Entry, 
 [n Vessel, 
 such Fo- 
 Penultics 
 [^^ees than 
 force for 
 ns in His 
 bSGeo.S. 
 
 by this 
 I divided 
 »lonies or 
 orm, and 
 ;ts, as far 
 Ities and 
 made for 
 r for the 
 
 Regula- 
 in force 
 ed, sued 
 y's Colo- 
 . 15. 
 
 he Colo- 
 
 )ontineiit 
 
 n of any 
 
 imported 
 
 r Planta- 
 
 3. 0.57. 
 
 i. c. 99. 
 
 cription, 
 
 llcstric- 
 
 g certain 
 
 I therein 
 
 the like 
 
 [uired by 
 
 3. c. 48.) 
 Ics, under 
 r/ Foreign 
 
 17. Any 
 
 17. Any Foreign Vessel described in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 may coujc in Ballast into any Port of the Bahama Islands 
 where there is a Custom-house, and export the Articles 
 allowed by the said Act to bo exported, conformably with 
 the Regulations of the said Act, and also export Salt, sub- 
 ject to the Duty of Tonnage, and under the Regulations 
 nn})osed by 28 Geo, 3. c. 6. — 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 
 Sec " Salt." 
 
 1«. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export, in any 
 British-built ^'essel owned and navigated according to 
 Law, from any of thi' Islands in the West Indies belong- 
 ing to His Majesty to any other of the said Islands, or to 
 .iny of the British Colonies on the Continent of America, 
 and from anyone of the said British Colonies in America 
 to any of the Islands in the West Indies belonging to His 
 Majesty, or to luiy other British Colony or Plantation on 
 the Continent of America, any Goods of the Manufacture 
 of Europe, and any Goods or Prize Goods v/hich have 
 been legally imported into any of the said Islands or Colo- 
 nies, under the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions of 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57.-52 Geo. 3. c. 100. 
 
 19. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export, in any 
 British-built ^'essel owned and navigated according to 
 Law, from the said Island of Newfoundland to any of the 
 Islands in the W est 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 be- 
 longing to His Majesty, or from any one of the said British 
 Colonies on the Continent of America, into Newfound- 
 land, any Goods the Manufacture of Europe, and any 
 Goods or Prize Goods which shall have been legally im- 
 porteil into any of the said Islands or Colonies under the 
 Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions contained in 45 
 Geo. 3. c. 57. — 57 Geo. 3. c. 29. 
 
 1. The Produce of J^urope South of Cape Finisterre 
 may be shipped and laden in any Port 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 
 
 Foreign VeiteU 
 m«y export S.ilt 
 and other 
 Articles from 
 the Bahamas. 
 
 
 CV.r>11, ;„ VT ' CI . .^x ^.. J /~ti -.1 1, 
 
 ^JlIC■^ulun 111 iNUVa OCOLiU, illiU V^^/UUnULlU 
 
 Certain Goods 
 may be exported 
 from one British 
 Island in the 
 West Indies, or 
 Colonies on the 
 Continent, to 
 another. 
 
 The like Goods 
 may be exported 
 from Newfound- 
 laud to the said 
 Islands and 
 Colonies, or 
 from thence to 
 Newfoundland. 
 
 Town ill 
 
 i^iuce Edward's Island, all in North America, on board 
 
 of 
 
 Vessels from 
 British Colonies 
 in North Ame- 
 rica, arriving 
 with the Produce 
 thereof at Places 
 in Europe South 
 of Cape Finis- 
 terre, mrty im- 
 port from theiica 
 Fruit the Pro- 
 duce of Evirope, 
 
no 
 
 fruit* 
 
 Diitie3 
 thereon. 
 
 Oil F.xi)i)n.uloii 
 Irom Nova 
 Scotiii oi New 
 Biiiii'-wick, Oatli 
 to !h.' innvic th:it 
 the Cargo is tlie 
 Pro'iuce of the 
 Provitic'e or of 
 the British 
 Fisiieries ; and 
 Certificates 
 thereof to be 
 jirodiiced. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be exported 
 from Canada 
 without such 
 Oath, on pro- 
 ducing a Cer- 
 tificate of the 
 leguidi' Im- 
 portation by 
 
 of any British Ship owned, navigated, aiul rc'<ri!,tc'icil 
 according to Law, which shall have arrived at any Port 
 of Europe South of Cape Finistcrre with Articles of the 
 Growth or Produce of the snid Colonies, or with Fish 
 taken and cured by His Mfijesty's Subjects carrying on 
 the Fisheries from any of the said C^olonies or Planta- 
 tions, or from any Part of the United Kingdouj, or with 
 any of the Goods herein-jiftor mentioned (See ;No. 4.) 
 from the Province of Canada, whether such Goods shall 
 be the Produce of Ciuiada, or shall have been brought 
 into the said Province by Land or Inland Nfwimition. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. v 2. * 
 
 2. Upon the Importation thereof into any of the said 
 Ports, the same shall be subject and liable to such Duties 
 as Goods of the like Denomination are liable to upon 
 being imported into any of the said Ports from Great 
 Britain. 51 Geo. ti. c. 97. § 3. 
 
 3. The Person exporting a Cargo from Nova Scotia 
 or New Brunswick, tor any Port "of Europe South of 
 Cape Finisterre, shall make Oath at the Port of Ship- 
 ment 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 said 
 Provinces, 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 tlie 
 said Colonies or Plantations, and such Officer shall certity 
 such Oath under his Hand ; which Certificate shall be 
 produced by the Master of the Ship on board of wliich 
 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 Ship shall go lor 
 the Delivery of the Cargo; and the Master shall make 
 Oath before the British Consul, or if there shall be no 
 British Consul, then before Two known British Mer- 
 chants, that the Certificate so produced was the Cer- 
 tificate of the Officer whose Name it bears, and was 
 duly signed by him. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 4. 
 
 4. The Exporter of Wlieat, Flour, Peas. Beans, Oats, 
 Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, White 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; and 
 the Master of the Ship, on his Arrival at any Port of 
 Europe within the Limits aforesaid, shall only be re- 
 
 tjuircd 
 
renristl'IC'il 
 
 niiy Port 
 les of I ho 
 with Fish 
 nying on 
 >r Planta- 
 1, or with 
 e;No. 4.) 
 )0(ls shall 
 I brought 
 iwigatioii. 
 
 tthe said 
 
 •h Duties 
 
 to upon 
 
 jni Great 
 
 va Scotia 
 Soutli of 
 
 of Ship- 
 or before 
 
 that the 
 f the said 
 heries in 
 Majesty's 
 ne of the 
 ill certity 
 
 shall be 
 of wliich 
 ; Port in 
 L'h Cariio 
 111 go lor 
 all nmke 
 ill bo no 
 sh Mer- 
 the Cer- 
 and was 
 
 IIS, Oats, 
 ves, and 
 lank and 
 ike Oatii 
 da ; and 
 Fori of 
 ,' be re- 
 (juircd 
 
 I 
 
 iTruit. 
 
 »|iiired to produce a ('eitilicate from the Chief Orticcr of 
 tlie Cualomsjor the Naval OlHcer in Command at Quebec, 
 that the said Articles were the Growth of or brought into 
 Cauada conformably to the Regulations establislied by 
 Law in the said Province (if any), by Land or luLind 
 Navigati<m, from Countries bordering thereon, and which 
 Certificate such Officer of the Ckistoms, or Naval Officer, 
 is required to grant upon satisfactory Proof being made 
 upon Oath or otherwise, and the Authenticity of such 
 Certificate shall bo sworn to in manner aforesaid by the 
 Master of such Ship, at the Port of Delivery in Europe 
 within the aforesaid Limits. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 5. 
 
 5. Before the Shipment of any Pickled Fish or Dry 
 Fish for Exportation from Canada to any Port of Europe 
 within the Limit? aforesaid, the Person in whose Posses- 
 sion the same has continued from the Time of its being 
 landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in taking it, 
 until 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 F'islieries, taken and cured by His 
 Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fislieries from 
 some of the said Colonies or Plantations; and, upon 
 such Oath being taken, the said Officer of the Customs, 
 or Naval Officer, shall grunt 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 of 
 sucli Certificate in manner aforesaid. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 6. 
 
 6. Any Goods subject to F^orfeiture 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 or Vessels of M^ir, and may' be 
 prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided in the same 
 Marnier, by the same Rules and Regulations, as far as 
 the same are applicable, as any other Forfeiture imposed 
 by any Act made for the Security of the RevcnuOj or for 
 the Regulation or Liiprovement thereof, or for the 
 Regulation of Trade or Navigation, and which were in 
 force on the passing of this Act. 51 Geo. .'3. c. 97. § 7. 
 
 Dry 
 
 111 
 
 Land or Inland 
 Nuvigacion. 
 
 Oath to be made 
 befort' shipping 
 Pickled or Dry 
 Fish from 
 CiiiLida, that It is 
 the Produce ut" 
 thL- Britlsli 
 libhciifs. 
 
 By whom Slilp , 
 and Cioodf may 
 be tfizcd and 
 prosecuted. 
 
 AND WET, IN Brandy and Sugar, in Jars and 
 Bottles. 
 
 ' ' May ue exported froiu Malta, or any of the uc- 
 liendeucies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of 
 
 His 
 
 importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
J 12 
 
 Oftlie Uiilicd 
 States may li; 
 imported into 
 Uerinud.i in 
 1 oreign Vessels. 
 
 May he im- 
 jvrtcd ill Foroigu 
 Vessels into 
 Ports u) be ap- 
 proved by I lis 
 Majesiv in 
 Nov;i broti.i or 
 New Brunswick. 
 
 Subject to such 
 Rules nuvi Re 
 gulHtioiis ns I li'- 
 M:'.jcsty nijy 
 direct. 
 
 1 imitation of 
 
 JTtuit* 
 
 His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, 
 or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty'^ 
 Colonies or Plantutions in North Anioi icu, in British- 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Lew. 55 Ceo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Ceo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 
 See GlUKALTAR. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 8. The Produce of the United States of America may 
 be imported from the said States into Saint George or 
 Hamilton in the Island of Bermuda, iili any Foreign 
 Vessel belonging to any Country in Amity with His 
 Majesty, under the Authority, Restrictions, Rules, 
 Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures provided by 
 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. aiul 53 Cieo. 3. c. 50 57 Ceo. 3. 
 
 c. 28. § 1. 
 
 See Bkrmuda. 
 
 9. Any British-built Vessel owned and navigate<l 
 according to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the 
 Subjects of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His 
 Majesty, may import Fruits into such Ports as shall be 
 specially appointed for that Purpose within the Provinces 
 of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick; provided that the 
 said Fruits slmll not be imjjorted in any Foreign Vessel 
 unless of the (jrowth or Produce of the Country to 
 which the Vessel importing the same shall belong ; and 
 any of the said Fruits may be exported either to the 
 United Kingdom, or any other of His Majesty's Posses- 
 sions, in any British-built Vessel owned and navigated 
 according to Law. 58 (ieo. 3. c. 19. § 1, 2, 3. 
 
 10. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy 
 Council, mny make such Rules and Regulations for the 
 Importation and Exportation of the said Fruits at the 
 siiid Ports, with such Pen.nlties and Forfeitures for the 
 Breach thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to His 
 Majesty, by and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. 
 c. 19. §G. 
 
 11. This Act shall continue in force for the Space oi 
 Three Years from and after the passing of the same*, 
 and until Six Weeks after the Conunonccment of the 
 then next Session of Parliament 58 Geo 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 *Hlh May 1818. 
 
fnxB, 
 
 Anierica, 
 Majesty'h 
 I British- 
 icconUng 
 ;. 4. § 1. 
 
 •ricn may 
 eorge or 
 Foreicn 
 with His 
 , Rules, 
 nded by 
 1 Geo. 3. 
 
 uivigate<l 
 T to the 
 with His 
 i bhall be 
 Provinces 
 that the 
 ,511 Vessel 
 ountry to 
 3ng; and 
 sr to the 
 s Posses- 
 navigated 
 
 [is Privy 
 IS for the 
 its at the 
 3 for the 
 ry to His 
 3 Geo. 3. 
 
 Space oi" 
 e same*, 
 )t of the 
 
 19. §7. 
 
 113 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported, unless to 
 some oilier 
 riantatiiin, or 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 May be im- 
 ported into (he 
 Free Ports in 
 Foreign VesseN; 
 
 1. Beaver Skins, and other Furs, of the Production or 
 Manufacture of the British Plantations in America, shall 
 not be shipped or conveyed iVom any any of the said 
 Plantations to any Place, unless to some other Plantation 
 beloiignig to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland. 
 12 Car 2. c 18. § 18, 19. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 11. 
 7 8C8W. 3.C. 22. §13. 8Ann. c. 13. §23. 8 Geo l. 
 c. 15. § 24. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §24. 27. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §6. 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 10 § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §4. 8. 
 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to 
 secure the landing in the British Plantations, or in 
 Great Britain or Ireland, 
 
 See Asiiiis, Pot, and Pearl. 
 
 2. The Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions m America, or of any Country on the Continent of 
 America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Fo 
 reign European Sovereign or State, may be imported 
 from any ot the said Countries into the Free Ports, in 
 any l^oreign Vessel whateve.-, being owned and navigated 
 by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plant- 
 
 oT' J^^^^""'^' ^•^^- *SGeo.3. c.22. 52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 3. The Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in America, or Countries on the Continent of 
 America, belonging to or under the Domuiion of any 
 foreign European Sovereign or State, imported into the 
 *ree 1 orts, niay be exported from thence to any Part of 
 the United Kingdom under the Rules, &c. of 12 Car 2 
 c. 18. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. and 20 Geo. 3. c.lO with 
 resjject to Goods therein enumerated. 45 Geo S c n^ 
 *9 Geo. 3 c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. o. 99. « Geo So 7*. 
 
 ^ee 1<EEE Ports. 
 
 dPtbraltar. 
 
 TheTracle between Gibraltar and His Majesty's Co- The Trade to 
 omes and Plantations in America shall be carried on in ^' ""!"*''" 
 
 Re^lT"''' ""f "":'^^^^"' ^''^' ^^"^-' Regulationsrand Safff* 
 Restrictions, and subject to the like Penalties and For- M"''-- 
 feitures, as are provided by 55 Geo. 3. c.29. with respect 
 p"i„'I;f.i^^«"^! °^; ^-Jta and Hi, Majesty's ColoniesTnd 
 X .antuaoiis in Aiiienca, as if ti,e same were particularly 
 repeated .n the Body of this Act. 57 Geo. 3.^ c r ^ 
 oee Malta. 
 
 and exported 
 from thence to 
 the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
114 
 
 (Binstv. 
 
 Not lo be ex- 
 ported, unless to 
 some other 
 Plaiitrflioii, or 
 Great Britain 
 or Ireland. 
 
 TLity upon Ex- 
 portation. 
 
 Kow to be levied 
 and disposed of. 
 
 Officers may 
 iiccept a Pro- 
 portion of the 
 Commodity. 
 
 Bond to be 
 given to brini; 
 the s^me to 
 Great Briuin, 
 Ireland, or some 
 British Planta- 
 tion. 
 
 Laws void, if 
 lepuguant to 
 this Act. 
 
 1. The Production of the British Plantations in Ame- 
 rica, sliall 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 Ire- 
 land, there to be laid on Shore. 12 Car, 2. c, 18- § 18, 19. 
 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26^ 11. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 13. 
 8Ann. c,;3. §23. 4- Geo. 3. c.l5. §24.27. 15 Geo. 3. 
 c. 31. § 6. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §1.3 39 & 40 G. 3. 
 C.67. Art. 6. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 4. 8. 
 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to 
 secure the landing in the British Plantations, or in 
 Great Britain or Ireland, 
 
 See Ashes, Pot and Pearl. 
 
 2. There shall be paid to His Majesty One Shilling 
 for every 112lbs. Weight of Ginger shipped in His Ma- 
 jesty's Plantations, if Bond is not first given vith One 
 sufficient Surety to bring the same to Great Britain or 
 Ireland; and the saiu Duty shall be paid at such Places 
 and to such Officers as shall be appointed to receive the 
 same, before the Lading thereof. 25 Car. 2. c 7- § 2. 
 
 3. The said Duty shall be levied by the Commissioners 
 of the Customs in England, under the Direction of the 
 Lords of the Treasury, and shall be deemed to be Ster- 
 ling Money of Great Britain, and paid to the Amount of 
 the Value which such Nominal Sums bear in Great Bri- 
 tain, and according to the Proportion and Value of Five 
 Shillings and Sixpence the ()unce in Silver, and (the 
 necessary Char^^^s of raising and paying the same ex- 
 cepted) shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer. 
 25 Car. 2. c.7. §3. iGco. 1. st.l. c.l2. $4. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. §41. 
 
 4. In case any Person liable to pay the Duty shall not 
 Imve Money to answer and pay the same, the Officers 
 shall accept, instead of such Money, such a Proportion 
 of the Commodity to be shipped as shall amount to the 
 Value thereof, according to the Current Rate . the 
 Commodity in the Plantation. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. § 4. 
 
 5. Notwithstanding the Payment of ihe said Duty, no 
 Ginger shall be .shipped until the Security retiuired by 
 12 Car. 2. c. 18. and 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. has been 
 given to carry the same to Great Britain or Ireland, or 
 some of His Majesty's Plantations, on Forfeiture of Ship 
 and Goods. (See No. 1.) 7 & 8 W^. 3. c. 22. § 8. 
 
 • 6. All Laws, Usages, or Customs, in Force or Prac- 
 tice ill any of the said Plantations, repugnant to this 
 Act, are null and void. 7 & S \V. 3. c. 22. § 9. 
 
 7. If 
 
dBinger. 
 
 in Anie- 
 y of the 
 ■r Plant- 
 [1 orlre- 
 §18, 19. 
 !2. § 13. 
 5 Geo. 3. 
 10 G. 3. 
 
 ures, to 
 
 [IS, or in 
 
 Shilling 
 His Ma- 
 "ith One 
 ritain or 
 h Places 
 ;eive the 
 7. § 2. 
 lissioners 
 m of the 
 
 be Ster- 
 mount of 
 reat Bri- 
 e of Five 
 and (the 
 same ex- 
 :chequer. 
 4 Geo. 3. 
 
 shall not 
 ; Oflicers 
 roportion 
 nt to the 
 te . . the 
 
 §4. 
 Duty, no 
 juired by 
 lias been 
 ehuid, or 
 - of Ship 
 8. 
 
 or Prac- 
 t to this 
 
 7. If 
 
 7. If the Goods shall be laden before the Duties 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 of the Goods, to be 
 computed according to the best Price that the Commo- 
 dity bears at the Place where the Offence is committed ; 
 and all the Boats whatsoever made use of in the Loading 
 shall be forfeited, and may be seized and prosecuted by 
 any Officer of His Majesty's Customs. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 
 §8, 9. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §37. 
 
 8. May be exported from the West India Islands to 
 any Place within the Territories belonging to the United 
 States of America, 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 any British 
 Colony or Plantation in America; provided that no 
 Ginger shall be so exported other than by British Sub- 
 jects, and in British-built Ships owned by His Majesty's 
 Subjects, and navigated according to Law, under For- 
 feiture thereof, and also of the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c.6. §3. 
 
 9. Where, on Exportation of any Goods to any British 
 Colony or Plantation in AnK;rica, a Bond is required for 
 the due landing such Goods, and a Certificate is required 
 to discharge such Bond *, a similar Bond shall be required 
 on Exportation of . uch 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, then under the Hand and Seal of any Officer 
 who may be appointed by the United States for the Pur- 
 pose of granting such Certificates ; and if there shall not 
 be any Officer appointed, then such Bond shall be dis- 
 charged upon a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of 
 any Magistrate of the United States, cei'tifying 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 of the Vessel, that the Goods 
 were there duly landed. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 4. 
 
 ■''•' A Bund in required on the Exportation of Ginger. See iVo. I . 
 
 I 2 10, The 
 
 115 
 
 Shipped without 
 Payment of the 
 Duty. 
 
 Duty on Ex- 
 portation to the 
 United States. 
 
 Where Bond is 
 required on Ex- 
 portation to a 
 British Colony, 
 a similar Bond 
 to be given on 
 Exportation to 
 the United 
 States. 
 
116' 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported to Malta 
 or Gibraltar, 
 
 dPtnger* 
 
 Duty on the 
 Importation 
 from Great 
 Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 To be recovered 
 as other Duties, 
 and applied for 
 the Use of the 
 Colonies v/here 
 found necessary, 
 and the Residue 
 paid into the 
 Exchequer. 
 
 10. The Growth of any of Hia Majesty's Sugar Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in America, may be shipped and 
 reported from thence direct to the Island of Malta or 
 tfie Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in such Ships 
 or Vessels, and under such Licences, Entries, Securities, 
 Kegulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are herein paiti- 
 cularly mentioned. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 f )^i '^^f '^ *^^^^ ^^ P*^^ *° ^^^ Majesty, upon the Sorts 
 ot Glass hereafter mentioned, not being the Manufacture 
 of Great Britain or Ireland, which siiall be imported 
 from Great Britain or Ireland into any Colony or Plant- 
 ation in America under the Dominion of His Majesty, 
 the Duties following; that is to say. 
 
 For every Cwt. Avoirdupois of Crown, Plate, Flint, 
 and White Glass, Four Shillings and Eight-pence: 
 
 For every Cwt. Avoirdupois of Green Glass, One Shil- 
 ling and Two-pence. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 1. 10 Geo. 3. 
 c. 17. §1. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2. 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 Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in 
 Silver, in the same Manner, and by such Rules, Penal- 
 ties, and Forfeitures, as any other Duties payable upon 
 Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plantations 
 may be paid and recovered ; and all the Monies that 
 shall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary 
 Charges of collecting, recovering, and accounting for the 
 ^me) shall be applied in making Provision for the Admi- 
 nistration of Justice and the Support of Civil Govern- 
 ment in such of the said Colonies and Plantations where 
 It shall be found necessary, and the Residue shall be paid 
 mto His Majesty's Exchequer, and be entered separate 
 from other Monies payable to His Majesty, and shall 
 be there reserved to be disposed of by Parliament to- 
 wards defraying the necessary Expences of protecting 
 and securuig the British Colonies and Plantations in 
 America. 5J0&. 4.nri*.o q /. «t a..* ^ 
 
 3. His 
 
 ^ i 
 
gar Colo- 
 pped and 
 Malta or 
 ich Ships 
 Securities, 
 'ein pai'ti- 
 eo. 3. c. 4, 
 
 dt$la0s(« 
 
 117 
 
 or 
 
 3. His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Royal His Majesty 
 Sign Manual, countersigned by the High Treasurer, or ^e DSdeS'* 
 any Three of the Commissioners of the Treasury, may the Use of all 
 cause such Monies to be applied out of the Produce of a"y of the 
 the Duties granted by this Act, as His Majesty shall C°'°"'"- 
 think necessary for defraying the Charges of the Admi- 
 nistration of Justice and the Support of Civil Govern- 
 ment within all or any of the said Colonies or Planta- 
 tions. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 5. 
 
 the Sorts 
 nufacture 
 imported 
 or Plant- 
 Majesty, 
 
 te, Flint, 
 ice: 
 Dne Shil- 
 
 Geo. 3. 
 
 iloney of 
 id to the 
 5 bear in 
 'oportion 
 Ounce in 
 s, Penal- 
 ble upon 
 antations 
 lies that 
 lecessary 
 g for the 
 le Admi- 
 Govern. 
 ns where 
 
 1 be paid 
 separate 
 nd shall 
 nent to- 
 rotecting 
 itions in 
 
 3. His 
 
 1 . Evqry Person importing by Land any Goods into 
 any Colony, Territory, or Place to His Majesty belong- 
 ing or in His Possession in America, shall deliver to 
 the Governor of such Colony, &c. or to such Officer as 
 shall be by him thereunto authorized, within Twenty- 
 four Hours after such Importation, his Name and Sur- 
 name, and a true Inventory and Particular of such 
 Goods. No Ship coming to any such Colony, &c. shall 
 lade or unlade any Goods, until the Master shall have 
 made known to the Governor, or such Officer so autho- 
 rized, the Arrival of the said Ship, with her Name, and 
 the Name of the Master, and have shewn to such Gover- 
 nor or Officer that she is British-built, and registered and 
 navigated according to Law ; nor until the Master shall 
 have delivered to such Governor or Officer a true Inven- 
 tory or Invoice of the Lading, with the Places at which 
 the Goods were taken on board, or Forfeiture of the 
 Ship, and all such Goods, the Manufacture of Europe, 
 as were not laden in Great Britain or Ireland. 15 CaL.2. 
 c.7. §8,. 7&8 W. 3. C.22. §2. 3& 4 Ann. c. 6. § 2. 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §1. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. §1. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2. No Ship required to be registered, and carrying any 
 Goods to or from the British Plantations in A aerica, 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 Plantation where he shall 
 arrive, give a true Account of the Name and Burtlien of 
 
 th 
 
 QVkin „.~,J _il T»^..i.:-._i !• ^_ ^i_ -r^ 
 
 rjiii^, auu uuici- x-uiiicuhuo, uccoruuig u> t«e form 
 
 Imported by 
 Land, Inventory 
 to be delivered 
 to Governor. 
 
 Sh'ps not to 
 unlade until the 
 Master shall 
 make known his 
 Arrival to the 
 Governor, and 
 delivered In- 
 voice : 
 
 nor until the 
 Master makes 
 Oath to the 
 Particulars 
 herein men- 
 tioned, before 
 the Governor or 
 Collector of the 
 Customs. 
 
 following; that is to say, 
 
 13 
 
 A. B. 
 
118 
 
 The Master to 
 come direct to 
 the Custom- 
 house, and make 
 Entry of his 
 •Ship, before he 
 proceeds to the 
 Place of unload- 
 ing ; 
 
 and before De- 
 parture he is to 
 deliver a Content 
 in Writing to 
 the Officer, 
 
 "^ A. B. maketh Oath (or, if a Quaker, solemnly 
 
 * affirms) that the Ship called the whereof 
 
 * he (this Deponent or Affirmant) is the Master, or 
 
 * hath the Charge or Command, being of the Burthen 
 
 * of Tons, came last from and 
 ' that she isj as he verily believes, the same Ship or 
 
 * Vessel described, meant, and intended in and by 
 ' the Certificate now produced by him ; and that 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 any Ship shall unload any Goods in any 
 of His Majesty's Plantations in America before such 
 Proof shall be made, such Ship shall be forfeited and 
 prosecuted in like Man»^er as if she had not been regis- 
 tered. 15& 16Geo. 2. c. 31. § 1. 
 
 3. The Master of every Ship arriving in any British 
 Colony or Plantation in America shall, before he pro- 
 ceeds 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, also 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 had 
 not been discharged out of such Ship, and where^ and 
 the Master of every Ship going out from any l^ritish 
 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 or 
 Place where he shall lade, a Content in Writing under 
 
 U;^ U 1 „f iK_ XT-. _f n _..t- - in 1 .- 
 
 jtic jLiaiiu \ji tiic xTtamc ui jjvcr^ x'ersuii u»io siiiiii iiavf 
 
 laden any Goods, together with the Marks and Numbers 
 
 of 
 
d^DDtlg* 
 
 119 
 
 of such Goods ; and the Master of every Ship, either com- 
 ing into or going out of any 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 Questions as shall be demanded of him by 
 the Collector and Comptroller or other px'incipal Officer 
 of the Customs, concerning such Ship, and the Destina- 
 tion of her Voyage, or concerning any Goods laden on 
 board, upon Forfeiture of it 100 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 Majes- 
 ty's Colonies in America. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 9. 
 
 4. No Goods shall be imported into or exported out 
 of any Colony or Plantation in America belonging to or 
 in the Possession 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 Ireland, in any Ship but what is 
 of the Built of Great Britain, Ireland, the Islands of 
 Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of the Co- 
 lonies, 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 Ma- 
 jesty's Ships of War, or any private or other Ship, and 
 condemned as Prize in any Q/urt of Vice A()miralty, 
 and also except Ships condemned as forfeited in any 
 Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any Court of 
 Admiralty, for any Offence in relation to the Slave 
 Trade ; such Ships respectively being owned by British 
 Subjects, navigated and registered according to Law; 
 on Forfeiture of all Goods otherwise imported, as also 
 the Ship ; and the Commanders of Ships of War are 
 to seize as Prize all Ships offending, and to deliver 
 them to the Court of Admiralty. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 1. 
 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 2. 26. Geo. 3. c. 60. 27 Geo. 3. 
 cl9. §13. 39&40Geo.3. c. 67. Art. 6. 54 Geo. 3. 
 c. 59. § 1. 
 
 For the Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and For- 
 feitures respecting the Navigation and Registry of 
 British Ships, 
 
 See Navigation of British Ships. 
 Registry of British Ships. 
 
 I 4 (1.) Ships 
 
 to ntiswer upon 
 Oath to such 
 Questions as 
 shall be de- 
 manded of him 
 
 Not to be im- 
 ported into or 
 exported from 
 the Plantations, 
 except in British. 
 Iiuilt Ships, or 
 Ships condemned 
 a« Prize, or 
 under the Slave 
 Trade Acts, 
 
 Navigation and 
 Re^'istry. 
 
120 
 
 But American 
 Ships may ex- 
 port 3»lt from 
 certain Islands. 
 
 Ships owned 
 and navigated 
 by Persons in- 
 habiting Colonies 
 under Foreign 
 £uropean Sove- 
 reigns may im- 
 port and export 
 certain Articles 
 from the Free 
 Vorts, 
 
 6. .1 
 
 and import and 
 •zport certain 
 Goods into 
 and from the 
 Bahama Islands. 
 
 Ships in Amity 
 may «xport 
 certain Articles 
 from Bermuda 
 to the United 
 States. 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 00 
 
 
 bo 
 
 o 
 
 (1.) Ships belonging to the Inhabitants ot tTic 
 United States of America, from coming in Bal- 
 last to the Turks Islands, Nassau, Exuma, or 
 Crooked Island, for the Purpose of being there 
 laden with Salt. 28 Geo. 8. c. 6. § 5, 6, 7. 
 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, Asses, 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 
 under the Dominion of any Foreign European So- 
 vereign or State. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 48 Geo. S. 
 c. 35. 50 Geo. 3. c. 21. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 
 54 Geo. 3. c. 48. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 (3.) Any Foreign Ship whatever, described in 
 45 Geo 3. c. 57. from coming in Ballast, or 
 importing into any Port of the Bahama Islands 
 where there is a Custom House, the Articles 
 allowed in the said Act lo 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 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 6 — 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 
 See Free Ports. 
 Salt. 
 
 (4.) Sugar, Coffee, Rum, or Molasses, the 
 Produce of any British Colony in the West In- 
 dies, imported into the Island of Bermuda in any 
 British Vessel, 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 Amitv with His 
 Majesty, above the Burthen of 60 Tons. *52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 79. §1. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. 57 Geo. 3. c.28. 
 
 (5.) To- 
 
 ^ 1 
 
<0DDtl£^. 
 
 121 
 
 6-1 
 
 » 
 
 
 
 
 
 00 
 
 1^ 
 
 *c 
 
 I 
 
 (5.) Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Tvirpentine, Hemp, 
 Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading 
 Boards and Plank Timber, Shingles, and Lumber, 
 Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry 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. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 2. S3 Geo. 3. c. 50. 
 (6.) Fruit or Vegetables, the Growth of the 
 United States, from being imported into the Ports 
 mentioned in 52 Geo. 3. c.79. and 53 Geo. 3. 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. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 
 
 (7.) The usual and necessary Articles of Sup- 
 ply for the Estates of Dutch Proprietors in the 
 
 > Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, in 
 the Province 4' 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 any Restric- 
 tion or Limitation as to the Mariners navigating 
 the same, for the Space of Five Years, commenc- 
 ing from the First Day of January 1816 ; but the 
 Master of every such Ship shall produce to the 
 proper Officer of the Customs in the said Colo- 
 nies, satisfactory 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 
 
 and import cer- 
 tain Articles 
 into Bermuda 
 from the said 
 Statet; 
 
 Tradfc 
 
 !V.a]t K 
 
 irf«ri 
 
 
 
 built, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths 
 of the Crew are Subjects of the King of the Nether* 
 . J lands. 56 Geo. 3, c. 91. § 3, 4. 6. 
 
 (8.) The 
 
 also Fruit and 
 Vegetables. 
 
 Dutch Ships may 
 import from 
 the Netherlands 
 Supplies for th« 
 Estates of Dutch 
 Proprietors in 
 Guiaiia ; 
 
122 
 
 nnd such Ships 
 way exi'ott the 
 Produce of such 
 Kstatc' to the 
 Netherlands. 
 
 Ships of States 
 in Amity may 
 import certain 
 Articles into 
 Nova Scotia or 
 New Brunswick ; 
 
 and export 
 certain Articles 
 from the said 
 Provinces. 
 
 i3j 
 
 © 
 
 .2 
 
 
 
 OD 
 
 
 
 a 
 
 Not to be im- 
 ported from the 
 United States 
 into British 
 West India 
 Islands or 
 Guiana, except 
 certain Articles 
 in British Ships ; 
 
 (8.) The Produce of the Estates of Dutch Pro-" 
 prictors in the Colonics of Dcmerara, Berbiccj 
 or Essecjiiibo, from being exported from tlie said 
 Colonies to the Netherlands, on board such 
 Ships as are described in the preceding Article* 
 56 Geo, 3. c. 91. §1.. 6. 
 See Guiana. 
 (9.) Scantling, Planks, Staves, Heading 
 Boards, Shingles, Hoops, Horses, Neat Cattle, 
 Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and Live Stock of any 
 Sort ; Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Po- 
 tatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain 
 of any Sort; Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Fruits, 
 Seeds, Tobacco, from being imported into such 
 Ports as shall be specially appointed for that Pur- 
 pose by His Majesty, within the Province of Nova 
 > Scotia or New Brunswick, in any Vessel belong- 
 ing to the Subjects of any Sovereign or State in 
 Amity with His Majesty. 58 Geo 3. c. 19. § 1. 
 Sec Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 
 (10.) Gypsum, Grindstones, or other Produce 
 or Manufacture of the said Provinces of Nova 
 Scotia or New Brun.swick, and any Produce or 
 Manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of His 
 Majesty's Colonic* or Plantations in the West 
 Indies, or any Goods which have been lawfully 
 imported into the said Provinces, from being ex- 
 ported from such Ports as shall be specially ap- 
 pointed for that Purpose by His Majesty, within 
 the said Provinces, in any Vessel belonging to 
 the Subjects of any Sovereign or State in Amity 
 with His Majesty, to which the said Articles shall 
 be exported. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 4-. * 
 
 See Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 
 7. No Goods shall be imported from any of the Ter- 
 ritories belonging to the United States of America, into 
 any of His Majesty's West India Islands, in which De- 
 scription 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, 
 
 * The Act 59 Geo. .3. c. 19. is to continue in force for Three 
 Years from Sth Maij 1818, nnd until Sir Weeks after the Com- 
 mencement of the then next Session of Parliament. 
 
 1 2 Yards, 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 Yar( 
 
 , 
 
 Shir 
 
 
 She« 
 
 r' 
 
 Bisc 
 
 
 Oats 
 
 
 bein 
 
 
 said 
 
 
 buill 
 
 
 28 C 
 
 
 c. 7£ 
 
 i 
 
 8. 
 
 
 ban( 
 
 
 who 
 
 
 Islai 
 
 
 any 
 Ami 
 
 
 pose 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 the 
 
 
 like 
 
 
 Pen 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 into 
 
 
 Der 
 
 
 No. 
 
 
 nies 
 
 
 orl 
 
 
 the 
 
 
 Stat 
 
 
 case 
 
 'S 
 
 ^ 
 
 Art 
 
 
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 Sou 
 
 
 c. 3 
 
 
 48 ( 
 
 
 C.9 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 rito 
 
 
 the 
 
 ■^ 
 
 O'.v 
 
 Ne^ 
 
 i 
 
 res] 
 the 
 
I 
 
 Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boardb, 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 Production of the Territories of the 
 said States, imported by British Subjects, and in British- 
 built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law. 
 28 Geo. c. 6. § 1, 2. 56 Geo. 3. c.91. § 1. 52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 79. § 2. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 1. 
 See United States. 
 
 8. Except also Houshold Furniture, Utensils of Hus- 
 bandry, and Cloathing, by Subjects of the United States, 
 who may come to reside in the Bahama or Bermuda 
 Islands, or in the Province of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or 
 any of the Territories belonging to His Majesty in North 
 America, having first obtained a Licence for that Pur- 
 pose. 30 Geo. 3. c. 27- § 1. 
 
 Sec Settlers. 
 
 9. And except Fruit and Vegetables, the Production of 
 the said States, into the said Islands and Colonics in the 
 like Description of Ships, and under the same Restrictions, 
 Penalties, and Forfeitures. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 
 
 10. None of the Articles so allowed to be imported 
 into the West India Islands, or the Colonies of Berbice, 
 Demerara, or Essequibo, from the United States (See 
 No. 7.)j shall be imported into the said Islands or Colo- 
 nies 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 
 Articles from the Free Ports, or from the Territories 
 or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in 
 South America. 28 Geo. 3. c 6. § 10. 1 1. 31 Geo. 3. 
 c. 38. § 1. 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. $ 13. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57- §2. 
 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. § 2. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 5. 56 Geo. 3. 
 c.91. § 1. 
 
 See United States. 
 
 11. No Goods shall be imported from any of the Ter- 
 ritories belonging to the United States of America into 
 
 123 
 
 also Household 
 Furniture, 
 Utensils of Hus- 
 bnndry, nnd 
 Clothing, by 
 Settlers; 
 
 also Fruit nnd 
 Vegetables. 
 
 Articles of the 
 like Description 
 not to be im- 
 ported from 
 Colonies under 
 Foreign Eu- 
 ropean So- 
 vereigns, except 
 in certain Cases. 
 
 New Brunswick, or 
 Saint John's* or 
 
 the Province of Nova Scotia, 
 
 Newfoundland, or any Countiy or Island within their 
 respective Governments, on Forfeiture thereof, and of 
 the Ship ; except certain Articles, the Production of the 
 
 said 
 
 Not to be im- 
 ported into the 
 British North 
 American Colo- 
 nies from the 
 United States, 
 except in cer- 
 tain Cases. 
 
124 
 
 (IBad&0< 
 
 Nor brought by 
 I.tiid or Iiiliind 
 N«vig«liuii into 
 Cinad4, unli'M 
 the Frodiicc of 
 the Utiiteil 
 Statts. 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 jHjrted tVdin 
 Turk's Mauds, 
 except Articles 
 herein men- 
 tioned. 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported from 
 one British 
 Island in the 
 West Indies, or 
 C«lony on tiie 
 Continent, to 
 another ; 
 
 and may also 
 be exported 
 from Newfound- 
 land to the said 
 
 Mid Toi 
 
 for th 
 
 ronitorie«, in cnw? of Emergency or DiittroM, and 
 o Uso of tho InhabitanU and Fwhcnnon at New- 
 foundland or Qnol)Cf, and except alno certain ArlirlcH 
 into Nova Scotia or Now BrnnHwick. 28 (Jeo. 3. c. 6» 
 $ 12, l.S, 14. 29(ico. 8. c. 16. § 1. 30(ieo. S. c. 8. § 1. 
 S9 Geo. 3. c. RO. H*. 58 (ioo. 3. c. 19. 
 
 <SV^ CaPR UrETON. NKWKOUNnLAND. 
 
 Nova Scotia. Quebec. 
 
 New Brunhw!(k. Saint John's. 
 
 12. No Goods, except tlie Produce or Moniiincture 
 of the Territories of the lJnite<l States of America, shall 
 be brou«i;ht from the said Territories by Inland Naviga- 
 tion or t.and Carriage into the Provinces of Upper or 
 Lower Canada, on Forfeiture thereof, or the Value, 
 with the Vessel or Carriage in which the same shall Iw 
 brought ; to be suwl for, recovered, and distributed in 
 the like manner as in case of Offences committetl againat 
 the Laws of Customs in His Majesty's Plantations in 
 America. 52 Geo. 3. c. 55. § I. 
 Sfc UNITED Statks. 
 
 1 9. No Gotxis shall be ex{)ortod from Turk's Islands 
 to any Part of the British Dominions in America, or tho 
 West Indies, or laid on board any Ship in those 1* lands, 
 except Salt, nor from Turk's Islands to (vreat liritain 
 or Ireland, except Salt, or such Goods as nuiy be ini- 
 jwrtctl into Great Britain or Ireland from all other 
 Countries free of all Duties, on Forfeiture thereof, and 
 of the Ship. 28 Geo. 8. c. 6. § 7, 8. 
 See Turk's Inlands. 
 
 14. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export, in juiy 
 British-built Ship, owned and navigated according to 
 Law, from any one of the Islands in the West Indies be- 
 longing to His Majesty, to any other of the said Islands, 
 or to any of the British Colonies on the Continent olf 
 America, and from any of the British Colonies in Ame- 
 rica, 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 
 Europe, and also any Goods or Prize (ioods which shall 
 have been legally imported into any of the said Islands or 
 Colonies, ;;nder the Regulations and Restrictions of 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 67. 52 Geo. 3. c. 100. §1. 
 
 S:^e EuROPE= 
 
 15. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export, in any 
 British-buDit Ship, owned and navigated according to 
 Law, from Newfoundland to any of the Islands in the 
 
 14 West 
 
 tK. 
 
(Boohs. 
 
 Wt'Ht Ituliutt belonging to His Mujeaty, or to nny of 
 the British Colonies on the Continent of America, and 
 from any of the said Islands in the West Indies belong- 
 ing to His Majesty, or from any of the said British 
 Colonies on the Continent of America, into the said 
 Island of Newfoundland ; any Comls of the Manufacture 
 of Europe, and also a.iy Coods or Prize Coods which 
 sliull have been legally imported into any of the said 
 Islands or Colonies under the Regulations and Restric- 
 tions of 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. — 57 Geo. S. c. 29. 
 Sir Europe. 
 
 16. Any Article legally imported into any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Flantaii'' - in America, or 
 any Articles the Production or Mai.u acture of New- 
 foundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies 
 or Plantations in North America, or which have been 
 legally imported into any such Colony or Plantation, 
 may, under certaiti Regulations, be exported to the 
 Island of Malta, or the Dependencies thereof, or to 
 Gibraltar. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §1.8. 57 Geo. 3. c.6. f 1. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 17. No Ship shall be clear- d Outwards for any Colony, 
 Territory, 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 any Officer of 
 His Majesty's Customs may stop any British Ship arriv- 
 ing from any Part of Europe, wliich shall be discovered 
 within Two Leagues of the Shore of any such Colonies, 
 &c., 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, iji some Port of Great Britain 
 or Ireland, certifying that the Goods were there laden. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §30. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §13. 39 & 40 
 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 18. Any Person who shall counterfeit, erase, alter, or 
 falsify any Cocket or Clearance required by this Act, or 
 shall knowingly or wilfully make use of any Cocket or 
 Clearance so counterfeited, &c., shall forfeit d500, and 
 v..^ otuiic 311UU uc ui no juirci't. * Geo. y. c. ii». § y/. 
 
 (1.) Salt 
 
 125 
 
 liUn«l« ur Colo- 
 nies, or from 
 thence to New- 
 foundland. 
 
 Certain Articlai 
 may be e> ported 
 to Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Shipi clearing 
 out from Great 
 Britain or Ire- 
 land, the whole 
 Cargo must be 
 there laden, and 
 a Cocket or 
 Clearance pro- 
 duced. 
 
 Counterfeiting, 
 &c. the Docu- 
 ments, or using 
 the same. 
 
r 
 
 126 
 
 Not to prevent 
 the lading of 
 Salt, Wine, 
 Ornnges, or 
 Lemons, at cer- 
 tain Places 
 herein men- 
 tioned. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 for the Fisheries, 
 and Herrings 
 from Guernsey, 
 Jersey, and Man. 
 
 19. i 
 
 Fruit, Wine, 
 Oil, Salt, or 
 Cork, from 
 Parts of Eurojie 
 South of Cape 
 Finisterre in 
 Ships arriving 
 from the Colo- 
 nies ; 
 
 also Corn and 
 Grain from sny 
 Part of Europe 
 South of Cape 
 Finisterre. 
 
 r ^ 
 
 
 as 
 
 
 1) 
 
 
 o 
 
 CO 
 d 
 
 K 
 bo 
 
 o 
 s 
 
 s 
 
 a; 
 
 L J 
 
 (1.) Salt laden in any Part of Europe, for the 
 Fisheries in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and 
 Quebec, or for any other Place 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 J.emons of the Azores or Madeiras, shipped 
 from thence for Exportation to any of the Ports 
 in the British Colonies in North America. 
 15 Car. 2. c. 7. $ 6. 2 Geo. 3. c. 24. § 7. 
 4 Geo. 3. c, 15. §31. 4 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 1. 
 48 Geo. 3. c. 22. § 1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 89. § I. 
 
 (2.) Goods 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 Inha- 
 bitants of Guernsey or Jersey ; Tools or Imple- 
 ments necessary for the Fishery, manufactured in 
 the Isle of Man ; and Herrings cured there and 
 shipped from the said Isle. 9 Geo. 3. c.28. $1,2. 
 12 Geo. S c. 58. § 4. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 5. 
 ee 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 Port 
 of Europe with the Articles enumerated in this 
 Act. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 1. 
 
 .SVe Cork. Fruit. Oil. Salt, Wine. 
 
 (4.) Corn or Grain laden in any Part of Europe 
 to the Southward of Gape Finisterre, for Export- 
 ation to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, on 
 board any Ship having landed a Cargo of Sugar, 
 Coffee, or Cocoa, imported from the said Sugar 
 Colonies, under the Regulations of this Act. 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § ', 
 
 See Corn and Grain. 
 Cocoa. 
 
 COPI'EE. 
 
 SuciAK. 
 
 (5.) Articles 
 
 19.^ 
 
 1> 
 
 s 
 
 o 
 s 
 S 
 
 "4t 
 
 o 
 .=2 
 
 d 
 
 \ 
 
 
 h. 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 CO 
 
 o 
 :3 
 
<0OOtSg« 
 
 127 
 
 
 s 
 
 
 
 ■^ 
 
 
 o 
 
 ") (5.) Articles requisite as Supplies for the Cul- 
 tivation pt'the Estates in Denierara, Berbice, and 
 Essequibo in the Province of Guiana, or the 
 Clothing, Maintenance, and Comfort of the Resi- 
 dents thereon, shipped in the Netherlands by the 
 Subjects of the King of the Netherlands being 
 Dutch Proprietors in such Colonies respectively. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 See Guiana. 
 (6.) Articles enumerated in the following Sche- 
 dule marked (B.), shipped at Malta, or the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or Gibraltar, on board any 
 British -built Ship, owned, navigated, and regis- 
 tered according to Law, for Exportation direct to 
 any of His Majesty's Sugar Co monies or Planta- 
 tions in America, or to Newfoundland, Bernmda, 
 or any of the British Colonies or Plantations in 
 North America. 55 Geo. 3. c.29. 57 Geo. 3. c.4. 
 
 19. H 
 
 SCHEDULE B. 
 
 
 
 *0 
 
 CO 
 
 Dry and Wet ~^ In Jars 
 . Fruit in Brandy > & 
 
 and Sugar. J Bottles. 
 Pickles in Ditto. 
 Olives. 
 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 Peel. 
 
 Juniper Berries. 
 
 Punk. 
 
 Pumice Stone. 
 
 Emery Stone. 
 
 Whetstone. 
 
 Paintings and Prints. 
 
 INIosaic Works. 
 
 Medals. 
 
 Lava and Malta Stone 
 
 for building. 
 Pczzolana. 
 Jalop. 
 Scaniony. 
 Quicksilver. 
 
 Sarsaparilhi. 
 
 Supplies into the 
 Province of 
 Guiana from the 
 Netherlands for 
 the Estates of 
 Dutch Proprie- 
 tors 
 
 Certain Articles 
 into the Sugar 
 Colonies, &c. 
 from Malta or 
 Gihraltar. 
 
128 
 
 d^OO&g. 
 
 19. i 
 
 On board Vessels 
 
 proceeding on 
 the Voyage. 
 
 
 
 ITS 
 
 CO 
 
 }^ 
 
 Si 
 
 o 
 a 
 
 ao 
 
 Sarsaparilla. 
 
 Saffron, 
 
 Saiflower. 
 
 Musk. 
 
 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 & 
 
 Ambe. . 
 
 Coral. 
 
 Bullion. 
 
 Precious Stones. 
 
 Pearls. 
 
 Corn. 
 
 Grain. 
 
 Meal or Flour. 
 
 Beans. 
 
 Peas. 
 
 Lentils. 
 
 Rice. 
 
 Maccaroni or Vermi- 
 celli. 
 
 Cascasoo. 
 
 Parmesan Cheese. 
 
 Bologna and other Sau- 
 sages. 
 
 Anchovies. 
 
 Caviar. 
 
 Botarga. 
 
 Alabaster, J^ worked. 
 
 Brimstone. 
 
 Cork. 
 
 Aniseed. 
 
 Cumminseed. 
 
 Ostrich Feathers. 
 
 Honey. 
 
 ^ Sponges. g^„. 
 
 hoverin vtithin ^^* Where any Vessel of the Burthen of Fifty Tons 
 th«SiM of'a ^^ under, laden with customable or prohibited Goods, 
 Port and not sball be found hovering within the Limits of any Port 
 on the Coasts of any of the Dominions or Territories be- 
 longing to the Crown of Great Britain, and not proceed- 
 ing on her Voyage for Foreign Parts, Wind and 
 Weather permitting, any Officer 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 soon 
 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 Master shall upon Demand refuse to enter into such 
 Bond, or having entered into the 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 suffered 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 brought on Shore and 
 secured; and in case the Goods are customable, the 
 
 Duties 
 
 4 
 
r. 
 
 f Vermi- 
 
 eese. 
 therSau- 
 
 ifty Tons 
 d Goods, 
 any Port 
 tories be- 
 proceed- 
 ind and 
 onis may 
 iing, and 
 id to His 
 n Goods 
 [, as soon 
 I^ondition 
 ^^age, and 
 't ; and if 
 into sucli 
 t proceed 
 Weather 
 11 permit 
 I!ol lector, 
 Port, not 
 [joods on 
 or other 
 Ihore and 
 able, the 
 Duties 
 
 Duties shall be paid, and any prohibited or other Goods 
 liable to Forfeiture, which may be found on board, shall 
 lie forfeited, and the Officer of the Customs shall pro- 
 secute 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 t)therwise 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 Merchants i^on the Place, that such Goods were 
 tiiere landed, or upon Proof by credible Persons that 
 i^ucli Goods were taken by Enemies, or perished in the 
 Seas, (the Examination and Proof thereof being left to 
 the Judgment of the Commissioners of the Customs) 
 shall be vacated and discharged. 5 Geo. 1. c. 11. §6. 
 3 Geo. 3. c 22. 
 
 21. 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 und&r the Dominion of His Majesty in America, and 
 shall not depart from die Coast, and proceed upon her 
 Voyage to some Foreign Port or Place, within 48 Hours 
 after the Master shall be required so to do by any Officer 
 of His Majesty's Customs, unless in case of ''unavoidable 
 Necessity, and Distress of Weathe}-, such Ship, with all 
 the Goods therein laden, shall be forfeited, whether Bulk 
 sliall have been broken or not, and be seized and prose- 
 cuted by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. §33. 
 
 22. But not to extend to any Ship belonging to the 
 Subjects of the French King, which shall be found 
 fishmg, and not carrying on any illicit Trade, on diat 
 Part of the Island of Newfoundland 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 Point Iliche. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 34. 
 
 23. The Officers of the Customs and their Deputies 
 may go on board any Ship of War or Merchant Ship, 
 and brmg on Shore all Goods prohibited or uncustomed 
 (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 shaii^ be found hi Cabins, Chests, 'Irunks, 
 
 """ " ' ' 'private or secret Place, 
 
 129 
 
 On board 
 Foreign Ships at 
 Anchor within 
 Two Leagues of 
 the Shore, and 
 not departing 
 within 48 Hours, 
 the Goods 
 therein laden 
 lorfeited. 
 
 Not to extend to 
 French Ships 
 fishing on a cer- 
 tain Part of 
 Newfoundland. 
 
 May in certain 
 Cases be brought 
 on shore by the 
 Officers. 
 
 K 
 
 Ml 
 
130 
 
 moi^e. 
 
 IL 
 
 Altering Pick- 
 age and em- 
 bezzling Goods, 
 ov putting tiiem 
 into any other 
 Form or 
 
 Found concealed 
 after discharging 
 the Officers. 
 
 Found concealed 
 after the Master 
 has made his 
 Report. 
 
 Officers may 
 enter Houses, 
 &c. to seize pro- 
 hibited and un- 
 customed Goods. 
 
 in or out of the Hold of the Ship, 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 20 Days after the First 
 Entry of the Ship, to remain in the Storehouse until 
 His Majesty's Duties thereu[wn be satisfied, unless the 
 said Officers shall see Cause to allow a longer Time ; and 
 the Officers and their Deputies may remain aboard until 
 all the Goods are delivered ; and if the Master of any 
 Ship, or any other Person, shall suffer any Truss, Bale, 
 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 cwnes into the Port of her Discharge, 
 in every such Case the said Master shall forfeit j^lOO. 
 13 & 14. Car. 2. c. 11. § 4. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 6. 
 
 24. In case, afler the clearing of any Ship, and dis- 
 charging the Watchmen or Tidesmen from Attendance 
 thereupon, there shall be found on board any Goods 
 which have been concealed from the Knowledge of the 
 Officers, and for which the Duties due upon the Im- 
 portation thereof have not been paid, the Master shall 
 forfeit jfi 100. 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 11. § 5. 7 & 8 W. S. 
 c. 22. § 6. 
 
 25. All Goods which shall be found concealed in any 
 Place on board any 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 anyways consenting or privy to such Fraud 
 or Concealment, shall forfeit Treble the Value of the 
 Goods. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 36. 
 
 26. Any Officer authorized by Writ of Assistance un- 
 der the Seal of the Superior or Supreme Court of Justice, 
 having Jurisdiction within-'the Colony or Plantation in 
 America, may take a Constable, Headborough, or other 
 Public Officer inhabiting near unto the Place, and in the 
 Day-time enter into any House, Shop, Cellar, Ware- 
 house, or Room, or other Place, and in case of Resist- 
 ance, break open Doors, Chests, Trunks, and other 
 Package, there to seize and from thence to bring any 
 Goods prohibited or uncustomed, and secure the same in 
 Hib Majesty's Storehouse, in the Port next to the Place 
 
 where 
 
occasion 
 idulently 
 or which 
 the First 
 use until 
 iiless the 
 ime ; and 
 •ard until 
 r of any 
 iss, Bale, 
 d aboard 
 nbezzled, 
 Package, 
 ischarge, 
 •it j^lOO. 
 2. § 6. 
 
 and dis- 
 tendance 
 ly Goods 
 i^e of the 
 
 the Im- 
 iter shall 
 , 8 W. S. 
 
 id in any 
 e Master 
 lector or 
 lich shall 
 forfeited, 
 er of the 
 le appear 
 :h Fraud 
 ;e of the 
 
 tance un- 
 •f Justice, 
 tation in 
 , or other 
 md in the 
 r, Ware- 
 ►f Resist- 
 nd other 
 •ring any 
 e same in 
 the Place 
 where 
 
 d5oofi0. 
 
 where such Seizure shall be made. 13&H«Car. 2. 
 c.ll.§5. 7&8W. 3. c.22. §6. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 10. 
 
 27. If any Action or Suit shall be commenced in Ame- 
 rica, against any Person for any Thing done in pursuance 
 of this Act, the Defendant in such Action or Suit may 
 plead the General Issue, and may give this Act and the 
 Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had there- 
 upon, and that the same was clone in pursuance 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 discontinue his Action after the Defendant 
 shall have appeared, or if Judgment shall be given upon 
 any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the De- 
 fendant shall recover Treble Costs, and have the like 
 Remedy for the same as Defendants have in other Cases 
 by Law. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 11. 
 
 28. If any Goods liable to the Payment of Duties in 
 any British Colony or Plantation in America, shall be 
 loaden on board any Ship outward bound, or shall be 
 unshipped or landed from any Vessel inward bound, be- 
 fore the Duties due thereon are paid agreeable to Law ; 
 or if any prohibited Good s shall be imported into or ejc_- 
 ported out of any of the said Colonies or Plantations, 
 contrary to~This or any other Act of Parliament; every 
 Pe rson who shall be assisting or otherwise concerned in 
 th ^loading outwards , or in the unshipping or landing 
 inwards such Goo ds7 or to whose Hands tlie sam e shall 
 kriowijgb[ come after the loading or unshipping thereof^ 
 shamorevei"y Offence fc feit Treble the Value of such 
 Goods, to be estimated and computed according to the 
 best Price the Commodity bears at the Place where such 
 Offence Wii-; committed ; and all the Boats , Horses , Cat- 
 tle, and other Carriages whatsoever, made use of in the 
 T oading, landing, renioying, carriage , or conveyance of 
 any of the aforesai d Goo ds, slfall also be forfeited, and 
 may be seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His 
 Majesty's Customs. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §37- 
 
 29. Every Merchant passing any Goods inwards or 
 outwards shall, by himself, or his known Servant, Factor, 
 or Agent, subscribe one of his Bills of every Entry with 
 th,. Mark, Number, and Contents of every Parcel oi' such 
 Goods as are rated by the Piece, or Measure or Weight 
 of the whole Parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by 
 ihe Weight, wiihoul wliicli the Officer ^hali not suffer 
 
 K 2 any 
 
 131 
 
 The Defendant 
 in any Action 
 may plead the 
 General Issue. 
 
 Treble Costs 
 allowed. 
 
 Shipped, un- 
 shipped, or 
 landed without 
 Payment of 
 Duty. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Marks, &c. to 
 he subscribed by 
 Mercliant on 
 one of his Bills 
 of Entry. 
 
132 
 
 Landed by Bill 
 at Sight, View, 
 or Sufferance, 
 wliere to be ex- 
 amined. 
 
 Not to be 
 carried from one 
 British Colony 
 or Plantation to 
 another without 
 a Sufrerance,and 
 the Master to 
 take out a 
 Cocket. 
 
 any Entry to pass. 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 1 1 . § 10. 7 & 8 
 W. 3. c. 22. §6. 
 
 30. All Foreign Goods permitted to be landed, and 
 taken up by Bills at Sight, View, or Sufferance, shall be 
 landed at the most convenient Quays appointed by the 
 Officers, and not elsewhere ; and there, or in His Ma- 
 jesty's Storehouse of the Port, at the Election of the Offi- 
 cers, shall be measured, weighed, and numbered by and 
 in the Presence of the Officers to be thereunto particularly 
 appointed, who are to perfect the Entry, and subscribe 
 their Names, and the next Day give Account to the 
 Collector and Comptroller, on Forfeiture of .^100, unless 
 reasonable Cause (to be allowed by the Collector or 
 Comptroller) can be shewn for the Delay. 13 & 14> Car. 2. 
 c.ll. §21. 7& 8 W.3. C.22. §6. 
 
 31. No Goods shall be laden on board any Ship in any 
 of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, to be 
 carried from thence to any other British Colony or Plant- 
 ation, without a Sufferance 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 shall, 
 before the Ship be removed from the Port of Lading, take 
 out a Cocket, expressing the Quantity and Quality of 
 the Goods, and Marks of the Package, with the Mer- 
 chants Names Hy whom shipped, and to whom consigned, 
 and if they are Goods that are liable to Duty either upon 
 the Importation into or Exportation from the said Colo- 
 nies or Plantations, the Cocket shall distinctly specify 
 that the Duties have been paid for the same, referring to 
 the Times or Dates of Entry and Payment of such Du- 
 ties, and by whom they were paid ; which Cockets shall 
 be produced by the Master to the Collector, or other 
 principal Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place 
 where such Vessel shall arrive in any of the British 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, before any Part of 
 the Goods are unladen ; and if any Goods shall be shipped 
 without such Sufferance or Warrant, or the Ship shall 
 depart without such Cocket, or the Goods shall be landed 
 before it is produced at the Port or Place of Discharge, 
 or if the Goods do not agree in all respects therewith, the 
 same shall be forfeited; and any Officer of His Majesty's 
 Customs may stop any such Ship which shall be discover- 
 ed within 'V\ " 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 of a 
 
 li) 
 
 of tl 
 
 ic Bri- 
 tish 
 
or 
 or 
 
 tish Colonies or Plantations in America, and seize all 
 Goods which shall be found on board for which no such 
 Gocket shall be produced to him. 4 Geo. 3. c.l5. §29. 
 
 32. Not to require any Sufferance or Cocket for any 
 Goods the Growth, Product, or Manufactme of the Bri- 
 tish Colonies or Plantations in America, which are not by 
 any Act of Parliament made in Great Britain liable to 
 any Duty either upon the Impoitation into or Exporta- 
 tion from the said Colonies or Plantations, nor are pro- 
 hibited to be exported from thence, which shall be laden 
 in any Boat, Flat, Shallop, or other Vessel without a 
 Deck, not exceeding the Burthen of 20 Tons, and shall 
 be carried within any River, Lake, or any other inclosed 
 Waters within the said Colonies or Plantations, and shall 
 not be carried out to Sea further than One League from 
 the Shore. 5 Geo. 3 c.45. §25. 
 
 33. Any Person who shall counterfeit, rase, alter, 
 falsify any Affidavit, Certificate, Sufferance, Cocket, 
 Clearance required or directed by this Act, or knowingly 
 or wilfully make use of the same, shall forfeit .^100, 
 and such Affidavit, &c. shall be invalid and of no effect. 
 4- Geo. 3 c. 15. § 32. 
 
 34. No Goods shall be laden in any of His Majesty's 
 Dominions, with Intent to be carried to Africa, to be 
 there bartered for Slaves, or otherways employed in the 
 Afiican Slave Trade. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. 
 
 See Slaves. 
 
 35. Goods found upon any Persons that were stolen 
 or carried off from any Ship stranded, or in danger of be- 
 ing stranded, upon the Coast of any of His Majesty's 
 Dominions, shall immediately upon Demand be delivfired 
 to the Owner, or in default thereof the Person on whom 
 found shall be liable to pay Treble the Value, to be re- 
 covered by Action at Law. 12 Ann. stat. 2. C. 18. § 4. 
 
 See Ships Stranded. 
 
 36. 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 War- 
 rant for searching for such Goods ; and if they are found 
 in Custody oi any Person not legally entitled to keep them, 
 and the Owner "or Occupier o? the Plact, or the Person 
 in whose Custody they are found, shall not immediately 
 
 K 3 deliver 
 
 133 
 
 Documents not 
 required in cer- 
 tain Cases. 
 
 Counterfeiting 
 Documents, or 
 makinij use 
 thereof. 
 
 Nat to be l:iden 
 for Africa to 
 be bartered for 
 Slaves. 
 
 Stolen or carried 
 offfrom stranded 
 Ships. 
 
 Warrants may 
 be granted for 
 searching for 
 such Goods. 
 
134 
 
 Alay be seized 
 by any Person to 
 whom they are 
 offered to Sale, 
 and Olfenders 
 may be com • 
 niitted to Gaol. 
 
 Manifests of 
 Goods on board 
 Ships clearing 
 out for Great 
 Britain or 
 Ireland to be de- 
 livered to the 
 Officers. 
 
 (BOOM, 
 
 ddivCT them upon Demand to the Owner or Person law- 
 fully authorized to demand them, or not ffivinff a good 
 Account how he came by them, such Person shall be 
 committed to Gaol for Six Months, or until he pays the 
 Owner Ireble the Value of the Goods. 26 Geo 2 
 c. 19. §3. 
 
 See Ships stranded. 
 37. Such Goods suspected to have been unlawfully 
 taken a^ ay and offered to Sale, may be seized by the 
 Person tawhom 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 1 eace, 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 
 employed huii, the Goods shall, by Order of the Justice, 
 be delivered over to the Use of the Owner, upon Payment 
 of a reasonable Reward for the Seizure, to be ascertained 
 by the Justice, who is also to commit the Person who 
 offered th^i to Sale to Gaol for Six Months, or until he 
 has paid Treble the Value of the Goods to the Owner. 
 26 Geo. 2. c.l9. §4. 
 
 See Ships stranded. 
 38. Before any Ship shall be cleared out for Great Bri- 
 tain or Ireland, with any Goods from any Port or Place 
 in any Colony, Plantation, or Territory belonaing to or 
 under the Dominion of the Crown of Great Britain, the 
 Master of such Ship shall deliver a Manifest or Content in 
 Writing, signed by such Master, to the Collector of the 
 Customs, if there be such an Officer at or near to such 
 Plac^ and if there shaU 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 
 Ofhcor or Magistrate, or some other Person by him spe- 
 cially appointed for that Purpose, resident at o/ nearest to 
 such l^lace, containing the Names of the Ports or Places 
 vvhere the Goods in such Manifest or Content mentioned 
 shall have been respectively laden, the Name and Built of 
 mch Ship, and the true Tonnage thereof according to the 
 Register with the Christian and Surname of the Master, 
 and the Port or Place to which such Vessel truly belongs 
 and a correct and particular Account of all the cirgo, and 
 ot all Packages of Goods taken on board, with the Marks 
 therc-on ana of the Particulars of the Cargo which* is 
 stowed loose, and of the following Particulars in Words 
 
 at 
 
ceoDDe^* 
 
 135 
 
 at Length, (that is (o say) the Numbers of the Packages, Particulars to be 
 
 with a particular 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 Description as the same is usually called or known; and 
 
 such Collector, Chief Officer, or Magistrate, or other 
 
 Person by him appointed, shall cause a Duplicate of such 
 
 Manifest to be made, and indorse upon the Original his 
 
 Name, with the Day and Year on which the same was 
 
 produced, and return the Original to the Master on or 
 
 before the clearing of such Ship ; and such Collector or DupHcate to be 
 
 other Chief Officer or Magistrate, or other Person, shall, ^f"cmisf nmT 
 
 upon the clearing of sucli Ship, immediately transmit the and the 'ori^inlV 
 
 said Duplicate to the Collector and Comptroller of the indorsed. 
 
 Customs at the Port in Great Britain or Ireland to 
 
 which the Goods are consigned, and to which the Manifest 
 
 refers. 26 Geo. 3. c. 40. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. 
 
 Art. 6. 
 
 39. A Manifest, under the Hands and Seals of the 
 Officers, required for Tobacco laden at any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Colonies, Plantations, or Territories, to be con- 
 veyed to Great Britain or Ireland. 29 Geo. 3. c.68. §J7. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 See Tobacco. 
 
 (1500tl2( (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, 
 
 Ashes (Pot and Pearl). 
 Coffee and Cocoa Nuts. 
 Copper Ore, 
 Cotton Wool. 
 Furs. 
 Ginger, 
 Hides. 
 Indigo. 
 
 Masts, Yards, and Bow- 
 sprits. 
 12Car.2. c. 18. §18. 
 
 Molasses. 
 Pimento. 
 
 Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine. 
 Rice. 
 
 SUk (Raw).. 
 Skins. 
 Sugar. 
 Tobacco. 
 
 Whale Fins. . ' ; 
 
 Wood (Dying). . ^ 
 
 3 & 4 Anne, c. 5. § 1 2. 8 Geo. 1 ., 
 
 Enumerated 
 Articles required 
 to be carried to - 
 some other 
 British Planta- 
 tion, or Great 
 Britain or Ire- 
 land. 
 
 c. 15. § 24. 8 Geo. 1. c. 22. § 6. 2 Geo, 2. c. 35. § 16. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 
 K4 
 
136 
 
 Iron and Lum • 
 her may be 
 landed in any 
 Part of America 
 and in Af ricj, 
 hut in no Part of 
 Lurope except 
 (Jreat Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 (SOOhSi (Non-enumerated)- 
 
 No Iron or Wnor^ roii^^ t. l ., 
 
 Condition of the 
 
 Bond. 
 
 But Lumber 
 may be carried 
 to the Madeiras 
 orWestern Isles, 
 or any Part of 
 Europe South of 
 Cape Finisterre, 
 u^on the Bond 
 Herein directed. 
 
 1. MO Iron or Wood called Lumh*-r th^ n. .u 
 Production, or Manufacture of any 7t5rBrkfsh C ' 
 
 Specked Wood, Sweet-wood, stn Ipt ' Oa\^ pi"ank' 
 
 Plantations until sufficient Bond shall be given ^ h 
 One Surety besides the Master of the Ship, to the Col 
 lector or other prmoipal Officer of the Custl at the 
 
 ncj}^o\ '^^^.^"^'^"^o" «* the Bond shall be to bring 
 aXertificate m Discharge thereof within 18 Months from 
 
 of'th? ;r^^°"^\""^ ""h^" Six Months^ sueh 
 of the said Goods as shall be entered for or landed !n 
 any of the Bnt.sh Colonies or Plantations in Amerlcr- 
 
 ^h.clT ^^^. J^^^ector, or other principal Officer of 
 the Customs resident at the Port or Place where such 
 Goods shall be landed, testifying the Landing hereof 
 and for such of the said Goods as^ shall be entered for o.' 
 landed at any other Place in America, AfricaTor Asia Z 
 bring the like Certificate within 12 Months under f hi 
 
 HandTandlel ^^ ^^-^.^^^^-ter o^ unt tt 
 Wands and Seals of Two known British Merchant, 
 residing there; or such Bond or Bonds shall be SarcTed 
 m either of the said Cases by Proof upon Oath Iw^^^^^^ 
 dible Persons, that the said Goods were taken by EnLT^ 
 or perished m the Seas. 4 Geo. 3. c I5. § 28. ^ Tg^s 
 c 45 §23. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6 '' 
 
 rrn J;"V^^*'^- '^'^ "^^"^ ^^"^^^ Lumber, of the 
 Growth, Production, or Manufacture of an^ Brit sh 
 Coonyor Plantation in America, may in like manner 
 be there laden on board any Ship or V^sel, o beTS 
 from thence to the MaHpir«« ^^ fi,. ixr_!:.'_ , , carried 
 the Azores, „. to any piS-„?i„ ^e l^Te SoXSf 
 
 Cape 
 
13? 
 
 d^DOD^ (Non-enumerated). 
 
 Cape Finiaterre, upon sufficient Bond beiiijr given, in the 
 Penalty and in the Manner directed by the said Act, with 
 Condition tliat the said Goods shall be there landed ac- 
 cordingly, and not in any other Part oF Europe, except 
 Great Britain or Ireland ; and that Certificates, testifyine 
 the Landing thereoF, shall be produce<l to the Collector, or 
 other Principal Officer, where Bond shall have bees given 
 within 18 Months from the Date of such Bond, under 
 the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate, or under the 
 Hand and Seal of the British Consul, or Hands and Seals 
 of Two known British Merchants residing where such 
 Goods shall be landed ; and upon the producing of such 
 Certificate, or Proof upon Oath being made by Two cre- 
 dible Persons that the said Gootls were taken by Enemies, 
 or perished in the Seas, the said Bond shall be dis- 
 cliarged. 5 Geo. 3. c. 45. § 23. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. 
 Art. 6. 
 
 3. No Rum or other Spirits shall be shipped or laden Rum „ot to (,» 
 on board juiy Ship m any Britisli Colony or Plantation ^^n^ed on the 
 in America, but on Condition that the same shall not be ^'^° "' ^^"'■ 
 carried to or landed in the Isle of Man, under the like 
 Securities, Penalties, and Forfeitures as are prescribed 
 
 in 12 Car. 2. and 25 Car. 2. or either of them, with re- 
 spect to the Goods in those Acts particularly mentioned 
 5 Geo. 3. c. 39. § 5. 
 
 See Ashes (Pot and Pearl). 
 
 4. The Master of every Ship that shall take on board 
 any Goods not particularly enumerated in any of the 
 Plantation Laws, shall, together with One Surety, give 
 Bond in the like Penalty as is provided for Goods enu- 
 merated ; and such Bond shall also be given to the Col- 
 lector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at any 
 1 ort or Place in any of the British American Colonies or 
 PlantaUons where the Vessel shall be laden, with Con- 
 dition 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 dis- 
 charged in the Manner hereafter mentioned ; that is to 
 say, For such of the said Goods as shall be entered for 
 or landed in Great Britain or Ireland, the Condition of 
 the Bond shall be, to bring a Certificate in Discharge 
 thereof within 18 Months from the Date of such Bond. 
 
 , — ' ' •^-■^ -i^'iu""is lur sucn oi ihe saia uooas as shall 
 
 be entered for or landed in any of the British Colonies 
 or Plantations in America; which Certificates shall be 
 
 under 
 
 Goods not par- 
 ticularly enuMe. 
 rated in the 
 Plantation Laws, 
 not to be landed 
 in any Part ot 
 E.irope to the 
 Northward of 
 Cape finisterre, 
 except Great 
 Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
138 
 
 Exception as to 
 certain Pons. 
 
 Non , numerated 
 Goods (except 
 Rum) may be 
 la^ided in Guern- 
 sey or Jersey. 
 
 blasters of Ships 
 to take Certifi- 
 cates that Bonds 
 have been given, 
 
 to tfS ucilvcfcd 
 
 up at the Port 
 of unlading. 
 
 (i5OO&0 TNiON-ENUMERATEu). 
 
 under the Hands and Seals of tlie Collector tuid Comp- 
 troller, or other I^incipal Officer of the Customs resi- 
 dent at the Port or Place where such Goods shall be 
 landed, testifying the Landing thereof; and for such of 
 the said Goods as shall he 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 Com- 
 mqii 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 Per- 
 sons, 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 
 manner as any other Forfeiture against the Laws of the 
 Revenue may be prosecuted. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. §30, 31. 
 7 Geo. 3. c. 2. ^ 1 . 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 5. Not to extend to Ships which shall be bound to some 
 of the Ports of Spain within the Bay of Biscay. 6 Geo. 3, 
 c. 52. § 31. 
 
 6. Any Non-enumerated Goods (except Rum) laden 
 in any British American Colony or Plantation, may be 
 landed in Guernsey or Jersey ; and all the Regulations 
 of the 6th Geo. 3. c 52., 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 
 Jersey, as fully as if the said Islands had been excepted 
 and named in the said Act, and may be cancelled and 
 discharged by the Certificate under the Hands and Seals 
 of the Magistiates 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 re- 
 spectively, testifying the landing of such Goods, in the 
 same manner as if the Goods had been landed in Great 
 Britain or Ireland. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 3. 
 
 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 such 
 
 Officers 
 
<I500DjS (Non-en iTMERATrD). 
 
 139 
 
 Officers are required to grant, without Fee or Reward, 
 that Bond hath been given pursuant to the Directions of 
 this or any other Act, as the Caae shall require; and the 
 Master 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 of the Customs at 
 the Port or Place where he shall discharge his Lading, 
 eUher in Great Britain, Ireland, or any British American 
 Colony or Plantation, on Forfeiture oi' £100 for every 
 Offence. 4 Geo. S. c. 15. § 24. 39 & 40 Geo. S. 
 c. 67 Art. 6. 
 
 6. If any British Ship laden as aforesaid with any If Certificate. 
 Goods of the Produce or Manufacture of any British ""' I'f^'*'""''. 
 Colony or Plantation hi America, shall be discovered by SrSf"fe, 
 any Officer of His Majesty's Customs within Two 
 Leagues of the Shore of any British Colony or Planta- 
 tion in America, and the Person taking Charge of such 
 Ship shall not produce a Certificate that Bond has been 
 given pursuant to the Directions of this or any otlier Act, 
 as the Case may require; or if he shall not -produce such 
 Certificate to the Collector or other Chief Officer of the 
 Customs where he shall arrive in Great Britain, Ireland, 
 or any British American Colony or Plantation; such 
 Ship and all the Goods therein laden shall be forfeited. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 25. 39 & 40 Geo, 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 lited. 
 
 dPOOllS (East India). 
 
 I or 
 
 1. No Commodity of the Growth, Product, or Manu- Not to be im- 
 tacture of the East Indies, or other Places within the P°«ed unless 
 Limits of the Company's Charter, shall be imported or Sii" ""'''' 
 carried into any Plantation, Colony, Territory, or Place Ireland, 
 o His Majesty or to the Crown of Great Britain be- 
 onging in America, unless bona fide and without Fraud 
 iaden in Great Britain or Ireland, in Ships navigated 
 according to Law, on Forfeiture of such Goods or the 
 Value thereof, together with the Ship in which imported: 
 and such Ship and Goods shall and may be seized, and 
 the same or the Value thereof shall and maybe prosecuted 
 m any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster 
 or m Dublin, or in any of His Majesty's Courts in such 
 i-and. Island, Colony, Territory, or Place where the 
 
 t;^« 1 ••• c.....xx«ticvi, uy J3UI, x-iamt, or iniorma- 
 
 !"'> V '^''f, ^«Esso]gn, Protection, or Wager of Law 
 
 m One Iniparlance ; 
 One 
 
 more 
 
110 
 
 (I5OOD0 (Kast India). 
 
 One Tliinl |»,iu oC the siiid Foilrihiir slinll Ix' l(»i tl 
 list' of I lis IVla|(slv, Our 'lliin! V,ut (<> (lie ( 
 
 <tv<Mii(»r o 
 
 Olli 
 
 ivi!. ccmiiiv 
 
 Im 
 
 poll. 11 II III 
 
 .siicli I.iiiul, IshiiKJ, ('(ilonv, or Pliuv when- flio ( Xlinte 
 .sliiill l)r c.oinniincd, niui (li(> oilier Tliinl Purl, (o Uu, 
 IiironiU'i- or l»io,s(>(iifoi ; mid if jiiiy Olliicr ai llu' Cm- 
 
 or 
 
 l"'!!.!:::::!;'''"" '-""^ •" "•«' «"'«' C«»i«»nics, IMmHaiions, 'l\.nil,ori( 
 
 IMiuy.s ulorcsaid, shall willingly «>r kiiowiiifrly nmnivo nt 
 the fniudiilt'iii Iinportatioii of any sikIi ('oiiinioditics ; or 
 il any sutli ( Xliccr shall (aluMipoii him to siizr any ortht- 
 •said C'onniiodilics, and shall hy Krand or Collusion dcsisi 
 or doliiy (h«> Pro.si'onlion ihm'oF (o ('ondcnination, he 
 shall lorUit ../fiOO, to he sued for and rirovored in 
 manner alorosaid ; and .snch Olliifr shall also for the 
 futiue 1)0 inoapabU* o{' holdin<r any OUico or Kniploy- 
 
 N>»t to Im I'K- 
 (h 
 
 nit'nt nndfr I lis IVIajrslv, 7(]vo.'\. st. I 
 .*{!) iS; .K) Cro.tU c. (jV. Art. (J 
 
 No (iiHuls of the (irowlh, Prodnct 
 
 51. §9. 
 
 ion, or Mnnn- 
 
 Cl.!:;",''" 'r""'^ :''','''^" '•"'• indies, or other Places beyond the 
 oiiui c\.l.mi.-s ; ^'"P^" <>' ^'oikI llope, shall, npon any Pretence w hate 
 be e\[)oiti>d Iroin any of the Free' Ports, to any o 
 
 Hritish Colony or 
 Ind 
 
 Plantati 
 
 vor, 
 ther 
 
 on in America or the West 
 
 ies, on l\)rfeitnri> th(>reof, and of the Ship. 1.', ( Jeo. 3. 
 
 i, 12 
 
 oi liliHIi'Jlt iiltii 
 
 If 
 
 StY Vhvm PoH'rs. 
 
 ai 
 
 ree 
 
 l-.H 
 
 leh'ii Mups 
 
 ly !u)rei^ii Ship arriving- n1 any of the f- 
 
 i-:::^,.!^;;^-;" ''*»''^ ^i'"" ''"^»' «^" i>^>'"«» ^jiy doods oi- the (Jmuii 
 
 I'roduction, or Mannfaclure «»f th«> I-:a,st Indies, or other 
 Places beyond the (lape ot (Jood Hope, snch (ioods shall 
 Ih> foHeited, ton;ether with the Ship in which the same 
 shall be brousjfhl, whether such Cn)ods shall be intendc<l 
 to be landed or not, or whether Hulk .shall have been 
 broken or not. Hi (Jeo. ;?. c. 57. § 13. 
 Si'i' FiiKF. Ports. 
 
 To t.ike 0.ltll^ 
 for tlic iluo Ob- 
 »frv.nK\> titAi^s 
 rol.«tiin; toHJic 
 PUiuatii^is, 
 
 6otoetnor«. 
 
 1. The Ciovernors or Commanders in Chief of any 
 Hritish (.'olony or Plantation shall, at their Entrance 
 upon their respective (iovermnents, or within Six Months 
 nfter tho same, take a solemn Oath before such Persons 
 as shall be apiiointed by His Majesty, to do their utmost 
 that all the Matters contained in any Act of Parliament 
 heretofore made and now in force relatintr to the .said 
 Colonies and Plantations, and all the Clauses contiiincd 
 in i Geo. 5. c. 15. shall be punctually observed, ac- 
 
 co 
 
 rd 
 
 ing 
 
(orcling to iho true ineaniiifr thereof, so fur uh appertuins 
 unto them ; and upon Coniplaiiit ami Proof iiiatle before 
 His Majc«st>', or such as shall be by him thereunto autho- 
 rized and appointed, by the Oath of Two or more 
 credible WiUiesses, that any of the said (iovernors or 
 Coiiinianders in Chief have ncsglecled to take tlie said 
 Oudi, or have b<'en wittingly n<'gligent in doing their 
 Duty, the (Jovernor so neglecting or ofFending hhall be 
 removed from his Ciovernment, and tbrfeit i.'l()00. 
 7 & 8 W. 'A. c. 22. § 4.. 8 He yW.'J. c. 20. $ 09. 
 1. (leo. 3. c. 15. § .'Jl>. 
 
 •2. Naval OlKcers are within Two Montlu, or as soon 
 a« convenient niter their l-jitrance upon their OfKces, to 
 give Seoiirity to the Commissioners of the Custcmis, for 
 His Majesty's Use, tor the ffithful Terformance of their 
 Duty, and in Delimit then of, shall be disableti to execute 
 the Ollice; and until such .StHMnity is given, and the 
 Person appointetl is approved l)y the Connnissioners, the 
 (iovernors shall be answerable for any the Offences, 
 Neglects, or Misdemeanors of the Persons by them 
 ap{)oiuted. 7 & 8 W. y. c. 22. § 5. 
 
 3. No Officer in any Colony, Plantation, or Foreign 
 Possession belonging to the Crown of Oreat Britain, 
 shall be granted either by Patent under the Cireat Seal, 
 or by Commission under His Majesty's Sigti Manual, or 
 by any other Commission or Instrument under which 
 Officers in Colonies have been heretofore or may here- 
 after be granted, for any longer Time than dining such 
 Time as the Person appointed shall reside in the Colony, 
 Plantation, or Foreign Possession, and execute the Duty 
 of such Office in Person, and behave well therein. 
 '22 Geo. 3. c. 75. § 1. 54. Geo. 3. c. Gl. § 1. 
 
 4. If any Person holding such Office sJiall be wilfully 
 absent from the Colony or Plantation wherein the same 
 ought to be exercised, without a reasonable Cause, to be 
 allowed by the Governor and Council of such Colony or 
 IMantation, or shall neglect the Duty of such Office, or 
 oUierwise misbehave therein, such (iovernor and Council 
 inay amove such Person from his Office ; and in case any 
 I'ersou so amoved shall think himself aggrieved, he may 
 uppeal therefrom, as in other Cases of Appeal from such 
 Colony oi Plantation ; whereon such Amotion shall be 
 finally judg pd of by His Mniestv in Coimcil. 22 Geo. s. 
 
 141 
 
 Naval Officers 
 to give Security, 
 otherwise th« 
 Govtrnors to be 
 aiwwerable. 
 
 No Officer to be 
 :ijipoiii'.ed in the 
 I'laiitations for 
 any longer time 
 than lie shall 
 reside therein 
 and execute the 
 Duty in Person. 
 
 Wilfully absent 
 or niisbehavini^, 
 may be amoved. 
 
 75. ^ 2. 
 
 But 
 
142 
 
 /^ 
 
 dSotoetnors. 
 
 Leave of Ab- 
 sence may be 
 granted by Go- 
 vernor and 
 Council. 
 
 Leave of Ab- 
 sence to be re- 
 ported, and if 
 not confirmed 
 by Secrot.iry of 
 State, the Offi 
 cer must return 
 to the Colony. 
 
 Penalty for not 
 reporting I^eave 
 of Absence. 
 
 A Rei:um of 
 absent Officers to 
 be laid before 
 Parlidment. 
 
 Not to affect 
 certain Ap. 
 pointments. 
 
 5. But tlie Governor and Council of any Colony or 
 Plantation may give such Leave of Absence as they shall 
 see Occasion ; and in such Case, as likewise in the Case 
 of Vacancy occasioned by Death or Amotion, may })ro- 
 vide for the due Discharge of the Duties of such Offices 
 until the King's Pleasure shall be known. 22 Geo. 3. 
 c. 75. § 3. 
 
 6. 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 same, to which he shall have been 
 appointed subsequent to the passing of this Act, the Go- 
 vernor or Lieutenant Governor, or other Person admi- 
 nistering the Government, shall, within One Week after 
 granting the Leave of Absence, report the same to One 
 of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for Con- 
 firmation ; and in case it shall not be confirmed within 
 One Month from the Date of such Report having been 
 received by the Secretary of State, the Officer shall forth- 
 with return to the Colony, Plantation, or Foreign Pos- 
 session, and in default thereof shall be deemed to have 
 vacated the Office, and his Appointment shall be con- 
 sidered void. 54 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 2. 
 
 7. Every Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other 
 Person admmistering the Government of any Colony, 
 Plantation, or Foreign Possession, who shall neglect to 
 report as before directed such Leave of Absence, shall 
 for such Neglect forfeit a Sum not exceeding .^100, to 
 be recovered by Action of Debt in any of His Majesty's 
 Courts of Westminster, within One Year after the Ar- 
 rival in England of the said Governor, or Person ad- 
 ministering the Government. 54 Geo. 3. c. 61. ^3. 
 
 8. Within Six Weeks after the openingof every Ses- 
 sion of Parliament there shall be laid before the House 
 of Commons, a Return of all 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. 54 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 4. 
 
 9. Nothing in this Act contained shall operate to the 
 Prejudice of any subsisting Grant of any Office, or shall 
 be construed to affect any Appointment, or any Leave ol' 
 Abst'iicc granted previous to the passing of this Act, or 
 
 any 
 
any renewed Grant of Office M-liich may be made in con- 
 sequence of the Demise oftlio Crown to any Person now 
 liolding the same ; and no Provision of this Act shall be 
 applicable to any Office granted or to be granted by tlie 
 East India Company, or to any Rules, Regulations, or 
 Provisions made by the Company, witli respect to the 
 Appointment or Leave of Absence of any of their Civil or 
 Military Servants. 54 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 5. 
 
 10. In Cases where the Governor or Officers of the 
 Customs of any British Colony or Plantation shall have 
 reasonable Ground of Suspicion that the Certificate re- 
 quired by these Acts from the Officers of the Customs in 
 Great Britain or Ireland, of Bond having been given for 
 carrying enumerated Goods to some other British Plant- 
 ation, or to Great Britain or Ireland, is false or coun- 
 terfeit, the Governor or Officers shall require sufficient 
 Security for the Discharge of the Plantation Lading in 
 Great Britain or Ireland ; and such Governor or Officer 
 shall not in such Case cancel or vacate the Security, until 
 informed from the Commissioners of the Customs, that 
 the Matter of the Certificate is true ; and any Person 
 who shall countei-feit, rase, or falsify any Certificate for 
 any Vessel or Goods, or knowingly or wilfully make use 
 thereof, shall forfeit .€500, and the Certificate shall be 
 of no effect. 12 Car.2. c.l8. § 19. 7&8 W.3. c.22. §10. 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §1. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 11. The Governors or their Commanders in Chief of 
 His Majesty's Plantations are, once a Year at least, to 
 turn to His Majesty's Officers of His Customs in the Port 
 of London, or such other Person as His Majesty shall ap- 
 point to receive the same, a List of all such Ships as 
 shall have laden any enumerated Goods in such Planta- 
 tions, as also a List of all the Bonds taken by them. 
 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 12. 
 
 12. No Ship coming to any Plantation, Colony, or 
 Place to His Majesty belonging in America, shall lade 
 or unlade any Goods, until the Master sliall have made 
 known to the Governor ther(i>f, or such Officer as shall 
 be by him thereunto appointed, the Arrival of the Ship, 
 with her Name, and the Name of the Master, and 
 ^hewn that she is British-built, navigated and registered 
 Jiccording to Law, nor until ho shall have delivered to such 
 Oovernor or other Officer a true Inventory or Invoice 
 t>i the Lading, together with the Places in which the 
 (roods were takeu on boartl, under pain of the Loss of 
 
 the 
 
 143 
 
 May require 
 Security for 
 landing Planta- 
 tion Goods if 
 Certificate 
 suspected to be 
 f.ilse. 
 
 Lists of Bonds 
 and Ships taking 
 enumerated 
 Goods tp be 
 sent anriually to 
 Officers of the 
 Customs. 
 
 Masters of Ships 
 to make known 
 the Arrival to 
 Governor, and 
 deliver Invoice. 
 
144 
 
 May seize cer- 
 tain Articles 
 landed before 
 Entry. 
 
 To make Re- 
 gibiry of British 
 Ships. 
 
 To appoint Her- 
 sotui to ad- 
 measure Ships. 
 
 May grant 
 Licence for tlie 
 Removal of 
 Slaves. 
 
 To take Chnnje 
 of Slaves cap. 
 tured or seized. 
 
 the Ship, smdotall such Goods, the Production or Ma- 
 nufacture of Europe, as were not bona fide laden in Great 
 Britain or Ireland. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 8. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 C.22. §2. 4 Ann. c 6- §2. L'O Geo. 3. c. 10. §1. 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67- Art. 6. 
 
 13. Sugar, Indigo, or Wine, unshipped or landed 
 before due Entry and Payment of Duties, or without a 
 Warrant signed by the proper Officer, may be seized bv 
 the Governor or Commander in Chief of the Colony or 
 Plantfition where so unshipped or landed, or by any Per- 
 son by him authorized. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 3. 4- Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. § 1. 
 
 14.. The Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Com- 
 manders in Chief of the British Colonies or Plantations, 
 and the Principal OfHcers of the Customs there, autho- 
 rized to make Registry of British Ships, and grant 
 Certificates of such Registry. 15 Geo. 2. c. 31. §2. 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 3. 
 
 See Registry of British Ships. 
 
 15. The Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Com- 
 manders in Chief of the British Colonies or Plantations, 
 shall appoint Persons to examine and admeasure every 
 Ship previous to 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 Cer- 
 tificate thereof. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. §12. 
 
 See Registry of British Ships. 
 
 16. The Governors of any Colony or Territorj' belong- 
 ing to or under the Dominion of His Majesty, or any 
 Person executing the Office or Function of Governor, by 
 Authority from His Majesty, may grant Licence fo/ the 
 Removal of Slaves from one Britiah Colony to another. 
 46Geo. 3. c. 52. §13,14. 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. §4. 
 
 See Slaves. 
 
 17. The Governor, or Lieutenant Governor, or other 
 Person exercising the Authority of Governor in any 
 British Colony or Plantation, may authorize the Col- 
 lector or Chief Officer of the C astoms 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 Proceedings and 
 until the Court shall have made its Decree, condemning or 
 restoring the said .Slaves. 55 Geo. 3. c. 172. § 1. 
 
 See Slavls. 
 
(Bvtnaha. 
 
 145 
 
 Food and 
 Articles for the 
 fishery may be 
 there laden. 
 
 fhe Port of Saint George in Grenada, one of the Free St. GeoT^e, a 
 Ports for the Importation and Exportation of certain ^"« '^•' 
 Articles in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 (t5rt'ntl0tOne0. See « Gypsum.* 
 
 (I5uerngep anfi 31ersep. 
 
 1. Any Person inhabiting Jersey or Guernsey, may 
 lade in the said Islands, and transport directly from 
 tiience to any of the British Colonies or Plantations 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 fit and neces- 
 sary for the Fishery in those Parts, or for the Use and 
 Support of the Mariners or other Persons employed on 
 btnrd the Ships, or on Shore, in carrying on the 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 
 Produce of Great Britain, Ireland, or of Guernsey or 
 Jersey. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 
 
 2. 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, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, or Com- 
 mander in Chief, that Oath had been made by the Ship- 
 per before the Magistrates of the Royal Courts, or any 
 Three of them, that the Goods and Victuals so shipped 
 are of such Product or Manulacture; M'liich Certificate 
 shall also be attested by the principal Officer of the Cus- 
 toms in the said Islands, who shall certify that the said 
 Oath was taken in his Presence ; and on Failure of pro- 
 ducing such Certificate, such Food, &c. 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. 9 Geo. 3. 
 C.28. §2. 
 
 3. Any non-enumerated Goods (except Rum, Irojj, 
 ;md Lumber,) laden in any British American Colony, 
 »nay be landed in Guernsey or Jersey. 9 Geo. 3. c 'iS. (> 'j. 
 
 Sec Goods, non-en umekati;-d. 
 
 L 
 
 But a Cenificate 
 must be pro- 
 duced as to their 
 Produce and 
 Manufacture . 
 
146 
 
 The Act 
 a8 Geo. ^. c. 6. 
 regulating Inter- 
 course with the 
 United .States, 
 extended to the 
 Colonies in 
 Guiana. 
 
 Duty on Rum in 
 ■Newfoundland. 
 
 Supplies for the 
 Estates of Dutch 
 Proprietors, may 
 be imported 
 from the 
 NL-iherl.mds. 
 
 !n esse <if Dis- 
 jjte. Proof to 
 Ic on tlv D'utch 
 Propriitcrs. 
 
 1. The Privileges and Advantages, Regulations, Re- 
 strictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures in 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 
 with respect to Trade between His Majesty's Colonies 
 and Plantations in North America and the West India 
 Islands, and the Countries 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 Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo in the 
 Province of Guiana. 56 Geo..3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 See United States. 
 
 2. There shall be collected and paid, upon Rum im- 
 ported into Newfoundland from Demerara, Berbice, and 
 Essequibo, the Sum of Sixpence for every Gallon, to be 
 recovered and applied in the like Manner, and under the 
 like Penalties and Forfeitures, as are provided by 52 Geo. S. 
 c. 106. with respect to Rum imported into the said Island 
 from any British Colony or Plantation in the West 
 Indies. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 2. 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 3. Any of the Subjects of the King of the Nether- 
 lands, being Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, Berbice, 
 or Essequibo, may import from the Netherlands into the 
 said Colonies respectively, all the usual and necessary 
 Articles of Supply for their Estates, or the Clothing, 
 Maintenance, and Comfort of the Residents thereon, not 
 to exceed what may be deemed necessary for the parti- 
 cular Estates for which they are to be imported, and to 
 be actually applied to such Purposes, and not for Trade : 
 and in case of Seizure of any such Articles on the Ground 
 of their beiiig imported in the way of Trade and not as 
 Supplies, the Proof that such Articles are Supplies, and 
 imported under the Conditions of the Convention con- 
 cluded between His Majesty and the King of the Nether- 
 lands, shall lie on the Dutch Proprietor importing the 
 same ; and if such Proof is given, in consequence of any 
 Dispute arising thereupon, before the Collector or prin- 
 cipal Officer of the Customs (who are empowered to ad- 
 minister an Oath or take Affidavit for the Purposes of 
 any such Examination and Proof), the Goods shall be 
 admitted to Entry; provided the hnporter enters into 
 Bond with Two Sureties, in a sufficient Sum, to abide 
 the Decision of the Board of Customs in England upon 
 such Seizure; and Wine as a Medicine, and necessarv 
 Article of Supply, inav be imported to such a limiteti 
 
 Extent 
 
wmam. 
 
 Extent as maybe necessoiy as a Medicine, and shall be 
 liable to the Duty of 10s. per Ton. 56 Gvu. 3. c. 91. § 3. 
 
 4. The Subjects of ('le King of the Netherlands, behig 
 Dutch Proprietors in the said Colonies of Denierara, 
 Berbice, or Essequibo, may export from thence to the 
 Netherlands the Produce of their Estates. 56 Geo. 3. 
 c. 91. §4. 
 
 5. AH Subjects of the King of the Netherlands, resi- 
 dent in His said Majesty's European Dominions, who 
 were, at the Date of the Signature of the said Conven- 
 tion, Proprietors of Estates in the said Colonies ; and all 
 Subjects of His said Majesty, who may hereafter become 
 possessed of Estates then belonging to Dutch Pro- 
 prietors therein ; and all such Proprietors as being then 
 resiuont in the said Colonies, and being Natives of His 
 Majesty's Dominions in the Netherlands, who may have 
 declared within Tliree Months after the Publication of 
 the Convention iu the said Colony, that they wish to 
 continue to be ( onsidered as such ; and all Subjects of 
 the King of the Netherlands 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 the Right of exporting from the 
 said Colonies to the Netherlands the Produce of such 
 Estates, shall be deemed Dutch Proprietors ; provided 
 that where both Dutch and British Subjects have Mort- 
 gages upon the same Property, the Produce to be con- 
 signed to the different Mortgagees shall be in proportion 
 to the Amount of the Debts respectively due to them. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §5. 
 
 6. All such Importation from the Netherlands into the 
 said Colonies for the Supply of Estates therein, and Ex- 
 portation of the Produce of such Estates to the Nether- 
 lands, may be carried on in any Ships being the Pro- 
 perty of Subjects of the King of the Netherlands, where- 
 ever built, and without any Restriction or Limitation as 
 to the Mariners navigating the same, for Five Years, 
 commencing from the 1st Day of January 1816,- pro- 
 vided the Master of such Ship shall produce to the 
 proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs in the Colony, 
 satisfactory Proof of the said Ships being ownetl by a 
 Subject of the King of the Netherlands ; provided also, 
 vicit me xvuig VI ihc i\einenanas may, at any Time 
 before the Expiration of the Five Years, direct that such 
 Trade t-lmil be curried on only in !juch Ships as are 
 
 L U Dutch- 
 
 147 
 
 Dutch Proprie- 
 tors may export 
 to the Nether- 
 lands the Pro- 
 duce of their 
 Estates. 
 
 Who are to be 
 deemed Dutch 
 Proprietors. 
 
 Such Importa- 
 tions and Ex- 
 portations may 
 be carried on in 
 Dutch Ships. 
 
14S 
 
 To he liable to 
 the siime Duties 
 and Restrictions 
 fls the like 
 Articles are 
 subject to. 
 
 Dutc^i Proprie- 
 tors not to ex- 
 port the Produce 
 of their Estates 
 to His Majesty's 
 Dominions. 
 
 Importations in 
 consequence of 
 the Convention 
 to be deemed 
 
 Ijuful. 
 
 d^utana. 
 
 Dutch-built, and whereof the Master and Three-fourths 
 of the Crew are the Subjects of His said Majesty ; and 
 that after 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 His said Majesty the King of the Nether- 
 lands. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §6. ' 
 
 7. All such Importations and Exportations shall be 
 subject to the same Duties as are payable by His Ma- 
 jesty's Subjects on Importations and Exportdtions 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 are provided by the Acts^now in force 
 for the Landing of the like Articles in Great Britain, aa 
 far as applicable. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 7. 
 
 8. But it shall not be lawful for Persons who by 
 virtue of this Act may be entided to trade between the 
 said Colonies and the Dominions of the King of the 
 Netherlands, to export the Produce of their Estates 
 within the said Colony to any Part of the United King- 
 dom, or to any other of His Majesty's Dominions in 
 Europe. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 8. 
 
 9. All Importations and Admissions to Entry made 
 in consequence of any of the Articles of the Convention, 
 shall be lawful and effectual, as if the same had been 
 made in pursuance of this Act, and all Persons con- 
 cerned therein shall be indemnified in respect thereof. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 9. 
 
 ini[iortatiQln 
 allowed fioni 
 Malta or 
 4Jibraltar. 
 
 Sam&—Mu'bit, S&aetit, £Pprr|), 
 ^itilv, ann :«mmon<ae. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of 
 His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, 
 or to Newfouutlland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 
 See GiBUALTAU. 
 
 Malta* 
 
1. Maybe exported from any Ports specially appointed 
 for that Purpose by His Majesty, within the Province of 
 Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, in any British Vessel, or 
 any Vessel belong! ng to the Subjects of any Sovereign 
 or State in Amity with His Majesty ; provided that the 
 Articles shall not be exported from the said Ports to any 
 Foreign Country or Place in any Foreign Vessel, unless 
 such Foreign Vessel shall belong to the Country to 
 which the Articles shall be exported. 58 Geo. 3. 
 c. 19: § I.*, 5. 
 
 2. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy 
 Council, may make such Rules and Regulations for the 
 Exportation of the said Articles at the said Ports, with 
 such Penalties and Forfeitures for the Breach thereof, as 
 shall seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, with the Ad- 
 vice aforesaid. 58 Geo. .S. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 3. This Act shall continue in force during the Space 
 of Three Years from and after the passing of the same *, 
 and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then 
 Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 149 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported in Foreign 
 Shi()s from Poitt 
 to be appointed 
 by His Majesty 
 in Nova Scotia 
 or New Briing- 
 wick ; 
 
 subject tosurli 
 Regulations a<s 
 His Majesty 
 shall think tit. 
 
 Limitation of 
 Act. 
 
 ^ats and jFeltg. 
 
 1. No Hats or Felts shall be put on board any Ship 
 in any Place within the British Plantations, nor laden 
 upon any Horse, Cart, or other Carriage, to the Intent 
 to be shipped off or conveyed out of the said Plantations, 
 to any other of the British Plantations, or to any Place 
 whatever, f 5 Geo. 2. c. 22. § 1. 
 
 2. 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 Offence, and wittingly aiding 
 and assisting therein, shall forfeit £4iO. 5 Geo. 2. 
 c. 22. § 2. 
 
 3. Any Person may seize, and secure in His Majesty's 
 next Warehouse, all such Hats and Felts as he shall dis- 
 cover to be on board any Ship or Boat, or brought or 
 laid on Shore at or near the Sea, or any navigable River 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported to any 
 Place whatever. 
 
 Forfeited if 
 shipped, and 
 Penalty on 
 Offendeis. 
 
 Intended to be 
 exported may b» 
 seized by any 
 Persons, 
 
 * 8th Mau 1818. 
 
 t By 52 Geo. 3. c. 100. and 57 Geo. 3. c. 29. any Goods the 
 Produce or Manufacture of Europe, or any Prize Goods, may be 
 exported from one British Colony to another. See " Europe." 
 
 L 3 o"" 
 
150 
 
 Peiuilty on Offi- 
 cers signing 
 Documents for 
 the Exportation 
 or conniving 
 thereat. 
 
 OfTencps maybe 
 licird in the 
 County where 
 Goods laden or 
 Offender appre- 
 hended. 
 
 Of the United 
 States may be 
 imported into 
 the West India 
 Islands and 
 Colonies in 
 Guiana in British 
 Ships J 
 
 ^at8 anb gate. 
 
 or Water, to the Intent to be exported, or to be laden 
 ii) '^r. any Horse, Cart, or other Carriage to the Intent 
 f.. be exporte<l or conveyed into any other Plantation or 
 1 uice ; and such Person seizing any Commodities shall 
 be uidenmified for so doing. 5 Geo. 2. c. 22. § 3. 
 
 4. If any Commissioner, or other Officer of the Cus- 
 toms ot any Phxce within the British Plantations, or any 
 (Jfhcer employed in the Management of the Revermes, 
 shall 1 ike any j:ntry outward, or sign any Cocket, 
 Warrant, or Sufferance for the sliipping or exportintf 
 any Hats or Felts, or shall wittingly sufler the s'une to 
 be done, in every such Case such Commissioner, &c. 
 sigmng such Cocket, Warrant, or Sufferance, or passing 
 sucii Entry, or conniving thereat, shall for every Offence 
 torteit his Office and ^500. 5 Geo. 2. c. 22. § 4. 
 
 5. 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 Offence, or where any of 
 the Goods shall be seized or brought in; and the Trial 
 shall be m such ManneV and Form as if the Offence had 
 been wholly commuted in the same County or Place 
 where tried in pursuance of this Act. 5 Geo. 2. 
 
 c. 22. 5 5 
 
 i^cmp anD fUx^ 
 
 and m,;y be im- 
 ported in o Ber- 
 muda in Foreign 
 Ships, ;uid ex- 
 ported ui British. 
 
 1. The Growth or Production of any of the Territo- 
 ries of the United States of America, may be imported 
 trom 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 Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo 
 in the Province of Guiana ; but the said Articles shall 
 '^\ -IT .V"^'''''^^'^ *^^^^Pt by British Subjects, and in 
 British-bmlt Ships, owned and navigated according to 
 Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. 6. § 1, 2. .56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § I. 
 
 2. The Growt!. or Production of the said Territories, 
 maybe imported from thence into Saint George, or 
 Hamilton in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign 
 Ship belonging to any Country in Amity with Kis Ma- 
 .lesty, and exported from the said Ports to any of His 
 Majesty s Islands or Dominions iu the Wes'. Indies, in 
 
 British- 
 
I^emp mh jFlajc* 
 
 151 
 
 FJritish -built ShipSj owned and navigated according to 
 Law. 52 (ieo. 3. c. 79. § 2, 3. 53 Geo. 3. c 50. § 1. 
 
 3. Not to be imported into His Majesty's West India Not t^ ^^e m- 
 Islands (including the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers cdonicrunder 
 Islands), or into the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Foreign Euro- 
 Essequibo, from any Island in the West Indies, or P"n States; 
 Colony ci Plantation on the Continent of South America, 
 
 under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign 
 or iState, on Forreiture thereof and of the Ship. 
 28 Geo. 3. C. 6. § 10. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 1. 56 Geo. 3. 
 c. 91. § 1. 
 
 4. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the except in case 
 Governor, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in ^J^^;J^J''|JJ^'^^>y'^j. 
 Chief of any of the said Islands in the West Indie, the inhabitants. 
 under the Dominion of His Majesty, or the Governors, 
 
 &c. of the said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Esse- 
 quibo, 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 Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonies re- 
 spectively ; provided that such Hemp and Flax 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. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 1 1. 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 5. In case any Hemp or Flax which shall have been imponed for the 
 imported from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony Hf^ "n^^Jl^^ot 
 on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion to be exported ; 
 of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into any of and before ship- 
 His Majesty's West India Islands, or Colonies of Deme- ip"J thaTrl^a'/be 
 rara, Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of the Inha- exported, Proof 
 bitants as aforesaid, shall, after such Importation, be ex- to be made that 
 
 1 1 1 r-ii • IT 1 i> i. the ArticicB 
 
 ported or put on board any Ship, Vessel, or boat, or ^^grenot im- 
 brought to any Quay with Intent to be so exported, the pond tor suciv 
 same shall be forfeited, as also the Ship, Vessel, or Boat ="PP'y- 
 in which laden; 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 before 
 
 liic v,ulicv;iUi Ui ine \^U3f>>i;i3 itidi. iivf JTml lliv-ltv .irt»i 
 
 been so imported, under such Authority as aforesaid, 
 from any Island in the West Inches, or Colony on the 
 
 L 4) Continent 
 
152 
 
 ^m» ana fuv. 
 
 False Oaths 
 deemed Perjury 
 
 May b« im- 
 (Wftcd froin the 
 Portuguese 
 Dominions in 
 South America. 
 
 By whom 
 Seizures may be 
 made. 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported unless to 
 some other 
 Plantation, or 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 amtment of bouth America, under the Dominion of 
 any Fo e.gn European Sovereign or State. 29 Geo. 3. 
 C.91 /i! • °' ^' ""• ^^- ^ 3' *• 56 Geo. 3. 
 
 On^k I^ ''7- ^^'■'°" !^f ^^ convicted of taking a false 
 Oath touching any of the Facts reouired to be testified on 
 OaUi, uch Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and 
 
 ithl^t '"t^ ^T''^"' Penaltieslowiich Person Tre 
 liable for wilfiil and corrupt Pcrjuiy, and may be prose- 
 cuted in any Court of Record in oVeat Brit^, orfn^y 
 of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West Ind^s! 
 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. J 2, 3. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. « 5. 
 
 7. l)unng the Continuance of the Treaty with Portuiral 
 any Person may import into any of the said We't Sa 
 
 "ds/oTror^- '^'f,'^'^- - Bermuda or Somer^ 
 Inlands), or Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, 
 
 soL nf\7 ^'""^ ^^^"^ '^' ^^°^^^ °r ProductL of 
 
 Portu.nl n'7'7.''r'' ^' ^«"^>"i«"« of the Crown of 
 lortugalin South America; provided the same is im- 
 ported into the said Islands or Colonies direct from the 
 said Territories or Dominions, in British-built Ships, 
 owned navigated and registered according to lLw 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 4.7. $5. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 8. The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts mav 
 be seized by the Commanders of any of His MaiesTv^ 
 Ships or Vessels of War, or by anv Co^mmiSn^ /'wJr! 
 Inv Offi %?r^''.'/?''"^"y^"^^°^i^^d bythem or by 
 
 * J^ttie0 and mine, 
 
 aLv?/. *i' if'^^'^ru""."^ *^" ^''^'^'^ Plantations in 
 America, shall not be shipped or conveyed from any 
 
 ler p'n. ,?^""f r"^to ^ny Place, unless to some 
 other Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great 
 Britam or Ireland. 12 Car! 2. c. 18. §18, 19 22 & 2^ 
 Car. 2. c. 26. § 1 1 . 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 1 3 4 G^o 3 
 
 V's^Vl /o'^^'!' ^•^^- §^- ^0Geo.'3^e.;0 
 c. 91 § 4. 8 *"• ^'^' ^'^- ^' ^^ ^^«- ^• 
 
 ^Z±lTtt!,';^l'J^^^^^ Forfeitures to 
 
 Brhain «; I'rltdf "' "" ^^-^^^^o-^ or in Great 
 See Ashes, Pot and Pearl. 
 
 2. The 
 
i5:f 
 
 May b« iiil- 
 portcd into the 
 Free Ports in 
 Foreign VcikcU ; 
 
 '2. The T lodact on of any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in A menu , or of any Country on the Continent of 
 America, ^l'^' Uig to or under the Dominion of any 
 Foreign x^u <"\ i Sovereign or State, may be imported 
 from arjy of i.ic said Countries into the Free Ports, in 
 any ForL;i|»n \ ^ sel whatever, being owned and navigated 
 by Persor * i^biting any of the said Colonies, Pla^ta* 
 fions, or Countri'^8. 45 Geo 3. c. 57. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 
 .52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 3. The Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in America, or Countries on the Continent of Ame- 
 rica, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign iongdcini 
 European Sovereign or State, imported into the Free Ports, 
 jnay be exported n-om any of the said Ports to any Part of 
 the United Kingdom, under the Rules, &c. of 12 Car. 2. 
 c. 18. 22 & 23. Car. 2. c. 26. and 20 Geo. 3- c 10. with 
 respect to Goods therein enumerated. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 id Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 See Free Ports, 
 
 and exported 
 from thence ti> 
 the ITiiited 
 
 i^Ogg. See '• Cattle." 
 
 I^oncp, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Dominions Importation at- 
 thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's MaUa w"" 
 Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to New- Gibraltar. 
 fbundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies 
 or Plantations in North America, in British-built Ships, 
 owned, navigated, and registered according to Law. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5, 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 ^OXBtS* See " Cattle." 
 
 |^nif^(>hnlh 4Fiirnttiirr 
 
 - VS--^*- T 
 
 See " Settlers." 
 
154 
 
 Importation 
 allowed tVoiu 
 Malta or 
 Gibr.iUar. 
 
 3&U9> 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependen- 
 cies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct lo any of Mis Ma- 
 jesty's Siigai- Colonies or Plantations in America, or to 
 Newioinidland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo 
 nie,s or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 h.;ips, owned, navignted, and registered according to Law. 
 ry5 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5, 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 Src Gfbhaltak. 
 Malta. 
 
 3^rnaita. 
 
 Irtc I'oi'.t. 
 
 lJiiii-.li Slii|'.s not 
 to sail lo or from 
 S.iiiit Uoiuingo. 
 
 Forei;;n Ships 
 from thencu, not 
 to cuter ;iiiv 
 Port or land .my 
 Person on the 
 M.nid, 
 
 Not to prohibit 
 intercourse with 
 Places under the 
 Spanish (Jovcrii- 
 ment. 
 
 Slii|)s under 
 Convoy tn.iy 
 touch at Jamaica, 
 
 1 . Certain Articles allowed to be imported into arid ex- 
 porleii from Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay, 
 iSiintu I.ucea, Antonio, Saint Ann, Falmouth, ami Maria, 
 m Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 
 See FiiKE Pouts. 
 
 2. No British Ship shall, under any Pretence, sail 
 trom any Place hi Jamaica to any Place in Saint Do- 
 nungo, nor from any Place in Saint Domingo to any 
 Place in .Jamaica, except as herein-after provided, tinder 
 the Forfeiture of such Ship, t< gether with her Carao. 
 52 Geo. 3. c.35. §1. ^ 
 
 3. No Foreign Ship, whether laden or in Ballast, 
 shall come into 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 Person, or shall con- 
 tinue in any Port or Harbour of Jamaica for 18 Hours 
 after Notice shall be given by the Principal Officer o( the 
 Customs resident at the Port to depart therel'rom, such 
 Foreign Ship shall be forfeited, together with her Cargo. 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 35. § 2. 
 
 4. But not to extend to the prohibiting of any Inter- 
 course which may be carried on by any Law now in force 
 between Jamaica and any Port or Place in Saint Do- 
 mingo which now is or shall be in the Possession of ;iml 
 under the Dominion of the Spanish Government, while 
 the same shall continue under such Possession and Do- 
 minion ; nor to prevent any of His Majesty's Ships of 
 War from sailing I'rom any Place in Januiica to any 
 Place in Saint Domingo, nor from any Place in Sairit 
 
 Domingo to any Place in Jamaica, 52Geo.S. c.35. $3,4. 
 
 5. PrnviHprl nlcn that nvifi'sl, cv.:.^^ ,,.. cu:„.. u_i..j, _ 
 
 mg to any State iji Aniity with His Majesty, and bound 
 
 6 " * 10 
 
Jamaica* 
 
 155 
 
 ica, or to 
 
 It) any Place within His Majesty's Dominions, sailing •"'* "" Person 
 iVom any Place in Samt Domingo, under Convoy of One Li JjJce! "''""' 
 of His Majesty's Ships, may touch at such Port of 
 Jamaica as may have been appointed by His Majesty's 
 Naval Officers for the Rende/Aous or Assembling, Ibr 
 the Purpose of Convoy of the general Homeward-bound 
 Trade ; but no Person from on board such Shij) shall 
 land upon or otherwise communicate with Jamaica, with- 
 out a special Licence to that Eftect, under the Hand and 
 Seal of the (iovernor or Lieutenant Governor of the 
 Island, the Admiral commanding in chief on the Station, 
 or the Senior Officer connnanding 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 
 <nherwise conununicate with the Shore without such 
 Licenw, the i<sorfeitures and Penalties of 52 Geo. 3. 
 0. 35. shall take effect. 53 Geo. 3. c. 3. § i. 
 
 6. All Ships and (ioods liable to Forfeiture under this By whom Ships 
 Act, may be seized by the Commanders of any of His "JpJiSid. 
 Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or any Commis- 
 sioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer by him specially au- 
 ihori/ed, or by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs ; 
 
 and may be sued for and prosecuted in <he like manner, 
 and by the same limes and Regulations, as any Forfeit- 
 inc.>s 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. 3. 
 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 Provisions thereof, in like 
 maimer as if herein repeated; and the Commanders or 
 Officers of any Ships of War, and the Officers of the 
 Customs, in making or prosecuting any such Seizures, 
 shall have the Benefit of all the Provisions made by any 
 Act for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecut- 
 ing any Ships or Goodti, for any Offence against any 
 Act relating to flie Trade and Revenues of the British 
 Colonies or Plantations in America. 52 Ceo. 3. c.35. §5. 
 
 7. The Forfeitures incurred by this Act shall belong How rorftimic 
 to such Persons, and in such Shai'es, as any Forfeitures '" ^^ divided. 
 incurred in the British Colonies or Plantations in Ame- 
 rica now bciung to and may be distributed under 
 
 i Geo. 3. c. 15.— 52 Geo. 3. c. 35. § 6. 
 
 8. If 
 
na 
 
 In case of t)ip. 
 putc tlic Proof 
 to lie upon the 
 Ow ncr or 
 Claimer. 
 
 Samaiea. 
 
 If Forfeiture 
 arose without 
 any fraudulent 
 Intent, the Ship 
 may be restored. 
 
 ft. If any Ship or any Goods laden thereon shall be' 
 seized under this Act, and any Dispute shall arise whe- 
 ther the said Vessel had sailed, or the Goods laden 
 thereon had been brought from any Place in Jamaica to 
 any Place m Saint Domingo, or from any Place in Saint 
 Dommgo to any Place in Jamaica, contrary to this Act, 
 tlie Proof thereof shall lie upon the Owner or Claimer of 
 such Ship or Goods, and not upon the Officer who shall 
 seize the same ; and in case no sufficient Proof shall be 
 given by the Owner or Claimer of such Ship, or the 
 Goods laden thereon, of the Place from and to which such 
 Goods had been brought, and such Ship did really and 
 bona fide sail, thou such Ship shall, without any further 
 Proceeding, be lield to have sailed, and the Goods laden 
 thereon shall be held to have been brought, from one of 
 the said Islands to the otlier, contrary to this Act. 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 35. § 7. 
 
 9. In case any Ship or Goods shall be seized as for- 
 feited m 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 For- 
 feiture arose without any fraudulent Proceeding or Inten- 
 tion of Fraud in the Proprietor, may, by any Writing 
 signed by any Four of them, order the same to be re* 
 stored to such Proprietor, on such Conditions as under 
 the Circumstances of the Case shall appear to the said 
 Commissioiiery to be just and reasonable ; and if the said 
 Proprietor shall comply with the 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 
 m any manner for the Condemnation thereof; but if 
 sucii 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 itecompence 
 or Damages on account of the Seizure or Detention of 
 such Ship or Goods, or have or maintain any Action for 
 the same. 52 Geo. 3. c. 35. § 8. 
 
 implements, See - Fisheries. 
 
 'J 
 
3nttmti 
 
 157 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependen- Importation al- 
 lies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His S;;^!,,^''/'^^ 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or Gibraltar. 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- 
 fouilt Vessels, owned, navigated, and registered accord- 
 ing to Law. • 55 Geo. 3. c. 29- § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 3ntit50* 
 
 1. The Production or Manufacture of the British 
 Plantations in America, shall not 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 Britain or Ireland. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 13. 
 12 Car. 2. c. 18. §18. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. §11. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §27. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §6. 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 56 Geo. 3. 
 c. 91. § 4. 8. 
 
 For the llestrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures to 
 secure the Landing in the Plantations, or in Great 
 Britain or Ireland, 
 
 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 one sufficient 
 Surety, to bring the same to Great Britain or Ireland ; 
 and the said Duty shall be paid at such Places and to 
 6uch Officers as shall be appoin\;d to receive the same, 
 before the Landing thereof. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. § 2. 
 
 3. The Duty shall be deemed to be Sterling Money 
 of Gr'^at Britain, and shall be paid to the Amount of the 
 ValuL vvic.'h such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, 
 and accoroi.ig to the Proportion and V.aluc of 5s. 6d. th-; 
 Ounce in Silver, and (the necessary Charges of raisir^ 
 
 nd paying the same excepted) shall be paid into the 
 j';ceip't of the Exchequer. 1 Geo. 1. ■^ 1. c. 12. §4- 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §41. 
 
 4. The Duties shall be levied by the Commissioners of 
 the Customs in England, under the Authority and Di- 
 rections of the Lords of the Treasury. 25 Car. 2. : . 7 J 3. 
 
 IjiiI^Ip f,] liny (tip D'.-'iV shall not 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported unless to 
 some other 
 Plantation, or 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 Duty upon Ex- 
 portation. 
 
 Receipt ond 
 AppioprmMon. 
 
 I 
 
 n f^MULX e%i-%XT 
 
 'J ^ " 
 
 have Money wliere wit h to uuswer iho same, the 
 
 Officer shifil 
 
 accept. 
 
 By whom to be 
 levied. 
 
 Officers may ac- 
 !..'pi .1 Pruiior- 
 tioii ot'tho Com 
 
 •lOtiiiv 
 
158 
 
 3it&tffo. 
 
 Bond muse be 
 given although 
 the Duty paid. 
 
 Laws or Cus- 
 toms in the 
 Plantation.! re- 
 pugnant tt this 
 Act, void. 
 
 Penalty on Per- 
 sons concerned in 
 the Loading 
 before Duty 
 p.iid, or to whose 
 Hands the 
 Goods shall 
 come. 
 
 May be im- 
 ported into the 
 Free Ports in 
 Foreign Vessels ; 
 
 and exported 
 from thence to 
 the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 accept, instead of the Money, such Proportion of the 
 Commodity to be shipped as shall amount to the Value 
 thereof, according to the current Rate of the Commo- 
 dity in the Plantation. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. § 4. 
 
 6. Notwithstanding the Payment of the said Duty, no 
 IndJgo shall be shipped until the Security required bv 
 12 Car. 2. c. 18., and 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26., has been 
 given to carry the same to Great Britain or Ireland, or some 
 ot His Majesty's Plantations. 7 & 8 W. S. c. 22. § 8. 
 u \] u^^- ^^^^' %^-Laws, Usages, or Customs which 
 shall be m practice, or endeavoured or pretended to be 
 in force or practice, in any of His Majest>''s Plantations 
 in America, which are any ways repugnant to this Act, 
 or to any other Law hereaiter to be made in this King- 
 dom, so tar as such Laws shall relate and mention the said 
 I'iantations, are illegal, null, and void. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 
 8. If the Goods shall be lomlon on board any Vessel 
 belore the Duties due thereon are paid, every' Person 
 assLstmg or otherwise concerned in the loadiniv Outwards, 
 or to whose Hands the same shall knowingly come after 
 the Loading thereof, shall for every Offence forfeit Treble 
 the Value, to be computed according to the best Price the 
 Comnriodity bears at the Place where the Offence is com- 
 mitted; and all the Boats made use of in the Loading 
 shall be forteited, and may be seized and prosecuter' 
 by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs. 4 Geo. S. 
 c. 15. § 37. 
 
 9. The Production of any of the Colonies or Plantation-^ 
 in America, or of any Country on the Continent of Ame- 
 rica, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreitfri 
 Luropean Sovereign or State, may be imported from am 
 ot the said Countries into the Free Ports in any Foreign 
 Vessel whatever, being owned and navigated by Person.^ 
 inhabiting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or 
 Countries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 49 Geo.3. c.22. 52Geo.3. 
 c, 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Poets. 
 
 10. The Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in America, or Countries on the Continent of Ame- 
 rica, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign 
 Luropean Sovereign or State, having been imported into 
 the free Ports, may be exported from thence to any Part 
 of the United Kinerdom, under the Rnlps. ^r. r^f^o Car.2- 
 c. IS., 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26., and 20 Geo. 3, c. 10., with 
 
 lespect 
 
respect to Goods therein enumei'ated. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 1 1 . "^lie Production of any of His Majesty's Sugar 
 Co.! n/es or Plantations in America, may be shipped and 
 exported direct to the Island of Malta, or the Dependen- 
 cies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in such Ships, and under the 
 Licences, Entries, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and 
 Forfeitures herein particularly mentioned. 55 Geo. 3. 
 c. 29. §1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 12. There shall be paid unto His Majesty upon Indigo, 
 of the Produce or Manufacture of ar^' Colony or Planta- 
 tion 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 Ma- 
 jesty, the Duties following ; that is to Kiy, 
 
 For every Pound Weight Avou'dupois of such Indigo, 
 Sixpence. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §1. 
 
 13. The Duties shall be collected and paid in the same 
 Manner and Foiin, and by such Rules, Ways, and 
 Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, (not 
 otherwise altered by this Act) as ai-e mentioned and ex- 
 })ressed in 6 Geo. 2. c 13. (See " Sugar") with respect 
 to the collecting and Payment of the Duties thereby 
 granted ; and all Powers, Penalties, Provisions, Article , 
 and Clauses in that Act contained and referred unto, 
 (except in such Cases where 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-enacted in 
 this Act. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. ^7. 
 
 14. The Duties (except the necessary Charges of 
 raising, paying, recovering, and accounting lor the same) 
 shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exche- 
 quer, and be entered separate and apart irom all other 
 Monies payable to His Majesty, and shall be there re- 
 served to be disposed of by ParUament, towards defraying 
 the necessray Exponces of defending and securing the 
 British Colonics in America. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 11. 
 
 15. No Duty whatsoever s' tall be paid for any Foreign 
 Judigo, ^which shall be imported or brought into any 
 British Colony or Plantation on the Continent of Amo- 
 rica, ))r()vided, upon the Lanilins thereof, the same slrnU 
 
 be 
 
 159 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported to Malta 
 or Gibraltar. 
 
 Not of the 
 British Planta- 
 tions, Duty on 
 Importation into 
 British Colonies. 
 
 To be collected 
 
 and jiaid m 
 former Duties. 
 
 To be paid into 
 the Exchequer 
 ::nd reserved for 
 the Disposition 
 of Parliament. 
 
 Duty not to be 
 paid if ivare- 
 houscd Oil im- 
 P'^rtatioii nHu 
 exported within 
 iz Months. 
 
160 
 
 JitDigo. 
 
 If Duty not paid, 
 or Goods ex- 
 ported, they may 
 be sold. 
 
 Exemption on 
 Importation into 
 West India 
 IJands. 
 
 be immediately secured in Warehouses at the sole Ex-* 
 pence of the Importer or Proprietor of such Indigo, with 
 the Privity and Approbation and under the Care and 
 Inspection of the Collector and Comptroller, or other 
 Principal Officer of the Customs, and under the Locks 
 of such Officers and the Proprietor; provided that within 
 12 Calendar Months the same shall be shipped for Ex- 
 portation to Great Britain or Ireland, under the like 
 Securities, Regulations and Restrictions, Penalties and 
 Forfeitures, as are particularly mentioned and expressed 
 in any Act of Parliament with respect to Indigo of the 
 (irowth or Produce of any British Colony or Plantation. 
 « Geo. 3. c. 52. § 16. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 16. If the Importer or Proprietor of any Indigo, ware- 
 housed as aforesaid, shall not pay the Duties due for the 
 same, nor export the Goods within 12 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 Advantage, and the Money arising by such 
 Sale shall be in the first Place applied in Discharge of 
 the Duties, 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 
 Proprietor who landed and warehoused the Goods, or to 
 such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive 
 the same. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. §17. 
 
 17. Nor shall any Duty be paid upon Indigo of Fo- 
 reign Produce or Manufacture, imported into any British 
 Island in the West Indies, provided a due Entry thereof 
 is made in the Custom-house at the Port of Importation, 
 and the Goods are landed in the Presence of the proper 
 Officer; otherwise the same shall be liable to the Duties 
 as if this Act had not been made. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 18.21. 
 
 Not to be 
 effected relative 
 to Slave Trade. 
 
 3nmxamts. 
 
 No Person residing within His Majesty's Dominions 
 shall effect any Insurance in respect to any of the dealing, 
 removing, or other Transactions which by the Acts for 
 restraining or prohibitiiig th& African Slave Trade are 
 declared to be unlawful. 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. 47 Geo. 3. 
 c. 36. 
 
 V^.. Cr 
 
3)telanb. 
 
 1. Any Goods the Product or Manutacture of llie Bri- 
 tish Colonies or Phmtations in America or the West 
 Indies, and which by tiny Act of Parliament are required 
 to he imported from such Colonies or Plantations into 
 Great Britain, and also any other Goods wliich, having 
 been in any way legally imported into the said Colonies 
 or Plantations, may now or hereafter be legally exported 
 from thence to Great Britain, may be laden in and ex- 
 ported 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 For- 
 feitures ; 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 other Part of Europe, and any Goods of the Pro.- 
 duct or Manufacture of the East Indies, or other Places 
 beyond the Cape of Good tlope, which are required to be 
 shipped or laden in Great Britain, to be carried directly 
 from thence to any British Colony or Plantation in Amer- 
 rica, as also any other Goods which may be legally ship- 
 ped in Great Britain, to be carried directly from thence 
 and imported into ariy Colony or Plantation in America 
 or tlieWest Indies, maybe shijiped at any Port in Ireland, 
 and exported directly from thence, and in like manner im- 
 ported into any British Colony or Plantation in America 
 or the West Indies, provided that the Ships in or on board 
 wiiich such Goods shall be so imported or exported, shall 
 be subject to the same Rules, Visitations, Searches, Pe- 
 nahies and Forfeitures, to which Ships imjjorting or ex- 
 })orting the like Goods from or to (ircat Britain are 
 subject by the Laws in force. 3 & 4 Ami. c. 8. § 2, 3. 
 18 Geo. 3. c. 55. § 2. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1- 33 Geo. 3. 
 c. 63. § 2. 
 
 2. No Goods which by this or any Act may be legally 
 imported from Ireland into any of the British Colonies or 
 Plantations in America or the West Indies, shall be sub- 
 ject to Forfeiture by 4 Geo. 3. c. 15.* provided the Master 
 of the Ship carrying such Goods shall produce a Cocquet 
 or Cleaiancc from the proper Officer or Officers of 
 
 161 
 
 Trade sUowed 
 to and from 
 Ireland, under 
 the like Rules, 
 &c. as Trade to 
 and from Great 
 Britain U sub- 
 ject. 
 
 No Goods from 
 Ireland to be 
 forfeited if 
 Cocket ojr 
 Clearance is 
 produced. 
 
 * This Art. forfeited all Goods for which a Cocket or Clear- 
 ance was not vToduc'jd. cevti^inc^ that the", were laden iti some 
 Port of Great Britain. 
 
 M His 
 
162 
 
 No Trade al- 
 io ived when 
 proWbited with 
 Great Britain. 
 
 Subjects of the 
 Two Countries 
 to be on the 
 sime Footing as 
 to Trade and 
 Navigation. 
 
 Bond to be given 
 that it shall not 
 be landed except 
 at Places herein 
 mentioned. 
 
 3lrelanti. 
 
 His Majesty's Customs, certifying tliat the said Goods 
 were laden on board the said Ship in some Port of Great 
 Britain or Ireland respectively. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 4. 
 
 3. But this Act shall not allow any Person to trade to, 
 from, or in any Colony or Plantation in America, during 
 such Time and in such Manner as the Trade or Inter- 
 course of Great Britain with such Colony or Plantation 
 is or shall be prohibited or restrained by any Act made 
 or hereafter to be made in this Kingdom ; but whenever 
 Trade and Intercourse shall be permitted between Great 
 Britain and such Colonies, the same Trade and Inter- 
 course shall in like manner be permitted and allowed 
 between Ireland and the said Colonies. 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 7. 
 
 4. His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain and Ire- 
 land 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 King- 
 dom and its Dependencies ; and 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 Privilege and be on the same Footing as His Ma- 
 jesty's Subjects of Great Britain. * 39 & 40 Geo. 3, 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 3ton, 
 
 The Production or Manufacture of any British Colony 
 or Plantation in America, shall not be there laden to be 
 carried from thence, until sufficient Bond be given, with 
 One Surety besides the Master of the Ship, to the Col- 
 lector or other Principal 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 hereinafter mentioned: 
 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 in discharge thereof 
 
 *The Jet passes bw the Parliament of Ireland for the Union of 
 itm Two Cammtries. ft'z. 40 Gen- .1, c-. ^iS.) contains an Artide 
 firgmelysamu;r to the present. 
 
 ^ within 
 
3tm. 
 
 163 
 
 Uithiii 18 Months from the Date of the Bond, and within 
 6 Months far 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 
 Asia, to bring the like Certificate within 12 Months, under 
 the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate, or luider the 
 Hands and Seals of Two known British Merchants resid- 
 ing 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. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 
 § 28. 5 Geo. 3. c. 45. § 22. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67- Art, G. 
 
 3lumper Berries, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- Importation 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His jJlT^'* *^^"'" 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or Gibraltar. 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered accordingto Law. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. ". c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 justices;. 
 
 Any Justice of the Peace who shall subscribe his Name Subscribing their 
 to any Paper or Parchment purporting to be an Affidavit, ^*""'' '« ^*^- 
 for the Purpose directed by 4 Geo.^3. c 15., and the S^doerno'' 
 Person purporting to make such Affidavit shall not have anpear before 
 appeared before him, and sworn to the Truth of the Affi- ^''*""' 
 davit, every such Justice shall forfeit for every Offence 
 ^50. 18 Geo. 3. c. 58. §2. 
 See Sugar. 
 Spirits. 
 
 One of the Free Ports of Jamaica for the Importation a Fre 
 and Exportation of certain Articles in Foreign Ships, 
 
 e ri-'f. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 M2 
 
164 
 
 ilatoa. 
 
 Importation al- 
 lowed from 
 Maltn or 
 GibMltar. 
 
 Of the Colonies 
 void, if repug- 
 nant to any Law 
 of Great Britain. 
 
 May be made to 
 bind the Colonies 
 and People of 
 America. 
 
 Duty upon Im- 
 portation from 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 To be recovered 
 as o<:her Duties, 
 and applied for 
 the Use of the 
 Coionics where 
 necessary, and 
 
 May be exportcnl from Malta, or any of the Depen- 
 dencies 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 1. All Laws, Bye-Laws, Usages, or Customs at this 
 Time or whicli hereafter shall be in practice, or endea- 
 voured or pretended to be in force or practice, in any 
 of His Majesty's Plantations in America, which are in 
 anywise repugnant to any Law made in this Kingdom, so 
 far as such Laws relate to and mention the said Plant- 
 ations, are illegal, null, and void. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. §9. 
 
 2. The Colonies and Plantations in America are sub- 
 ordinate unto and dependent upon the Crown and Par- 
 liament of Great Britain, and the Parliament hath full 
 Power and Authority to make Laws to bind the Colonics 
 and People of America in all Cases whatsoever; and all 
 Resolutions and Proceedings in any of the said Colonics 
 or Plantations, whereby such Power and Authority of 
 the Parliament to make Laws is denied or drawn into 
 Question, are null and void, 6 Geo. 3. c. 12. 
 
 1. There shall be paid to His Majesty upon Lead 
 hereafter mentioned, not being the Manufacture of 
 Great Britain or Ireland, which shall be imported from 
 Great Britain or Ireland into any Colony or Plantation 
 in America under the Dominion of His Majesty, tlie 
 Duties fo.iowing ; that is to say, 
 
 For every Cwt. Avoirdupois of Red Lead or White 
 Lead, Two Shillings. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 1. 10 Geo. 3. 
 c. 17. § 1. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2. 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 
 jjntain, rinu received aCCOixluisr to the Proportion and 
 Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence the Ounce in 
 
 Silver, 
 
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 165 
 
 Silver, ill tlie sanid manner, and by such Rules, Tenaltics, the^Rw'd^ue patd" 
 fliKl Forfeitures, as any other Duties now jiayabie to His ^heciuer. 
 Majesty upon Goods i»niK)rtetl into the said Colonies. or 
 Plantations may be {)aid and recoveretl ; and the Monies 
 that shall arise thereby (except the necessary Charges of 
 collecting, recovering,' and accounting for the same) shall 
 be applied iii making Provision for the Charge of the 
 Administration of Justice, and the Support of Civil 
 Government in such of the Colonies iind Plantations 
 where it shall be found necessary, and the Residue shall 
 be paid into the Exchequer, and entered separate and 
 apart from other Monies payable to His Majesty, and 
 shall be there reserved to be disposed of by Parliament 
 towards d. raying the necessary Expences of protecting 
 and securing the British Colonies and Plantations in 
 America. 7 Geo. S. c. 4.6. § 4.. ,,. „ , tj a/t • 
 
 3. His Majesty, by any Warmnt under His Royal Ji;J;J;j«X^^ 
 Sign Manual, countersigned by the High 1 reasurer, or ^^^^ q^^j^j, f^^ 
 any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Trea- the Use of all or 
 sury, may cause such Monies to be applied out of tlie ''^y^^.J^; 
 Produce of the Duties granted by this Act, as His 
 Majesty shall think necessary, for defraying the Charges 
 of the Administration of Justice and the Support ot the 
 Civil Government widiin all or any of the said Colonies 
 or Plantations. 7 Geo. 3. c. 4.(3. § 5. 
 
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 The Produce of the Azores or Madeiras, may be [S^IrL 
 shipped in the said Islands for Exportation direct to the Azores or- 
 any of the Ports in the British Colonies in North Madeiras. 
 America, and may be imported into the said Ports, m 
 any British-built Ship, navigated, and registered accord- 
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 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- H;"dSm 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any ot Jrlis ^3,^, „,. 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or Gibraltar. 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty s 
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 Importation 
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 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 3lenttl0. 
 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered accordin<^ 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c 4. "^ 
 bee Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Jltbe ^tOCft> " See Cattle." 
 
 SLOfftoOOD* "See Wood." 
 
 jS^aecaront or WltxmittUi, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen. 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any cf His 
 Majesty s Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Co oraes or Plantations in North America, in British- 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered accordin;^ 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. ° 
 iSee Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 S^amtas anbmtsittxn 30lami0. 
 
 1. Wines the Growth of the Madeiras and of the 
 Azores, may be laden in those Islands for Exportation to 
 any cf the Plantations, Colonies, or Territories to His 
 Majesty belonging, or in his Possession, in America. 
 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 6. 
 
 ^Tv/r^f''"^''*' and;Lemons 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 
 Colonies in North America, and may be imported into 
 the said Ports in any British-built Ship, registered and 
 navigated according to Law. 57 Geo. 3. c. 89. § l. 
 
 S&alta anD (Bmaltax. 
 
 MaUa.Europe. 1. The Island of Malta and its Dependencies shall be 
 deemed and taken to be in Europe. 57 Geo 3 c Sfi Sin 
 
 Certain Articles 2. His MaipsHr'o «.,Ki^ ♦ ' -> ' vjco. j. c. Jb. § iO. 
 
 may be exported M^lf' O "^ X , ^^'i^''^^ "^^7 ^^'P, ^^^ any of His 
 
 direct to Malta ^^^J^^'^/ ^}W^' Colonies Or Plantations in America, any 
 
 pr Gibraltar; ^^^^^J^^,^f^^\^\ enumerated in the following Schedule 
 
 marked (A), being the Produce of any such Colony or 
 
 Plantation, 
 
 Wines may be 
 there laden ; 
 
 also Oranges and 
 tremens. 
 
Plantation, or any Article which may by Law be im- 
 ported into the said Colonies, and export the same direct 
 to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, 
 in such Shipsj and under such the Regulations, Penalties, 
 and Forfeitures herein-after mentioned. 55 Geo. 3. 
 c. 29. §1. 57 Geo. 3. c.4. 
 
 SCHEDULE (A.) 
 
 167 
 
 Sugar. 
 Coffee. 
 
 Pimento. 
 
 Indigo. 
 
 Cocoa. 
 
 Ginger. 
 
 Rum. 
 
 Fustic, or other Dying 
 
 Molasses. 
 
 Wood. 
 
 3. None of the said Articles shall be shipped except under the Con - 
 in British-built Ships navigated and registered according ^"'.0"^ ""^ ^e- 
 to Law, nor unless a Licence shall have been first taken mentioned, 
 out under the Hand and Seal of the Collector and 
 Comptroller of the Customs at the Port at which they 
 are so intended to be shipped, and of which Notice 
 must be first given in Writing by the Master or the 
 Shipper to the Collector and Comptroller of such Port, of 
 sucih Intention ; and that the Ship shall, when laden, pro- 
 ceed direct to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to 
 Gibraltar ; the Sliipper shall then make Oath before the 
 Collector and Comptroller of the Port, that it is his full 
 Intention and Resolution to load such Ship with sucli 
 Articles for Exportation direct to Malta or the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, and to no other Place ; 
 and the Master, together with the Shipper, shall there- 
 upon enter into Bond in Treble the Value of such Goods, 
 with Condition, that in case the Licence shall be granted 
 such Ship shall proceed direct to Malta or the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, and that no Goods except 
 such as shall be included in the Licence, and such as 
 may now by Law be exported from the said Colonies or 
 Plantations to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to 
 Gibraltar, shall be taken on board ; 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, together with a Certificate, signed 
 and sealed by the Governor or Deputy Governor of Malta 
 or Gibraltar, or by the Principal Officer of the Customs 
 there, certifying ^he Landing of the said Articles^ toge- 
 
 M 4 ^^^^ 
 
16& 
 
 No other 
 Articles to be 
 tiken on board 
 
 ^riiry to be 
 made. 
 
 CockelA to be 
 taken out. 
 
 'Weight or 
 'Quantity greater 
 than indorsed, or 
 other Goods put 
 on board. 
 
 S&aita mh (Bibxamv. 
 
 WlZk!'^" th«^Cont,ont«, Weight, or Quantity, and tf,(. 
 
 Name of the Ship and Master thereotfrom whi h landed 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 2. .57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § l. 
 
 of fh. " -Tn ^"y.^^^^"^«t Sl^ip «hall take on board in any 
 of the sard Colonies or Plantations, or on her Voyage 
 tronuhence any other Articles, such Articles shall be for- 
 
 Double^t v'l^T''.""^' Shipper .hall severally forfeit 
 -Uouble the Value, to be recovered in any Court of Vice 
 A mnutyheld irr" anv of Hi. Majesty'! Plantattns a 
 
 ten or- Sh r'^ ^'^'''''i ?''' '^^"'^^ ^^''' '^ the Go- 
 '/?'''* of tire Colony, and the other Third Part to the 
 
 Informer or Prosmrtor. 5.5 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 3. 57 Geo^t 
 the'sSflV7^^'^' '"''^ !^'''''^'' '^^^^ be put on board 
 
 ComuJrolf. nf h'^^^^ ^"h ^'^^ Collector and 
 
 N n foP H- i^'' Majesty, Customs, expressing the 
 Name of the Ship and the Master-, and where sh?lies 
 and also the Wharf where the Articles are to be first 
 waterborne rn order to be laden, which shall be with^ 
 I" ere 'n Offi^ where a Custom-house is established, and 
 
 uint^l. f '''^".^^..^PP'^'"**^^^ to attend the ship- 
 
 pirj thereof, or at such Place as shall be mentioned in a 
 Sufferance or Warrant to be t^iken out from the Collect 
 
 iTairtk^Tcn'f/'^ 'tl ^""P«^^^ -^ th^ Exporter 
 sira take a Cocket or Warrant accordingly, whereoa 
 
 wiA thV^M 't"^ M^ r*'"'^^^ ^^'ght a^d Quantity! 
 wrth the Marks Numbers, and Contents, ar3 propei- 
 Denomrnatron of such Articles, and deliver the Cocke 
 or W arrant so indorsed to the Officer appointed for the 
 
 Irtic les'TnT ' P^'^"^ ^'"T^' ^'^'^ '^^^^ ^^^P ^he said 
 1 lace as shall l,e meiitroned in the Sufferance or War- 
 ant. The proper Officer shall examine the same before 
 hoy ar, put on board, and if, before or after ThippSr 
 
 l-atkages, shall be found to be greater than is indorsed 
 or if any otlH.r Artich-s shall be discovered to have been 
 fn o?" '^^?:i,''.'' ^^'''" b^ ^r^'^t to be shipped, or put 
 
 bdbr-e Entrv '". 7^"' ''' ^' ^.'"' ^" board such Vessel, 
 before Liit y, or taking out such Cocket or Warrant in- 
 .dorsarg and dehvering of the same, and not behrg^"p;;i 
 
 in 
 
#^lta anh d^tbraUat. 
 
 in tlie Manner aforesaid, but shall be put or attempffed 
 to be put on board contrary to this Act, all su(^h Arti- 
 cles shall be forfeited, and also the Boat or other Vessel 
 or Carr'wjrfi employed in shipping or attempting to ship 
 any Goods other than those enumerated in the said 
 Schedule, with the Vessel on which such Goods shall be 
 so laden ; and the Owner shall forfeit Double the Value 
 rliereof, to be recovered in any Court of Vice Adnniralty 
 held ill any of I lis Majesty's Plantations in America, or 
 in any other Court of Record there, One Third to the 
 Use of His Majesty, One Third to the Governor, and 
 the other Third to the Prosecutor ; and before such Ship 
 shall depart from the said Colonies with any of the said 
 Articles, the Master shall receive the said Licence from 
 the Collector or Comptroller, v/ith a Certificate indorsed 
 thereon, or affixed thereto, under their Hctnds and Seals 
 of Office, who are to make Two Copies of such Entrieo, 
 Indorsements, and Certificates, for which Entries, Cockets, 
 Indoi-sements, and Certificates, or Copies, no more shall 
 be taken by the said Officer "han the legal and accustomed 
 Fees; and the Master siiall, 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, 
 Indorsements, 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 
 Owupr of the Ship, the Affidavit of the Shipper, the 
 Licence granted for the Exportation of the Articles, to- 
 gether 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 others concerned, shall be subject to the same Penal- 
 ties and Forfeitures as they would have been subject to in 
 case this Act had not been made. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 4. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 6. Any such Ship, or any other Ship, being British- 
 built, navigated and registered according to Law, may 
 load at Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or at 
 Gibraltar, any of the Articles enumerated in the follow- 
 uig Schedule, marked (B.), for Exportation direct to 
 any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in 
 America, or Newfoiuullaud, Bermuda, or any of His 
 
 Majesty's 
 
 1^9 
 
 Licence to be 
 indorsed, and 
 Copies of the 
 Indorsement, 
 Licence, &c. to 
 be sent to Com- 
 missioners of 
 Customs. 
 
 If other Geoia 
 shipped, the 
 Licence void; 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be imported 
 from Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
170 
 
 flpalte anh mbxaltar: 
 
 Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America ^ 
 and any such Articles may be landed in such Colony o^ 
 Plantation 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 Pantations, be subject to such Duties as 
 Ooods of the hke Denomination or Desciiption are sub- 
 ject to upon being imported from Great Britain, and no 
 other Duties. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 SCHEDULE (B.) referred to. 
 
 Dry &Wet Fruit) in Jars 
 in Brandy & V & 
 Sugar. J Bottles. 
 
 Pickles in Ditto. 
 
 Olives. 
 
 Figs. 
 
 Raisins. 
 
 Currants. 
 
 Pistaccio Nuts. 
 
 Almonds. 
 
 Dates. 
 
 Capers. 
 
 Wine. 
 
 Brandy. 
 
 Oil of Ohves. 
 
 Oil of Almonds. 
 
 Gum Arabic. 
 
 Mastic. 
 
 Myrrh. 
 
 Sicily. 
 
 Ammoniac. 
 
 Opium. 
 
 Manna. 
 
 Senni,. 
 
 Cantharides. 
 
 Oris Root. 
 
 Rhubarb. 
 
 Mill Timber. 
 
 Box Wood. 
 
 Argol. 
 
 Vermilion. 
 
 Ochres. 
 
 Cianabar. 
 
 Orange Buds and PeeL 
 
 Juniper Berries. 
 
 Punk. 
 
 Pumice Stone. 
 
 Emery Stone. 
 
 Whetstone. 
 
 Paintings and Prints. - 
 
 Mosaic Works. 
 
 Medals. 
 
 Lava and Malta Stone fos 
 
 building. 
 Pezzolana. 
 Jalop. 
 Scamony. 
 Quicksilver. 
 Sarsaparilla. 
 Saffron. 
 Safilower. 
 M'-k. 
 In .nse. 
 
 Essence of Bergamot. 
 Do. of Citron, 
 of Lemon, 
 of Orange, 
 of Lavender, 
 of Roses, 
 of Rosemary. 
 Marble, 7 Rough and 
 Alabaster, J Worked. 
 Brimstone. 
 Cork. 
 Aniseed. 
 Ciunininseed. 
 
 Ostrich 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
iS^»m anii (t^il^raltar. 
 
 171 
 
 Ostrich Feathers. 
 
 
 Beans. 
 
 Honey. 
 
 
 Peas. 
 
 Sponges. 
 
 
 Lentils. 
 
 Amber. 
 
 
 Rice. 
 
 Coral. 
 
 
 Maccaroni or Vermicelli. 
 
 Bullion. 
 
 
 Cascasoo. 
 
 Precious Stones. 
 
 
 Parmesan Cheese. 
 
 Pearl. 
 
 
 Bologna and other Sausages. 
 
 Corn. 
 
 
 Anchovies. 
 
 Grain. 
 
 
 Caviar. 
 
 Meal or Flour. 
 
 
 Botarga. 
 
 7. Any Wine, 
 u- : i.„J u 
 
 which in 
 
 pursuance of this Act shall Duty upon 
 ^c ur:^ ■M-„:->„4.,,'„ c « Wine. 
 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, from Malta or the 
 Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, shall be liable 
 to the Payment of such Duties, and no other, as are 
 })ayable on Madeira Wine when imported into any of 
 the said Colonies or Plantations directly from Madeira. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 6. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. ^ 1. 
 
 8. Upon such Licence being returned to the Collector 
 and Comptroller of the Port where the Articles enume- 
 rated in Schedule (A.) were shipped, and an Account 
 of the Lading being indorsed thereon or annexed there- 
 to, and also upon such Certificate of the Governor or 
 Deputy Governor or Principal Officer of the Customs 
 oeing produced as aforesaid, and the several other 
 Matters required by this Act being duly complied with 
 within Two Years from the Date of such Licence, the 
 Bond given before granting such Licence shall be dis- 
 charged and delivered up, otherwise shall be forfeited, 
 and may be prosecuted in the Manner directed by this 
 Act. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29- § 7. 57 Geo- 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 
 9. It shall be lawful to export from Newfoundland, 
 Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in North America, direct to Malta or the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, any Articles of the Pro- 
 duction or Manufacture of such Colony or Plantation, or 
 any Articles which have been legally imported into such 
 Colony or Plantation, in such Ships, and under such 
 Licences, FiUtries, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and 
 Forfeitures, as are herein-before mentioned as to Ex- 
 portation from His Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in America. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 8. 57 Geo. 3. 
 c. 4. § 1. 
 
 10. If 
 
 How Bond may 
 be discharged as 
 to Goods ex- 
 ported from the 
 Colonies to 
 Malta or Gib- 
 raltar. 
 
 Certain Anicles 
 may be exported 
 to Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
172 
 
 Gcnerni Issue 
 may be pleaded, 
 and Treble Cost 
 allowed to De- 
 fendants. 
 
 Granting false 
 Certificates, and 
 counterfeiting 
 or altering 
 Dociinients. 
 
 10. If any Person shall be prosecuted for any thinsr 
 ^ done 111 pursuance of this Act, such Person may plead the 
 General Issue, and ^We this Act and the special Matter 
 in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff shall become nonsuit, 
 or forbear Prosecution, or discontinue hi:. Action, or if 
 a Verdict shall jiass against him, the Defendant shall have 
 1 reble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as 
 in Cases where Costs are by Law given to Defendants 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 14. 57 Geo. 3. c.4. § 1. 
 
 11. Any Person who shall grant a false Certificate, or 
 counterfeit, erase, or alter any Licence, Oath, or Certifi- 
 cate, which shall be made or given pursuant to this Act 
 or shall knowingly or wittingly publish or make use 
 thereof, shall forfeit .^^500, to be recovered and disposed 
 of in *he Manner directed by this Act; and such Li- 
 cence, Oadi, or Certificate, so falsified, counterfeited 
 erased, or altered, shall be invalid. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 15. 
 57 Geo. 3. c.4. § 1. 
 
 S^m, Jsic of. 
 
 1. No Spirits shall be shipped in any British Colony 
 or Plantation in America, but on Condition that the 
 same shall not be carried to or landed in the Isle of Man, 
 under the like Securities, Penalties, and Forfeitures as 
 are prescribed and mentioned in 12 Car. 2. c. 18. and 
 25 Car. 2. c. 7. with respect to the Goods in those Acts 
 enumerated. 5 Geo. 3. c. 39. § 5. 
 See Goods enumerated. 
 2. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing In the Me 
 of Man may export from thence to any of the British 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, in British-built Ships 
 navigated and registered according to Law, Herrings 
 caught and cured by them, in the same Manner as Vic- 
 tuals may be imported into the said Colonies or Plant- 
 ations from Ireland. 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. § 4. 
 
 necessary for the ^f t "^"^ ''^^'' Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle 
 Fisheries J ^^ ^^^^ "^^y 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 
 
 6 said 
 
 Spirits not to be 
 landed there. 
 
 Herrings may be 
 exported from 
 thence to the 
 British Colonies ; 
 
 BS also Articles 
 
Si0m,36it of» 
 
 173 
 
 saul Fishery ; such Provisions, &c. bein^ the Product and ;' 
 Manufacture of Great Britain, Ireland, or the Isle of 
 Man. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §5. 
 
 4. The Master of such Ship shall produce to the j^iPf^^XSn' 
 proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Plant- mentioned. 
 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 vv^here he shall have fitted out, 
 that Oath hath been made before him by the Shipper of 
 such Provisions, &c. that the same are the Product and 
 Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Isle of 
 Man, as the Fact may be, and that the said Articles 
 (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 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 with- 
 out Fee or Reward) ; and on Failure of producing such 
 Certificate, or if any such Tools or Implements are used 
 or disposed .of for any other Purpose, the same and the 
 Shij) shall be seized and forfeited, in the same manner 
 as they would have been if this Act had not been made. 
 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §6. 
 
 flPamfeStS* See '* Goods, No. 38." 
 
 '' Tobacco, No. 20. 
 
 j> 
 
 fl^anUfaCtUrer^* See «Aliens,No.3." 
 
 fl^anna, 
 
 i90at6lC> (Rough and Worked), 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depend- importation 
 encies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His ^^j^f J'^,. 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or ^itar. . 
 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c.4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
174 
 
 A Free Port. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported unless 
 to some other 
 British Planta- 
 tion or to Great 
 Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 Exportation al- 
 lowed to United 
 States. 
 
 If Bond required 
 on Expoitation 
 to British Colo- 
 nies, similar 
 
 One of the Free Ports in Jamaica for the ImiK.rU.tion 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 fl^ealOrjFlOUr. See^Coi-n and Grain." 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depend- 
 encies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of Hi 
 Majesty^ Sugar Colonies or Plantations in Am^eri a, o 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Maiestv^s 
 Colon.es or Plantations in North America, in Britth- 
 
 toLaw ^^«'.r""i' "^^'g^*«^' «»d registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. ^ 
 oee Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 1. Of the Production or Manufacture of the British 
 Plantations m America, shall not be shipped or conveyed 
 from any of the said Plantations to any Place unlesHo 
 some other Plantation belonging to hI M^^st^f ^r to 
 Great Britain or Ireland. 12 Car 2 c 18 Sift lo 
 
 8 Ann. c. 13. § 23. 8 Geo. 1. c. 18. 4 Geo 3 c ll' 
 
 $24.27. l5Geo.3.c.31.§6. 20Geo3c o\lo' 
 
 ti9 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. I ^ ' ^' 
 
 ^?./^^ Restrictions Penalties, and Forfeitures to 
 
 SLt Sid! " ''' ''^^""'^'^^^ ^^ ^^ ""'-' 
 
 a A/r '^r ^^"E«» Pot and Pearl. 
 anv' Pfj ^^,t^P°^^^^ C?"' the West India Islands to 
 RHHrQl-''f "' ?^ ^"^'"^ States of America, by 
 British Subjects, and m British-built Ships owned by His 
 
 2tSL cre^'t ''^^ "^^^^^^^^ ^^^-^-s ^« i^- 
 
 TnL^^^I* °" Exportation of Goods to any British 
 ttST ^i^^^^°"J^ America, a Bond is required for 
 the due landing such Goods, and a Certificate required 
 
 to 
 
S^oiaeete. 
 
 175 
 
 to diicliarge such Bond,* a similar Bond shall he re- 
 
 quired on Exportation of such Goods to the United 
 States,, and such Bond shall be discharged upon Certi- 
 ficafe under the Hand and Seal of the British Consul or 
 Vice Consul, or in case there shall not be any such Con- 
 sul or Vice Consul, then under the Hand and Seal of 
 any Officer who may be appointed by the United States 
 for the Purpose of granting such Certificate ; 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 
 made before such Magistrate by the Master of the Ship 
 that the Goods were there duly landed. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 4. 
 
 4. The Growth and Produce of any of His Majesty's 
 Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, may be 
 shipped and exported direct to Malta or the Depend- 
 encies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in such Ships, and under 
 such Licences, Entries, Securities, Regulations, Penal- 
 ties, and Forfeitures, as are herein particularly men- 
 tioned. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4-. 
 
 See Gibraltar. * 
 
 Malta. 
 
 5. The Produce of any British Plantation in the West 
 Indies, which shall have been legally imported into Ber- 
 muda in any British Ship, may be exported from thence 
 to the United States, in the Description of Vessels and 
 under the Regulations provided in 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. and 
 53 Geo. 3. c. 50.— 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 
 
 See Bermuda. 
 
 6. There shall be paid unto His Majesty, for every 
 Gallon (Wine Measure) of Molasses and Syi'ups which 
 shall be imported or brought (except as is herein-after 
 mentioned) into any Colony or Plantation in America 
 under the Dominion of His Majesty, One Penny. 6 Geo. 3. 
 c. 52. § 4. 
 
 7. The Duty shall not be charged upon Molasses or 
 Syrups imported into any British Colpny on the Conti- 
 nent of America from Dominica, for which a Certificate 
 is produced to the Collector or other Principal Officer of 
 
 Bund to be given 
 on Etponation 
 to the United 
 States. 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported to 
 Malta cr 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported from 
 Bermuda to 
 United States. 
 
 Duty on Im- 
 portation into 
 the British 
 Colonies. 
 
 Exemption as 
 to Molasses im- 
 ported from 
 Dominica. 
 
 * A Bond is so required upon the Exportation of Molasses. See 
 N0.2. 
 
 the 
 
176 
 
 Si^oiaeste. 
 
 Collection and _ 
 
 Appropriation of <^ "„i. 
 
 ii.o Duties. vjreat 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Oibraltar, 
 
 impcfftation 
 aMowad from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 the Customs at the Port of Importation, under the Hnud 
 and Seal of the Collector or other Principal Officer of 
 the Customs at the Port of Exportation in Dominica 
 certifymg that the said Duty hath been there paid for 
 such Molasses or Syrups. 6 Geo. 3. c. 25. § 5. 
 
 8. The Duty shall be deemed to be Sterling Money of 
 ; Britain, and be received to th« Amount of tl^ie 
 Value which such nominial Sums bear in (ireat Britaih 
 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 Forfeitures, as any 
 other Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported 
 into the said Colonies or Plantations may be levied, col- 
 lected, paid, and recovered ; and the Monies that shall 
 arise by the said Duty (except the necessary Charges of 
 collecting, levying, recovering, paying, and accounting 
 tor the same), shall be paid into the Exchequer, and 
 entered apart from all other Monies, and shall be there 
 reserved to be disposed of by Parliament, towards defray. 
 S^' • , 'X^^'f^^^'^y Expences of protecting and securing the 
 KntisJi Colonies and Plantations in America, fi Geo 3 
 c. 52. § 12. 
 
 fl!9osatc aaiorfts. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Denen- 
 dencip= 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 accordini? 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Sl^nlte. See '' Cattle." 
 
 Slushy 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependen- 
 cies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- 
 jest/s Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nic)* 
 
nies or Pluntatlons in North America, in Britisli-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and rfgisterod according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. .'}. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 « 
 
 1. One of the Free Ports in New Providence for the AFreePon. 
 Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Fo- 
 reign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 2. Until 25th March 1819, any Ship belonging to the American Ships 
 United States coining in Ballast, and not otherwise, may TV ^^^^u7, 
 
 ^1 Ti . I'-vT ,• 1 \^ ,. . . \ t '' fallen wiih Salt. 
 
 enter tlie Fort ot Nassau tor tlic Purpose ot benig laden 
 with Salt, subject to the Rules, Provisions, Regulations, 
 and Restrictions of 28 Geo. 3. c (>. respecting Vessel 
 coming for tlie same Purpose to Turks Islands. 57 Geo 3. 
 c. 42. §1. 
 
 See Bahama Islands. 
 
 iI?atUraU3atlOn* Sce 'Miens." 
 
 1. No Ship coming to any Plantation, Colony, or 
 Territory to His Majesty belonging, or in I lis Possession, 
 in America, shall lade or unlade any Goods until the 
 Master shall have fust made known to the Governor, or 
 such Oflficer as shall be by him appointed, the Arrival of 
 the Ship, with her Name, and the Name of the Master, 
 and shall have sliewn that she is British-built, and re- 
 gistered and navigated according to I^aw, and have de- 
 livered to such Governor or Olficer 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. 15Car.2. c.7. §8. 3&4Ann. 
 e.6. §2. 7&8 W. 3. c. 22. §2. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art 6. 
 
 2. Within Two Months, or as soon as convenient after 
 their Entrance upon their Oilices, Naval Olficers are to 
 give sufficient Security to the Commissioners of the Cus- 
 toms, for His Majesty's Use, for the fiiithful Performance 
 
 N of 
 
 Ships not to lade 
 oc unlade until 
 Arrival made^' 
 known to the \ 
 Governor or \ 
 Naval Officer, 
 and Invoice 
 delivered. 
 
 To give Security 
 to the Commis- 
 sioners of the 
 Customs, other- 
 wise Governors 
 to be answerable. 
 
17B 
 
 To what Fees 
 entitled. 
 
 During War 
 Trading Vessels 
 may be manned 
 with Foreign 
 Mariners wlio 
 lini'e served Two 
 Years on board 
 British Ships, 
 iind such 
 Mariners to be 
 deemed natural- 
 born Subjects. 
 
 Not to b-: en- 
 abled t'l bp. of 
 the Privy 
 Counvii, &r. 
 
 mui £)ffilter0. 
 
 of their Duty, and in default thereof; shall be diuaWed to 
 execute the Office ; and until such Security is given, and 
 the Person appointed ^o the Office be approved, by die 
 Commissioners, the Governor shall be answerable for any 
 the OflFences, Neglects, or Misdeineanors of the Person 
 by him appointed. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. §5. 
 
 3. In the British Colonies shall be entitled to such Fees 
 as their Predecessors had been generally and usually ac- 
 custcMiied to receive, before the 29th September 1764, 
 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 are 
 allowed by this Act, he shall forfeit for the First Offences 
 .^'50, and for the Second Offence shall forfeit his Office, 
 and be for ever incapable of executing any Office or Em- 
 ployment in the Customs or Navy, io Geo. 3. c. 37. § 2,, 
 
 mioisatiott ofmritietf ^Ijips. 
 
 1. 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 Mercliant 
 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 faith- 
 fully served during the Time of War on board any of His 
 Majesty's Ships of War, or any Merchant or other 
 Tradmg Ship or Vessel, or Privateer (which at the Time 
 of such Service shall belong to any of His Majesty's Sub- 
 jects of Great Britain), for the Space of Two Years, 
 shall be deemed to be a natural-born Subject of Great 
 Britam, and enjoy all the Privileges, Powers, Rights, 
 and Capacities which he could have enjoyed in case 
 he had been a natural-born Subject of His Majesty, 
 and actually a Native within Great Britain. 13 Geo. 2. 
 c. 3. § 2. 4. 
 
 2. No Person who shall be naturalized by this Act, 
 shall be enabled to be of the Privy Council, a Member 
 of either House of Parlianient, or to take any Office or 
 Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, or have any 
 Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from the 
 
 l.rftu/n fr\ \\\ima£%\'P ^«« <^»%«* ^^4-U.... T) 
 
 •-"J ---1 atsjf viJici ACisuH lu xruisiior nmi. 
 1 3 Geo. 2. c. 3. § 3. 
 
 'o 3. No 
 
iSaUsaUm of Brtti0|) i%t)tp0V 
 
 a. No Ship registered or required to be registered as a 
 Bcitiah Ship in any c£the Ports of Great Britain, Guern- 
 sey, Jersey, or of the Isle of Man, or of any of the 
 Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories belonging 
 to His Majesty, shall be navigated but by a Master and 
 Three-fourths at least of the Mariners British Subjects, 
 except as is herein-after provided. 34 Geo. 3. c. 68. § 3. 
 42 Geo. 8 c. 61. §3. 
 
 4. Where it is required that the Master 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 Subjects during the whole Voyage, unless in case 
 of Sickness, Death, Diesertion, or of the Whole or Part 
 of the Crew being taken Prisoners in the Voyage j and 
 in such Case the Master of such Ship shall specify the 
 same in his Report ; but nothing in this Act shall alter 
 or in anywise affect any Regulation for the Navigation or 
 Manning of Ships employed in any of the Fisheries car- 
 ried on irom this Kingdom, or any Part of His Majesty's 
 Dominion?, for which any special Proviaon has been 
 made before the Commencement of this Act. 34 Geo. 3. 
 C.68. §5. 42 Geo. 3. c.61. ^5. 
 
 5. No Person shall be deemed qualified ta be the 
 Master of a British or Irish Ship, or to be a British or 
 Irish Seaman or Mariner within the Meaning oi this or 
 any other Act now in force, except the natural- born Sub- 
 jects of His Majesty, or Persons naturalized by virtue of 
 any Act of Parliament, or made Denizens by Letters of De- 
 nization, or except Persons who have become His Majesty's 
 Subjects by virtue of the Conquest or Cession of some 
 newly-aoquired Country, and who shall have taken the 
 Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty, or the Oath of Fide- 
 lity required by the Treaty or Capitulation by which such 
 newly-acquired Country came into His Majesty's Pos- 
 session, except as is herein-after provided. 34 Geo. 3. 
 c.68. §6. 42 Geo. 3. c.61. §7. 
 
 6. Every Foreign Sailor, St^aman, or Mariner, who 
 shall have served or who shall serve on board any of His 
 Majesty's Ships of War in Time of War, during the Space 
 of Three Years, either in one and the 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 Certificate of the Officer 
 
 N 2 then 
 
 179 
 
 ■ Ships renuired 
 to be registered 
 must be navi- 
 gated by a 
 Master and 
 Three-fourthi 
 Britiih Subjects. 
 
 The Marlnert 
 must be British 
 during the whole 
 Voyage except 
 in certain Caies. 
 
 What Persons 
 deemed qualified 
 to be the Master 
 of a British Ship 
 or British Sea- 
 man or Marioer. 
 
 Foreign Gailors 
 or Mariners 
 serving Three 
 Years on boarii 
 Ships of War 
 deemed British 
 under certai:t 
 
w m\iisation of Brittei) S)Dtp». 
 
 then living wlio shall have been next in Rank to sucfi 
 L-aptain, testifying that he has so served, and his faithful 
 Service and good Behaviour during the Time of such 
 service; and who shall have also taken the Oath of Alle- 
 giance 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's Customs in any Port of His Maiest/s. 
 Dominions, and who shall obtain a Certificate from such 
 Jiistice ot the Peace, principal Magistrate, or Chief 
 Otticei-, oMiis having takensuch Oath, (which Certificate 
 they are thereby authorized and required to give, upon 
 Payment Otis.), shall be entitled to be employed as a 
 Master of a British Sh.ip,.or as a British Seaman or Ma- 
 riner on board any British Ship, within the Meaning of 
 miyot theLaws noWinfbrce; provided that no such 
 foreigner sha I. be entitled to become the Master of any 
 Bratish or Irish Ship, or to be employed as a British or 
 Irish Seaman or Mariner, unless he shall have delivered 
 the before-mehtioned Certificate of the Time he shall have 
 sei-ved and of his fkithful Service and good Behaviour, and 
 the before-mentioned Certificate of his so having taken 
 . nS; r'', ^''^g'^^"^^' ^« the Collector or other chief 
 Officer of the Customs in the Port of London, Chatham, 
 Pmtsmouth,.or Plymouth, or to the Collector or chief 
 Officer of the Customs in the Port of Dublin, or in the 
 lorts of Cork, Galway, or Londonderry. 34, Geo ^ 
 c. 68. § 7. 42 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 8. 
 
 7. No Person qualified to be the Master of a British 
 
 or Irish Ship or to be a British or Irish Seaman or 
 
 Mariner, by Birth, Naturalization, Denization, Conquest, 
 
 or Service, in Manner before mentioned, and who shall 
 
 .„... .,... ... take any Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign Sovereign or 
 
 g'rnSir,'^'^ State for any Purpose, except under the Terms of some 
 i...... :.. .._' <-"PJtu!ation upon the Conquest of any of the Dominions 
 
 of His Majesty by the Enemy, for the Purpose of obtain- 
 ing the Benefit of such Capitulation only, shall be deemed 
 qualified to be the Master of a British Ship, or a British 
 Seaman or Mariner within the Meanuig of any of the 
 Laws of Navigation, unless such Person shall have taken 
 ^uch Oath of Allegiance before he became so qualified : 
 and any Person who shall, after having become disquali- 
 hedi)ytakmg^ such Oath of Allegiance, take the Com- 
 manrt of any ^nUm Ship, shall for every such Offence 
 torleit^lOO; and every Person who shall, after having 
 ' . become 
 
 I'crjons takinf; 
 Oaih of Allegi- 
 ance to a Foreign 
 St,ite not to be 
 deemed British 
 Subjects, unless 
 such Oath was 
 
 except in cer 
 t.iiti Cases. 
 
Ships not for- 
 feited if Dis- 
 qualification 
 unknown to 
 Owners and 
 Masters respec- 
 tively. 
 
 Negroes and 
 Lascars may be 
 employed in the 
 Navigation of 
 the Seas of 
 America, &c. 
 
 become so disqualified, engage to serve as a British Sea- ' 
 man or Mariner on board any such Ship, shall forfeit 
 ^10; such Forfeitures to be recovered upon Conviction 
 before a Justice of the Peace, if such (Jflfence shall be 
 committed in Great Britain; and before any Member of 
 the Supreme Court of Justice, or any Justice of the 
 Peace, if such Offence shall be committed in the Islands : ' ' 
 of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, or in any Colony, Plant- , ' 
 
 ation, or Territory to His Majesty belonging in Ame- ' . 
 
 rica ; but no Ship on board whereof any Person so dis- 
 qualified shall be employed as Master, shall be forfeited 
 by reason thereof, if the Owners shall shew that such 
 Disqualification of such Master was unknown to them or 
 to dieir Agent, and that such Disqualification of such 
 Seaman or Mariner was unknown to such Owners re- 
 spectively, or to their Agents, and to the Master of such 
 Ship, at the Time of engaging such Person so disqualified; 
 and in the Navigation on the Seasof 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 Persons having 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 Countries to the Eastward of the Cape of 
 Good Hope, may be employed as British Seamen or 
 Mariners in manner heretofore practised. 34 Geo* 3, 
 c. 68. §8. 42 Geo. 3. c.61. §9. .... 
 
 8. But nothing in this Act shall extend- to take away 
 or restrain the Effect of any Proclamation His Majesty, 
 His Heirs or Successors, are empowered to make by 
 virtue of 1 3 Geo. 3. c. 2. (see No. 1 .) -^ St G«o. 3. c. 68. 
 §9. 42 Geo. S. c.61. § 12. . . 
 
 9. If any Goods shall be imported or exported con- 
 trary to the Provisions of this Act, such Goods, and also 
 the Ship in which the same shall be imported or ex- 
 por>ted, shall be forfeited ; and if any Ship shall sail in 
 Ballast, or being required to be manned and navfgated 
 with a Master and a certain Proportion of British M 
 riners, in manner herein-before directetl, shall not be 
 manned and ntvigated according lo the Provisions of 
 this Act, such Ship and all the Goods on board shall be 
 forfeited. 34 Geo. 3 . c. 68 . § 1 0. 42 Geo. 3 . c.61. §13. 
 
 N 3 ' ^10. The 
 
 Proclamation 
 under 13 G. 3. 
 c. a. 
 
 Forfeiture if 
 Goods are ini» 
 ported or ex- 
 ported contri.ry • 
 to this Act, or 
 if Ships not 
 manned ay> 
 required. 
 
182 
 
 ay whom Goodi 
 iitid Shi^is may 
 be seized. 
 
 Ships found at 
 Ssa, having a 
 greater Number 
 of Foreign 
 Mariner* than 
 allowed. 
 
 Asiatic Sailon, 
 although born in 
 the Territories 
 under His Ma- 
 jeaty or the East 
 India Company, 
 niK deemed 
 British. 
 
 iSalitSdttott of Btttt0t) ^pt90. 
 
 10. The Goods and Ships forfeited by this Act«haU 
 be seized by the Commander of any of His Majesty's 
 Ships of Wat, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty 
 Officer specially appointed by him, or bv any Officer of 
 His Majesty's Customs. 34 Geo. 3 . c. 68. j 1 1. 42 Geo. 3 
 C.61. §14. 
 
 11. In case any British or Irish Ship 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 Number of British Mariners, or of the same having 
 been tak^ Prisoners during his Voyage, and that Briti^ 
 Marmers could not be engaged at such Foreign Port to 
 supply their Room, and t£at for the Navigation of cuch 
 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 hot be lawful 
 far 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 produced, testify- 
 in^g 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 Investigation of the Commissioners of the Customs. 
 34 Geo. 3. c. 68. § 12. 42 Geo. S. c. 61. § 15. 
 
 12. No Asiatic Sailor, Lascar, or Native of any of 
 the Territories, Countries, or Places within the Limits 
 of the Charter of the East India Company, although 
 IxMrn in Territories, Countries, or Places under the 
 Government of His Majesty, or of the East India Com- 
 pany, shall at any Time be deemed to be a British 
 Sailed, Seaman, or Mariner, within the Meaning of 
 34 Geo. 8. c 68. or of any other Act relating to the 
 Navigation of British Ships by Subjects of His Majesty, 
 
 be a British Ship, navirated according to Law, and to 
 have the Privileges and Advantages of a British Ship 
 having the Master and Three Fourths of the Mariners 
 
 British 
 
i@atiigation of mviUe^ ^|)itp0. 
 
 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 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 ; and His Majesty by Proclamation, upon 
 or after the Commencement of any Hostilities may 
 permit Merchant Ships, or any ot^er Trading Vessels, 
 and Privateers, to be manned wholly, or in any such 
 Proportions as shall be specified in any such Proclama- 
 tion, with such Asiatic Sailors, Lascars, or Natives, 
 during such Periods as shall be specified in such Pro- 
 clamation. 55 Geo- 3. c. 116. §6. 
 
 13. Every such Ship duly registered, and carrying on 
 Trade to and from India and the fTnited Kingdom, and 
 manned inpart with Lascars or Natives of India, and which 
 shall be commanded by a British Master, and navigated 
 by Seven British Seamen, as Part of the Crew, for every 
 100 Tons of her registered Burthen, and so in propor- 
 tion for any 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 1 16. § 7. 
 
 14. Any of the Governments of the East India Com- 
 pany in India, or any Governor or Lieutenant Governor 
 of any Colony, Territory, or Island belonging to His 
 Majesty within the 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 pro- 
 cured for the Crew of any Ship saiUng from India, within 
 Ten Days from such Application, to certify the same, 
 and license such Ship to sail with a less Proportion of 
 British Seamen than required by Law ; and every Ship 
 having on board such Licence, shall be deemed to be 
 navigated according to Law, notwithstanding such De- 
 ficiency of British teamen, until her Arriyal at the Fort 
 of Destination in the United Kingdom ; but shall, on the 
 V'^oyage back from the United Kingdom, have 'he full 
 
 N 4- and 
 
 183 
 
 East India Ships 
 manned with 
 Lascars to be 
 deemed l«gally 
 navigated if there 
 are Seven British 
 Seamen for every 
 lOO Tons. 
 
 If a sufficient 
 Number of 
 British Seamen 
 cannot be pro- 
 cured, Licence 
 may be granted 
 to sail with a 
 less Proportion. 
 
184 
 
 Exception as to 
 Ships trading 
 within certain 
 Limits. 
 
 Supplies for 
 llst;itrs in 
 Guiana n ay he 
 imported roin 
 the Netht rlands. 
 
 Certain Parts of 
 the Coast of 
 Labrador an- 
 nexed to the 
 Government of 
 Newfoundland. 
 
 His Majesty's 
 Subjects to have 
 a Free Trade to 
 and from New- 
 foundland, and 
 Liberty of 
 iuhins. 
 
 jl^abtgation Of Brttiel) ^l)tp0; 
 
 ami proper Proportion of Seven Britisli Seamen to every 
 100 Ions. 55 Geo. 3. c. 116. § 8. 
 
 15. But not to require any Number of Britisli Seamen 
 to be on board as Part of the Crew or Mariners of any 
 Sliip cinploycd in Trade only between Port*, and Places 
 wntb a the Limits of the Charter of the C^on.pany, in. 
 cludmg the Cape of Good Hope, or to prt-ve,.t any .uch 
 fe u}) wJnle so employed, being marmeil and nav-irjated 
 wholly, or ni any Proportion as to Asiatic Sailors, or 
 Lascars, or Natives of any Territories, Countries, or 
 
 IJaceswitluntheLnnitsofthesaid Company. 55Geo.3. 
 c. 1 1 6. § 9. 
 
 JI?etl)eilanD0, 
 
 TheSubjocts of the King of the Netherlands, being 
 Dutch Proprietors in the Colonies of Demerara, Ber^ 
 bice, or Lssequibo in the Province of Guiana, may im- 
 port into the .said Colonies, from the Netherlands^ the 
 necessary Articles of Supply for their Estates, and export 
 to the Netherlands the Produce of their Estatesf in 
 loreign Ships. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 See Guiana. ' 
 
 iI?etofountilanD. 
 
 1. Such Parts of the Coast ofLabrador from the River 
 bamt John to Hudson's Straits and the Island of Anti- 
 costi, and all other smaller Islands annexed to the 
 Government of Newfoundland 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. 3. C.83. shall be separated from the Govern- 
 ment oi Canada, and be annexed to the Government of 
 Newfoundland. 4-9 Geo. 3. c, 27. § 14. 
 
 'f All His Majesty's Subjects residing within Great 
 IJritam or Ireland, or the Dominions thereunto belong- 
 ing trading to Newfoundland, and the Seas, River\ 
 l.akes. Creeks, Harbours, m or about Newfoundland, or 
 any of tJie Islands adjoining or adjacent thereunto, shall 
 A ?'AT* "."'^ onjoy the Free Trade and Traffic, and 
 Art of Merchandize and Fishery, to and from Newfound- 
 land,. and peaceably use and oniovtliP Vrt.f.,i^,r, ..f f„i.;,i-r 
 Bait and hshuig m any of the Rivers, Lakes, Creeks^ 
 Harbours, or Roads in or about Newfounalaiid and the 
 
 said 
 
JlJetofounDUnti. 
 
 185 
 
 said Seas, or any of the Islands adjacent thereunto, and 
 Liberty to go on Shore oir any Part of Newfoundland, 
 or any of the said Islands, tor the curing, salting, drying, 
 and husbanding of their Fish, and for making of Oil, 
 and to cut down Wood and Trees there for building and 
 making or repairing of Stages, Ship-rooms, Train-fats, 
 Hurdles, Ships' Boats, and other Necessaries for them- 
 selves, and their Servants, Seamen, and Fishermen, and 
 all other Things which may be useful or advantageous to 
 their Fishing Trade, as fuMy and freely as at any Time • 
 
 heretofore hath been used oi enjoyed there by any of the 
 Subjects of His Majesty, without any Hindrance, Inter- 
 ruption, or Distui'bance from any Person ; and no Alien 
 or Stranger, not residing within Great Britain or Ireland, 
 shall at any Time hereafter take any Bait or use any 
 Sort of Trade or Fishing in Newfoundland, or in any of 
 the Islands or Places before mentioned. 10 & 11 W. 3. 
 c. 25. §1. 51 Geo. 3. c, 45. §2. 
 
 3. Every Master of a By-boat shall carry with him at How By brat* 
 least Two fresh Men in Six ; viz. One Man that hath y^^^^fti;'!^ 
 made no more than One Voyage, and one Man that manned ; 
 hath never been at Sea before; and 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 all Masters of Fishing Ships shall carry with them, 
 in their Ships' Company, at least One fresh Man never at 
 Sea before, in every Five Men they carry; and the 
 Master of each By-boat and each Fishing Ship shall 
 make Oath before the 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 Com- 
 pany 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 under his Hand, without 
 Fee or Reward. 10 & 11 W. 3. c. 25. § 9. 
 
 4. Every Master and Owner of any Fishing Ship going 
 to Newfoundland, shall have, in his Ship's Company, 
 every Fifth Man a Green Man, (that is to say) not a Sea- 
 man, or having been ever at Sea before. 10 & 1 1 W. 3. 
 c. 25. § 10. 
 
 5. The Master and Crews belonging to any Ships vacant spaces 
 fitted out and employed in the Fishery, in pursuance of may be used for 
 any Acl, may occupy anti use, lor lue rurpose or curing, y ^-^^ 
 salting, drying, and husbanding their Fish, any vacant or 
 
 void 
 
 fr 
 
 also Fishing 
 Ships going to 
 Newfoundland. 
 
18f> 
 
 i^etofouftSldtii, 
 
 By whom the 
 Privilege to be 
 enjoyed. 
 
 Places which are 
 no longer to be 
 deemed Ships' 
 Rooms. 
 
 Certain Vessels 
 exempt from 
 Entry at the 
 Custom Hovise. 
 
 vcMd Space on any Part of Newfoundland which is not 
 then occupied and used for the said Fishery withon 
 any Disturbanceor Hindrance from any pJS^'akl^orh 
 such unoccupied Places may not beforeC^n i^ 
 « Ships' Rooms," and all such unoccupied P^Xd 
 from h^ceforth be deemed Ships' Roo'ms. 15 Ge^'s 
 
 NewfoIn^a^1!l^f ""{ t^^"^ ^''^ «" '^^ I«J«nd of 
 iestv's Suhii^« " •" ^t/T^"^ ^y «"y «*' His Ma- 
 Si. ^ ^^J^'''''^ ^^ Newfoundland from any other 
 Counu-y except Great Britain or Ireland, or one ^of the 
 
 ?jGl?rr§ i:" ^-^^^p^- ^^ ^«^- - - - At 
 
 «f I* ^h ^^H'''^''!^ '^^P^' ^«o"»«^ situated in the Town 
 
 Darkus's Sh^;,,'''R ^^" SS'""'' ^'"P'^ ^^^ No. 2; 
 
 No 2 Gdir'^roV.^^^ Lady's Ships' Rooms 
 
 fWl ShiS rJ, "xf'^'P' ^°r' No. 3., Breakhear 
 
 N^ / is A^'^^u^''' ^•' ChurchiU Ship's Room, 
 
 R^m' No «'°'' ' ^y' ^"*'"^' N«- '• ' Admiral 6^1 
 Room, No. 6.; as the same are laid down, distinguished 
 mid named in a Plan of the Town ai^ Harbour of 
 Samt John's dated October 1804, and deposited in the 
 
 be Ships Rooms, and occupied during the Fishing 
 beason as such, but the same may be granted, let and 
 possessed as private Proj^rty, as any^her PorL of 
 
 8. Ail Ships fitted and cleared out as Fishine Shin^ 
 '" .Pyr\«««ce of this Act, or of 10 & II W 3 c 25 
 which shal^ be actually employed in the Fishery, or 'any 
 Boat or Craft employed in carrying Coastwis^, to be 
 landed or put on board any Ships, any Fish, Oil, Salt 
 Provisions or other Necessaries'^ for [he uU of the 
 Fishery shall not be liable to any Restraint or Regula- 
 tion with respect to Days or Hours of Working,^ nor 
 to make any Entry at the Custom-house at Newfoundland, 
 ^xcept a Report to be made by the Master on his firs 
 Arrival there, and at his Clewing out from thence 
 a^ a Fee not exceeding 2s. 6d. may be taken by the 
 Officers of the Customs at Newfoundland for each Report : 
 
 C^tZ ""t"" ^'', '^'^^ ^ *^^^" ^y ^y Officer of the 
 ^ ai~7^ --""vc tu lue j^isnery. 15 Geo. 3. 
 
 9. In 
 
9. In one any such Fthing Ships ihall, at her last 
 clewing out from Newfoundland, have on board or ex- 
 port any Goods except Fish, or Oil made of Fish, «ucli 
 Ship and the Goods liiereon laden shall be liable to the 
 same Securiti«i, Restrictions, and Regulations in all 
 Re^yects as if tlus Act l»d not been made. 15 Geo. 3. 
 
 c. 31. § 8. ,. r 
 
 10. No Master of any Ship tradmg to or trom 
 Newfoundland ihall carry as Passengers any Fishermen, 
 Sailors, Artificers, or others employed in carrying on 
 the Fishery, from the Ittend to fny Part of the Con- 
 tinent «f America, id&oat the Permission under the 
 Hand and Seal of Ad Governor, under the Penalty of 
 if 200. 15 Geo. 3. c. SI § 12. 
 
 11. No Person residing in or canning on the Fishery 
 in Newfoundland shall sefi or orchange any Ship, Vessel, 
 or Boat, or any Tackle, Apparel, or Furniture which 
 may be used by any Ship, Vesid, or Boat, or any Seans, 
 Nets, or other ImplemenU or Utensils for catching or 
 curing Fish, or any Bait or Fish OU, Blubber, Seal Skins, 
 Peltry, Fuel, Wood, or Timber, to or with any Person 
 except His Blajesty's Subjects. 26 Geo. 3. c. 26. § 14. 
 
 12. Persons concerned in selling, &c. such Articles to 
 the Subjects of any Foreign State may be arrested by 
 Warrant of the Governor or his Surrogates, or any 
 Justice of the Peme, and committed to Prison, on Oath 
 of One or more credible Witness, and on Conviction 
 shall forfeit the Value of the Articles. 26 Geo. 3. 
 
 c. 26. § IS. , T-- 1, 
 
 13. Any Person residing hi or carrying on the Fishery 
 in Newfoundland, who shall there purchase or take in 
 Exchange or by way of Barter any Goods from the Sub- 
 ject of any Foreign State, or assist in so doing, may be 
 apprehended and committed to Prison, and shall forfeit 
 Double the Value of the Goods, 26 Geo. 3. c. 26. § 16. 
 
 14-. All Penalties imposed by any Act made or to be 
 made relating to the Island of Newfoundland or the 
 Fishery thereof, may be recovered in a summary way 
 in the Supreme Court, or in any Surrogate Court; and 
 those of jfilO, or under, may be recovered in the Court 
 of Session, or before any one or more Justices of the 
 Peace. All Money arising from such Penalties and 
 
 187 
 
 But Rhipn ex- 
 porting other 
 Goods than Fifth 
 or Oil, ^.uhject 
 to Entry. 
 
 Persons em- 
 ployed in the 
 Fishery not to 
 be conveyed to 
 Continent of 
 America without 
 Governor's 
 Permission. 
 
 Utensils, Bait, 
 and other 
 Articles not to 
 be sold to 
 Foreigners. 
 
 Pena'ty on Per- 
 sons concerned 
 therein. 
 
 Goods not to be 
 purchased of 
 Foreigners. 
 
 How Penalties 
 to be recovered 
 
 and applied. 
 
 -j_ ,1-1:: 
 
 l^urfettures sliuli be appiieu tovvuiuB UeiaayUijj ~ 
 
 i-U^ i?«^^ 
 
 pences of carryii^ the Act into Execution. 
 r. '^1. § 16. 
 
 49 Geo. 3. 
 
 15. Vessels 
 
188 
 
 Certain Vessels 
 not requiied to 
 be regutered. 
 
 il^etofomiDlanfl. 
 
 Veseels liuilt for 
 El rojieaii 
 Owntr, the 
 Husband or 
 Agent may take 
 RggLtcr Oath. 
 
 From what Parts 
 of Europe, Salt 
 and Wine may 
 be imported ; 
 
 Oranges and 
 
 Leniuiisfromtlie 
 Azores or 
 Madeiras. 
 
 Goods ncces- 
 Siiry fur the 
 Fishery from 
 Guernsey or 
 Jersey. 
 
 Shipper to make 
 Oatli that they 
 are the- Produce 
 of Great Britain 
 or the Islands. 
 
 15. Vessels not exceeding 30 Tons, and not having a 
 Deck, employed solely in ti.e Fishery on the Bankl^c" 
 Shores of Newfotrndland, or in trading Coastwfse there 
 are not recju.red to be registered. 27 geo. 3. c. 1^$ s' 
 
 ,„ ^, r"-'^ "KGISTHY OK BhiTIHH SllIPS. 
 
 accot.t nfO "'"' \<^««-'^^ lH.ilt in Newfoundland on 
 account of Owners who reside in His Majesty's European 
 Donnmons, may be registered, upon the Husban r 
 
 trolVt7it)T ^^'^"^^^' '' '- ^^'^--^- 
 
 1^ ,, '^'"'.Pp^'^TRY OF British Ships. r. ' 
 
 7. It shall be lawful to lade in British-built Ships, 
 
 Z P' riT''^^ '-^"^ registered according to Law/ r^ 
 
 l3 r^r?''. ^t *■"'• ^''« I'^i^'^'^ries ofNewfoun " 
 
 land; aiul to lade m the Madeiras and Azores, Wines 
 
 m./v^\o^r^'*^ ^" u ^'"?^"' °^ ^^'^ A^«res or Madeiras 
 may be laden at the said Islands for Exportation direct 
 
 BriSshh'^' ^"^"^ ^t"^" "^ Norlh America, in 
 57 Geo. 3.^c!'8T'^ ''^ ''"'' according to Law. 
 
 19. Any Inhabitant of Jersey of Guernsey may trans- 
 port direct from thence to Newfoundland, or any of X 
 British Colonies in America where the Fishefvis^carr ed 
 
 Sort'ofT fV ^''t "^V »-*•"% trade'there^v 
 Sort of Craft, I-ood, Victuals, Clothing, or other Goods 
 fit and necessary for the Fishery in tffose Paits, or fo 
 
 h a1 «L^*''""'' ^" °^'^^^' ^^'^^^^ employed on 
 board the Ships or on Shore in carrying on tl^e sa"d 
 Fishery; such Craft, &c. being tlie Pr^odSce or Man^ 
 facture of Great Britain or the said Islands, and sudi 
 Food or Victuals being the Growth or Produce of Gre 
 Britain Ireland, or the said Islands. 9 Geo 3 c 28 7 
 Of?'- ^^\?^T' «f *^^ Ship shall "p^okucefo,- 
 arrive" f ..*^%Cu^t«-« - t^e Colony %vhere 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 
 
 SS: :f :'f. I^?y^^ CoLs in tl!T said 'TsLnd: 
 lespectively, that the Goods are the Produce or Manu- 
 facture aforesaid : such Corfifino.o.^V." ".^.'''^ , "" 
 CMi^a^ ^i' *i /-. - — — 1^..,^ ,„ jj^ ;uii;sica uy me 
 
 O^h wa! t.v' ^"' °"S' "^" ^^^" ^^rtify that the'said 
 Uath was taken m his Presence; on Failure of producing 
 
 ^ such 
 
Jl^elDfotm&lani}, 
 
 189 
 
 ?,uch Certificate the Goods and Ship shall be tbrfeited. 
 9 (Jeo. 3. c. 28. § 2. . 
 
 21. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle Herrings frooi 
 of Man may export from thence, and import into any of ''"^ '*'^ "^ '^"" ' 
 the British Colonies, in British Ships manned and navi- 
 gated according to Law, Herrings caught and cured by 
 
 them, in the same Manner as Victuals of and from 
 Ireland may be ' imported into the said Colonies by 
 15 Car. 2. c. 7. 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. § 4. 
 
 22. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle also Provisions 
 ot Man may ship there and transport directly to New- implements for 
 foundland, or any Part of America where the Fishery is tlie Fishery. 
 carried on, on board any Ship which may lawfully trade 
 
 or fish there, any Provision^ and also any Hooks, Lines, 
 Netting, 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 ; such Provisions, &.c. 
 being the Produce or Manufacture of Great Britain or 
 Ireland, or the Isle of Man. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §5. 
 
 23. The Master of such Ship shall pro<luce to the Siiipper to mnke 
 proper Officer of the Customs in the Colony or Plant- ^"'^ ^/ '° '^\. 
 
 . • JVlaniitflcturG ot 
 
 ation where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand the Tools, &c. 
 and Seal of the Collector or oth'cr Principal Officer of the a'ld that they are 
 Customs in the Port where he shall have fitted out, that 'he^pjXe^'" 
 Oath hath been made before hiin by the Shipper of such 
 Provisions, &c. that the same arc of the Product or 
 Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Isle of 
 Man, 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 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 tor no other Use or 
 Purpose ; and on Failure of producing such Certificate, 
 or if any such Hooks, &c. are used or disposed of for 
 any otlier Purpose, the same, and the Ship having the 
 Articles on board, shall be seized and forfeited as if this 
 Act had not been made. 15 Geo. 3, c. 31. § 6. 
 
 24^. Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of Fruit, Wine, 
 Europe South of Cape Finisterre, may be laden in any jj^^',^ from Ports 
 Port of Europe for Exportation direct to Saint John's of Europe South 
 in Newfoundland:;' on board any British Shin owned, ofCapeFmis- 
 navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall 
 have arrived at any such Port of Europe with Articles 
 
 the 
 
190 
 
 Other AnicUt 
 from M«Iu or 
 GihMkar. 
 
 Duty upon 
 •Spiritd. 
 
 R^ecovery and 
 Approprijtion of 
 Outies, 
 
 The DutK s. kind 
 the Officers of 
 the Customs to 
 
 JSetofotirUlanlj; 
 
 the Produce of tlH> British Colonieg in North America t 
 or with F.Ml, taken and cured by Hi* Majesty's Subject^ 
 T?lZW^'" Ffsherie. from any of d.e iitish ColoS 
 m North America, or from any P;u"t of the United 
 Knigdoiu. 51 Gto. 3. c. 97. § 2. 
 See Cork. . 
 Fruit. 
 Oil. 
 Salt. 
 Wine. 
 25. Certain Articieij enumerated in the Scheduie 
 '^'^ }? thijAct marked (B.) may be imported into 
 Ne«^undland from MaJta, or any of'the Djpe.v.lencies 
 thereof, or from Gibraltar, in British-buUt Ships owned, 
 
 Tlff^* ^"ti 5f«'«'^^ axrcording to Law. 55 Geo. 3. 
 c, ^9, 5 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. i. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 \ii^'!fL^*l^^*?f P"'*^ "P°" ^iritfl imported mto 
 Nej*,m.dIaod the following Duties ; that is to say, 
 
 fW ev«7 GaUcBi rfRum or other Spirits imported 
 from any Bn«»b Odkmy w PlantBtion in thVWest £dies. 
 
 For every Gallon of Rum imported from Berbice, 
 Den^erara, or Easeqiubo, Sixpence : 
 
 B»r every Gallon of Rum or other Spirits imported 
 fro« any other cf His Maje.ty's Colonies or Plantations 
 on the Continent of America, or from Great Britain or 
 irerand, OneShilhng and Sixpence. 52 Geo. S. c. 106. « 1. 
 56 Geo. 8. c. 91. §2. 
 
 .u ^I'r T^^!^, Py^^'^ Hhall be paid to the Amount of 
 the Value of which such nominal Sums bear in Great 
 Bntain, and may be received according to the Proportion 
 and Value of Ss. 6d. the Ounr n Silver; and shall be 
 recovered m the same Manner, , h^ guch Rvhe and 
 under such Penalties and Fo.f^ r..rfcs,V , any other Du- 
 ties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into 
 any British Colony or Plantation in America; and all the 
 Monies that shall arise by the said Duties, (except the 
 necessary Charge* of raising, paying, and accounting for 
 the same) shall be paid into the Exchequer. 15 Geo. 3. 
 ""'oc^-??' 52 Geo. 3. c. 106. §1. 56Geo.3. c.91. §2. 
 28. 1 he Duties upon Goods brought or imported into 
 or exported ot cairied from Newibimdiand by virtue of 
 these or any other Acts of Parliament, and the Officers of 
 
 the 
 
il?etDfoutihldn&. 
 
 191 
 
 the Customs appointed for executing and eamriBg into 
 Execution the several Laws relating to the Trade and 
 Revenue there^ shall be under the Management and Di" 
 rectioa of the Comini^oners of the Customs in Ent^land, 
 under the Autliority and Direction of the Commissioners 
 of the Treasury. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 85. 52 Geo. 8. 
 c. 106. §1. 56 Geo. 8. c. 91. §2. 
 
 29. If any Action or Suit shall be commenced against 
 any Person or Persons for any thing done in pursuance 
 of these Acts, the Defendant may plead the General 
 Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evi- 
 dence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the 
 same was done in pursuance thereof; and if it shall ap- 
 pear 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 have appeared, 
 or if Judgment shall be given upon any Verdict or De- 
 murrer against the PlaintiflP, the Defendant shall recover 
 Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as 
 Defendants have in other Cases by Law. 15 Geo. 8. 
 c.31.§86. 52 Geo. 3. c. 106. §1. 56 Geo. 3. c, 91. §2. 
 
 30. Spirits, the Produce of HJ« Majesty's Sugar Co- 
 lonies in the West Indies, legally and directly imported 
 into Newfoundland from the said Colonies, or from Ber- 
 muda, may be exported from Newfoundland to the Pro- 
 vince of Lower Canada, and admitted to Entry, on 
 Payment of the same Duty as if imported direct from His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. c, 48, §1. - 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 31. Spirits, the Produce or Manufacture of any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, I^;ally and 
 directly imported into Bermuda from the said Sugar Co- 
 lonies, may be exported from Bermuda to NewtoTind- 
 land, and landed and admitted to Entry upon Payraent 
 of the sante Duty as if imported directly from any of the 
 said Sugar Colonies ; and under the Conditions and Re- 
 strictions contained in 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. may be imported 
 without Payment of Duty, in the same Mwiner as if such 
 Spirits had been imported into Newfoundland directly 
 from the said Sugar Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. c.62. §1,2. 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 32. No Goods shall be imported from any of the Ter- 
 ritories belonging to the United States of America into 
 Newfoundland, or into any Country or Land within the 
 Governmoit thereof on Forfeiture of the Goods and the 
 Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 12. 
 
 33. But 
 
 bt ui)4i«r the 
 Management of 
 the Cum minion- 
 en. 
 
 General Issue 
 may be pleaded, 
 and Treble Costs 
 allowed. 
 
 Spirits may be 
 exported to 
 Lower Canada 
 on the same 
 Duty as from 
 Sugar Colonies. 
 
 May be imported 
 from Bermuda 
 on the same 
 Conditions as 
 from Sugar 
 Colonies. 
 
 No Goods to be 
 imported from 
 the United 
 
 States: 
 
192 
 
 except Bread, ^c 
 for the Supply 
 of Inhabitants 
 and Fishermen. 
 
 By whom Slr.ps 
 and Goods may 
 be seized. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be exported 
 ' 1 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 0.ith to be in ide 
 by the Shipper 
 ofOilordiiibber 
 tlidt it is tlte 
 Produce of Fish 
 caught by His 
 Majesty's Sub. 
 jects. 
 
 3.3. But His Majesty in Council, by any Order to be 
 issued and published, or by Warrant under His Si^n 
 Manual, may empower the Governor of Newfoundland 
 to autliorize, 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 Fishermen of New- 
 foundland for the then ensuing Season only ; provided 
 such Bread, Flour, Indian Corn, and Live Stock, is 
 imported in conformity to such Rules, Regulations, and 
 Restrictions, as shall be specified in such ()rder or War- 
 rant, and by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, 
 owned and navigated according to Law, under the For- 
 feiture mentioned in (No. 32.) 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 13. 
 
 S*. Goods and Ships forfeited by this Act shall ho 
 seized by the Conmianders of any of His Majesty's Ships 
 of War, or any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer 
 specially authorized by them, or by any Officer of the 
 Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §16. 
 
 35, Articles, the Production or Manufacture of New- 
 f(mndland, or which may have been legally imported into 
 the Island, may be exjjorted from thence direct to 
 Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibral- 
 tar, under certain Regulations. 55 Geo. 3. c 20. § 1. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 55. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 36. Before any Blubber and Train Oil im]iorted 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 froiu 
 that Island, shall be admitted to Entry on Payment 
 of the Duty payable on such Oil, the Master .shall 
 deliver to the Collector or other Chief Officer of 
 the Customs at the l^ort of Importation, a Certificate 
 under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or De- 
 puty 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 ; or if no such Officer or Go- 
 vernor or Deputy Governor shall be residing there, then 
 a Certificate shall be produced under the Hand and Seal 
 
 of<^Lf^ XT„v"l Ol?!-" *^l •-.:.-. 1 ^^/r, }• 4^1 _:.i 
 
 ^'i niL- x-iavtii v-?mvci tJi UIII-.JI jji iiicipjU v/iiifei" ul liic sum 
 
 Port or Place, or of one of IJis Majesty's Justices of (lie 
 Peace for the District, testifying that" Oath had been 
 made before him (who is recjuired to administer such 
 
 Oath, 
 
IBetofounilanD. 
 
 193 
 
 Oath, and to grant su'-h 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 Sub- 
 jects carrying on such Fishery, and usually residing in 
 the Island of Newfoundland, or in His Majesty's Euro- 
 pean 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 Certifi- 
 cate ; and the Importer or Consignee of such Blubber or 
 Oil shall also make Oath before the Collector or Comp- 
 troller, or other proper Officer of the Customs, 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 
 Newfoundland, or in His Majesty's European Domi- 
 nions; and on Failureof such Certificate being produced, 
 and Proof on Oath being made, such Blubber and Oil 
 shall be deemed to be of P'oreign Fishing, and charged 
 with Duty accordingly. 55 Geo. 3. c. 135. 
 
 37. Any of His Majesty's Subjects may export, in any 
 British-built Ship, owned and navigated according to 
 Law, from 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 
 the Islands in the West Indies belonging to Flis Majesty, 
 or from any one of the British Colonies on the Continent 
 of America, into Newfoundland, any Goods the Manu- 
 facture of Europe, and any Goods or Prize Goods which 
 shall have been legally imported into any of the said 
 Islan Is or Colonies, under the Regulations and Restric- 
 tions contained in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57.-57 Geo. 3. c 29. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 Proof of Identity 
 on Importation 
 into Great 
 Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 Goods which rn-iy 
 be e^^orted to 
 West India 
 Islands and Colo- 
 nies on the 
 Continent, and 
 imported from 
 thence. 
 
 JSeto i&totJtDence. 
 
 The Port of Nassau, one of the Fr^e Ports for the Nassau a Free 
 Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Fo- ^""■ 
 Jeign Ships. j45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § I. 
 See l* HEE Pouts. 
 
 O 
 
194 jiJotja S»cot(a t JlJeti) Brungtotcft. 
 
 No Goods to be 
 imported from 
 the United States 
 except Pitch, 
 Tar, and 
 Turpentine ; 
 
 and Household 
 Furniture, 
 Utensils of Hus- 
 bandry, and 
 Ck)thing,brought 
 by Subjects of 
 the said States 
 who intend to 
 settle : 
 
 EXcept also 
 Lumbw, &c. 
 in case of Dis- 
 tress, for the 
 Supply of the 
 Inhabitants; 
 
 or for Re-export- 
 ation to other 
 Colonies. 
 
 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, '. ar, and Turpentine, the Pro- 
 duction of the said Territories, which may be imported 
 into the said Provinces in British-built Ships, owned 
 and navigated according to Law. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 12. 
 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 14.. 
 
 2. Except also Household Furniture, Utensils of 
 Husbandry, and Clothing, by Subjects of the United 
 States, who shall come from thence, together with their 
 Families, to Nova Scotia, or any of the Provinces be- 
 longing to His Majesty in North America, for the Pur- 
 pose 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 Furni- 
 ture, &c. 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 .^50 for 
 every White Person that shall belong to such Family, 
 and Forty Shillings for every Negro brought by such 
 White Person. 30 Geo. 3. c. 27. § 1. 
 
 See Settlers. 
 
 3. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Go- 
 vernor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, 
 with the Advice and Consent of the Council of the Pro- 
 vinces 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, Pota- 
 toes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, oi Grain, for a limited 
 Time, from any of the Territories belonging to the 
 United States of America, for the Supply of tne Inha- 
 bitants of the said Provinces; but such Scantling, &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 the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. 
 C.6. § 13. 
 
 4. Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or 
 v>ommanue"s in Cliicf of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, 
 with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, 
 
 8 may 
 
By whom Good* 
 and Vessels may 
 be stizcd. 
 
 S,i't from any 
 Part of Kurojie. 
 
 Jl?otoa S)eotta f jlJeto Brunstoitft. i"5 » 
 
 may autliorize 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 
 Plantations. 48 lieo. 3. c. 125. § 1. 
 
 5. Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts may be 
 seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships 
 of War, or by any Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty 
 Officer specially authorized by them, or by any Oflicers 
 of His Majesty's Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c.6. 33 Geo. 3. c.50. 
 
 6. Salt for the Fisheries of Nova Scotia may be laden 
 in any Part of Europe for Exportation to any of the 
 British Colonies or Plantations, on board any British- 
 built Vessel, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 2 Geo. 3. ^. 24. 4 Geo. 3. c. lo. § 31. 
 
 See Europe. 
 
 7. Wines of the Madeiras or of the Western Islands 
 or Azores may be there laden tor Exportation to any of 
 the British Colonies or Plantations. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 7. 
 
 8. Goods fit and necessary for the Fisheries in the 
 British Colonies in America may be exported to Colonies 
 where such Fishery is carried on, direct from Guernsey 
 or Jersey. 9 Geo.'^S. c. 28. § 1, 2. 
 
 See Guernsey. 
 Jersey. 
 
 9. Herrings cured in the Isle of Man may be ex- 
 ported from thence to any of the British Colonies or 
 Plantations, in the same maimer as Victuals from Ireland. 
 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. §4. 
 
 See Man. 
 
 10. Tools and Implements necessary for the Fisheries 
 in the British Colonies may be exported direct to the said 
 Colonies from the Isle of Man. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 5. 
 
 See Man. 
 
 11. Spirits of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the 
 Wtist Indies, legally imported into Nova Scotia or New 
 Brunswick from the said Sugar Colonies, or from Ber- 
 muda, may be exported from the said Provinces to Lower 
 Caaada, and admitted to Pantry on Payment of the same 
 Rate of Duty as if imported directly from any of the said 
 Sugar Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. c. 48. M? ''^• 
 
 12. Spirits the Produce or Manufacture of His Majes- 
 ty's Sugar Colonies in ihe West Indies, imporled inlu 
 Bermuda from the said Colonies, may be exported from 
 Bermuda into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, and ad- 
 
 Wiiies from the 
 AVtbtcrn Islands. 
 
 Goods from 
 Guernsey and 
 Jersey. 
 
 Herrings fi-om 
 the Isle of Man ; 
 
 nlso Tools and 
 Implements. 
 
 Spirits may be 
 exported to 
 Lower Canada 
 on the same 
 Duty as from 
 Suijar Colonics ; 
 
 2 
 
 mitted 
 
 and may be im- 
 ported from 
 bennuda on the 
 same Duty and 
 Conditions as 
 Irom Si4',ar 
 Colonies. 
 
I'luit 
 b 
 
 _.., ic. may 
 iiw 111^)011 ed from 
 Places in Eu- 
 rope South of 
 C»pe Finisterra. 
 
 mitted to Entry on Payment of the same Duty as if, 
 imported direct from the said Sugar Colonies ; and unde.r 
 the Conditions contained in 28 Geo. ,3. c. 39* may he, 
 imported into the said Provinces witliout Payment of, 
 Duty, in the same Manner as if such Spirits had been, 
 importetl directly froni iany of the said Sugar Coloniesr 
 51 Geo. 3. C.62. § 1,2.. . , 
 
 See Spirits. 
 
 13. Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork^ the Produce or 
 Manufacture of Eurqpe Soutli of Cape Finisterre, may 
 be shipped in any Port of Europe South of Cape Finis- 
 terre for Exportation direct to Saint John's in New^ 
 Brunswick or Halifax, and Shelburn in Nova Scotia, on 
 board any Ship arriving at any Port in Euro})e witli 
 Articles the Produce of thp British Colonies in Nort^j 
 America, 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., 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2. ■ 
 
 See Cork. ■ \ ■ 
 
 Fruit. : 
 
 Oil.. ., ; ■ , ■ . \ ' 
 
 Salt. .-. , . • . . , 
 
 Wine. 
 
 14. Any British-built Ship, navigated and registered 
 according to Law, may load at Malta or any of the De- 
 pendencies thereof, or at Gibraltar, any of the Articles enu- 
 merated in the Schedule marked (B.) annexed to55 Geo. 3. 
 c. 29. for Exportation, direct to any of His Majesty's .Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in North America. 55 Geo. 3. 
 c.29. §5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 
 Malta. , 
 
 15. Articles, the Production or Manufacture of His 
 Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, or 
 which n;uy have been legally importetl into such Colonies 
 or Plantations, may be exported from thence direct to 
 MalUi or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in 
 British-built Ships, navigated and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c.29. §8. 57 Geo. 3. c 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 16- v^rrangcs and Lemons, the Growth of the Azores 
 
 or Madeiras, may be there laden for Exportation direct 
 
 to any of the British Colonies in North America, on board 
 
 9 . any 
 
 Certain Arti- 
 cles may be im- 
 ported from 
 Malta or 
 Gibrjltar. 
 
 Certain Aruclcs 
 may bo ex- 
 ported direct 
 t:> Malta or 
 Gibraltir. 
 
 Oranjcs and 
 Lemons may be 
 imported from 
 the A lores or 
 Madeiras. 
 
^tita ^tttia $ JIJetD Brunstoicft. ^^7 
 
 any British Ship, navigated and registered according to 
 Law. 57 Geo. S. c. 89. 
 
 17. Any British-built Vessel, owned and navigated 
 according to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Sub- 
 jects of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Ma- 
 jesty, may import into such Ports as shall be specially 
 appointed for that Purpose by His Majesty, within the 
 Province of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, the following- 
 Articles; videlicet, Scantling, Planks, Staves, Heading 
 Boards, Shingles, Hoops, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, 
 Itiogi, Poultry, or Live Stock of any Sort ; Bread, Bis- 
 cuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, 
 Barley, or Grain of any Sort ; Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, 
 Fruits, Seeds, and Tobacco ; provided that none of the 
 said Articles shall be imported in Foreign Vessels, unless 
 of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of the Country 
 to which the Vessels importing the same shall belong ; 
 and any of the said Articles may be re-ex}X)rted, either to 
 the United Kingdom, or to any other of His Majesty's 
 Possessions, in any British-biillt Vessel, owned and navi- 
 gated according to Law. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 1, 2, 3. 
 
 VS. Any British Vessel, or any Vessel belonging to the 
 Subjects of any Sovereign or State in A;nity with Hi? 
 Majesty, may export from the said Ports so lo be ap- 
 pointed for that Purpose, Gypsum, Grindstones, or other 
 Produce or Manufacture of the said Provinces, and also 
 any Produce or Manufacture of the United Kingdom, or 
 of His 'Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West 
 Indies, or any Goods whatever which have been legally 
 imported into the said Provinces ; provided that none of 
 the aforesaid Articles shall be exported from the said 
 Ports to any Foreign Country or Place, in any Foreign 
 Vessel, unless such Foreign Vessel shall belong to the 
 Country to which the said Articles shall be exported. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 4, 5. 
 
 19. His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy 
 Council, may make such Rules and Regulations for the 
 Importation and Exportation of Goods aforesaid at the 
 said Ports, with such Penalties and Forfeitures for Breach 
 thereof; as shall seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, by 
 and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 20. This Act shall continue in frrce during the Space 
 of Three Years from and after the passing of the same*, 
 
 Ports may be 
 approved for the 
 Importation of 
 Scantling, iSiC* 
 ill Forcigu Ships. 
 
 *■ nth May 18\S. 
 03 
 
 and 
 
 Gypsum, ttc, 
 rr;?y be ex- 
 ported from the 
 said Ports in the 
 like Ships;, 
 
 Under such 
 Regu'ations as 
 HisMujcsty may 
 think necessary. 
 
 Limitation of tlie 
 
198 
 
 Certain.Vessels 
 not required to 
 be registered. 
 
 Vessels built for 
 European 
 Owners, the 
 Husband or 
 Agent may take 
 Register Oath. 
 
 /l?oija S»corta $ 51?cto BrunBtoicft. 
 
 and until Six Weeks after the Comnicnoement of the 
 then next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 1 9. § 7. 
 
 21. Vessels not exccpdinn; 30 Tons, and not having a 
 Deck, employed solc'y in the Fisheries on the Banks or 
 Shores of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, adjacent to the 
 Gulf of Suint Lawrence and to the North of Cape Canso, 
 or of the Islands within the same, or in trading Coast- 
 wise within the Limits, are not required to be registered. 
 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. §8. 
 
 See Registry op British Ships. 
 
 22. Ships or Vessels built in those Parts of the said 
 Provinces adjacent to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and to 
 the North of Cape Canso, or in the Islands within the 
 said Limits, on account of Owners who reside in His Ma- 
 jesty's European Dominions, may be registered upon the 
 Husband or Agent taking the Oath required by 26 Geo. 3. 
 c. 60. 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. §9. 
 
 See Registry of British Ships. 
 
 Iinportation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Dtl)re0, 
 
 May be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependen- 
 cies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 May be ap- 
 poin'ed by the 
 
 Treasiirv and 
 
 7 
 Commissioners ; 
 
 V 
 
 and by the 
 Governor or 
 Commander in 
 Chief, for the 
 Purpose of 
 seizing Sugar, 
 Indigo, and 
 "Wine. 
 
 €>ffitcrB. 
 
 1. The Lords of the Treasury, and the Commissioners 
 of the Customs in England, 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 Properties in 
 America, when and as often as the same shall seem need- 
 ful. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. §11. 
 
 2. May be appointed by the Governors or Com- 
 manders in Chief in the British Plantations for the Pur- 
 pose of seizing Sugar, Indigo, and Wine, landed without 
 Payment of Duty, or without a Warrant signed by the 
 proper Officer. 6 Geo. 2. c. 1 3. § 3. 4 Geo. 3. c. 1 5. § 1 . 7. 
 
 3. Every 
 
DflBicers. 
 
 5. Every Person who, upon the Day of the Demise of 
 His present Majesty, shall hold any Office Civil or Mili- 
 tary under the Crown during Pleasure, shall, without any 
 new or other Patent, Commission, Warrant, or Autho- 
 lity, continue and be entitled in all respects, notwith' 
 standing the Demise of His Majesty, to hold the same 
 during the Pleasure of the King or Queen who shall suc- 
 ceed to the Crown ; and the Right and Title to hold and 
 enjoy the same under the Authority of this 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 
 Employment granted by such succeeding King or Queen 
 during Pleasure would by Law be determinable ; provided 
 that this Act shall not deprive the Heirs and Successors 
 of His 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. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 4-5. § 1. 
 
 4.. Naval Officers are within Two Months, or as soon- 
 as convenient after their Entrance upon their Office, to 
 give sufficient Security to the Commissioners of the 
 Customs, for His Majesty's Use, for the fliithful Perform- 
 ance of their Duty, and in default thereof, shall be disabled 
 to execute the. Office ; and vmtil such Security is given, 
 and the Person appointed to the said Office be approved' 
 by the said Commissioners, the respective Governors 
 shall be answerable hr any the Neglects or Misdemeanors 
 of the Persons so appointed. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. ^ 5. 
 
 5. No Office in any Colony or Settlement, Plantation, 
 or f'oreign 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 In- 
 strument, for any longer Time than during such Time as 
 the Grantee thereof shall reside in the Colony, Settle- 
 ment, Plantation, or Foreign Possession, and execute 
 the Duty of such Office in Person, and behave well 
 therein. 22 Geo. 3. c. 75. § 1- S* Geo. 3. c. 61. § 1. 
 
 6. If any Person holding such Office shall be wilfully 
 absent from the Colony or Plantation, without a reasonable 
 Cause to be allowed by the Governor and Council, or :.hall 
 
 neglect me xjuiy ui oiJi;u v^mvc, %ji vit.^ - -i - 
 
 therein, such Governor and Council may amove such 
 Person from any such Office ; and in case any Person so 
 
 O 4. amoved 
 
 1^9 
 
 May hold thtir 
 Offices upon the 
 Demise of His 
 Majesty without 
 any new Ap- 
 pointment. 
 
 Naval, to give 
 Security, other- 
 wise the Gbvet". 
 nors to be an- 
 swerable. 
 
 Offices not to be 
 granted for any 
 longer Time 
 than the Grantee 
 shall execute the 
 Duty in Person. 
 
 Misbehaving, 
 may be amoved 
 by the Governor 
 and Council. 
 
200 
 
 Who may grant 
 I.tave of Ab- 
 sence, and pro 
 vide for Vacan- 
 cies. 
 
 V 
 
 Leave of Ab- 
 sence to be re- 
 ported to Secre 
 tary of State, 
 and if not con- 
 firmed, the 
 Officer must re 
 turn to the 
 Colony. 
 
 Neglecting to 
 report Leave of 
 Absence. 
 
 A Return to be 
 made of Officers 
 absent, to th.- 
 House of Com- 
 mons. 
 
 j©fficerff. 
 
 amoved shall think himself aggrieved thereby, he niay 
 ar>peal therefrom as in other Cases of Appeal from such 
 Colony or Plantation. 22 Geo. 3. c. 75. § 2. 
 
 7. But the Governor and Council of any Colony or 
 Plantation may give such Leave of Absence as they shall 
 
 . see Occasion; and in such Case, as likewise in the Ca^e 
 ot Vacancy occasioned by Death or Amotion, may pro- 
 vide for the due Discharge of the Duties of such Office 
 until the King's Pleasure shall be known. 22 Geo 3 
 Q. 75. §3. 
 
 8. In all Cases in which the Governor and Council of 
 any Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Foreign Posses- 
 sion shall hereafter grant Leave of Absence to any Person 
 holduig an Office within the same, to which he shall have 
 been appointed subsequent to the passing of this Act, the 
 Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, 
 or otiier I erson administering the Government, shall 
 Within One Week report the same to One of His Ma- 
 jesty s Prmcipal Secretaries of State for Confirmation : 
 and in ca.se th6 Leave of Absence shall not be confirmed 
 within One Month from the Date of such Report having 
 been received by the Secretary of Slate, the Person 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 con- 
 sidered void. 54 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 2. 
 
 9. Every Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other 
 Person administering the Government of any Colony, 
 &c., who shall omit or neglect to report in Manner be- 
 fore directed such Leave of Absence, shall for every such 
 Omission or Neglect forfeit a Sum not exceeding il 00, 
 to bejued 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, Lieu- 
 tenant Governor, or other Person administering the 
 Government. ,54 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 3. 
 
 • ^^' .^'^^'" ^^^ ^*'^'*« ^fte*" the opening of every Ses- 
 sion of 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 
 
 iJuties of their Offices, nnd simh T?<:.f.,,-„ ..l,„ii i j- 
 
 ui the horm prescribed in the Schedule (A.) to this Act 
 annexed. 54 Geo. 3. c. 61. §4. 
 
 11. Nothing 
 
:^fficeraf. 
 
 11. 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 riiade by the 
 said Company, with respect to the Appointment or 
 Leave of Absence of any of their Civil or Military Ser- 
 vants 54. Geo. 3. c. 61. § 5. 
 
 12. The Duties imposed by any Act upon Goods im- 
 ported mto, exported or carried from, any British Co- 
 lony or Plantation in America, may be put under the 
 Management and Direction of such Commissioners, to 
 reside m 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. 7 Geo. 3. c 41. § 1. 
 
 13. The said Commissioners, or any Three of them, 
 shall have the same Powers and Authorities for carrying 
 into Execution the Laws relating to the Revenues and 
 Trade oi the British Colonies in America, as were before 
 the passing of Uiis Act exercised by the Commissioners 
 of the Customs in England, by virtue of any Act in 
 iorce ; and His Majesty in such Commission may make 
 Provision for putting in Execution the several Laws re- 
 lating to the Customs and Trade of the said British 
 Colonies. 7 Geo. 3 '.. 41. § 2. 
 
 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 Officer acting in the said Colonies or Planta- 
 tions, shall continue in force as fully as if this Act had 
 not been made, until the Deputations or other Authori- 
 ties so granted to such Officer shall be revoked or made 
 void by the Lords of the Treasury. 7 Geo. 3. c. 41. §3. 
 
 is. Where any Officer shall, by any Person armed 
 with Club or any Manner of Weapon,' be forcibly hin- 
 dered, abused, beaten, or wounded, either on board anv 
 ^f"P, or upon the Land or Water, in the due Execu- 
 tion of his Office, every Person so hindering, &c. such 
 Ufticer, or any Person acting in the Aid or Assistance, 
 
 shall, 
 
 201 
 
 Not to affect 
 Appointments or 
 Leavurf AKseiic.-' 
 granteil before 
 this Act. 
 
 The Duties im- 
 posed by any Ace 
 may be put under 
 the Management 
 of Commission- 
 ers to reside in 
 the Plantations. 
 
 To have the 
 same Powers as 
 tiie Commis- 
 sioners in Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Deputations 
 granted by the 
 Commissioners 
 in England to re- 
 main in force. 
 
 Abused or 
 wounded in tht 
 Execution of 
 
20i^ 
 
 Resisted in 
 seizing Sugar, 
 Indigo, or "W inc. 
 
 All Penons to 
 aid and assist 
 tliem, and who 
 are saved harm- 
 less. 
 
 May plead the 
 Gt-ueral Issue. 
 
 Allowed Treble 
 
 Costs. 
 
 shall, by the next Justice of Peace or other Maj^istrate", 
 be committed to Prison, there to remain till tlie next 
 Quarter Sessions ; and the Justices of the Quarter Ses- 
 sions shall punish the Offender by Fine, not exceeding 
 j£'100 ; and the Offender 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. 13&14Car. 2. 
 c. 1 1. § 6. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 6. 
 
 16. Or any of their Assistants resisted in seizing Sugar, 
 Indigo, or Wine, landed without Payment of Duty, or 
 without a Warrant, the Offentiers are to forfeit j€50, and 
 to be imprisoned for Three Months. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 3^ 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 1. 7. 
 
 See Indigo. 
 Sugar. 
 Wine. 
 
 17. All Officers belonging to the Admiralty, Captains 
 and Commanders of Shi{)s, Forts, Castles, and Block- 
 houses, and all Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, 
 Bailiffs^ Constables, and Headboroughs, and all t1)e 
 King's Officers, Ministers, and Subjects whom it may 
 concern, shall be aiding and assisting every Person ap- 
 pointed by His Majesty to manage the Customs, and the 
 Officers of the Customs and their Deputies, in the due Ex- 
 ecution of every Act and Thing by these Acts required ; 
 and all such tvho shall be aiding and assisting them 
 in the due Execution hereof shall be defended and saved 
 harmless. 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 11. § 32. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 c. 22. §6. 
 
 18. In case any Officer in the Plantations shall be sued 
 or 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. 7 & s'W. 3. c. 22. § 6. 
 
 1 9. 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 De- 
 fendant may plead the 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 Autho- 
 rity of such Act ; and if it shall appear so to have been 
 done, the Jury shall find for the Defendant ; and if the 
 
 Plaintiff 
 
£)fl6cerg. 
 
 Plnintiff shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his Action 
 after the Defendant has appeared, or if Judgment shall 
 be given upon Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff; 
 the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs, and have the 
 like Remedy for the same as Defendants have in other 
 Cases. 4 Geo. 3. c. 1.5. §47. 
 
 20. Any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain who 
 ihall give any Warrant for, or suffer any eimmerated 
 Article to be carried into any Country, until they have 
 been first unladen in Great Britain or Ireland, such 
 Officer shall forfeit his Place and the Value of the Goods 
 he shall give Warrant for, or suffer to pass into any other 
 Country. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 9. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 21. If any Person employed in the Customs shall de- 
 mand 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 Allowances 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 Da- 
 mages. 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 11. § 34. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 0.22. §6. 
 
 22. Taking a Bribe, Recompence, or Reward, or 
 conniving at any false Entry, or making any collusive 
 Seizure or Agreement, or doing any other Act by which 
 His Majesty shall be defrauded in his Duties, or any 
 Goods prohibited shall be suffered 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 ^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 Law relating 
 to His Majesty's Customs in America may be evaded or 
 broken, such Person shall for every Offence (whether the 
 Offer or Promise be accepted or performed or not) forfeit 
 <€50. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §38. 
 
 23^ Allowing the Privilege of a British-built Ship to 
 iiny Ship coming iiiio any Port and making Entry of any 
 (joods, until Examination Avhether the Master and Three- 
 
 fom'ths 
 
 203 
 
 I 
 
 Suffering enu- 
 merated Commo- 
 dities to be car- 
 ried to other 
 Countries than 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 Liable to Double 
 Costs and Dama- 
 ges in certain 
 Cases. • 
 
 Taking Bribes 
 
 or doing Acts 
 whereby Laws 
 may be evaded ; 
 
 Person!? oflftring 
 them. 
 
 Allowing the 
 Privilege of Bri- 
 tish Ships with- 
 out lixaminatioii. 
 
204 
 
 Conniviiigat the 
 frauilulent Im- 
 portatiiiii of East 
 India Goods, or 
 dclayiii); Prose- 
 cution. 
 
 Taking Entries 
 sr signing Docu- 
 ments for Hats 
 nr Felts. 
 
 Conniving at the 
 fraudulent Im> 
 portatlon of 
 Sugar, ice. or 
 delaying Prose- 
 cution. 
 
 Neglecting to 
 perform Acts re- 
 quired of them 
 under Register 
 Act. 
 
 On Inquiries 
 relative to the 
 Revenue, Per- 
 «3hs examined to 
 deliver their 
 Testimony on 
 0;ith. 
 
 €)flScer0. 
 
 foiiftlis of the Mariners are British, .sdafl for the 
 First Offence bo put out of his Office. 12 Car. 2 
 c. 18. § II. 
 
 21.. Knowingly connivinc at tiie fraudulent Importation 
 of any East India Conimodities, or seizing any of the said 
 Commodities, and by Fraud or Collusion desisting or 
 delaying the Prosecution thereof to Condenmation, shall 
 forfeit .^500; and be incapable of holding any Office 
 or Employment under His Majesty. 7 Geo. 1. st. 1. 
 c.21.§9. 
 
 25^ Taking any Entry Outwards, or signing any 
 Cockct, Warrant, or Sufferance for the shipping or ex- 
 porting any Hats or Felte, or suffering tlie same to b<! 
 done, or conniving thereat, forfeit their Office and .^'500. 
 5 Geo. 2. c. 22. § 4. : 
 
 26. Knowingly c(»nniving at the fraudulent Importa- 
 tion or Landing any Sugar, Indigo, or Wine, or seizing 
 the same for having been landed without Payment of 
 Duty, or without a Warrant signed by the proper Officer, 
 and by Fraud or Collusion desisting from or delaying 
 the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, shall forfeit 
 ^'50, and be incapable of holding any Office under His 
 Majesty. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 6. 4 Geo. S. c. 1 5. § 1 . 
 , . ^X" ^* ""^ Person required by this Act in respect of 
 his Office to perform any Act or Thing required to be 
 done pursuant to the Provisions of this Act, shall wil- 
 fully neglect or refuse to perform the same, he shall on 
 Conviction forfeit .^'500 ; and for the Second Offence 
 ^^600, and be rendered incapable of serving Mis Majesty 
 in any Employment relative to the Revenue, or any Civil 
 Capacity whatever. 26 Geo. 3. c 60 §40. 
 
 28. All Persons examined as Witnesses on any Inquiry 
 directed by the Commissioners of the Customs in England 
 or any Four or more of them, to be made in America or 
 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 Comp- 
 troller of the Customs, or either of them, at any Port in 
 thfe British Colonies and Plantations in America or the 
 West Indies, or 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 
 ^.^. ^v^tji^.v^uj wii wuui, lo be aaminisiered Dy the 
 Officer. 49 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 1. 
 
 29. If 
 
^Bttvs. 
 
 205 
 
 29- If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false False Ontin 
 Oiith touching any of tlio Facts ro(|nire(l to be testified oa, ''«"='"'J Perjury. 
 Oath, or of giving ful»e Evidence on EKaniination on 
 Oiitli, the Person so convicted shall be ilecnied guilty of 
 Perjury, and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to 
 which Peraons are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury. 
 V9 Geo. 3. c. 4-6. § 2. 
 
 1. The Produce of Europe South of Cape Fi- 
 nisterre, may be shipped ancl laden in any Port or, 
 Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre for Export- 
 ation direct to any of tlie Ports herein-after mentioned r 
 that is to say, Saint John's in New Biunswick, Saint 
 John's in Newfoundland, C^uebec 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, 
 aud registered according toLaw,jwhich shall have arrived 
 at any Port or Place of Europe Soutli of Cape Finisterre 
 with Articles the Produce of the said Colonies, or with 
 Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carry- 
 ing 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 Prot 
 vince by Land or Inland Navigation. 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 97. § 2. 
 
 2. Upon the Importation of such Oil into any of the 
 said Ports, the same shall be subject and liable to the 
 Payment of such Duties as Goods of the like Denomina- 
 tion are liable to upon being imported into any of the 
 saidseveral Ports from Great Britain. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 3, 
 
 3. The Person exporting any Cargo from Nova Sco- 
 tia or New Brunswick, for any Port of Europe South 
 of Cape Finisterre, shall make Oath at the Port of Ship- 
 ment before the Chief Officer of the Customs, or before 
 tlie Naval Officer in Command at such Port, that the Car- 
 go so shipped is the Produce of the said Provinces, or of 
 the British Fisheries in North America, really taken and 
 
 Vessels from 
 British Colonies 
 in North 
 Amertct, 
 .irriving witit Uie 
 Produce thdreof ; 
 at IMaces in Eu- , 
 ro|ie South of i 
 Cape FiaitterrQ, 
 '.nay import from 
 thence Oil the 
 Produce of 
 Europe.. 
 
 
 sty's Subjects carryiiig on the said Fish- 
 
 eries from some of the said Colonies or Plantations ; and 
 the said Officer shall certify such Oath under his Hand ; 
 
 whicli 
 
 What Duties 
 liable to. 
 
 On Exportation 
 
 from Nova 
 Scotia or New- 
 Brunswick, Oath 
 to be made that 
 the Cargo is the 
 Produce of the 
 Province or of 
 the British 
 Fish^rieSy and 
 Certificate 
 thereof to be 
 produced. 
 
206 
 
 )©il. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be exported 
 from Cnnada 
 without suth 
 Oath, on pro- 
 ducing a Certifi- 
 cate oi'the regu- 
 l.ir Importation 
 by Land or 
 Inland Naviga- 
 tion. 
 
 Oath to be made 
 before shipping 
 Pickled or Dry 
 Fish from 
 Canada, that it is 
 the Produce of 
 Ihe Britisli 
 Fisheries. 
 
 which Certificate shall be produced by the Master of the 
 Ship on board of which any such Cargo is shipped, on his 
 Arrival at the Port of Europe within the Lin ts 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 shall be no British Con- 
 sul, then before Two known British Merchants there re- 
 sident, that the Certificate so produced was the Certificatt 
 of the Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer whose 
 Name it bears, and was duly signed bv him, 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 97. § *. 
 
 4. The Exporter of Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, 
 Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, White Oak Staves and Head- 
 ing dressed or undrchsed, Hoops, Pine Plank 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 re- 
 quired 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 or 
 brought into Cnnada conformably to the Regulation- 
 established by L;r. 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 is required to grant, upon satisfactory 
 Proof bein<r made, upon Oath or otherwise; and the 
 Authenticity of such Certificate shall be sworn to, in 
 manner aforesaid, by the Master of such Ship, at the 
 Port of Delivery in Europe within the aforesaid Limits, 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 5. 
 
 5. Before the Shipment of any Pickled Fish or Dry 
 Fish for Exportation from Canada to any Port of Europe 
 within the Limits aforesaid, the Person in whose Posses- 
 sion the same has contmued from the Time of its being 
 landed from the Fishing Vessel employed in the taking 
 it, until shipped ibr 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 taken 
 and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said 
 Fisheries froui some of the said Colonies or Plantations : 
 and on such Oath being taken at Quebec, the said 
 Officer of the Customs* or Naval Officer shall grant Cer- 
 tificate 
 
mi. 
 
 tlticate thereof, si«?aed with his Hand, which Certi- 
 licate only the Masier of such Ship shall be required to 
 producvi at the Port of Delivery in Europe within the 
 Limits aforesaid, and shall make Oath of the Authen- 
 ticity of such Certificate in manner aforesaid. 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 97. § 6. 
 
 6. Any Ship or Goods subject to Forfeiture under 
 tins Act, may be seized by any Officer of the Customs 
 in the said Colonie j or Plantations, or by the Commander 
 of any of His Majesty's Ships of War ; and the same 
 may be prosecuted, sued for, recovered, and divided in 
 the same manner and by the same Rules and Regula- 
 tions, as far as the same are applicable, as any other 
 Forfeiture imposed by any Act made for the Security 
 of the Revenue, or for ilie Regulation or Improvement 
 thereof, or for the Regulation of Trace or Navigation, 
 and which were in force on or immediately before the 
 passing of this Act, in any British Colony or Plantation 
 in America. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 7. 
 
 7. Before any Train Oil or Blubber imported into 
 'Great Britain, as being taken and caught on the Banks 
 and Shores of Newfoundland and Parts adjacent, wholly 
 i)y His Majesty's Subjects carrying on such Fishery from 
 that Island, shall be admitted to Entry on Payment of 
 the Duty payable 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 New- 
 foundland where the Train 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 Cer- 
 tificate 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 
 tor 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 resldhig 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 im- 
 ported 
 
 207 
 
 By whom Ships 
 and Goods may 
 he seized and 
 prosecuted. 
 
 Oath to be made 
 before Shipmrtit 
 I'rom Newfound- 
 land, that it is 
 the Produce of 
 Fish caught hy 
 His Majesty's 
 Subjects. 
 
208 
 
 Oath of Identity 
 on Importation 
 into Great 
 Britain. 
 
 The hke Proof 
 to lie made as to 
 Oil the Produce 
 of Fibii -jght 
 in the Gulf of 
 Saint Lawrence, 
 &c. 
 
 Importation al- 
 lowed from 
 Malta or. Gib- 
 raltar. 
 
 ported into Great Britain, sh&ll make Oath before such 
 Collector or other Chief Officer at the Port of Importa- 
 tion, that the Blubber or Train Oil is the same as re- 
 ferred to in the said Certificate ; and the Importer or 
 Consignee of such Blubber or Train Oil shall also make 
 Oath before the proper Officer of the Customs, at the 
 Time of Entry, thai to the best of his Knowledge or 
 Belief the Blubber or Train Oil so imported ^vas actually 
 caught and taken by British Subjects usually residing in 
 Newfoundland, or in His Majesty's European Domi- 
 nions; and on Failure of such Certificate being pro- 
 duced, and Proof on Oath being made, such Blubber 
 and Train Oil shall be deemed to be of Foreign Fishintr, 
 and charged with the Duty imposed on such Articles of 
 Foreign Fishing. 55 Geo. 3. c. 135. § 1. 
 
 8. The like Duties as are now payable on Oil and 
 Blubber, the Produce of Fish and Creatures living in the 
 Sea, taken and caught on he Banks and Shores of New- 
 foundland and Parts adjacent wholly by Hits Majesty's 
 Subjects carrying on the Fishery from that Island, and re- 
 siding therein, shall be paid, on the Importation into Great 
 Bntain of Oil and Blubber the Produce of Fish or Crea- 
 tures living in the Sea, taken and caught in the Gulf of 
 Sp'nt Lawrence, or on the Shores of any British Colony 
 or Plantation in North America, or the Parts adjacent, 
 wholly by His Majesty's Subjects usually residing in any 
 of the said Colonies or Plantations, and carrying on such 
 Fishery from thence, on the hke Proofs and Certificates 
 as are required on the Admission of Oil and Blubber of 
 the Newfoundland Fishery to the Duty imposed thereon 
 by Law. 56 Geo. 3. c. 118. 
 
 €)« of ^lmDnD0, £)ii of Clotoes, 
 €)pium, anD £Dtanste muhe, 
 
 May be exported from Malta, or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, c»- 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majest/^ 
 Colonies or Plantations in North America, in British- 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. c. 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar, 
 Malta. 
 
The Produce of tt»e Azores or Madeiras, may be importation 
 ••hipped in the said Islands for Exportation direct to any allowed from 
 of the Porto in the British Colonies in North Americij, m^j^.-^^"" 
 and mky be imported into the said Ports in any British- 
 built Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 57 Geo. 3. c. 89. §1. 
 
 0vi6 moot, £)0trtc!) 5Featl)er0, 
 anil j&atnting0. 
 
 May be exported from Malta, or any of tlie Depen- Importation 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His '^'i^^'^'* ^^"' 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations in North AmericJ^ in British- 
 l)uilt Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Goo, 3. c. 29. § 5. 9, 51 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 j^ainters Colours. 
 
 1. Not being the Manufacture of Great Britain or 
 Ireland, imported from Great Britain or Ireland into 
 any Colony or Plantation in America under the Domi- 
 nion of His Majesty, the following Duties shall be paid; 
 that is to say. 
 
 For every Cwt. Avoirdupois of Painters Colours, Two 
 Sliillings. 7 Geo. 3. c. 4G. § 1. 10 Geo. 3. c. 17. § 1. 
 •Jy & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2^ The saidj Duties sliall be deemed Sterling Money 
 of Great Britain, and shall be recovered and paid to the 
 Amount of the Value which such nomhial Sums bear in 
 Great Britain, and received according to the Proportion 
 and Value of 5s. 6a. the 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 
 HUty be paid and recovered by any Act now in tbrce ; 
 and all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duties 
 (except tlie necessary Charges of collecting, recovering, 
 
 or ;u'r'<Miiitiiin> Gm- fUr. c..irrt«\ ..Kali U-~ „„„i:„j :„ . i • 
 
 — ^ '-''o =••■ ■^^•*- ^cHTic:; csnaii Dc itppiicu Hi luaiviHg a 
 
 iiK)fe adequate Provision for the Charge of the Adminis- 
 tration of Justice anid the Support of Civil Government in 
 Hich of the saiil Colonies and Plantations where it siiall 
 
 P be 
 
 Duty on the 
 Importation from 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 To be recovereJ 
 as other Duties, 
 and applied for 
 the Use of the 
 Colonies where 
 found neccssarv, 
 and the Residue 
 paid into the 
 Exchequer. 
 
210 
 
 Hi» Majesty 
 
 Msy '.'}■■•;-, ~.'^*° 
 the Do'Lie: i'^i 
 the Uic of 
 ai! or any of tl.-' 
 Colonies. 
 
 Duty on tha 
 Importation from 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 i&aintet0 Colours* 
 
 be found necessary ; and the Residue of such Duties shall 
 be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, aud 
 entered separate and apart from all other Monies payable 
 to His Majesty, and shall be there reserved to be disposed 
 of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary Ex- 
 pences of protecting and securing the British Colonies 
 and Plantations in America. 10 Geo. 3. c. 17. $4. 
 
 3. His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Sign 
 Manual, counter ^.i^ v. a by the High Treasurer, or any 
 Three oi n'Oie of the Commissioners of the Treasury, 
 mav cause such Monies to be applied out of the Produce 
 of the Duties grj^.ited by this Act, as His Majesty shall 
 think proper r r 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. 10 Geo. 3. c. 17. § 5. 
 
 1. Upon the respective Sorts of Paper, Pasteboards, 
 Millboards, and Scaleboards hereafter mentioned, not 
 being the Manufacture of Great Britain 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 tbllowing Duties shall be 
 paid ; that is to say^ 
 
 For every Ream of Paper usually called or known by 
 the Name of Atlas Fine, 12s. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Atlas Ordiijiary, 6s. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Bastard or Double 
 Copy, Is. 6d. 
 
 For every single Ream of Blue Paper for Sugar- 
 Bakers, lO^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Blue Royal, Is. 6d. 
 
 For every Bundle of Paper containing 40 Quires, 6d. 
 
 For every Ream of Brown Cap, 9d. 
 
 For every Ream of Cartridge Paper, Is. IJd. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Chancery Double, 
 Is. 6d. 
 
 Foj- every Ream of Paper called Genoa Crown Fine, 
 is. l^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Crown 
 Second, 9d, 
 
 For. every Ream of Paper called German Crown, 9d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Fine Printing 
 Crown, 9d. 
 
 For 
 
i&aper; 
 
 211 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Second Ordinary 
 Printing Crown, 6^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Demy Fine, 3s. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Demy Second, Is. 4<^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Dany Printing, Is. 3d. 
 
 For> every Ream of Paper called Genoa Demy Fine, 
 Is. 6d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Demy Second, 
 Is. l^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called German Demy, 
 Is. l^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Elephant Fine, .6s. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Elephant Ordinary, 
 2s. 5td. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Foolscap Fine, 
 Is. l^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Foolscap 
 Second, 9d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called German Foolscap, 9d, 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Fine Printing 
 Foolscap, 9d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Second Ordinary 
 Printing Foolscap, 6|d. 
 
 For every Ream of any other Paper called Foolscap 
 Fine, Is. 10^x1. 
 
 For every Ream of any other Paper called Foolscap 
 Fine Second, Is. 6d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Imperial Fine, 125. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Second Writing 
 Imperial Fine, 8s. 3d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called German Lombard, 9d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Medium Fine, 4-8. 6d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Medium, 
 Is. lO^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Second Writing 
 Medium, 3s. 
 
 For every Ream of Painted Paper, 6s. 
 
 For every Ream of Pajier called Fine Large Poa, 
 Js. lO^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Small Post, Is. l^d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Fine Genoa Pot, 6id . 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Sfjcond Genoa Pot, 
 6|d. 
 
 For every Ream of other Paper called Superfine 
 
 Pot, Is. 6d 
 
 P2 
 
 For 
 
212 
 
 To be paid in 
 the same Manner 
 mid by such 
 Rules, &c. as 
 tlie Duty on 
 Painters Colours. 
 
 l&ap 
 
 
 For every Ream of oriier Paper called Second Fint- 
 Pot, Is. Ud. 
 
 For every lleam of Paper called Ordinary Pot, G|(l. 
 For every Ream of Paper called Super Royal lMne,9&, 
 For every Ream of Paper called Royal Fine, lis. 
 For every Ream of Paper called Fine Holland Royal, 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Fine Holland Second, 
 Is. 6d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Second Fine Holland 
 Royal, Is. 6d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Ordinary Royal, &d. 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Genoa Royal, 2s. 5|iL 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Second Writiinr 
 Royal, 4s. l^d. ^ 
 
 For every Ream of Paper called Second Writing 
 Super Royal, 6s. 
 
 For every Cwt. Avoirdupois of Pasteboards, Millboards, 
 and Scaleboards, 3s. 9d. 
 
 All other Paper (not being particularly rated and 
 charged by this Act) shall pay the several and respect- 
 ive Duties that are charged by this Act upon such Paper 
 as is nearest above in Size and Goodness lo such unrated 
 Paper. 
 
 A Ream of Paper chargeable by this Act, shall be 
 understood to consist of 20 Quires, and each Quire 
 of 24 Sheets. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 1, 2, 3. 10 Geo. 3. c. 17. 
 §1- 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2. The said Duties shall be deemed Sterling Monev 
 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 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver, and shall be 
 levied, collected, paid, and applied in the same Manner, 
 and by such Rules, &c. as the Duties upon Painters 
 Colours are levied, collected, paid, and applied. 
 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 4, 5. 
 
 I&ag0enger0. 
 
 On bo^rd Ships 
 clearing from 
 the United King- 
 
 foiindland or 
 Labrador, 
 
 1. Before the sailing of any Ship from any Place in 
 the United Kingdom to Newfoundland or the Coast of 
 
 Labrador wifll l-*ns«pnrr«vc iha IVTicf^" -^r-'l «-i-- /^. .,,■.«,.. 
 
 .. ^_ ^ ..... j'ittrtvi tliivt MJtC V^mitl- 
 
 shall give Bond in ^^500, with Condition that there shall 
 not be taken on board any more Passengers than nrc 
 
 hei'eip- 
 
herein-after permitted, which Bond shall be taken by and 
 deposited with the Collector and Comptroller or Principal 
 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 Prin- 
 cipal Officer, a List containing the Number of the 
 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 Officers as being correct, and sluiU be delivered to 
 the Master of such Ship, to be kept on board, subject 
 to the Inspection of any of His Majesty's Ships of War 
 or Vessels in the Service of the Customs or Excise ; 
 and upon the Arrival of such Ship at either of the said 
 Places, the Master shall deliver the aforesaid Copy of 
 the List to the Governor 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 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, 
 oY some Person authorized by either of them for that 
 Purpose. 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 1. 
 
 2. If the Master shall take on board, or if the Owners 
 shall engage to take on board, more Persons than the 
 Number allowed, they shall forfeit .it 10 for each Person. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 2. 
 
 3.^ Ships from any Place in the United Kingdom, or 
 from Guernsey and Jersey, shall not carry to any Part of 
 Newfoundland or Coast of Labrador, a greater Number 
 of Passengers than in the following Proportion ; that is 
 to say, any British Ship 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 oetween the 
 Two Decks ; or any British Ship 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 indepen- 
 dent in either Case of the Space which may be requisite 
 for the Stowage of the Water and Provisions and Bag- 
 gage of the Passengers ; and the full Space before mcn- 
 
 P 3 tioned 
 
 213 
 
 not to he lindc'i 
 until a I.ist is 
 delivcreil. 
 
 Passengers not 
 to land until 
 List examined. 
 
 Pena ty for 
 taking a ^rerrter 
 Number than 
 allowed. 
 
 What Number 
 may be carried 
 in Proportion to 
 the Tonnage. 
 
214 
 
 To iit fupi'lieJ 
 (vitil u certaiii 
 (Quantity of 
 \\'nu'r .iiici Pro- 
 
 \WiK.l\b. 
 
 Not giving out 
 t!ie AHoujiice. 
 
 An Abstract of 
 the Attto be 
 exposed in the 
 hhip. 
 
 Taking Pas- 
 sengers from 
 Newfoundland 
 or LabradcT, lo 
 conform to the 
 like RegulcUions. 
 
 Quantity of 
 VV.iter and Pro- 
 visions on the 
 Return from 
 Newfoundland 
 ind Labrador. 
 
 tioncd shall accordingly ho allottt^d for the Accommo- 
 dation of each Piissenger taken on board. .W Geo. 3. 
 c. 83. § 3. 
 
 4. Every 8hip shall be furnished at the Time of her 
 Departure with at least Ten Weeks Supply of Water, so 
 as to supply Five Pints per Uiiy foi- 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 Allow- 
 ance for every Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, during 
 Ten Weeks, of lib. of Eread or liiscuit, and lib. of 
 Beef, or Three Quarters of a Pound of Pork, per Day ; 
 and also 2lbs. of p^lour, 3lbs. of Oatmeal, or Slbs. of 
 P-as or Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound of Butter, 
 Weekly ; the Weekly Allowance to commence on the 
 Day the Ship })uts to Sea. 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 4. 
 
 5. The Master of any Ship failing to give out the Al- 
 lowance of Provisions and Water before specified, shall 
 forfeit £10 for every Neglect. 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 5. 
 
 6. An Abstract of this Act, stating the Number of 
 Passengers allowed to be taken, anil the Daily and 
 Weekly Allowance of Water and Provisions, shall be ex- 
 posed in some conspicuous Part of the Ship, to which 
 the Passengers have Recourse; in Failure of which the 
 Master shall forfeit jfilO. 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 6. 
 
 7. The Master of any Ship engaging to take on board 
 Passengers from Newfoundland or die Coast of Labrador, 
 for the Purpose of returning from thence to the United 
 Kingdom, shall conform to the Regulations before 
 enacted, as to the 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, as with 
 respect to Ships proceeding from the United Kingdom 
 to Newfoundland- or the Coast of Labrador. 56 Geo. 3 
 c. 83. § 7. 
 
 8. 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 ; and every such Ship shall also be fur- 
 lu,-u^.^^ rrKu oii^ii n ouppiy oi iTovisions as wijl aitorU the 
 saane Allowances before mentioned (See No. 4.) for every 
 Passenger, exclusive of the Crew. 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 8. 
 
 lo 9. The 
 
I&a«8enger8, 
 
 9. The Master or Person Imvhig Command of any 
 Ship failing to give out tlie AHowance of Provisions and 
 Water before specified, shall forfeit £\0 for every 
 Neglect. 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. §9. 
 
 10. Penalties and Forfeitures may be recovered m a 
 summary Way, on the Oath of One Witness, before any 
 One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of any County, 
 City, Riding, Shire, or Place in the United Kingdom, 
 where such Ship shall depart from or come to, or in a sum- 
 mary Way in any Surrogate Court of Session haying Juris- 
 diction in Newfoundland ; and such last-mentioned Pe- 
 nalties and Forfeitures as shall be recovered in Newfound- 
 land, 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, &c. in defraying the Passage home of 
 such Persons as ought to be sent to that Country to which 
 they belong. 56 Geo. 3. c. 83. § 10. 
 
 1 1. But not to extend to the Conveyance of any Persons 
 on board of any such Ship, whether Fishermen, Young- 
 sters, or others, being hired Servants, to be employed 
 on the Establishment of their Masters or Hirers ni the 
 Prosecution of the Fisheries carried on from Newfound- 
 land or the Coast of Labro<lor. 56 Geo. 3. c 83. §11- 
 
 12. No Ship shall sail with Passengers from any Place 
 in the United Kingdom, to any Place in Upper or Lower 
 Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, 
 or Prince Fidward's Island, unlaes the Master and the 
 Owner or Owners shall before the sailing enter into Bond 
 to His Majesty, in j£500, with Condition that there shall 
 not be taken on board any more Passengers than are 
 herein-after 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 Comp- 
 troller or other Principal 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 Col- 
 lector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the 
 Customs, a List containing the Number of the Passen- 
 gers, with their Names, Ages, and Descriptions, and 
 the Places to which they are to be conveyed, for the 
 
 urpose oi uciiig rcgistcicU at suvn i ••. ., ...g — , — - 
 
 Copy of the same, which Copy shall be certified by the 
 said Officer as being correct, and delivered to the Master, 
 
 P4 to 
 
 5il5 
 
 Nut giving one 
 the Allowance. 
 
 How FeiiakciM 
 and Forfeiture 
 to be recovered 
 and applied. 
 
 Not to extend 
 to Servants in 
 the Fisheries. 
 
 On board Ships 
 clearing from the 
 United Kingdom 
 for Canada^ lee 
 not to be landed 
 until a List is 
 delivered. 
 
21H 
 
 Penalty for 
 taking a greater 
 Ntimlier than 
 allou'cd. 
 
 Whnt Number 
 may be carried 
 in Proportion to 
 the Tonniige, 
 
 To he supplied 
 with a certain 
 Quantity of 
 Water and 
 Provisions. 
 
 H^aestnstxB. 
 
 to be by him kept on board tl,e Ship, suhit'cl to the In 
 spcction of any of His Majesty's Ships o*' War, or Ves- 
 sels m the Service of the Customs or Excise; knd upon 
 the Arrival of such Ship at either of the aforesaid Colo- 
 mes the Master shall deliver the Copy of the List to 
 
 nL.r^'rT-T.?^''°" ^^'^"8 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 Gover- 
 hv'.r' ^ f ««" «c\^%' fo'- him, or some Person authorizeil 
 ^, o "r/V' ^^''^ Purpose. 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. S 2. 
 
 3. If the Master of such Ship shall take on board, or 
 It the Owners shall engage to take on board, more Per- 
 sons than the Number allowed, they shall forfeit ^50 for 
 each Person. 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 3. 
 
 14. Ships from any Place in the United Kingdom, or 
 from Guernsey and Jersey, shall not carry to ai.v Place 
 ni Upper or Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New'Bruns- 
 wick 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, as 
 ^hin ;i/? '^^ Certificate of Registry; 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 m the Proportion of One adult Person, or 
 Ihree Chddren under Fourteen Years of Age, for 
 every One Ton and a Half of that Part remaining un- 
 laden. 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. §4. ^ 
 
 15. Every such Ship shall be furnished, at the Time 
 ofherDeiiarture, with at least Twelve Weeks Supply 
 ot Water, so as to supply Five Pints of Water per Day 
 for every such Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, to be 
 Stowed below the Deck ; and shall be furnished with such 
 a Supply ot Provisions as will afford an Allowance for 
 every Passenger, exclusive of the Crew, during the .said 
 
 T?i l-n'^'?^^f^^^' ^^l^"^- '^f Bread or Biscuit, 
 and lib. 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. oi Peas or Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound of 
 
 to comiiiciicc on 
 
 Butter, weekly : the weekly 
 the Day the V'essel 
 
 All 
 
 vrrraiivc 
 
 puts to Sea. 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. §5 
 
 16. The 
 
j[&a«0enfiets. 
 
 217 
 
 16. The Master of any Ship failing to give out the 
 Allowance of Provisions and Water berore specifiecl^ shall 
 forfeit j€10 for every such Neglect. 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 6. 
 
 17. An Abstract of this Act, statinjr the Number of 
 Passengers allowed to be taketi, and the daily and weekly 
 Allrtwance of Water and Provisions, shall be exposed in 
 some conspicuous Part of the Ship, to whirh the Passen- 
 gers have Recourse; in Failure of which the Master shall 
 forfeit jfilO. 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 7. 
 
 18. Penalties and Forfeitures may be recovered 
 summary Way, on the Oath of One Witness, before any 
 One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of any 
 County, City, Riding, Shire, or Place in the United 
 Kingdom, where such Vessel shall depart from or come 
 to, or in a summary Way in any Court of Session having 
 Jurisdiction in the Port 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. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. §8. 
 
 19. But not to affect any Law or Custom now in force 
 in the United Kingdom, for the Restriction or Regula- 
 tion of Artificers and others from or in going or passing 
 from the said Kingdom to Parts beyond Sea, or to re- 
 gulate the SlJps conveying such Artificers, or the Mas- 
 ters of such Ships ; but that such Laws and Customs 
 shall remain in force as if tliis Act had not been made. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 10. §9. 
 
 Not giving out 
 the Allowance. 
 
 All Abstract of 
 the Act to be 
 exposed in the 
 Ship. 
 
 m a How Penalties 
 and ForfciturtK 
 to be recovered 
 and disposed of. 
 
 Not to affect 
 Ships taking 
 Artilicers. 
 
 i&earis, 
 
 May be exported from Malta, or any of the Depen- importation 
 
 dencies 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4-. J J . 
 See GiBRALT/it. 
 Malta. 
 
 allowed from 
 Malta or Gib- 
 raltar. 
 
 pt^^* See " Corn.'" 
 
'18 
 
 ptnaitite. 
 
 K- in .• to 
 1 1 iJe or 
 Rck'enue, liow 
 to be rucdvcred 
 and divided. 
 
 To he deemed 
 Sterling Money. 
 
 May he miti- 
 gated or remitted 
 by the Treasury. 
 
 Upon such 
 Terms and Con- 
 ditions 38 tiiey 
 miiy think fit. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 1. All Penalties incuiTed in the British Colonics or 
 Plantationy in America, antler any Law relative to Trade 
 or Revenue, shall be sued for and recovered in any Court 
 of Hocord or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction in 
 the Colony or Plantation wher(- the Cause of Prosecution 
 arises ; and iji Cases where there shall happen to be no 
 such Courts, then in any Court of Record or of Vice 
 Adjiiiralty having Jurisdiction in some British Colony or 
 Plantation near to that where the Cause of Prosecution 
 arises, and (the necessary Charges for the Recovery thereof 
 being first deducted) shall be divided, One Moiety to His 
 Majesty, and the other Moiety to the Prosecutor. 4 Geo.S. 
 c. 15. §40. 49 Geo. 3. c. 107. § 1. 
 
 2. Money imposed as Penaltit'S by any Act of Par- 
 liament relating to the Customs, which shall be incurred 
 or recovered in any of, the British Colonies or Plant- 
 ations in America, sliall 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 Britain, 
 and shall be taken according to the Proportion and 
 Value of 5s.6d. the Ounce in Silver. 4Geo.3. c. 15. §41. 
 
 3. 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, under any Law relating to the Trade and Navi- 
 gation of this Kingdom. 54 Geo. 3. c. 1 7 1 . § 1 . 
 
 4. In any Ca^e wherein the said Commissioners of the 
 Treasury shall exercise the Powers hereby vested in 
 them, such Penalties, or any Part thereof; shall be re- 
 mitted or mitigated in such Manner, and upon such 
 Terms and Conditions, as to Costs or otherwise, as under 
 the Circumstances of the Case the said Commissioners 
 shall think fit to direct; and no Person shall be entitled 
 to the Benefit of any such Order, unless the Terms and 
 Conditions shall be complied with. 54 Geo. 3. c. 1 7 1 . § 2. 
 
 muts. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depend- 
 encies 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 Planr^vtions in North America, in British- 
 built Shins, owned nnvifrnt*»rJ an^l irrk^ict^^^A ^^„^^A{no 
 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 5. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See GiBlALTAR. 
 
 Malta. 
 
\Hmtntn, 
 
 1. Of the Production or Manufacture of the British 
 Plantations in America, shall not be shii)pe(l or conveyed 
 from liny of the said Plantations to any Place, unless to 
 some other IMantation belonging to Ilis Majesty, or to 
 Great Britain or Ireland. 12Car.2. c. 18. §18. 40eo.3. 
 C.15. §27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. 
 Art. 6. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §''. 8. 
 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forleitures to 
 secure the landing in the Plantations, or in Great 
 Britain or Ireland, 
 
 See Ashes, Pot and Pearl. 
 
 2. There shall be paid nnto His Majesty, for every 
 Pound Weight Avoirdupois of Brjtish Pirn nto which 
 shall be imported into any British Colony ''> 'antation 
 in America, One Halfpenny, (except only such British 
 Pimento as shall be warehoused imder the Regulations 
 and Restrictions herein-after mentioned) ; and such Duty 
 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 
 may be taken according to the Proportion and Value 
 of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 4-. 12. 
 
 3. The Duty shall be collected, paid, and recovered 
 in the same Manner antl Form, and by such Rules, 
 Ways, and Means, and under suth Penalties and For- 
 feitures, as any other Duties now payable to His Ma- 
 jesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or 
 Plantations are or may be collected, &c. by any Act now 
 in force, as elFectually as if the Clauses relating thereto 
 wore particularly repeated and again enacted in this 
 Act; and all the Monies that shall arise by the said 
 Duties (except the necessary Charges of collecting, levy- 
 ing, recovering, i)aying, and accounting for the same) 
 shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Ex- 
 chequer, 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 se- 
 curing the British Colonies and Plantatioas in America. 
 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. §12. 
 
 *. Provided that no Duty shall be paid for any British 
 Pimento which shall be imported or brought into any 
 Biiiish Colony or Plantation in America, if upon landing 
 t!ieroof it is immediately deposited in Warehouses pro- 
 vided 
 
 2U) 
 
 Not to be ex - 
 )«irted, uiilris to 
 ■iomc other 
 I'lant.uioii, or 
 (treat Britain 
 or Irclntid. 
 
 Duty upon Im- 
 portation of 
 British Piinjnto. 
 
 How to be col- 
 lected,recovered, 
 
 and appropriated. 
 
 If warehoiispd 
 for Exportation 
 to Great Britain 
 or iifcianJ, or 
 some other 
 Britibli C'jioDy, 
 
220 
 
 tliC Duty not 
 to be charged. 
 
 Not exported or 
 Duty paid, the 
 Goods may be 
 sold. 
 
 M.'iy be ex • 
 ported to the 
 United States. 
 
 If Bond required 
 when exported 
 to a British 
 Colony, Bond 
 to be required 
 iy(\ Exportation 
 to the United 
 States. 
 
 vided at the sole Expence of the Importer or Proj)rietor 
 of such 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 1 ort or Place where the Pimento chall be imported, 
 aiid shall be secured under the separate Locks of such 
 Officers and the Proprietor, and within the Space of 
 1 welve Calendar Months from the Landing and Ware- 
 housing the same, be shipped directly from thence for 
 Exportation, 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. 6 Geo. 3. c.52. § 15. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 5. If the Importer or Proprietor of any Pimento warc^ 
 housed as aforesaid, shall not pay the Duty, nor export 
 the Goods within Twelve Calendar Months, the Col- 
 lector 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 Advantage; and the Money arising by such Sale 
 shall be in the first Place applied in Discharge of the 
 Duties, and the Char- -s attending such Sale, and the 
 Surplus (if any) shall e paid to the Importer or Pro- 
 prietor who landed aiu. warehoused such Pimento, or to 
 such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive 
 the same. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 17. 
 
 6. May be exported from the West India Islands to 
 the Territories of the United States of America by Bri- 
 tish Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned by Mis 
 Majesty's Subjects, and navigattnl accordino- to Law. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 3. 
 
 7. Where, on Exportation of any Goods to any Bri- 
 tish Colony or Plantation in America, a Bond 'is re- 
 quired for the due landing such Goods, and a Certificate 
 IS required to discharge such Bond *, a similar Bond shall 
 be required on Exportation to the United States ; and 
 such Bond shall be discharged upon Cei'tifiiate under 
 the Hand and Seal of the British Consul or Vice Consul, 
 or m case there shall not be an- such Consul or Vice 
 Consul, then under the Hand and Seal of any Officer 
 who may be ai)pointetl by the United States for the Pui- 
 
 * A Bond is so required on the Exportation of Pimento. See 
 No. I . 'J 
 
 pohc 
 
iHmtnto. 
 
 221 
 
 jiose of granting such Certificate ; and if there shall not 
 1)0 any Officer appointed, then such Bond shall be dis- 
 charged 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 made before 
 such Magistrate by the Master of the Ship that the 
 Goods were duly landed. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 4. 
 
 8. The Growth and Produce of any of His Majesty's Exportation ai- 
 Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, may be shipped ^"'"^^ ^° ^'^''^ 
 and exported direct to the Island of Malta or the De- 
 pendencies thereof, or to Gibraltar, in such Ships or 
 Vessels, and under such Licences, Entries, Securities, 
 Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are herein 
 particularly mentioned. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 1. 57 Geo. 3. 
 c. 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 or Gibraltar. 
 
 I^i0taccio il?uts. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependen- Importaticn 
 cies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His 'jyi^Jj^ ^^°"^ 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or Gibraltar. 
 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 i&ttct), %ax, anD Xurpeiitme. 
 
 1. Of the Production or Manufacture of the British Not to be ex- 
 Plantations in America, shall not.be shipped or con- |['omeother"^' 
 veyed from any of the said Plantations to any Place, Plantation, or 
 unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Ma- ^''^^"^ Britain or 
 jcsty, or to Great Britain or Ireland. 12 Car. 2. c 18. '^^''" ' ' 
 § 18, 19. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 11. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 c. 22. § 13. 8 Ann. c. 13. § 23. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 
 §24.27. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §6. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67- Art. 6. 56 Geo. 3. c.91. § 4. 8. 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures to 
 secure the x^anuing m tuc x lantations, or in Great 
 Britain or Ireland, 
 
 Sec Ashes, Pot a.nd Pearl. 
 
 2. The 
 
■22'2 
 
 l?ttcl), Car, anD Xurpentine. 
 
 May be im- 
 ported from 
 United States 
 into the West 
 
 ilonies 
 Guiana iiiBiitibii 
 Vessels ; 
 
 and into Ber- 
 muda in Foreign 
 Vessels. 
 
 2. The Production or Manufacture of any of the Ter- 
 ritories of tlie United States of America, may be im- 
 ported from any of the said Territories into any of His 
 
 Coionieti"?' ""^ Majesty's West India Islands (in which Description the 
 o onies m Bahama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Islands are 
 
 included), or into the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, 
 or Esse<:]uibo in the Province of Guiana ; but not to be 
 so imported except by British Subjects, and in British- 
 built Ships, owned by His Majesty's Subjects, and navi- 
 gated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the 
 Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 1, 2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §.1. 
 
 3. The Production or Manufacture of the said Terri- 
 tories, may be imported from thence into St. George or 
 Hamilton, in the Island of Berniuda, in any Foreign 
 Vessel belonging to any Country in Aniity with His Ma- 
 jesty, and exported from the said Ports to any of His 
 Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in 
 British-built Vessels, owned and navigated according to 
 Law, 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 2, 3. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 1. 
 
 4. Not to be, imported into His Majesty's West India 
 Islands (including 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 Plantations on the Continent of South America, under 
 tlie Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or 
 State, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. 6. §10. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 1. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 5. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Go- 
 vernors, Lieutenant Governors, or Connnmiders in Chief 
 of any of the Islands hi the West Indies under the Domi- 
 nion of His Majesty, or the (jovernors, &c. of the said 
 Colonics of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, with the 
 Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, nisiy 
 authorize the Importation of Pitch, Tar, and Turpen- 
 tine, tor a limited Time, from any Island in the West 
 Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Continent ol' 
 South America, belonging to or under the Dominion of 
 any Foreign European Sovereign or State, for the Supply 
 of the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonies re- 
 spectively ; but not to be so imported except by British 
 Subjects, and in British-built Ships, owned by His Ma- 
 jesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 feiture thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §11- 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. §2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 6. D'uing 
 
 Not to be im- 
 ported from 
 Colonies under 
 European 
 Sovereigns ; 
 
 e)cce|it in case 
 of Distress, tor 
 tjie Supply of 
 the Inhabitants ; 
 
I&tttt), SCar, ana 3Curpentfne. 
 
 6. During the Continuance of the Treaty with Por- 
 tugal, any Person may irfiport into any of the said West 
 India Islands (including the Bahama and Bermuda or 
 Somers Islands), or Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or 
 Essequibo, Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, being the Pro- 
 duction or Manufacture of some of the Territories or 
 Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal 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. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 5. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. ' ' 
 
 7. In case any Pitch, Tar, or Tuipentine, which shall 
 have been imported from any Island in the West Indies, 
 or Golony 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 Colonies 
 of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of the 
 Inhabitants, (See No. 5.) 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 
 exported, the same shall be forfeited, as also the Ship or 
 Boat in which laden ; and before shipping any Pitch, Tar, 
 and Turpentine, that may lawfully be exported from any 
 such Island or Colony, the Exporter shall make Oath be- 
 fore the Collector of the Customs, that no Part thereof had 
 been so imported, under such Authority as aforesaid, 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. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. § 1, 2. 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 3, 4. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 8. If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false 
 Oath, touching any of the Facts requifed to be J^estified 
 on Oath, such Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, 
 and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to which Per- 
 sons are liable for wilfiil and corrupt Perjury, 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. 29 Geo. 3. c.56. §3. 31 Geo. 3. c.38. §5. 
 
 9. Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts may be 
 seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships 
 or Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, Warrant, 
 or Petty Ofuccr specially authorized by them, or by any 
 Officer of Hig Majesty's Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c.6. § 16. 
 29 Geo. 3. c.56. §*. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. 56 Geo 3. c.91. 
 
 10. Of 
 
 223 
 
 anJ from the 
 
 Portuguese 
 
 Colonics. 
 
 Having been 
 imported for 
 Supply of In- 
 liabitaiits, not to 
 be exported ; and 
 Oath to be taken 
 before shipping 
 Articles of thr 
 like Dcnotnir.r.. 
 tion. 
 
 False Oat! I J 
 deemed Perjuiy 
 
 By whom CJoodi 
 und Vessels may 
 be seized. 
 
224 
 
 May be im- 
 ported into Nova 
 Scotia or New 
 Bruilswick in 
 British Ships ; 
 
 and into Ports 
 to be approved 
 by His Majesty 
 in the said Pro- 
 vinces in Ships 
 of States in 
 Amity ; 
 
 under such 
 Rules as His 
 Majesty shall 
 think fit. 
 
 Limitation of 
 the Act. 
 
 A Free Port. 
 
 i^ttcl), %av, am STurpetittne. 
 
 10. Of the Production or Manufacture of any of the Ter- 
 ritories of the United States of America, may be imported 
 from thence into the Provinces of Nova Scotia or New 
 Brunswick, by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, 
 owned by His Majesty's Subjects and navigated accord- 
 ing to Law. 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. § U. 
 
 11. Any British-built Vessel owned and navigated 
 according to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Sub- 
 jects of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Ma- 
 jesty, may import Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine into such 
 Port§ as shall be specially appointed by His Majesty, 
 with the Advice of His Privy Council, for that Purpose, 
 within the Provinces of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick; 
 provided that the said Articles shall not be imported in 
 Foreign Vessels, unless of the Growth or Produce of the 
 Country to which the Vessel importing the same shall 
 belong ; and any of the said Articles may be re-exported, 
 either to the United Kingdom or any other of His Ma- 
 jesty's Possessions, in any British-built Vessel owned 
 and navigated according to Law. 51: Geo. 3. c. 19. 
 § 1, 2, 3. 
 
 12. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Coun- 
 cil, may make such Rules and Regulations for the Import- 
 ation and Exportation of the said Articles at the said 
 Ports, with such Penalties and Forfeitures for the Breach 
 thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, 
 by and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 1 3. This Act shall continue in force for the Space of 
 Three Years from and after the passing of the sai^*, 
 and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then 
 next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 pine Xoton, 
 
 In Crooked Island, one of the Free Ports for the 
 Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in Fo- 
 reign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 J0orto iRtco* 
 
 impttc7S.u' 4">' P^»'««" '"'^y .import, in British-built Ships, owned, 
 navigated, and recistered according to Law. into the 
 
 tlieii 
 
 *8th May 1818. 
 
 Islands 
 
i&orto IRico* 
 
 225 
 
 Islands under the Dominion of His Majesty in the West 
 Indies, from Porto Rico, certain Species of Timber, the 
 Growth or Production thereof. 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. ^13. 
 See Wood. 
 
 I&ortuguese Colonies* 
 
 Certain Articles which may be imported into His Ma- ^'^''^.^^^^j ^^ 
 jesty's West India Islands, and the Colonies of Demerai'a, iJ^^oruii from 
 Berbice, and Essequibo, from the United States, in thence as from 
 British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered ^'j^^^"'"'* 
 according to Law, may also be imported into the saicF 
 Islands and Colonies from any of the Territories or 
 Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South 
 America. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 5. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 See United States. 
 
 i&OUltrp. See " Live Stock." 
 
 i&0550lona. 
 
 May be imported from Malta or any of the Dependen- [mportation 
 ties thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- allowed from 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to ^^rak°n 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in North America, in Bfitish-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered accordingto Law, 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §5. 9. 57Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 precious ^tom&, 
 
 1. Maybe imported from any of the Colonies or Maybeim 
 Plantations in America, or from any Country on the ""'""' '"'" 
 Continent of America, belonging to or under the Domi- 
 nion 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. 45 Geo. 3. c 57. 49 Geo. 3. 
 c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 2. May be exported from Malta or any of tlie Depen- ^^^^^ 
 dencies thereof; or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His ^"J^^' 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or Gibraltar 
 
 Q to 
 
 ported into the 
 Free Ports in 
 Foreign Vessels. 
 
 Iniportitian 
 allowed from 
 or 
 
226 
 
 Wiiicifrotii ihe 
 M.)(Jeiras or 
 V\'eticni IsLmds 
 
 Cioods llL'tt'SS.IlV 
 
 l'<'i ihc I'islieiv.' 
 
 Hoiiiiits from 
 'lie Isle of Man 
 
 Tools and Iinple 
 merits for the 
 I'lsheries from 
 
 tiieiM ■<. 
 
 .'ipiritb may lie 
 exported to 
 Lov,-i.r Canada 
 on tho same 
 Duty as from 
 Sugar Colonies, 
 
 May be ini 
 ported from 
 Bermuda on the 
 S^ine Conditions 
 ai if direct from 
 Sugar Colonies. 
 
 to Newfbaodland, Bermuda, or any of His MUiostv'. 
 Colonies or Plantations in North America, in Briti.l,. 
 Huilt Ships, owned, navigated, and registered accordiii'. 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. "" 
 
 See GiBUALTAR. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 i&riuee CDtoarb'^ 3)slanb. 
 
 , 1 . Wines of the Madeiras, or of the Western Islaiuj. 
 or Azores, maybe there laden for Exportation to any oi 
 'the British Colonies or Plantations. 15 Car. 2. c. 7.*§7. 
 n ^' w".^f '^ ^^ ""^ necessary for the Fishery in tiie 
 British Colonies m America, may be exported to Colonies 
 where such Fishery is carried on, direct from Gucrnsev 
 or Jersey. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1, 2. 
 See Guernsey. ^ 
 
 Jersey; 
 3. Hearings cured in the Isle of Man may be 
 exported from thence to any of tlie British Colonics or 
 Plantations, in the same Manner as Victuals from lie. 
 land. 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. §4. 
 See Man. 
 - 4. Tools and implements necessary Ibr the Fisheiies 
 in the British Colonies, may be exported direct to the 
 said Colonies from the Isle of Man. 1 5 Geo. 3. c. 3 1 S j 
 S^^Ma . '^ ■ 
 
 5. Spirits, the Produce or Manufacture of His Ma- 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally im- 
 ported into Prince 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 
 Paynient of the same Duty as if imported directly from 
 any of the said Sugar Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. c. 48. § i. 
 See Spirits. 
 6. Spirits, the Produce or Manufacture of His Ma- 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, imported 
 direct into Bermuda from the said Colonies, may be«el- 
 ported from Bermuda to Prince Edward's IsL-nd, and 
 admitted to Entry on Payment of the same Duty as it 
 imported direct from the said Sugar Colonies; and under 
 the Conditions of 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. may be imported into 
 t..e said Island wjihout Fayrneiit of LJutv, in the same 
 manner as if imported directly from any of the said Sugar 
 Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. c. 62. § I, f>. 
 See Spirits. 
 
 7. Fruit. 
 
i&rince (!5l5tDar6'6 3^1^1(6. 
 
 227 
 
 7 Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of 
 Europe South of Cape Finistene, may be hiden in any 
 Port or Place of Europe within the said Lnnits, tor ILX- 
 portation direct to Charlotte Town in Prince Edward s 
 Island, on board any British Ship, owned, navigated, 
 and registered according to Law, which shall have ar- 
 rived 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 F'^henes 
 from any of the said Colonies, or trom any Part ot the 
 United Kingdom, .or with any of the Goods mentioned 
 in this Act, ^rom Canada, whether the Produce of Ca- 
 nada or brought into the Province by Land or Inland 
 Navigation. 51 Ceo. 3. c. 97. §2. 
 See Cork. 
 Fruit. 
 Oil. 
 Salt. 
 
 Wine. , 
 
 8. Any British-buih Ship, navigated and registered 
 according to Law, may load at Malta or any of the 
 Bepende^icies ther'eof, m- at C^ibraltar, any of the Articles 
 enumerated in the Schedule (B.) annexed to -^5 Geo- ^ 
 c 29. for Exportation direct to any ot His Majesty s 
 Colonies or Plantations in North America. 55 Ueo. ,i. 
 c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 
 Malta. ,.- ^ r 
 
 9 Any Article the Production or Manufacture ot any 
 of His Maiestv's Colonies or Plantations m 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 thereo , or 
 to Gibraltar, in British-built Ships navigated and re- 
 gistered ticcording to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 8. 
 
 57 Geo. 3. C.4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 
 Malta. , .. , . 
 
 10. Oranges and Lemons, the Growth ot the Azores 
 
 or Madeiras, may be there laden for Exportation direct 
 
 to any of the British Colonies or Plantations m No th 
 
 America, on board any British Ship naviga e<l and le- 
 
 - ' ■.. . T r-.ir rinn 'i I'. 80, 
 
 gistered accoriling u) Luw. ^< viit< ~- 
 
 Fruit, Wine, 
 Oil, Salt, or 
 Cork, mav be 
 imported from 
 Ports of Europe 
 South of Cape 
 Finisterre. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be imported 
 from Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be exported 
 to Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Oranges and 
 Lemons may be 
 imported from 
 the Azores or 
 Madeiras. 
 
 Q > 
 
228 
 
 Importatijii 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 i&rtnt«. 
 
 Bread, Biscuit, 
 and Potatoes may 
 be exported from 
 the United 
 €tates into the 
 West India 
 Islands and Colo* 
 nies in Guiana, 
 in British Ships j 
 
 and into Ber- 
 muda in Foreign 
 Ships, and ex- 
 ported by 
 Britisli. 
 
 Not to be im- 
 ported from 
 Colonies under 
 Foreign Eu- 
 ropean Sove- 
 reigns; 
 
 except in case 
 of Distress, for 
 the Supply <rf 
 the Inhabitaiits, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Denenden 
 cjes thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any ^of His 
 Majesty s Sugar Colonies or Plantations in AmUca or 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of Hk Sty^ 
 Co lomes or Plantations in North America, in fiSi 
 Unit Ships owned navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. ^ 
 oee Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 nf ti. ^'^^^' ^i^^"'t' a"d Potatoes, the Production of any 
 of the Territories of the United States of America, maV 
 
 m^^ "f^^'Tr ""? ""I'^' said Territories into any of 
 
 th^ fcf ^t ^"^''^i ^^'""^^ ("^ "^'^^ Descriptbn 
 the Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands are in- 
 duded), or into Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the 
 Province of Guiana; but the said Articles shlll not be so 
 
 b'rShin r"^' ""/ British Subjects and in British! 
 built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law 
 on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship ^ Geo 5 
 c. 6. § 1, 2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 «.;h*t?''^!'^'-^''''"'^'^"'^ Potatoes, the Production of the 
 
 SeorleTH''' T^ ^' li^^'^'l^ ^^°"^ ^^'^"^^ ^"^o Saint 
 
 George or Hamilton in Bermuda, in any Foreign Vessel 
 
 belongmg to any Country in Amity with His Majestv 
 
 and exported from the said Ports to any of His mSv^s 
 
 buSfshL''""T^ ? ^'^.^^^^ Indies^'L bSi- 
 Kor T' T"^ """"^ navigated according to Law. 
 
 « X?- i ""• ?^-J ^' ^- ^3 CJeo. 3. C.50. §1. 
 ^ . ^° ?r^'^' ^'''^"'*' ^'* Potatoes shall be imported 
 
 film^ ^TT ^"^ ^"^'^ ^^^-^« (including Uic 
 Bahama and Bermuda or Somers Islands), or"^ into 
 Dernerar^ Berbice, or Essequibo, fi-om any Isknd in the 
 
 JsouJh rS ""' ^^^T or Plantation on'the Continent 
 ot South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign 
 European Sovereign or State, on Forfeiture thLof aS 
 of the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. « 1 0. 3 1 Geo 3 c ss ^ i 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. ^ ^^- ^ ^• 
 
 4. In case of public Emergency or Distress tho 
 
 fi'lZ:? tt'^T^^'r-^"^!' ^^' cLmanderslnChtf 
 ^.TL^l %' '.V^ lt"^« ^" *h« West Indies under the 
 fil'Zn""" n V'' ''^'y!!'^^' or tfie Governors, &c. of 
 Demerara, Beib.ce, or Essequibo, with the Advice and 
 
 Consent 
 
0rototeionis. 
 
 
 Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the 
 Importation of Bread, Biscuit, and Potatoes, 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 the 
 Supply of the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colo- 
 nies; 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 
 thweof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 1 1 . 31 Geo. 3. 
 c. 38. §2. 56 Geo. 3. G. 91. § 1. 
 
 5. During the Continuance of the Treaty with Por- 
 tugal, 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 Potatoes, being the Growth or 
 Production of some of the Territories or Dominions 
 belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South America, 
 and imported directly from the said Territories or Do- 
 minions in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and 
 registered according to Law. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 5. 
 56 Geo. 3. c 91. § 1. 
 
 6. In case any of the said Articles which shall have 
 been imported from any Island in tl>e 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 Deme- 
 rara, Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of the Inha- 
 bitants, (see No. 4.) shall be exported from any of the said 
 Islands or Colonies, or put on board any Ship, Vessel, or 
 Boat, or brought to any Quay with Intent to be exported, 
 the same shall be forfeited, as also the Ship, Vessel, or 
 Boat in which laden ; and before shipping any Article of 
 the like Denomination that may lawfully be exported from 
 any such Island or Colony, the Exporter shall make Oath 
 before the Collector of the Customs that the same or any 
 Part thereof had not been so imported under such Autho- 
 rity as aforesaid, 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. 
 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. § 1, 2. 31 Geo. 3. c 38. § 3, 4. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. , ^ , . n 
 
 ■w^ T4 1- -11 U_ „„»»,.. />to/l nt tntrirxr a tnlfiP 
 
 7. U any 1 ersoii snuu l;c vuuriwt^i ,,. ...... s.^ - —-- 
 
 Oath touching any of the Facts required to be testihed 
 on Oath, such Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, 
 and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to which Per- 
 
 Q 3 sons^ 
 
 and from tht- 
 Portuguese 
 Settlements in • 
 Soutli America. 
 
 Imported for th»- 
 Supply of the 
 Inhabitants not 
 to be exported ; 
 and Oath to be 
 taken before 
 shipping Articles 
 of the like De- 
 nomination. 
 
 Taking false 
 Oaths deemed 
 Perjury. 
 
230 
 
 May he im- 
 poned from tlm 
 United States 
 tor the Supply 
 of tlie Inliabitants 
 of Nova Scotia, 
 ivc. ill case of 
 Distrcsa. 
 
 And in cue of 
 Keccsiity, Biead 
 I'lay be imported 
 for til J Supply of 
 tl.o Inhabitants 
 viid Fiohermenof 
 Nc\\fouiidland. 
 
 B!(«d, BiiCUit, 
 i;nd Potatoes 
 inay be imported 
 to be re -exported 
 from Nova Sco- 
 tia, &.-C. 
 
 Isl.i) be iiiipi.riid 
 iiitf Ports to be 
 ii'i'proved of in 
 Now Scotia or 
 New Bniubwick, 
 111 Vosiel'- of 
 Su;c. i;.- An'iiiy ; 
 
 i&rbuisiong; 
 
 spns are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury, and may bi- 
 jjrosecuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, op 
 in any of His Majesty s Courts of Judicature in the West 
 Indies. 29 Geo 3. c. 56. § 3. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 5. 
 
 8. In case of public JCmergency or Distress, the re- 
 spective Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and Com- 
 manders in Chief of Nova Scotia or NeVv Brunswick, 
 Cape Breton, or Saint John's, with the Advice and 
 Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the 
 Importation of Bread, Biscuit, or Potatoes, for a limited 
 Time, from any of the Tei'ritories belongin<r to the 
 United States of America, for the Supply of the Inhabi- 
 tants of the said Provinces or Islands ; but such Com- 
 modities shall not be imported except by British Sub- 
 jects, and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated 
 according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 13. 
 
 9. His Majesty, by Order in Council 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 from any of 
 the Territories belonging to the said United States, for 
 the Supply of the Inhabitants and Fishermen of the said 
 Island, for the then ensuing Season only ; but such Bread 
 shall not be imported except in conformity to such Regu- 
 lations and Restrictions as shall be specified in such Order 
 or Warrant, and except by British Subjects, in British- 
 built Ships, owneil and navigated according to Law, on 
 Forfeiture thereof, with the Ship. 28 Geo. '^. c. 6. § 13. 
 
 10. Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or 
 Commanders in Chief for the Time being of Nova Scotia 
 or New Brunswick, or Cape Breton, or Saint John's, 
 with the Advice and Consent of their respective Councils, 
 may authorize the Importation of Bread, Biscuit, oi' 
 Potatoes, {'or a limited Time, from any of the Territories 
 of the United States of America, lor the Purpose of 
 being re-exported to any other of His Majesty's Colonies 
 or Plantations. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. §8. 
 
 11. Any British-built Vessel, owned and navigated 
 according to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Sub- 
 jects of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Ma- 
 jesty, may import into such Ports as shall be specially 
 
 Qnnnuif-of^l Irw fl-iof 'Piivi->^-^ v.'i^-KI^ ♦!,« T) ; . .. -t'XT^ 
 
 ■-I'l ^'.tii i ttip^'^-^ TTitiuij luc i isjv.JiiLeb or i\UVii 
 
 Scotia or New Brunswick, the following Articles, viz. 
 Brciad, Biscuit, and Potatoes ; provided that none of the 
 
 said 
 
^xo'oieions. 
 
 231 
 
 iiikl Articles shall be imported in Foreign Vessels, unless 
 o( the Growth or Produce of the Country to which the 
 Vessel importing the same shall belong; and any of the 
 said Articles may be re-ex|)orted, either to the United 
 Kingdom or any other of Mis Majesty's Possessions, in 
 any British built Vessel, owned and navigated according 
 10 Law. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. §1, 2, 3. 
 
 12. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy 
 Council, may make such Rules and Regulations for the 
 Importation and Exportation of the said Articles at the 
 >aid Ports, with such Penalties and Forfeitures for the 
 Breach thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to His 
 Majesty, by and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. 
 c. 19. §6. 
 
 13. This Act shall continue in force for the Space of 
 Three Years from and after the passing of the same*, 
 and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the 
 then next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 14-. His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and 
 published, may authorize, in case of Necessity, the Im- 
 portation of Bread as well into 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 Ame- 
 rica, for the Supply of the Persons employed in or carry- 
 ing on the Fisheries ; but such Bread shall not be im- 
 ported except in conformity to such Regulations and Re- 
 strictions as shall be specified in such Order, and except 
 by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned and 
 navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and 
 tlie Ship. 29 Geo 3. c. 16. § 1. 
 
 15. In case of public Emergency and Distress, the 
 Governor of Quebec, or the Lieutenant Governor or 
 Commander in Chietj with the Consent of the Council of 
 the Province, may authorize the Importation by Sea or 
 Coastwise into Quebec, or into the Countries or Islarids 
 within the Government thereof, or up the River Saint 
 Lawrence from the Sea, of Bread, Biscuit, or Potatoes, 
 for a limited Time, from the United States of America, 
 for the Supply of the Inhabitants of the Province, and of 
 
 uiHiti such Coii- 
 ditiiins ns Hif 
 A'lajesty sliall 
 think tit. 
 
 Limitation of 
 the Act. 
 
 Bread may be 
 imported into 
 Quebec for the 
 .Supply of the 
 Person-; c;irryin(^ 
 (,n the Fisheries. 
 
 Bread, Biscuit, 
 
 or Potatoes may 
 be imported into 
 Quebec, &c. for 
 tlie Supply of 
 the Inhah'tantf. 
 
 Stfi May 181 J 
 Q4 
 
 the 
 
232 
 
 H^roiiisione. 
 
 By whom Ships 
 and Goods may 
 bo Seized. 
 
 Food or Victuals 
 may be imported 
 from Guernsey 
 or Jersey for tiie 
 Use of the Fish- 
 eries^ 
 
 Herrings from 
 the Isle of Man. 
 
 Veisels landing 
 Provisions may 
 import Spirits 
 Uutv-free. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 the said Countries and Islands within the Government 
 them/; but the said Articles shall not be importe.i ex- 
 cept by British Subjects in British-built Ships, owned 
 and nav.gateil according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof 
 and the Ship. 30 Geo. 3. c. 8. § 1. 
 
 10". The Goods and Ships forfeited by these Acts may 
 be seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's 
 vT Al^"'' *"' ^y ""y Commissioned, Warrant, or 
 1 ^ty Ofhcer specially authorized by them, or by any 
 Oftcer of the Customs. 26 Geo. 3. c. 6. 29 gL. I 
 
 r*J«' ?^,^^'"-f- ^-56. 30 Geo. 3. c. 8. 31 Geo. 3. 
 c. JH, 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 M' '^^T J"*^?b^tants of Guernsey and Jersey may lade 
 ^1 those Islands, and transport directly to the British 
 North American Colonies where the Fishery is carried 
 on, any Sort of Food or Victuals fit and necessary for 
 the Fishery, or for the Support of the Marinel-s or Per- 
 suns on board the Ships or on Shore in carrying on the 
 the said Fishery; such Food or Victuals being tlie Pro- 
 duce or Manufacture of the said Islands, o? of Great 
 Britain or Ireland. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 
 See Guernsey. 
 Jeksey. 
 
 18. The Inhabitants of the I.lc of Man may export 
 ft-om thence to the British Colonies or Plantations in 
 America, in Bntish-built Ships, owned, navigated, and 
 registered according to Law, Herrings caught and cured 
 by them, m the same Manner as Victual? may be im- 
 ported mto the said Colonies or Plantations from Ireland. 
 12(jeo. 3. c. 58 §4. 
 See Man. 
 
 19. For the Conditions upon which Vessels which 
 
 r wTf ' r" ""^ """"y "^ ^^^^ ^''^''^ S"g«r Colonies in 
 the West Indies may import Spirits without Payment of 
 Duty into the following Provinces and Islands belonmnff 
 to His Majesty, m North America, viz. Canada, NotS 
 Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's 
 Island, and Newfoundland, See Spirits. 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. 
 30Geo.3. C.8. 51 Geo. 3. c. 62. 53 Geo.3. c. 37. 
 
 iSumice S)tone anD i&unft. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Denend- 
 cncies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to an> of His 
 Majesty s Sugar Colonies o- Plantations in America, or 
 
 ^ to 
 
l&umice Stone anD i&unft- 23j 
 
 to Newfoundland. Bermuda, or any of Hia Majesty's Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c.29. §5.9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. §1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 £lUebeC* see « Canada.** 
 
 £iutcft6il\jer, iaaisins, anD 
 jai)uftart. 
 
 May he exported from Malta or any of the Depend- Import-ifiort 
 . -^ I £■ -• r^-\ 1. !• i i, r TT- alloweil from 
 
 Cncies thereof, or trom Gibraltar, direct to any ot His j^^gi,, „, 
 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or oibr.iltar. 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in |North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta, 
 
 megietrp of Brftisl) i^lJipS.* 
 
 1. Every Ship or Vessel having a Deck, or being of ships having a 
 the Burthen of Fifteen Tons or upwards, belonging to ^f^j'^'j^jj^^^^'llf 
 any of His Majesty's Subjects in Great Britain, Guern- ^e registered. 
 sey, 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 Cer- 
 tificate of Registry from the Collector and Comptroller 
 of the Customs in Great Britain or the Isle of Man, or 
 from the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander 
 in Chief, and Principal Officers of the Customs in Guern- 
 sey or Jersey, or in any of the said Colonies, Plantations, 
 or Territories ; and the Form thereof shall be as follows ; 
 
 \ ;4 ■ M 
 
 VIZ. 
 
 * TN pursuance of an Act passed 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 
 
 * A similar Act passed in Ireland for the Registry of Ships 
 in that Part of the Kingdom. ^See Irish Jet, 27 Geo. 3. c.23. 
 
 Owners) 
 
2'M 
 
 And al tlie Toll 
 to \\liich llie 
 Vessel belouirs, 
 unless by Order 
 ot the Cummis- 
 sioners, except 
 Vessels coii- 
 (ieniued as Prize 
 111 Gueniicy, 
 
 iaesietrp of Brittel) S>\fixte. 
 
 ' Owneis) having taken and subscribed the Outh 
 ' required by this Act, and having sworn that he (or 
 ' they) together with (Names, Occupation, and Resi- 
 
 * dence of Non-subscribing Ovk^ners) is (or are) sole 
 ' Owner (or Owners) of the Ship or Vessel called the 
 ' (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, 11 ud Date of Condemnation); and (Name 
 ' and Employment of the Surveying Officer) havinsi; 
 ' certified to us that the said Ship or Vessel 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 Stei'n 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 (Kind of 
 ' Vessel and how built), has (whether any or no Gal- 
 ' lery) Gallery and (Kind of Head, if any) Head ; 
 ' and the said Subscribing Owners having consented 
 ' and agreed to the above Description and Admeasure- 
 ' n\ent, and having caused sufficient Security to be 
 ' given, as is required by the said Act, the said (Kind 
 ' and Name of the Vessel) lias been duly registered 
 ' at the Port of (Name of the Port). 
 
 ' Given under our Hands and Seals ol' 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).' 
 26 Geo. 3. c 60. § 3. 
 2. No Registry shall be made in any other Port than 
 that to which .,he Ship shall belong, (except Ships con- 
 demned 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, unless tlie Officers 
 shall be specially empowered to grant it in any other Port, 
 by Order under the Hands of any Four of the Com- 
 missioners of the Customs in Enghuid, or any Three of 
 the Commissioners in Scodand. 26 Geo. 3. c. 6o. § i. 
 lo 3. The 
 
iae3i0trp of Btiti0!) %l)ip0. 
 
 235 
 
 3. The Port to which any Ship shall be deemed to 
 belong, shall be the Port from alid to which she shall 
 usually trade, or (being a new Ship) shall intend to trade, 
 and at or near which the Husband, or acting and manag- 
 ino' Owner, usually resides. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 5. 
 
 "4. No Ship of' War or other Vessel the Property of 
 His Majesty or the Royal Family, or any Lighters, 
 Biu-ges, Boats, or Vessels of any Description used solely 
 ill Rivers or Inland Navigation, shall be required to be 
 registered. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 6- 
 
 5. No Vessel not exceeding .30 Tons, and not having 
 a whole or fixed Deck, and being employed solely in the 
 risheiy on the Banks or Shores of Newfoundland, aid of 
 the Parts adjacent, or on the Banks or Shores of Quebec, 
 Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulf 
 of Saint Lawrence, and to the North of Cape Canso, or 
 of the Islands within the same, or .a trading Coastwise 
 within the said Limits, shall be subject to be registered. 
 27 Geo.. 3. c 19. §8. 
 
 6. No Subject of His Majesty whose usual Residence 
 is in any Country not under tht Dominion of His 
 Majesty,' shall be entitle<l (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 or 
 Partner in any House or Coparlnership actually carrying 
 on Trade in Great Britain or Ireland. 26 Geo. 3. 
 
 c. 60. ($ 8. 
 
 7. No Registry shall be made untU the following Oath 
 k' taken, belore the Persons authorized to make Registry, 
 by the Owner, if owned by One Person, or if Two 
 Owners, then by both, if both resident within Tventy 
 Miles of the Port where such Register is required, or by 
 one if one or both of them shall be resident at a greater 
 Distance from such Port ; or if the Number of Owners 
 shall exceed Two, then by the greater Part, if the greater 
 Number shall be resident within Twenty Miles of such 
 Port, not in any Case exceeding Three, or by one of 
 such Owners if all shall be resident at a greater Distance. 
 
 1A. B. of (Place of Residence and Occupation), 
 do make Oath that the Ship or Vessel (Name) of 
 ' (Port or Place) whereof (Master's Name) is at 
 
 . pfescni iviasLei ; Deiiig \r:k.i»"' '•» i,...---; » , 
 
 ' as described in tKe Certificate of the Surveying 
 ' Officer), was (when and where built, or if Prize, 
 
 ' Capture 
 
 What to be 
 deemed the I'orr 
 tn which a Vessel 
 lielongs. 
 
 Exception as to 
 Vessels of the 
 Royal Family, 
 or used solely in 
 Inland Naviga- 
 tion. 
 
 AUo as to cer- 
 tain Vessels em- 
 ployed in Fishing 
 or in the Coast 
 Trade in the 
 North American 
 Colonies. 
 
 Owners residin . 
 in Countries noi 
 under the Do- 
 minion of Hi> 
 
 Majesty. 
 
 Oath to be takci 
 by the Owners o\ 
 a certain Num- 
 ber of such 
 Owners, 
 
236 
 
 laegistrp of mitislf &Ups. 
 
 Capture and Condemnation); and that I the said 
 A. B. (and the other Owners Names and Occupa- 
 tions it" any, and where they respectively reside, 
 videHcet, Town, Phice, or Parish, and Country; or 
 if Member of and resident in any Factory in Foreign 
 Parts, or in any Forei<>n 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 Copart- 
 nership) 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 
 Knowledge and Belief) taken the Oath of Allegiance 
 to any Foreign State whatever, (except under the 
 Terms of some Capitulation, describing the Par- 
 ticulars thereof,) or that since my taking (or his or 
 their taking) die Oath of Allegiance to (naming the 
 Foreign States respectively to which he or any of 
 the said Owners sliall 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, inti- 
 tuled ' An Act for the furdier Increase and Encou- 
 ragement of Shipping and Navigation,' I have (or 
 he or they hatli or have) become a Subject (or Sub- 
 jects) of Great Britain, (either by His Majesty's 
 Letters Patent as a Denizen or Denizens, or natu- 
 ralized by Act of Parliament, as the Case may be, 
 naming the Dates of the Letters of Denization, or 
 tlie Act or Acts of Parliament 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 hun- 
 dred anii eighty-six, (naming the times when such 
 l^ctters oi j^enization jiuvc oeon granicd jc-spectively, 
 or the Year or Years in which such Act or Acts for 
 Naturalization have passed respectively) ; and that 
 
 ' no 
 
megistrp of Br(ttst) ii>I)tps. 
 
 237 
 
 the Onth if 
 Ships belong to 
 Corpornte 
 Bodies, 
 
 ' no Foreigner, directly or indirectly, hath any Share 
 • or Part or Interest in the said Ship or Vessel.' 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 10. 
 
 8. Any Oath taken for the sole Purpose of acquiring What shall not 
 the Rights of a Citizen or Burgher in any Foreign City ''* deemed an 
 or Town in Europe, to be enjoyed during the Time that a?ce\o?Ford"gn 
 the Person taking such Oath shall reside in such City or State. 
 Town, and for a limited Time after such Residence shall 
 
 have expired, shall not be deemed an Oatli of Allegiance 
 to a Foreign State. 27 Geo. 3. c 19. § 4. 
 
 9. In case the Number of joint Owners shall amount Addition to the 
 to Three or more, and Three shall not personally attend a^e'morrth''"^ 
 to take the Oath, then such Owners as shall attend shall Three Owners, 
 further make Oath that the Part Owners then absent are 
 
 not resident within Twenty Miles of such Port, and have 
 not (to the best of their Knowledge or Belief) wilfully 
 absented themselves to avoid taking the Oath, or are pre- 
 vented by 111 rss from attending. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. §11. 
 
 10. On obtaining Registry of a Ship belonging to the Who may take 
 East India Company, or other Body Corporate, the Oath '^ 
 may be taken by the Secretary of such Com})any, &c. 
 or any other Officer authorized by them, as follows ; 
 videlicet, 
 
 ' T A. B. Secretary or Officer (Name of Company 
 ' -* or Corporation) do make Oath that the Ship or 
 
 * Vessel (Name) of (Port or Place) whereof (Master's 
 ' Name) is at present Master, being (Kind of Built, 
 ' Burthen, &c. as described in the Certificate of the 
 ' Surveying Officer) was (when and where built, or if 
 ' Prize, Capture and Condemnation) ; and that the 
 
 * same doth wholly and truly belong to (Name of 
 ' Company or Corporation.)' 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 5. 
 
 11. Ships built in Newfoundland, and in those Parts 
 of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, adjacent j^""'' America 
 to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and to the North of Cape ownei?"" 
 Canso, or in the Islands within the said Limits, on ac- Husband or 
 count of Owners residing in His Majesty's European 
 Dominions, may be registered in Newfoundland and its 
 DejDendencies, or in the Ports of Quebec, Nova Scotia, 
 or New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulf of Saint Law- 
 rence and to the North of Cape Canso, or in the Islands 
 
 within flip snid T.iniife iiii<->n t]yn nrinrlnnl T--Tn«l->nn*1c i\v 
 
 Agents of the Ships taking the Oatli required instead of 
 t'le Owners ; and the Certificates granted shall be of the 
 like Force as if granted upon the Oath of tho Owners, 
 
 until 
 
 Ships built in 
 
 Agent may take 
 the Oath.' 
 
238 
 
 Shijis 10 bo ex- 
 aiiiiiiLd and ad- 
 uie;r.urijci by 
 skilful Persons, 
 who are to de- 
 liver a Certifi- 
 cate of the 
 Built, i^ic. 
 
 PeT'ono ^lviIlg 
 filsfc Descrip- 
 tions or making 
 f.ilse Regibter.«. 
 
 rir>. ■l<':ii...v,e to 
 he ciei'.. ui'.'ti 
 
 megtstrp of BrtttBt) S>l)tp6. 
 
 until such Ships arrive in some Port ol' His Majesty'- 
 European Dominions, where they may be registered upui 
 the Oath of tiie Owners; and whenever such Ships shali 
 first arrive in any such Port ot His Majesty's Dominions, 
 the Register granted in pursuance of this Act shall k 
 void, and be delivered up to be cancelled, and such Sliips 
 shall be registered de novo, upon the Oath of the Owners, 
 and the other Requisitions of 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. being 
 complied with. 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 9. 
 
 12. Persons appointed by the Commissioners of the 
 Customs, or by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or 
 Commander in Chief in Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, or 
 of the Colonies, Plantations, or Territories, taking to 
 their Assistance (if they shall judge it necessary) any 
 Person skilled in the Building and Admeasurement ot 
 Ships, shall accurately examine and admeasure every 
 Ship as to every Particular contained in the Form ot tlio 
 Certificate, in the Presence of the Master or of any Per- 
 son who shall be appointed for that Purpose on the Part 
 of the Owners, or in their Absence by the Master, and 
 r,hall deliver a true Account in Writing of sucli j^articu- 
 lars, of the Built, Description, and Admeasurement, a^ 
 are specified in the Form of the Certificate, to the Person 
 authorized to make Registry ; and the Master or Person 
 attending shall sign his Name to the Certificate of such 
 surveying or examining Officer, in Testimony of the 
 Truth thereof, provided he shall agree to the Particular> 
 described therein. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 12. 
 
 13. Any Person so appointed who shall wilful\v de- 
 liver to any Per jn authorized to make Registry a falsi 
 Description of any of the Particulars required, or anv 
 Person authorized to make Registry who shall knowingl\ 
 make any flvlse Register, or grant any folse Certificate 
 in reoarrl to the Particulars required, on bemg con- 
 victed in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at 
 Westminster, in the Court of Justiciary or the Court ot 
 Exchequer in Scotland, or in any Court of Recmd m 
 the Colonies, Plantations, or Te-ntories, or in the Royal 
 Court in Guernsev or Jersey, .. in the Superior Court 
 of Justice in the Isle of Man, shall forfeit _^ 100, and be 
 incapable of holding any OflTice or Employment undei 
 His Majesty. 2G Geo- 3, c. 60. § 13. 
 
 l\. The' Tonnage ofmiy Ship, when afloat, snail m 
 
 ascertained by the following Method, viz. 
 
 -' "-^ i Drop 
 
mestetrp of Britislj S)i)fps. 
 
 ' Drop a Plumb Line over the Stern of tlie Ship, and 
 « measure the Distance between such Line and the 
 ' After-part of the Stern Post at the Load Water 
 ' JMark ; 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, substracting from such Measurement 
 ' the above Distance, the Ptemainder will be the 
 ' Ship's extreme Length, from wl)ich is to be de- 
 ' ducted Three Inches for every Foot of the Load 
 ' Draught of Water for the Rake abalt, and also 
 ' Three Fifths of the Ship's Breaddi for the Rake 
 
 * forward, the Remainder shall be esteemed the 
 ' just Lengtli of the Keel to find the Tonnage ; and 
 ' the Breadth shall be taken from Outside to Out- 
 ' side 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 
 ' bv,' wrought upon tiie Sitle of the Ship; then mul- 
 ' tiplying the Length of the Keel foi- 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 Manner of 
 Admeasurement of the Tonnage of any Ship heretofore 
 practised for ascertaining the Light Duties, or other 
 Duties or Imposts whatever payable accordino- to the 
 Tonnage of any Ship or Vessel. 26 Ceo. 3. c. 60. § 14. 
 15. At the Tune of Registry, suflicient Security by 
 Bond shall be given to His Majesty by the Master, and 
 such of the Owners as shall personally attend, such Secu- 
 rity to be approved of and taken by the Person authorized 
 to make Registry, in the Penalties following ; (that is to 
 say), if a Decked Vessel, or above 1 5 Tons and not 
 exceeding 50 Tons, in ^100; if exceeding 50 Tons and 
 not exceeding 100 Tons, in ^'300; if exceeding 100 
 Fons and not exceeding 200 Tons, in ^500 ; if exceed- 
 ing 200 Tons and not exceeding 300 Tons, in .i 800 ; 
 _..i. J. . „j !rv,.tiiij^ juU iuu^, 111 jciuuu; aUu inc V-/Onui- 
 tion of evei7 Bond shall be, that such Certificate shall 
 not be sold, lent, or otherwise disposed of to any Person, 
 md ihnt tlu> sajne shall be solely made use offer tlie Ser- 
 vice 
 
 OOA 
 
 f) 
 
 Not to alter 
 the Mnnr.cr of 
 Admeasurement 
 to nsrertriii 
 Dv'.ries. 
 
 Bond to be 
 given that the 
 Certificate shall 
 only be used for 
 the Shi|) for 
 which grajited, 
 and shall be de- 
 livered up wh«n 
 tb,^ Ship h sold, 
 
 ^4i 
 
240 
 
 Mediterranean 
 Passes to be at- 
 iivereti u[) w.ir 
 Certificates. 
 
 meststrp of BrttiBl) mips. 
 
 vice 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 belongs, the Certificate, if jircserved, 
 shall be delivered up within One Month after the Arrival 
 of the Master in any Port or Place in His Majesty's Do- 
 minions, to the Collector and Comptroller of some Port 
 in Great Britain, or of the Isle of Man, or of the British 
 Plantations, or to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or 
 Commander in Chief of Guernsey or Jersey; and that if 
 any Foreigner, or any Person 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, 
 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 the Certificate of Registry shall, within Seven Days 
 after such Purchase or Transfer of Property, be delivered 
 up to the Person authorized to make Registry at such 
 Port ; and if such Ship shall be in any Foreign Port 
 when such Transfer of 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 shall be at Sea when 
 such Transfer of Interest or Property shall take place, 
 then that the same shall be delivered up to the British 
 Consul or Chief British Officer 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 ; but 
 if such Master, who had the Command at the Time of 
 such Purchase or Transfer of Property at Sea, shall not 
 arrive at a Foreign Port, v. it at some Port of Great Bri- 
 tain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or I] is Majesty's said Co- 
 lonies, 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 any of 
 His Majesty's said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or 
 Territories; and that if any Mediterranean Pass shall have 
 hpon obtained for anv sucl:^ Shi", then that the same shall 
 be delivered up at the ^ame Time with the Certificate ot 
 Registry, to the Person .ii:thorizedto receive such Certi- 
 ficate; and such Certifi.at' •. .0 delivered up shall forth- 
 with 
 
megtstrp of Btt'ttsi) i%l)tpg. 
 
 with be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs 
 in England and Scotland, and such Mediterranean Pass 
 shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the jA Imi- 
 raky, in order that the same may he cancelled. 26 Geo. 3. 
 C.60. § 15. 
 
 16. The Commissioners of the Customs, or the 
 Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in 
 Chief of any of the Colonies, Plantations, or Territories 
 belonging to His Majesty, in Asia, Africa, or America, 
 in any Case where it shall appear to them expedient, may 
 permit the said Bond to be taken before any Person and 
 m such Mans .r as tbey shall judge fitting, and such Bond 
 shall be of the like Force as if taken by Persons autho- 
 rized to make Re istry. 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. §6. 
 
 1 7. When the Master of any Ship registered shall be 
 changed, the ^erson who shallbeconie Master shall give 
 Security by Bond under tlie Puiialties and Conditions of 
 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. and this Act ; and on such fresh Secu- 
 rity being given, and being made to appear by Endorse- 
 ment on the original Bond, by the Officers in whose 
 Custody it shall be, such original Bond (so far as it relates 
 U) the former Master) shall from thenceforth be void, ex- 
 cept with respect to any Breach of the Conditions which 
 may have been committed before such Endorsement. 
 
 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 18. Upon any Transfer of Pi-operty to another Port, 
 the Ship shall be registered de novo, upon delivering up 
 the former Certificate to be cancelled ; and in case there 
 is any Alteration of Property i\n the same Port, by the 
 Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship after registering 
 thereof, such Sale shall be acknowledged by Endorsement 
 on the Register before Two Witnesses, in order to prove 
 that the entire Property in such Ship remains to the Sub- 
 jects of England, if any Dispute arises concerning the 
 same. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 21. 
 
 1 9. 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 & 8 Wm. 3. c. 22., there 
 siiall also be endorsed on the Certificate of Registry, 
 before Two Witnesses, the Town, Place, or Parish where 
 every Person to whom the Property or any Part thereof 
 shall be so transferred shall reside; or if such Person 
 usually resides in any Country not under the Dominion 
 of His Majesty, but in some British Factory, the Name 
 
 R of 
 
 241 
 
 The Bond may 
 l)e taken before 
 such Persons as 
 Commissioners 
 may judge fitting. 
 
 llfion the 
 Change of 
 Masters, fresh 
 Bund to be given. 
 
 If transferred to 
 another Port, 
 to be reyibtered 
 de novo; and a 
 Sale in the same 
 Port to be ac- 
 knowleged by- 
 Endorsement. 
 
 Addiiijn to the 
 Endoisemtnt on 
 AUeiation of the 
 Propeity in the 
 same Port. 
 
24:. 
 
 Copy .'oV<> Jr- 
 li' ired I- till 
 Officc-Ls 
 
 Certificate to be 
 reciieu in the 
 Bill uf Sale. 
 
 Transfers void, 
 if not in 
 Writing. 
 
 On Alteration of 
 Property in the 
 same Port, the 
 Endorsement on 
 the Register to 
 be in the Form 
 herein men- 
 tioned. 
 
 i&tsisttv of Brttt'eD d>l)ip&. 
 
 of ^u{h Factory of which such Person is a Member; or if 
 r,iich Perf,oM resides in any Foreign Town or City, and is 
 nor a Member of some British Factory, the Name of such 
 Foreign Town or City where such Person usually re- 
 .^i<(cs ; and also the Names of the House or Copartnership 
 in Great Britain or Ireland for or with whom such Per- 
 son IS Agent or Partner, shall be endorsed on the Certi- 
 ficate, and the Person to whom the Property sliall be so 
 transferred shall also deliver a Copy of such Endorse- 
 ment to the Persons authorized to make Registry and 
 grant Certificates of Registry, who are required to cause 
 an Entry thereof to be endorsed on the Oath or Affidavit 
 upon which the original Registry was obtained; and 
 make a Memorandum of the same in the Book of Re- 
 gisters, and forthwith give Notice thereof to the Commis- 
 sioners of the Customs in England or Scotland. 26 Geo. 3. 
 
 c.60. § 16. 
 
 20. Whjen the Property in any Ship belonging to any 
 of His Majesty's Subjects shall be transferred to any 
 other of His Majesty's Subjects, in whole or in part, the 
 Certificate of the Registry of such Ship shall be truly and 
 accurately recited in Words at Length in the Bill or In- 
 strument of Sale ; otherwise such Bill or Instrument oi 
 Sale shall be null and void. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 1 7- 
 
 21. No Transfer, Contract or Agreement for Transfer 
 of Property in any Ship, shall be valid for any Purpose 
 whatever, either in Law or Equity, unless such Transfer 
 shall be by Bill of Sale or Instrument in Writing con- 
 taining the Recital of the Reg'' ter in Words at Length. 
 34 Geo. 3. c. 68. § 14. 42 Geo.S. c.61. $ 16. 
 
 22. Upon any Alteration of Property in any Ship in 
 the same Port to which she belongs, an Endorsement on 
 the Register shall be made in the following Form, and 
 be signed 'y the Person transferring the Property, or 
 by some Person legally authorized for that Purpose ; and 
 a Copy of such Endorsement shall be delivered to the 
 Person authorized to grant Registry; otherwise such 
 Sale, or Contract or Agreement for Sale, shall be void ; 
 and such Persons authorized to grant Registry are to 
 cause an Entry thereof to be endorsed on the Oath upon 
 which the Original Certificate was obtained, and to 
 make a Memorandum of the same in the Book of Re- 
 gistry, and give Notice thereof to the Commissioners or 
 
 the Customs. 
 
 Ic'onu 
 
mesrfstrp of mntm ^jxps. 
 
 Form of Endorsement on Change of Property. 
 ' gE it remembered, that (I or we) (Names, Resi- 
 ' dence, and Occupation of the Persons selling) 
 
 ' have this Day sold and transferred all (my or our) 
 ' Right, Share, or Interest in and to the Ship or 
 ' Vessel (Name of the Ship or Vessel) mentioned in 
 ' the within Certificate of Registry unto (Names, Re- 
 ' sidence, and Occupation of the Purchasers.) Wit- 
 * ness (my or our Hand or Hands) this (in Words at 
 ' full Length). 
 
 ' Signed in the Presence of (Two Witnesses),* 
 
 34- Geo. S. c. 68. §15. 42 Geo. 3. c. 61. §17. 
 
 23. But if any Ship shall be at Sea, or absent from the 
 Port to which she belongs, at the Time when such Altera- 
 tion in the Property shall be made, so that an Endorse- 
 ment or Certificate cannot be immediately made, the 
 Sale, or Contract or Agreement for the Sale thereof, 
 shall notwithstanding be made by Bill of Sale, or other 
 liistrument 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 Memo- 
 randum 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 such Ship 
 shall return to the Port to which she belongs, an En- 
 dorsement shall be made and signed by the Owner, or 
 some Person legally authori/etl for that Purpose, and a 
 Copy thereof shall be delivered in manner before men- 
 tioiitxl, otherwise such Bill of Sale, or Contract or Agree- 
 ment for Sale, shall be void ; and Entry thereof shall be 
 endorsed, and a Memorandum thereof made, in the man- 
 ner before directed. 34. Geo. 3. c. 68. *^ 16. 42 Geo. 3. 
 C.6I. § 18. 
 
 24. Where the Owners of any Ship shall reside in any 
 Country not under the Dominion of Plis Majesty, as 
 Member of some British Factory, or Agent for or Part- 
 ner in any House carrying on Trade in Great Britain or 
 Ireland, at the Time when he shall transfer such Pro- 
 perty, so that an Endorsement cannot be immediately 
 made, nor a Copy of such Bill of Sale or Instrument in 
 Writing be delivered, nor an Entry thereof endorsed on 
 
 tlie Oath, itnr a TVT*»mr»i*anr)iim flior/anf tno/^lo ir> fUrx Rr>/-vlr 
 
 oi Registers, nor Notice of the same given to the Com- 
 missioners of the Customs, the same may be done at any 
 
 R 2 Time 
 
 243 
 
 If Ship at Sea, a 
 Copy of the Bill 
 of S.ile to be de- 
 livered to the 
 Officers, and the 
 Endorsement to . 
 be made on the 
 Ship's Return, 
 
 Regulations 
 fertile 'J'ransfer, 
 where the 
 Owners rcbiile 
 out of the Kjnj's 
 Dominions. 
 
244 
 
 On RegiNiry ilc 
 novo, liilb of 
 S.ile to bo pro- 
 ducoJ, unless 
 dls|>cn^cd with 
 by the Cominis- 
 liioners. 
 
 On Altcntions 
 of Proportv in 
 tlie s.inie K>rt, 
 the Owners 
 whose Property 
 is not transferred 
 may have the 
 Ship registered 
 de novo. 
 
 mesietrp of mxitie^ t>i)tp0. 
 
 Time within Six Months after such Transtor; and within 
 Ten Duys • after such Owner, or some Person legally 
 uuiliorl't'd for that Purpose, shall arrive in this King- 
 uoiii, \i such Ship nhall then be in any Port of this 
 K.iiigiioni ; and if not, then within Ten Days after such 
 Ship shall so arrive, an Endorsement shall be made by tlu* 
 Owner, or some Person legally anthori/etl, and a Copy 
 thereof shall be delivered in manner before mentioned, 
 otherwise such Bill of Sale, or Contract or Agreement, shall 
 be void ; utl linWy thert^of shall be endorsed, tuid a Me- 
 morandmn tliereot made, iu the manner before directed. 
 3t Geo. :1. e. (58. § 17. V2 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 19. 
 
 'i."}. When the Property in any Ship belonging to His 
 Majesty's Subjects shall by Sale be transferred in whole 
 or in part to any other of His Majesty's Subjects, and 
 such Ship shall be required to be registered de novo, the 
 Officer empowered to make Registry may retpiire the Bill 
 or Instrument of Sale to be produced ; antl in case such 
 Bill or Instrument shall not be producetl, the Officer shall 
 not grant a Certificate of Registry de novo, but the 
 Conunissioners of the Customs, antl the (iovernor, Lieu- 
 tenat Governt)r, or Connnander in. Chief of (Guernsey, 
 Jersey, or of any British Plantation, if Application shall 
 be maile to any of them, upon due Consideration of the 
 Case, may give Directions for registering such Ship de 
 novo, nt)twithstanding such Bill or Instrument of Sale 
 shall not have been produced, provided all other Regu- 
 lations re(|uired by Law be complied with. S* Geo. 3. 
 c. 68. § 'JO. 12 Geo. 3. c. 61. § '22. 
 
 26. In case there shall be any Alteration of Property 
 in the same Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares in 
 any Ship, after registering thereof, and the Owners who 
 are Owners thereof at the Time such Ship was last re- 
 gistered, or whose Property therein has not been so 
 transferred, shall be desirous of having the Ship re- 
 gistered de novo, the Officers may register such Ship de 
 novo, provided all the R.et]uisites of the Laws concerning 
 the Registry de novo be complied with. 3^ Geo. M. 
 c. 68. §21. 42 Geo. 3. c. 61. §23. 
 
 * The Act 42 Geo. 3. c. (>1. as to Ships arriving in Ireland. 
 
 fi'tOif'i '_l> X 
 
 Days afiri- ihc Arrival of in. Ship, or (he Owner, for 
 making the EmlorsemeHt and delivering the Cojty to the OJicers. 
 
 27. As 
 
mesistrp of JBritifil) ftl)ip«. 
 
 on A« often as any Transfer of Property m any bh.p 
 .luul'be made wlnle\xpon the Sea, on a Voyage to a 
 IWoi«n Port, in ca«etUe Master is privy to such Iranste 
 . r h cai he is not, as soon as he shall beemne ac«,uainted 
 
 r^dster^de novo, Jch Cargo as shallbe desUnedandmay 
 IfCX c.^ ied to the Poll where she nuvy be registered 
 novo • 'mc if such Transfer shall be umde while such 
 ShipTs iiJuw Foreign Port, and the Master .s pnvy to 
 
 other Port being in the Course ot hei' Voyage o the Port 
 i^^^ whic he n a^'v be registered de novo, such Cargo as 
 shall be st3 and may be legally earned to such 
 Po whex- she may be re^^istered de novo; and d such 
 Vransfc hal be nuule while such Ship is on a F.shmg 
 V r. e uul the Master of such Sh.p .s pr^vy to such 
 ''"J"©. ' . 1,^ :„ nnt ns soou as he shall ue- 
 
 'i^fnnatnr or in CBse lie IS noi, as »uun "i» ■.•1,1 
 
 fishing, without touching at »my Fore gn l^^'^ except 
 r^r iwirs or Relreshments, or for delivering any Part 
 tor Repairs «r/^Y^!il to tlie Port to which she belongs, 
 ;; : ny tr P wh'^-'-miy be registered, and may 
 XoUoard at the Foreign Port la. desxribc^^^ or .n^ 
 , thpr PorU beiiijr in the Course of her Voyage to tne 
 P^t where she niav be registered de novo, such Cargo 
 
 245 
 
 As s(ion as the 
 'I'miisli-r of 
 Property in a 
 Ship .It Sea is 
 known to the 
 Master, he must 
 proceed direct tu 
 a I'ort where 
 she may be 
 registered de 
 novo; on failure 
 whereof she is to 
 he deem«d 
 I'oreigii, and not 
 again registered, 
 unless by special 
 Older. 
 
 ri 
 
246 
 
 Change of 
 M.isti rs to be 
 endorsed on the 
 Certificate, and 
 Memorandum 
 made in the 
 Biiok of Regis- 
 ters. 
 
 Sliip's Name not 
 to he changed, 
 and the same is 
 to be painted on 
 some Part cf tile 
 .'Mern, as also 
 the Fort to 
 « liich she 
 belongs. 
 
 thesnid Ship to be registered: provuled that the Regu- 
 lations required by the Laws i„ force concerning the Hrst 
 RegLstry of Ships shall be complied with ; and provided 
 also, that in no case of ihe Transfer of Property, in whole 
 or in part, the Ship shall be registered de no^o, unless 
 Hhe shall return to the Port to which she belongs, or to 
 such Port in which she may be r«gistered de novo, within 
 Iwelve Months after the Date of such Transfer, if such 
 Ship shall not be on a Voyage to the East of the Cape 
 of (,ood Hope or to the West of Cape Horn ; or within 
 Two Years if the Ship is on a Voyage to the East of Z 
 Cape of Good Hope, or to the West of Cape Horn, at 
 
 at file '"'^- ^ ''^"''''' '^'^•"S P'^^'^ 5 except by Order 
 .Ini I S'''"'"'''*""""' °^ Governor as aforesaid, upon 
 special Representation of the Circumstances of the Case, 
 
 11 rT ^^^'''''' authorized. 3* Geo. 3. c. 68. § 22 
 4-2 Geo. 3. c. 61. §24. ^ 
 
 28. As often as the Master of any Ship registered shall 
 be changed the Master or Owner shall deliver to the 
 s?ch cL""" T^i"* '? "^^^^ ^^Sistry, at the Port where 
 who 2n fi? '^^" '""^^ P>""' '^^ Certificates of Registry, 
 ,Tnm nf th«''?"P«» endorse and subscribe a MemoranI 
 dum of such Change, and forthwith give Notice of the 
 
 Memorr 7'' ^f registered, who shall likewise make a 
 
 fortS M '^" T" ^" '^^ ^^^J^ «f I^egi^ters, and 
 
 forthwith give Notice thereof to the Commissioners of the 
 Customs. 26Geo..'i. C.60. §18. 
 
 s„r? ^?° ^T^' u^ '"/ ^^'P ^^^^" g'^e ^ny Name to 
 such Ship other than that by which she was first rems- 
 
 rJll' "i /^n ^''T ''^^ ^'''y Ship which shall be^o 
 legistered, shall, within One Month from the Time of 
 such Registry, cause to be painted in White or Yellow 
 Le^tters of a Length not less than Four Inches, upon a 
 Black Ground, on some conspicuous Part of the Stern, 
 ^ro^aded there shall be sufficient Space for that Purpose 
 
 ad Ji)fi' m" ^" Lett^.>\«« I'^rge a« such Space will 
 admit), the Name by which such Ship shall have been 
 
 ^nd j["f'^^ Manner, and keep and preserve the same; 
 
 obHtli 1 ^^'""" ^' ^T''' '^''^^ ^^'^*"% '-^^ter, erase 
 obhterate, hide, or conceal, or cause or procure or permi 
 the same to be done funless in the Cn«P of ....... ":,,...) 
 
 lZt^ l"" '^''''' ^l"^^"'' "'• ^hallinany wHt^S^:; 
 printed Paper, or other Document, describe such Ship by 
 
 any 
 
 &.i\ 
 
 
iResistrp of Ji&rtt<Bl) S)t)ips* 
 
 any Name other than that by whici. ^^^^^'^^/^^^^^^^ 
 ed, or shall verbally .'-.nbe or cause «J P^l^^'^^^^f ^ 
 mit such Shinto \v li .scribed, by any other Name ^ 
 Z SttterV ^ho R ' ..nue, such Owner or Mr>ster shall 
 forfeit I 100. '^r. ( ^ o 3. ^; «|>-J^,^>^r ^ Certificate of 
 30. bver> - c Britaui, Guernsey, 
 
 the llegrstry ot u.,^ S^. p "^^''^^ j ^^ t,,e Person 
 Jersey, or Uu. Is; '^ J^' l^^^.^ rtL and fuU Ace 
 authorized to ^ 't- ^.,^% .v^ nvooer Denom - 
 
 as aforesaid), and shall /"^^^.^^f /^ ^^^7 the^ ^^^ for 
 authorized to grant such Cert.fica e that he >. P 
 
 which such Certificate >\^^?"\\f^;%']'ceo 3 c.60. §20. 
 which is so described by the Bu.ld^. 26 Oeo 3 . J^^^^ 
 
 SI Every Person who shall apply tor sulu 
 in 'any of H^is Majesty's Colonu^sPlan^v^^^^^ 
 tories, shall, before such Cert^cate ^ g-n^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^^ 
 the like Account under the ^and ot the d 
 take the like Oath, as required ^Jj^ P^od^^^^ ^.^^^^ 
 
 by Persons applying tor the like Certificate 
 Britain. 26 Geo. 3. c 60. §21. ^^^^ 
 
 Oath (or ''^""g,.V^"£/o/°he Customs in the Port 
 'iJhefeTo" SN: sh~;» to be, in the foUow.ng 
 
 FTb. being Master (or having t.,e Charg^e)^^^: 
 ' Ship or Vessel called the . ., ^ 
 
 ' a Certificate thereof granted at tj-f^*^"" °' ^ ^^ 
 
 . but that the same is lost ^ ™'''t'„»^Xe t^^ 
 . -„„^,>f Ar.A tViP same, and does not Know wuc ^ 
 ; :;r \s:';r ;vi;at is become tl.ej.on ana t^^^^^ 
 ^ same hath not been nor shall be, with 
 
 R 4 
 
 '247 
 
 Before Registry 
 in Great Britnin, 
 HiC, Particulars 
 to be produced 
 from the Builder 
 and Oaih to be 
 made of the 
 Identity. 
 
 The lil« nt 
 count ^ii<i *^ '*' 
 to be requir'-'3 n 
 the C'-'totiiLS. 
 
 When Certifi- 
 cates are lost, 
 and the Ship is 
 in the Planta- 
 tions, the Oath 
 herein mentionei.'. 
 to be taken by 
 the Maftet 
 
248 
 
 petty, the Gover- 
 nor may grant a 
 Certificate to 
 entitle the Ship 
 to trade tor that 
 Voyage only. 
 
 iaegtetrp oimvitm mips. 
 
 ' or Knowledge, sold or disposed of to any Person 
 
 Jo. ;S""' "^^^r^'-' ^"^ '^-' he this DepoS 
 (oi Afhrmant) and Three-fourths of the Mariner! 
 
 Butish Subjects; and the said Ship or Vesse dL' 
 
 ; Knowledgeri3;tf;L7sC^^^^^^ 
 
 giving Security , '^^' A he Master shall then cive Spcurit^ n. .v,. *j 
 «nd making Oath by 26 Geo 3 r fin t« fK "^" give Security as dn ected 
 « to the Pro- the Slihril, 11 I J^^ Collector of the Port where 
 
 —^- - dul^^Lerid ' ""f ^""^r" '^''' '^' Shipw 
 
 21 toKof 7'"^^"^8^ to Law, for qualifying the 
 Tin e/^f t, :;^ ^rV"^ '" "'^ ^^j^«'y'« Plantation 
 
 vered l^t tllr ^'^•''''' '^ ^"""^' "^h^" be deli- 
 III? , "^^ Commissioners of the Customs to h. 
 
 di.: "r "'^«"' Use has been o,';^^ IS 
 ftV^ r,l tl 1 "?"= ''** "<" ''een and sliall not be 
 
 W tS- hT?''' "'' *"' ""^ Ship does wl,„|]y bl 
 Sh.®, '°Bnt.sh Subjects, „nd ,l,at no ForeJcner has ■,„, 
 
 suehOahTTV I"'^'-'*"-™; a,,.d u%" ^S 
 Bomi the ^ ^*™'"'"n if » Quaker) and giving such 
 
 ulTk^uZuZTsK^ ''-.Mf -; » Certificate. 
 T?mw^ o.. 1 ^^, '"*"'"" ^eals, of his having n- yen such 
 ■tjonci and made surh ("lutU ,,. a«! ■ ^ »'*." »"*-" 
 upon the Shin ri..ir ^'^i'^^^^^ffi^ation; and there- 
 ale oniv in M Tr ^'^^''y '« ^^^^' f"'- that Voy- 
 
 Jersey, or of the Governor or Collector of the Customs 
 
 n^t^he wir'^^r ""r'y'' PiantationsTn'i;" ric" 
 Of the Own.? ,"^l'«tered m such Plantation, and none 
 ^>t the Owners shall reside in Great Britam nr Jr.iji 
 
 Guernsey 
 
 W the Loss of 
 tile Certificate 
 J i proved by the 
 blaster and on.^ 
 of the Owners, 
 auti Security 
 
 j given, the Ship 
 may be regis- 
 
 j ttred dc novi... 
 
^tsistxv of Brttisl) S)i)ips* 
 
 249 
 
 Guernsey or Jersey, of the Loss of such Certificate, ami 
 likewise of the Name, Burthen, Built, Property, and 
 other Particulars inserted in such Certificate ; and upon 
 Security be-ng given as directed by 26 Geo. 3. c. 60., 
 that the original Certificate hath not been nor shall be 
 i'ruudulently disposed of, or used contrary 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 26 Geo. 3. 
 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 Certifi- 
 cate of a new Regis^.?r is granted instead of a former 
 Certificate which appears to be lost; and such new 
 Register and Certificate shall have the same Effect as 
 an original Register and Certificate ; and a Duplicate 
 thereof shall be transmitted by the Officers who shall 
 rcant the same to the Commissioners of the Customs. 
 i5 Geo. 2. c. 31. § 3. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. 
 
 3.5. If any Ship after she shall have been registered ships .niter.-d 
 shall in any Manner be altered in Form or Burthen, "'"«' be regis- 
 by being lengthened or built upon, or shall be altered '''"" ''' '*'"^' 
 from a Sloop to a Brigantine, or iVom any one Deno- 
 raiaation to another, by the Mode or Method of riggino- 
 or fitting, in such Case such Ship shall be registered 
 ^le 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. 26 Geo. 3. c. <iU. § 24. 
 
 36. The Owners of all Ships taken by any of His ^e'o'e Reijihtry 
 Majesty's Ships or Vessels of Wai', or by any Private '^^''^i^ f''"- 
 
 <-! en • 1 1 I 1 ,• 1 »-. • "^ . oi-'mncd ,is Prize, 
 
 01 other fehip, and condemned as lawtul Prize m any a Certificate 
 Court of Admiralty, shall, upon registering such Ship, thereof must be 
 produce to the proper Officer of the Customs a Certifi- 1^ S^a'lld' 
 tale of the Condemnation under the Hand and Seal of Seal of the Judge, 
 i^be Judge of the Court in which such Ship shall have 
 oecn condemned (which Certificate such Judge is required 
 to grant), and shall also produce a true and exact Ac- 
 ^'Juiit in V^riting of all tiie ParticuJars contained in the 
 
 Certificate 
 
250 
 
 Prizes registered 
 in the Colcnie:S 
 an Account of 
 the Sum for 
 which thf Ship 
 w«s sold tc be 
 subjoined to the 
 Certificr.te. 
 
 Certificates to 
 express where 
 the Ship was 
 built. 
 
 The Ccriificate 
 tr be produced 
 tc the Officers 
 ;«id British 
 Consuls. 
 
 mcsistr? of BrtttBD S»l)(p8. 
 
 Certificate licrein-before set forth, to be made and sub- 
 scribed Iw one or more skilful Persons to 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 *. 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 25. , j 
 
 37. In all cases where any Ship so taken and con- 
 demned as Prize in any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plant- 
 ations, or Territories aforesaid, shall be registered, an 
 exact and particular Account shall be subjoined to such 
 Certificate, of the Sum for which such Ship shall lave 
 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 Ship in any P()rt of 
 Great Britain where such Duties are payable. 26 Geo. 3. 
 
 c. 60. § 27. ... V I a 
 
 38. The Certificate shall distmguish whether the 
 Ship is of the Built of Great Britain or Ireland, Guern- 
 sey, Jersey, or the Isle of Man, or the Colonies, Plant- 
 ations, Islands, or Territories aforesaid, or of any Foreign 
 Country ; and shall, if British-built, be intituled " Cer- 
 tificate of British Plantation Registry ;" and it Foreign- 
 built, shall be intituled " Certificate of Foreign Ships 
 Registry, for the European Trade, British Property f. 
 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. §28. , . , , „ , 
 
 39 The Master of every Ship which shall have pio- 
 cured a Certificate of the Registry, shall upon Demand 
 produce such Certificate to the principal Officers ot 
 every Port in His Majesty's Dominions, or to the British 
 Consul or Chief British Officer in any Foreign Port in 
 which such Ship shall arrive, lor the Inspection ot such 
 Officer or Officers, British Consul, or Chiet British 
 
 * The 26th Section applies onlij to Ships eondanmd. o^ P''-^ 
 in Guernsey, Jersey, and Man. 
 
 t The 20lh, SOth, '.Ust, 32(/, and 3.'^/ Sections Ofply onhj lo 
 Ships which were in IWhtence when the Act passed, and wlnrt^ 
 havins been resistered under former Laws, or required to beic- 
 ristered hi the )iew Law (16 Geo. 3. e. 60.), ^ere within tertaw 
 Periods, after the Expiration of a Notice by the Commissionen o 
 the Customs, to he registered, and to obtain Certijicates the>eo 
 according to the Foria and in the Manner herein-before described. 
 
 The Certificates having been taken out as required hy the i<»n- 
 
 'i/icates having , , - , . 
 
 fiik>!,ivntrs ISotice. tncre tcuu-a nO r-n-.p^ -v- n..i..i..i ...i..^ 
 any longer apply, and their Irmtrtion is therefore """cresw^V- 
 
 10 
 
 Officer. 
 
I f 
 
 Officer, in order to satisfy him or them that she has 
 been properly registered, under the Penalty of j€100. 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 34. 
 
 40. The proper Officer at every Port where Registers 
 and Certificates shall be granted, shall progressively 
 number the same, beginning such progressive Numera- 
 tion at the Commencement of each Year, and shall 
 enter an exact Copy of such Certificates with the Num- 
 ber thereof in a Book, and shall also within One Month 
 transmit to the Commissioners of the Customs 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 
 Offence forfeit ^100, and for the Second Offence j€200, 
 and be dismissed from his Office. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 35. 
 
 41. I'he Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland 
 shall transmit, at the End of every Month in each Year, 
 to the Commissioners of the Customs in England, true 
 Copies of all such Certificates as shall be granted by them, 
 or by any Officer within the Limits of their Commission. 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 36. 
 
 42. The Fees now payable upon the Registry of or 
 Transfer of Property in any Ship, shall continue to be 
 paid as heretofore, except upon tlie First Registry of any 
 wShip or Vessel built and registered before the 1st May 
 1786.* 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. §37. 
 
 43. Any Person required by this Act, in respect of his 
 Officxj, to perform any thing required to be done pur- 
 suant to any of the Provir^ions of this Act, who shall 
 wilfully neglect or refuse to do orpertbrm the same, shall, 
 on being duly convicted thereof, forfeit j^ 500 ; and for 
 tlie Second Offence M500, and be rendered incapable 
 of serving His Majesty in any Office or Employment 
 jclative to the Revenue, or in any Civil Capacity. 
 i'S Geo. 3. c. 60 § 40. 
 
 251 
 
 To he progres- 
 sively numbf rej 
 nnd entered in ,- 
 
 ]E..ok. 
 
 Collies of Certin ■ 
 cares to be tran5- 
 iniued from 
 Scotland yearly. 
 
 Feeb payable on 
 Registry, 
 
 Penalty on Per- 
 sons neglecting 
 to pcrt'orm Acts 
 required of them. 
 
 i 
 
 * The 38th and Siitli Secflmis apply only to Ships and Vessels to 
 whici !:■ -'..ters had been protnised by the Officers oj the Customs, 
 f"' . ' ( .t had been registered under Misconception oj 'i^ Laws ^ 
 <ind His Majesty, ivith the Advice of the Privy Council, was au- 
 >hovized to order such Ships to be registered, and have a Cer- 
 tificate thereof i according to the Form and in the Manner herein' 
 ixiurt direited . those Seitwns <irf therefore oniiiled. 
 
 44, Any 
 
i^52 
 
 Taking fake 
 Odths,i)rcoiinter- 
 
 feitiiif Certifi- 
 catt's, or making 
 use tiiereof. 
 
 How Penalties 
 and I'orftitiires 
 are to be re- 
 covered and dis- 
 posed of. 
 
 Former Act* as 
 to Tfjde, inc.. 
 not ex pro sly 
 altered, to re- 
 main m force. 
 
 Re ';,;(. [C'll in 
 
 Ships not regis- 
 tered iiccording to 
 26 Geo. 3. to be 
 deemed Alien 
 Ships. 
 
 iaeflfstrp of BritiBl) a)l)(ps. 
 
 4.4. Au> Person who shall falsely make Oath to any ot 
 the Matters before required to be so verified, shall suffer 
 the like Pains and Penalties as are incurred by Persons 
 committing wilful and corrupt Perjury; and if any Per- 
 son shall counterfeit, erase, alter, or falsify any Certifi- 
 cate required or directed to be obtained by this Act, or 
 shall knowingly or wilfully make use of any Certificate 
 so counterfeited, erased, altered, or falsified, shall forfeit 
 ^'500. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 4^1. 
 
 45. The Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by this 
 Act shall and may be sued for, prosecuted, and reco- 
 vered 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 Offences committed against the Laws of Customs 
 may now be legally sued for, prosecuted, recovered, and 
 disposed of; and the Officer concerned in Seizures or 
 Prosecutions 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 Regulation 
 entitled to under Prosecutions for pecuniary Penalties. 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. §42. 
 
 46. Every Matter contained in any Act passed touch- 
 ing the Trade, Shipping, and Navigation of Great 
 Britain, and the Colonies, Plantations, L^lands, and 
 Territories aforesaid thereunto 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 
 to have Certificates of Registry, 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 43. 
 
 47. Ships registered in Ireland shall enjoy the same 
 Privileges as are given to British-built or British-owned 
 Ships in England. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 44. 27 Geo. 3. 
 c. 19. § 1, 2. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 48. Ships which by 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. are declared not 
 to be entitled to the Privileges of a British-built Ship, 
 or of a Ship 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 sub- 
 ject to the same Penalties and Forfeitures as Alien Sh>ps 
 iri {}^p lii^r. f\i.cpK nr« by Law liable to- 27 Geo. 3. 
 
 c. 19. § 13. _ 
 
 49. On 
 
megiBtrp of mxitm ^Ws^ 
 
 253 
 
 49. On Complaint made on Oath by the Owner of Mast-doui^ 
 any Ship whose Certificate ot Registry shall be detained, ^^.^ject to ihe 
 and refused to be delivered up by the Master thereol to Penalty of looi. 
 any Justice of the Peace residing near to the Place ^yhere 
 such Detainer ai d Refusal shall be, in Great Britain, or 
 Guernsey. J'-r jey, or Man, or in any Colony, Plantation, 
 Island OT Territory to His Majesty belonging m Ame- 
 rl u he Justice, by Warrant under his Hand and beal, 
 mp, :KUse such Master to be brought before him, 
 to be examined touching such Detainer and Retusal; 
 and if it shall appear to the Justice, on Examination ot 
 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 forteit ^100, and 
 on Failure of Payment within Two Days alter such Con- 
 viction, 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. 28 Geo. 3. c. 34-. § 13. 
 
 50. The Justice shall issue a Warrant under his it certitkate not 
 Hand and Seal to cause Search to be made for such *-;-^-^;^^;; 
 Certificate; and if the same shall be found, the J ustice ^;^^^, ^^^^^^^-^ 
 shall cause the same to be delivered to the Owner; and .^ay be registered 
 if the same shall not be found, the Justice shall ctrtity denovo. 
 the aforesaid Detainer, Refusal, and Conviction to the 
 Persjnwho granted the last Certificate of Registry tor 
 such Ship, who shall make Registry thereol de novo, noti- 
 fying on the Back of the Certificate the Grounds upon 
 which such Ship was registered de novo. 28 Geo. 3. 
 
 'It: In^case the Master of any Ship of the United ^;^^^ 
 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, who shall have „,ybe proceeded 
 received the Certificate of Registry, whether such Master agamst and con - 
 shall be a Part Owner or not, shall ,vilfully detain and -cred .n the^^ 
 refuse to deliver up the same to the proper Ulticcrs ,.,t,,c ^o deliver 
 empowered to make Registry, on theOwners or the major up certificates 
 Part of the Owners of such Ship, if such Master has not -^J^e Fopet 
 any Property therein, or on the other Owners or the 
 major Part of the other Owners ot such Ship it 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 Com- 
 plaint on Oath against the Maste- who shall so detain 
 and refuse to deliver up the same, to any Justice ot the 
 Feace residmir ueui' to mex lucc v.u^ic 3u--ii s.,- ■^-■■~' 
 
 o 
 
 Refusal 
 
254 
 
 Upon a Certifi- 
 cate of the Ciin- 
 victiim, the Ship 
 may be regis- 
 tered de novo. 
 
 Ships cond. mnec 
 tor Offences 
 against tiie Slave 
 Trade Acts, may 
 be registered as 
 British Ships. 
 
 iRegt0trp of Briti0|) S^ljip^, 
 
 Refusal shall be, in Great Britain or Ireland, or to any 
 Member ot the Supreme Court of Justice, or any Justice 
 H I- I T?f"''^.''' ^"^'•"^^y' '^^rsey, or Man, or in anv 
 tJriti!,^ 1 lantation m America or the West Indies, where 
 such Detamer and Refusal shall be; and on such Corn- 
 plan^, the Justice or Magistrate shall, by Warrant under 
 nib Wand and Seal, cause such Master to be brought 
 betore him, to be examined touching such Detainer and 
 Ketusal; and if it shaJl appear to the Justice or Ma- 
 gistrate, on Examination of the Master or otherwise, that 
 tlic Certihcate of Registry is not lost or mislaid, but is 
 willuliy detained by the said Master, such Master shali 
 be thereof convicted and forfeit ^'100, and on failure ol 
 layment thereof be committed to the common Gaol, to 
 remain without Bail or Mainpri/e for such Time as the 
 said Justice or Magistrate shall hi his Discretion deem 
 proper, not being less than Six nor more than Twelve 
 
 no %^ ^^\^''^- ^' ^- ^^' ^ ^8. 42 Geo. 3. c. 61. § 20. 
 
 52. Ihe Justice or Magistrate siiall certify the De- 
 tamei^ Refusal, and Conviction to the Person who granted 
 such Certihcateuf Registry, who shall, on the Law being 
 comphed with, make Registry of such Ship de novo, 
 aotdying on the Back of such Certificate the ground upon 
 which ^^e fehip was so registered. 34 G?o. 3. c.68. 
 ^ § 19. 42 Geo. 3. c. 61. $21. 
 
 53 All Ships, whether British or Foreign, adjudged 
 
 o be forfeited under any Act for the Prevention/ aS- 
 
 tion, or Regulation of the Slave Trade, in any Court of 
 
 in^rVo ;7if""T'"^'"^'^^> «^^^'^ b^ condemned 
 of Hi^ M . ' ^;,''"">'% ^'- Vice Admiralty in any Part 
 to t^%To?%^'?^''l"rf' ^''' ^»"y Offence in relation 
 Re?i!nv « V t' 't^ ^'^ ^*"*'^'^^' ^" ' Certificate of 
 PHviW ; a'^ ^^''^'' ^"?^^ thereupon enjoy all the 
 
 Privileges and Advantages of British-built Ships in like 
 manner with Ships taken' and condemned afhS p!t 
 ft« i'p r"'' ^'"P' '^'""^^ ^^ ^"bj^^t to the same Du- 
 
 uZt ^'^f'T'' ""^ '^'^^ ^' '-^'^^^^'-l i" the same 
 Manner, and subject to the same Conditions and Re- 
 
 and nnvf; ^T^'^'^J ^^ Forfeitures, and shall be owned 
 and navigated, as Ships condemned as lawful Prize are 
 
 Sr? . '? '• '" "'"^f '^ '''""' «^t«'»"'8 British R^ 
 ford n'. t T ""J":^^"« the Privileges of British Ships ac- 
 cording to Law. 54 Geo. 3. c. 59. M. 
 
laice- 
 
 255 
 
 1. Of the British PlanUitions in America shall not be N^fJ^'^j^^^;^^^ 
 shipped or conveyed from any of the said Plantations to ^^^ ^^^^^ 
 any Place, unless to some other Plantation belonging to plantation, or 
 His Majesty, or to Great BriUiin or Ireland, there to be t^o JJre^at^Br.tn.n 
 laid on Shore. 1 2 Car. 2. c. 1 8. § 1 8. 2 & 3 Ann. c. 5 . 
 
 § 12. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. 
 Art. 6. 56 Geo. 3. c.91. §4-. 8. 
 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forleitures to 
 secure the Landing in the Plantations, or in Great 
 Britain or Ireland, 
 
 See Ashes, Pot and Pearl. . 
 
 2. The Growth of the Territories of the United States ^J^J'^^^ 
 o\' America, may be imported from any of the said Tern- u^^j^j y^^teg 
 tories into any of His Majesty's West India Islands (in into Wtst India 
 which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda ^^^^^^J]^ 
 or Somers Islands are included), or into the Colonies ot Guiana, in 
 Demerura, Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province ot British Vessels ; 
 Guiana ; but such Rice shall not be so imported 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 Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 
 §1, 2. 56Geo. 3. c.91. § 1- . 
 
 3. The Growth of the said Territories, may be im- 
 ported from thence into Saint George or Hamilton, in 
 Bermuda, in any Foreign Sliip belonging; to any Country 
 in Amity with His Majesty, and exported from the said 
 Ports to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in 
 ihe West Indies, in British-built Ships, owned and na- 
 vigated according to Law. 52 Geo- 3. c. 79- § 2, 3. 
 
 53 Geo. 3. C.50/5I. ^^. ^^ . , „, , ^, 
 
 4. No Rice shall be imported into His Majesty's West ^o^^'^^^n.- 
 
 India Islands (including the Bahama and Bermuda or l^^ionies under 
 Somers Islands), or into the Colonies of Demerara, Ber- Foreign Euro- 
 bice, or Essequibo, from any Island in the West Indies, pe.n Sovereigns. 
 or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South Ame- 
 rica, under the Dominion of any Foreign European So- 
 vereign or State, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. $10. 31 Geo. 3. c.38. § 1- 56Geo.3. 
 
 '■ 5.'/n'case of public Emergency or Distress, the Go- Ew^Tfor 
 vernors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders m L^niei ^,,g g^ppj^ ^^ 
 of any of the said Islands in the West Indies under the tiie inhabitants, 
 Dominion of His Majesty, or the Governors, &c. ot De- 
 merara, Berbice, or Essequibo, with the Advice and 
 Consent of their respective Cu.mc.ls may authorize the 
 
 Importation 
 
 and into Ber- 
 muda in Foreign 
 Vessels. 
 
 by Authority of 
 the Governor. 
 
 ■•t 
 
256 
 
 iSiitt 
 
 ■So imported by 
 Authority of tlie 
 Governors for 
 the Supply of 
 Inhabirants, not 
 to be exported ; 
 and Oath to be 
 niaJe before 
 shipping of Rice 
 that it was not so 
 iinported. 
 
 Persjns taiiiui; 
 n false Oath 
 ticemed guilty of 
 Perjury. 
 
 Importation ge- 
 nerally allowed 
 from Colonies 
 under Foreign 
 European Sove- 
 reigns for the 
 Suj[4>ly of the 
 InLibitaatii. 
 
 Importation of Rice for a limited Time from any Island in 
 the West Indies, or Colony or Plantation on the Conti- 
 nent of South America, under the Dominion of any Fo- 
 reign European Sovereign or State, for the Supply of the 
 Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonics ; but the said 
 Rice shall not be so imported except by British Subjects 
 and in British-built Ships, owned by His Majesty's Sub- 
 jects, and navigated according to Law, on Forfeiture 
 thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §11. 31 Geo. 3 
 c. 38. §'3. 56 Ceo. 3. c.91. §1. 
 
 6. In case any Rice 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's West India Islands, or Colonies of Demerara, 
 Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, 
 shall after such Importation be exported, or put on board 
 any Ship or Boat or brought to any Quay with Intent to 
 be so exported, the same shall be forfeited, as also the 
 Ship or Boat in which laden ; and before shipping of any 
 Rice that may lawfully be exported from any such Island 
 or Colony, the Exporter shall make Oath before the 
 Collector of the Customs, that no Part thereof had been so 
 imported under Mich Authority as aforesaid 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. 29 Geo. 3. c. 66. § 1,^2. 
 31 Gto 3. c. 38. § 3, 4- 56 Geo. 3. c.91. § 1. 
 
 7. 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 prose- 
 cuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in anv 
 of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West Indies'. 
 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. §3. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. §5. 
 
 8. May be imported into any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in the West Indies, or on the Conti- 
 nent of South America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, 
 m British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered 
 according to Law, from any Colony or Possession in the 
 West Indies, or on the Continent of America, under the 
 Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State. 
 58Geo. 3. c.27.§l. ^ *^ ^ 
 
 y. In 
 
9. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the re- 
 spective Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Com- 
 manders in Chief of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape 
 Breton, or St. 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 America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of 
 the said Provinces and Islands respectively; provided 
 that no Rice shall be so imported except by British Sub- 
 jects, and in British-built Ships, owned and navigated 
 according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and of the Ship. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §13. 
 
 10. Any British-built Vessel owned and navigated 
 according to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Sub- 
 jects of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Ma- 
 jesty, may import Rice into such Ports as shall be spe- 
 cially appointed for that Purpose by His Majesty within 
 the Provinces of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick ; pro- 
 vided that Rice shall not be imported in Foreign Vessels, 
 unless of the Growth or Produce of the Country to which 
 the Vessel importing the same shall belong ; and such 
 Rice may be re-exported, either to the United Kingdom 
 or any other of His Majesty's Possessions, in any British- 
 built Vessel, owned and navigated according to Law. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 1, 2, 3. 
 
 1 1 . His Majesty, with the Advice of Hi^ Privy Coun- 
 cil, may make such Rules and Regulations for the Import- 
 ation and Exportation of Rice at the said Ports, with such 
 Penalties and Forfeitures for the Breach thereof, as shall 
 seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, by and with the 
 Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 12. This Act shall continue in force for the Space of 
 Three Years from and after the passing of the same*, and 
 until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then 
 next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 13. In case of public Emergency and Distress, the 
 Governor of Quebec, or the Lieutenant Governor or 
 Conpnander in Chief, with the Consent of the Council 
 of the Province, may authorize the Importation by Sea 
 or Coastwise into Quebec, or into the Countries and 
 Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River 
 
 257 
 
 In case of Dis- 
 tress, the Go- 
 vernors of Nova 
 Scotia, SfC may 
 permit Importa- 
 tion from United 
 Stales for the 
 Supply of 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 May i)e im- 
 ported in Foreign 
 Ships into Ports 
 to he approved 
 by His Majesty 
 in Neva Scotia 
 or New Bruns- 
 wick } 
 
 under such 
 Rules and Regu- 
 lations as His 
 Majesty shall 
 deem necessary. 
 
 Limitation of 
 Act. 
 
 Tn case oi Dis- 
 tress, may be im- 
 ported into 
 Quebec from 
 the United 
 States by the 
 Authority of the 
 Governor, for 
 the Supply of the 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 * Sth May 1818. 
 
 s 
 
 Saint 
 
258 
 
 Btce. 
 
 Governor cf 
 Nuva Scotiii, ?tc. 
 nuy iUithori/c 
 Iiii|iiirt.iiii)ii (i.r 
 Re cxpurtatioii 
 to anv otiier 
 Color y. 
 
 Miy be imi)iirti.d 
 into t'le Fieii 
 I'out in I'orfi^ii 
 Vessels. 
 
 May be im- 
 ported into the 
 West Jndis 
 Isljiids, and 
 Colonics of 
 Guiana, from the 
 Poriugiiedc Do- 
 minions. 
 
 By whom Goods 
 and Vossels may 
 be seized. 
 
 Saint Lawionco lri)in the Sea, of Rice, for a HmUe(3 
 'i'iinc, troni any of the Territories of the United States of 
 Amoricu, for the Supply of the Inhabitants; provided 
 that no Hico shall he so imported except by Briti.sh Sub- 
 jects, in British-built Ships, and navigated according to 
 Law, on !• orfeiture thereof and the Sliip. 30 Geo. 3. 
 c. 8. § 1. 
 
 l.'J. Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or 
 C'onnnaiulers in Chief for the Time being of Nova Scotia 
 or New Brunswick, or of Cape Breton or Saint John's, 
 w itii tlie Advice of their respective Councils, may autho- 
 rize the Im)iortation of Rice for a limited Time from any 
 of the Territories of the United States of America, for 
 Re-exportation to any other of His Majesty's Colonies 
 or Plantations. 4-8 Geo. 3. c. 125. §1. 
 
 14. May be imported from any of the Colonies or 
 plantations in America belonmnaj to or under tlie Do- 
 minion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, mto 
 the Free Port:^ in any Foreign Vessel manned and navi- 
 gated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or 
 Plantations. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. §2. 
 See Free Pouts. 
 
 Daring the Continuance of the Treaty with Portu- 
 
 1. 
 
 gal, any Person may import into any of the said West 
 India Islands (including tlie Bahama and Bermuda or 
 Soniers Islands), or Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or 
 Essequibo, any Rice, being the Growth of some of the 
 Territories ov Dominions of the Crown of Portugal in 
 South America ; provided the same is imported into th^ 
 said Islands or Colonies direct i'rom the said Territories or 
 Dominions, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and 
 registered according to Law. 51 Geo. 3. c 47. §5. 
 56 Geo, 3. c. 91. 
 
 16. The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts 
 may be seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's 
 Ships or Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, War- 
 rant, or Petty Officer specially authorized by them, or 
 by any Officer of His Majesty's Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 
 29 Geo. 3. c. 16. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. 30 Geo. 3. c.8. 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
iaoaD l^artour anti iaoeseau. 
 
 259 
 
 Free Ports tor the Importation and Exportation of cer- Free Ports. 
 tain Articles in Foreign Ships. 4-5 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 iSiUm* See « Spirits." 
 
 ^afflotper anD S)affrort, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Df ,)enden- imiwitation 
 cies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- allowed from 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to ^bra'ltar'! 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, n; igated, and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 51 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 Snails* 
 
 1. Every Ship built in His Majesty's Plantations in ships upon their 
 America shall, upon her first setting out or being first first setting out 
 navigated at Sea, be furnished with one full and com- [°,,',^ ,,"^gj^. ^^^ 
 plete Set of new Sails, made up of Sail Cloth manufac- of Sails. 
 tared in Great Britiiin 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, propeily belonging 
 to such Ship, made of Sail Cloth of tlu; Manufacture of 
 Great Britain or Ireland, the Master shall forfeit £50. 
 19 Geo. 2. c. 27. §11. 9 Geo. 3. c. 37. § 4. 39 & 4-0 
 Geo. 3. c. C7. Art. 6. 
 
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 1. Wines of the Madeiras, or of the Western Islands or Wines of the 
 Azores, may be there laden for Exportation to any of tlie ^jJ^J^'j^J^^^, 
 British Colonics or Plantations. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 7. 
 
 2. Goods fit and necessary for the Fisheries in the Bri- Goods for the 
 tish Colonies in America, may be exported to the Colo- Fisheries, 
 nies where such Fisheries are carried on, direct from 
 Guernsey or Jersey. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1, 2, 
 
 See Guernsey. 
 
 
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 Herrings from 
 the Isle of Man. 
 
 IiTiplements for 
 til J Fishery. 
 
 Articles fvo'JT 
 Malta or C.i'.>- 
 r.ik,ir to the 
 
 To Miilt.i or 
 ■Gibraltar from 
 ti".£ Coloniei. 
 
 Onnges and 
 Lemons from 
 the Azores or 
 
 Madeiras. 
 
 No Goods to be 
 imponed f.om 
 the United States 
 except Pitch, 
 T?r, and Tur- 
 pentice. 
 
 £Kcept iho 
 lAimber, Cattle, 
 Corn, &c. in 
 c«*e o4' DistrcK, 
 for the Supply 
 of tlie Iiihabj- 
 tatits. 
 
 3. Herrings cured in the Isle of Man may be exported 
 from thence to any of the British Colonies or Plantations, 
 in the same Manner as Victuals from Ireland. 12 Geo. 3. 
 c. 58. § 4. 
 
 See Man. 
 
 4. Tools and Implements necessary for the Fisheries 
 in the British Colonies may be exported direct from the 
 said Colonies to the Isle of Man. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 5. 
 
 See Man. 
 
 5. Any British-l>uilt Ship, navigated and registered 
 according to Law, may load at Malta or any of the De- 
 pendencies thereof, or at Gibraltar, any of the Articles 
 enumerated in the Schedule marked (B..) annexed to 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 9. for Exportation direct to any of His 
 Majesty's Ct)lonies or Plantations in North America. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 G. Any Article the Production or Manufacture of any 
 of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North Ame- 
 rica, or any Article which has been legally imported 
 into such Colonies or Plantations, may be exported from 
 thence to Malta or the Dependencies thereof, or to 
 Gibraltar, in British-built Ships, navigated and registered 
 according to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c 29. § 8. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 7. Oranges and Lemons the Growth of the Azores and 
 Madeiras may be there laden for Exportation direct to 
 any of the British Colonies in North America, on board 
 any British Ship navigated and registered according to 
 Law. 57 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 9v 
 
 8. No Goods shall be imported from any of the Ter- 
 ritories of the United States of America into Saint John's, 
 on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship, except Pitch, Tar, 
 and Turpentine, the Production of the said Territories, 
 imported by British Subjects and in British-built Ships, 
 owned and navigated according to Law. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. 6. § 12. 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 14. 
 
 9. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Go- 
 vernor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chiof 
 for the Time being, with the Advice and Consent of the 
 Couucilof the Island, may authorize the Importation of 
 Scantling, Planks, Staves, Heading Boards, Shingles, 
 Hoops, Sijuarcd Timber, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, 
 
 HoffS. 
 
^aint 3!o|)n'«, 3l0ldnD ot 
 
 26f 
 
 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 ; but such Scantling, &c. shall not be so im- 
 ported except by Bi-itisli Subjects, and in British-built 
 Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 I'eiture thereof and of the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 13. 
 
 10. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Com- May be imported 
 mander in Chief for the Time being, with the Advice [io„^o'X"'" 
 and Consent of the Council of the Island, may authorize Colonies. 
 
 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 Plantations. 48 Geo. 3. 
 c. 125. § 1. 
 
 1 1 . The Goods and Vessels forfeited by these Acts By whom Goods 
 may be seized by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Z\'^^ld!' """^ 
 Ships or Vessels of War, or by any Commissioned, 
 Warrant, or Petty Officer specially authorized by them, 
 
 or by any Officer of the Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 
 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. 
 
 S»atnt 3ioi)n'« (5l?etM Btunstoftft). 
 S)a<nt3loi)n's (il5etofounDlanD). 
 
 Fruit, Wine, Oil, Salt, or Cork, the Produce of F>;««. Wine, 
 Europe South of Cape Firtisterre, maybe shipped and ma'1)t'im'^med 
 laden in any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finis- fVom PonsTn ^ 
 terre, for Exportation direct to the Port of Saint John's Europe Sowh 
 in New Brunswick, or Saint John's in Newfoundland, f^^^]^^ ^'"'" 
 on board any British Ship, owned, navigated, and re- 
 gistered according to Law, which shall have arrived at 
 any Port or Place of Eitrope with Articles the Growth 
 or 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 Colo- 
 nies in North America or from any Part of the United 
 Kingdom. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2. 
 See Cork. 
 
 Fruit. 
 
 Oil. 
 
 Salt. 
 
 Wine. 
 
 S3 
 
262 
 
 I'ree Ports. 
 
 Fi 
 certain 
 
 Goveniors 
 Orders for the 
 Importation of 
 Articles into the 
 Island in Foreign 
 Vessels declared 
 valid. 
 
 Actton.s <iis- 
 chareed. 
 
 ^aint 3oWs (Antigua), 
 
 S»a<nt (Peorge (dPranaUa), 
 
 S)aint Zm Oamatta), 
 
 nw Ports (or tlic Importation and Exportation of 
 aiii Articles in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 Sec Free Pouts. 
 
 S)aillt JDOmfnga, See ^ Jamaica." 
 
 1. Whereas the Person acting as Governor of Saint 
 Lucia has found himself under the Necessity of openinjr 
 with the Advice of his Council, the Ports of the said 
 Island for a limited Time, for the Importation of certain 
 Articles necessary for the Supply of the said Island, inFc- 
 reign Bottoms, and in like Manner for the Exportation 
 ot certain Articles the Produce of the said Island in re- 
 turn tor the same : And whereas such Importation and 
 Exportation as aforesaid are contrary to 12 Car. 2. and 
 other Acts, but being permitted from the Necessity of 
 the Occasion, the same- ought to he justified and ^n- 
 dered val.d and of due Force in Law, and all Persons 
 advising or issuing any Order or Permission of the said 
 Governor, or Person acting as such, ought to be respec- 
 c.^vcly justified: Beit therefore enacted, That the said 
 uniers and Permissions be and be deemed valid accord- 
 ingly, and ot due Force in Law ; and that all personal 
 Actions and Suits, Indictments, Informations, and all 
 Prosecutions and Proceedings whatsoever, which have 
 been or shall be hereafter prosecuted or commenced 
 against any Person for having advised or issued or car- 
 
 n- ^^u^'r ''''""'" '^"y • "^'^ *^^''^'»' o*" Permission at any 
 lime bctore the passing of this Act, shall be discharged 
 and made void by virtue of this Act; and if any Actton 
 or &uit shall be prosecuted or commenced against any 
 1 erson lor or by reason of any such Act, Matter, or 
 ining so advised, commanded, or done, he may plead 
 *7,^'^".""^! .I««"C' a"<l give this Act and the special 
 Matter in Evidence ; and if the Plaintifl'in any Action or 
 feuit so to be prosccutc<l oi- comnionced in that Part of 
 the United Kingdom called England, or that Part called 
 Ireland, or in ilie .aid West India Islands, shall become 
 nonsuit, or forbear I'lnther Prosecution, or suffer Discon- 
 tinuance, or it a Verdict shall pass against such Plain- 
 
 6 iilT, 
 
Safnt 3Lutta. ^^^ 
 
 tifF, the Defendant shall recover his Double Costs, tor 
 which lie shall have the like Remedy as in Cases 
 where the Costs by Lavvr are given to the Defendants; 
 and if any such Action or Suit shall be commenced or 
 prosecuted in that Part of Great Britain called JScotland, 
 the Court befon which such Action or Suit shall be 
 con^-nenced or prosecuted shall allow to the Defender the 
 Benefit of the Discharge and Indenmity thereby provided, 
 and shall further allow him his Double Costs of Suit in 
 all such Cases. 58 Geo. 3. c. ?• § !• 
 
 2. If any Action or Suit hath been already commenced J^-'j^"f^*'j;;;;^J 
 against any Person for any such Act, Matter, or Thing so H^^^y Prceeed- ^ 
 advised, commanded, or done, the Defendants or De- ings and recover 
 fenders in such Actions or Suit respectively, in whatever Do-'We Csts. 
 Court in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
 Ireland, or in the said West India Islands, such Action 
 or Suit shall have- been commenced, may apply to 
 such Court to stay all Pi-oceedings tlfereon respectively, 
 by Motio;i in a.summary Way, and such Court is hereby 
 required to make Order for that Purpoa;^ accordingly ; 
 and the Court making such Order shall award to the 
 Defendants or Defenders respectively Double Costs ot 
 Suit, for which they shall respectively have the Ike Re- 
 medy as in Cases where the Costs are by Law given to 
 the Defendants or Defenders. 58 Geo. 3. c.7. § 2. 
 
 S)atnt tlincent. 
 
 The Port of Kingston one of the P>ec Ports for the A rre.Port. 
 Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in 
 Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 1. May be laden in any Part of Europe for Exporta- ';^^y^'^l'^J'' "' 
 tion direct to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, ^^rope for the 
 for the Use of the Fisheries, on board any British-built Fisheries. 
 Ship, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Law. 15 Car. 2. c.7. §6. 2 Geo. 3. c.21.. §7. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §31. 4 Geo. 3. c 19. -) 1. 48 Geo. 3. 
 c 22 5 1 
 * 2.'Tli;Produce of Europe South of Cape Finisterre SSSJ^ 
 may be laden in any Port or Place of Europe South ot j,, North Amc- 
 Cape Finisterre for Exportation direct to any of the Ports ^j-^"']'"-;-''^ 
 r g ^ hcrem- ^"® *^r<«i"'-« 
 
264 
 
 thereof St Places 
 ill Europe South 
 of C.ipe Finis- 
 terre, may im- 
 port from thence 
 Salt of Europe. 
 
 ^alt 
 
 Duty thereon. 
 
 On Exportation 
 fro:-.-i Novn 
 Scotia or New 
 Brunswick:, O.ith 
 to ''P ma )e fhat 
 t'.eCiTgo i- the 
 Prcduce cf ilic 
 Provin. .:-; or uf 
 the Britisli 
 fislieries, nnd 
 Certifitjite 
 thereof to be 
 produced. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 may be exported 
 from Canada 
 
 hereinafter 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 Shel- 
 burn in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince 
 Edward's Island, all in North America, on board any 
 British Ship, owned, navigated, and registered accord- 
 ing to Law, which shall have arrived at any such Port 
 or Place in 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 Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian 
 Corn, Rye, White Oak Staves, Heading dressed or un- 
 dressed. Pine Planks or Boards, from the Province of 
 Canada, whether such Goods are the Produce of Canada, 
 or shall have been brought into the said Province by 
 Land or Inland Navigation. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2. 
 
 3. Upon the Importation thereof into any of the said 
 Ports, the Salt shall be liable to such Duties as Goods of 
 the like Denomination are liable to upon being im- 
 ported into any of the said Ports from Great Britain. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. §3. 
 
 4. The Pei-son exporting a Cargo from any Port in 
 Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, for any such Part of 
 Europe South of Cape Finisterre, shall make Oath at 
 the Port of Shipment in those Provinces, before the 
 Chief Officer of the Customs, or Naval Officer in Com- 
 mand, that the Cargo so shipped is the Produce of the 
 said Provinces, or the Produce of the British Fisheries 
 in North America, bona fide taken and cured by His 
 Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said Fi eries from 
 some of the said Colonies; and such Officer of the Cus- 
 toms, or Naval Officer, shall certify such Oath under his 
 Hand; which Certificate shall be produced by the 
 Master on his Arr'.val 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 
 Cargo ; and the Master of such Ship shall make Oath 
 before the British Consul there, or if there shall be no 
 British Consul, then before Two known British Mer- 
 chants, that the Certificate so produced was the Certifi- 
 cate of the Officer whose Name it bears, and was duly 
 signed by him. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 4. 
 
 4. The Exporter of any Wheat, Flour, Peas, Beans, 
 Oats, Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, Wheat, Oak Staves 
 
 9 and 
 
fliid Heading, dressed or undressed, Hoops, Pine Plank, 
 and Boards from Canada, sliall 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 re- 
 quired 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 Ca- 
 nada, or brought into Canada conformably to the Regu- 
 lations established by Law in the said Province (if any) 
 by Land or Inland Navigation, from Countries border- 
 ing thereon : and which Certificate such Officer of the 
 Customs or Naval Officer is required to grant, upon satis- 
 factory Proof being made, upon Oath or otherwise j and 
 the Authenticity of such Certificate shall be sworn to in 
 Manner aforesaid, by the Master of such Ship at the 
 I'ort of Delivery in Europe. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 5. 
 
 5. Before the Shipment of any Pickled Fish or Dry 
 Fish for Exportation from Canada to any Port of Europe 
 within the Limits aforesaid, the Person in whose Posses- 
 sion 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, 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 taken at Quebec, the said Officer 
 of the Customs 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 Au- 
 thenticity of such Certificate in Manner aforesaid. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 6. 
 
 6. Any Ship or Goods subject to Forfeiture under 
 this Act shall be seized by any Officer of the Customs 
 in the said Colonies, or by the Commander of any of 
 His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War ; and the same 
 may be prosecuted, recovered, and divided in the same 
 Manner, and by the same Regulations, as far as appli- 
 cable, as any other Forfeiture imposed by any Act made 
 for the Security of the Revenue, or for the Regulation oi 
 Improvement thereof, or for the Regulation of Trade or 
 Navigation, and which were in force on the passing of 
 
 thi;« 
 
 265 
 
 without such 
 Oath, on pro- 
 ducing a Certifi- 
 cate of the 
 regular Importa- 
 tion by Land or 
 Inland Naviga- 
 tion. 
 
 Oath to be mad. 
 before shippini; 
 Pickled or Dry 
 l-'ish from 
 Canada, that it 
 is the Produci; of 
 the British 
 Fisheries, 
 
 By whom Shi| - 
 and Goods may 
 be seized and 
 prosecuted. 
 
May be laden on 
 boRrd American 
 Ships at tlic 
 Turks Islands. 
 
 Masters to make 
 Entry of tiie 
 Ship with the 
 principal Officer. 
 
 266 S»ait. 
 
 this Act, mny be prosecuted, recovered, and divided iu 
 any British Colony or Plantation in America. 51 Geo. y. 
 c. 97. § 7. 
 
 7. Any.yhip belonging to the Inhabitants of the said 
 United States of America, coming in Ballast, and not 
 otherwise, may enter the Ports of the Turks Islands, for 
 the Purpose olbeing there laden with Salt only. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. 6. §5. 
 
 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 Country she is built, how manned, 
 who was the Master during the Voyage, and who are 
 the Owners thereofj 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 ; and such Master shall truly answer upon Oath 
 to such Questions concerning the same as- shall be de- 
 manded of him by such Collector or other principal 
 Officer, and for any Default therein shall forfeit j£lOO. 
 28 Geo. 3. C.6. §6. 
 
 A Tonnage 9. There shall be collected, for the Use of His Ma- 
 
 Duty to be paid, jggty^ ji Tonnage Duty of 2s. 6d. Sterling, payable in 
 Dollars at the Kate of 5s. 6d. per Ounce, tor every Ton 
 Burthen of such Ship; and the Tonnage shall be ascer- 
 tsiined by Admeasurement made by such Officer as shall 
 be appointed for that Purpose by the Conjmissicmcrs of 
 the Customs in England, which Officer shall admeasure 
 such Ship according to the following Metlwd ; viz. 
 How ascertained. * 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 tlic 
 
 * Ship's extreme I^ength ; from which is to be de- 
 
 * ducted Three Inches for every Foot of the Load 
 
 * Draught of Water for the Rake abaft, and also 
 
 * 3-5ths of the Ship's Breadth for the Rake forward, 
 ' the remaining shall be esteemed the just Length of 
 « the Keel to find the Tomiage; and the Breadth 
 
 « shall 
 
I 
 
 ^alt 
 
 267 
 
 * 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 rnay be 
 
 * wrought upon the Side of the Ship ; then multiply 
 
 * the Length of the Keel for Tonnage by the 
 ' Breadth so takeri, and that Product by One-hiilf 
 ' the Breadth', and dividing by 91, the Quotient 
 
 * shall be deemed the true Contents of the Tonnage.' 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 7. 
 
 10. The Duty shall be paid to the Collector of the 
 Customs at the Port or Place wherein he shall be ap- 
 pointed to reside, before any Salt shall be laden, and 
 shall be under the Management of the Commissioners 
 of the Customs, and recovered in like Manner and 
 imder such Penalties and Forfeitures as any other Duties 
 now payable to His Majesty on Goods imported into 
 any of the Plantations or Territories belonging to or 
 under the Dominion of His Majesty in America or the 
 West Indies, 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. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. G. §8. 
 
 11. No Goods shall be exported from the said Islands 
 to any Part of His Majesty's Dominions inA'^ierica or 
 the West huHes, or laden on board any Ship for that 
 Purpose, except Salt ; and no Goods shall be exported 
 from the said Islands to Great Britain or Ireland, or 
 laden on board any Ship for that Purpose, except Salt, and 
 also except such Goods as may be by Law imported 
 into Gieat Britain or Ireland from all other Countries 
 free of Duties ; on the Forfeiture of such Goods as shall be 
 exported or laid on board contrary to this Act and the 
 Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 9. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. 
 Art. 6. 
 
 12. Any Foreign Ship described in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 may come in Ballast into any Port of the Bahama Islands 
 where there is a Custom House, and export Salt, sub- 
 ject to the Duty of Tonnage, and imder the Regulations 
 imposed by 28 Geo. 3. c. 6.-52 G^o. 3. (v99. § 1. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 IJ}. Any 
 
 Receipt and 
 ^Appropriation of 
 the Duty. 
 
 Only certain 
 A nicies alloweti 
 to be exported 
 from the Turks 
 Islands. 
 
 May be laden in 
 Foreign Ships at 
 the Bahama 
 Islands. 
 
268 
 
 i^alt. 
 
 May be exported 1 3. Ally British Ship, owned, navigated^ and registered 
 
 with ''"^Bmtd «ccord'"g t" l-aw, mny export from any Part of the 
 
 Bahama Islands any Quantity of Salt, without entering 
 
 into the Bond required by 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. — 52 Geo. 3. 
 
 c. 99. § 2. 
 
 See Goods, Non-enumerated. 
 14. Until 25th March 1819, any Ship belonging to 
 the United States of America, coming in Ballast and not 
 otherwise, may enter the Port of Nassau in New Provi- 
 dence, the Ports of Exuma and Crooked Island in the 
 Bahama Islands, for the Purpose of being there laden 
 with Salt, subject to the Rules, Regulations, and Re- 
 strictions of 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. respecting Ships coming 
 for the same Purjoose to Turk's Islands. 57 Geo. 3. 
 c. 42. § 1. 
 
 May be iadcn in 
 American Shiips 
 it) the Bahama 
 hlandi). 
 
 Free Ports. 
 
 S)an Josef. S)anta JLucea. 
 
 Free Ports for the Importation and Exportation of 
 certain Articles in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 Importation 
 nl lowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- 
 dencies 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 A Free Port. 
 
 S)atoannat) la fl^ar. 
 
 One of the Free Ports in the Island of Jamaica for the 
 Importation and Exportation of certaui Articles in Foreign 
 Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
1 . No Master of any Merchant Ship, which shall have 
 proceeded 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 Persons, 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 engaged at any such 
 Port or Place, unless the Governor, Chief Magistrate, 
 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 autho- 
 rize the same by Writing under his Hand ; and all Con- 
 tracts 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 other Gratuity or Advantage, to any Seaman, 
 Manner, or other Person so hired or engaged, than is 
 allowed by this Act, shall forfeit j£lOO. 37 Geo. 3. 
 c. Y3. § 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2. The Master of every Merchant Ship trading to 
 His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in the West 'In- 
 dies, 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 ThreeYears, for every 100 Tons, and so in proportion 
 for every 100 Tons according to the CertiiScate of Registry; 
 and the Indenture of every Apprentice shall be enrolled 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 Ap- 
 prentice shall be exempt from serving in His Majesty's 
 Navy for Three Years from the Date of the Indenture ; 
 and every Owner or Master neglecting to enrol the same 
 shall forfeit j^lO, One Moiety by the Owner and the 
 
 other 
 
 269 
 
 Mastars of Ships 
 not to hire 
 Seamen, in the 
 Weit Indies at 
 more than double 
 Wages, unlesiii 
 authorized by 
 the Governor. 
 
 Ships trading to 
 West Indies to 
 have an Ap- 
 prentice for every 
 100 Tons. 
 
270 
 
 ^tamtn. 
 
 37 Geo. S. V. 73. }4. 
 
 Ma:stera of luch 
 Ships out and 
 liume, within lo 
 Days after 
 Arrival,todclivcr 
 Lists of Crew. 
 
 other Moiety by the Master. 
 39 ik 40 Go<>. 3. c. 67. Art. (>. 
 
 3. The Master ot" such S\\\\y shall, within 10 Dayn 
 
 after \m Arrival out nt any Port in the said Colonies and 
 Plantations, and within 10 Days after their Arrival Home 
 at any Port in Great Britain or Ireland, deliver upon 
 Oath, to be made before the Collector or Coni})troller of 
 such Port, a true List and Description ot' all the Crew 
 orr board nt the Time of the clearing out from Great 
 Britiiin or Ireland, and of the Crew on board at the 
 Time of Arrival at any Port in the said Colonies or 
 Plantations, a'ul also a true List and Description of 
 every Person who has deserted or who hius died during 
 the Voyage, and also a true Account of the Wages due 
 to each Person so dying, at the Time of his Death ; and 
 every Master neglecting so to do shall forfeit ^50 ; and 
 for each List or Account so deliveretl, the Collector or 
 Comptroller shall be entitled to 2s. 6d. ; and any Per- 
 son may inspect such List, for which Inspection the Co- 
 lector or Comptroller shall be entitled to One Shilling. 
 37 Geo. 3. c. 73. § 5. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 4. No Seaman, Mariner, or other Person who shall, 
 within His Majesty's Colonies 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 ontitled to receive any greater Wages or Hire, or 
 other Gratuity or Advantage, on account of such Service, 
 than herdtn authorized. 37 Geo. 3. c. 73. § 6. 39 & 40 
 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 Not to extend to 5. But uot to extend to any Agreement which shall 
 mg'certiEtes ^? "^^^^^ ^^^^ *^"y Seaman, Mariner, or other Person 
 ot Discharge hired or engaged to serve on board any Merchant Ship 
 at any Port within His Majesty's Colonies or Planta- 
 tions 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 Presence 
 of one or more Witnesses, stating their Places of Abode, 
 certifying Uiat 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 shall forfeit j£20 ; nor to any Agree- 
 ment to be made witli any Person hired or engaged to 
 
 serve 
 
 Shall not be cr,- 
 titled to greater 
 Wages than 
 herein autho- 
 rized. 
 
 from Ships in 
 which they last 
 served, or if 
 hired tlixough 
 Necewity. 
 
m 
 
 serve on board any Merchaiil Ship, which through Ne- 
 ccHsity, or on account of very huzurdous Service or ox- 
 traorditmry Duty, require such Agreement to bo made 
 and more Wagt»« given, and otwhicli Necessity, Service, 
 or extraordiiuiry 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 tlie said Co- 
 lonien or Plantations; provided that sucli 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 shall he g'ven by any Master, or re- 
 ceiveti by any Seaman, Mariner, or other Person, except 
 in Cases of such Necessity, very hazardous Service, or 
 extraordinary Duty, than after the Rate of double the 
 Monthly Wages, or the Wages to be settled or directed 
 by any Governor, Chief Magistrate, Collector, or Comp- 
 troller as herein-before directed. 37 Geo. 3. c. 73. § 10. 
 6. The Articles to be entered into between the Mas- 
 ters, Seamen, and Mariners of such Merchant Ship, 
 shall be to the Effect mentioned in the Schedide annexed 
 to this Act.*. 37 Geo. 3. c. 73. § 1 1. 
 
 1. Any British-built Vessel, owned and navigated ac- 
 cording to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Subjects 
 of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Majesty, 
 may import Seeds into such Ports as shall be specially 
 appointed for that Purpose by His Majesty wjthin the 
 Provinces of Nova Scotia or New Binmswick ; provided 
 that Seeds sliall not be imported in Foreign Vessels, 
 unless of the Growth or Produce o*' the Country to which 
 the Vessel importing the same shall belong; and the 
 same may be re-exported, either to the United Kingdom 
 or any other of His Majesty's Possessions, in any British- 
 built Vessel, owned and navigated according to Law. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. ^1,2, S. 
 
 2. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, 
 may make such Rules and Regulations for the Importa- 
 tion and Exportation of Seeds at the said Ports, with 
 such Penalties and Forfeitures for the Breach thereof, as 
 shall seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, by and with 
 the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 271 
 
 Mny be im- 
 ported in Foreign 
 Ships into Ports 
 to l)e approved, 
 in Nova Scotia 
 or New Bruns- 
 wick : 
 
 under such 
 Rules and Regu- 
 lations as His 
 Majesty shall 
 think necessarv. 
 
 * The Form of the Articles is in the Appendix:. 
 
 3. This 
 
272 
 
 Limitation of 
 t)ie Act. 
 
 3. This Act shall continue in force during the Space 
 of Three Years from and after the riscing of the same*, 
 and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of tlie 
 then next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 officers may 
 enter Houses to 
 seize prohibited 
 and uncustomed 
 Goods. 
 
 I/- 
 
 On Adions 
 General Issue 
 may be pleaded, 
 and Treble Costs 
 allowed to 
 Defendants. 
 
 Who may seize 
 Sugar, Indigo, 
 and Wine landed 
 without a War- 
 rant, 
 
 1: Any Officer of the Customs, authorized by Writ of 
 Assistance under the superior or supreme Court of Justice 
 having Jurisdiction within the Colony or Plantation, may 
 take a Constable, Headborough, or other Public Officer 
 inhabiting near the Place, and in the Day-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 
 p . Dhibited or uncustomed Goods to His Majesty's Store- 
 house in the Port next to the Place where such Seizure 
 shall be made. 1 3 & 14 Car. 2. c. 1 1 . § 5. 7 & 8 W. 3. 
 c. 22. § 6. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 10. 
 
 2. If any Action or Suit shall be commenced against 
 any Person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, 
 the Defendant 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 discontinue his Action 
 after the Defendant shall have appeared, or if Judgment 
 shall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the 
 Plaintiff, the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs, and 
 have the like Remedy for the same as Defendants have in 
 other Cases by Law. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 1 1. 
 
 3. Sugar, Indigo, and Wine, landed in any of His 
 Majesty's Colonies or Plantations before due Entry and 
 Payment of the Duty, or without a Warrant for the 
 landing and delivering the same by the proper Officer, 
 may be seized by the Governor or Commander in Chief 
 of the Colony or Plantation where landed, or by any 
 Person authorized by such Governor or Commander in 
 Chief in that Behalf^ or by Warrant of any Justice of 
 the Peace, or other Magistrate, or by any Custoni- 
 
 Sth May 1818. 
 
 house, 
 
^ei3ure0. 
 
 2/3 
 
 ■f 
 J.- 
 
 Ju)iise, Impost, or Excise Officer, or any Person aiding 
 or assistinff him. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. §3. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §1.7. 
 
 4. Forteitures incurred in the British Colonies or 
 Plantations in America, under any Law relative to the 
 Trade or Revenue of the said Colonies or Plantations, 
 shall be prosecuted and recovered in any Court of 
 Record or of Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction in 
 the Colony or Plantation where the Cause of Prosecu- 
 tion arises; and in Cases where there shall happen to 
 be no such Courts, then in any Court of Record or of 
 Vice Admiralty havhig Jurisdiction in some British Co- 
 lony or Plantation near to that where the Cause of Pro- 
 secution arises ; provided that where a Seizure is made 
 in any other Colony than that where the Forfeiture 
 accrues, such Seizure may be prosecuted in any Court 
 of 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 Prosecutor ; and if there 
 are no such Courts in either of the last-mentioned Colo- 
 nies or Plantations, then in any Court of Record or of 
 Vice Admiralty having Jurisdiction in some British Colo- 
 ny or Plantation near to that where the Forfeiture accrues, 
 or to that where the Seizure is made, at the Election of 
 the Prosecutor. 49 Geo. 3. c. 107. § 1. 
 
 5. Prosecuted under the Authority of this Act, by 
 who msoev er made, shall be deposited in the Custody of 
 the~Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the 
 Port where made, or into which they shall be carried, 
 and shall be subject, in respect to the Charge, Care, Sale, 
 and Delivery thereof, to the Rules and Regulations of 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 40. and shall be deliverable on Security, 
 according to the Rules of 28 Geo. 3. c. 34. (See No. 10 
 to 13.) 49 Geo. 3. c. 107. §2. 
 
 6. No Person shall be admitted to enter a Claim to 
 any Ship or Goods seized and prosecuted in any of the 
 British Colonies or Plantations in America, until suffi- 
 cient Security be first given by Persons of known Abi- 
 lity, in the Ccfurt where such Seizure is prosecuted, in 
 .€60, to answer the Costs and Prosecutions; and in de- 
 fault of giving such Security, the Ship or Goods shall be 
 adjudged to be forfeited. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 44. 
 
 7. On Actions and Intbrmatlons brought or entered in 
 ihc British Plantations, upon anv Law concerning His 
 
 T ' Majes- 
 
 In what Courts 
 Forfeitures nre 
 to be prosecuted 
 and recovered. 
 
 To be deposited 
 in the Custody of 
 the Collector and 
 Comptroller of 
 tlie Customs. 
 
 Claimers to give 
 Security for 
 Costs, 
 
 On Informritions 
 cf Seizure, the 
 Jury to be 
 
74 
 
 Natives of Eng- 
 land or Ireland, 
 or of the Planta- 
 tions, and laid 
 ill any Colony. 
 
 In Cases of Dis- 
 pute the Proof to 
 be upon the 
 Claimer. 
 
 If a Verdict be 
 gi»en for the 
 Defendant, the 
 Judge may cer- 
 tify a probable 
 Cause of Seizure. 
 
 On Actions 
 against Officer 
 the Judge may 
 certify. 
 
 May be deli- 
 vered, on Secu- 
 rity for the 
 
 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 born in His Ma- 
 jesty's Plantations ; and upon all such Actions and In- 
 formations the OflFences may be laid or alleged in any 
 Colony, Province, County, Precinct, or Division of any 
 of the said Plantations where such Offences are alleged 
 to be committed, at the Pleasure of the Informer. 
 7&8W.3. C.22. § 11. 
 
 8. 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 
 bro^ht, in such Case the Proof thereof shall be upon 
 the Owner or Claimer, and not upon the Officer who 
 shall seize the same. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 45. 
 
 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 be tried shall certify on the Record or other Pro- 
 ceedings, that there was a probable Cause for seizing the 
 Ship or Goods j 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 of such Seizure ; and in case any 
 Action shall be commenced and brought to Trial against 
 any Person on account of the seizing any such Ship or 
 Goods, where no Information shall be commenced or 
 brought to Trial to condemn the same, and a Verdict or 
 ?:ntence shall be given upon such Action or Prosecution 
 against the Defendant, if the Court or Judge before whom 
 such Action or Prosecution may be brought shall 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 Da- 
 mages, nor to any Costs of Suit, nor shall the Defend- 
 ant be fined above One Shilling. 4 Geo, .?, c, 15= § 46. 
 
 10. In case any Goods shalfbe seized as forfeited in 
 pursuance of any Act relative to the Trade and Revenue 
 of the British Colonies and Plantations in America, the 
 
 10 Judge 
 
Judge of any Court having Jurisdiction to try and de- 
 termine such Seizure, may order the Delivery of such 
 Goods on sufficient Security, by Bond being given to 
 answer Double the Value in case of Condemnation ; 
 such Security to be good and sufficient, and to be taken 
 to the Use of His Majesty, by and in the Name of the 
 Collector of the Customs in whose Custody the Goods 
 may be lodged. 28 Geo. 3. c. 34-. § 7- 
 
 1 1 . The Collector and Comptroller of the Customs 
 shtil, previous to the Execution of the Bond, make 
 strict Inquiry into the Sufficiency of the Sureties pro- 
 posed ; 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, die 
 Bond shall be executed, and shall then be delivered to 
 and kept in the joint Custody of the said Collector and 
 Comptroller ; and in case the Goods for which such Secu- 
 rity shall be so taken shall be condemned, the Value 
 thereof shall be paid into the Hands of such Collector, 
 who -hall thereupon, with the Consent or Privity of 
 the Comptroller, cancel the Bond. 28 Geo. 3. c.34.. § 8. 
 
 12. But this Act shall not authorize the Delivery of 
 any Goods, except in Cases where the same shall be 
 perishable, or where the Informer 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 
 Circumstances will permit. 28 Geo, 3. c.34-. §9. 
 
 13. Goods and Ships which shall be seized in pur- 
 suance of any Act relative to the Trade and Revenue of 
 the British Colonies or Plantations, and which shall be 
 condenjned there, shall be sold by Public Auction to the 
 best Bidder at the Custom-house by the Collector and 
 Comptroller, or Principal Officer of the Customs for the 
 Island, Colony, or Plantation, in whose Custody such 
 Ships or Goods shall be secured ; and the Produce of 
 such Sale shall be accounted for and applied by such Col- 
 lector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer accord- 
 ing to Law, subject to the Directions of the Commis- 
 sioners of the Customs in England, or any Four of them. 
 
 26 Geo. 3. c. 40. § 33. 
 
 1 J ci,:*,., .,^i„^A ^-^A r^nnAamnoA in anv Colnnv. Plrtnt- 
 
 iT. uiii; 13 aciic»^ oiivi ^'-ji-j- ■►— ,• .• r — --_ 
 
 ation, or Iferritory belonging to His Majesty in America 
 
 T2 or 
 
 275 
 
 Value, bi Order 
 of the Judee. 
 
 Bond to be de- 
 livered to the 
 Collector and 
 Comptroller, 
 and the Value 
 paid to them. 
 
 To apply to 
 perishable Goods 
 only, or in Cases 
 of Delay. 
 
 Shall be sold by 
 the principal 
 Officer and ac- 
 counted for, sub- 
 ject to the Com- 
 missioners 
 Directions. 
 
 Ships condemned 
 (mt any illicit 
 
276 
 
 S)e<5ittes* 
 
 Trade, may be 
 broken up. 
 
 ■/■ 
 
 -*-■ 
 
 w in the West Indies, for any illicit Trade, the Commis- 
 sioners of the Customs in England may direct to be 
 broken up, and the Materials thereox" sold, and the Pro- 
 duce 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. 27 Geo. 3. 
 c. 32. § 12. 
 How Proceeds 15. Forfeitures recovered in America under this or 
 
 to be disposed of. .any former Act, shall be applied as follows ; that is to 
 say, after deducting the Charges of Prosecution from the 
 gross Produce thereof. One-third of the net Produce shall 
 be paid to the Collector at the Port where such For- 
 feitures shall be recovered, for the Use of His Majesty, 
 One-third to the Governor or Commander in Chief of the 
 Colony or Plantation, and the other One-third to the 
 Personjwl^ shalLsoize_ajid .sue for__the samej excepting 
 \ sucIfSeizures as shall be made by the Commanders or 
 
 Officers of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels cf War, duly 
 authorized to make Seizures, any where at Sea or upon 
 any River, and which shall not be actually made on 
 Shore wi'hin any British Colony or 'Plantation in Ame- 
 rica ; 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 Ma- 
 jesty, as to the other Moiety given to the Seizor or Pr'>- 
 secutor, as His Majesty shall think fit to direct by uiy 
 • Order of Council or Proclamation. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §42. 
 5 Geo. 3. c. 45. § 26. 
 
 16. If the Produce of any Seizure made in America 
 shall not be sufficient to answer the Expences of Con- 
 demnation and Sale, or if upon the Trial of any Seizure 
 of any Ship or Goods, a Verdict or Sentence shall be 
 given for the Claimant, the Charges attending the seizing 
 and prosecuting shall, with die Consent and Approbation 
 of any Four of the Commissioners of the Customs, be 
 paid out of any Branch of the Revenue arising in any of 
 the British Colonies or Plantations in America. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. § 43. 
 
 17. As to the Seizure, Prosecution, and Disposal ol 
 " aiaves," and the Bounties aiiowed to the Seizors under 
 
 6 the 
 
 Eitpences may in 
 certain Cases be 
 piid out of the 
 Revenue. 
 
 Under the Slave 
 Trade Adt*. 
 
the Acts for restraining and prohibiting the African Slave 
 Trade, See Slaves. 46 Geo. 3. c 72. 47 Geo. 3. 
 
 C.36. . , 
 
 18. The Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich 
 shall be entitled to all forfeited and unclaimed Shar-s of 
 and in the Proceeds which shall have arisen or shall 
 hereafter arise from all Seizures for Breach of the Re- 
 venue, Colonial, Navigation, and Slave Abolition Laws, 
 made by any of His Majesty's Ships; and the Agents for 
 the Payments or Distribution of such Proceeds shall be 
 subject to the same Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures 
 with respect to the unclaimed and forfeited Shares thereof, 
 and the transmitting of Accounts and Payment of Ba- 
 lances to the Royal Hospital, as Prize Agents were subject 
 to with respect to the Transmission of Accounts and Pay- 
 ment of Balances of Prize Money to the Royal Hospital 
 under 54 Geo. 3. c. 23—57 Geo. 3- c 127. § 6. 
 
 19. The Commissioners of the Customs in England, 
 or any Four of them, may order any Goods, Ships, 
 Boats, Horses, Cattle, or Carriages seized as forfeited 
 by any Officer, or any other Person, in pursuance of any 
 Act made for the Protection of Trade, the Benefit of 
 Commerce, or the encouraging and increasing of Ship- 
 ping and Navigation, or in pursuance of any other Act in 
 any respect relating to the Department of the Customs, 
 to be restored to the Proprietor, whether such Goods, 
 Ships^ Boats, Horses, Cattle, or Carriages shall have 
 been seized on the High Seas, or in any ot His Majesty's 
 Dominions, Colonies, Settlements, or Plantations, in case 
 Evidence shall be given to the Satisfaction of the said 
 Commissioners, that the Forfeiture arose without any 
 Design or Fraud in the Proprietor ; and also in case the 
 Seizure shall have been made in any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies, Settlements, or Plantations, or on the High 
 Seas, and it shall be made appear to the Satisfaction of 
 the Commissioners or any Four of them, that such Seizure 
 was occasioned by the Proprietor of such Goods, &c. 
 having 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. 51 Geo. 3. 
 
 c. 96. § 1. , „ . , 
 
 20= Where the said Commissioners shall exercise the 
 
 Powers vested in thein, and such Goods, &c, shall be re- 
 
 T 3 stored 
 
 m 
 
 Forfeited and 
 unclaimed Share* 
 to be paid to 
 Greenwicli 
 Hospital. 
 
 In certain Cases 
 may be restored, 
 by Order of the 
 Coiimissioners of 
 Customs i 
 
 and if the Pro- 
 prietuf shali 
 comply with 
 
 ^^■! 
 
278 
 
 the Term* pre 
 scribed by the 
 Commissioners, 
 neither the Offi- 
 cer nor Proprie- 
 tor sliall proceed. 
 
 May be restored, 
 or Forfeitures 
 remitted, by 
 Order of the 
 Lords of the 
 I'reasury. 
 
 But no Person 
 shall be entitled 
 to the Benefit of 
 such Order un- 
 less the Con- 
 ditions be com- 
 plied with. 
 
 Penalty on 
 Officers making 
 collusive 
 Seizures ; 
 
 ftei5ure«* 
 
 stored to the Proprietor on such Condition us under the 
 Circumstances of the Case shall appeal* to the Commis- 
 sioners to be reasonable, and the Proprietor shall comply 
 with the Terms prescribed, it shall not be L-vwful for the 
 Officer or any Person who shall have seized such Goods, 
 &c. or any other Person on his Behalf, to proceed for the 
 CoriJemnation ; out if such Proprietor shall not comply 
 with the Terms, such Officer or Person i^all be at Li- 
 berty to proceed as if this Law had not been made ; or if 
 such Proprietor accept the Terms, he shall not be entitled 
 to any Recompence or Damage on account of the Seizure, 
 or maintain any Action for the same. 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 96. § 2. 
 
 21. 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 
 Commodities whatever, seized as forfeited by virtue of any 
 Act 1 elating to the Revenue of Customs or Excise, or any 
 Act i )r the Regulation 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 Commissioners of His Majesty's 
 Treasury, or any Three of them, may mitigate or remit 
 any Forfeiture which shall have been incurred imder any 
 Law relating to His Majesty's Revenue of Customs or 
 Excise, or any Act relating to the Trade and Navigation 
 of this Kingdom. 54 Geo. 3. c.l71.§l. 
 
 22. In any Case where the said Commissioners of 
 His Majesty's Treasury shall exercise the Powers hereby 
 vested in them, such Goods or Commodities shall be re- 
 stored to the Proprietor or Proprietors, or such For- 
 feiture, or any Part thereof, shall be remitted, 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 Commissioners to be reasonable, 
 and as they the said Commissioners or any Three of 
 them shall think fit to direct ; and no Person shall be en- 
 titled to the Benefit of such Order, unless the Terms and 
 Conditions therein contained shaJl be complied with. 
 54 Geo. 3. c. 171. §2. 
 
 23. If any Officer of the Customs shall receive any 
 Bribe or Reward of any Kind, or connive at any false 
 Entry, or make any collusive Seizure or Agreement, or do 
 
 any 
 
S)e(3ure0. 
 
 279 
 
 any other Act by which His Majesty may be drfrauded, 
 or whereby any Goods prohibited shaU be suffered to 
 pass either inwards or outwards, or the Forfeitures and 
 Penalties inflicted by any Act relating to the Customs m 
 America may be evaded, every such Officer shall for- 
 feit £500y and be rendered incapable of serving His 
 Majesty in any Office or Employment, Civil or Military; 
 and if any Person shall give, oifFer or promise to give, 
 any Bribe or Reward to any Officer of the Customs, to 
 do, conceal, or connive at any Act whereby any ot the 
 Provisions relating to the Customs in America may be 
 evaded or broken, such Person shall (whether the Offer, 
 Proposal, or Promise be accepted or performed or not) 
 forfeit jg'SOO. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §38. 
 
 24. If any Officer of the Customs shall seize any JLast 
 India Goods, and by Fraud or Collusion shall desist from 
 or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, fie 
 shaU forfeit ^'500, and be incapable of holding any 
 Office or Employment under His Majesty. 7 Geo. 1. 
 
 c. 21. §9. _ . c xji 
 
 25. If any Officer of the Customs in any of His 
 Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, sliall 
 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 des.st 
 from or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, 
 he shall forfeit €50, and be incapable of holding any 
 Office under His Majesty. 6 Geo. 2. c. IS. § 3. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. §1.7. 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen^ SSm 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His fif/r 
 Maiesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in Amenca, or Gibraltar, 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations in North Amenca, in BntisfV 
 built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c 4. 
 
 and upon Offi- 
 cers delaying 
 the Prosecution 
 of East India 
 Goods; 
 
 or of Sugar, 
 Indigo, orWin« 
 landed without 
 a Warrant. 
 
 j^ettlerg. 
 
 1. If any Person being a Subject of the Territories ^'"3".' 
 
 - " • -J i^t^i^^ uVioll fnme> trnm thence ,•.■ .i .:. c : 
 
 ^ 4 together 
 
 belonging to 
 
 ^1- ^ TT_.»_, 
 
280 
 
 Jies, coming to 
 •ettle in the 
 JialMmas or in 
 llie Colonies of 
 Korth Americ.1, 
 may import 
 Houseiiold Fur- 
 niture, &c. 
 Duty-free, 
 
 Sale of such 
 House-hold Fut- 
 niture, &c. 
 
 Certain Persons 
 to take and sub- 
 scribe the Oath 
 of Allegiance. 
 
 Attttttsi, 
 
 logctKcr Willi his Family to any of the Bahama or Ber- 
 muda or Soi lers Islands, or to any Part of Quebec, Nova 
 bcotia, or any of the Territories belonging to His Ma- 
 jesty in North America, fbr the Purpose of residing and 
 settling there; any such Person obtaining a Licence from 
 the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Gover- 
 nor ot the said Islands, Colonies, or Provinces, may im- 
 port into the same in British Ships, owned and navigated 
 according to Law, any Household Furniture, Utensils of 
 Husbandry, or Clothing, free of Duty, not exceeding in 
 the whole the Value of Fifty Pounds for every White 
 Person that shall belong to such Family, and the Value 
 ol l^orty bhilhngs for every Negro brought by such White 
 Person; and if any Dispute shall arise as to the Value of 
 such Household Furniture, &c. the same shall be deter- 
 nuncd by the Arbitration of Three British Merchants at 
 the 1 ort where imported ; One of such British Merchants 
 to be appointed by the Governor, or in his Absence the 
 l^ieutenant Governor, Oneby the Collector of the Customs, 
 
 Zn o ^ c^^'''*'" '"^ "^"^""'"S ^'^^ ^'^ Family 
 30 Geo. 3. c. 27. § 1. "^ 
 
 2. All Bargains for the Sale of any Household Furni- 
 ture, &c. so imported, which shall be made within 
 Iwelve Calendar Months after the Importation of the 
 same (except in Cases of the Bankruptcy or Death of 
 the Owner thereof ) shall be void. 30 Geo. 3. c.27. §2. 
 
 3. Lvery White Person so coming to reside, if above 
 the Age ot Fourteen Years, shall immediately after the 
 Arrival take and subscribe the Oath of Alleigance to His 
 Majesty before the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or 
 Chief Magistrate at the Place where such Person shall 
 arrive and at the 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. 30 Geo. 3. 
 c.27. §3. 
 
 SJjeep* See '^Cattle. 
 
^I)ips;. 
 
 281 
 
 1. No, Ship Foreign-built (except condemned as The Privileges 
 Prize in any Court of Admiralty, or condemned as for- =""^ b*'-^'^"!^'?*^ 
 teited in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any or a British^ 
 Court of Admii'^alty or Vice Admiralty in any Part of owned Ship, to be 
 His Majesty's Dominions, for any Offence relating to the ^""fi"*^ «" ships 
 
 ** */ % *' ^ ncrcui mention - 
 
 Slave Trade), nor any Ship built or rebuilt upon any ed. 
 Foreign "made Keel or Bottom in the Manner heretofore 
 allowed, although owned by British Subjects and navi- 
 gated according to Law, shall be entitled to any of the 
 Privileges of a British-built or a British-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 1st of May 1786, did 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, Plantations, Islands, or Territories, 
 as the right Owners thereof, navigated according to Law, 
 and registered in manner hereinafter directed, from con- 
 tinuing to enjoy the Privileges they have hitherto enjoyed, 
 or from importing or exporting such Goods as may now be 
 legally imported or exported by such Ships into and from 
 such Places as arc now by I^aw allowed, and under such 
 Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as have heretofore 
 been made touching such Foreign-built Ships, and subject to 
 such Duties as have been imposed on any Goods imported 
 or exported as aforesaid in such Foreign-built Ships ; and 
 not to deprive any Ship which before the passing of this 
 Act hath been built or rebuilt upon any Foreign-made 
 Keel or Bottom, and which before the said 1st May 1786 
 was duly registered as a British Ship, from continuing to 
 enjoy any Privilege to which such Ship is now by any 
 Law or Usage entitled; nor to prevent any such Ship, which 
 shall have been begun to be repaired or rebuilt before the 
 said 1st May 1786, from being registered according to this 
 Act, by an Order under the Hands of the Commissioners 
 of the Customs in England, or any Four of them, or of 
 the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland or any 
 Three of them, which Order the said Commissioners are 
 empowered to grant, if it shall be made appear to their 
 
 .Soticf'.ir'f i/->»i !>>Ai-M« O'^tl^ ♦'■'nf '^n^'f' SlH'n "roc cfronn/>n 
 
 ^itvi'jxttv ll^*lJ3 t'l*\_*lt V'ttllJ, t-xxttv '-'iivi* r.-ai*** tt t.is» -jt.* i*««*^ — -'- 
 
 TT ws» -JV* 
 
 by 
 
■2if2 
 
 i^JDtD0. 
 
 British Ships 
 captured by the 
 Enemy, not to 
 have such Privi- 
 Uges; 
 
 by the Act of Providence, and not witii a fraudulent 
 Intent, and was at the Time of being so stranded the sole 
 Property of Foreigners, or that such Ship was a Droit of 
 Admiralty, and it be in like manner ascertained to the 
 Satistiiction of such Commissioners, that the said Ship, 
 from the Damage received by being so stranded, was 
 rendered um'^t to proceed to Sea, without undergoing 
 a thorough Repair in this Kingdom, and that she was 
 necessarily sold for the Benefit of the Foreign Owners, 
 or, being a Droit of Admiralty, wrs sold under the 
 Authority of an Order or Commission from the Court 
 of Admiralty, and that she was fairly and openly pur- 
 chased by a iiritish Subject, and being the sole Property 
 of such British Subject, that she hath been so much 
 repaired, that Two Thirds of her at least are of British- 
 built. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 1. 54 Geo. 3. c. 59. § 1. 
 
 2. No British-built Ship which has been captured by 
 the Enemy, and which shall not have been registered de 
 novo before 1st October 1788, nor any British-built Ship 
 which shall hereafter be captured by the Enemy, shall 
 be registered as a British Ship, or enjoy any of the 
 Privileges belonging to a British-built Ship ; but although 
 owned by a British Subject shall be deemed Foreign- 
 built. 48 Geo. 3. c. 70. 
 
 3. But every British-built Ship recaptured from the 
 Waf oJ Leiterf Enemy by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or by any 
 of Marque, or Ship having Letters of Marque and Reprisal, or by any 
 
 Ship of War belonging to any State in Alliance with 
 His Majesty, may be registered, and shall be deemed to 
 have the Privileges of a British-built Ship, the same as 
 if it had not been captured by the Enemy. 49 Geo. 3. 
 c. 41. 
 
 4. No Ship shall be deemed or taken to be British- 
 built, or enjoy the Privileges thereunto belonging, which 
 shall be rebuilt or repaired in any Foreign Port or 
 Place, if such Repairs shall exceed 15s. for every Ton 
 according to the Admeasurement thereof^ unless such 
 Repairs shall be necessary by reason of extraordinary 
 Damage sustained during the Absence of such Ship 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 Place of the said Dominions ; and before 
 
 such 
 
 unless recap- 
 
 by Ships in 
 Alliance. 
 
 Repaired abroad, 
 exceeding 15s. 
 per Ton, not to 
 be deemed 
 British, unless 
 necessary to 
 enable the Ship 
 to perform the 
 Voyage on which 
 engaged. 
 
&>W8. 
 
 ?93 
 
 such Ship shall be repaired so as to exceed the Sum 
 aforesaid, the Master shall report the State and Cbhdijtioii 
 thereof upon Oath, or (being a Quaker) upon Affir- 
 mation, to the British Consul or Chief British Officer, 
 rf there shall be such Consul or Officer at the Port 
 where it shall be necessary to repair such Ship, and 
 shall cause her to be surveyed by Two fit and proper 
 PersonI, to be approved of by such Consul or Chief 
 British Officer, and shall deliver to such Consul or Chief Particulars of 
 British Officer, in Writing, the Particulars of the Damage S^Lfned'tr be 
 sustained, and shall verify upon Oath, or being a Quaker delivered to the 
 ijpon Affirmation, (to be administered by such Consul ^"."'V'^^"''" 
 or Chief British Officer), the Particulars and Amount fnd'the NeJe's! 
 of the Repairs, and that the same were become neces- sity of the Re- 
 sary in consequence of Damage sustained during the [^^'^ '° ''^ "'" 
 Voyage to that Port, to enable such Ship to prosecute 
 the Voyage then intended, and to return to some Place 
 of His Majesty's Dominions, which the Consul or Chief 
 British Officer is 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 Place where 
 such Repairs may be necessary, then such Survey shall 
 be made by Two fit and proper Persons, to be approved 
 rtf by Two known British Merchants residing at or near 
 such Place ; and the Master shall produce to such Mer- 
 chants Vouchers of the Particulars and the Amount of 
 the Repairs, whose Certificate of the same shall be of 
 the like Force and Effect as that of the British Consul 
 or Chief British Officer; and in case any Ship shall 
 be repaired in any Foreign Place, the Master thereof 
 shall make Proof upon Oath, or (if a Quaker) by Affir- 
 mation, before the Collector or Comptroller or other 
 Principal Officer of the Customs in the Port of His 
 Majesty's Dominions where the said Ship may first arrive 
 (if required by them so to do, and which Oath or Affir- 
 mation 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 Expence shall appear to ex- 
 ceed 15s. for every Ton of the Admeasurement, 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 
 
284 
 
 Miipe, 
 
 the Vessel shall be deemed Foreign-built. 26 Geo. 3. 
 c. 60. § 2. 
 
 5. No Subject of His Mnjesty, whose usual Residence i» 
 in n Country not under the Dominion of His Majesty, 
 shall be entitled (during the Time he shall continue so 
 to reside) to be the Owner in Whole or in Port 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. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 8. 
 
 6. If any Ship after Registry siiall in any Manner be 
 altered in Form or Burthen by being lengthened or 
 built upon, or altered from a Sloop to a Brigantine, or 
 
 another, roust be from any one Denomination to another, by the Mode 
 registered de ^f rigging or fitting, such Ship shall be registered de 
 
 SuSjects residinc 
 in a Foreign 
 Country, not 
 entitled to be 
 Owners of 
 Brilioh Shipfi. 
 
 Altered in Form 
 or Burthen, or 
 from one De- 
 nomination to 
 
 novo. 
 
 novo, as soon as she returns to the Port to which she 
 belongs, or to any other Port in which she may legally 
 be registered, on Failure whereof such Ship shall bo 
 deemed Foreign. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 24. 
 Sales to 7. No Foreigner or other Person not being a natural- 
 
 Foreig..ers void, born Subject of His Majesty shall be entitled to, or shall 
 
 without the Con- i ^ ^ <• *^ t-. <^i /. 
 
 sent of the purchase or contract tor, any Part or Share of any 
 
 Owners of Three British Ship belonging only to the natural-born Subjects 
 Value.'''"' '" ^^ ^i^ Majesty, without first obtaining the Consent in 
 Writing of the Owners of Three fourth Parts in Value at 
 least of such Ship, to be endorsed on tlie Certificate of 
 the Register of such Ship before Two Witnesses; and 
 all Agreements, Contracts, Purchases, and Sales of any 
 Part or Share of any British Ship belonging only to 
 natural-born Subjects of His Majesty, made, contracted 
 for, or concluded by any such Foreigner or other Person 
 not being a natural-born Subject of His Majesty, without 
 such Consent endorsed as aforesaid, shall be null and 
 void. 13 Geo. 3. c. 26. § 1. 
 Upon the g. As often as any Transfer of Property in mvy -Sh^p 
 
 perty^inaShipat ^^^^^ ^^ made while sucli Ship is upon th ■ ,'0,!, on t 
 Sea, the Master Voyage to a Foreign Port, in case the Master is privy to 
 must proceed §^.1^ Transfer, or in case lie 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 Port for wliich the original Cargo was 
 
 destined. 
 
 directly to the 
 Port for which 
 tile Cargo is 
 destined, or 
 
 where she may 
 be registered. 
 
 
dt)<p0. 
 
 ilestincd, or other Port, being in the Course of her 
 Voyoge to the Port in which she maybe registered de novo, 
 such Cargo as may be legally carried to the Port where 
 «he may be regintered de novo; and it' such Transfer 
 shall be made whiie 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 Pqrt 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 lor 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 carried to such Port where she may be re- 
 gistered de novo; and if such Transfer shall be made 
 while such Ship is on a Fishing Voyage, and the Master 
 k privy to such Transfer, or in case he is not, as soon as 
 he shall becope 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 mey be 
 registered de novo, such Cargo as may be legally carried 
 to such Port ; and 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 registered ; 
 on Failure whereof such Ship shall be deemed Foreign, 
 and shall not again be registered, unless the Commis- 
 sioners of the Customs, or the Governor, Lieutenant 
 Governor, or Commander in Chief of Guernsey or 
 Jersey, or of any British Plantation, on Consideration 
 of the special Circumstances of the Case, think fit to 
 order the Ship to be registered ; provided that the 
 Regulations required by the Laws in force concerning the 
 first Registry of Ships shall be complied with ; and that 
 in no Case of tlic Transfer of Property, in whole or in 
 part, the Ship shall be registered de novo, unless she 
 shall return to the Port to which she belongs, or to such 
 Port in which she may be registered de novo, within 12 
 
 Months 
 
 285 
 
 I*- 
 
 .iM) 
 
 On Failure 
 whereof tlie 
 Ship is to be 
 deemed Forwgn, 
 and not again 
 registered ualtbs 
 by special Order. 
 
 '"^PW 
 
->86 
 
 ^^Ute, 
 
 Months after the Date of such Transfer, if such Ship 
 shall not be on a Voyage to the East of the Cape of 
 Good Hope, or to the WeRt of Cape Horn, or within 
 Two Years if on a Voyage to the East of the Cape ot 
 Good Hope, or to the West of Cape Horn, at the Time 
 of such Transfer taking place, except by Order of the 
 Commissioners, Governor, &c. upon special Represen- 
 tation of the Circumstances of the Case, in manner before 
 authorized. 34- Geo. 3. c. 68. § 22. 
 
 9. All Ships which by 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. are declared 
 not to be entitled to the Privileges of British-built or 
 British-owned Ships, and all Ships not registered ac- 
 cording to that Act, shall, although 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. 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 13. 
 
 10. No Ship coming to any Colony, Territory, or 
 Plaee to 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 authorized, the Arrival of 
 the Ship, with her Name and the Name of the Master, 
 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 vere laden; on Forfeiture of the Ship, and of 
 all Goods the Manufacture of Europe as were not laden 
 in Great Britain or Ireland. 15 Car. 2. c. 7. § 8. 
 3 & 4- Ann. c. 6. § 2. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 2. 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 1. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. 
 Art. 6. 
 
 Not to be deemed 11. No Ship required to be registered, and carrying 
 tuaijfied-to trade any Goods to oT from the British Plantations in America, 
 or to or from one Plantation to another, shall be per- 
 mitted 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 Plantation where he shall 
 arrive, ^ve a true Account of the Name and Burthen 
 thereof, and other Paiticuiaio, according to the Form 
 following ; videlicet, 
 
 ' A. B. 
 
 Nor registered 
 as directed by 
 26 Geo. 3. to be 
 deemed Alien 
 Ships. 
 
 Not to lade or 
 unlade until the 
 Arrival made 
 known to Gover- 
 nor, and Invoice 
 of Lading 
 delivered. 
 
 shall have made 
 Oath to Par- 
 ticulars herein 
 mentioned. 
 
or 
 
 %t)t))g« 
 
 287 
 
 ' 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 in- 
 
 * tended in and by the Certificate nov*^ produced by 
 ' him, and that the same does novi^, as he believes, 
 
 * belong wholly to His Majesty's Subjects, and that 
 
 * no Foreigner has, directly or indirectly, any Share, 
 ^ Property, or Interect therein, to his Knowledge or 
 
 * Belief.' 15 & 16 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 1. 
 
 12. And in case any Ship shall unload any Goods in 
 any of His Majesty's Plantations in America, before such 
 Proof shall be made, such Ship shall be forfeited and 
 prosecuted in like mapner as if she had not been re- 
 gistered. 15 & 16 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 1 
 
 13. The Master of every Ship arriving in any British 
 Colony or Plantation ii America shall, before he pro- 
 ceeds 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, Numbers, 
 Qualities, and Contents of every Parcel ol 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 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, and where ; and 
 the Master of every Ship going out frpm any British 
 Colony or Plantation in America, before he shall lade 
 any Goods to Ije 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 si tall 
 depart with such Ship, he shall also deliver unto the Col- 
 
 I _. . - 1 r^ ^_._ii_.. _..l „„:»»lw^»1 r\flR<>..« ^f tli^ 
 
 Customs at the Port or Place where he shall lade, a 
 Content in Writing under his Hand of the Name of 
 
 every 
 
 The Masters to 
 m«ke Entry of 
 the Ship with 
 the principal 
 Officers before 
 proceeding tc 
 the Place of 
 unloading ; 
 
 and before De - 
 parture, to de- 
 liver a Content : 
 
288 
 
 and whether 
 coining in or 
 going out, CO 
 answer Questions 
 upon Oatii. 
 
 None but Briiisli- 
 built, or con- 
 demned as Prize, 
 or under the 
 Slave Trade Acts, 
 nre to import or 
 export Goods 
 into or from the 
 Eritisli Colonies. 
 
 every Person who shall have laden any Goods, togethei* 
 with the Marks and Numbers ; and either comihg into or 
 goiiig*out of any British Colony or Plantation, whether 
 laden or in ballast, the Master shall publ'-ly 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, concerning such Ship and the Destination 
 of her Voyage, or oncerning any Goods laden on board, 
 upon Forfeiture of j£lOO Sterling Money of Great Bri- 
 tain 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. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 9. 
 
 14. No Goods shall be imported into or exported out 
 of any Colony or Plantation in America belonging to or 
 in the Possession 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 Ireland, in any Ship but what is of the 
 Built of Great Britain, Ireland, the Islands of Guernsey, 
 Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of the Colonies, Plant- 
 ations, or Territories in Asia, Africa, or America, belong- 
 ing 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 also except Ships con- 
 demned as forfeited in any Court of Record in Great 
 Britain, or in any Courtof Admiralty or Vice Admiralty, 
 for any OiFence relating to the Slave Trade ; such Ships 
 respectively being owned by British Subjects, navigated 
 and registered according to Law, on Forfeiture of all 
 Goods otherwise imported, as also the Ship ; and the 
 Commanders of Ships of War are to seize as Prize all 
 Ships offending, and to deliver them to the Court of 
 Admiralty. 12Car.2. c. 18. §1. 7&8W. 3. c.22. §2. 
 ^6 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 10. 27 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 13. 39&40 
 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 54 Geo. 3. c. 59. § 1. 
 
 For the Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and For- 
 feitures respecting {he Navigation and Registry of 
 British Ships, 
 
 e— VT..r — .», __ T> O 
 
 Registjiy of British Ships. 
 
 15. -j :S 
 
 a 
 
 (1.) Sln> 
 
S»|)<pS. 
 
 15-1 « 1- 
 
 Is. 
 
 a 
 
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 5| 
 
 All 
 
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 » 
 
 Ship.^ 
 
 (1) Ships belonging to any of the Inhabitants 
 of the United States of America from coming in 
 Ballast to the Turks Islands, Nassau, Exuma or 
 Crooked Island, for the Purpose of being there 
 laden with Salt. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 5, 6, 7. 
 
 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, Asses, Mules, Cattle, 
 Corn, Bullion, Diamonds, and Precious Stones, 
 Rice, Grain, Flour, Sugar, and CoflPee, from being 
 imported into and exported from the Free Ports 
 in the West Indies, in any T^'o reign 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 Europeart Sovereign 
 or State. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. 
 50 Geo. 3. c. 21. 52 Geo. 3. c 99. 54Geo.3. c. 48. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 (3,) Any Foreign Ship described in 45 Geo. 3. 
 c. 57. from coming 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 the Regulations of 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 
 — 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 
 
 See Salt. 
 
 Free Ports. 
 (4.) Sugar, CoiFee, Rum, or Molasses, the 
 Produce of any 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. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. §1. 
 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. 
 
 U (5.) To- 
 
 289 
 
 But Atnerican- 
 Ships may ex- 
 port Salt from 
 certain Islands. 
 
 Ships o\vn«d and 
 navigated by 
 Persons inhabit- 
 ing Colonies 
 under i'oreign 
 European Sove- 
 reigns, may im- 
 port and export 
 Articles into and 
 from the Free' 
 Ports ; 
 
 and ini[Virt and 
 export certain 
 Goods into tha 
 Bahamas. 
 
 Ships in Amity 
 may v'xport cer- 
 tain Articles 
 from Bermuda 
 to the United 
 States; 
 
290 
 
 and Tobacco, 
 &c. from the 
 United States 
 iiUo Bermuda : 
 
 S>i)fps. 
 
 aluo Fruit and 
 Veietjbles. 
 
 Dutch Ships may 
 import from 
 the Nether- 
 hnds, Sup- 
 plies for the 
 Esi-ites of Dutch 
 Pru;/rietors in 
 Guiiin^i; 
 
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 en 
 
 
 
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 00 
 
 C 
 
 01 
 
 bo 
 
 
 y 
 
 S- J 
 
 (5.) Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, 
 Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsjirits, Staves, Heading 
 Boards and Plank, Timber, Shingles, aiMlLumbei\ 
 Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and 
 Live Stock, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, 
 Potatoesj 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 Saint George or Hamilton, in the Island of 
 Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship belonging to any 
 State in Amity with His Majesty. 52 Geo. a. 
 c. 79. §2, 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. 
 
 (6.) Fruit or Vegetables the Growth of the 
 United States from being imported into the Ports 
 enumerated in 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. and 53 Geo. ?■,. 
 c. 50. in Ships of the Description mentioned in the 
 said Acts, under the like Authority, Restrictions, 
 Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, 
 therein provided. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 
 
 (7.) The usual and necessary Articles of Sup- 
 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 Ship being 
 the Property of Subjects of the King of the 
 Netherlands, wherever built, and without Restric- 
 tion or Limitation as to the Mariners navigating 
 the same, for the Space of Five Years, commenc- 
 ing from the 1st Day of January 1816 ; but the 
 Master of every such Ship shall produce to the 
 proper Officer 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 ; provided that the said King of the 
 Netherlands may, at any Time before the Expira- 
 tion of the said Five Years, direct that such Trade 
 shall be carried on only in such Ships ps 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, ex- 
 -cpc ui (cjiiipa JL/utwi-uuiii, uuu \vncrcoi uie Mas- 
 ter 
 
Hemp, 
 leading 
 
 ^umber. 
 
 try, and 
 
 Beans, 
 
 d Grain 
 
 f anv o!" 
 
 Liiit;ii(.a, 
 
 rritories 
 
 sland of 
 
 ; to any 
 
 Geo. i. 
 
 of the 
 
 e Ports 
 
 Geo. .S. 
 
 ?d in the 
 
 rictions, 
 
 feitures, 
 
 of Sup- 
 s in the 
 
 quibo in 
 
 •a, from 
 
 the said 
 
 p being 
 
 of the 
 
 Restric- 
 
 vigating 
 
 mmenc- 
 
 but the 
 
 i to the 
 
 3 in the 
 
 lid Ship 
 of tlie 
 
 T of the 
 
 Expira- 
 h Trade 
 
 ' Dutch - 
 
 Fourths 
 
 klajesty ; 
 of the 
 
 on, ex- 
 
 le Mat- 
 
 ter 
 
 
 ^btpS' 
 
 291 
 
 a. 
 
 
 '^ 
 
 k. 
 
 -U 
 
 a 
 
 ter and Three Fourths of the Crew are Subjects 
 of His said Majesty. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § S, 4. 6. 
 
 (8.) The Produce of the Estates of Dutch Pro- pf J"/i'„'^^ 
 prietors in tlie said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, Estates to the 
 or Essequibo in Guiana, from being exported from Netherlands. 
 the said Colonies to the Netherlantis, on board 
 such Ships as are described in the preceding 
 Article, No. 7. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 4. 6. 
 
 (9.) Scantling, Planks, Staves, Heading Boards, Ships of States 
 Shingles, Hoops, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, t^,flZ^ 
 Hogs, Poultry, and Live Stock of any Sort; ling, &c. into 
 Bread, Biscuit, P'lour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, ^""^ to be 
 Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any ZlTlLZ or 
 Sort; Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Fruits, Seeds, and New Brunewiikj 
 Tobacco ; from being imported into such Ports as 
 shall be specially appointed for that Purpose by 
 His Majesty within the Provinces of Nova Scotia 
 ► or New Brunswick, in any Vessel belonging to the 
 Subjects of any Sovereign or State in Amity with 
 His Majesty. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. §1. 
 
 See Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 
 (10.) Gypsum, Grindstones, or other Produce or ^i;"' export 
 Manufacture of the said Provinces of Nova Scotir. frnmX'said 
 or New Brunswick, and any Produce or Manu- Ports. 
 facture of the United Kingdom, or of His Ma- 
 jesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, 
 or any Goods which have been lawfully imported 
 into the said Provinces, from being exported from 
 such Ports as shall be specially appointed for that 
 Purpose by His Majesty within the said Provinces, 
 in any Vessel belonging to the Subjects of any So- 
 vereign or State in Amity with His Majesty to 
 which the said Articles shall be exported*. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 4-. 
 J See Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 
 
 16. No Ship shall be cleared Outwards for any Colony, Clearing out 
 Territory, or Place to His Majesty belonging, or in the Bririn or*ire. 
 Possession or under the Dominion of His Majesty in hnd^ the whole 
 America, unless the whole and entire Cargo of such Cargo must be 
 Vessel shall be laden in Great Britain or Ireland ; and fr'!;!f "' ""'* 
 any Officer oi the Customs may stop any British Ship clearance 
 
 t produced. 
 
 * The Act 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. is to continue in force for Three 
 Years from Sth May J 818, and until Six Weeks after the Com- 
 mencement of the then next Session of Parliament. 
 
 y.i 
 
 
 bo 
 
 ft 
 
 
 Ur2 
 
 arrivmg 
 
S92 
 
 &i)ip0. 
 
 Counterfeiting, 
 &c. the Docu- 
 ments, or using 
 the same. 
 
 arriving from any Part of Europe, which shall be disco- 
 vered within Two Leagues of the Shore of any of the 
 Colonics, &c. and seize any Goods (except as herein- 
 after mentioned) for which the Ma'ter shall not produce 
 a Cocket or Clearance li om the Collector or proper Of- 
 ficer of His Majesty's Customs in some Part of Great 
 Britain or Ireland, certifying that the said Goods were 
 there laden. 4 Geo, 3. c. 15. §30. 20 Geo. 3» c. 10. §15. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 1 7. Any Person who shall counterfeit, alter, or falsify 
 any Cocket or Clearance re<juired by this Act, or shall 
 knowingly or wilfully make use of any Cocket or Clear- 
 ance so counterfeited, &c. shall for every such Offence 
 forfeit jf 500, and the same shall be of no effect. 4? G e o 3 
 c. 15. § 32. 
 
 Not to prevent 
 ths loading of 
 Salt, Wine, 
 Oranges or 
 Lemons at cer- 
 tain Places herein 
 mentioned. 
 
 r 1 
 
 18. 
 
 Certain Articles 
 for tlu' Fisheries 
 and Herrings, 
 from Guern- 
 sey, Jersey, and 
 Man. 
 
 Fruit, Wine, 
 OiI»Salt, or 
 Cork from Parts 
 of Europe South 
 of Cape Finis- 
 terre, in Ships 
 arriving from 
 the Coloniei: 
 
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 C 
 
 
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 a 
 I' 
 
 O 
 S 
 
 Ho 
 
 (1.) Salt laden in Europe 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 in the 
 Madeh'as of the Growth thereof; Wines of the 
 Growth of the Western Islands or Azores, and 
 laden there ; Oranges or Lemons of the Azores or 
 Madeiras, shipped from thence for Exportation 
 direct to any of the Ports iu the British Colonies 
 in North America, in British-built Ships, owned, 
 navigated, and registered according to Law. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 31. 4 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 1. 
 48 Geo. 3. c. 22. § 1. 57 Geo.3. c. 89. § 1. 
 (2.) Goods, the Growth, Produce, or Manufac- 
 ^ture of Great Britain, Ireland, Guernsey, or Jersey, 
 iit and necessary for the Fisheries carried on in any 
 of the British Colonies, shipped by the Inhabitants 
 of Guernsey or Jeisey; Tools or Implements ne^ 
 cessary for the Fishery manufactured in the Isle 
 of Man, or Herrings cured there, and shipped 
 from the said Isle. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28 . § 1 . 12 Geo. 3. 
 c. 31. §5. 12 Geo. 3. c. 58. §4. 
 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, 
 
 " '' ...*- .g^.,.. ..... ,,^_.. gt^.-..L«V-* •-^'■^^ ^ --' 
 
 Law, which shaU kave arrived at any such Part of 
 
 Europe 
 
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 H 
 
 \sA 
 
 V 
 
S)I)tpgi 
 
 293 
 
 r 
 
 isA 
 
 
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 •2 
 
 5? 
 4> 
 
 o 
 
 9J 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 
 Europe wi*h the Articles emimeratecl in this Act. 
 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. 
 
 See Cork. 
 
 Fruit. 
 
 Oil. 
 
 Salt. 
 
 Wine. 
 (4.) Corn or Grain laden in any Part of Europe 
 to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, for Ex- 
 portation to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colo- 
 nies, on board any Ship having landed a Cargo of 
 Sugar, Coffee, or Cocoa imported from the said 
 Sugar Colonies under the Regulations of this Act. . 
 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. 
 
 See Corn and 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 
 Netherlands by the Subjects of the King of the 
 Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors in such 
 Colonies respectively. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 4. 
 See Demerara. 
 (6.) Articles enumerated in the following Sche- 
 dule, shipped at Malta or the Dependencies 
 thereof, or at Gibraltar, on board any British- 
 built Ship, owned, navigated, and registered ac- 
 cording to Law, for Exportation direct to any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in Ame- 
 rica, Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9- 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1, 
 Sec Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 SCHEDULE B. 
 
 also Corn and 
 Grain from such 
 Pnrtsof Europ». 
 
 Supplies for the 
 Estates of Dutch 
 Proprietors in 
 Guiana from the 
 Netherlands. 
 
 Certain Articks 
 from Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 i i 
 
 Dry and Wet "1 In Jars 
 Fruit, in Bran- > & 
 
 ,1- Q, C? I TJ^.4l„- 
 
 Pickles in Ditto. 
 Olives. 
 
 U3 
 
 Figs. 
 
 Raisins. 
 r* „<-« 
 
 Pistaccio Nuts* 
 Almonds. 
 
 Dtates. 
 
294 
 
 ^iOpe. 
 
 ^^M 
 
 
 1 Dates. 
 
 Safflower. 
 
 ■ 
 
 ^^1 
 
 
 u 
 
 Capers. 
 
 Musk. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 S 
 
 a 
 
 L 
 
 Wine. 
 
 Incense. 
 
 ■ 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 Brandy. 
 
 Essence of Bergamot. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 
 Oil of Olives. 
 
 Do. of Citron. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^B 
 
 1 
 
 Oil of Almonds. 
 
 Do. of Lemon. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 5 
 
 Gum Arabic. 
 
 Do. of Orange. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^1 
 
 
 Mastic. 
 
 Do. of Lavender. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^1 
 
 R 
 Q 
 
 Myrrh. 
 
 Do. of Roses. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 Sicily. 
 
 Do. of Rosemary. 
 
 H 
 
 ^B 
 
 ^ 
 
 Ammoniac. 
 
 Marble, \ Rough & 
 Alabaster, J Worked. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^B 
 
 <*4 
 
 Opium. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 Manna. 
 
 Brimstone. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 Senna. 
 
 Cork. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 4^ 
 
 .2 
 
 Cantharides. 
 
 Aniseed. 
 
 ■ 
 
 ^^H 
 
 ■ 
 
 Oris Root. 
 
 Cumminseed. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 
 P»4 
 
 Rhubarb. 
 
 Ostrich Feathers. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 i 
 
 Mill Timber. 
 
 Honey. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 Box Wood. 
 
 Sponges. 
 
 H 
 
 ^H 
 
 ^ 
 
 Argol. 
 ' Vermilion. 
 
 Amber. 
 
 ^1 
 
 43 
 
 Coral. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 ^ 
 
 Ochres. 
 
 Bullion. 
 
 H 
 
 ^H 
 
 
 Cinnabari 
 
 Precious Stqnes. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 
 Orange Buds and Peel. 
 
 Pearls. 
 
 j| 
 
 ^^m 
 
 
 Juniper Berries. 
 
 Corn. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^H 
 
 .5 
 
 Punk. 
 
 Grain. 
 
 H 
 
 ^^1 
 
 % 
 
 Pumice Stone. 
 
 Meal or Flour. 
 
 PV 
 
 ^^H 
 
 •W 
 
 Emery Stone. 
 
 Beans. 
 
 
 ^^H 
 
 f^ 
 
 Whetstone. 
 
 Peas. 
 
 ,'. 
 
 ^^H 
 
 c 
 
 Paintings and Prints. 
 
 Lentils. 
 
 1 '- 
 
 ^^H 
 
 ci 
 
 Mosaic Works. 
 
 Rice. 
 
 Ij 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 
 Medals. 
 
 Maccaroni or Vermi- 
 
 M 
 
 ^^1 
 
 ^f 
 
 Lava and Malta Stone 
 
 celli. 
 
 fi 
 
 ^^1 
 
 
 for building. 
 
 Cascasoo. 
 
 1 
 
 ^^H 
 
 ^ 
 
 Pczzolana. 
 
 Parmesan Cheese. 
 
 1 
 
 ^^1 
 
 •«** 
 
 -^ 
 
 Jalop. 
 
 Bologna and other 
 
 1 
 
 ^^1 
 
 
 
 Scammony. 
 
 Sausages. 
 
 1 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 Quicksilver. 
 
 Anchovies. 
 
 1 
 
 ^^1 
 
 O) 
 
 Sarsaparilla. 
 
 Caviar. 
 
 1 
 
 ^^H 
 
 
 Saffron. 
 
 Botarera. 
 
 1 
 
 ^^H Of 50 Tons or 
 
 19. Where any Vessel of the Bur3ien of Fifty Tens 
 
 X 
 
 ^^H| under, laden with qi 
 ^^^H Lustomahle or 1 
 ^^H prohibited Goods, .' 
 
 • under, laden with customable or prohibited Goodt^, 
 
 
 all be found hovering within the Limits of any Port on 
 
 
 HHH hovering within ttl 
 
 e Coasts of any of the Uominions or Territories belonji- 
 
 
 ^H 
 
 the Limits ol the jj) 
 
 gto 
 
 the Crown of Great Brit 
 
 ain, and not proceed in;^- 
 
 ; 
 
 ed. 
 
 on 
 
S)|)tpS> 
 
 on her Voyage for Foreign Parts, Wind and Weather 
 permitting, any Officer 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 soon as Wind and 
 Weather and her State and Condition shall permit) shall 
 proceed regularly on the Voyage, and land such Foreign 
 Goods at some Foi'eign Port or Ports ; and if such Mas- 
 ter shall upon Demand refuse to enter into such Bond, or 
 having entered into the same shall not depart or proceed 
 regularly on such Voyage (as soon as Wind and Weather 
 and the State and Condition of the Vessel shall permit) 
 unless suffered 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 Direction of the Collector or other princr- 
 pal Officer, be brought on Shore and secured ; and in 
 case the Goods are customable, the Duties shall be paid, 
 and any prohibited Goods, or other Goods liable to 
 Forfeiture, which may be found on board, shall be for- 
 feited, and the Officers 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 
 Bond 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 Mer- 
 chants upon the Place, that such Goods were there land- 
 ed, or upon Proof by credible Persons that such Goods 
 were taken by Enemies or perished in the Seas (the Exa- 
 mination and Proof thereof being left to the Judgment 
 of the Commissioners of Customs), shall be vacat jd and 
 discharged. 5 Geo. 1. c. 1 1. § 6. 3 Geo. 3. c. 22. 
 
 20. If any Foreign Ship shall be found at Anchor, or 
 hovering within Two Leagues of the Shore of any Co- 
 lony, Territory, or Place in the Possession of 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 of such Ship shall be required so to do by any 
 
 Offi''*"'" f^i' Mi« IVTnipufu'e Cucfnmc /iinlpee in nacA nf nji" 
 
 unavoidable Necessity and Distress of Weather), such 
 Ship, with all the Goods therein laden, shall be forfeited^ 
 
 U 4 whether 
 
 295 
 
 Ports anil not 
 proceediiif; on the 
 Voyaje, 
 
 Foreign Ships 
 hovering within 
 Two Leagues of 
 the Shore, anJ 
 not departing 
 within 48 Hours 
 after being re- 
 quired so to do. 
 
296 
 
 S)Dtp)S. 
 
 Not to extend to 
 French Ships on 
 certain Pa;-ts of 
 Newfoundland. 
 
 In the Slave 
 Trade, not to be 
 cleared out in 
 any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Do- 
 4n:nions. 
 
 Goods may in 
 certain Cases be 
 brjught on Shore 
 to he deposited in 
 the V arehouse. 
 
 Officers in.iy 
 remnin on 
 board. 
 
 » Penalty on alter- 
 ing pKckages and 
 «mi)ezziing 
 Goods. 
 
 after Clearing, 
 
 whether Bulk shall have been broken or not, and may be 
 seized and prosecuted by any Officer of His Majesty's 
 Customs. 1' Geo. 3. c. 15. §33. 
 
 21. But not to extend to any Ship belonging to the 
 Subjects of the French King, which shall be found fish- 
 ing and not carrying on any illicit Trade on that Part ef 
 the Island of Newfoundland, which stretches from Cape 
 Bonavista to the Northern Part of the Island, and from 
 thence running down to the Western Side as far as Point 
 Ilichc. 4. Geo. 3. c. 15. §34. 
 
 22. No Ship sliall be fitted out in any Part of His 
 Majesty's Dominions for the Purpose of being, employed 
 on the African Slave Trade, or in any of the Tratlino- 
 or Concerns proliibited and declared to be unlawful by 
 these Acts, or to take on board any (ioods to be carried 
 to Africa, to be there bartered for Slaves. 46 Geo. 3. 
 c. 52. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. 
 
 See Slaves. 
 
 23. The Officers of the Customs and their Deputies may 
 go aboard, as well Ships of War as Merchant Ships, and 
 from thence bring on Shore all Goods prohibited or uncus- 
 tomed, except Jewels, if they be outward-bound ; and if 
 they be Ships inward-bound, may bring on Shore into His 
 Majesty's Storehouse all small Parcels of Goods which shall 
 be found in Cabins, Chests, Trunks, or other Small Pack- 
 ages, or in any private or secret Place, in or out of theHold, 
 which may occasion a just Suspicion that they were inten- 
 ded to be fraudulently conveyed away, and all other Sorts 
 of Goods for which the Duties were not paid within Twenty 
 Days after the first Entry of the Ship, to remain in the 
 Storehouse 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 Chaige in any Ship, or any 
 other Person, shall suffer any Truss, Bale,>ack, Fardel, 
 Cask, or other Package to be opened on board the 
 Ship, and the Goods 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, Boatswain, or other Person, 
 shall forfeit ^100. 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 11. & 4. 
 7&8 W.3. c. 22. § 6. 
 
 24. In case after the clearing of any Ship and dis- 
 charging the Watchmen or Tidcmen from Attendance 
 ^ there- 
 
 in 
 
^l)tp&. 
 
 29? 
 
 thereupon, there shall be found on board any Good* 
 which have been concealed from the Knowledge of the 
 Officers, and for which the Duties due upon jlie Impor- 
 tation thereof have not been paid, the Master shall 
 forfeit d'lOO. 1 3 & 14 Car. 2. c. 1 1. § 5. 7 & 8 W. 3 . 
 c. 22. § 6. 
 
 25. All Goods which shall be foimd concealed in any 
 Place on board any such 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 com- 
 prized 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 any- 
 wise consenting or privy to such Fraud or Concealment) 
 shall forfeit treble the Value of the Goods so found. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 36. 
 
 26. No Goods shall be laden on board any Ship in 
 any of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, to 
 be carried from thence to any other British Colony or 
 Plantation, without a Sufferance 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 Cocket expressing the 
 Quantity and Quality of the Goods, and Marks of the 
 Packages so laden, with the Merchants Names by whom 
 •shipped, and to wiiom consigned ; and if they are Goods 
 liable to Duty upon Importation into or Exportation from 
 the said Colonies or Plantations, the Cocket shall dis- 
 tincdy specify that the Duties have been paid for the 
 •^ame, reterring to the Times or Dates of Entry, and Pay- 
 ment of Duties, and by whom they were paid; which 
 Cocket shall be produced by the Master to the Collector 
 or other principal Officer of the Customs at the Port or 
 Place wliei'c the Ship shall arrive, in any of the British 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, before any Part of 
 the Goods are unladen; and if any Goods shall be 
 shipped without such Suffijrance, or the Ship shall de- 
 part and proceed on her Voyage without such Cocket, 
 or the Goods shall be landed before such Cocket is pro- 
 duced at tlic Port or Place of Discharge, or if the Goods 
 tlo not agree in all respects therewith, they shall be 
 fovfoitcd ; and anv Officer of the Customs may ston anv 
 ^nch Ship which shall be discovered within Two Leagues 
 '>f the Shore of any of the British Colonies or Planta- 
 tions 
 
 Found concealed 
 after the Master 
 has mnde his 
 Report, and not 
 included therein. 
 
 No Goods to be 
 laJen for another 
 British Colony 
 without a 
 Sufferance, and 
 a Cocket to bo 
 taken out ; 
 
 to be i>roducev-< 
 at the Port of 
 Arrival. 
 
 Ships within 
 Tr.u Leagues oi 
 the Shore may 
 be detained, if 
 Cockets not 
 produced. 
 
298 
 
 d>Dtp& 
 
 Documt'iiu not 
 required iu cer- 
 tain Caster. 
 
 Ccumtcifeiting 
 Documents, or 
 uiing the same. 
 
 Mastc^h to take 
 Certificates of 
 laving glvtn 
 Lond, which are 
 111 be delivered 
 up at the Port of 
 Arrival, 
 
 Within Two 
 Leagues of the 
 Shore not pro- 
 ducing such 
 Certificate. 
 
 GootU which shall bo» 
 no such Cocket shall be \)n}- 
 
 tions ill Anjcrica, niul seize all 
 
 found on boarti lor which 
 
 tluced to Irim. 4- Ceo. 3. c. 15. §29. 
 
 27. Not to require any Sufferance or Cocket for any 
 Goods the Product or Manufacture of the British Colonies 
 or Plantulions in America, which are not by any Act of 
 Parliament made in Great Britain liable to Duty upon 
 the Importation into or Exportation from the said 
 Colonics or Plantations, and are not prohibited to be 
 exported from thence, and which shall be laden hi any 
 Boat, Flat, Shallop, or other Vessel without a Deck, not 
 exceeding Twenty 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 One League from the Shore. 5 Geo. 3. 
 c. 45. § 25. 
 
 28. Any Person who shall counterfeit, alter, erase, or 
 falsity any Affidavit, Certificate, Sufferance, Cocket, or 
 Clearance required by this Act, or shall knowingly or 
 wilfully make use of the same, shall forfeit .^100, and 
 such Affidavit, &c. shall be invalid and of no Effect. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 32. 
 
 29. Every Master 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 they are to grant without Fee or 
 Reward), that Bond hath been given pursuant to the 
 Directions of these or any other Acts of Parliament, 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 of the Customs at the 
 Port or Place where he shall discharge his Lading hi 
 Great Britain, Ireland, or any British American Colony 
 or Plantation, on Forfeiture of .i 100 for every Offence, 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §24. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1- 3. 39 & 
 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 30. If any British Ship laden with any Goods of the 
 Produce or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plan- 
 tation in America^ shall be discovered by any Officer of 
 His Majesty's Customs within Two Leagues of the Shore 
 of anv British Colony or Plantation in America, and the 
 Master of such Vessel shall not produce a Certificate that 
 Bond ha* been given for the Landing such Goods in 
 
 T Great 
 
 i 
 
 V 
 
&l)ip«» 
 
 299 
 
 Great Britain or Ireland, or some other British Planta- 
 tion^ or il" he shall not prcKluce such Certificate to the 
 Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs whera 
 he shall an ive in Great Britain or Ireland, or any 
 British Colony or Plantation, such Ship and all the Goods 
 'herein laden shall be lorreited. 4 Geo. S. c. 15. § 25. 
 20 Geo. 3. c. 1 0. § 1 . 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67 Art. 6. 
 31. Every Ship built in His Majesty's Plantations in Upon firtt 
 
 America shall, upon her first settinir out or bcini: first f "'"b ""'v'" •>= 
 ^^„:^ k„,i * o I £• • 1 1 • 1 " ,• ,, . ^ , furiusncd with » 
 
 •i^avigateci at Sea, be furnished with one lull ant! complete new Set of Sail*, 
 
 Set of new Sails, made up of Sail Cloth manufactured in 
 Great Britain or Ireland ; and »f 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 Ire- 
 land, the Master sliall forfeit £50. 9 Geo. 2. c 37. § 4. 
 19 Geo. 2. c. 27. § II. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 S)l)tp0 (Stranded.)* 
 
 I. Upon Application by or on Behalf of the Com- Penons who ar,- 
 mander of any Ship stranded, or being in Danger of '■«'i"''^«'' 'o "iii- 
 stranding, the Sheriffs or their Deputies, .Justices of the "ioJ^'f^shljr*' 
 Peace, Mayors, Bailifis, or other Head Officers of Corpo- branded oi in 
 rations and Port 'I'owns, Constables, i leadboroufrhs. '^•"^^^^.'^^ 
 
 Tythingmen, Officers of the Customs or Excise, Coroners, 
 and Commissioners of the Land Tax, are required to 
 ••ommand the Constables of the several Ports nearest the 
 
 stranding. 
 
 *^By an Opinion of the Law Officers of the Crvwn in June 
 \7 67, it is considered that the^e Lawsregari/big « Ships stranded, 
 ' extend to and are in force in His Majesti/s Colmiies and Planta- 
 ' tionsin America; as the Title of the Jet 12 Auu. stA. c. 18. 
 
 • expressly imports the same to he an Act fur preserving Ships 
 
 • and Goods forced on Shore or stranded on the Coast of Her 
 
 • Majesty's Dominions, and the enacting Part has Words ex- 
 
 • tending 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 Jar the Clauses of the Jet of Ann. and of the other Acts 
 altering and amending the same, here inserted, can be carried into 
 Execution in the British Colonies and Plantaiwns, will depend upon 
 the Nature of the public Establishments at the Colony or Planta- 
 
 tlOH 1l)hp.rt> n Sihin nr Cinnrle innti U/, c*r""'li"1 ■" - •>-."-...<.;-'- - cl'. 
 
 may he in Distress or in danger of stranding, or where any Offence* 
 
 'Hay be committed. 
 
 Place 
 
300 
 
 Jiiflliccs may 
 take the Power 
 of the Cininly ; 
 and if Persons 
 are ais.iuheil, the 
 Oftendv-T to hi 
 traospoirtd. 
 
 Who are to give 
 Orders to the 
 Persons as- 
 sembled to save 
 Ships or Good5. 
 
 Persons emerliig 
 the Ship withoLiL 
 Leave, hinder- 
 iiig the saving of 
 the Ship or 
 
 §)I)tpS (Stranded). 
 
 Place where such Ship shall be iu Danger, to summon 
 Persons to assist in preserving such Ship and Cargo : 
 and the OiHccrs of the Customs and Constables may 
 command Ships riding at an Anchor near tlic Place to 
 assist by their Boats, and as many Hands as they can 
 conveniently spare ; and if any Connnander shall refuse 
 or neglect to assist, he shall forfeit £lOO to the Com- 
 mander of the Ship in Distress, together with Costs of 
 Suit. 12 Ann. st. 2. c. 18. § 1. 4> Geo. 1. c. V2, § 1. 
 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. §9. 
 
 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 repel all unjust Violence, and to 
 enforce the Execution of this Act ; and if any Person 
 (lawdhlly 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 Oflender, upon Conviction at 
 the Assizes at the General or Quarter Sessions for the 
 County where the Offence is committed, shall be trans- 
 ported for Seven Years. 2fi Geo. 2. c. 19. § 11, 1'2. 
 
 3. Persons assembled to save any Ship, Goods, or 
 Effects, shall conform, in the first Place, to the Orders 
 of the Master or other Officers, or Owners, or Persons 
 employed by them ; and for want of their Presence or 
 Directions, then to the Orders of tlie Persons authorize*!, 
 in the following Subordination ; viz. in the first Place, to 
 the Orders of Officers of the Customs ; then of the Offi- 
 cers of Excise : then of the Sheriff or his Deputy; then 
 of any Justice of the Peace ; then of the Mayor or Chiei' 
 Magistrate of a Corporation ; then of the Coroner ; then 
 of the Commissioners of the Land Tax ; then of any 
 Chief Constable ; then of any Petty Constable, or other 
 Peace Officer, as any of the said Persons shall happen to 
 be present; and any Person wilfully acting contrary to 
 such Orders shall forfeit any Sum not exceeding £5, io 
 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. 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. § 13. 
 
 4. If any Person besides those empowered by an Offi- 
 cer of the Customs or his Deputy, and the Constables 
 aforesaidj shall endeavour to enter on board any Ship m 
 
 Distress v^ithout the Leave or Consent of the Com- 
 mander 
 
^|)tpS (Stranded). 
 
 iiiander or other Superior Officer of the Shij), or of the 
 Officer of the Customs, or his Deputy, or of the Con- 
 stable, 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 lor that Purpose provided by the 
 Commander and the Fiist Officer of the Customs, such 
 Person sliall, within the Space of Twenty Days, make 
 Double Satisfaction to the Party grieved, at the Discre- 
 tion of the Two next Justices of Peace, or in Default 
 thereof shall by such Justices be sent to the next House 
 of Correction, where he shall be employed in hard 
 Labour for Twelve Months ; and any Commander or 
 Superior Officer of the Ship in Distress, or the said 
 Officer of the Customs or Ctmstables 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 therel)y molest them in the 
 Preservation thereof. 12 Ann. st. 2. c. 18. § 3. 
 
 5. Goods found upon any Person that were stolen or 
 carried off from a,ny such Ship in Distress, sliall imme- 
 diately upon demand be delivered to the Owner, or in 
 default thereof the Person on whom found shqjl be liable 
 to pay Treble the Value, to be recovered by Action at 
 Law. 12 Ann. st. 2. c. 18. §4. 
 
 6. If any Person shall make or be assisting in the 
 making any Mole in the Bottom or any other Part of any 
 Ship in Distress, or shall steal any Pump belonging to 
 any such Ship, or be aiding or abetting in the steaUnw 
 such Pump, or wilfully do any thing tending to the 
 iimnediate Loss or Destruction of such Ship, such Person 
 shall be deemed guilty of Felony without Benefit of 
 Clergy. 12 Ann. st. 2. c. 18. § 5. 
 
 7. if any Person shall plunder, take away, or destroy 
 any Goods or Effects belonging to any Ship in Distress, 
 or whic' shall be wrecked, stranded, or cast on Shore in 
 His Majesty's Dominions, whether any Living Creature 
 he on board or not, or shall plunder, &c. the Furniture, 
 
 xacklc, Apparel, Piovision, or Pari of hucli Ship, or 
 beat or wound with Intent to kill, or obstruct the Escape 
 v>f any Persons eudeavouring to save thcii* t,ives from 
 
 such 
 
 301 
 
 Goods, or defjc- 
 ing the Marks, 
 to make Satis- 
 faction. 
 
 Persons who 
 press on board 
 may be repelled 
 by force. 
 
 Goods stolen or 
 carried off to be 
 delivered to the 
 Owner. 
 
 Persons domg 
 any thing tend- 
 ing to the Loss 
 of the Ship, 
 deemed guilty of 
 Fe'ony, 
 
 Persons plunder- 
 ing or destroyiuj 
 any Coods or 
 Part of the Ship, 
 or wounding or 
 obstructing the 
 Escape of Per- 
 sons, or puttaig 
 out false Lights, 
 deemed guilty of 
 Fclonv. 
 
.'J02 
 
 ll'tl!'} Goods .-rs 
 wf small Value, 
 inay be prose- 
 vulcd for 
 Larceny. 
 
 Examination to 
 be delivered to 
 Cleric of the 
 Peace. 
 
 Warrant mav be 
 granted to search 
 for Goods rnni-d 
 away, and which 
 are to h'' 
 livered i. .4ie 
 Owners, 
 
 OifereJ for =ale, 
 n\ay be seized by 
 the Person to 
 '.vbom offered. 
 
 S)l)tpS (Stranded). 
 
 such Ship, or put out false Lights with Intent to biin:: 
 any Ship into Danger, being convicted thereof, sliaK 
 suffer Death as a Felon without Benefit of CIere\ 
 26Geo. y. c. 19. § 1. 
 
 8. But it the Goods or Effects stranded, lost, or cas- 
 on Shore are or suiall Value, and stolen without Circurr- 
 stances of Cruelty, Outrage, or \'iolence, the Offend-: 
 may be prosecuted by Indictment for Petit Larcen%. 
 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. §2. 
 
 9. Upon Oath before any Magit;trate of such Plunde' 
 or Theft, or the breaking of any Ship, the Examinatior. 
 taken thereupon shall be delivered to the Clerk of th/- 
 Peace of the County, Riding, or Division wherein thi- 
 Fact was committed, who shall cause the Offender to bi 
 proceeded against. 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. § 8- 
 
 10. Upon Information on Oath before a Justice of tli*- 
 Po ce of any Part of the Cargo or ER'cts of any Ship 
 lost or stranded upon or near the Coasts of any of Hi"? 
 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 tor such Goods ; and if they are found in 
 Custody of any Person not legally entitled to keep them, 
 and if the Owner or Occupier or the Place, or the 
 Person in whose Custody they are found, shall not imme- 
 diately deliver them, upon Demand, to the Owner or 
 Person lawfully authorized to demand them, or not 
 giving a good Account how lu came by them, sucb 
 Person shall be ccir.mitted to Gaol for Six Months, or 
 until he j^ays the Owner I'reble tke Value of the Goods, 
 26 Geo. '>. c. 19. §3. 
 
 11 Such Goods suspected to have been unlawfully 
 taken away and offered to S:ile, may be seized by tl i- 
 Person to whom they are offered, or by any Officer ot 
 the Customs or Excise, or any Peace Officer, who shall 
 carry them or give Notice of the Seizure to a Justice ri 
 the Peace ; and if the Person who offered them to Sale 
 does not within I'en Days 'prove to the Satisfaction of the 
 Justice the Property to be in him, or the Person wh- 
 employed him, the Goods shall, by Order of the Justice, 
 be delivered over to the Use of the Owner, upon Pay men 1 
 of a reasonable Reward for the Seizure, to be ascertained 
 by the .Justice^ who is also to criintTiit tlso Person who 
 
 offered them to Sale to Gaol for Six Months, or until 
 he has paici Treble the Value of the Goods to the Owner. 
 26 Geo. 2. c, 19. I i. 
 
 12. In 
 
 i i 
 
S)l)tp6 (Stranded). 
 
 I ] 
 
 1 2. In case any Person not employed by tlie Master, 
 Mariners, or Owners, or Persons lawfully authorized, in 
 tlie Salvage of any Ship or Goods, shall, in the Absence 
 of Persons so employed, save any Ship, Goods, or Effects, 
 and shall cause them to be carried into Port, or to any 
 Custom House near, or other Place of safe Custody, 
 immediately giving Notice thereof to some Justice of the 
 Peace, Magistrate, or Custom House or Excise Officer, 
 or shall discover to them where such Effects arc wron"-- 
 fuUy bought, sold, or concealed, such Person shall bo 
 entitled to a reasonable Reward from the Master or 
 Owners ; to be adjusted in case of Disagreement in the 
 Manner herein-after prescribed. 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. ^ 5. 
 
 13. 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 
 the Officers of the Customs ; and in case of Dispute 
 about the Quantum and Reward for such Service, Three 
 neighbouring Justices of the Peace may adjust the same; 
 provided that if no Person appears to chiim 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 Person iu 
 Possession thereof; and if not claimed within Twelve 
 Months, the Goods shall be publicly sold (or, if perish- 
 able, tbrthwith sold), and after Deduction of Charges the 
 Residue shall be transmitted into the Exchequer, tliere 
 to remain for the Proprietor, who, u^^on Proof of his 
 Right to the Satisfaction of One of the Barons, shall upon 
 iiis Order receive the same out of the Exchequer. 
 12 Ann. St. 2. c. 18. §2. 4 Geo. 1. c. 12. § 1. 26 Geo. 2. 
 c. ly. § 16. 
 
 14. Tlie Justice of the Peace, Mayor, Bailiff; Collector 
 ol the Customs, or Chief Constable nearest the Place 
 where any Ship or Goods may be stranded or cast away, 
 sh a "forthwith give public Notice for a Meetincr of the 
 Sheriff" or his Deputy, the Justices of the Peace, Mayors, 
 or Chief Magistrates of Towns Coiporate, Coroners, and 
 Commissioners of the Land Tax, or any Five of them, 
 who are required to give Aid in Execution of this Act 
 and 12 Ann. sess. 2. c. 18., to examine Persons upon 
 Oath concerning the Ships and Effects stranded or cast 
 away, or tlie Salvage, which they are to adjust and dis- 
 tribute among die Persons concerned in «ase of Disagree- 
 ment; and every such Sheriff", &c. who attends the 
 
 Meetiiic;, 
 
 303 
 
 Persons s^ung 
 any Ship or 
 Goods, to tarry 
 them to sonic 
 Place of safe 
 Custody, and 
 give Notice to 
 some Justice. 
 
 How Salvors to 
 be rswiirciod. 
 
 Gor;ds not 
 claimed, to be 
 sold. 
 
 Justices to give 
 Notice for a 
 Meeting of the 
 SiierifF, f<c. to 
 exarrune Persons 
 on Oath, and 
 adjust Salvage., 
 
304 
 
 If Salvage not 
 paid, the Officers 
 may borrow 
 Money to satisfy 
 the same. 
 
 Persons who can 
 ^ive any Account 
 of the Ship, to 
 he examined on 
 Oath. 
 
 Right to Wreck 
 or Goods 
 flotsam, jets«m, 
 or lagan. 
 
 How Salvage to 
 be adjusted in 
 Cases- where the 
 Salvors act under 
 the Authority of 
 the Owners or 
 Persons on board 
 the Ship. 
 
 S)l)tpS (Stranded). 
 
 Meeting, shall be paid ^s. a Day for his Expences out of 
 the Goods saved. 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 15. The Charges and Rewards for Salvage not being 
 paid, or Security given for the same, within Forty Days 
 after the Service performed, the Officer of the Customs 
 concerned in such Salvage may borrow Mo ney to satisfy 
 the same, upon a Bill of Sale under his Hand and Seal 
 of the Ship or Cargo saved, or such Part as shall be suf- 
 ficient, redeemable nevertheless upon Payment of the 
 Principal borrowed and Interest at £4>. per Cent, per 
 Annum. 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 16. The Officer of the Customs who acts in Preser- 
 vation of any Shi}) in Distress, or the Cai'go, as soon as 
 conveniently may be, shall cause all Persons belonging to 
 the Ship, or others who can give any Account thereoi^ 
 to be examined upon Oath before a .Justice of the Pcaco, 
 as to the Name and Description thereof, the Name of the 
 Commander and Owners, and Owners of the Cargo, and 
 of the Port from and to which she was bounds and the 
 Occasion of the Distress; which Examination shall be 
 taken in Writing, and a Copy delivered to the Officer of 
 the Customs, with a Copy of the Account of the Goods, 
 who is to transmit the same to the Secretary of the 
 Admiralty, to be published in the next London Gazette, 
 for Information of the Persons concerned. 26 Geo. 2. 
 c. 19. §15. 
 
 17. Nothing contained in these Acts is to prejudice 
 His Majesty, or any Person claiming under Him by 
 Patent or Grant, in relation to any Right which His 
 Majesty or such Person may have to any Wreck, or 
 Goods flotsam, jetsam, or lagan. 12 Ann. st. 2. c. 18. § 9. 
 26 Geo. 2. c. 19. §14. 
 
 18. All the Means which in virtue of 12 Ann. c. 18. 
 subsist and may now be by Law applied for the con- 
 clusively adjusting, and for the recoveiing of the Quan- 
 tum of the Gratuities to be paid to Persons acting or 
 being employed in the Salvage of any Ship or Goods, in 
 Cases where Application shall have been first made to 
 Officers of tUe Customs or other the Officers therein men- 
 tioned, and Assistance shall have been thereupon rendered 
 and had in pursuance of that Act, shall be applicable and 
 available in like manner in cases where the Salvors shall 
 have acted under and by the mere Employment and Autho- 
 rity of the Commander or other Superior Officers, Mari- 
 ners, or Owners of any Ship in Distress, although no such 
 
 Applicatioii 
 
^\)ipB (Stranded). 
 
 305 
 
 cation shall have been made to, nor any Authority or 
 Assistance derived from, any Officers of the Customs or 
 other Officers mentioned in 12 Ann. c. 8.; and upon Pay- 
 ment, or Tender and Refusal, of the Quantum of Gra- 
 tuities to be paid to the several Persons, or (in case such 
 Payment or Tender cannot be made) on Security given 
 for the due Payment thereof, to the Satisfaction of the 
 Justices who shall have adjudged such Gratuities, it shall 
 not be lawful for any Officer of the Customs, or other 
 Person or Persons having the Possession or Custody of 
 such Ship, Vessel, or Goods, any longer to retain the 
 Possession, by Reason or Pretence of any Claim or Right 
 to a Compensation or Gratuitjr for such Salvage, or for 
 having acted or been employed therein. 48 Geo. S. 
 c. 130. §21. 
 
 19. Provided that in Cases where the Salvors shall How to be ad- 
 have acted without Application made to, and without any j^"^*^ ''^ '^'*^* °^ 
 Authority or Assistance derived from, any Officer of the betTveenX"' 
 Customs, or other Officer in the; said Act mentioned, and Salvors and 
 the Commander or other Superior Officer, Mariners, or ^*^*"- 
 Owners of such Ship, or the Person whose Goods shall 
 be saved, or their Agents, shall disagree with such Salvors 
 touching the Gratuity deserved, the Commander of sucli 
 Ship so saved, or the Owner of the Goods, or Merchant 
 interested therein, or their Agents, and such Salvors, 
 may nominate Three of the neighbouring Justices of the 
 Peace to adjust the Quantum of the Gratuity to be paid ; 
 and in case the Parties shall nc»t agree in such Nomina- 
 tion, then on the Application of any of the Parties to any 
 one neighbouring Justice, such Justice shall nominate 
 two other neighbouring Justices, and such Three neigh- 
 bouring Justices shall adjust the Quantum of the Gratuity 
 to be paid to each Salvor, who shall disagree with such 
 Master, Commanding Officer, Merchant or Owners, or 
 
 their Agents as aforesaid* 
 
 The Production of the British Plantations in America, Not to be ex- 
 shall not be shipped or conveyed from any of the said poned, unless to 
 
 . some ether 
 
 * The 48 Geo. 3. c. 130. is a temporary Law. and continued 
 ^^Z/53 Geo. 3. c. 87 ■ for Hevcn Yeari, from 2d July 1813. 
 
 X Plant- 
 
306 
 
 ^iVk (ia^lD)* 
 
 Phntation, or to Plantations to any Place, unleBs to some other Plantation 
 ^"f^^" tjelo^ing to His Majerty, or to Great Britain or Ireland. 
 " i» Car. «.c. 1&. §18, 19. «2 &59Car.2. C.56. § 11. 
 
 ^ & 8 W. 8. c. 22. § 13. 8 Ann. c. IS. § 23. 4 Geo. 8. 
 c. 15. § 24. 27. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §6. 20 Geo. 8. 
 c. 10. § 1 . 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 6*7. Art. 6. S6 Geo. 3. 
 c. 91. §4. 8. 
 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitnres to 
 secure the Landing in the British Plantations, or in 
 Great Britain or Ireland, 
 
 See Ashes, Pot and Pearl. 
 
 Recital of Order 
 i„ Council, 
 daied Aug. 
 i8oj. 
 
 IT, 
 
 1. Whereas His Majesty, by His Order in Council bear- 
 ing Date the Fifteenth Day of August One thousand 
 eight hundred and five, was pleased to order, " That it 
 should not be lawful, except by special Licence as therein 
 mentioned, for any Slave or Slaves to be landed upon any 
 of tlie Coasts, or imported or brought into any of the 
 Ports, Harbours, Creeks, or Roads, or within the Limits, 
 Jurisdictions, and Territories, of any of the Settlements, 
 Islands, Colonies, or Plantations on the Continent of 
 America, or in the West Indies, which have been surren- 
 •dered to His Majesty's Arms during the present War, 
 until further Order; upon Pain 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 their 
 Cargoes, should become forfeited to Ilis Majesty, His 
 Heirs and Successors ; but the said Order recited, that 
 it might 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 the Population on particular Estates, 
 from extraordinary or unavoidable Causes, and thereby 
 of keeping up the Cultivation of the Lands already 
 cleared and cultivated ; and it was therefore further or- 
 dered, 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 
 
 Time to Time, in pursuance of Instructions to be trans- 
 mitted by One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of 
 
 State), 
 
 State), n 
 
 ties to t 
 
 in thepr 
 
 granted 1 
 
 administ 
 
 Islands, 
 
 Majesty' 
 
 tlements, 
 
 cence, or 
 
 of the S 
 
 Authorit; 
 
 said Sett 
 
 Provided 
 
 thousand 
 
 ation mi^ 
 
 jesty's Cc 
 
 out its bi 
 
 met with 
 
 thereof, a 
 
 as aforesa 
 
 Licence I 
 
 ibre any S 
 
 from such 
 
 after furtl 
 
 immediate 
 
 cipal Seer 
 
 Governors 
 
 the said C 
 
 tively, coi 
 
 that Order 
 
 ing them t^ 
 
 limited Nu 
 
 Regulation 
 
 vided, it v 
 
 ther Orde 
 
 nor, or ot 
 
 thereby we 
 
 grant such 
 
 .iikI subje 
 
 to and in 
 
 tions, migl 
 
 was thereb; 
 
 in-before c 
 
 importing ( 
 
 ported into 
 
State), might be imported in each Year (provided Casual- 
 ties to that Extent should appear to have takeii place 
 m 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 Set- 
 tlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations; such Li- 
 cence, or a Copy thereof, to be produced by the Master 
 ot the Ship on which such Slaves are la<len, as his 
 Authority for having Slaves on board destined to the 
 jaid Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations: 
 Provided always, that until the First Day of January One 
 thousand eight hundred and seven, such limited Import- 
 ation might be made from other Places than His Ma- 
 jesty^s Colonies in the West Indies as aforesaid, and with- 
 out Its being necessary for the Master of the Vessel, if 
 met with at Sea, to produce the said Licence, or a Copy 
 thereof, as his Authority for having the Slaves destined 
 as aforesaid on board, but subject nevertheless to such 
 Lioence being first had and obtained as aforesaid, be- 
 iore any Slaves should be permitted to be landed or sold 
 from such Vessel in any of the said Settlements : And, 
 aiter further reciting that special Instructions would be 
 immediately transmitted by One of His Majesty's Prin - 
 cipal Secretaries of State to the Governors, Lieutenant 
 Governors, or Officers administering the Government of 
 the said Colonies, Settlements, and Plantations respec- 
 tively, containing *he Regulations proper for carryino- 
 that Order into effectual Execution, directing and empow- 
 ing them to grant Licences for the Importation of such 
 iimited Number of Slaves as aforesaid, subject to such 
 Regulations as in the said Instructions woidd be pro- 
 vided, it w^as thereby declared to be His Majesty's fur- 
 ther Order, that such Governor, Lieutenant Gover- 
 nor, or other Officer as aforesaid, should be, and they 
 thereby were respectively authorized and empowered to 
 grant such Licences, upon such Terms and Conditions, 
 mid subject to such Regulations as, in conformity 
 to and in furtherance of the Object of such Instruc- 
 tions, might from Time to Time be required : And it 
 was thereby further ordered, that thp P inhibit;.^,, *!,„, — 
 in-betore contained should not extend to prevent the 
 importing or landing of any Slaves which should be im- 
 ported into the said Colonies, Islands, and Plantations, 
 
 307 
 
 ifc" 
 
 X2 
 
 by 
 
308 
 
 by Licence first had for importing the same, under tlie 
 Hand and Seal of His Majesty's Governor or Lieute- 
 nant Governor, or Officer administering the Government 
 of the Colony, Settlements, or Plantations into which 
 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 Re- 
 gulations as should be contained therein, should, together 
 with the Vessels bringing the same, or from which tlie 
 same should be landed, and their Cargoes, become for- 
 feited to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors ; and in 
 case any Vessel should contain more Slaves than the 
 Number permitted to be imparted in such Vessel by any 
 such Licence or Licences, such Number of the most 
 valuable of the Slaves on board such Vessel (other than 
 such Slaves as might form Part of the Crew of such 
 Vessel, or might be Household Servants to the Passen- 
 gers) as should be equal to the Excess beyond the Num- 
 ber mentioned in such Licence or Licences, should be 
 forfeited to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, 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 
 <nven to the respective Governors, Lieutenant Gover- 
 nors, 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 con- 
 strued to extend to the landing, 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 Plant- 
 ations, cr compelled to take refuge on such Coast, or 
 within the Creeks and Harbours of such Colonies, Set- 
 tlements, or Plantations, provided the Slave or Slaves 
 which should be so unported, landed, or brou^t in as 
 last aforesaid, should be exported to some Place or 
 Places other than any of the Colonics, Setilcments, or 
 Plantations to which the said Order applied, within Ten 
 Days from the Importation, landing, or bringing in of 
 
ents, or 
 
 hin Ten 
 
 ig in of 
 
 the 
 
 the same, unless further detained by Stress of Weather, 
 Oi provided the same should within such Ten Days be 
 sold under the special Licence of the Governor, Lieute- 
 nant 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 
 Circumstance of his, her, or their Cases (which Cir- 
 cumstances should be inserted in such special Licence) 
 might at the Date thereof be entitled to obtain a Licence 
 or Licences to 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 admi- 
 nistering 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 con^ 
 tained in the said Order of Council should be enforced 
 and rendered more effectual by such auxihary Regula- 
 tions and Remedies as the Authority of His Majesty in 
 Council was insufficient to provide : Be it enacted, 
 that it shall not be lawful to export or send any Slaves 
 (except in such special Cases as are hereii. after excepted) 
 from any Part of His Majesty's Dominions to any Island, 
 Settlement, Colony, Plantation, Territory, or Place 
 whatever, 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 tlie contrary notwithstanding ; and if 
 any Slaves shall be so unlawfully exported or sent, or 
 shall be embarked, put on board, or transhipped at or 
 from any Part of His Majesty's Dominions with Intent 
 to be so unlawfully exported or sent, all Slaves, together 
 with every Ship in which the same shall be so exported, 
 sent, embarked, put on board, or transhipped, shall be 
 forfeited, and may be seized and pi-osecuted as herein- 
 after provided. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 1 . 
 
 2. No Subject of His Majesty, or any Person resident 
 within this Kingdom, or any of the Islands, Colonies, 
 Dominions, or Territories thereto belonging, shall ex- 
 port, or spnd. nr nausp nr nrnrnrp to V>f» ovnnvtofi or con*- 
 i • .- " " 7 — — j: — — I • •• ■ "'3 
 
 or in any Manner aid, abet, or assist in the exporting 
 
 X 3 or 
 
 309 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported from His 
 Majesty's Do- 
 minions to 
 Foreign 
 Countries. 
 
 Subjects of His 
 Majesty, or Pel ■ 
 sons residing in 
 His Majesty's. 
 I^ominif^us np,** 
 to assist in the 
 Exportation of 
 
310 
 
 Shve» to Foreign 
 Countries. 
 
 Ma\it&. 
 
 Importing SIsves 
 C()iitr:iry to 
 Order in Coun- 
 cil, into any 
 6ett!etne:it in 
 America or the 
 West Indies 
 which have sur- 
 rendered to His 
 Mnjesty's Arms 
 during the 
 present Wnr. 
 
 Expo?*lrgl'rom 
 or t.iking on 
 honrd at British 
 Ports or in 
 British Ships, or 
 on British Ac- 
 count, Slaves 
 »\ith Intent to 
 
 or soiMlitiff any Slaves from Africa or elsewhere (ex cent 
 from His Mftjesty's West India Islands in such special 
 Cases as are herein-after expressly excepted and provided 
 for), to any Island, Colony, Plantation, Territory, or 
 Place whatever, belonging *to and under the Dominion 
 of any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power, or ship, 
 embark, tranship, or put on board, or cause or procure 
 to be embarked, shipped, transhipped, or put on board, 
 or aid, nbet, or assist in the embarking, shipping, tran- 
 shipping, or putting on board any Ship whatever, at 
 Africa or elsewhere, any Slaves (except as aforesaid), 
 with the Intent to the exporting or sending the same to 
 any such Foreign Island, Colony, Plantation, Territory, 
 or Place ; and if any Slaves shall be so unlawfully ex- 
 ported or sent, or embarked, shipped, transhipped, or 
 put on board with such unlawful Intent, every such 
 Slave, and every Ship in which the same shall be so 
 unlawfully exported or sent, or embarked, shipped, tran- 
 shipped, of put on board, so far as any of His Majesty's 
 Subjects, or any Person resident as aforesaid, have any 
 Property, Share, or Interest therein, shall become for- 
 feited, and may be seized and prosecuted as herein-after 
 mentioned. 46 Geo. 3. c 52. § 2. 
 
 3. If any Slaves shall bo landed upon any of the 
 Coasts, or imported or brought into any of the Ports, 
 Harbours, Greek?,, or Roads, or within the Limits, Juris- 
 dictions, and Territories of any of the Settlements, Colo- 
 nies, or Plantations on the Continent of America, or in 
 the West Indies, which have been surrendered to His 
 Majesty's Arms during the present Wai-, without such 
 Special Licence for landing, importing, and bringing the 
 same as by the said Order in Council is mentioned hav- 
 ing been previously obtained, contrary to the Prohibitions 
 contained in the said Order, every such Slave, together 
 with the Ship by or from which the same shall be so 
 landed, imported, or brought, and all her Boats, Guns, 
 Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, shall become forfeited, 
 and may be seized and prosecuted as herein-after men- 
 tioned. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 3. 
 
 4. If any Slaves shall be exported from, or em- 
 barked, transhipped, or taken on board any Ship what- 
 ever, at any Island, Settlement, Plantation, or Terri- 
 tory under the Dominion of His Majesty, or shall be 
 exported from, or embarked, shipped, transhipped, or 
 taken on board at Airica, or on the Coast thereof, or 
 
 else- 
 
 elscwhore 
 employed 
 Subjects, 
 Subjects, 
 any of th( 
 Continen 
 been sun 
 sent Wai 
 such Sp< 
 Council, 
 the same 
 shipped, 
 may be S( 
 46 Geo. i 
 
 5. An; 
 sident wi 
 lonies, or 
 His Maj( 
 or cause 
 aiding or 
 trary to 
 no Pena 
 ing, &c. 
 faction ot 
 from inei 
 Claimant 
 Transpoi 
 Slave wh 
 or Colon 
 Transpoi 
 Copy of 
 Court, si 
 vict shall 
 
 6. AU 
 Transfer 
 Africa, is 
 way of P 
 relatiag 
 dealt wit 
 moved < 
 shipment 
 Place in 
 rica not 1 
 jcsty, to 
 and if ai 
 
elsewhere, in any British Ship, or any Ship owned or 
 employed in whole or in part by any of Efis Majesty's 
 Subjects, or for or on account of any of His Majesty's 
 Subjects, with Intent to be transported or conveyed to 
 any of the said Settlements, Islands, or Plantations on the 
 Continent of America, or in- the West Indies, which havQ 
 been surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the pre- 
 sent War, and to be there imported or landed without 
 such Special Licence, contrary to the said Order m 
 Council, every such Slave, with the Ship in or by which 
 the same shall be so exported, embarked, shipped, tran- 
 shipped, or taken on board, shall become forieited, and 
 may be seized and prosecuted as herein-after mentioned. 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 4. 
 
 5. Any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person re- 
 sident within the United Kingdom, or the Islands, Co- 
 lonies, or Territories belonging to or in the Possession of 
 His Majesty, who shall import, convey, ship, or tranship, 
 or cause or procm'e to be imported, &c. or who shall be 
 aiding or assisting in the importing, &c. any Slave con- 
 trary to this Act, shall forfeit for each Slave dSO; but 
 no Penalty or Forfeiture shall be incurred by import* 
 ing, &c. any Slave, when it shall be proved to the Satisr 
 faction of the Court, that the prohibited Act entirely arose 
 from inevitable Accident, of which Proof shall lie on the 
 Claimant ; provided that this Act shall not prevent the 
 Transportation to any Foreign Colony or Place of any 
 Slave who shall have been convicted in any British Island 
 or Colony of any Crime to which the Punishment of 
 Transportation is annexed; but in every such Case a 
 Copy of the Judgment or Sentence, certified by the 
 Court, shall be put on board the Ship in which such Con- 
 vict shp,ll be transported. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 5. 
 
 6. All dealing and trading in the Purchase, Sale, or 
 Transfer of Slaves, carried on in, at, or from any Part of 
 yVfrica, is unlawful; and all Manner of dealing, either by 
 way of Purchase, or of any other Contract or Agreement, 
 lelating to any Slaves, or to any Persons intended to be 
 dealt with as Slaves, for the Purpose of their being re- 
 moved or transported, either immediately, or by Tran- 
 shipment at Sea, or otherwise, from Africa, or from any 
 Place in the West Indies, or in any other Part of Amo- 
 rica not being in the Dominion or Possession of His Ma- 
 
 ♦.. «!," «*v./».. piooo ia nrnhihitpd. and unlawful; 
 
 311 
 
 impoit them into 
 any such Settle- 
 ment, &c. ccn- 
 trary to Order 
 
 ill Ouuncil. 
 
 To forfeit jcl. 
 for ench Slave, 
 iX'-cpt in Cases 
 of Accident ; l);it 
 not to extend tu 
 Slaves under 
 Sentence of 
 Transporiatian. 
 
 Dealing In Sl.ives 
 at Africa, or 
 removing them 
 from thence, or 
 from the West 
 Indies, or other 
 Part of America, 
 to any other 
 PLlce. 
 
 "•J» 
 
 and if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person re- 
 '^ X 4 sidcnl 
 
 1 
 
 V ■ 
 
 I 
 
 ■ 
 
 i 
 
 "T 
 
 ■i' 
 
 i 
 
312 
 
 Removing Per- 
 sons to he dealt 
 with as Slaves 
 from Africa or 
 any Place not 
 in the PMsession 
 of His Majeity. 
 
 Confined on 
 board for the 
 Purpose of being 
 80 removed. 
 
 Ships, and all 
 Property in the 
 Slaves, forfeited, 
 and Offenders to 
 forfeit xool. for 
 each Person. 
 
 British Subjects, 
 or Persons resid- 
 ing in His Ma- 
 jesty's Do- 
 minions, employ- 
 ing their Ships, 
 Capital, or Credit 
 in the Slave 
 Trade. 
 
 feidcnt within the United Kingdom, or any of the Terri- 
 
 ^!^u\ T"" lir'""8i'!g «*• in His Majesty's Possession, 
 shall l,y himself, or his Factor or Agent, or otherwise 
 deal or contract for the dealing or transferring of any 
 felave, or any Person intending to be dealt with as a Slave 
 contrary to this Act, the Person offending shall forfeit 
 ^100 for each Slave, One Moiety thereof to His Ma- 
 jesty, and the other to the Person who shall prosecute fbr 
 the same. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 1. 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. § 7 
 7. No Subject of His Majesty, or any Person resident 
 as aforesaid, (see No. 5.) shall remove, or aid or assist in 
 removing, as Slaves, or for the Purpose of being dealt 
 with as Slaves, any of the Inhabitants of Africa, or of any 
 1 enitory or Place in America not being in the Domi- 
 nion or Possession of His Majesty, either immediatelv, or 
 by Iranshipment at Sea, or otherwise, from Africa, or 
 trom any such Country or Place to any other Country 
 or Place; and no such Subject or Resident shall receive 
 or cxjnhne on board, or be assisting in the rcceivintr or 
 confining on board of any Ship any such Inhabitant for 
 the Purpose of his being so removed, or of his being dealt 
 with as a Slave; and if any Inhabitant of Africa, or of 
 any Territory or Place in the West Indies or America, 
 not bein^ in the Possession of His Majesty, shall be so 
 unlawful y removed, &c. on board of any Ship belonginij 
 
 ' r Vi- YJ'?^'' "^ ^" ^"'^ **'' "^ employed by, any Subject 
 ot His Majesty, or Person residing in His Majesty's i3o- 
 minions, or any Territory belonging to or in the Occu- 
 pation of His Majesty, for any of the Purposes aforesaid, 
 every such Ship, with her Boats, &c. shall be fbrfeited, and 
 all Property in any such Slaves or Natives of Africa shall 
 be forfeited; and every Subject of His Majesty, or Per- 
 son resident as aforesaid, who shall as Owner, Part 
 Owner, Freighter, Shipper or Agent, Captain, Mate, 
 Supercargo or Surgeon, be concerned in removing, &c. 
 for any of the unlawful Purposes aforesaid, any such Sub- 
 ject or Inhabitant, shall forfeit for each Person jfi 100, One 
 Moiety to His Majesty, and the other to any Person who 
 shall prosecute for the same. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. §3. 
 
 8. No Subject of His Majesty, or any Person resident 
 as aforesaid, (see No. 5.) shall invest or employ his Money, 
 Vessel, Goods, or Effects in tr-jding in or carrying Slaves 
 from Africa or elsewhere to an> Place under any Foreign 
 Sovereign or State, or to any jf the Colonies or PUnL 
 tions surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the pre- 
 sent 
 
sent War, or knowingly lend any Money, or become 
 Security for the Advance of any Money, (ioods, or Effects, 
 for the Purpose of being employed in any such Trade, 
 or Carriage of Slaves, or become Security for any Fac- 
 tor or Agent to be employed in the Sale of Slaves in or 
 for the Use or Supply of any such Foroign Place, or 
 Colony or Plantation surrendered to His Majesty's Anns 
 during the present War, or otherwise engage directly or in- 
 directly in supplying with Slaves any such Foreigif Place, 
 or Colonyor Plantation surrendered; upon pain tliat every 
 Person who shall so wilfully employ any Vessel, Goods, 
 or Effects, or so invest, advance, or secure any Sum of 
 Money for any of the Purposes aforesaid, or become Se- 
 curity lor any such Factor or Agent, or otherwise engage, 
 as Partner, Factor, Agent, or otherwise, in supplying Slaves 
 C()ntrary to this Prohibition, shall forfeit Double the Value 
 of all the Money, Ships, Goods, and Effects so by him 
 employed, advanced, or secured, to be recovered and ap- 
 plied as is herein-after mentioned ; and every Mortgage, 
 Bond, or other Security for the Payment of any such 
 unlawful Loan or Advance, or for any other the unlaw- 
 ful Purposes aforesaid, shall be void ; except in tlie Case 
 of a bona fide Purchaser or Holder of any of the said 
 Securities in their Nature negociable, who may have 
 purchased the same without Notice that they were given 
 in Consideration of any of the unlawful Purposes afore- 
 said. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 6. 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. § 12. 
 
 9. Any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person resi- 
 dent as aforesaid, (see No. 5.) who shall knowingly insure 
 or procure to be insured any Slaves or Commodities, or 
 any Ship employed or to be employed in the trading in 
 or carrying of Slaves from Africa or elsewhere to any 
 Territory or Place belonging to or under the Dominion 
 of any Foreign Sovereign or State, or to any of the Colo- 
 nies or Plantations which have been surrendered to His 
 Majesty during the present War, shall forfeit £500; and 
 every such Insurance shall be void. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 7. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. §7. 
 
 10. No British Ship, or her Boats, Officers, or Ma- 
 riners, shall be employed in or at Africa, or any Part of 
 the Coast thereof, directly or indirectly, in supplying 
 with Slaves any Foreign Ship or Factory, or any Person 
 concerned for or on account of any Foreign Vessel or 
 i actory, or for any Colony or Territory under tJie Do- 
 minion of any Foreign Sovereign or State ; and every 
 
 Ship 
 
 313 
 
 Penalty on 
 effecting In- 
 surances of 
 Slaves, Ships, or 
 Commodities. 
 
 Shipping Slaves 
 to Foreign Ships 
 or Factories on 
 the Coast of 
 Africa. 
 
314 
 
 S)latoe&. 
 
 Foreign Ships in- 
 tended to be cm- 
 ployed in the 
 African Slave 
 Trade net to be 
 fitted out in His 
 Majesty's Do- 
 mintuns. 
 
 Subjects of His 
 MajestVi or Per- 
 sons residing in 
 His Majesty's 
 Dominions, roii- 
 cerned therein. 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported fiotn One 
 British Colony to 
 another, iindl a 
 Licence is ob- 
 tained, and Bond 
 given not to 
 carry them to 
 other Places. 
 
 Ship so employed, or the Boats, Officei'S, or Mariners^ 
 thereof, with the Consent and Approbation of the Owner* 
 so employed, shall, with all her Boats, Guns, &c. be for- 
 feited, and may be seized and prosecuted as is herein- 
 after mentioned, and the Master shall forfeit jfilOO. 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. §8. 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. §7- 
 
 1 1 . No Foreign Ship intended to be employed in the 
 African Slave Trade shall be fitted out, manned, or dis- 
 patched at or from any Port of this United Kingdom, or 
 any other Part of His Majesty's Dominions, for a Voyage 
 to Africa, although fi^-st destined to touch at some other 
 Place ; and no Person shall put on board any Foreign 
 Ship, when destined directly or indirectly to A&ica, at 
 any Port in this United Kingdom, or any Part of His 
 Majesty's Dominions, any Goods with Intent to be car- 
 ried to Africa, to be bartered or otherways employed in 
 the African Slave Trade, on Forfeiture of the Ship with 
 all her Boats, &c. and the Goods ; and any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Subjects, or any Person resident within His 
 Majesty's Dominions, who shall knowingly fit out, man, 
 or dispatch any such Foreign Ship, or furnish any 
 Goods with the Intent aforesaid, or assist in any such 
 Offence, shall forfeit .if 100. 46 Gt 3. c. 52. §9. 
 
 12. No Subject of His Majesty, u. any Person resi- 
 dent as aibresaid, (see No. 5.) shall fit out, man, or navi- 
 gate, or be conrerned in the fitting out, &c. any Ship, 
 for the Purpose of being employed in the African Slave 
 Trade, or in any other the Trading or Concerns hereby 
 prohibited ; and every Ship fitted out, manned, or em- 
 ployed by any such Subject, or by any Person on his 
 Account, or by his Assistance or Procurement, for any 
 of the Purposes aforesaid, shall, with all her Boats, Sec. 
 be forfeited. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 2. 
 
 13. No Person shall emba'*k or carry any Slaves from 
 one Colony or Territory be' i ging to or under the Do- 
 minion of His Majesty, to . y other such Colony, &c. 
 until the Owner or Exporter shall apply in Writing to 
 the Governor, or the Chief Officer of the Customs of the 
 Port from whence it shall be intended to embark the said 
 Slaves, expressing the Number and Quality, and the 
 Place to which he means to c»rry them (such Place being 
 some Colony or Territory belonging to or under the 
 
 
 be lawfully imported without special Licence, or one ot 
 the Colonies, &c. surrendered during the present War, 
 
 for 
 
 Time, a 
 
 siding in 
 
^ldbe<s. 
 
 31ri 
 
 ' em- 
 m his 
 r any 
 >, &,c. 
 
 *.i 
 
 tor importing Slaves into which a special Licence siiall 
 ]iave been obtained), and until such Owner or Exporter 
 slmll obtain a Licence, specifying the Place of Destina- 
 tion, under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Chief 
 Officer ; but previous thereto, every such Exporter shall 
 give Bond to His Majesty in £50 tor every Slave, to the 
 Governor or Chief Officer of the Place, for the true 
 landing the Slaves, and for producing within a limited 
 Time, according to the ordinary Length of the \^oyage, a 
 Certificate from the Chief Officer of the Customs of the 
 Place to which conveyed, or in case there be no Chief Offi- 
 cer of the Customs, then from Two of the most eminent 
 British Merchants or Inhabitants, certifying that the 
 said Slaves have been landed and left there. Death or 
 other inevitable Impediment (to be proved by Oath of 
 Two credible Witnesses) excepted. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 13. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. §4. 
 
 14. If any such Slave shall not be so landed, or if '^ ' '"<^«<' '" any 
 such Certificate shall not be returned, the Bond shall be i^jX^Ietit. 
 forfeited and may be put in Suit, and the Owner or Ex- of Bond must ki 
 porter shall not be relieved from the Penalty but on pay- r^'J- 
 ing £50 for each Slave not certified ; nor shall the Party 
 be discharged from any Penalty or Forfeiture incurred by 
 the sending or conveying such Slaves to any Foreign 
 Territory or Place contrary to this Act; but the Bonds 
 shall be void unless prosecuted within Three Years from 
 the Date. 46 Geo. 3. c 52. §13. 51 Geo. 3. c 23. §4. 
 
 15. Not to prevent any Slave being employed in Navi- Not to extend t-. 
 ^^ation, Fishing, or any other his ordinary Business or Negro Sailors 
 Occupation upon the Seas, nor to prevent any Slave who nor io Domestic- 
 shall be really the Domestic Servant of any Person re- Slaves .nttendinr 
 siding in any Plantation or Territory beloneine to or *''«{«■ Masters 
 under the Dommion ot His Majesty, from attending his Voyages to 
 Owner or Master, or any Part of His Family, by Sea to Foreijn Pan.,. 
 any Place, whether under the Dominion of His Majesty 
 or of any Toreign Stale ; but if any Slave employed in 
 Navigation, or any Fisherman or Domestic Slave, shall 
 be so employed, or carried from any British Island or 
 Colony to any Foreign Colony or Territory, or to any 
 oiher British Island or Colony, or to any of the Colonies 
 or Plantations which liave surrendered during the pre- 
 sent War, the Names and Occupations (except Domestic 
 Slaves attending on the Person of any Passenger on 
 ijoard, not exceeding in N umber 'i'wo for every Passenger) 
 ^hall be inserted in or endorsetl upon the Clearance or 
 
 Permit, 
 
316 
 
 Functions of 
 Governors tnay 
 ' exercised by 
 Governors pro 
 tempore. 
 
 False Oaths 
 deemed Perjury. 
 
 Inhabitants of 
 Africa, or of -.ny 
 Foreign Terri- 
 tory, carried 
 away and im- 
 ported into any 
 of His Majesty's 
 Dominions, 
 
 Permit, by or in the Presence of the Chief Officer of 
 the Customs of the Place of Clearance, who shall (without 
 Fee) certify that the Slaves so embarked were reported 
 and described to him as Seamen, Fishermen, or Domestic 
 Servants, as the Case may be ; and if any Slave shall 
 be found on board, whose Name and Description shall 
 not be inserted in or endorsed upon the Clearance and 
 Permit, and so certified (except as aforesaid), or who 
 shall be untruly or fraudulently therein described, with 
 Intent to elude any of the Prohibitions or Regulations 
 in this Act, every such Slave shall be forfeited, and the 
 Master and Owner, or other Person by whom or by 
 whose Procurement such Slave shall be so untruly and 
 fraudulently described, shall forfeit ^''50 for each ; but 
 not to prevent any Slave from being put on board any 
 Ship by Order of His Majesty's Commander in Chief, in 
 any Colony or Territory belonging to or under the 
 Dominion of His Mpjesty, in order to be employed in 
 His Majesty's Military or Naval Service, and from being 
 employed as the said Service may require. 46 Geo. 3, 
 c. 52. § 13. 
 
 16. The granting of Licences, and every Act which 
 the Governor is directed to perform', may be done by the 
 Person executing pro tempore the Office of Governor 
 by Authority from His Majesty, whether under the Title 
 of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, President of the 
 Council, or under any other Stile or Title whatsoever. 
 4-6 Qeo. 3. c. 52. § 14. 
 
 17. Any Person who shall commit wilful Perjury, or 
 who shall procure or suborn any Person to commit 
 wilful Perjury, shall suffer the Pains and Penalties for 
 wilful and corrupt Perjury or Subornation of Perjury. 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 16. 
 
 18. Any Inhabitant of Africa, or any Territory or 
 Place not being in the Dominion or Possession of His 
 Majesty, unlawfully carried away or removed from Africa, 
 or from the West Indies or America, not in the Domi- 
 nion or Possession of His Majesty, who shall be imported 
 or brought into any Island, Colony, Plantation, or Terri- 
 tory in the Dominion or Possession of His Majesty, and 
 there sold or disposed of as 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 unlaw- 
 fully imported into the same Plantation or Territory inny 
 be seized and prosecuted therein, by any Act in force for 
 
 regulating 
 
^la'ote. 
 
 317 
 
 or 
 
 regulating the Navigation and Trade of His Majesty's 
 Colonies. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 4. 
 
 19. All Insurances effected in respect to any of the Subscribing or 
 Dealing, Removing, or Transactions by this Act pro- SscrSanJ" 
 hibited, shall be also prohibited and unlavv^ful ; and if any unlawful insu- 
 of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person resident as afore- 'ance. 
 said, (see No. 5.) shall knowingly subscribe or procure 
 to be subscribed any such unlawful Insurances, he shall 
 forfeit jfilOO for every Insurance, and Treble the Amount 
 of the Premium ; one Moiety thereof to His Majesty, 
 and the other to the Prosecutor. 47 Geo. 3. c.36. § 5. 
 ^ 20. All Slaves, and Natives of Africa dealt with or Taken as Prize 
 detained as Slaves, which shall be seized or taken as "'^J^J^' «;; t'!? 
 
 T-» • f -rxT 1 . , . T-, n ' 1 » £• ^s forfeited, now 
 
 Prize or War, or liable to Forfeiture under any Act tor ^obe disposed of. 
 prohibiting the African Slave Trade, shall, for the Pur- 
 poses only of Seizure, Prosecution, and Condemnation, be 
 adjudged as Slaves and Property, in the same Manner as 
 Negro Slaves have been heretofore considered and 
 "adjudged, but the same shall be condemned to the sole 
 Use of 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 claim- 
 ing under Him ; but such Officers, Civil or Military, as 
 shall by any Order of tlie King in Council be empowered' 
 to receive, protect, and provide for such Natives of 
 Africa, may enter and enlist any of them into His Ma- 
 jesty's Service, or bind them, whether of full Age or not, 
 as Apprentices, for any Term not exceeding Fourteen 
 Years, 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 Per- 
 son to be for that Purpose appointed by any such Order, 
 for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years, shall be of 
 the same Effect as if the Party thereby bound had him- 
 self, when of full Age, duly executed the same ; and 
 every Native of Africa, who shall be so enlisted or 
 entered, shall be treated and dealt with as if he had 
 voluntarily enlisted or entered. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 7. 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 172. §7. 
 
 21. Where any Slaves or Natives of Africa taken as Bounty for Slaves 
 Prize of War by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or J^^^J^Jj;^/^^ 
 Privateers duly commissioned, shall be finally condemned, 
 ;hc Captors thereof by the Trea- 
 
 shall be paid 
 
 *urer 
 
318 
 
 S>labe0. 
 
 Certificate to be 
 proriuced to en- 
 ritle Captors to 
 Bountv. 
 
 Incjseof'DoLibt, 
 Claims to be 
 determined by 
 the Judge of tlie 
 Admiralty. 
 
 Reward for 
 Slaves seized and 
 condctnned as 
 forfeited. 
 
 surer of 
 called 
 
 tht 
 
 11 J .. rr J ^^^^ ^" *^^ ^^^^ manner as the Bountv 
 railed Head Money" is now paid by virtue of 35 Geo 3 
 C.71. such Bounty as His Majesty may have directed by 
 Order m Council, not exceeding £^0 for every Man 
 .3^30 lor every Woman, and ^10 for every Child or 
 1 erson not above U Years old, that shall be delivered 
 over m good Health to the Officer appointed to receive 
 and provide for them ,- which Bounties shall be divided 
 amongst the Officers, Seamen, Mariners, and Soldiers 
 on board His Majesty's Ships of War, or hired armed 
 ^lups, ni the Manner and Proportion as by His Majesty's 
 Froclamation for granting the Distribution of Prizes shall 
 be directed and appointed, and amongst the Owners, 
 Olhcers, and Seamen of any Private Vessel of War, in 
 such Manner and Proportion according to any A^ree- 
 montm Writing they shall have entered into for^hat 
 -Purpose. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 8. 
 
 22. The Numbers of Men, Women, and Children so 
 delivered over, shall be proved to the Commissioners ot 
 His Majesty s Navy, by producing a Copy duly certified 
 ?^ %?f'*^'''^'' ""*' Condemnation, of the Numbers of 
 Men, Women, and Children taken and condemned, and 
 also a Certificate under the Hand of the Officer, Mili- 
 tary or Civil, appointed as aforesaid, to whom they shan 
 have been delivered, acknowledging that he hath re- 
 ceived them, to be disposed of according to His Majesty'- 
 Instructions and Regulations. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. §9. ' 
 
 23. But if Doubts shall arise whether the Party claim- 
 ing such Bounty is entitled thereto, the same shall iV 
 summarily determined by the Judge of the Hin-h Com' 
 of Admiralty, or by the Judge of any Court of Admiralty 
 in winch the Prize shall have been adjudged, subject to 
 an Appeal to the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in 
 Prize Causes. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 10. 
 
 24. Upon the Condemnation to the Use of His Majesty 
 of any Slaves or Natives of Africa seized and prosecuted 
 as forfeited (except in the Cases of Seizures made at Sou 
 by the Commanders or Officers of His Majesty's Ships 
 of War), there shall be paid to the Person who shall 
 have prosecuted the same to Condemnation .^13 fov 
 every Man, i^-lO for every Woman, and ^^3 for ever^ 
 Child or Person under the Age of 14 Years, delivered 
 over in good Health, and also the like Sums to the Use 
 of the Governor or Commander in Chief of any Co- 
 lony or Plantation wherein such Seizure shall have been 
 
 ^ made ; 
 
S>Iabe»* 319 
 
 made ; but in Cases of Seiziireis made at Sea by the Com- 
 manders or Officers of His Majesty's Ships of War, there 
 shall be paid to the Commander or Officer who shall 
 so seize and prosecute, for every Man condemned and 
 ddirered ,^0, for every Woman ^15, and for every 
 Child or Person under Fourteen ^5, subject to such Dis- 
 tribution for the Seizures made at Sea as His Majesty 
 shall thmk fit to direct by any Order in Council ; for 
 which Payments the Officeir appointed to receive and 
 provide for such Slaves or >Natives of Africa, shall, after 
 the Condemnation and Receipt thereof, grant Certifi- 
 cates in favour of the Governor and Party seizing and 
 prosecuting, or the latter alone (as the Case may be), 
 addressed to the Lords of the Treasury, Avho, upon the 
 Production of such Certificate, and of an authentic Copy 
 of the Sentence of Condemnation, and also a Receipt 
 under the Hand of such Officer appointed as aforesaid, 
 specifying that such Slaves or Africans have been received 
 in good Health, shall direct Payment out of the Conso- 
 lidated Fund of the Money :5pecified in such Certificate 
 to the lawful Holders of the t-ame, or the Persons entitled 
 to the Benefit thereof. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 11, 
 
 25. Any Person forging or counterfeiting any such Counterfeiting 
 Certificate, Copy of Sentence of Condemnation, or ^"cun'^"", or 
 Receipt, or any Part thereof, or wilfully uttering or pub- "'"^ '*><-' '*"^^- 
 lishing the same, knowing it to be forged or counter- 
 feited, with Intent to defraud His Majesty, or any other 
 
 Person, shall, on Conviction, suffer Death without Benefit 
 of Clergy, 47 Geo. 3, c. 3(>. § 12. 
 
 26, The pecuniary Penalties or Forfeitures shall be How Pen:iities 
 prosecuted and recovered in any Court of Record in ''"'* r<"'eitures 
 Great Britain, or Court of Record or Vice Admiralty in ^ecovii-Tdr^;?' 
 any Part of His Majesty's Dominions wherein the Offence Jisposcd Jf. 
 was committed, or in case th(j Offender shall be resident 
 
 in any other Place, then in any Part of His Majesty's 
 Dominions .vhere 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 nearest to which 
 such Seizures may be made, or to which such Ships, 
 Slaves, Goods, or Effects (if seized at Sea or without the 
 Limits of any British Jurisdiction) may most conveni- 
 ently be carried for Trial; and ail the Penalties and 
 Forfeitures, whether pecuniary or specific (unless where 
 it is expressly otherwise pi-ovided), shall go to such 
 
 Persons, 
 
 ' 
 
 
 
 
 ■l-i—^^. 
 
 ij:, 
 
 
320 
 
 By whom 
 Seizures may 
 1)6 made. 
 
 Where Offences 
 against this Ad 
 may be tried. 
 
 His Majesty may 
 make Regula- 
 tions as to 
 Negroes wiio 
 have heen bound 
 Apprentices. 
 
 Acts as to en- 
 listing, &c. not 
 to extend to 
 Negroes. 
 
 General Issue 
 may be pleaded 
 and Treble Costs 
 allowed. 
 
 Persons, in suck Shares, and may be prosecuted, distri- 
 buted, 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 Reve- 
 nues of the said British Colonies, now go and belong to, 
 and may now be prosecuted, &c. in Great Britain, or in 
 the said Colonies respectively. 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 17. 
 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 13. 
 
 27. Ships, Slaves, or Natives of Africa conveyed or 
 dealt with as Slaves, and Goods and Effects, forfeited for 
 any Offence against this Act, may be seized by any Offi- 
 cer of the Customs or Excise, or by the Commanders or 
 Officers of any of His Majesty's Ships of War, who shall 
 have the Benefit of all the Provisions of 4 Geo. 3. c. 15., 
 or any other Act made for the Protection of Officois 
 seizing and prosecuting for any Offence relating to the 
 Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in America. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 14. 
 
 28. All Offences against this Act may be tried, deter- 
 mined, and dealt with as Misdemeanors, as if the same 
 had been respectively committed within the Body of the 
 County of Middlesex. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 15. 
 
 29. His Majesty in Council may make such Regula- 
 tions for the Disposal and Support of such Negroes as 
 shall have been bound Apprentice under this Act, after 
 the Term of their Apprenticeship shall have expired, as 
 shall seem meet, and as may prevent such Negroes from 
 becoming at any Time chargeable upon the Island in 
 which they shall have been bound Apprentices. 47 Geo. 3. 
 c. 36. § 16. 
 
 30. No Act, as to enlisting for any limited Period of 
 Service, or granting any Pensions or Allowances to any 
 Soldiers discharged after certain Periods of Service, shall 
 extend to any Negroes enlisted and serving in any of His 
 Majesty's Forces. 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 17. 
 
 3 1 . Persons against whom any Action shall be commenced 
 in Great Britain or elsewhere, for 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; and if the Plaintiff be non- 
 suited, or discontinue his Action ailer the Defendant 
 has appeared, or if Judgement shall be given upon 
 any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plamtiff, the De- 
 
 6 fendaut 
 
fendant shall recover Treble Costs. 46 Geo. 3. c.52. § 19. 
 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 18. 
 
 32. Actions, Bills, Indictments, or Informations for 
 the Recovery of any of the Penalties or Forfeitures 
 imposed by 46 Geo. 3. c.52. and 47 Geo. 3. c.66. may 
 be brought, exhibited, or prosecuted at any Time within 
 Three Years after the Offence committed. 53 Geo. 3. 
 c. 112. § 1. 
 
 33. All Ships, whether British or Foreign, adjudged 
 to be forfeited under any Act for the Prevention, Aboli- 
 tion, or Regulation of the Slave Trade in any Court 
 ot Record in Great Britain, or which shall be condemned 
 ni 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 Re- 
 gistry as British Ships, and thereupon enjoy all the Privi- 
 leges and Advantages of British-built Ships, in like man- 
 ner 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 Re- 
 strictions, Penalties and Forfeitures, and shall be owned 
 and navigated, as Ships condemned as lawful Prize are 
 required to be in order to their obtaining British Re- 
 gisters, and enjoying the Privileges of British Ships 
 according to Law. 54 Geo. 3. c. 59. § 1. 
 
 34. 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 forfeited, or otherwise proceeded against and 
 brought to Adjudication, the Person claiming any Right 
 or Property in or the Possession of such Slaves shall put 
 such Slaves on Shore, and the Chief Officerjof the Customs 
 of the Place shall direct Inquiry to be made whether the 
 Person claiming any Right or Property in or to the Pos- 
 session of such Slaves, shall have furnished or be willing 
 and able to furnish sufficient Food and Necessaries for the 
 wholesome Maintenance of the said Slaves during the 
 Proceedings; and such Chief Officer shall report to the 
 Governor, or Person exercising the Authority of Gover- 
 nor, the Result of such Inquiry; and if it shall appear 
 that sufficient Food and Necessaries have not been fur- 
 
 nishpfl. anr\ if t]\a P/irD^,, «i„:™,:.^,.. 4.\,^ p .~.,4— :- u 
 
 Slaves shall refuse or neglect to support the said Slaves 
 during such Proceedings, the Governor^ &c, shall autho- 
 
 Y rize 
 
 321 
 
 Penalties or 
 Forfeitures may- 
 be sued for 
 within Three 
 Years. 
 
 Ships condemned 
 as forfeited under 
 these Acts may 
 be registered as 
 British Ships. 
 
 Support and 
 Maintenance of 
 Slaves until 
 Adjudication. 
 
322 
 
 d^latoeg. 
 
 Claimants refus- 
 ing or neglecting 
 to supply Neces- 
 saries pending 
 the Proceedings, 
 the Slaves to be 
 valued and de- 
 livered over. 
 
 How Restitution 
 to 1)6 made where 
 Slaves have been 
 delivered over. 
 
 Ill Cases of Ap- 
 peal, the Slaves 
 to be valued and 
 delivered over. 
 
 rize the Chief Officer to take on himself the immediate 
 Care and Custody of such Slaves, and to provide proper 
 Food and Necessaries, until the Court shall have made 
 its Decree ; 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 Re- 
 gistry of the Court and examined, 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 172. § 1. 
 
 35. In case the Court shall not immediately restore or 
 condemn, but shall direct further Proof in the Cause, and 
 the Person claiming the Property or Possession shall not 
 have supplied, or at any Time pending Proceedings shall 
 refuse or neglect to supply, Necessaries for the said Slaves, 
 the Court may direct a Valuation to be made, and decree 
 such Slaves, after such Valuation had and approved, to 
 be delivered over to such Officer or Person as may be ap- 
 pointed by His Majesty to receive Slaves condemned 
 according to 4.7 Geo. 3. c. 36. ; and the same shall be 
 treated in all Respects according to the Provisions of the 
 said Act, except that the Bounty shall not be payable 
 but in the Event of final Condemnation. 55 Geo. S. 
 c. 172. §2. 
 
 36. If on further Proof the Slaves shall be decieed to 
 be restored, and there be no Appeal, and the Slaves 
 shall have been delivered over as above directed. Resti- 
 tution shall be made in the Value of the Slaves, according 
 to the Valuation before directed, together with Interest 
 thereon, such Sums being deducted as were expended for 
 their Maintenance; and the Value so adjusted shall be 
 paid by the Treasurer of the Navy in the same Manner 
 as Boimties paid for Slaves condemned under 47 Ceo. 3. 
 c. 36., on the Production of the Official Copy of the 
 Sentence of Restitution, with the Valuation endorsed 
 thereon by the Registrar of the Court. 55 Geo. 3. 
 c. 172. § 3. 
 
 37. In case where there shall have been a Decree hav- 
 ing the Effect of a definitive Sentence, restoring or con- 
 demning the said Slaves, and the same shall be suspended 
 by Appeal, the Court shall forthwith direct the Slaves to 
 be valued, and after such Valuation to be delivered over 
 to such Officer or Person as mav be annointed to receive 
 Slaves condemned ; and such Slaves shall be dealt with 
 in all Respects as if they had been finally condemned, 
 
 except 
 
 I 
 
 ^ .1 
 
 except th 
 the Even 
 38. W 
 of Appea 
 Use of th 
 directed, 
 together 
 the Main 
 Value so 
 Navy in 
 47 Geo. S 
 of the fir 
 endorsed i 
 c. 112. §i 
 S9. Nc 
 the princi 
 Prosecuto 
 Value, su< 
 mages as 
 that the C 
 thereon, si 
 Case. 55 
 40. Iff 
 residing o 
 of the Isla 
 Factories, 
 His Maje 
 the East 
 Factor or 
 in the rem 
 sold or dt 
 from any 
 tory, or F 
 at Sea, or 
 importing, 
 Person as 
 knowingly 
 or Boat ai 
 shall know 
 to freight 
 moving or 
 importing, 
 pose of be 
 out or caus 
 navigate oi 
 
except that the Bounties shall not be due thereon but in 
 
 the Event of final Condemnation. 55 Geo. 3. c. 172. §4. 
 
 38. Where Slaves shall be finally restored in the Court 
 
 of Appeal, Restitution in Value shall be nmde for the 
 
 Use of the Proprietor, according to the Valuation before 
 
 directed, subject to Revision in the said Court of Appeal, 
 
 together with Interest thereon, the Sums expended for 
 
 the Maintenance and Support being deducted ; and the 
 
 Value so adjusted shall be paid by the Treasurer of the 
 
 Nav^ in the same Manner as Bounties are paid under 
 
 47 Geo. 3. c. 36., on the Production of an Official Copy 
 
 of the final Sentence, with the Valuation of the Slaves 
 
 endorsed thereon by the Registrar of the Court. 55 Geo. 3 
 
 c. 172. §5. 
 
 S9. Not to prevent the Courts having Jurisdiction in 
 the principal Cause from adjudging the Captor, Seizor, or 
 Prosecutor to pay, in addition to the Restitution in 
 Value, such further Sums in the Nature of Costs or Da- 
 mages as the Court shall decree, where it shall appear 
 that the Capture, Seizure, or Prosecution, or the Appeal 
 thereon, shall not be justified by the Circumstances of the 
 Case. 55 Geo. 3. c. 172. §6. 
 
 40. If any Subject of His Majesty, or if any Person 
 residing or being within the United Kingdom, or in any 
 of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, Settlements, 
 Factories, or Territories belonging 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 
 m 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, Terri- 
 tory, or Place, either immediately or by Transhipment 
 at Sea, or otherwise ; or shall import, or aid or assist in 
 iniporting, into any Colony, Territory, or Place, any such 
 I erson as aforesaid, for the Purpose aforesaid ; or shall 
 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 re- 
 movmg or importing, or for the Purpose of removing or 
 importing, any such Person as a Slave, or for the Pur- 
 X'"'- ^^ ^^'-"o '''^^^ ^^ ucait With as a olave ; or shali ill 
 
 323 
 
 If restored in the 
 Court of Appeal, 
 Restitution in 
 Value to be 
 made. 
 
 Courts having 
 Jurisdiction in 
 the original 
 Cause may ad- 
 judge Costs and 
 Damages. 
 
 British Subjects, 
 or Per^cns being 
 within the 
 United Kingdom 
 or any of the 
 boniiiiioiis of 
 His Majesty, 
 c.irrying on the 
 Slave Trade, or 
 any way engaged 
 therein, declared 
 Felons. 
 
 out or cause to be fitted out, or take the 
 navigate or embark 
 
 Command of or 
 on board any such Ship as Master or 
 
 Y2 
 
 Capt 
 
 ain. 
 
 m 
 
324 
 
 I'luiiilimeiit of 
 Parsons serving 
 on board Ships or 
 underwriting 
 any Policy. 
 
 Not to prevent 
 the Removal of 
 Slaves from one 
 Britisii Colony 
 to another, or 
 from Shipe in 
 Distress, nor the 
 Transportation 
 of Slaves con- 
 victed of Crimes. 
 
 How Fel&nies 
 and Misde- 
 meanors shall be 
 nKjuired of, 
 
 Elates. 
 
 Captain, Mate, Supercargo, or Surgeon, knowing that 
 such Veasel is actually employed, or is in the same Voy- 
 age for which he shall so embark intended to be em- 
 ployed, in removing, importing, or bringing any such 
 Person for the Purpose of his being sold, used, or dealt 
 with as a Slave; the Persons offending, and their Coun- 
 sellors, Aiders, and Abettors, shall be declared to be 
 Felons, and be transported for a Term not exceeding 
 Fourteen Years, or kept to hard Labour for a Term not 
 exceeding Five Years, nor less than Three Years, at the 
 Discretion of the Court before whom convicted. 5 1 Geo. 3. 
 c.23. § 1. 
 
 4-1. 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 Voy- 
 age, or who shall underwrite or procure to be under- 
 written any Policy of Assurance upon any such Ship or 
 Goods, or die Freight, knowing the Purpose of the 
 Voyage, shall only be declared to be guilty of a Misde- 
 meanor, and shall be punished by Imprisonment for a 
 Term not exceeding Two Years ; and such Persons shall 
 not be deemed to be, nor shall be punished as Accessories 
 to Felony. 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. § 2, 3. 
 
 42. Not to subject any Person to Pains and Penal- 
 ties 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 Part of the same, or for trans- 
 porting into or landing in any such Colony or Settlement 
 any Slave born within such Colonies or Settlements, or 
 any Slaves which shall be lawdFully imported into the said 
 Colonies or Settlements, or for removing or carrying any 
 Slave from one Part of any Foreign Colony or Settlement 
 to another Part of the same, or for transhipping and 
 assisting at Sea any Slave which shall be in any Ship in 
 Distress ; nor prevent the Transportation to any Foreign 
 Colony or Place of any Slave convicted by due Course 
 of Law in any British Colony of any Crime to which the 
 Punishment of Transportation shall be annexed ; but in 
 every such Case a Copy of the Judgment or Sentence, 
 certified by the Court, shall be put on board the Ship. 
 51 Geo. 3. c.23. § 4. 
 
 451. All 1^p1rkni<3C rt-r 1\^icr]om<3ar><->«-c! o^rv>v»if^^^ in Afmr>m 
 
 or in any Place other than the United Kingdom, or on 
 
 the 
 
 * 
 
in 
 
 the High Seas, or in any Place where the Admiral has- 
 Jurisdiction, shall be inquired of, either according to the 
 ordinary Course of Law, and the Provisions of 28 Hen. 8. 
 so far as the same Act is now unrepealed, or accordintr 
 to 1 1 & 12 W. S.— 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. § 6. 
 
 44. But nothing herein contained shall repeal or alter 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. or 47 Geo. 3. c. 36. for preventing the 
 Importation of Slaves by any of His Majesty's Subjects 
 mto any Islands, Colonies, Plantations, or Territories 
 belonging to any Foreign State or Power, in respect of 
 any Forfeitures of Ships, Cargoes, Goods, or Effects 
 thereby imposed for any Offence against the said Acts, 
 or the Remedies thereby given for the Recovery thereof, 
 or in respect of any pecuniary Penalties thereby imposed. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. § 7. 
 
 45. Whereas Doubts have arisen whether Offences 
 declared by 51 Geo. 3. c.23. to be Felonies or Misde- 
 meanors, committed on the High Seas, or in any Port, 
 Sea, Creek, or Place where the Admiral has Jurisdiction, 
 may be inquired of^ heard, and determined under or by 
 virtue of any Commission issued or to be issued under the 
 Directions of 46 Geo. 3. c. 54. ; be it therefore enacted, 
 That all Offences declared by 51 Geo. 3. c. 28. to be 
 Felonies or Misdemeanors, committed on the High Seas, 
 or in any Port, Sea, Creek, or Place where the Admiral 
 has Jurisdiction^ may be inquired of, tried, and deter- 
 mined under any Commission already issued or hereafter 
 to be issued according to the Directions of 46 Geo. 3. 
 c. 54. ; and all Persons convicted of any of the safd 
 Offences, so tried and determined under any such Com- 
 mission issued according to tlie Directions of the said 
 Act, shall be liable to and shall suffer the same Pains, 
 Penalties, and Forfeitures, as by any Law now in force 
 Persons convicted of the same respectively would be lia- 
 ble to, in case the same were respectively tried and de- 
 termined and adjudged within this Realm by virtue of 
 any Commission made according to the Directions of the 
 Statute of the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King 
 Henry the Eighth. * 58 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 1. 
 
 46. All 
 
 325 
 
 Penalties nnif ' 
 Forfeitures of 
 former Acts not 
 repealed or 
 altered. 
 
 * By 46 Geo. 3. c.54. all Treasons, Piracies, Felonies, Rob- 
 
 f t-va. ^r^Etruc: a 
 
 MnspifxiCies, and oincr Opcnces, of what Nature 
 or Kind soever, committed upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, 
 Creek, or Place where the Admiral or Admirals have Authofdti 
 
 Y3 or 
 
 Offences de- 
 clared by 
 Ji Geo. 3, c. aj. 
 to be Felonie!) or 
 Misdemeanors 
 committed ottthe 
 Seas, or where 
 the Admiral has 
 Jurisdiction, may 
 be tried under 
 any Commission 
 issued according 
 to the Directions 
 of 46 Geo. 3. 
 c.54- 
 
326 
 
 Governors and 
 Commanders in 
 Chief in Africu 
 m«y mnke 
 Seizures of 
 Slaves, &c. 
 within their 
 Limits. 
 
 I'ctty Officers or 
 Scanion giving 
 Information so 
 
 46. All Governors or Persons having the Chief Com- 
 mand of any of the kJettlenients, Forts, or Factories be- 
 longing to His Majesty, or the African Company in 
 Africa, or any African Island, and all Persons deputed 
 by such Governor or Commander in Chief, may seize 
 and prosecute all Ships, Slaves, or Natives of Africa con- 
 veyed or dealt with as Slaves, and all Goods and EiFects 
 forfeited for any Offence against 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. or 
 47 Geo. 3. c. 36., and which shall be found upon or near 
 to the said Coast, or in any Port, Haven, or Ri\'er 
 thereof^ or within the Limits of any of the said Settle- 
 ments, Forts, or Factories ; and such Governor or Com- 
 mander in Chief, and all Persons by them so deputed, 
 shall have the Benefit of all the Provisions made by any 
 Act for the Protection of Officers seizing and prosecuting 
 for any Offence against any Act relating to the Trade 
 and Revenues of the British Colonies or Plantations in 
 America. 51 Geo. 3. c. 23. § 8. 
 
 47. If any Petty Officer, Servant, or Seamaii, on 
 board any Ship fitted out for or engaged in the unlawfully 
 
 Of Jurisdiction, may be inquired of, determined, and adjudged 
 according to the common Course of the Laws of this liealm used 
 for Offences committed upon the Land within this Realm, and not 
 otherwise, in untj of His Majesty's Islands, Plantations, Colonies, 
 Dominions, Forts, or Factories, by virtue of the King's Commis- 
 sion under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to be directed to any 
 such Four or more discreet Persons as the Lord Chancellor of 
 Great Britain, Lord Keeper, or Commissioners for the Custody of 
 the Great Seal of Great Britain for the Time being, shall from 
 Time to Time think ^t to appoint ; and the said Commissioners so 
 to be appointed, or any Three of them, shall have such and the 
 like Powers and Authorities for the Trial of all such Murders, 
 Treasons, Piracies, Felonies, Robberies, Conspiracies, and other 
 Offences, within any such Island, Plantation, Colony, Dominion, 
 Fort, or Factory, as any Commissioners appointed or to be ap- 
 pointci' according to 28 Henry Sth, by any Law or Laws now in 
 force, have or would have for the Trial of the said Offences with- 
 in this Realm ; and all Persons convicted of any of the said 
 Offences, so to be tried by virtue of any Commmion to he made 
 according to the Directions of this Act, shall be liable to and 
 shall suffer all such and the same Pains, Penalties, and For- 
 feitures, as by any Law now in force Persons convicted of the 
 same respectively would be liable to in case the same were respec- 
 tively inquired of, determined, and adjudged within this Realm, 
 hy virtue tf any Commission made accvidlug to the Dit'eciion^ of 
 the snid Statute (f 2S Hen. Qth. . ' 
 
 removing 
 
 f 
 
! 
 
 t. 
 
 I emoving or dealing in Slaves, shall within Three Months 
 jifler 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 Supercargo 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 
 Offender may be tried ; or if such Petty Officer, or Ma- 
 riner, or Servant, shall within Three Months afler his 
 Arrival at any Place not within His Majesty's Domi- 
 nions, give Information to any of His Majesty's Am- 
 bassadors, Ministers Plenipotentiary, Envoys, Consuls, 
 Residents, or other Agents, so that any Person owning 
 such Ships, or navigatmg or taking Charge of the same 
 as Captain, Mate, Surgeon, or Supercargo, may be 
 apprehended, such Person so giving Information and 
 Evidence shall not be liable to any Punishment under 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 52. or 47 Geo. 3. c. 36., but shall be wholly 
 discharged therefrom ; and His Majesty's Ambassadors, 
 &c. are required to receive such Information, and to 
 transmit the Particulars thereof to one of His Majesty's 
 Principal Secretaries of State, and to transmit Copies of 
 the same to the Commanders of His Majesty's Ships then 
 in the said Port or Place. 51 Geo. 3. c 23. § 9. 
 
 48. Whereas divers Persons have contrary to Law 
 imported into certain of His Majesty's Possessions on the 
 Continent of South America, certain Negro Slaves from 
 other Possessions of His Majesty; and it is expedient 
 that all Persons who have been concerned in advising, 
 authorizing, or making such Importations of Negro Slaves 
 should be indemnified, inasmuch as such Importations 
 have been made under a Belief that they were authorized 
 by Law : Be it therefore enacted. That the said Import- 
 ations be deemed valid and of due Force in Law; and 
 that all Personal Actions and Suits, Indictments, Inform- 
 ations, and all Prosecutions and Proceedings whatsoever, 
 which have been oi' shall be hereafter prosecuted or com- 
 menced against any Persons for having advised, authorized, 
 or made any such Importation before the passing of this 
 Act, shall be discharged and made void ; and if any 
 Action shall be commenced against any Person by reason 
 of any such Importation, he may plead the General Issue, 
 and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence; 
 and if the Plaintiff in any Action or Suit, commenced in 
 
 Y 4 England, 
 
 32/ 
 
 that Offenders 
 may be appra- 
 hcn led, shall not 
 be liable to :iny 
 PunikhmMit. 
 
 Certain Import.!- 
 tions of Slaves 
 into the British 
 Colonies on the 
 Continent of 
 South America, 
 declared valid, 
 and Prosecutions 
 discharged. 
 
 
328 
 
 Courts to make 
 Orders for stay- 
 ing Proceedings 
 where Suits have 
 been com- 
 menced. 
 
 Impoverished 
 Land in tlie 
 Bahamas and 
 Dotniuica. 
 
 Allowing Slaves 
 to be tratisport^d 
 thence to South 
 America. 
 
 England, Ireland, or any of His Majesty's Possessions drt 
 the Continent of South America, or in tlie West India 
 Islands, shall become nonsuit, or forbear further Pro- 
 secution, or suffer Discontinuance, or if a Verdict shall 
 f)ass against such Plaintiff; tlie Defendant shall recover 
 Double Costs, for which he shall have the like Remedy as 
 in Cases where Costs are given to the Defendants ; and 
 if any such Action shall be commenced in the Part of 
 Great Britain called Scotland, the Court shall allow to 
 the Defender the Benefit of the Discharge and Indemnity 
 thereby provided, and shall further allow him his Double 
 Costs. 58 Geo. 3. c. 49. § 1. 
 
 49. If any Action hath been already commenced 
 against any Person for any such Importation, the De- 
 fendant or Defenders, in whatever Court of the United 
 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any of 
 His Majesty's Possessions on the Continent of South 
 Anierica, or in the West India Islands, such Action or 
 Suit shall have been commenced, may apply to such Court 
 to stay all Proceedings thereon respectively, by Motion in 
 a summary Way, and such Court is required to make 
 Order for that Purpose accordingly ; and the Court 
 shall allow and award to the Defendant or Defenders re- 
 spectively Double Costs of Suit, for which they shall re- 
 spectively have the like Remedy as in Cases where Costs 
 are by Law given to the Defendant or Defendersi, 
 58 Geo. 3. C.49. §2, 
 
 50. And whereas it has been represented that there is 
 in the Bahama Islands, and on certain Estates in the 
 Island of Dominica, a considerable Quantity of the Land 
 which, from Length of Cultivation, has become exhausted ; 
 and it has in consequence become impossible for the 
 Proprietors ( ,uch Land to find profitable Employment 
 and Subsistence for the Negro Slaves supported by culti- 
 vating the said Land : And whereas it might tend to 
 ameliorate the Condition of the said Negro Slaves if they 
 could by Law be transported to certain of His Majesty's 
 Possessions on the Continent of South America, to which 
 by Law they cannot now be transported : Be it enacted, 
 That His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy 
 Council, may grant Licences for the Transportation of 
 such Slaves from any of the said Islands to any of the said 
 Possessions on the Continent of Smith .\rr\cv\cii iindsr 
 certain Restrictions, to be hereinafter provided : Provided 
 alw ays, that no such Licence shall be granted unless upon 
 a Representation to His Majesty's most Hounourable 
 
 Privy 
 
Privy Council, from the Proprietor of such Slaves, who 
 shall be required to produce satisfactory Proof that they 
 may be so transported without Disadvantage to them- 
 selves, and unless he shall enter into Bond to remove the 
 said Negro Slaves in Families. 58 Geo. 3. c. 49. § 3. 
 
 51. His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy 
 Council, may make such further Rules and Regulations, 
 with respect to the Transport and Destination of any 
 such Negroes, with such Penalties and Forfeitures for 
 the Breach thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to 
 His Majesty, with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. 
 c. 49. §4. 
 
 52. Provided, that it shall not be lawful for any 
 Person to embark, export, c. carry upon the Sea, any 
 Slaves from any such Settlement or Territovy now 
 belonging to or under the Dominion or in the Pos- 
 session of His Majesty, on the Continent of South 
 America, to any other Country, Island, Territory, or 
 Place whatever, whether under the Dominion of His 
 Majesty, or of any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power; 
 provided also, that nothing herein-betbre contained shall 
 extend to prevent the embarking, exporting, or carrying 
 by Sea any Slaves from any such Settlement or Territoiy 
 ot or belonging to or under the Dominion or in the 
 Possession of His Majesty, on the Continent of South 
 America, to any other Settlement or Territory now be.. 
 Jonging to or under the Dominion or in the Possession 
 ot His Majesty, on the said Continent of South America, 
 so as that such Slaves are embarked and carried, subject 
 to all the Restrictions, Regulations, Penalties, and For- 
 teitures in the said recited Acts or either of them con- 
 tained in relation to the carrying of Slaves from one 
 Island, Colony, or Plantation belonging to His Majesty, 
 u-^'iv °*^^^ ^^^^"^' Colony, or Plantation belonging to 
 His Majesty: Provided also, that nothing herein-before 
 contained shall prevent any Slave f'-om being employed 
 either in Navigation, Fishing, or any other his ordinary 
 Business or Occupation upon the Seas, in the same 
 Manner as Slaves may now be employed in any British 
 West India Island, in Numbers not exceeding in any one 
 Boat or Vessel those usually employed in navigating 
 such Vessels or Boats: Provided also, that nothing 
 lic-ruiu-oorore contained shall extend to prevent any Slave 
 who shall be the domestic Servant of any Person residing 
 or being in any such Settlement or Territory, now 
 belonging to or under the Dominion or in the Pos- 
 session 
 
 329 
 
 His Majesty in 
 Council to make 
 such Rules and 
 Orders as he 
 may deem ucces- 
 sary. 
 
 Not to be con- 
 veyed from 
 British Colonies 
 on the Continent 
 to any other 
 Country what - 
 ever, except to 
 another British 
 Colony on the 
 Continent, under 
 certain ConJi- 
 tions. 
 
330 
 
 session of His Majesty^ from attending his Owner, 
 Master, or Mistress, or any Part of his Family, by Sea 
 to any Place whatever, in the same Manner and under 
 the same Regulations as are prescribed by any of the 
 sai<l recited Acts as to Slaves attending their Masters 
 from any British West India Island. 58 Geo. 3. c.49. §5. 
 
 TREATY WITH SPAIN, 
 
 FOR PREVENTING TRAFFIC IN SLAVES, 
 Signed at Madrid, 23d September 1817. 
 
 By the First Akticle, His Catholic Majesty en- 
 gaged that the Slave Trade shall be abolished throughout 
 the entire Dominions of Spain on the Thirtieth Day of 
 May One thousand eight hundred and twenty ; and that 
 from and after that Period it shall not be lawiul for any 
 of the Subjects of the Crown of Spain to purchase Slaves, 
 or to carry on the Slave Trade on any Part of the Coast 
 of Africa, upon any Pretext or in any Manner what- 
 ever ; provided however, that a Term of Five Months 
 from the said Date of the Thirtieth of May One thousand 
 eight hundred and twenty shall be allowed for complet- 
 ing the Voyages of Vessels which shall have been cleared 
 out lawfully previously to the said Thirtieth of May. 
 
 Second Article. — That from and after the Exchange 
 of the Rati^cations of the said Treaty, it shall not be 
 lawful for any of the Subjects of the Crown of Spain to 
 purchase Slaves, or to carry on the Slave Trade on any 
 Part of the Coast of Africa to the North of the Equator, 
 upon any Pretext or in any Manner whatever ; provided 
 however, that a Term of Six Months from the Date of 
 the Exchange of the Ratifications of the said Treaty shall 
 be allowed for completing the Voyages of Vessels which 
 shall have cleared out from Spanish Ports for the 
 said Coast previously to the Exchange of the said Rati- 
 fications. 
 
 JL KIRD ARTICL.E.- 
 
 u:^ TV* 
 
 
 
 ♦rt naXT in 
 
 London, on the Twentieth Day of February One thou- 
 iSatid eight hundred and eighteen, the Sum of Four 
 
 hundred 
 
 
 toriwH n 
 
I 
 
 S^latoeS (Treaty with Spain). 
 
 hundred thousand Pounds Sterling, to such Person 
 as His Catholic Majesty shall appoint to receive the 
 same. 
 
 Fourth Article.— The said Sum of Four hundred 
 thousand Pounds Sterling is to be considered as a full 
 Compensation for all Losses sustained by the Subjects of 
 His Catholic Majesty, engaged in this Traffic, on ac- 
 count ot Vessels captured previously to the Exchange of 
 the Ratifications of the said Treaty, as also for the Losses 
 Avhich are a necessary Consequence of the Abolition of 
 the said Traffic. 
 
 Fifth Article. -Every Traffic in Slaves, which 
 should be carried on under the Circumstances in the said 
 Article stated, should be considered as illicit ; First, either 
 by British Ships, and under the British Flag, or for the 
 Account of British Subjects, by any Vessel, or under 
 any Flag whatsoever: Secondly, by Spanish Ships upon 
 any Part ol the Coast of Africa North of the Equator, 
 after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the said Treaty ; 
 provided however, that Six MonUis should be allowed 
 lor completing the Voyages of Vessels, comformably to 
 the Tenor of the Second Article of the said Treaty : 
 Thirdly, either by Spanish Ships and under the Spanish 
 Flag, or for the Account of Spanish Subjects, by any 
 Vessel, or under any Flag whatsoever, after the Thirtieth of 
 May One thousand eight hundred and twenty, when 
 t^ie Traffic in Slaves on the Part of Spain was declared 
 by the said Treaty to cease entirely | and it was by the 
 said Article provided, that Five Months should be al- 
 lowed for the Completion of Voyages commenced in due 
 Time, conformably to the First Article of the said Treaty • 
 Fourthly, under the British or Spanish Flag, for the 
 Account of the Subjects of any other Government: 
 Fifthly, by Spanish Vessels bound for any Port not in 
 the Dominions of His Catholic Majesty. 
 
 Sixth Article.— His Catholic Majesty engaged to 
 adopt, m conformity to the Spirit of the said Treaty, 
 the Measures which are best calculated to give full and 
 complete Effiict to the laudable Obgects thereof. 
 
 Seventh Article— Every Spanish Vessel which shall 
 be destined for the Slave Trade, on any Tart of the Coast 
 ot Atnca, where this Traffic stilly continues to be lawful, 
 must he provided with a Royal I'assport, conformable to 
 the Model annexed to the said Treaty, and which Model 
 forms an integral Part of the same, written in the Spanish 
 
 Language, 
 
 331 
 
 it—tlMft 
 
332 
 
 &l^\)tS (Treaty with Spaiii). 
 
 Language, with an authentic Translation in English an- 
 nexed thereto, and signed by His Catholic Majesty, 
 and countersigned by the Minister of Marine, and also 
 by the Principal Naval Authority of the District, Sta- 
 tion, or Port from whence the Vessel clears out, whether 
 in Spain, or in the Colonial Possessions of His Catholic 
 Majesty. 
 
 Eighth Article. — That it should be understood that 
 the Passport, for rendering lawful the Voyages of Slave 
 Ships, should be required only for the Continuation of 
 the Traffic to the South of the Line, and that those Pass- 
 ports which were then issued, signed by the First Secre- 
 tary of State of His Catholic Majesty, and in Form pre- 
 scribed by an Order of the Sixteenth of December One 
 thousand eight hundred and sixteen, should remain in 
 full Force for all Vessels which may have cleared out 
 for the Coast of Africa, as well to the North as to the 
 South of the Line, previously to the Exchange of the Rar 
 ti^cations of the said Treaty. 
 
 Ninth Auticle. — The Ships of War of His Majesty 
 and of His Catholic Majesty, which should be provided 
 with special Instructions for that Purpose, as mentioned 
 in the said Treaty, may visit such Merchant Vessels of 
 the Two Nations as may be suspected, upon reasonable 
 Grounds, for having Slaves on board acquired by an 
 illicit Trade ; and in the Event only of their finding 
 Slaves on board may retain and bring away such 
 Vessels, in order that they may be brought to Trial 
 before the Tribunals to be established for that Purpose, 
 as specified in the said Treaty ; and it was by the said 
 Article provided, that the Commanders of Ships of Wai' 
 of the Royal Navies of His Majesty and His Catholic 
 Majesty, who shall be employed in this Service, shall 
 adhere strictly to the exact Tenor of the Instructions 
 which they shall receive for this Purpose; and His 
 Majesty and His Catholic Majesty engaged mutually to 
 make good any Losses which the Subjects of His 
 Majesty and of His Catholic Majesty might resp-'^tively 
 incur unjustly, by the arbitrary and illegal Dete ition of 
 their Vessels, it being understood that this Indemnity shall 
 invariably be borne by the Government whose Cruizer 
 shall have been guilty of the arbitrary Detention; provided 
 
 olu/nirc fT->o*- fK^ T7!oIf nryA "Pi^^-Q*^ «•;—»• „r CI-,.- CKC>->.. r,^\n- 
 
 cified in the said Article, shall only be effected by those 
 British or Spanish Vessels which may form Part of the 
 
 ^ Two 
 
S)lat)eS (Treaty ivith Spain). 
 
 Two Royal Navies, and by those only of such Vessels 
 which are provided with the special Instructions annexed 
 to the said Treaty. 
 
 Tenth Article—No British or Spanish Cruizer 
 s|iail detain any Slave Ship not having Slaves actually on 
 board; and that in order to render lawful the Detention 
 ot the Ship, whether British or Spanish, the Slaves found 
 on board such Vessel must have been brought on board 
 the Vessel for the express Purpose of the Traffic, and 
 those on board of Spanish Ships must have been taken 
 trom that Part of the Coast of Africa where the Slave 
 Trade is prohibited, conformably to the Tenor of the 
 said Treaty. 
 
 Eleventh Article.— That all Ships of War of the 
 1 wo Nations which shall hereafter be destined to prevent 
 the illicit Traffic in Slaves, shall be furnished with a 
 Copy of the Instructions annexed to the said Treaty 
 and considered as an integral Part thereof, with a Pro- 
 viso nevertheless in the said Treaty, that His Majesty 
 and His Catholic Majesty, with mutual Consent, may 
 alter the Instructions in whole or in part, accordino- to 
 Circumstances. '^ 
 
 Twelfth Article.— In order to bring to Adjudica- 
 tion, with the least Delay and Inconvenience, the Vessels 
 which may be detained for having been engaged in an 
 Illicit Traffic of Slaves, there shall be established, within 
 a Space of a Year at furthest from the Exchange of the 
 Ratifications of the said Treaty,:Two mixed Commissions, 
 formed of an equal Number of Persons of the Two Na- 
 tions, named for that Purpose by the respective Sovereigns; 
 and that these Commissions shall reside, one in a Pos- 
 session belonging to His Majesty, the other within the 
 Terntories of His Catholic Majesty; one of which Com- 
 missions is stipulated by the said Treaty to be always 
 held upon the Coast of Africa, and the other in one of 
 the Colonial Possessions of His Catholic Majesty ; and 
 It was by the said Treaty provided, that the said Com- 
 mifisions shall judge the Causes submitted to them with- 
 out Appeal, and according to the Regulations and 
 Instructions annexed to the said Treaty, which said In- 
 structions \vere by the said Treaty made an integral Part 
 thereof. ° 
 
 333 
 
334 
 
 &l^b00 {Treaty luith Spain), 
 INSTRUCTIONS 
 
 ANNEXED TO THE TREATY. 
 
 First Article. — Every British or Spanish Ship of 
 War shall, in conformity with Article Nine of the Treaty, 
 have a Right to visit the Merchant Ships of either 
 of the Two Nations actually engapfed or suspected to be 
 engaged in the Slave Trade ; and if any Slaves shall be 
 found on board, according to the Tenor of the Tenth 
 Article of the Treaty ; and as to what regards the Spanish 
 Vessels, if there shall be Ground to suspect that the said 
 Slaves have been embarked on a Part of the Coast of 
 Africa where the Traffic is no longer permitted, con- 
 formably to the said Treaty ; and in such Cases alone, 
 the Commander of the said Ship of War may detain 
 such Merchant Ship or Vessel, and shall, as soon as pos- 
 sible, bring the same for Judgment before such of the 
 Two mixed Commissions appointed by the Twelfth Ar- 
 ticle of the said Treaty which shall be the nearest, or 
 which the Commander of the capturing Ship shall, upon 
 his own Responsibility, think he can soonest reach from 
 the Spot where the Slave Ship shall have been detained ; 
 and it was provided, that Ships, en board of which no 
 Slaves shall be found mtended for the Purposes of Traffic, 
 shall uot be detained on any Account or Pretence what- 
 soever; and that Negro Servants or Sailors found on 
 board any such Vessels shall not in any Case be deemed 
 a sufficient Cause for Detention. 
 
 Second Article. — No Spanish Merchantman or Slave 
 Ship shall, on any Pretence whatever, be detained, which 
 shall be found any where near the Land, or on the High 
 Seas South of the Equator, during the Period for which 
 the Traffic is to remain lawful, according to the said 
 Treaty, unless after a Chace that shall have commenced 
 North of the Equator. 
 
 Third Article. — That Spanish Vessels, furnished 
 with a regular Passport, having Slaves on board, shipped 
 at those Parts of the Coast of Africa where the Trade is 
 permitted to Spanish Subjects, and which simll after- 
 wtirds be found North of the Equator, shall not be de- 
 tained by any British or Spanish Ship of War, if such 
 Snanisn Vcsst^i can Recount for their i.'i^iirse. eithex* in 
 conformity with the Practice of the Spani sL. Navigation, 
 by steering some Degrees to the North wr.rtl n "search of 
 
 lo fair 
 
 fair Wii 
 
 Dangers 
 
 with regi 
 
 Equator, 
 
 Proof of 
 
 nished h 
 
 with resp 
 
 Equator, 
 
 ceding A 
 
 is require 
 
 like Man 
 
 on board 
 
 ber shoul 
 
 shall not 
 
 such Shij 
 
 in such C 
 
 order to 1 
 
 the Coun 
 
 FOURT 
 
 to be em 
 formity w 
 shall becc 
 at least of 
 was provi( 
 the Ship 
 Character 
 Sailors shi 
 they belon 
 or that th( 
 His Cathc 
 
 Fifth . 
 meet a Me 
 done in th 
 which is di 
 no Casesh 
 Rank inter 
 Britain, or 
 Navy. 
 
 Sixth I 
 tain any SI 
 down in thi 
 Cargo of ^1 
 
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 •' i ni I iil I 
 
 the Captaii; 
 ^wch Slave 
 
IS 
 
 dlatoe^ {Treaty with Spainy 
 
 fair Winds, or for other legitimate Causes, sucl. as the 
 Dangers of the Sea, duly proved : Provided always, that 
 with regard to all Slave Ships detained to the North of the 
 Equator, after the Expiration of the Term allowed, the 
 i^root ot the Legality of the Voyage is required to be fur- 
 nished by the Vessel so detained; uii the other Hand, 
 with respect to Slave Ships detained to the South of the 
 Equator, in conformity with the Stipulations of the pre- 
 ceding Article, the Proof of the Illegality of the Vovaffe 
 is required to be exhibited by the Captor; and it was m 
 hke Manner stipulated, tli i the ^limber of Slaves found 
 on board a Slave Ship by the Cruizers, even if the Num- 
 ber should not agree with that < >ntained in the Passport, 
 shall not be sufficient Reason to justify the Detention of 
 such Ship, but that the Ca tain and the Proprietor shall 
 in such Case be denounced in the Spanish Tribunals, in 
 
 order to their being punished according to the Laws of 
 the Country. 
 
 Fourth Article.— Every Spanish Vessel intended 
 to be employed in the legal Traffic of Slaves, in con- 
 formity With the Principles laid down in the said Treaty, 
 shall be commanded by a native Spaniard, and Two-thirds 
 at least of the Crew shall likewise be Spaniards; and it 
 was provided that the Spanish or Foreign Construction of 
 the Ship or Vessel shall in no wise affect the national 
 Character of the Ship or Vessel, and that the Negro 
 bailors shall always be reckoned as Spaniards, provided 
 they belong as Slaves to Subjects of the Crown of Spain, 
 or that they have been enfranchised in the Dominions of 
 His Catholic Majesty. 
 
 Fifth Article.— That whenever a Ship of War shall 
 meet a Merchantman liable to be searched, it shall be 
 done m the most mild Manner, and with every Attention 
 which IS due between allied and friendly Nations; and in 
 no Case shall the Search be made by an Officer holding a 
 Rank interior to that of Lieutenant in the Navy of Great 
 Britain, or of Ensign of a Ship of tho Line in the Spanish 
 Navy. ^ 
 
 Sixth Article — The Ships of War which may de- 
 tain any Slave Ship, in pursuance of the Principles laid 
 down in the said Instructions, shall leave on board all the 
 Cargo of Negroes untouched, as well as the Captain, and 
 
 the Captain commanding the Ship of War detaining any 
 ^iich Slave Ship shall draw up in W"riting an authentic 
 
 Decla- 
 
 335 
 
336 
 
 &l$.\^t^ (^iVeaty with Spain). 
 
 Declaration, which shall exhibit the State in which he 
 found the detained Ship, and the Changes which may 
 have taken place in such Ship, and shall also deliver 
 to the Captain of the Slave Ship a signed Certificate of 
 the Papers seized on board the Vessel, as well as of the 
 Number of Slaves found on board at the Moment of De- 
 tention; and it is also provided, that the Negroes on 
 board of any such Ship shall not be disembarked until 
 after the Vessel detained shall arrive at the Place where 
 the Legality of the Capture is to be tried by One of the 
 Two mixed Commissions, in order that in the Event of 
 the Vessel not being adjudged a legal Prize, the Loss of 
 the Proprietors may be more easily repaired ; with Pro- 
 viso, however, that if urgent Motives, deduced from the 
 Length of the Voyage, the State of Health of the Ne- 
 groes, or other Causes, require that they shall be disem- 
 barked entirely or in part before the Vessel can arrive at 
 the Place of Residence of One of the said Commissions, 
 the Commander of the capturing Ship may take on him- 
 self the Responsibility of such Disembarkation, provided 
 that the Necessity thereof shall be stated in a Certificate 
 in proper Form. 
 
 Seventh Article. — No Conveyance of Slaves from 
 one Part in the Spanish Possessions to another shall take 
 place, except in Ships provided with Passports from the 
 Spanish Government on the Spot for that Purpose. 
 
 REGULATIONS 
 
 FOR 
 
 THE MIXED COMMISSIONS 
 
 WHICH ARE TO RESIDE O THE COAST Of AFRICA, ANP 
 IN A COLONIAL POSSESSION OF HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY, 
 ANNEXED TO THE TREATY. 
 
 First Article. — The mixed Commissions to be esta- 
 blished by the said Treaty upon the Coast of Africa, and 
 in a Colonial Possession of His Catholic Majesty, shall 
 decide upon the Legality of the Detention of such Slave 
 Vessels as the Ships of War of both Nations shall detain 
 in pursuance of the said Treaty, for carrying on an illicit 
 Conunerce in Slaves, and shall judge without Appeal, 
 according to the Letter and Spirit of the said Treaty ; 
 7 and 
 
ftlat)e0 (Treaty ivith Spahi), 
 
 and that the said Commissions shall give Sentence as sum-' 
 marily as possible, and decide (as far as they shall find it 
 practicable) within the Space of Twenty Day^ to be dated 
 from the Day upon which every detained Vessel shall 
 have been brought into the Port where they shall reside ; 
 first, upon the Legality of the Capture ; and secondly, in 
 the Case in which the captured Vessel shall have been 
 liberated, as to the Indemnification to be paid for the 
 Capture and Detention: And it is by the said Regulations 
 provided, that no final Sentence shall be delayed, on ac- 
 count of the Absence of Witnesses, or for want of the 
 Proofs, beyond the Period of Two Months, except upon 
 Application of any of the Parties interested, when, upon 
 their giving satiJactory Security to charge themselves 
 with the Expence and Risks of the Delay, the Commis- 
 sioners may, at their Discretiou, grant an additional De- 
 lay, not exceeding Four Months. 
 
 Second Article. — The said mixed Commissions, 
 which are to reside on the Coast of Africa, and in the 
 Colonial Possessions of His Catholic Majesty, shall be 
 composed in the following Manner ; that is to say, that 
 His Majesty and His Cathohc Majesty shall each of them 
 name a Commissary Judge and a Commissioner of Arbi- 
 tration, who shall be authorized to hear and decide, with- 
 out Appeal, all Cases of Capture of Slave Vessels which, 
 in pursuance of the Stipulation of the said Treaty, may be 
 laid before them ; and it was also provided, that all the 
 essential Parts of the Proceedings carried on before the 
 said mixed Commissions, shall be written down in the legal 
 Language of the Country in which the Commission may 
 reside ; and it was also thereby provided, that the Com- 
 missary Judges and the Commissioners of Arbitration 
 shall make Oath in Presence of the principal Magistrate 
 of the Place in which the Commission may reside, to judge 
 fairly and faithfully, to have no Preference either for the 
 Claimants or the Captors, and to act in all their Decisions 
 in pursuance of the Stipulations of the Treaty; and it was 
 also thereby provided, that there shall be attached to 
 each Commission a Secretary or Registrar appointed by 
 the Sovereign of the Country in which the Commission 
 may reside, who shall register all its Acts, and who, pre- 
 vious to his taking Charge of his Office, shall make Oath 
 in Presence of at least One of the Commissary Judges, to 
 conduct himself with Respect for their Authority, and to 
 
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338 
 
 ^UtotS (Treaty with Spmn.) 
 
 act with Fidelity in all the Affairs which may belong to 
 his Charge. 
 
 Thiud AiiTicLE.— The Form of the Process shall be 
 as follows; t'li. l: lu 'y, the Commissary Judges of the 
 Two Nation), shal!, m the first Place, proceed to the 
 Examination of the 1 apers of the Vessels, and receive the 
 Depositions on Oath of the Captain, and of Two or Three 
 at least of the principal Individuals on board of the de- 
 tained Vessel, as well as the Declaration on Oath of the 
 Captor, should it appear necessary in order to be able tg 
 judge and pronounce if tli. said Vessel has been justly de- 
 tained or not, according to the Stipulations of the Treaty, 
 in order that, according to their Judgment, the Vessel 
 may be condemned or liberated ; and in the Event of the 
 Two Commissary Judges not agreeing upon the Sentence, 
 whether as to the Legality of the Detention, or the In- 
 demnification to be allowed, or upon any other Question 
 which might result from the Stipulations of the Treaty, 
 they shall draw by Lot the Name of One of theTwoCom' 
 missioners of Arbitration, who, after havuig considered the 
 Documents of the Process, shall consult with the Com- 
 missary Judges upon the Case in question, and the final 
 Sentence shall be pronounced conformably to the Opinion 
 of the Majority of the Commissary Judges and of the 
 Commissioner of Arbitration so chosen. 
 
 Fourth Auticle. — As often as the Cargo of Slaves 
 found on board of a Spanish Slave Ship shall have em- 
 barked from any Point whatever of the Coast of Africa 
 where the Slave Trade continues to be lawful, such Slave 
 Ship shall not be detained on Pretext that the above- 
 mentioned Slaves have been brought originally by Land 
 from any other Part whatever of the Continent. 
 
 Fifth Article.— That in the authenticated Decla- 
 ration which the Captor shall make before the Commis- 
 sion, as. well as in the Certificate of the Papers seized 
 which shall be delivered to the Captain of the captured 
 Vessel at the Time of the Detention, the Captor shall 
 state and declare his Name, and the Name of his Vessel, 
 as well as the Latitude and Longitude of the Place 
 where the Detention shall have taken place^, and the 
 Number of the Slaves found living on board the Slave 
 Ship at the Time of the Detention. 
 
 Sixth Article. — As soon as any Sentence shall have 
 been passed, the detained Vessel, if liberated, and what mav 
 
 remain 
 
 remaui 
 prietorsj 
 a Valua 
 Right ( 
 in his J 
 shall bel 
 which til 
 to defray 
 the Sent 
 nificatioT 
 oi' whici 
 
 SEVEf 
 
 any Vess 
 
 declared 
 
 Descript 
 
 who maj 
 
 said Vest 
 
 Sale, for 
 
 the Slave 
 
 a Certifi 
 
 over to 1 
 
 mission v 
 
 Wished, t 
 
 Eight 
 
 Losses, o 
 
 detahied, 
 
 not after V 
 
 Commissi 
 
 Commissi 
 
 tie of th 
 
 liestitutic 
 
 award to 
 
 lul Attorr 
 
 complete 
 
 Losses an 
 
 may have 
 
 teation; t 
 
 or Claima 
 
 Tackle, A 
 
 due and p 
 
 Merchanci 
 
 at the Til 
 
 ^^'alue of g 
 
 i"g therefi 
 
 unexpired 
 
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 ^Idtoe0 (Treaty with Spain). 
 
 remain of the Cargo, shall be restored to the Pro. 
 pneto^ ,ho shdl, W the same Com J^ssion! cSm 
 a Vaiuation o\ the Damages which they may have a 
 
 1 , ®^®"\t' the Government to which the Cantor 
 
 Tcl^'t^'ff """" ^^^P«"^'^l^ ^- such DamJ^X 
 
 vh.cl the said Governments respectively bind themsefves 
 
 ;> delray, with n the Term of a Year from the Date of 
 
 he Sentence; it being understood that all such Indem. 
 
 nfications shall be at the Expence of the Government 
 
 ot which the Captor shall be a Subject. ^°^^^"'"^"' 
 
 Seventh Article.-Iu case of the Condemnation of 
 
 oeclared law ul Prize, as well as her Cargo, of whatever 
 Description it may be, with the Exception ^f the S kves 
 who may be on board as Objects of Commerce • and the 
 said Vesse , as well as her Cargo, shall be s'ld by public 
 tt Sla" Th '" ^r ^«~nts; a'nd^as to 
 
 a Cprt 1% % I.'" '^'"'' *^'^"^ the mixed Commission 
 over to thiV ^'"'-^"^'P^^t'""^ ^nd shall be delivered 
 over to the Government on whose Territory the Com- 
 mission which shall have so judged them shLlbe es'a- 
 hlished, to be employed as Servants or free Labourers, 
 Lo7sp?r ^.^^'^^;[=.— Every Claim for Compensation of 
 Losses, occasioned by any Ship's being inspected and 
 e ained, as carrying on an illicit Trade in Slaves, but 
 not afterwards condemned as lawful Prize by the mixed 
 Commissions, shall be also heard and judged by the said 
 Commissions, in the Form provided by the Third Arti- 
 
 Whn '^'""l i,^'^"^^''T'' ^"^ ^" «" Cases wherein 
 ■fw«r to H r^ ^' '° ^7'"^' '^' Commission shall 
 anard to the Claimant or Claimants, or his or their law- 
 
 ul A torney or Attornies, for his or their Use, a just and 
 complete Indemnification for all Costs of Suit, and for all 
 Losses and Damages which the Claimant or Claimant* 
 may have actually sustained by such Capture and De- 
 
 eiition ; that is to say in case of total Loss, the Claimant 
 01 Claimants shall be indemnified, first, for the Ship, her 
 lackle. Apparel, and Stores; secondly, for all Freight 
 <lue and payable ; thirdly, for the Value of the Cargo of 
 Merchandizp if nn.r. f,...-*ui.. r_ .. .i m * 
 
 339 
 
 
 
 1 ■ j 
 
 
340 
 
 Sbl^\^t6 (Treatji with Spain). 
 
 for all Charges and Expences payable upon the Sale of 
 such Cargoes, including Commission of Sale ; and fifthly, 
 for all other regular Charges in such Cases of total Loss : 
 and in all other Cases not of total Loss, the Claimant or 
 Claimants shall be indemnified, first, for all special Da- 
 mages and Expences occasioned to the Ship by the De- 
 tention, and for the Loss of Freight, when due or pay- 
 able; secondly, a Demurrage, when due, according to 
 the Schedule annexed to the said Eighth Article ; third- 
 ly, a daily Allowance for Subsistence of Slaves, of One 
 Shilling or Four Reals and Half de Vor, for each Per- 
 son, without Distinction of Age or Sex, for so many Days 
 as it shall appear to the Commission that the Voyage has 
 been or may be delayed by reason of such Detention ; as 
 likewise, fourthly, tor any Deterioration of Cargo or 
 Slaves; fifthly, for any Diminution in the Value of the 
 Cargo of Slaves, proceeding from an increased Mortality 
 beyond the average Amount of the Voyage, or from Sick- 
 ness occasioned by Detention, this Value to be ascer- 
 tained by their computed Price at the Place of Desti- 
 nation, as in the above Case of total Loss ; sixthly, an 
 Allowance of Five per Centum on the Amount of the 
 Capital employed in the Purchase and Maintenance of 
 Cargo, for the Period of Delay occasioned by the De- 
 tention ; and, seventhly, for all Premium of Insurance on 
 additional Risks; and the Claimant or Claimants shall 
 likewise be entitled to Interest, at the Rate of Five pet 
 Centum per Anniun, on the Sum awarded, until paid by 
 the Government to which the capturing Ship belongs : 
 the whole Amount of such Indemnifications being calcu- 
 lated in the Money of the Country to which the captured 
 Ship belongs, and to be liquidated at the Exchange 
 current at the Time of Award, excepting the Sum for 
 the Subsistence of Slaves, which shall be paid at par, as 
 above stipulated ; and to avoid as much as possible every 
 Species of Fraud in the Execution of the said Treaty, it 
 was agreed, that if it should be proved to the Conviction 
 of the Commissary Judges of the Two Nations, and with- 
 out having Recourse to the Decision of a Commissioner 
 of Arbitration, that the Captor has been led into Error 
 by a voluntary and a reprehensible Fault on the Part of 
 tihe Captain of the detained Ship, in that case only the 
 detained Ship shall not have the Right of receiving, 
 during the Days of her Detention, the Demurrage stipu- 
 lated by the said Eighth Article. And to the snid Eighth 
 
 Article 
 
a& 
 
 S^UHS {Treaty with Spain). 
 
 Article a Schedule of Demurrage or daily Allowance 
 was annexed, us follows ; that is to sav, for a Vessel of 
 100 Tons to 120 inclusive ife . 
 
 ► per Diem, 
 
 341 
 
 121 ditto 
 
 - 150 
 
 ditt(< 
 
 J 
 
 151 ditto ■ 
 
 ■ 170 
 
 ditto 
 
 8 
 
 171 ditto . 
 
 ■ 200 
 
 ditto 
 
 10 
 
 201 ditto ■ 
 
 • 220 
 
 di'to 
 
 U 
 
 221 ditto ■ 
 
 . 250 
 
 ditto 
 
 12 
 
 251 ditto - 
 
 270 
 
 ditto 
 
 14 
 
 270 ditto - 
 
 ■ 800 
 
 ditto 
 
 - 15. 
 
 and so in proportion. 
 
 Ninth Article. — When tlte Proprietor of a Ship 
 suspected of carrying on an illicit Trade in Slaves, re- 
 leased in consequence of a Sentence of One of the 
 mixed Commissions (or in the Case as above mentioned 
 of total Loss), shall claim Indenmification for the Loss 
 of Slaves which he may have suffered, he shall in no case 
 be entitled to claim for more than the Number of 
 Slaves which his Vessel, by the Spanish Laws, was 
 authorized to carry, which Number shall always be 
 stated in his Passport. 
 
 Tenth Article. — Neither the Judges nor the Arbi- 
 trators, nor the Secretary of the mixed Commissions, 
 shall be permitted to demand or receive, from any of 
 the Parties concerned in the Sentences which they shall 
 pronounce, any Emolument, under any Pretext what- 
 soever, for the Performance of the Duties which are 
 imposed upon them by the said Regulations. 
 
 Eleventh Article. — If any Parties interested sliall 
 imagine they have Cause to complain of any evident In- 
 justice on the Part of the mixed Commissions, they may 
 represent it to their respective Governments, who re- 
 serve to themselves the Right of mutual Correspondence, 
 for the Purpose of removing, when they think fit, the 
 Individuals who may compose these Commissions. 
 
 Twelfth Article. — In case of a Vessel being im- 
 properly detained under Pretence of the Stipulations of 
 the Treaty, and the Captor not being able to justify him- 
 self, either by the Tenor of the said Treaty, or of the 
 Instructions annexed to it, the Government to which the 
 detained Vessel may belong shall be entitled to demand 
 Reparation ; and in such Case the Government to which 
 the Captor may belong binds itself to cause Inquiry to be 
 made into the Subject of the Complaint, and to inflict 
 upon the Captor, if he be found to have deserved it, a 
 
 Z 3 Punish- 
 
 
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'642 
 
 ^lB!btQ (Treaty with Spain). 
 
 Punishment proportioned to the Transgrciision which may 
 have been committed. 
 
 Thirtkenth Article. — In the Event of the Death 
 of One or more of the Commissary Judges, or the Com- 
 missioners of Arbitration, com})osing the above-mentioned 
 mixed Commissions, their Posts shall be supplied ad in- 
 terim in the following Maiuier ; that is, on the Part of 
 the British Goverament, the Vacancies shall be filled suc- 
 cessively in the Commission, which shall sit within the 
 Possessions of His Majesty, by the Governor or Lieute- 
 nant Governor resident in that Colony, by the principal 
 Magistrate of the same, and by the Secretary ; and in 
 that which shall sit within the Possessions of His Catholic 
 Mtyesty, it was agreed, that in case of the Death of the 
 British Judge or Arbitrator there, the remaining Indivi- 
 duals of the said C ommission shall proceed equally to the 
 Judgment of such Slave Ships as may be brought before 
 them, and to the Execution of their Sentence ; and in 
 such Case alone the Parties interested shall have the 
 Right of appealing from the Sentence, if they think fit, 
 to the Commission resident upon the Coast of Africa; 
 and the Government to which the Captor shall belong 
 shall be bound fully to make good the Compensp.iou 
 which shall be due to them in case the Appeal bt de- 
 cided in favour of the Claimants, but the Vessel and 
 Cargo shall remain during such Appeal in the Place of 
 Residence of the first Commission before which they shall 
 have been carried : And it was thereby agreed, that on 
 the Part of Spain the Vacancies shall be sujjplied, in the 
 Possession of His Catholic Majesty, by such Persons of 
 Irust as the Principal Autho)ity of the Country shall 
 appoint ; and upon the Coast of Africa, in case of die 
 Death of any Spanish Judge or Arbitrator, the Com- 
 mission shall proceed to Judgment in the same Manner as 
 above specified for the Commission resident in the Pos- 
 session of His Catholic Majesty, in the Event of the 
 British Judge or Arbitrator ; an Apjieal being in this 
 Case likewise allowed to the Commission resident in the 
 Possession of His Catholic Majesty, and in general all 
 the Provisions of the former Case being to be applied : 
 And It was further agreed by the said Article, that all 
 Vacancies which may arise in the above-mentioned Com- 
 missions, from Death or any other Cause, should be 
 supplied as soon as possible ; and in case that the Vacancy 
 «i ....J. ^,, ,n^ K^imniBii v^uHiiuiSeionera in ine liriusn I'os- 
 
 sessions, 
 
 ^ 
 
 :('•• 
 
 i: 
 
S)labe0 (Treaty ivith Spain). 
 
 ^ssions, or of the British Commissioners in the Spanish 
 Possession, be not supplied at the End of the Term of 
 beven Months for America, and of Twelve for Africa, 
 the Vessels which shall be brought to the said Possessions 
 respectively shall cease lo have the Right of Appeal above 
 stipulated. ^^ 
 
 For carrying into Execution the Provisions of the said 
 ireaty, be it enacted, That any Officers commanding 
 any Ship of War of His Majesty, duly authorized and 
 provided with Instructions according to the Provisions of 
 the said Convention, may visit and search all Vessels 
 which shall be suspected, upon reasonable Grounds, of 
 having Slaves on board acquired by an illicit Traffic, 
 and to detain and bring to Adjudication all Vessels and 
 Cargoes therein, made subject to Detention and Condem- 
 nation, according to the Provisions of the said Treaty, 
 and the Regulations and Instructions aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. 
 C.36. § 1. 
 
 All Vessels belonging wholly or in part to His Ma- 
 jesty's Subjects, suspected upon reasonable Grounds of 
 having Slaves on board acquired by an illicit Traffic, 
 ■shall be, according to the Ninth Article of the Treaty, 
 subject to the Visitation and Search of British or Spanish 
 Vessels of War, duly authorized for that Purpose, accord- 
 ing to the Provisions of the Treaty ; and all Vessels be- 
 longing wholly or in part to His Majesty's Subjects, 
 which shall have Slaves on board acquired by an illicit 
 Traffic, contrary to the Provisions of the Ninth and 
 Tenth Articles of the Treaty, and all Boats, Apparel, 
 Furniture, and Slaves belonging to such Vessels, and 
 all Cargoes therein, shall be subject to the Search and 
 Detention of British or Spanish Vessels of War duly au- 
 thorized for that Purpose, acamling to the Stipulations 
 of the Treaty, and to Forfeiture according to the Treaty, 
 and the Regulations and Instructions thereunto annexed, 
 and be subject to the Adjudication of and to Condemna- 
 tion or other Judgment by the Commissary Judges and 
 Commissioners to be appointed according to the Provi- 
 sions of the Treaty, Instructions, and Regulations 
 aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 2. 
 
 His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Royal Sign 
 Manual, countersigned by One of the Principal Secretn- 
 ries of State, may appoint Commissary Judges and Com- 
 missioucrs of Arbitration, and liom Time Time to sup- 
 ply any Vacancies which may arise in such Offices, and 
 grant Salaries, not exceeding such annual Sums as the 
 
 Z 4 Lords 
 
 M3 
 
 Ships of War 
 duly autliorized 
 may seize all 
 suspected 
 Vessels. 
 
 British Vessels 
 suspected of 
 having Slaves on 
 bnard, subject to 
 Stizuie hy 
 Sp.ini.^h or British 
 Vessels, and to 
 Adjudication by 
 the CummisGion- 
 ers under the 
 Treaty. 
 
 HisMrjcsty may 
 appoint Com- 
 miss.iry Judges 
 and Con. mission i 
 ers of Arbitra- 
 tion. 
 
344 
 
 Secretary and 
 Reyislrai to be 
 appointed lo the 
 Commission es- 
 tablished in His 
 Majesty's Do- 
 minions. 
 
 Vacancies in the 
 Commission sit- 
 ting in some 
 Possession of 
 His Maj^Bty, to 
 be filled up until 
 some other Per- 
 son shall be 
 appointed by 
 His Majesty. 
 
 Commissary 
 Judges and Com- 
 missioners of 
 Arbitration to 
 take the follow- 
 ing Oath, 
 
 ^latie0 {Treaty ivith Spahi), 
 
 Lords of the Treasury of Great Britain and Ireland shall 
 direct; and such Commissary Judges and Commissioners 
 may examme and decide all Cases of Detention, Cap- 
 tures, and Seizures of Vessels and their Cargoes, detained 
 seized, taken, or captured under the said Treaty or In- 
 structions and Regulations, as are made subject to their 
 Jurisdiction, and proceed therein, and do all Acts, Mat- 
 ters, and Things appertaining thereto, agreeably to the 
 Provisions of the said Treaty, and the Instructions and 
 Regulations annexed thereto, as effectually as if special 
 Powers and Authorities for that Puipose were specifically 
 given in this Act. 58 Geo. 3. c 36. § 3. 
 
 His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Royal Sign 
 Manual, countersigned by One of His Principal Secre- 
 taries of State, may appoint a Secretary or Registrar to 
 the Commission which shall be established in His Ma- 
 jesty's Dominions, and supply any Vacancy which may 
 thereafter occur, and grant such Salaries as the said 
 Lords Commissioners shall direct; end such Secretary 
 or Registrar may perform all such Acts, Matters, and 
 Things as may be necessary for the tlue Dis,charge of the 
 Duties of Jiis Office, according to the Provisions of the 
 Treaty, Instructions, and Regulations. 58Ge3. 3. c.36. §4.. 
 The Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or principal 
 Magistrate of the Colony or Settlement in which the 
 Commission shall sit, within the Possessions of His Bri- 
 Umnic Majesty, may fill up every Vacancy which shall 
 arise in such Commission, either of Commissary Judge, 
 Commissioner, or any Officer thereof appointed by His 
 Majesty, according to the Thirteenth Article of the 
 Regulations annexed to the Treaty, ad interim, until such 
 Vacancy shall be thereafter filled by some Person ap- 
 pointed by His Majesty. SSGeo. 3. c. 36. § 5. 
 
 Every Commissary Judge and Commissioner of Arbi- 
 tration appointed by His Majesty, shall, before he enters 
 upon the Execution of his Office, take an Oath, in the 
 Presence of the principal Magistrate then residino- and 
 acting in the Colony, Settlement, or Place, whether 
 belonging to His Britannic or His most Catholic Ma- 
 jesty, in which the Commission shall be appointed to 
 resiiie, in the Form follo,ving ; thnt is to say, 
 
 ' T A. B. do s(»lemn]y swear, That I will, according 
 ' ^ to the best of my Skill and Knowledge, act 
 ' m the Execution of my Office, as 
 '• faithfully, imparLially, fairjy, anci without Preference 
 ' or Favour, either for Claimants or Captors,or any 
 
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 Every j 
 (alse Evid 
 
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 S)latoe0 (Treaty with Spain). 
 
 ' other Persons ; and that I will, to the best of my 
 ' Judgment and Power, act in pursuance of and 
 ' according to the Stipulations, Regulations, and 
 
 * Instructions contained in the Treaty between His 
 
 * Majesty and His Catholic Majesty signed at Madrid 
 
 * on the Twenty-third Day of September One thousand 
 
 * eight hundred and seventeen. So help me GOD.' 
 And every Secretary or Registrar appointed by His 
 Majesty under the Provisions of the Treaty, Regulations 
 and Instructions, and of this Act, shall, before he enters 
 on the Duties of his said Office, take an Oath before the 
 British Commissary Judge as aforesaid, in the Form 
 following ; that is to say, 
 
 ' 1 A. B. do solemnly swear. That I will, according 
 ' ^ to the best of my Skill and Knowledge, act in the 
 
 * Execution of my Office; and that I will conduct 
 
 * myself with respect to the Authority of the Com- 
 ' missary Judges and Commissioners of Arbitration 
 
 * of the Commission to which I am attached ; and will 
 ' act V ith Fidelity in all the Affairs which may belong 
 ' to my Charge, and wiriiout Preference or Favour, 
 ' either for Claimants or Captors, or any other 
 ' Persons. So help me God.' 
 58 Geo. 3. c. S6. § 6. 
 
 The said Commissary Judges or either of them, or 
 any such Secretary or Registrar, may administer Oaths 
 to and take the Depositions of all Peisons who may come 
 or be brought before them to be examined, or tor the 
 Purpose of deposing, in the Course of any J^roceedina 
 before the said Commissary Judges, or before the said 
 Commissary Judges and the Commissioner of Arbitration, 
 in the Cases in which such Connnissioners of Arbirraiion 
 ^hall act with the said Commissary Judges under the said 
 Treaty, Instructions or Regulations, or this Act ; and the 
 said Commissary Judges and Conmiissioneis of Arbitra- 
 tion, in the Cases aJbresa.' i, - -y summon all Persons 
 whom they may deem it necessary or proper to examine 
 in relation to any Suit, Matter, or Thing under their 
 Cognizance, and seix' for and issue Precepts for the 
 producing of such ^* ij-is as may relate to the Matters 
 in question before them, and enforce all such Summonses, 
 Orders, and Precepts by the like Means, Powers, and 
 Authorities as any Court of Vice Admiralty may do. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 3G. § 7. 
 
 Every Person who shall wilfull}' and corruptly give 
 lalse Evidence in any Examination, Deposition, or Affi- 
 
 345 
 
 I 
 
 Secretary or 
 Registrar to take 
 the following 
 Oath. 
 
 Commissars 
 Judges and 
 Secretary or 
 Registrar may 
 administer Ontlu 
 and summon 
 Witnesses. 
 
 duvit 
 
 Persons giving 
 false Evideii'-"! 
 
 guilty ( 
 
 ^er 
 
 jury. 
 
346 
 
 Suit pciidiiit', 
 belorc, or ,(udg- 
 mtiu by any such 
 Commission, to 
 be a Bar, and 
 pleadable as such 
 to .-"..ly Action 
 brought for any 
 thing done under 
 the Treaty. 
 
 Comi'ensation 
 for the Losses 
 sustained from 
 the Abolition of 
 the Traffic in 
 Slaves. 
 
 'i.risaiciionut 
 Prize Courts of 
 Appeal, or of 
 
 &l(itt& {Treaty with Spain). 
 
 davit in any Proceeding before the said Commissary 
 Judges or Commissioners aforesaid, shall be deemed 
 guilty of Perjury, and being thereof convicted, shall be 
 liable to all the Punishments, Pains, and Penalties to 
 which Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury 
 are liable ; and every such Person may be tried either in 
 the Place where the Offence was committed, or in any 
 Colony or Settlement of Hk Majesty near thereto, in 
 which there is a Court of competent Jurisdiction to try 
 any such Oflence, or in His Majesty's Court of King's 
 Bench in England; and in any Prosecution for such 
 Offences in His Majesty's said Court of King's Bench, 
 the Venue may be laid in the County of Middlesex. 
 58 Greo. 3. c. 36. § 8. 
 
 The Pendency of any Suit or Proceeding, instituted 
 before the said Commissioners, for the Condemnation or 
 Restitution of any Ship or Cargo, or Slaves, seized or de- 
 tained by virtue of the Treaty, Instructions, or Regula- 
 tions, or the final Adjudication, Condemnation, or Judg- 
 ment or Determination thereupon, may be pleaded in 
 Bar, or given in Evidence under the General Issue, and 
 shall be a good and complete Bar in any Action, Suit, or 
 Proceeding instituted for the Recovery of any such Ship, 
 Vessel, or Cargo, or of any Damage or Injury sustained 
 thereby, or by the Persons on board, in consequence of 
 any Capture, Seizure, or Detention, or Thing done under 
 the Authority of the Provisions, Treaty, Instructions, or 
 Regulations. 58 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 9. 
 
 The Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, stipu- 
 lated to be paid, and accepted as a full Compensation for 
 all Losses sustained by the Subjects of His Catholic Ma- 
 jesty, on account of Vessels captured previously to the 
 Exchange of the Ratifications of the said Treaty, and for 
 the Losses which are a necessary Consequence of the 
 Abolition of the said Traffic in Slaves, shall be con- 
 sidered and taken to be a full Compensation for all such 
 Losses ; and the said Stipulation may be pleaded in Bar, 
 or given in Evidence upon the General Issue, and ad- 
 judged in every Court whatever to be a good and complete 
 Bar in every Action, Suit, or Proceeding brought or in- 
 stituted for Restitution, or any other Matter or Thing in 
 relation to any such Capture, or for any Damage or In- 
 jury sustained in relation thereto, or for any such Losses 
 as aforesaid. 58 Geo, 3. c. 36. § 10. 
 
 Provided, that the Lords Commissioners of Appeal in 
 Prize Causes, and the High Court of Admiralty, in all 
 
 Cases 
 
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 *iabeB (Treaty tvith Spain). 
 
 Cases and Questions arising out of the said Captures 
 depending before therz,, or that may be brought before 
 Uiem on Appeal from any Vice Admiralty Coui t, accord- 
 ing to .their respective Jurisdictions, mayproceed therein, 
 and hear and determine aU Questions respecting any 
 Kight or Interest in or o die same, to which His Ma- 
 jesty, or the Captors o; oei/ors of such Vessels or Cargoes, 
 may claim to ntitled, by reason of the Capture or 
 
 Seizure thereot . d enforce their Judgments and Orders 
 therem by the usual Process of the said Courts. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 11. 
 
 Provided also,:that in all such Cases, in which the Captors 
 Seizors shall not establish any Right or Interest on their 
 behait, by reason of the Capture thereof, and tlie Laws 
 relatmg thereto, the said Courts respectively may order 
 and adjudge the Vessels and Cargoes, or the Proceeds 
 thereof, unto or to which the Captors shall not establish 
 ^?^r_?'^i' P'* Interest, to be deUvered or paid, to the Use 
 ot His Majesty, to such Persons as the Commissioners of 
 Wis Majesty's Treasury shall appoint to receive the same, 
 and enforce the Delivery or tlie Payment thereof by the 
 usual Process of the said Courts respectively. 58 Geo. 3 
 c. 36. § 12. f J o vjcw. o. 
 
 Nothing in this Act shall extend in any wise to suspend, 
 affect, or repeal any of the Clauses, Penalties, Forfeifures, 
 or Punishments contained in any Act for the Suppression 
 or I revert^on of the Slave Trade; but all such Acts shall 
 remain tull Force and Virtue. 58 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 13. 
 
 it any Action or Suit shall be commenced, eithpr in 
 threat Britain or elsewliere. against any Person for any 
 thmg done m pursuance of the said Treaty, Instructions, 
 or Kegulations, or of this Act, the Defendant in such 
 Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and mve 
 this Act and the special Matter in Evidence, at any Trial 
 to oe had thereupon, and that the same was done by 
 the Authority of the said Treaty, Instructions or Reffu- 
 ations, or 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 discontinue his Action 
 after the Defendant shall have appeared, or if Judgment 
 
 p. L^T'^ "P*"" '^"y Verdict or Demurrer against the 
 llaintiff, the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs, and 
 have the like Remedy for the same as in other Caf.cs bv 
 i-aw. 58 Geo. 3. c. 36. § 14, 
 
 347 
 
 Admiralty, in 
 Cases brougiit 
 before them, not 
 altered. 
 
 Captors not 
 est:.blisl ing tiicir 
 RiglUs, Proceeds 
 to go to the Use 
 ol His, Majesty. 
 
 This Ai} not to 
 alter or affect 
 any of the Penal- 
 ties or Provisions 
 in any Act for 
 Suppression of 
 the Slave Trade. 
 General Issue 
 may be pleaded 
 and 'I'reble Cost;: 
 allowed. 
 
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348 
 
 ^ldb00 (^irealy with Portugal). 
 
 w 
 
 TREATY WITH PORTUGAL, 
 
 FOK PREVENTING TRAFFIC IN SLAVES, 
 
 Signed at London, 28th July 1817. 
 
 Whereas by the First Article of the additional 
 Convention to a Treaty of the 22d January 1815, 
 made between His Majesty and His most Faithful 
 Majesty the King of Portugal, for the Purpose of pre- 
 venting illicit Traffic in Slaves, and signed at London on 
 the 28th Day of July 1817, it was declared to be the Ob- 
 ject of the said Convention, to prevent the respective Sub- 
 jects of His Majesty and His most Faithful Majesty from 
 carrying on an illicit Slave Trade ; and it was also thereby 
 declared, that every Traffic in Slaves carried on under 
 the following Circumstances should be considered as 
 illicit ; First, either by British Ships and under the Bri- 
 tish Flag, or for the Account of British Subjects by any 
 Vessel or under any Flag whatsoever ; Second, by Por- 
 tuguese Vessels in any of the Harbours or Roads of the 
 Coast of Africa which are prohibited by the First Arti- 
 cle of the Treaty of the Twenty-second of January One 
 thousand eight hundred and fifteen ; Third, under the 
 Portuguese or British Flag for the Account of the Sub- 
 jects of any other Government ; Fourth, by Portuguese 
 Vessels bound for any Port not in the Dominions of His 
 most Faithful Majesty. 
 
 Second ARTicxE.-^The Territories inwhich the Traffic 
 in Slaves continues to be permitted under the Treaty of 
 the Twenty-second of January One thousand eight hun- 
 dred and fifteen, to the Subjects of His most Faithful 
 Majesty, are the following; First, the Territories pos- 
 sessed by the Crown of Portugal upon the Coast of Africa 
 to the South of the Equator, that is to say, upon the 
 Eastern Coast of Africa, the Territory laying between 
 Cape Delgado and the Bay of Lourenco Marques, and 
 upon the Western Coast, all that which is situated from 
 the Eighth to the Eighteenth Degree of South Latitude ; 
 Second, those Territories on the Coast of Africa to the 
 South of the Equator, over which His most Faithful 
 Majesty has declared that he has retained His Rights, 
 namely, the Territories of Molembo and Cabinda upon 
 the Western Coast of jVfrica,_from the Fifth Degree 
 Twelve Minutes to the Eighth Uegiee Soulh Latitude. 
 
 Third 
 
&lBl\itS (Treaty with Portugnt). 
 
 Third Article. — His most Faithful Majesty en- 
 gaged, within the Space of Two Months after the Ex- 
 change of the Ratifications of the said Convention, to 
 promulgate in his Capital, and in the other Parts 
 of His Dominions, as soon as possible, a Law which 
 should prescribe the Punishment of any of His Subjects 
 who may in future participate in an illicit Traffic of 
 Slaves, and at the same Time to renew the Prohibition 
 which already exists, to import Slaves into the Brazils 
 under any Flag other than that of Portugal ; and His 
 most Faithful Majesty also engaged to assimilate, as 
 much as possible, the Legislation of Portugal, in this 
 respect, to that of Great Britain. 
 
 Fourth Article. — Every Portuguese Vessel which 
 should be destined for the Slave Trade on any Point of 
 the African Coast where the Traffic in Slaves should 
 still continue to be lawful, must be provided with a Royal 
 Passport, conformable to the Model annexed to the said 
 Convention, and which Model formed an integral Part 
 of the same ; and that every such Passport must be writ- 
 ten in the Portuguese Language, with an authentic 
 Translation in English annexed thereto, and must be 
 signed, for all those Vessels sailing from the Port of Rio 
 Janeiro, by the Minister of Marine, and for all other 
 Vessels which may be intended for the said Traffic, and 
 which may sail from any other Ports of the Brazils, or 
 from any other of the Dominions of His most Faithful 
 Majesty, not in Europe, the Passports must be signed 
 by the Governor in Chief of the Captaincy to which 
 the Port belongs ; and as to those Viessels which may 
 proceed from the Ports of Portugal, must be signed by 
 the Secretary of the Government for the Marine De- 
 partment. 
 
 Fifth Article. — The Ships of War of the respective 
 Royal Navies of His Majesty and His most Faithful Ma- 
 jesty, which shall be provided with special Instructions 
 for that Purpose, as herein-after provided, may visit such 
 Merchant Vessels of the Two Nations as may be sus- 
 pected, upon reasonable Grounds, of having Slaves on 
 board acquired by an illicit Traffic ; and in the Event only 
 of their actually finding Slaves on board may tietain and 
 bring away such Vessels, in order that they may be brought 
 to Trial before the IVibunais established for that Purpose, 
 jis ^";ec«ucu in tiiG saiu i^uavciiUoii ; proviueu tnat tne 
 Commanders of th^- Ships of War of the Two R6yal Na- 
 nes, who shall be employed on this Service, shall adhere 
 
 strictly 
 
 349 
 
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350 
 
 i%lab02) (Treaty ivith Portugal). 
 
 strictly to the exact Tenor of the Instructions which they 
 shall have received for that Purfwse ; and that as the said 
 Article is entirely reciprocal, the Two High Contracting 
 Parties engaged in the said Article mntually to make 
 good any Losses which their respective Subjects may 
 incur unjustly, by the arbitrary and illegal Detention of 
 their Vessels, and that this Indemnity shall invariably be 
 borne by the Government whose Cruizer shall been guilty, 
 of the arbitrary Detention ; provided that the Visit and 
 Detention of Slave Ships specified in the said Article, 
 shall only be effected by those British or Portuguese 
 Vessels which may form Part of the Two Royal Navies, 
 and by those only of such X^essels which are provided 
 with the special Instructions annexed to the said Con- 
 vention. 
 
 Sixth Article. — No British or Portuguese Cruizer 
 shall detain any Slave Ship not having Shives actually 
 on board ; and in order to render lawful the Detention 
 of any Ship, whether British or Portuguese, the Slaves 
 found on board such Vessel must have been brought 
 there for the express Purpose of the Traffic, and those 
 on board Portuguese Ships must have been taken from 
 that Part of the Coast of Africa where the Slave Trade 
 was prohibited by the Treaty of the Twenty- second of 
 January One thousand eight hundred and fifteen. 
 
 Seventh Article. — All Ships of War of the Two 
 Nations which shall hereafter be destined to prevent the 
 illicit Traffic in Slaves, shall be furnished by their own 
 Government with a Copy of the Instructions annexed to 
 the said Convention, and which shall be considered as 
 an integral Part thereof, and that such Instructions shall 
 be written in Portuguese and English, and signed for 
 the Vessels of each of the Two Powers, by the Minister 
 of their respective Marine, with a Reservation of the 
 Faculty of altering the said Instructions, in whole or in 
 })art, according to Circumstances ; it being however well 
 understood, that the said Alterations cannot take place but 
 by common Agreement, and by the Consent of the Two 
 High contracting Parties. 
 
 Eighth Article. — In order to bring to Adjudication 
 with the least Delay and Inconvenience, the Vessels 
 which may be detained for having been engaged in an 
 illicit Traffic in Slaves, there shall be established, within, 
 the Space of a Year at furthest from the Exchnjiffe of 
 the Ratifications of tbe said Ccaiveation, Two mixed 
 Commissions, formed of an equal Number of Indiv iduals 
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S>la\yt^ (Treaty with Portugal), 
 
 of the Two Nations, named for the Purpose by Uieir 
 respective Sovereigns; and that those Commissions shall 
 reside, one in a Possession belonging to His Majesty, the 
 other witlnn the Territories of His most Faithful Ma- 
 jesty ; and that the Two Governments, ai the Period of 
 the Exchange of the Ratifications of the said Convention, 
 should declare, each for its own Dominions, in what 
 Places the Commissions shall respectively reside, each of 
 tiie 1 wo High Contracting Parties reserving to itself the 
 Kight of changing at its Pleasure the Place of Resi- 
 aence ot the Commission held within its own Dominions • 
 provided however, that one of the Two Commissions 
 shall always be held upon the Coast of Africa, and the 
 other in the Brazils ; and that these Commissions shall 
 judge the Causes submitted to them, without Appeal, and 
 aecordmg to the Regulations and Instructions annexed 
 to the said Convention, of which they shall be considered 
 as an integral Part. 
 
 Ninth Article.— His Britannic Majesty, in con- 
 formity with the Stipulations of the Treaty of the Twenty- 
 second of January One thousand eight hundred and 
 htteen, engaged to grant, in the Manner herein-after 
 explained, sufficient Indemnification to all the Pronrie- 
 r'v I ^^':*"S"^f Vessels and Cargoes captured by 
 British Cruizers, between the First Day of June One 
 thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and the Perio-^ 
 at which the Two Commissions pointed out in the 
 ^Lighth Article of the said Convention shall assemble at 
 
 pfithM^M •'''? ^rf ' '""^P Majesty and His most 
 Paithlul Majesty did agree, that aU Claims of the Nature 
 before mentioned shall be received and liquidated by a 
 mixed Commission to be held at London, and which sliaU 
 consist of an equal Number of the Individuals of the Two 
 Nations, named by their respective Sovereigns, and upon 
 he same Principles stipulated by the Eighth Article of 
 the said Convention, and by the other Acts which form 
 an integral Part of the same ; and that the afbresaid Com- 
 laissioners shall commence their Functions Six Months 
 atter the Ratification of the said Convention, or sooner 
 It possible: And whereas it was also by the said Conven- 
 ion agreed, that the Proprietors of Vessels captured by 
 he British Cruizers cannot claim Compensation for a 
 larger Number of Slaves than that which according to the 
 existing Laws of Portugal they were permitted to tr«nfi- 
 pon accurdinor to the Hate of Tonnage of the captured 
 vo.s«ei: and that every Portuguese Vessel captured with 
 
 Slaves 
 
 351 
 
352 
 
 ^IdtltjS (^Treaty with Portugal). 
 
 Slaves on board for the Traffic, which shall be proved t® 
 have been embarked within the Territories of the Coast of 
 Africa situated to the North of Cape Palmas, and not be- 
 longing to the Crown of Portugal, as well as all Portu- 
 guese Vessels captured with Slaves on board for the 
 Traffic, Six Months after the Exchange of the Ratifica- 
 tions of the Treaty of the Twenty-second of January 
 One thousand eight hu.idred and fifteen, and on which it 
 can be proved that the aforesaid Slaves were embarketl in 
 the Roadsteads of the Coast of Africa, situated to the 
 North of the Equator, shall not be entitled to claim any 
 Indemnification. 
 
 Tenth Article.— His Majesty engaged to pay, with- 
 in the Space of a Year at furthest from the Decision of 
 each Case, to the Individual having a just Claim to the 
 same, the Sums which shall be granted to them by the 
 Commissioners described in the preceding Articles of the 
 said Convention. 
 
 Eleventh Article. — His Majesty engaged to pay 
 the Three hundred thousand Pounds Sterling of Indem- 
 nification, stipulated by the Convention of the Twenty- 
 first of January One thousand eight hundred and fifteen, 
 in favour of the Proprietors of Portuguese Vessels cap- 
 tured by British Cruizers up to the Period of the First of 
 June One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in the 
 Manner following ; viz. the First Payment of One hun- 
 dretl and fifty thousand Pounds Sterling, Six Months 
 after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the Convention 
 recited by this Act, and that the remaining One hundred 
 and fifty thousand Pounds Sterling, as well as the In- 
 terest at Five per Centum due upon the total Sum, from 
 the Day of the Exchange of the Ratifications of the 
 Convention of the Twenty-first of January One thousand 
 eight hundred and fifteen, should be paid Nine Months 
 after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the Convention 
 recited by this Act ; and that the Interest due shall be 
 payable up to the Day of the last Payment ; and that 
 all the aforesaid Payments shall be made in London, to 
 the Minister of His most Fa* Jiful Majesty at the Court 
 of His Majesty, or to the Persons whom His most Faithful 
 Majesty shall think proper to authorize for that Purpose. 
 Twelfth Article. — Certain Acts or Instruments 
 annexed to the said Convention shall form an integral 
 Part thereof, and which were as follows; that is to say. 
 
 Merchant 
 
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 Instructions for the Ships of War of both Nations de»> 
 tined to prevent the illicit Traffic in Slaves; Thirdly, 
 Reaulatioiis for the mixed Commissions which are to 
 hold their Sittings on the Coast of Africa, at the Brails, 
 and in London. 
 
 INSTRUCTIONS. 
 
 First Article.— Every British or Portuguese Skip of 
 War shall have n Right to visit the Merchant Ships of 
 either of the Two Powers actually engaged or suspected to 
 be engaged in the Slave Trade ; and should any Slaves be 
 foundon board, according to the Tenor of the Sixth Article 
 of the aforesaid Additional Convention ; and as to what re- 
 gards the Portuguese Vessels, should there be Ground to 
 suspect that the said Slaves have been embarked on a, Part 
 of the Coast of Africa where tht Traffic in Slaves can no 
 longer be legally carried on in consequence of the Stipu- 
 lations in force between the Two High Contracting 
 Powers ; in these Cases alone the Commander of the said 
 Ship of War may detain them, and having detained 
 them, he is to bring them as soon as possible for 
 Judgment before that of the Two mixed Commissions 
 appointed by the Eighth Article of the Convention which 
 slwU be nearest, or which the Commander of the cap- 
 turing Ship shall, upon his own Responsibility, think he 
 can soonest reach frona the Spot where the Slave Ship 
 shall have been detained; and that Ships on board of 
 which no Slaves shall be found intended for the Pur- 
 poses ©f Traffic, shall not be detained on any Account or 
 Pretence whatever ; and that Negro Servants or Sailors 
 that may be found on board the said Vessels cannot in 
 any Case be deemed a sufficient Cause for Detention. 
 
 Skcond Article. — No Merchantman or Slave Ship 
 can on any Account or Pretence whatever be visited or 
 detained, whilst in the Port or Roadstead belonging to 
 eith^ of the Two High Contracting Powers, or within 
 Cannon Shot of the Batteries on Shore ; but in case sus- 
 picious Vessels should be found so circumstanced, pro- 
 per Representations may be addressed to the Authorities 
 of the Country, requesting them to take effectual Mesk- 
 sures for preventing such Abuses, 
 
 Third Article. — In consequence of the immense 
 Extent of the Shores <rf' Africa to the North of the Equa- 
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 and the Facility thereby afforded for illicit Traffic, on 
 Points where either the total Absence or at least the Dis- 
 tance of lawful Authorities bar ready Access to those 
 Authorities ; in order to prevent it, and for the more 
 readily attaining the salutary End that His Majesty and 
 His most Faithful Majesty did actually grant to each 
 other the Power, without prejudice to the Rights of So- 
 vereignty, to visit and detain, as if on the High Seas, 
 any Vessel having Slaves on board, even within Cannon 
 Shot of tlie Shore of their respective Territories on the 
 Continent of Africa to the North of the Equator, in 
 case of their being no local Authorities to whom Re- 
 course might be had, as has been stated in the preceding 
 Article; and that in such case, Vessels so visited may be 
 brought before the mixed Commissioners in the Form 
 prescribed in the First Article of the said Instructions. 
 
 Fourth Article.-— No Portugue?'; Merchantman or 
 Slave Ship shall, on any Pretence whatever, be detained^ 
 which shall be found any where near the Land or on the 
 High Seas South of the Equator, unless after a Chace 
 that shall have commenced North of the Equator. 
 
 •Fifth Article. — Portuguese Vessels furnished with 
 a regular Passport, having Slaves on board shipped at 
 those Parts of the Coast of Africa where the Trade is 
 permitted to Portuguese Subjects, and which shall after- 
 wards be found North of the Equator, shall not be de- 
 tained by the Ships of War of the Two Nations, though 
 furnished with the present Instructions, provided the 
 same can account for their Course, either in conformity 
 with the Practice of the Portuguese Navigation, by 
 steering some Degrees to the Northward in search of 
 fair Winds, or for other legitimate Causes, such as the 
 Dangers of the Sea, duly proved; or lastly, in the 
 Case of their Passports proving that they were bound 
 for a Portuguese Port not within the Continent of 
 Africa: Provided always, that with regard to all Slave 
 Ships detained to the North of the Equator, the Proof 
 of the Legality of the Voyage is to be furnished by 
 the Vessel so detained; on the other Hand, with re- 
 spect to Slave Ships detained to the South of the 
 Equator, in conformity with the Stipulations of the pre- 
 ceding Article, the Proof of the Illegality of the Voyage 
 is to be exhibited by the Captor : It is in like Manner 
 stipulated, that the Number of Slavae found on board 
 a Slave Ship by the Cruizers, even should the Number 
 
 lO » not 
 
 1 
 
ftldb^B (Treaty toitk Portugal), 
 
 not agree with that contained in their Passport, shaU not 
 be a sufficient Reason to justify the Detention of the 
 fc>hip; but the Captain and the Proprietors shall be de- 
 nounced in the Portuguese Tribunals in the Brazils, in 
 Ae Coint"" ^^"'^ punished according to the Laws of 
 ^ Sixth Article.— Every Portuguese Vessel intendtni 
 
 fnrrrf. ^"^fuT^ xl" *^^ ^""^^ Traffic in Slaves, in con- 
 lorinity with the Principles laid down in the said Con- 
 vention, shall be commanded by a Native Portuguese, 
 and Two Thirds at least of the Crew shall likewise be 
 Portuguese; provided always, that its Portuguese or 
 J^oreign Construction shall in no wise affect its Nation- 
 alty, and that the Negi-o Sailors shall always be reckoned 
 
 of thl'c^T'^' ?T^'^''^ '}'^^ ¥°"? ^' S^^^«« t° Subjects 
 }w !a ? r ^ P°'-^"gal' or that 5iey have been enfran- 
 chised m the Dominions of His most Faithful Majesty. 
 
 Seventh Article.— Whenever a Ship of War shall 
 meet a Merchant Vessel liable to be searched, it shall L 
 done in the most mild Manner, and with every Atten- 
 tion which IS due between Allied and Friendly Nations; 
 and in no Case shall the Search be made by an Office^ 
 holding a Rank mferior to that of Lieutenant in the Navy, 
 detai'n^r ARTICLE . -The Ships of War which may 
 detain Slave Ships, m pursuance of the Principles laid 
 down m Uie said Instructions, shall leave on boaiS all the 
 Cargo of Negroes untouched, as well as the Captain, 
 
 that th^r '! ^.^n°n'^" ^'^^ "^ '^' Slave Shipf and 
 that the Captain shall draw up in Writing an authentic 
 Declaration, which shall exhibit the StatI in which he 
 found the detamed Ship, and the Changes which may 
 have l^ken place in it; and that he shall deliver to thi 
 Captain of the Slave Ship a signed Certificate of the 
 Papers seized on board the said Vessel, as well as of the 
 Number of Slaves found on board at the Moment of De- 
 ention : and that the Negroes shall not be disembarked 
 
 . .u o, ^f"'*"^' "^^'""^ ^°"t*"» them shall be arrived 
 at the Place where the Legality of the Capture i« to t)e 
 taed by one of the Two mixed Commissions, in order 
 that m the Event of their not being adjudged legal Prize 
 the Los, ^ the Proprietors may bl mLisily^pfirla ! 
 but that if urgent Motives, deduced from the LeLth of 
 the Voyage, the State of Health of the Negrols, or 
 
 other Causes, require that they shall be disembarke<l 
 «nt.relv or m P„... »,.f... .u„ <.,,,^, ^^^ j^^ ^^ ^^^ 
 
 ass 
 
 Ah 2 
 
 Place 
 
356 
 
 'lkl$i\>tiS CtVeah/ with Porlngii). 
 
 PlaCfe of the Residence of One of the «ftid Gommimions, 
 the Cctfnmander of tlie c«ipturing Ship may take on him- 
 self the R«sponsihiHty of such Disembarkation, piovidetl 
 that the Nfecessity be istated in a Certifi«ite in proper 
 
 Form. 
 
 Ninth Article. — No Conveyance of Slaves from 
 «n€ Port of the Braaals to another, or from the Continent 
 cfr Islands of Africa to the Possessions of Portugal out 
 of America, shall take place as Objects of Commerce, 
 wccept in Ships provided with Passports from tlie Portu- 
 guese Government ad hoc. 
 
 REGULATIONS 
 
 FOR 
 
 rnt MIXED COMMISSIONS, 
 
 TO BE EbTABLISHEn BY THE SAID CONVENTIOK UPON THE 
 COAST OF AFRICA AND IN THE BRAZIL8. 
 
 iPiRST ARTiCLt. — The said Commissions are appointed 
 to decide upon the Legality of the Detention of such Slave 
 Vessels as the Cruizers ot both Nations shall detain, in 
 pursuance of the smd Convention for Carrying on an illicit 
 Commerce in Slaves ; and that the above-mentiolned Com- 
 missions shall judge, without Appeal, according to the 
 Letter and Spirit of the Treaty of the Twenty-second of 
 January One thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of 
 the said Additional Convention to the said Treaty, signed 
 at London on the Twenty-eighth Day oT July One thou- 
 sand eight hundred and seventeen, and recited in this 
 Act : That the Commissions shall give Sentence as sum- 
 marily as possible, and they are required to decide (as 
 far as they shall find it practicable) within the Space of 
 Twenty Days, to be dated from that On which every de- 
 tained Vessel shall have been bvought into the Port 
 where they shall reside ; first, upon the Legality of the 
 Capture ; secondly, in the Case in which the captured 
 Vessel shall have been liberated, as to the Indemnifica- 
 tion which she is to receive : And it is hereby provided, 
 that in all Cases the final Sentence, shall not be delayed 
 on account of the Absence of Witnesses, or fcr Want of 
 other Proofs, beyond the Period of Two Months, except 
 upon the Application of any of the Parties interested, 
 when, upon their giving satisfactory Security to charge 
 thenjselves with the Expence and Risks of the D'^lay, the 
 Commissioners may, at their Dibcretion, grant an addi- 
 tional Delay, not exceeding Four Months. 
 
 8 Second 
 
on him- 
 jiovfdeil 
 I proper 
 
 rcB from 
 Sontinent 
 :ugai out 
 mmerce, 
 e Portu>- 
 
 PON THE 
 
 • 
 
 ppoiiited 
 [Ch Slave 
 etain, in 
 an illicit 
 ed Cotn- 
 ig to the 
 second of 
 n, and of 
 y, signed 
 Ine tnou- 
 i in this 
 ; as sum- 
 lecide (as 
 Space of 
 sveiy de- 
 :hc Port 
 ,y of the 
 captured 
 emnifica- 
 jrovided. 
 ! delayed 
 Want df 
 s, except 
 iterested, 
 o cliarge 
 iplay, thie 
 an addi- 
 
 Second 
 
 SBli\^t8 {Treaty with Portugal). 
 
 Second Article. — Each of tlw above-wentioiUMA 
 mixed Commiwions, which are to reside on tJbie CoasO vf 
 AtVica and in the Brazils, shall be composed iu the fol- 
 lowing Manner: The Two High Ccnti'acting Parties. shall 
 eadi of then^ name a Commissary Judge and a Comnis- 
 sioner of Arbitration, who shall be authofized to hear 
 and to decide, without Appeal, all Cases of Captiu-e oi' 
 Slav» Vessels which, in pursuance of the Slipulation of 
 the Additional Convention of this Date, may be laifilk be* 
 fore them ; and that all the essential Parts of the Pro- 
 ceedings carried on before these mixed Commissions, 
 shall be written down in the Language of the Counjtiy in 
 which tl>e Commission may reside; and the Cooimisflacy 
 Judges, and the Commissioners of Arbitration iihall 
 make Oath, in Presence of the Principal Magistrate of 
 the Place in which the Commission may retadu, to judge 
 fairly and faithfully, to have no Pre&reiice wther for tke 
 Claimants or the Captors, and to act \xx all their Deci- 
 sions in pur&uance of the Stipulaiiona of tho 'Ereaty o^'tbe 
 Twenty-second of January One thousand eight hiu;! "d 
 and fifteen, and of the additional Convention to the said 
 Treaty recited in this Act j and that there shall bo at- 
 tached to each Commission a Secretary or Registrar ap?* 
 pointed by the Soveieign of the Country iji wiiick the 
 Commissions may reside, who shall register all its Acts, 
 and who, previous to taking Charge of his Post .shall 
 make Oiith, in Presence uf at least One of tlie Comjpis^ 
 sary Judges, to conduct himself with Respect for tiheir 
 Authority, and to act with Fidelity iu all the Aflfaixs 
 which may belong to his Charge. 
 
 Third Article. — The Form of the Process aliall be 
 as follows : The Commissary Judges of the Two Nations 
 shall in the Fij*8t Plsice puoeeed to the Examination oiF djye 
 Papers of the Vessel, and to I'eceive the Depositions on 
 Oath of the Captain ami Two or Three at least of the 
 principal Individuals on board of the detained Vessel^ as 
 well as the Declaration on Oath of the Captor, should 
 it aj)pear necessary, in order to be able to judge and to 
 pronounce if the said Vessel has been justly detained or 
 not, according to the Stipulatious of the said AdditionaJ. 
 Convention recited in this Act, and in order that accord'- 
 ing to this Judgment it may be condemned or liberated ; 
 and in the Event of the Two Commissary Judges not 
 agreeing on the Sentence they ought to pronounoe, 
 whrther as to the Legality of the Dcteatioa, or tlie In- 
 u€iuniu€utiOa tO uC ailowcu^ Of Qm iuiy Ota^ QucstiQIl 
 
 A a 3 which 
 
 35? 
 
358 
 
 Slatot^ (Treaty with Portugal"). 
 
 which might result from the Stipulations, of the said Con- 
 vention, they shall draw by Lot the Name of One of the 
 Two Commissioners of Arbitration, who, after having 
 considered the Documents of the Process, shall consult 
 with the above-mentioned Commissary Judges on tlie 
 Case in question ; and the final Sentence shall be pro- 
 nounced conformably in the Opinion of the Majority of 
 the above-mentioned Commissaiy Judges, and of the 
 above-mentioned Commissioner of Arbitration. 
 
 Fourth Article. — As often as the Cargo of Slaves 
 found on board of a Portuguese Slave Ship shall have 
 been embarked on any Point whatever of the Coast of 
 Africa where the Slave Trade continues lawful to the 
 Subjects of the Crown of Portugal, such Slave Ship shall 
 hot be detained on Pretext that the above-mentioned 
 Slaves shall have been brought originally by Land from 
 any other Part whatever of the Continent. 
 
 Fifth Article. — In the authenticated Declaration 
 which the Captors shall make before the Commission, as 
 well as in the Certificate of the Papers seized, which shall 
 be delivered to the Captain of the captured Vessel at the 
 Time of the Detention, the above-mentioned Captor 
 ^hall be bound to declare his Name, the Name of his 
 Vessel, as well as the Latitude and Longitude of the 
 Place where the Detention shall have taken place, and 
 the Number of Slaves found living on board of the Slave 
 Ship at the Time of the Detention. 
 
 Sixth Article.^ — As soon as Sentence shall have been 
 passed, the detained Vessel, if liberated, and what re- 
 mains of the Cargo, shall be restored to the Proprietors, 
 who may before the same Commission claim a Valuatic 
 of the Damages which they may have a Right to demand , 
 the Captor himself, and in his Default his Government, 
 shall remain responsible for the above-mentioned Da- 
 mages; and that the Two High Contracting Powers did 
 bind themselves to defray, within the Term of a Year 
 from the Date of the Sentence, the Indemnifications 
 which may be granted by the above-named Commission, 
 it being understood that these Indemnifications shall be 
 at the Expence of the Power of which the Captor shall 
 be a Subject. 
 
 Seventh Article. — In case of the Condemnation of 
 a Vessel for an unlawful Voyage, she shall be declared 
 lawfiil Prize, as well as her Cargo, of whatever Descrip- 
 tion it may be, with the Exception of the Slaves who 
 may be on board as Objects of Commerce : and the said.. 
 
 Vessel, 
 
^Ul)^tS (Treaty with Portugal). 
 
 Vessel, 8& well as her Cargo, shall be sold by Public 
 Sale, for the Profit of the Two Governments ; and as tq 
 the Slaves, they shall receive from the mixed Commis- 
 sion a Certificate of Emancipation, and shall be delivered 
 over to the Government on whose Territory the Commis- 
 sion which shall have so judged them shall be established, 
 to be employed as Servants or Free Labourers, with 
 Guarantee by each of the Two Governments respectiyelv, 
 the Liberty of such Portion of these Individuals as shall 
 be respectively consigned to it. 
 
 ^ Eighth Article — Every Claim for Compensation of 
 Losses occasioned to Ships suspected of carrying on an 
 illicit Trade m Slaves, not condemned as lawful Prize by 
 the mixed (Commissions, shall be also heard and judged 
 by the above-named Commissions, in the Form provided 
 by the Third Article of the said Regulations herein-before 
 recited; and in all Cases wherein Restitution shall be so 
 decreed, tfie Commission shall award to the Claimant or 
 Cxaimants, or his or their lawfiil Attorney or Attornies/ 
 tor his or their Use, a just and complete Indemnification, 
 hrst, for all Costs of Suit, and for all Losses and Damages 
 which the Claimant or Claimants may have actudiv sus- 
 tained by such Capture and Detention ; that is to say, in 
 die Case of total Loss, the Claimant or Claimants shall 
 be indemnified, first, for the Ship, her Tackle, AppareL 
 and Stores; secondly, for all Freight due and payable; 
 thirdly, ior the Value of the Cargo of Merchandize, if 
 any; fourthly, for the Slaves on board at the Time of 
 Detention, according to the computed Value of such 
 Slaves at the Place of Destination, deductmg therefrom 
 the usual fair average Mortality for the unexpired Period 
 of the regular Voyage, deducting also for all Charge* 
 and Expences payable upon the Sale of such Cargoes, 
 including Commission of Sale when payable at such Port- 
 and fifthly, tor all other regular Charges in such Cases of 
 total Loss ; and in all other Cases not of total Los^, the 
 Claimant or Claimants shall be indemnified, first, for 
 all special Damages and Expences occasioned to the Ship 
 by the Detention, and for Loss of Freight when due or 
 payable; secondly, a Demurrage, when due, according 
 to the Scheaule annexed; thirdly, a daily Allowance for 
 the Subsistence of Slaves of One Shilling or One hundred 
 and eighty Reis for each Person, without Distinction of 
 Age or Sex, for so many Days as it shall appear to the 
 Commission that the Voyage has been or inav be de- 
 iayr^tl by reason of such Detention; as likewise, fourthly, 
 
 A a 4 foi- 
 
 359 
 
360 
 
 I 
 
 ^ItiMti (Treaty with Portugat). 
 
 for any Deterioration of Cargo or Slaves ; fifthly, for apy 
 Diminution in the Value of the Cargo of Slaves proceed- 
 ing from an increased Mortality neyond the average 
 Amount of the Voyage, or from Sickness occasioned ny 
 Detention, this Value to be ascertained by their computed 
 Price at the Place of Destination, as in the above Case of 
 total Loss ; sixthly, an Allowance of Five per Centum on 
 the Amount of Capital employed in the Purchase and 
 Maintenance of Cargo for the Period of Delay occasioned 
 by the Detention ; and seventhly, for all Premium of In- 
 surance on additional Risks ; the Claimant or Claimants 
 shall likewise be entitled to Interest at the Rate of Five 
 er Centum per Annum on the Sum awarded, untH paid 
 ly the Government to which th"* capturing Ship belongs ; 
 the whole Amount of such Indemnifications being calcu- 
 lated in the Money of the Country to which the captured 
 Ship belongs, and to be liquidated at Exchange Current 
 at the Time of Award, excepting the Sum for the Sub- 
 »8tence of Slaves, which shall be paid at par, as above 
 stipulated : The Two High Contracting Parties wishing to 
 4void, as much as possible, every Species of FraucI in the 
 Execution of the Additional Convention of this Date, have 
 ^reed, that if it should be proved, in a Manner evident 
 to the Conviction of the Judges of the Two Nations, and 
 without having Recourse to the Decision of a Commis- 
 sioner of Arbitration, that the Captor has been led into 
 Error by a voluntary and reprehensible Fault on the Part 
 of the Captain of the detained iSliip, in that Case only the 
 detained Ship shall not have the Right of receiving, dur- 
 ing the Days of her Detention, the Demurrage stipulated 
 by the present Article : 
 
 Schedule of Demurr^e or Daily Allowance for a Vessel of 
 
 100 Tons to 120 inclusive - £5' 
 
 121 ditto to 150 - ditto - - 6 
 
 ISI ditto to 170 - ditto - - 8 
 
 171 ditto to 200 - ditto - - 10 
 
 200 ditto to 220 - ditto - - 11 
 
 221 ditto to 250 - ditto - - 12 
 
 S51 ditto to 270 - ditto - - 14- 
 
 271 ditto to 300 - ditto - - 15, 
 and so in proportion. 
 
 Ninth Article. — When the Proprietors of a !S»ip 
 suspected of carrying on an illicit Trade in Slaves, re- 
 leased in consequence of a Sentence of One of the mixed 
 ViummlBoiOns fOf iii tflc Caoc aS uuvrv tn€;nti&ncQ oi tot^i 
 
 Loss), 
 
 per Diem; 
 
 t 
 
%ldl9tfi! (Treaty with Portugal}. 
 
 Loss), shall claim Indemnification for the Loss of Slaves 
 which he may have suffered, he shall in no Case be entitled 
 to claim for more than the Number of Slaves which hi« 
 Vessel was by the Portuguese Laws authorized to carry, 
 which Number shall always be declared in his Passport. 
 
 Tenth Article. — The mixed^'Commission established 
 in London by the Article Ninth of the said Convention 
 herein-before recited, shall hear and deterrfline all Claims 
 for Portuguese Ships and Cargoes captured, by British 
 Cruizers, on account of the unlawful Trading in Slaves 
 since the First of June One thousand eight hundred and 
 fourteen, till the Period when the Convention is to be in 
 complete Execution, awarding to them, conformably to 
 the Ninth Article of the said Convention, a just and 
 complete Compensation, upon the Basis laid down in the 
 preceding Article, either for total Loss, or for Losses and 
 Damages sustained by the Owners and Proprietors ofths 
 said Ships and Cargoes ; and it was also provided, that 
 the said Commission established in London shall be com- 
 posed and proceed exactly upon the same Basis deter- 
 Sined in the Articles of One, Two, and Three of tlie 
 egulations herein-before recited for the Commissions 
 established on the Coast of Africa and the Braails. 
 
 Eleventh Article. — It shall not be permitted to any 
 of the Commissary Judges, nor to the Arbitrators, nor 
 to the Secretary of any oif the mixed Commissions, to 
 demand or receive from any one of the Parties concerned 
 in the Sentences which they shall pronounce, any Emolu- 
 ment, under any Pretext whatsoever, for the Perforni- 
 ance of the Duties which are imposed upon them by the 
 Regulations annexed to the Convention as aforesaid. 
 
 Ninth Article. — When the Parties interested shall 
 imagine they have Cause to complain of any evident In- 
 justice on the Part of the mixed Commissions, they may 
 represent it to their respective Governments, who reserve 
 to themselves the Right of mutual Correspondence, for 
 removing when they think fit, the Individuals who may 
 compose these Commissions. 
 
 Thikteenth Article. — In the Case of a Vessel de- 
 tained unjustly under the Pretejice of the Stipulationa of 
 the Additional Convention of this Date, and in which the 
 Captor should neither be authorized by the Tenor of the 
 above mentioned Convention, nor of the Instructions an- 
 nexed to it, the Government to which the detained Vessel 
 may belong, shall be entitled to demand Reparation, and 
 
 in 
 
 361 
 
362 
 
 S)labe0 (Treaty with Portugal). 
 
 in such Case the Government lo which the Captor niav 
 belong, binds itself to cause the Subject of Complaint to 
 be fully examined, and to inflict upon the Captor, if he 
 be found to have deserved it, a Punishment proportioned 
 to the Transgression which may have been committed. 
 
 Fourteenth AktiCIe. — In the Event of the Death 
 of One or more of the Commissioners, Judges, and Arbi- 
 trators composing the above-mentioned mixed Commis- 
 sions, their Posts shall be supplied ad interim in the fol- 
 lowing Manner: On the Part of the British Government, 
 the Vacancies shall be filled successively, in the Commis- 
 sion which shall sit within the Possessions of His Britannic 
 Majesty, by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor resi- 
 dent in that Colony, by the principal Magistrate of the 
 Place, and by .the Secretary ; and in the Brazils, by the 
 British Consul and Vice Consul resident in the City in 
 vhich the mixed Commission may be established ; on the 
 Part of Portugal, the Vacancies shall be supplied in the 
 Brazils by such Persons as the Captain General of the 
 Province shall name for that Purpose : And considering 
 the Difficulty which the Portuguese Government would 
 feel in naming fit Persons to fill the Posts which migbf 
 become vacant in the Commission established in the 
 British Possessions, it is agreed, that incase of the death 
 of the Portuguese Commissioners, Judge, or Arbitrators, 
 in those Possessions, the remaining Individuals of the 
 above-mentioned Commission shall be equally authorized 
 to proceed to the Judgment of such Slave Ships as may 
 be brought before them, and to the Execution of their 
 Sentence ; in this Case alone, however, the Parties inte- 
 rested shall have the Right of appealing from the Sen- 
 tence, if they think fit, to the Commission resident in the 
 Brazils ; and the Government to which the Captor shall 
 belong shall be bound fully to defray the Indemnification 
 which shall be due to them, if the Appeal be judged in 
 favour of the Claimants ; it being well understood that the 
 Ship and Cargo shall remain during this Appeal in the 
 Place of Residence of the First Commission before whom 
 she may have been conducted : And it was in the said 
 Regulation agreed to supply, as soon as possible, every 
 Vacancy that may arise in the above-mentioned Com- 
 missions from Death or any other Contingency ; and in 
 case that the Vacancy of each of the Portuguese Com- 
 missioners residing in the British Possessions oe not sup- 
 plied at the End of Six Months, the Vessels which are 
 
 taken 
 
ftldl)t0 (Treatjf with Portugal). 
 
 tuken there to be jud^^V after the ExpirHtion of that 
 Time, shall no longer haw^ the Right of Appeal herein- 
 before stipulated : And it waii also further provided and 
 declared and agreed, ia a separate Articles, that us soon as 
 the total Abolition of the Slave Trade for the iSubjecta 
 of the Crown of Portugal shall have taken place, the Two 
 High Contracting Parties, by common Consent, will 
 adapt to that State of Circumstances the Stipulations of 
 the said Addi4ional Convention of the 28th July herein- 
 before recited ; but in default of such Alterations, that 
 the said Additi<mal Convention shall remain in force until 
 the Expiration of Fifteen Years from the Day on which 
 the general Abolition of the Slave Trade shall so take 
 place on the Part of the Portuguese Government ; and 
 that the said separate Article shall have the same Force 
 and Validity as if it were inserted Word for Word in 
 the 9aid Additional Convention hca-ein-before mentioned 
 as aforesaid. 
 
 And whereas it is expedient and necessary that 
 effectual Provision should be made for carrying into 
 Execution the Provisions of the said Treaty ; be it there- 
 fore enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Officers 
 commanding any Ship of War of His Majesty, duly 
 atrthorized and provided with Instructions aecordin<» to 
 the Provisions of the said Convention, to visit and detain 
 all Vessels which shall be suspected, upon reasonable 
 Grounds, of having Slaves on board acquired by an illicit 
 Traffic, according to the Articles of the said Convention, 
 and to detain and bring to Adjudication ajl VesselB and 
 Cargoes thereby made subject to Detention and Con- 
 demnation, according to the Provisions of the said 
 Conventiou, and the Instructions and Regulations 
 aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 85. § 1. 
 
 All Vessels, belonging wholly or in part to His Ma- 
 jesty's Subjects, suspected upon reasonable Grounds of 
 having Slaves on board acquired by an illicit Traffic, 
 shall be, according to the said Treaty, Convention, and 
 Regulations aforesaid, subject to the Visitation of British 
 or Portuguese Vessels of War, duly authorized for that 
 Purpose, according to the Provisions before recited; and 
 all yessels belonging wholly or in part to His Majesty's 
 Subjects, which shall have Slaves on board acquired by 
 an illicit Traffic, contrary to the Treaty, Convention, 
 and Regulations, and all Boats, Apparel, Furniture, and 
 Slaves belonging to such Vessels, and all Cargoes 
 
 363 
 
 Ships of War 
 duly auchorucH 
 may seize all 
 suspected 
 Vessels. 
 
 British Vessels 
 suspected of 
 having Slaves on 
 board, subject to 
 Seizure by Portu- 
 guese or British 
 Vessels, and to 
 Adjudication by 
 the Commission- 
 ers. 
 
 ..1 
 
 uicreui.) 
 
364 
 
 His Majeity 
 may appoint 
 Commijisary 
 Judges and Com< 
 misiioners of 
 Arbitration. 
 
 Secretary and 
 Registrar to be 
 appointed to the 
 Commission es- 
 tablished in His 
 Majesty's Do- 
 ttiinions. 
 
 SUd\^tS (Treaty with FwiUgef). 
 
 therein, shall bo subject to the Visit and Detention of 
 British or Portuguese Vessels of War duly authorized 
 for that Purpose, according to the Stipulations of the said 
 Convention, and to Forfeiture according to the said 
 Convention, and the Regulations and Instructions there- 
 unto annexed, and far that Puipose shall be subject to 
 the Adjudication of, and to Condemnation or other 
 Judgment by the Commissary Judges and Commissioners 
 to be appointed according to the Provisioaa cf the Can- 
 vention, Instructions, and Regulations aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3 
 c. 85. § 2. 
 
 His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Royal Sign 
 Manual, countersigned by One of the Principal Secre- 
 taries of State, may appoint Commissary Judges and 
 Conmiissioners of Arbitration, and from Time to l^e 
 supply any Vacancies i^hich may arise in such Offices, 
 by appointing other Persons; and grant Salaries, not 
 exceeding such annual Sums as the Lords of the Ti-ca- 
 sury of Great Britain and Ireland shall direct ; and 
 such Commissary Judges and Commissioners may «x-t 
 amine and decide all Cases of Detention, Captures, 
 and Seizures of Vessels and their Cargoes, detained, 
 seized, taken, or captured under the said Treaty or Con-r 
 vention, or Instructions and Regulations, as are. made 
 subject to their Jurisdiction, and to proceed therein, and 
 do all Acts, Matters, and Things appertaining thereto, 
 agreeably to the Provisions of the said Treaty and Con- 
 vention, and the Instructions nd Regulations annexed 
 thereto, as effectually as if special Powers and Authorities 
 were specifically given in relation thereto ia this Act. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 85. § 3. 
 
 His Majesty, by any Warrant under His Roy«l Sign 
 Manual, countersigned by One of His Majesty's Princir. 
 pal Secretaries of State, may appoint a Seeretaiy or 
 Registrar to the Commis&ion which shall be estabhshetl 
 in His Majesty'.'. Dominions, and supply any Vacancy 
 which may thereafter occur, and grant such Salaries 
 as the said Lords Commissioners shall direct ; and such 
 Secretary or Registrar may perform all the Duties of 
 such Office, as described in the Convention, Instructions, 
 and Regulations aforesaid, and execute aH such Acit, 
 Matters, and Things as may be necessary for the due 
 Biaeharge of the Duties of his Office, according to ike 
 Provisions of the Convention, Instructions, and Regular 
 tiona aforesaid. 58 Ge©. S, e. 95. ji. 
 
 The 
 
dldtof (Treaty tvUh Portugal). 
 
 365 
 
 The 
 
 The Govemdr or T^ieutenant Governor or Principol Vacancie!« in the 
 Magistrate of the Colony or Settlement in which the Commisiiori to 
 Commissioti shall sit, within the PossessionB of His ll^me"oie?Pe"r!' 
 Britannic Majesty, may fill up every Vacancy which shall ion shall be ap. 
 arise in such Commission, either ^Commissary Judge, p^'"."'' ^^ "'" 
 Commissioner, or any Officer thereof, appointed by His '^**'^' 
 Majesty, according to the Regulations annexed to the 
 said Convehtiort, ad interim, until such Vacancy shall be 
 thereafter filled by some Person appointed by His 
 Majesty. 68 Geo. 8. c. 85. § 5. 
 
 Every Commissai^y Judge and Coiiimisaioner of Arbi- Commistary 
 tmtion, appointed by His Majesty, shall, before he ^"£',^'1,7' 
 enters upoh the Execution of his Office, take an Oath, Arbitration**, 
 in the Presence of the Principal Magistrate then residing Secretary and 
 and acting in the Colony, Settlement, or Place in which K^";?"*" 
 
 k/^ •• 1111 ■ I'l.-i-r^ Oaths lor due 
 
 tne Commission shall be appomted to reside, in the Form Execution of 
 following; that is to say. of^ce- 
 
 * T A. B. do solemnly swear. That I will, according to 
 
 * '^ the best of my Skill and Knowledge, act in the Exe- 
 
 < cation of my Office as taithfuUy, impartially, 
 
 < fairly, and without Preference or Favour, either for 
 
 * Claimants or Captors, or any other Persons ; and that 
 « I will, to the best of my Judgment and Pow«r, act in 
 
 * pursuance cf and according to the Stipulations, Re- 
 
 * gulations, and Instructions contained in the C<mven- 
 
 * tion between His Majesty and His most Faithful 
 
 * Majeirty, signed at London on the Twenty-eighth Day 
 
 * of September One thousand eight hundred and seven- 
 
 * teen. So help me GOD.' 
 And every Secretary or Registrar appointed by His 
 Majesty under the Provisions of the Treaty, Regulations 
 and Instructions, and of this Act, shall, before he enters 
 on the Duties of his said Office, take the like Oath before 
 the British Commissary Judge as aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. 
 c. 85. § 6. 
 
 The said Commissary Judges, or either of them, br Commissary 
 any such Secretary or Registrar, may administer Oaths to Judges and 
 and take the Depositions of all Persons who may come or anTtiTe'h^SMre- 
 be blrottght before them to be examined, or for the Pur- tary and Regis- 
 pose ol deposing, in the Course of any Proceeding befote "'f'. "°"^''**r 
 the said Commissary Judges, or before the said Commis- and summon 
 sary Judges and the Commissioners of Arbitration, in the witnesses. 
 Cases in which such Commissioner of Arbitration shall 
 act with the said Commissary Judges, under the said Con- 
 vention, Instructions or Regulations, or this Act ; and the 
 
 >7Ui.vt 
 
36(> 
 
 Persons giving 
 false Evidence 
 guilty of 
 Perjury. 
 
 Suits pending 
 btfore, or Judg- 
 ment by any 
 suchCommission, 
 to be a Bar, and 
 pleadable a& such 
 to any Aftion 
 brought for any 
 Thing done 
 under the Tfeaty. 
 
 Jurisdiction of 
 Prize Courts of 
 Appeal, or of 
 Admiralty, in 
 Crsei brought 
 before them, 
 not altered. 
 
 ^Idt)e0 (Treaty with Portugal). 
 
 said Commissary Judges, or the said Commissary Judge,'. 
 and Commissioners of Arbitration, in the Cases 'ifcresaid. 
 may summon all Persons whom they may deeku it neces- 
 sary or proper to examine, in relation to any Suit, 
 Matter, or Thing under their Cognizance, and send fov 
 and issue Precepts for the producing of such Papers as 
 may relate to the Matters in question before them, and 
 enforce all such Summonses, Orders, and Precepts Jb^ 
 such and the like Means, Powers, and Authorities as any 
 Court of Vice Admiralty may do. 58 Geo. 3. c. 85. § 7. 
 
 Every Person who shall wilfully and corruptly give 
 false Evidence, in any Examination, Deposition, or Affi- 
 davit in any Proceeding before the said Commissary 
 Judges or Commissioners aforesaid, shall be deemed guiltv 
 of Peijury, and being thereof convicted, shall be liabk 
 to all the P mishments. Pains, and Penalties to whicli 
 Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Peijury are 
 hable ; and every such Person may be tried, either in the 
 Place where the Offence was committed, or in any 
 Colony or Settlement of His Majesty near thereto, in 
 which there is a Court of competent Jurisdiction to try 
 any such Offence, or in His Majesty's Court of King's 
 Bench in England; and in any Prosecution for sucli 
 Offence in His Majesty's said Court of King's Bench, the 
 Venue may be laid in the County of Middlesex. 
 58 Geo. 3. c. 85. §8. 
 
 The Pendency of any Suit or Proceeding instituted 
 b«fore the said Commissioners for the Condemnation or 
 Restitution of any Ship or Cargo or Slaves seized or de- 
 tained by virtue of the said Convention, Instructions, or 
 Regulations, or the final Adjudication, Condemnation, or 
 Juc^ment or Determination thereupon, may be pleaded 
 in Bar, or given in Evidence under the General Issue, 
 and shall be a good and complete Bar in any Action, Suit, 
 or Proceeding instituted for the Recovery of any such 
 Ship, Vessel, or Cargo, or of any Damage or for an} 
 Injury sustained thereby, or by the Persons on board, 
 in consequence of any Capture, Seizure, or Detention, or 
 Thing done under the Authority of the said Conven- 
 tion, Instructions or Regulations. 58 Geo. 3. c. 85. $ 9. 
 
 Provided, that the Lords Commissioners of Appeal 
 in Prize Causes, and the High Court of Admiralty, in 
 all Cases and Questions arising out of the Captures 
 depending before them, or that may be brought 
 before them on Appeal from any Vice Admiralty Court, 
 
 according 
 
 
 Issue, 
 
S)Ia\)efi» (Treaty tvith Portugal^ 
 
 according to their respective Jurisdictions, may proceetl 
 !.,!'!; -'k? ^T"" ^""^ d.et^rmine all Questions respecting 
 aiw Right or Interest m or to the same, to ;.hich Hi! 
 Majesty, or the Captors or Seizors of such Vessels 
 or Cargoes, may claim to be entitled, by reason of the 
 Capture or Seizure thereof and the Laws relating thereto, 
 and enforce their Judgments and Orders therein bv the 
 usual Process of the said Com ts. 58 Geo. 3. c. 85.^ lo! 
 
 r^nT Q*?'°' *u^5/" *" such Cases in which the 
 Captors or Seizors shall not estabUsh any Right or Inter- 
 est on their Behalf; by reason of the Capture thereof 
 and the Laws relating thereto, the said Courts respect- 
 ively may order and adjudge the Vessels and Cargoes, or 
 the Proceeds thereof, into or to or which the Captors 
 
 o7nnfH r .^ 'tt*"^ f'&' .^/ ^"*"^^^^' *° be delivered 
 ^If A r ^'^-^ °^ ^' r^^J"'^' *° «"ch Persons as 
 the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury shall 
 appoint to receive the same, and enforce the Delivery or 
 the Payment thereof by the usual Process used and esta- 
 blished by Law m Cases of Prize. 58 Geo. 3. c. 85. 6 1 1 
 Nothing in this Act shall extend to, suspend, affect or 
 repeal any of the Clauses, Penalties, Forfeitures, or 
 Punishments contained in any Act for the Suppression 
 or Prevention of the Slave Trade; but all such Acts 
 shalJ remain m full Force and Virtue. 58 Geo. 3. 
 c. 85. § 12. 
 
 If ai^ Action or Suit shall be commenced, cither in 
 threat Britain or elsewhere, or against any Person, for any 
 rhmg done in pursuance of the said Treaty, Instructioi 
 or Regulations, or of this Act, the Defendant or De- 
 tendants m such Action or Suit may plead the General 
 Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evi- 
 dence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the 
 TZZT "' ^^y ^^^^^"thority of the said Convention, 
 Inst uctions or Regulations, or of thi» Act; and ifi[ 
 shall appear so to have been done, the Jury shall find for 
 the Defendant ; and if the Plaintiff shall b^ nonsuited, or 
 discontinue h.s Action after the Defendant shall have^p- 
 peared, or if Judgment shdl be given upon any Verdict 
 or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall 
 recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the 
 «aine as in other Cases by Law. 58 Geo. S. c. 85. § 13 
 
 367 
 
 Captors nor 
 establishing their 
 Righls, Proceeds 
 to go to the Use 
 of His Mnjesty. 
 
 This Act not to 
 alter or affect 
 »ny of the Penal- 
 ties, &c. in any 
 Act for Suppreu- 
 sion of the Slave 
 Trade. 
 
 General Issne 
 may be pleaded 
 and Treble Corts 
 allowed. 
 
368 
 
 Not to be landed 
 on the Isle of 
 Man; 
 
 ^^itit&. 
 
 nor in Guernsey 
 or Jeney. 
 
 Affidavit to be 
 made by the 
 Shipper or his 
 Agent, or Factor 
 of the Colony 
 where produced. 
 
 1 . No Rum or other Spirits shall be laden on board any 
 Ship in any British Colony or Plantation in America, 
 but on Condition that the same shall not be carried to or 
 landed in the Isle of Man, under the like Securities, 
 Penalties, and Forfeitures as prescribed in 12 Car. 2. 
 c. 18. and 25 Gar. 2. C 7. — 5 Geo. 3. c 3&. ^5. 
 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. * 
 
 See AstfEs, Pot and Pearl. 
 
 2. No Rum the Production of any British Colony or 
 Plantation itk America, shall be landed in Guernsey or 
 Jei-sey. 9 Geo. 3. c. 28. 
 
 See Goods, Non-enumerated. 
 
 3. 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 Collec- 
 tor or other principal Officer of the Customs at the load- 
 ing Port, an Affidavit signed and sworn to before some 
 Justice of the Peace in the said British Colonies or Plant- 
 ations, cither by the Shipper or his known Agent or 
 Factor, expressing in Words at Length the Quality of 
 the Goods, with the Number and Denomination ot the 
 Packages, and describing the Name of the Plantation 
 and Colony where the same were produced ; which Affi- 
 davit shall be attested, under the Hand of the said Justice 
 of the Peace, to have been sworn to in his Presence, whc 
 is required to do the same without Fee or Reward ; and 
 the Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs to 
 %yham such Affidavit shaU be delivered, shall thereupon 
 finmta Certificate under his Hand and Seal ofOfficr 
 (Wh( ut Fee or Reward) of his having received such 
 Affidavit; which Certificate shall express the Quality oi 
 the Goods, with the Number and Denomination of the 
 Packages. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15, § 20. 
 
 * JBto 56 Geo.S. c. 91. Subjects of the King of the Nether - 
 iands, being Dutch Proprritors in Demeram, Herbicc, or Lsse- 
 quiho m Guiana, may export from ti^nce to the Neiherlmids the 
 Produce of their EHcten, in Duteh Ships, subject to the samt 
 Mefiulatims and Restrictions for the due landing sfsuch Produce 
 in the Netherlands, as are provided by any Act now m force Jm 
 tha landing of the like Articles in Great Britain, so far as appli- 
 cable ; and iio Persons entitled to trade between the satd Colonier^ 
 and the Dominions of the King of the Netfierlmds,areathwed 
 to export the Produce of the said Estates to any Part of tne 
 United Kingdom, or to any other of His Majesty s Dominions in 
 Europe. See '• Guiana." ^j^^ 
 
 to 
 
Wip 
 
 S>pt't(tS. 
 
 *. Tlie 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, transmit One exact Copy of the 
 Affidavit to the Secretary's Office for the Colony or 
 Plantation where the Spirits were shipped; and shall also, 
 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 For- 
 feiture of jf 50 for every Omission or Neglect. 1 8 Geo. 3 . 
 c. 58. § 1. 
 
 5. In case any Justice of the Peace shall subscribe his 
 Name to any Paper or Parchment, purporting to be an 
 Affidavit for the Purpose directed by 4 Geo. 3. c. 15., 
 unless the Person purporting to make such Affidavit shall 
 actually appear before him, and be sworn to the Truth 
 of the Affidavit, every such Justice shall forfeit for every 
 Offence £50. 18 Geo. 3. c. 58. § 2. 
 
 6. If there shall not be any Justices of the Peace at 
 such Colony or Plantation, before whom such Affidavit 
 cart be made, the Planter or Grower shall make the same 
 before the Collector and Comptroller or other Chief 
 Officer of the Customs, or any IVo of them, at the Port 
 or Place from whence the Spirits may be intended to be 
 shipped ; and in the Certificate which the Collector and 
 Comptroller and Naval Officer, or any Two of them, are 
 required 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. 47 Geo. 3. 
 c. 48. § 2. 
 
 7. Rum, the Produce of any British Island, brought 
 into any of the Free Ports in Britisli-built Ships, owned, 
 navigated, and registered according to Law, may be ex- 
 ported from thence to any of the Colonies or Plantations 
 m America belonging to or under the Dominion of- any 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, in any Foreign 
 Ship owned and navigated by any Persons inhabiting 
 any such Colony, Plantation, or Country. 45 Geo. 3. 
 C.57. §8. 
 
 5^^ Free Ports. ^ ;'•' 
 
 8. Rum, the Produce of any of His Majesty's Sugar 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, may be shipped and 
 ex'iorted direct to IS^rIIh. or thp Dpnendf noi'^s ♦^•"••fof. j>" 
 to Gibraltar, in such Ships, and under such Licences, 
 
 B b . Entries, 
 
 369 
 
 Copies thereof 
 to be transmitted 
 to the Secretary's 
 Office, and to the 
 Justices ani 
 Vestry. 
 
 Penalty on Jus- 
 tices subscribing 
 to ASidavits if 
 the Persons do 
 not appear before 
 them. 
 
 If there are no 
 Justices, the 
 Affidavit to be 
 made before the 
 Chief Officer. 
 
 Rum may be 
 exported from 
 the Free Ports in 
 Foreign Ships. 
 
 May be exported 
 from Malta or 
 Gil)raltar. 
 
 m 
 m 
 
 im 
 
370 
 
 S»pittt«. 
 
 Brandy may be 
 exported from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Rum may be 
 exported from 
 Bermuda to the 
 United States. 
 
 Spirits not to be 
 imported from 
 Foreign Colonies, 
 
 Duty payable 
 upon Spirits 
 imported into 
 Quebec. 
 
 Entries, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and For- 
 feitures, as are herein particularly mentioned. 55 Geo, 3, 
 c. 29. § 1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 9. Brandy may be exported from Malta or any of the 
 Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any ot 
 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. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 
 Malta. 
 
 10. Rum, the Produce of any British Plantation in the 
 West Indies, legally imported into Bermuda in any 
 British Ship, may be exported from Saint George or 
 Hamilton to any of the Territories of the United States, 
 in the Description of Ships and under the Regulations 
 provided in the Acts 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. and 53 Geo. 3. 
 c. SO — 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. , 
 
 See Bermuda. 
 
 1 1. No 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, shall 
 be hnported into any of the Colonies or Plantations in 
 America in the Possession or under the Dominion of 
 His Majesty, upon Forfeiture of such Spirits, and the 
 Ship. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 18. 
 
 12. There shall be paid to His Majesty, upon all 
 Spirits hereafter mentioned, which shall be imported into 
 Quebec, above all other Duties payable in the said 
 Province, the Duties following ; that is to say^ 
 
 For every Gallon of Brandy or other Spirits of the 
 Manufacture of Great Britain, Three -pence: 
 
 For every 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 from any other of His Majesty's CoJbnies or 
 Dominions in America, Nine-pence : 
 
 For every Gallon of Foreign Brandy or other Spirits of 
 Foreiffn Mauufactui'e imDorted from Great Britaiiii One 
 Shilling: 
 
 For 
 
^mits. 
 
 371 
 
 For every Gallon of Rum or Spirits of the Produce or 
 Manufacture of any of the Colonies or Plantations iu 
 America, not in the Possession or under the Dominion 
 of His Majesty, imported from any other Place except 
 Great Britain, One Shilling. 14 Geo. 3. c. 88. § 1. 
 
 13. The 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 Forfeitures (except where any 
 Alteration is made by this Act), as any other Duties pay- 
 abb to His Majesty upon Goods imported into any 
 British Colony or Plantation in America may be raised 
 and recovered ; and the Monies that shall arise by the 
 said Duties (except the necessary Charges of raising, re- 
 covering, and accounting for the same) shall be paid by 
 the Collector of the Customs into the Hands of His Ma- 
 jesty'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 Sup- 
 port of the Civil Government in the said Province; and 
 the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three of 
 them, shall by any Warrant under their Hands cause 
 such Money to be applied out of the Produce of the Du- 
 ties towards defraying the said Expences, and the Residue 
 shall be reserved in the Hands of the Receiver General 
 for the future Disposition of Parliament, l-t Geo. 3. 
 c. 88. § 2. 
 
 14. 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 
 ether than upon the River Saint Lawrence, the same shall 
 pass and be carried upon the said River Sorrel by the 
 said Port, and there entered, and the Duties pa'd to such 
 Officer of His Majesty's Customs as shall be there 
 appointed; and if any such Spirits, coming by Land Car- 
 riage or Inland Navigation, shall pass by or beyond the 
 said Place without Entry and Payment of the Duties, or 
 siian ue orougnt into any rail ot the Province by or 
 through any other Place, such Spirits shall be forfeited, 
 and the Persons assisting in the Removal, or to whose 
 
 B b 2 Hands 
 
 Collection and 
 
 Appropristior,, 
 
 Brought into 
 Quebec by In- 
 land Navigation 
 or Laud Carriage 
 must pass 
 through certnin 
 Places, wliere 
 Duties are to be 
 paid. 
 
372 
 
 ^pitita. 
 
 His Majesty's 
 Subjects may 
 bring Spirits into 
 sny Parts of the 
 Province. 
 
 Ships which 
 hne landed 
 Lumber in the 
 Sugar Colonies 
 may load Spirits 
 at Quebec 
 Duty-fi-ae ; 
 
 or Ships which 
 inteud to load a 
 Cargo of Lum- 
 liei for the said 
 Colonies in their 
 next clearing out, 
 may land Spirits 
 Duty-free. 
 
 Hands the same shall come, knowing that they were re» 
 moved 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. 
 UGeo.S. c. 88. § 3. 
 
 15. His Majesty's Subjects may freely bring, by Land 
 Carriage or Inland Navigation, into any Parts of the 
 Province of Quebec not heretofore comprehended within 
 the Limits thereof by His Majesty's Proclamation of 
 7th October 1763, any Quantity of Spirits, notwithstand- 
 ing 14 Geo. 3. c. 88. — 15 Geo. 3. c.40. § 1. 
 
 16. In Cases where Spirits of the British Sugar Colo- 
 nies 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 any of the si id Colonies a Cargo of Lumber and Pro- 
 visions, 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. 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. § 1. 
 
 17. In Cases where Spirits, the Produce or Manufac- 
 ture 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 Pro- 
 vince after such Importation, shall inten<! to load with 
 Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, and carry 
 to and land the same in some of the said Colonies, it shall 
 be lawful to land any Quantity of such Spirits (not ex- 
 ceeding in Value the Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, 
 Horses or Neat Cattle), without Payment of the Duty of 
 6d. 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 such Spirits be admitted to an 
 Entry, give Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Suc- 
 cessors, to be taken by Two principal Officers of the 
 Customs, in £500, with Condition that the Ship shall, in 
 her next clearing out from the Province, be laden with a 
 Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horses or Neat Cattle, 
 equal in Value to the Spirits admitted to Entry without 
 I*ayment of the Duty ; and that the Lumber or Provi- 
 sions, Horses or Neat Cattle, shall be carried to and 
 landed in sonic of the said Colonies in the West Indies, 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. § 2. 
 
 18. The 
 
Spirits, 
 
 373 
 
 ^anufac- 
 imported 
 !S, in any 
 said Pro- 
 load with 
 ind carry 
 s, it shall 
 
 (not ex- 
 rovisions, 
 ; Duty of 
 bip, or in 
 ster, with 
 
 the said 
 ed to an 
 and Suc- 
 rs of the 
 p shall, in 
 en with a 
 lat Cattle, 
 y without 
 or Provi- 
 d to and 
 St Indies, 
 
 18. The Lumber (except White Oak Staves), Provi- 
 sions, Horses, and Cattle, exported under the Condition 
 of the said Act, shall be the Growth or Produce of Que* 
 bee, and no other. SO Geo. 3. c. 8. § ^. 
 
 19. The Value of the Spirits, and the Value- of the 
 Cargo of Lumber or Provisions, Horse& or Neat Cattle^ 
 shall be estimated according to the Valuations contained 
 in the following Schedule : 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 the Schedule, whenever it shall appear 
 necessary, upon any Representation made by the Go- 
 vernor and Council of the Pi'ovince. 53 Geo. 3. c. 37« 
 § 1, 2. 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Sterling. 
 ^ S. d. 
 
 2 per Barrel of 1 cwt. 3 qrs. 
 
 1 17 6 Ditto. 
 
 1 per Cwt. 
 
 The Art'icleA 
 (except Stave*) : 
 must be the 
 Growth of 
 Quebec. 
 
 The Value of 
 the Spirits and 
 Lumber to be 
 estimated by the 
 following 
 Schedule. 
 
 Floiir, Ist Sort 
 Ditto, 2d Sort 
 Biscuit 
 Wheat 
 Peas 
 Oats - 
 Barley 
 
 Flax Seed - 
 Potatoes - 
 Indian Com 
 Salted Beef 
 Ditto 
 
 Salted Pork - 
 Ditto 
 Butter 
 Soap 
 
 Mould Candles 
 Dipped Ditto 
 Salmon 
 Ditto 
 
 Herrings and All- 
 wives - 
 Shad Fish 
 
 nrw CnA T^ifih 
 
 — 5 
 
 — 4 
 
 — 2 
 
 — 3 
 ~ 5 
 
 — 1 
 
 — 4 
 4 10 — 
 
 6 15 — 
 
 4 10 — ■ 
 
 ^per Bushel. 
 
 8 
 6 
 
 per Tierce, 
 per Barrel, 
 per Tierce. 
 _ _ . per Barrel. 
 10 per lb. 
 
 - — — 7 per lb. 
 
 ^ ^jperlb. 
 
 per Barrel. 
 ^ per Tierce* 
 
 [ 1 per BarreL 
 
 - 1 5 — 
 
 Bb3 
 
 2 
 — 11 
 
 2 10 — 
 
 3 15 — 
 
 per Ditto. 
 r»er Cwts 
 
 Seal, 
 
 18. The 
 
3T4 
 
 Seal, Porpoise, "> 
 and Cod Oil j 
 Canadian Porter - 
 Ditto Burton Ale - 
 Ditto Mild Ditto - 
 Onions 
 
 Essence of Spruce - 
 Oak Timber } 
 
 Squared - j 
 
 Ditto Plank, 3 to | 
 4 Inches thick j 
 Ditto, 1^ to 2 ) 
 Inches thick - j 
 Puncheon Staves"! 
 3i Feet long, 4 
 Inches broad, }► 
 and 1 Inch - 
 thick - - - 
 Puncheon Head- 
 ing, 2^ Feet 
 long, 5 to 6 ^ 
 Inches broad, ^ 
 and 1 Inch 
 thick - - -J 
 Pine Timber | 
 Squared - j 
 
 Pine Boards, 12 
 Feet long and 
 upwards, and 
 1 Inch thick 
 Ditto, 10 Feet 
 long and 1 
 Inch thick 
 Ditto, Ditto, 2 1 
 Inches thick j 
 Wooden Hoops, 
 
 12 Feet lopg 
 Ditto, 14 Ditto 
 Ditto, 10 Ditto 
 Ditto, 7 Ditto 
 Shingles - 
 
 } 
 
 Spirits. 
 
 Sterling. 
 ^ s. d. 
 
 7 per Hlid. of 63 Galls. 
 
 15 — > per Ditto. 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 3 
 1 per Thousand. 
 
 — 1 3 per lb. 
 
 — 1 — per Cubic Foot. 
 
 5 per Superficial FooL 
 
 3 per Ditto. 
 
 10 
 
 per 1 200 Pieces. 
 
 10 per 1000. 
 
 4 per Cubic Foot. 
 
 2 J K I per Thousand Supcr- 
 
 . 1 ficial Feet. 
 
 2 5 — per Hundred Boards. 
 
 3 7 6 Ditto. 
 
 UUS..11' 
 
 TJ, 
 
 LCKS 
 
 J per Thousand Hoops. 
 
 5 10 — Ditto. 
 
 4 Ditto. 
 
 2 10 — Ditto. 
 
 — 15 — per Thousand. , , 
 
 — 12 — each. 
 
 Bar 
 
S»pirtt0, 
 
 375 
 
 Sterling, 
 
 £ s. d- 
 - 1 10 — per Cwt. 
 15 — 
 
 ■111] 
 
 — 2 eJ 
 
 per Head. 
 
 ;| ;•-: 
 
 -., ■'.} I '■ 
 ( « ; ^ ♦ ' 
 
 i .1*. 
 
 Bar Iron 
 
 Horses 
 
 Horned Cattle 
 
 Sheep 
 
 Turkeys 
 
 Windward and ^ 
 
 Leeward Island > — 19 per Gallon. 
 
 Rum - J 
 Jamaica Ditto 2 — Ditto. 
 
 r 
 
 20. The Produce or Manufacture of any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally im- 
 ported into Bermuda, may be imported into Lower 
 Canada, and landed and admitted to an Entry upon 
 Payment of the same 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 Regulations of 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. without Payment of 
 Duty, in the same Manner as if such Spirits had been 
 imported directly from any of the Sugar Colonies. 
 49Geo. 3. c. 16. $ 1. 
 
 21. The Produce or Manufacture of any of His 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally 
 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 any or either of the said Provinces 
 or Islands to Lower Canada, and admitted to an Entry 
 upon the Payment of the same Duty as if imported 
 directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies. 
 51 Geo. 3. C.48. § 1. ^ 
 
 22. Every Person loading on board any Ship in Nova 
 Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's 
 Island, or Newfoundland, any Spirits as of the Product 
 or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, 
 in order to be exported from thence to LoWer'Canada, 
 shall before the clearing out of the Ship deliver to the 
 Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs at the 
 loading Port, his Affidavit or that of his Agent or Factor, 
 signed and sworn to before some Justice of the Peace 
 in the Province or Island where the same shall be ship- 
 ped, expressing in w^oids at Length tiie Number and 
 Content or Contents of the Casks 
 
 Bb4 
 
 ickage 
 
 May be exported 
 from Bermuda to 
 Lower Canada 
 upon the same 
 Duty and Con- 
 ditions as if im- 
 ported from 
 Sugar Colonies; 
 
 also from the 
 North American 
 Colonies to 
 Lower Canada. 
 
 Regulation upon 
 the Shipping of 
 Spirits at the 
 North American 
 Colonies to be 
 exported to 
 Lower Canada. 
 
 con- 
 
376 
 
 Oath to be made 
 u[)on the Ship's 
 Arrival, as to the 
 Identity of the 
 Spirits. 
 
 May be exported 
 from Bermuda 
 into North 
 American Colo- 
 nies on the same 
 Duty as from 
 Sugar Colonies ; 
 
 and without 
 Payment of 
 
 Conditions. 
 
 Spirits. 
 
 containing the Spirits, also from what Colony or Plant- 
 ation the same were imported, by whom, and the Time 
 when such Importation took place, which Affidavit shaU 
 be attested by 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 or Reward ; and the Collector 
 or other principul Officer of the Customs to whom such 
 Affidavit shall be delivered, shall thereupon grant to the 
 
 o ^^"^ r fL^^'"" ^^'^ " Certificate, under his Hand and 
 beal of Office, (without Fee or Reward) of his having 
 received such Affidavit pursuant to the Directions of 
 this Act, and that it thereby appeared that such Spirits 
 were legally imported into the said Province or Island, 
 as of the Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's 
 Sugar Colonies ; and such Certificate shall express die 
 Number and Content or Contents of the Casks or other 
 Package containing the Spirits so shipped. 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 48. § 2. 
 
 23. Upon the Arrival of such Ship at the Port of 
 Discharge in Lower Canada, the Master shall, at the 
 lime of making the Report of his Cargo, deliver the 
 said Certificate to the Collector or other principal Officer 
 of the Customs of such Port, and make Oath before him 
 (which Oath he is required to administer), that the Spirits 
 so reported are the same that are mentioned in the 
 Certificate ; and if any Spirits shall be imported or 
 
 uu^ <^n board any Ship for which no such Certificate 
 shall be produced, or which shall not agree therewith, 
 the same shall be deemed to be Foreign Spirits, and 
 subject to the same Duties, Restrictions, Regula- 
 tions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as Spirits of any 
 Foreign Colony or Plantation are subject to by Law. 
 51 Geo. 3. C.48. §3. 
 
 24. The Produce or Manufacture of any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally and 
 directly imported into Bermuda from the said Sugar Co- 
 lonies, may be exported from Bermuda into Nova Scotia 
 and New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's 
 Island, and Newfoundland, and landed and admitted to 
 an Entry, upon Payment of the same Duty as if imported 
 directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies in the West 
 Indies. 51 Geo. 3. c.62. §1. 
 
 25. Exported as before mentioned from Bermuda, 
 
 , , ,,.,,,.,„.,,,,„, a,s.2.\s. iicoLl 1V.LJUU3 iJl so «JCU. J, 
 
 c. 39. be imported into the said Provinces and Islands, 
 
 9 without 
 
*p(r(tC 
 
 377 
 
 without Pajrment of Duty, in the same Manner as if 
 imported directly from any of the said Sugar Colonies. 
 51 Geo. 3. c. 62. $ 2. 
 
 26. Every Person loading on board any Ship in Ber- 
 muda any Spirits as of the Produce or Manufacture of 
 His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, legally imported into that 
 Island, shall before the clearing out of the Ship deliver 
 to the Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs 
 at the loading Port, his Affidavit, or that of his Agent 
 or Factor, signed and sworn to before some Justice of 
 the Peace in Bermuda, expressing in Words at Length 
 the Number and Content or Contents of the Cask or 
 other Packages containing the Spirits, from what Colony 
 or Plantation the same were imported, by whom, and the 
 Time when such Importation took place (which Affidavit 
 shall be attested by the Hand of the said Justice 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 
 Collector or other principal Officer of the Customs to 
 whom such Affidavit shall be delivered, shall thereupon 
 grant to the Master of the Ship in which the same shall 
 be laden a Certificate under his Hand and Seal of Office 
 (without Fee or Reward) of his having received such 
 Affidavit pursuant to this Act, and that it thereby appeared 
 such Spirits were legally imported into the Island, as of 
 the Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's Sugar 
 Colonies; and such Certificate shall also express the 
 Number and Content or Contents of the Cask or other 
 Packages containing the Spirits so shipped. 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 62. § 3. 
 
 27. Upon the Arrival of any Ship at the Port of her 
 Discharge in any of the said 'Provinces or Islands, the 
 Master shall at the Time of making the Report of his 
 Cargo deliver the said Certificate to the Collector or 
 other principal Officer of the Customs of such Port, and 
 make Oath before him, (which he is required to admi- 
 nister), that the Spirits so reported are the same that are 
 mentioned in the Certificate; and if any Spirits shall be 
 imported or found on board, for which no Certificate 
 shall be produced, or which shall not agree therewith, 
 the same shall be deemed Foreign Spirits, and be subject 
 to the same Duties, Restrictions, Regulations, Penalties, 
 and Forfeitures, as Spirits of the Produce or Manufacture 
 or any Foreign Colony oi- Plantation would be subject to 
 by I<aw. 51 Geo. 3. c. 62. § 4. 
 
 28. There 
 
 Regulations upnii 
 the shipping of 
 Spirits at Ber- 
 muda, to be ex- 
 ported to the 
 North America!) 
 Colonies. 
 
 Oath to be tniat- 
 upon the Ship'i 
 Arrival, as to tJic 
 Identity of ti^e 
 Spirits. 
 
378 
 
 Duty u|>on Rum 
 imported into 
 Newfoundland 
 from British 
 Colonics in the 
 West Indiei. 
 
 Duty on the 
 
 Importation from 
 Colonies in 
 Guiana. 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 28. There slmll be paid upon every Gulloii of Rum or 
 other Spirits imported into Newfbundland from any Bri- 
 tish Colony or Plantation' iti the West Indies, a r3nty of 
 Sixpence ; and upon every Gallon of Rum or other Spi- 
 rits imported into the Island from miy of His Majesty's 
 Colonies or Plantations on the Continent of America, 
 or from Great Britain or Ireland, a Duty of One Shilling 
 and Sixpence Sterling Money of Great Britain ; and the 
 same shall be collected to the Amount of the Value which 
 such nominal Sum bears in Great Britain, and may be 
 received and taken according to the Proj)ortion and 
 Value of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver ; and the said Duty 
 shall be raised, levied, collected, paid, and recovered iii 
 the same Maimer, and by such Rules, Ways, and Means, 
 and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, as any other 
 Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into 
 any British Colony or Plantation in America are raised, 
 levied, collected, paid, and recovered by any Act of 
 Parliament, as fully as if the said Rules, &c. were again 
 enacted in this Act, and all the Monies that shall arise by 
 the said Duties (excef)t the necessary Charges of raising, 
 collecting, levying, recovering, answering, paying, and 
 accounting for the same), shall be paid into the Ex- 
 chequer and applied to the same Uses as other Duties of 
 Customs. 52 Geo. 3. c. 106. §1. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 20. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 29. There shall be paid upon every •Gallon of lluni 
 imported into Newfoundland from Berbice, Demerara, 
 and Essequibo, in the Province of Guiana, a Duty of 
 Sixpence and no more ; such Duty to be sued for, reco- 
 vered, and applied in the like Manner and under the like 
 Penalties and Forfeitures as are provided by 52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 106. with respect to Rum imported from any British 
 Colony or Plantation in the West Indies. 56 Geo. ^. 
 c. 91. $2. 
 
 ^ponste anij mom, t)f5. fl|9aita 
 S>tone for JIBuflUins, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependen- 
 cies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Suffar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 
 14 Ships, 
 
 l5 
 
Sponges, fttone, (jt. 
 
 ;»79 
 
 . . L 
 
 Shi 
 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to 
 Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 >» 
 
 I 
 
 '■ 
 
 
 i^ufferante. see " Biiis of sight 
 
 1 . No Sugar of the Production or Manufacture of the 
 Briti.sli Plantations in America shall be shipped or con- 
 veyed from any of the said Plantations to any Place, un- 
 less 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. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 18. 20 Geo. 3. 
 e. 10. § 3. 39& 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 2. For every Ship which shall sail from Great Britaiu 
 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 .sfilOOO if the Ship be of less Burthen than 
 100 Tons, and of ^'2000 if of greater Burthen, condi- 
 tioned that in case the said Ship shall load any Sugar, 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 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 Sugar (or any enumerated Article), take Bond in like 
 mr^nner to the Value aforesaid, that such Ship shall carry 
 ali the said Goods to some other of His Majesty's British 
 Plantations or to Great Britain or Ireland. 12 Car. 2. 
 c. 18. § 19. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 11. 20Geo.3. 
 C. 10. §1.3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 8. 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 
 othei-^Principal Officer of the Customs there, that Bond 
 hath been giveii pursuant to iije Directions aforesaid ; 
 and the Master shall k^ep such Certificate tUl the Voyage 
 
 Not to be cx- 
 
 IKJited, unleiH to 
 some other 
 Urifish Flanta* 
 tion, or to Great 
 Hritain or 
 Ireland, 
 
 Bond to t)c given 
 not to laud 
 
 cUewherK. 
 
 Certificates to be 
 taken by the 
 Masters of Ship* 
 loading in the 
 Colonics. 
 
 M. I 
 
 Btl 
 
 IS 
 
380 
 
 *usar. 
 
 Forfeiture if 
 shipped before 
 Bond given, or if 
 taken to other 
 Places ; 
 
 hut not to ex- 
 tend to the Pro- 
 duce of Estates 
 of Dutch Pro- 
 prietors in 
 Guiana. 
 
 Governors or 
 Officers suspect- 
 ing Certificate to 
 be false, not to 
 cancel Bonds ; 
 and Penalty on 
 falsifying 
 Certificates. 
 
 is completed, and shall then deliver the same to the Col-^ 
 lector or other Chief Officer of the Customs at the Place 
 where he shall discharge his Lading in Great Britain or 
 Ireland; or j, ly British American Colony, on Forfeiture 
 of j^' 100. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §24. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1.3. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 4. If any Ship shall take on board any Sugar (or other 
 enumerated Article) before Bond is given to the Gover- 
 nor, that the Ship shall carry the same 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 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. 
 12Car.2. c. 18.§19. 22& 23 Car.2. c.26. §11. 4Geo.3. 
 c. 15. § 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §1.3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 C.67. Art. 6. 
 
 5. But the said Acts p.re not to prevent the Subjects 
 of the King of the Netherlands, being Dutch Proprietors 
 in Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province of 
 Guiana, from exporting from the said Colonies to the 
 Netherlands the Produce of their Estates onboard Dutch 
 Ships ; and no Person who by virtue of this Act may be 
 entitled to trade between the said Colonies and the Domi- 
 nions 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. 56 Geo. 3. 
 c. 91. §4.8. 
 
 See Guiana. 
 
 6. In cases where the Governor or Officers in any of 
 the Plantations shall have reasonable Ground of Suspi- 
 cion that the Certificate of having given Security in 
 Great Britain or Ireland is false, they shall require suffi- 
 cient 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 counter- 
 feit, the Governor or Officer shall not cancel the Secu- 
 rity given in the Plantation until_ they shall be informed 
 from the Commissioners of the Customs in Ureat Dritaifl 
 or Irelaad, as the Case may be, that the Matter of the 
 
 said 
 
 f- 
 
 
 c. 
 
I, 
 
 ■i 
 f 
 
 m 
 
 I 
 
 ^uffar* 
 
 381 
 
 ^akl Certificate is true; and if any Person shall countor- 
 leit, rase, or falsify any Certificate for any Ship or Goods, 
 or knowingly or wilfully make use thereof, such Person 
 shall forfeit ^500, and the Certificate shall be of no 
 Effect. 7&8 W.3. c.22. § 10. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 20Geo.3. c. 10. §1.3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 7. If any Officer of the Customs in Great Britain or 
 Ireland shall give any Warrant for, or suffer any Sugar 
 (or any enumerated Article) to be carried into any other 
 Country or Place until first put on Siiore in some Port in 
 Great Britain or Ireland, every Officer for such Offence 
 shall forfeit his Place, and the Value of the Goods. 
 IS Car. 2. c. 7. § 9. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27- 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 8. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 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 other 
 Person as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same, 
 a List of all Ships as shall have laden any Sugar (or any 
 enumerated Article) in such Plantation, as also a List of 
 all Bonds taken by them; and in case any Ship be- 
 longing 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. 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 12. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 
 § 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. §1.3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 C. 67. Art, 6. 
 
 9. 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 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 att??.c; d 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 Planta- 
 tions, as if the Original was produced in Court by the 
 Prosecutor. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 13. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. 
 
 ii. ^0 vicu. 3. c. iO. y J. D. ay o£ 40 Ueu. 3. 
 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 10. In all Bonds which shall be entered into in Great 
 Britain or Ireland in pursuance of any Act whereby the 
 
 Goods 
 
 Penalty on 
 Officers suffering 
 Goods to be 
 carried to other 
 Places, 
 
 Governors or 
 their Command- 
 ers in Chief to 
 trnnsniit Lists of 
 Bonds yearly to 
 the Customs. 
 
 Condition of the 
 Bond, and who 
 are to be the 
 Obligors, when 
 taken in the 
 Plantations. 
 
 When taken in 
 Great Britain or 
 rrtlnnj. 
 
 
38*2 
 
 ^uSdi% 
 
 Bonds void if not 
 prosecuted within 
 Three Years of 
 tlie Date, or if 
 Judgment not 
 obtained within 
 Two Years after 
 Prosecution. 
 
 Proof on Oath 
 to be made 
 before the Load- 
 ing, of the 
 Plantation where 
 the same was ^ 
 produced.' 
 
 Goods therein enumerated are to be brought to Great 
 Britain or Ireland, such Bond shall be with Condition 
 that 'vithin Eighteen Months from the Date thereof (the 
 Danger of the Seas excepted) a Certificate shall be iro- 
 duced 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. 15 Geo. 3. c.31. §6. 4* Geo. 3. c. 15, 
 § 27. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. , 1.3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. 
 c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 11. 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 witliin 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 uj) by the Officers to 
 be cancelled, without Fee or Reward. 8 Ann. c. 13. § 23. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 27. 
 
 12. Every Person loading any Sugars or Paneles as 
 of the Product or Manufacture of any British Colony or 
 Plantation, shall, before clearing out of the Ship, deliver 
 to the Ct)llector or other principal Officer of the Customs 
 at the h)ading Port, an Affidavit signed and sworn to be- 
 fore some Justice of the I*eace in the said British Ct)lo- 
 nies or Plantations, either by the Grower, Maker, or 
 Shipper, or his known Agent or Factor, expressing in 
 Words at Length the Quality of the Goods so shipped, 
 with the Number ami Denomination of the Packages, 
 and describing the Name of the Plantation and the 
 Name of the Colony wliere the same grew or were pro- 
 duced and manufactured ; which Affidavit shall be at- 
 tested under the Hand of the said Justice of die Peace to 
 have been sworn to in his Presence (who is required to do 
 the same without P'ee or Reward) : and the Collector or 
 other principal Officer of the Customs, to whom such 
 Affidavit shall be delivered, shall thercu})on grant to the 
 Master a Certificate under his Hand and Seal of Office 
 (without Fee or Reward) of his having received such 
 Affidavit ; which Certificate shall express the Quality of 
 the Goods shipped, with the Number and Denomination 
 
 ♦ Geo. 3. c. 1.'3. §20. 
 
 13. The 
 
 ■ fe,- 
 
 c. 58. 
 
 navigate 
 17. 
 
 of the Packages 
 
11 Hi !'/ 
 
 %IIS^V* 
 
 383 
 
 ^ 1 3. The CollectOi- or other principal Officer of the A Copy of the 
 Customs, to whom such Affidavit shall be deUvered, shall ^*'''''''' '" ^^ 
 (without Fee or Reward) withiu Thirty Days after the ISm Ws 
 Sailing ot the 8hip transmit One Copy of the Affidavit Office, and to 
 to the Secretary's Office for the Colony or Plantation vest"'''"" ""'' 
 where the Sugar or Paneles referred to in the said Affi- ^"'^' 
 davit were shipped, and shall also within 30 Days trans- 
 mit another Copy to the Justices and Vestry of the 
 Parish or Precinct where the said Sugar or Paneles 
 grew or were produced and manufactured, under the 
 Penalty of £50 for every Omission and Neglect. 
 18 Geo. 3. c. 58. § 1. 
 
 14. In case any Justice of the Peace of the said Colo- Pennity on Jus- 
 nies or Plantations shall subscribe his Name to any Paper ''<^<=* subscribing 
 or Parchment Writing, purporting to be an Affidavit ^'^''''^"^^^here 
 
 tlie Party does 
 not appear. 
 
 f 1 
 
 for the Purpose directed by 4- Geo. 3. c. 15. unless the 
 Person purporting to make such Affidavit shall actually 
 appear before him, and be sworn upon the Holy Evan- 
 gelists to the Truth of the said Affidavit, then such Jus- 
 tice shall forfeit for every Offence £50. 18 Geo. 3. 
 c. 58. §2. 
 
 15. If there shall not be any Justices of the Peace at if no Justices, 
 such Colony or Plantation before whom such Affidavit f'^ Affidavit may 
 can be made, the Planter or Grower shall make the same the atf officer 
 before the Collector and Comptroller, or other Chief "*' '•"= Customs. 
 Officer of the Customs, or any Two of them, at the Port 
 from whence any such Sugar oi- Paneles may be in- 
 tended to be shipped ; and in the Certificate which the 
 Collector and Comptroller and Naval Officer, or any 
 Two of them, are required 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. 
 47 Geo. 3. c. 48. § 2. 
 
 16. May be exported from the West India Islands to May be ex 
 any of the Territories belonging to the United States, by J'""<=V°'''^ 
 British Subjects and in British-built Ships, owned and Sllbr" 
 navigated according to Law. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 3. 
 
 17. The P'-oduce of any British Colony in the West May be exported 
 Indies, imported into Bermuda in any British Ship, may ''^°'" Bermuda 
 be exported from Saint George or Hamilton in Bermuda, state's ZToLu 
 to any Part of the Territories of the United States of ships. 
 America, in any Foreign Ship, belonging to any Coun- 
 try in Amity with His Majesty, above "the Burthen of 
 
 Sixty Tons. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 1. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. 
 
 18. Where, 
 
 jg|j 
 
 L i 
 
384 
 
 If Bond required 
 (in Exportation 
 to a British 
 Colon/, similar 
 Bond to be given 
 on Exportation 
 •0 United States. 
 
 S)agat. 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported from 
 J3ugar Colonies 
 to Ports in Eu- 
 rope South of 
 Cape Finisterre. 
 
 Upon Licence 
 and Bond, and 
 certain R.egula- 
 tions being com. 
 plied with. 
 
 18. Where, on Exportation of any Goods to any 
 British Colony or Plantation in America, a Bond i< 
 required for the due landing such Goods*, a similar Bond 
 shall be required on the Exportation thereof 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, then under the Hand 
 and Seal of any Officer who may be appointed by the 
 United States for the Purpose of granting such Certifi- 
 cate; and if there shall not be any Officev 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 made before such Magistrate, 
 by the Master of the Vessel, that the Goods were there 
 duly landed. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 4. 
 
 19. British Subjects may ship in any of His Majesty's 
 Sugar Colonies or Plantations, any Sugar the Growth 
 and Produce of any such Colony or Plantation, and 
 may export the same direct to any Port in Europe to 
 the Southward of Cape Finisterre; and import into the 
 said Colonies or Plantations Corn or Grain direct from 
 any such Ports in Europe, or from any Place on the 
 Coast of Africa to the Northward of the Thirtieth Degree 
 of North Latitude, in such Ships and under such Licences, 
 Securities, Regulations, Penalties and Forfeitures, as are 
 herein-after limited. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 1. 
 
 20. No Sugar shall be so laden in any of the said 
 Colonies or Plantations except in British-built Ships, 
 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 Port at which such Sugar is intended 
 to be shipped, subject to the Regulations herein-after 
 mentioned, (that is to say), Notice shall be given m 
 Writing by the Master, or by One or more Owners o! 
 the Ship, to the Collector and Comptroller of the Port, 
 of their Intention, that such Ship, when laden, shal 
 proceed direct to some Port in Europe to the Southward 
 of Cape Finisterre, and export from t hence or from 
 
 * A Bond is so required on ihe Exportaiion of Sugar /ron. 
 
 one British Colom to unttlier. 
 
 some 
 
 k' 
 
 i 
 
 
 'I, 
 
some 
 
 S^ugar* 
 
 385 
 
 some Place on the Coast of Africa to the Northward of 
 the Thirtieth Degree of North Latitude, Corn or Grain 
 to be parried directly to the Colony or Plantation from 
 which such Ship shall have sailed; and the Exportc" 
 shall then make Oath before the Collector and Comp- 
 troller of the Port, that it is their full Intention and 
 Resolution to load Sugar for Exportation direct to some 
 Port in Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre 
 and to no other Place ; and the Master or Owners of the 
 Ship, together with the Exporter, shall thereupon enter 
 
 Vtue ^; V V^'^^"- f V'' ^^>«^y' ■' " Treblett 
 Value of the Goods, with the Condition that in case a 
 
 Licence shall be granted, such Ship shall proceed direct 
 to some legal Port of Destination, specifying the same 
 and that no Goods except Sugar shall be tak?n on board 
 unless lor necessary Use during the Voyage, and that, 
 before the Expiration of Two Years from fhe Date of such 
 i^icence, the same shall be delivered up to the Col. 
 lector or Comptroller of the Customs of the Port where 
 the Sugar was shipped, together with a Certificate, signed 
 and sealed by the Consul, or Two known British Mer- 
 chants of good Credit, at the Port where such Suoar 
 was hmded certifying the Landing thereof, with The 
 Number of Casks and other Packages so landed, and the 
 Mark Number, and Contents of each, with the Name of 
 the Ship and Master, and that he or they verily believed 
 no other Goods than Sugar have been there landed. 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 2. 
 
 21. In case any licensed Ship shall take on board in 
 any of the said Sugar Colonies or Plantations, or in her 
 Voyage from thence, any Sugar being the Produce of any 
 l^oreign Colony or Plantation, sucli Sui^ar shall be for- 
 feited with Double the Value thereof, and the Master 
 and Shipper thereof shall forfeit Double the Value : to be 
 recovered in any Court of Vice Admiralty in America, or in 
 any Court of Record there, at the Election of the Prose- 
 
 n^^'-^S"! ^^'Z"^ ^^'^ *" ^'' ^'''' ^^'^ Use of His Majesty, 
 One Third to the Governor of the Colony, and thethS 
 Une 1 hird to the Prosecutor. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. 6 3 
 
 22. Before any Sugar shnll be laden for any Port in 
 Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, the Ex- 
 porter shall make an Entry thereof in Writiuo- with the 
 Collector and ComDtroller of Cust^n^c .«x«)iv"ir.'r t^- 
 Name of-^the Ship, and tlie Master, and wlire she" liZ 
 and the Place, Quay, or Wharf where the Gootls are to 
 
 Of a Foreign 
 Colony t.iken 
 on board in the 
 Sugar Colonies 
 or on the Voynge 
 from thence. 
 
 Regulations to 
 be observed 
 before 'ading 
 Su(;ar or Ports 
 ill Euruiit; South 
 of Cape Finis- 
 terre, 
 
 iiis 
 i'm 
 
 Cc 
 
 be 
 
sm 
 
 S^ugat. 
 
 be laden or first waterborne, which shall be within such 
 Port only where a Custom House is established ; and an 
 Officer shall be appointed to attend the shipping at such 
 Places as shall be mentioned in a Sufferance from the 
 Collector and Comptroller; and t.e Exporter shall thereon 
 take out from the Collector and Comptroller a Cocket or 
 Warrant, whereon shall be endorsed by the Exporter 
 Hie Marks, Numbers, and Contents, or Denominations 
 of such Sugar, and deliver the Cocket or Warrant so en- 
 dorsed to the Officer appointed for the examining and 
 shipping thereof, and shall ship the same in the Presence 
 of such Officers, or at such Places as shall be mentioned 
 in the Sufferance or Warrant, and such Officers shall 
 examine the same before put on board ; and if before or 
 after the shipping, the Number of Casks or Packages shall 
 be greater than endorsed, or if there shall be found 
 any other Sugar than shall be so endorsed, or any other 
 Goods than Sugar shall be discovered on board, or 
 brought to be shipped or put into any Vessel for that 
 Purpose before Entry, or taking out such Cocket or 
 Warrant, endorsing and deliveriuig of the same, and not 
 being shipped in the Manner aforesaid, but shall be put 
 on board or attempted to be put on board contrary to this 
 Act, such Sugar shall be forfeited, with the Vessel or 
 Carriage employed, as also the Ship on which such 
 Goods shall be lader., and the Owner shall forfeit Double 
 the Value, to be recovered in the Court of Vice Admi- 
 ralty, or in any other Court of Record in any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Plnntations in America, at the Flection of the 
 Prosecutor; One Third to the Use of His Majesty, One 
 Third to the Governor, and the other One Third to the 
 Prosecutor; and before such Ship shall depart, the Master 
 shall receive the Licence from the Collector or Comp- 
 troller, witli a Ct'itificate endorsed thereon or affixed 
 thereto, under their Han<is sind Seals of Office, who are 
 to niake Tao Copltt; of each Licence, Endorsements, or 
 Certificates, for which no more shall be taken than the 
 legal and urn istomed Fees; and the Master shall, befbre 
 he receives the Licence, attest the Copies which are to be 
 left with the Collectov and Comptroller, who are to trans- 
 mit One of the Copies of the Endorsements or Cer'ificates 
 to the Comr.iisi^ioncr"^; of the Customs in England, and re- 
 cord in a Book ihe Notice in Writing of the Owner of 
 the Ship, the Affidavit of tlie Shipper, the Licence 
 s;r anted, and the Clearance ; but in case any Goods not 
 
 allowed 
 
 ^ 
 % 
 
sillov/ed by tliis Act shall be found on board, or carried 
 by any such Ship to any Foreign Parts, then the Liberty 
 granted by such Licence shall become void, and the 
 Master and all others concerned shall be liable to the 
 same Penalties and Forleitures as they would have been 
 liable to in case this Act had not been made. S'l Geo. 3. 
 c. 98. § 4.. 
 
 23. Upon such Licence being returned to the Collector 
 and Comptroller of the Customs of the Port where the 
 Sugar was shipped, and an Account of the Loading being 
 endorsed thereon or aimexed thereto ; and upon such 
 Certificate of the Consul, or Two known British Mer- 
 chants of good Credit being produced, and the other Mat- 
 ters required being duly complied with, within Two Years 
 iVom the Dateof such Licence, the Bond shall be discharged 
 and delivered up, otherwise shall be forfeited, and be pro- 
 secuted as before directeJ. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 5. 
 
 24. Upon the Master or Owner of such Ship conform- 
 ing to the Conditions of the Licv>nce and Bond, and ob- 
 taining a Certificate from the Consul, or Two known 
 British Merchants as aforesaid, such Ship may load in the 
 Port of DoHvery, or at any Port or Place on the Coast 
 of Africa to the Northward "of the Latitude of 30 Dcrrees 
 North, any Corn or Grain the Produce of Europe or 
 Africa, for Expoitasion direct to the said Colonies or 
 Plantations, and there land the same. 52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 98. § 6. 
 
 25. Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by this Act 
 (except where it is otherwise provided) shall bo prose- 
 cuted in aay of His Majesty's C»)urts of Record at West- 
 minster, or Dublin, or the Courl; of Exchecjuer in Scot- 
 land; one Moiety whereof to His Majesty, and the other 
 to the Prosecutor. 52 Ceo. 3. c. 98. § 7. 
 
 26. If any Person shall be sued for any thing done 
 in pursuance of this Act, he may plead the General 
 Issue, ami give this Act and the Soecial Matter in Evi- 
 dence; and if the Plainiift or Prosecutor shall become 
 nonsuit, or forbear the Prosecution, or discontinue the 
 Action, or if a Verdct shall pass aguinst hirn, the De- 
 fendant shall have Treljle Costs, and the like Remedy 
 for recovering the same as in Caoes where Costs are by 
 Law given to Defendants. 52 Geo. 3. c. 98. § 8. 
 
 27. If any Person shall grant a false Corllficatc, or 
 countei'feit, erase, or alter any Licence, Oath, or Certi- 
 ficate, which shall be made pursuant to this Act, or shall 
 
 3HT 
 
 How Bond may 
 be discharged. 
 
 Vessels export-' 
 itij; Sugar may 
 lo id Corn or 
 Gin'n of Europe 
 at Ports in 
 Africa. 
 
 How Penalties 
 <ii)d Forfcitiirev 
 to be recovered. 
 
 G'.nK-ral Issue 
 may he plcad^i 
 and Treble 
 Costs allo-ved. 
 
 Granting fake 
 Certificates or 
 coiuiterfeiting 
 Document"!. 
 
 I 
 
 C^c2 
 
 knov/- 
 
386 
 
 ^usax. 
 
 May be ex- 
 ported to Malta 
 or Gibraltar. 
 
 The Produce of 
 the tstates of 
 Dutch Proprie- 
 tors in Guiana, 
 may be exported 
 to tiie Ncther- 
 laniis. 
 
 Duty upon the 
 Importation of 
 Foreien .Suiar. 
 
 Collection nnd 
 Appropriation. 
 
 knowingly publish or make use thereof, such Person 
 shall forfeit J: 500 ; to be recovered 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, 52 Geo. 3. c 98. § 9. 
 
 28. The Produce of any of His Majesty's Sugar 
 Colonies or Plantations in America, may be shipped 
 and exported direct to Malta or the Dependencies 
 thereof, or to Gibraltar, in such Vessels, and under such 
 Licences, Entries, Securities, Regulations, Penalties, and 
 Forfeitures, as are mentioned in these Acts. 55 Geo. 3. 
 c.29. §1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 29. Any Subject of the King of the Netherlands, being 
 Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo 
 in the Province of Guiana, may export from the said 
 Colonics to the Netherlands the Produce of their Estates 
 in Dutch Ships, subject to the same Rules, Regulations, 
 and Restrictions for the due landing of any such Produce 
 in the Netherlands, as are provided by any Act for the 
 landing of the like Articles in Great Britain, so far as 
 the same are applicable ; but it shall not be lawful for 
 any 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, to export the Pro- 
 duce of the said Estates to any Part of the United 
 Kingdom, or to any other of His Majesty's Dominions 
 in Europe. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 
 
 30. There shall be paid to His Majesty, upon Sugar 
 the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any Colony or 
 Plantation in America not under the Dominion of His 
 Majesty, which shall be imported into any Colony or 
 Plantation in America under the Dominion of His 
 Majesty, the Duties following ; that is to say. 
 
 For all Sugars and Fancies of such Foicign Growth, 
 &c. a Duty after the Rate of 5s. for every Cwt. Avoir- 
 dupois : 
 
 For Wliite or Clryed Sugar of such Foreign Growth, 
 &c. a Duty after the Rate of ^1.25. for every Cwt, 
 Avoirdupois. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 1. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 1. 
 
 31. The Duties shall be deemed Sterling Money of 
 Great Britain, and shall be collected, recovered, and paiil 
 to the Arnoutit of the Value which such nominal Sums 
 bear in Great Britaiiij and shall be received according 
 
 to 
 
^ugar. 
 
 389 
 
 io the Proportion and Value of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in 
 Silver, and (except the necessary Charges of collecting, 
 recovering, paying, and accounting for the same) shall 
 be paid into the Exchequer, and be entered separate 
 from other Monies, and be there reserved to be dis- 
 posed of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary 
 Expences of protecting and securing the British Colonies 
 and Plantations in America. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 1. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 11. 
 
 32. Upon the Importation of such Sugar into any of 
 the said Colonies or Plantations, an Entry shall be made 
 with the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs, 
 in the Port where the same shall be imported, and the 
 Duties shall be paid in ready Money before the landing. 
 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 2. 4- Geo. 3. c. 15. § 1. 
 
 33. In case the Sugar shall be landed before due 
 Entry be made, and before the Duties shall be duly paid, 
 or without a Warrant for the landing and delivering the 
 same first signed by the proper Officer of the Customs, 
 such Sugar or the Value of the same shall be forfeited, 
 and may be seized by the Governor or Commander in 
 Chief of the Colony or Plantation where landed, or any 
 Person by him authorized in that behalf, or by W^arrant 
 of any Justice of the Peace or other Magistrate (which 
 Warrant such Justice or Magistrate is required to give 
 upon Request), or by any Custom-house, Imposty or 
 Excise Officer, or any Person acco.npanying, aiding, 
 and assisting him ; One Third of such Penalty and For- 
 feiture to His Majesty, to be applied for the Support of 
 the Governor of the Colony or Plantation where the 
 same shall be received ; One Itiird to the Go'ernor or 
 Commander in Chief; and the other Third to the In- 
 formant or Prosecutor. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 3. 4 Geo. 3.. 
 
 c. 15. § I. 
 
 34. If any Person shall hinder or resist any Custom- 
 house Officer or any of his Assistants in the due Execu- 
 tion of his Duty in seizing any such Sugar, he shall 
 forfeit ,^50, 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 
 Bail or Mainprize; and if any Officer of tlio Customs 
 or his Assistant shall be sued or prosecuted for any thing 
 :lDne in the Execution of his Duty, he may plead the 
 General Issue, and give tliis Act and the Special Matter 
 in Evidence, and the Judges shall allow thereof; and 
 
 To be entered 
 and Duty paid in 
 ready Money. 
 
 Landed before 
 Entry, may be 
 seized by the 
 Governor, &c. 
 
 Resistii.g Offi- 
 cers. 
 
 Oflficers sued 
 may plead Gene- 
 r<il Issues, and 
 Treble Costa 
 allowed. 
 
 Cc3 
 
 any 
 
390 
 
 P'-nalty on 
 Masters takinj; 
 ill Sugiir (.ontraiy 
 to this Act. 
 
 Proof to lie 
 upon the 
 Claimer. 
 
 >'3Duty to he 
 paid if Sugar 
 vjrelicused for 
 r.Kpoitation. 
 
 If not exported, 
 or the Duty paid, 
 the Sugar may 
 be uulu. 
 
 any Officer of the Customs in any of His Majesty's Plant- 
 ations or Colonics in America, who shall knowinalv 
 connive at the fraudulent Importation or Landing of any 
 Sugar contrary to this Act, or il' such Officer shall seize 
 the same, and shall by Frau.l or Collusion desist from or 
 delay the Prosecution thereof to Condenmation, he shall 
 torleit .^ .50, and be incapnble of holdinij any Office 
 under His Majesty. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 3. 4 Geo. 3. 
 
 ^ti ^* ""'P'?/ His Majesty's Subjects, being Master of 
 any Slnp, sliall take in or suffer to be taken in at Sea, or 
 in any Creek or Harbour or other Place, any Surjar in 
 order to be brought on Shore and landed in any of Hi. 
 Majesty's Plantations in America contrary to this Act 
 such Master ..hall forfeit .^'lOO. C Geo. 2. c. 13. § 7, H 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 1. ^ ' • 
 
 36. Upon all Suits and Prosecutions for the bringing 
 on Shore and landing of any Sugar in any of His Mu" 
 jestys Coloniec or Plantations in America contrary to 
 these Acts, the Onus Probandi that the same were the 
 Produce or Manufacture of His Majesty's Colonies 
 or i lantations there, or were duly entered knd had paid 
 the Outies thereon before the Landing, shall lie on the 
 Claimer thereof. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. 6 8. 4 Geo 3 
 c. 15. § 1. 
 
 ^^•\ ^''nP"*^ '^^^^ ^'^ P**'^ *o^' any Foreign Sugar 
 which shal be imported into any British Colony or Plant- 
 atiorion the Continent of America, if the Sugar upon 
 landing is mimediately deposited and secured Tn Ware- 
 houses at the sole Expence of the Importer, with the 
 Privity and Approbation and under the Care anil In- 
 '?^*^?^V^ the Collector and Comptroller or other prin- 
 cipal Officer of the Customs, and Guch Sugar shall be 
 secured under the separate Locks of such Officers and 
 t!ie ProjM-ietor, and within 12 Calendar Months fi-om the 
 landing and warehousing shall be shipped for Exporta- 
 tion directly to Great Britain or Ireland, or to some 
 Part ol Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, 
 under the like Securities, Regulations and Kestrictioiis, 
 Penalties and Forfeitures, as British Sugars niav be so 
 earned and exported from any British Colony or Planta- 
 tion in America. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 16. 
 
 38. If the Importer of any Sugar warehoused shall 
 not pay the Duties nor export the Goods within 12 
 vuluiuar ivionths, the GoUector or Comptroller or other 
 
 principal 
 
priiici{)al Officer of the Customs f.hall cause tlie aame to 
 be publicly sold to the best Advantajre, and the Money 
 arising by such Sale shall be in the First Place applied 
 in Discharge of the Duties, next llie Charges attending 
 the Sale, and the Surplus (if any) shall be paid to the 
 Importer who landed and warehoused such Goods, or to 
 such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive 
 the same. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 17. 
 
 39. The Produce of .any Foreign Colony or Planta- 
 tion, may be imported into Nassau in New Providence, 
 Pitts Town in Portland Harbour in Crooked Island, and 
 into such Ports in the Bahama Islands, or into the prin- 
 cipal Port in Bermuda, or into such Ports in the Caicos, 
 as have been or may hereafter be ap})roved by His Ma- 
 jesty in Council, in such F'oreign Ships, and subject to 
 such Rules, Regulations, and llestrictions, as are pre- 
 scribed in this Act with respect to other Goods herein 
 enumerated ; and such Sugar may be so imported and 
 again exported without Payment of any Duty of Cus- 
 toms*. 45 Geo. 3. c 57. § 4, 5. 
 
 See Frke Ports. 
 
 40. His Majesty with the Advice of the Privy Council 
 may permit the Importation into Road Harbour in 
 Tortola, and the Export from thence into this Kingdom, 
 of Sugar, in the same Manner, and on the same Duties 
 and Drawbacks, and subject to the same Ruhs, &c. as 
 in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. respecting Importation and Export- 
 ation of Sugar from Nassau, and further subject to 
 such Rules, &c. as shall be directed by His Majesty. 
 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. § 1. 
 
 See FuEE Ports. 
 
 41. His Majesty with the Advice of the Privy Council 
 rnay permit the Importation into Road Harbour, and 
 Exportation from thence without Payment of any Duty 
 of Customs, of all Sugar, subject to such Rules, &c. as 
 shall be directed by His Majpsty ; and all Sugar imported 
 into Great Britain and Ireland from Tortola (other than 
 the Produce of the British Virgin Islands, and exported 
 
 39 J 
 
 Of Foreign Colo- 
 nies, mny b» im- 
 ported into th» 
 Fru" Pom. 
 
 His Majesty 
 may permit tlie 
 1 iiportatioii into 
 aii.l lixpovtation 
 fr jm Road 
 H;irbour m 
 Foreign Ships ; 
 
 md without P*y- 
 mcnt of Duty 
 
 * By 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. any Foreign Vessel described in 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. may come in Ballast, or import into any Port 
 of the Bahama Islands " where there is o Custom-house," the 
 Articles allowed by the said Act to he. so imported; and also to 
 export the Articles allowed by the said Jet to be so exported con 
 formably witti the Re^uUiiions uj iht said /fc(, oce *' Fre< 
 
 ■ibty 
 Ports." 
 
 ree 
 
 
 Cc4 
 
 under 
 
isses. 
 
 >> 
 
 May he iin- 
 poited into the 
 Free Ports in 
 Ft)reign Ships ; 
 
 ''' Sugar. 
 
 under such Certificate as shall be directed by His Ma- 
 jesty, and which shall not be given in any one Year tor 
 any greater Quantity than 5,880,000lb8.) shall be deemed 
 to be foreign Sugars. 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. § 2. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 dprup. See " Mole 
 
 1. The Production or Manufacture of any of the Cn. 
 onies or Plantations in America, or of any Country on 
 he Continent of America, belonging to or mu:er the 
 Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State 
 may be imported from any of the said CountHes into the 
 I'rce Ports, in any Foreign Vessel whatever, being 
 owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the 
 said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries. 45 Geof 3. c 57 
 49 Geo. 3 c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74 ' 
 o^^l'REE Ports. 
 2. The Production or Manufacture of any of the Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in America, or Coumdes on the 
 Continent of America, belonging to or under the Domi- 
 nion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, having 
 been imported into the Free Ports, may be exported 
 
 ^1^,'^-f'S,-^^-'^'^^ respect to Goods therein enume- 
 rated -45 Geo 3. c.57. 49 Geo. 3. c.34. 52 Geo. 3. c.99. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 94. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 iiee Free Ports. 
 
 ITar* See " Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine." 
 
 STobacco. 
 
 Not to be ox- 1 . The Production of the British Plantations in Ame- 
 
 =^th:f^''° nca,shal not be shipped or conveyed from i; olX 
 British Pianta- ^airt Plantations to any Place, unless to some other Plant- 
 ation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or 
 I'iTt , l^f 'Y- ?; '- 18. § 18, 19. 22 & 23 Car. 2. 
 c.26.§ll. 7&8W.3.C.22. §13. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. « 27. 
 
 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 4. 8. 
 
 For 
 
 and exported 
 from thence to 
 thq United 
 Kingdom, 
 
 tion, or Great 
 Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
ICobacco* 
 
 393 
 
 For tl>e other Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeiture* 
 to secure the Landing in tlie PlantationK, or in 
 Great Britain or IrcUmd, 
 
 iV/'SuoAn, No 1. to 11. 
 
 Surety to br^ng the same to Great Britain or Ireland ; 
 and the said Duty shall be paid at such Phiccs and to 
 such Officers as shall be ap})ointed to collect and receive 
 the same, before the lading thereof. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. § 2. 
 
 3. The Duty shall be deemed 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 Britain, and shall be received and taken accord- 
 ing to the Proportion and Value of Five Shilliras and 
 Sixpence the Oiuice in Silver, and (the necessary Charges 
 of raising and paying the same excepted) shall be paid 
 into the Exchequer. I Geo. 1. st. 1. c. 12. § 4. 4 Geo. 3 
 c. 15. §41. 
 
 4. The Business shall be managed and the Duty levied 
 by the Commissioners of the Customs in England, by and 
 under the Authority of the Commissioners of the Trea- 
 sury. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. § 3. 
 
 5. In case any Person liable to pay the Duty shall not 
 have Money wherewith to pay the same, the Officers shall 
 accept instead of the Money sucha Proportion of the Com- 
 modity to be shipped as shall amount to the Value thereof 
 according to the Current Rate of the Commodity in such 
 Plantation. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. §4. 
 
 6. Notwithstanding the Payment of the Duty, no To- 
 bacco shall be shipped until the Security required by 
 1 2 Car. 2. c. 1 8. and 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. has been ffiven 
 to carry the same to Great Britain or Ireland, or some 
 of His Majesty's Plantations, on Forfeiture of the Vessel 
 and Goods. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 8. 
 
 7. All Laws, Bye-Laws, Usages, or Customs in force 
 or practice in any of the said Plantations in anywise re- 
 pugnant to the before-mentioned Acts, so far as they 
 relate to the said Plantations, or which are anyways re- 
 pugnant to this Act, or to any other Law hereafter to be 
 made m this Kingdom, so far as such Laws shall relate 
 to and mention the said Plantations, are Ulegal, null, 
 and void. 7& 8 W. 3, c. 22. § Q. ^ 
 
 8. If 
 
 Dtity p.iy;.hle 
 whf n Bond imt 
 given to land in 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland, 
 
 ■Jo be ilcemtd 
 Sterling VIoncy. 
 
 To be levied by 
 tl.c Commission- 
 ers. 
 
 Officers may 
 accept a Proprr- 
 tion of the 
 Commodity. 
 
 Bond to be given 
 although Duty 
 pjid. 
 
 Laws and Cus- 
 toms in the 
 Plantations re- 
 pugnant to the 
 Laws of Great 
 Britain, null 
 and void. 
 
 ., ^ 
 
394 
 
 pL'i.a'.i;, otiPrr. 
 s.uns conccviied 
 ir. til'-" I.o.idiiig 
 without Payment 
 of Duty, cr Ic- 
 whose Haii'is 
 the Goods fjhjll 
 cnme. 
 
 Of the Ur.iieel 
 titateiTT.ay '..e 
 imported into 
 West India 
 Islands and 
 Guiana in Bri- 
 toh Ships ■ 
 
 -.lid .ato Ler- 
 rr,i;da in Foreign 
 Ships. 
 
 Not to be >in- 
 lX)ited from 
 Coiotii'js under 
 Foreign Et;ro- 
 peaii States. 
 
 Xobacc0. 
 
 8. It ihc (jioods sliall be laden on board any yinp be- 
 lore the Duties tire paid, every Person assisting or other- 
 wise concerned in the loadinL', to whose Hands the same 
 
 shall knowinfyJv come alter the 
 
 Excert ir. Cans 
 of Emergeiity, 
 for the Supply of 
 the Inhabitants, 
 Lv Aiuhority of 
 tl'.i Governor. 
 
 loadin£(, 
 
 shall forfeit 
 
 Treble the Vaine, to be computed according to the best 
 Price the Commodity bears at the Place whei the Of- 
 fence is committed ; and all Boats made use of in the 
 loading shall be forfeited, and seized and prosecuted by 
 any Officer of the Customs, 'i Geo. 3. c. 15. § 37. 
 
 9. The Produ( ion of any of the Territories of the 
 United States 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 Ber- 
 muda '6r Somers Islands are included), or into Demerara, 
 Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province of Guiana ; but 
 such Tobacco shall not be so imported except by British 
 Subjects, and in Briiish-built Ships, owned and navi- 
 gated according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the 
 Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 1, 2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 10. The Growth of the said Territories may be im- 
 ported from thence into Saint George or Hamilton in the 
 Island of Bermuda in any Foreion Ship belonging to 
 any Country in Amity witli His Majesty, and exported 
 from the said Ports to any of His Majesty's T lands or 
 Dominions in the West Indies, in British-bun L Ships 
 owned and navigated according to Law. 52 Geo. S. 
 C.79. § 2, 3. 53 Geo. 3- c 50. § 1. 
 
 11. No Tobacco 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 ih.e West Indies, or Co- 
 lony or Plantation on the Continent of Sou) h America, 
 under the Dominion of Jtriy Foreign European Sove- 
 reign or State, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship. 
 28 Geo. 3. C.6. § 10. .S! Geo. 3. c. 38. §1. 56 Geo. 3. 
 C.91. § 1. 
 
 12. In case oF public Emergency or Distress, the 
 CJovernors, Lieutenar/t Governors, or Commanders in 
 Chief of any of the Islands in the West Indies under the 
 Dominion of His Majesty, or the Governors, kc. of the 
 said Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the 
 Province of (Juiana, with the Advice and Consent of their 
 respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of 
 Tobacco, for a limited Time, from any Island in the West 
 
 10 Indies 
 
Xobacco. 
 
 3.95 
 
 the 
 
 Supply of the 
 Inliabitanfi, nc 
 t>) he exported, 
 and Oath to be 
 tiikoi) before 
 shipping Tobacco 
 that it was noi s: 
 imported. 
 
 1 luiies or Colony or Plantation on the Continent of South 
 America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Fo- 
 reign European Sovereign or State, for the Supply of 
 the Inhabitants of the said Islands and Colonies ; ' but 
 such Tobacco shall not be so imj)orted except by British 
 Subjects, and in British-built Ships owned and navigated 
 according to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship, 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §11. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. §2. 56 Geo. 3. 
 <:. 91. § 1. 
 
 13. In case any Tobacco which shall have been im- i"'l orte.i for tl o 
 ported 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's West Indi;i Islands, Demerara, Berbice, 
 or Essequibo, for the Supply of 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 
 v/ith intent to be exported, the same shall be forfeited, as 
 also the Vessel or Boat in which laden; and before 
 shipping any Tobacco, whether in its manufactured or 
 anmanufuctured State, that may lawfully be e :ported, 
 the Exporter shall make Oath before the Collector of 
 the Customs, that no Rirt thereof had been so imported 
 under such .Authority as atbresaid 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. 29 Geo 3. c. 56 §1,2. 31 Geo. 3. 
 c. 33. § 3, 4. 56 Geo. 3. e. 91 § 1. 
 
 14. If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false 
 Oath touching iuiy of the Facts required to be testified 
 on Oath, such rersori shall be deemeU goiky of Perjury, 
 and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to v.'hich Peisons 
 are liable for wilful and corru{)t I'erjur,, and may be 
 prosecuted in any Court of Record in In-eat Britain, or 
 in any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West 
 Indies. 29 Geo 3. c. 56. § 3. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. §5. 
 
 15 Any Tobacco being 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 Domi- 
 nion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may 
 be importK'd fron. any of the said Islands or Countries 
 into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Ship, owned and 
 navig..!..^.: hy P.-.-sonb inhabiting any of the Coiunies 
 or Plantations in America or Countries on the Continent 
 of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any 
 
 Foreign 
 
 False Oaths 
 deemed Perjurxi, 
 
 M,iy be im- 
 ported into the 
 1-1 ce Ports in 
 lorcijn Vessels, 
 and exported f 
 tiie United 
 Kingdom, 
 
 'Hi 
 
396 
 
 XobatCD, 
 
 Importatiim 
 allowed from 
 Portugufsa 
 Colonies. 
 
 By whom Goods 
 and Vessels may 
 be scizsd. 
 
 May be im- 
 ported into Ports 
 to be approved of 
 by His Majesty 
 in Nova Scotia 
 or New Bruns- 
 wick in Foreign 
 Ships ; 
 
 under such 
 Regulations as 
 His Majesty 
 ^may think neccs- 
 sarj'. 
 
 Limitation of tlie 
 Act. 
 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, and exported iroivi 
 thence to any Part of the United Kingdom, under the 
 Restrictions, &c. provided in 12 Car. 2. c. 18., 22 & 23 
 Car. 2. c. 26., and 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. with respect to the 
 Goods therein enumerated. 45 Geo. 3. ~c. 57. §2. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 16. During the Continuance of the Treaty with Por- 
 tugal, any Person may import into any of the said West 
 India Islands (including the Bahama antl Bermuda or 
 Somers Islands) or Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, 
 any Tobacco being the Growtli of some of the Territories 
 or Dominions of the Crown of Portugal in South Ame- 
 rica, provided the same is imported into the said Islands 
 or Colonies direct from the said Territories or Domi- 
 nions, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, and re- 
 gistered according to Law. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. §5. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 17. The Goods iuid Vessels forfeited by these Acts 
 may be seize<' by the Commanders of any of His Majesty's 
 Ships or < .ssels of War, or by tiny Commissioned, 
 Warrant, or Petty Officer, specially authorised by them, 
 or by any Officer of the Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 
 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 18. Any British-built Vessel, owned and navigated 
 according to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Subjects 
 of any Sovereign or State in Amity with Hiw Majesty, 
 may import Tobacco into such Ports as shall be specially 
 appointed for that Purpose by His Majesty, within the 
 Province ")f Nova Scotia or New Brunswick; provided 
 that the said Tobacco shall not be imported in Foreign 
 Vessels, unless of the Growth or Produce of the Coim- 
 try to which the Vessel importing the same shall belong ; 
 and any such Tobacco may be re-exported, either to the 
 United Kingdom or any other of His Majesty's Posses- 
 sions, hi any British-built Vessel, owned and navigated 
 according to Law. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 1, 2, 3. 
 
 19. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Coun- 
 cil, may make such Rules and Regulations for the Im- 
 portation and Exportation of such Tobacco at the said 
 Ports, v.ith sucli Penalties and Forfeitures for the Breach 
 thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to His Mnjesty, 
 by and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c.l9. § 6. 
 
 ^0= This Act shall continue in force din-ing the Space 
 of Three Years from and after the passing of the same *, 
 
 ifer 
 
 8fk Mwj 1818. 
 
 md 
 
 V". 
 
Xobatco. 
 
 and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the 
 then next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 21. May be imported into any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in the West Indies, or on the Con- 
 tinent of South America, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, 
 in Britisli-built Ships, owned, navigated, and registered 
 according to Law, from any Colony or Possession in the 
 West Indies, or on the Continent 'of South America, 
 under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign 
 or State. 58 Geo. 3. c. 27- §1. 
 
 22. If any Tobacco of the Growth or Production of 
 tlie United States of America, which shall, in the fair and 
 lawful way of Barter or Traffic between tlie People of the 
 said United States and between any of the People of His 
 Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, be imported from 
 any Part of the said 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 To- 
 bacco, and to import it directly from thence into Great 
 Britain or Ireland, in British-built Ships registered and 
 navigated according to Law. 29 Geo. 3. c. 68. ^15. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 23. The Name of the Ship in which such Tobacco 
 shall be imported from any Part of the said United 
 States into any of the said Islands in the West Indies, and 
 also the Name of the Master, shall be particularly speci- 
 fied in the Manifest or Content in Writing accompanyino- 
 such Tobacco. 29 Geo. 3. c. 68. § 16. 
 
 24. When any Ship shall have taken on board To- 
 bacco at any Port within His Majesty's Colonies, Plan- 
 tations, 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 i dehudt thereof 1 wo other Chief Officers 
 of the Customs at such Port), shall, on the clearing of 
 every such Ship by the proper Officer of the Customs, 
 deliver to the Master a Manifest or Content in Writing 
 under their Hands and Seals of Office, which Manifest or 
 Content shall contain the Name of the Port or Place 
 where such Tobacco shall have been so taken on board, 
 tae Name and Buill of the Ship, and the true Admea- 
 surement or Tonnage thereof according to tlie Register, 
 together with the Christian and Surname of the Master, 
 
 and 
 
 397 
 
 Importation 
 allowed for Sup- 
 ply of Inhabitants 
 from Colonies 
 under European 
 Sovereigns. 
 
 Imported from 
 the United St-ites 
 by way of Barter 
 or Traffic, may 
 be expojted to 
 the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 Name of the 
 Ship and Master 
 to h". specified in 
 the Doct'ment. 
 
 Shipped for 
 Great Britain 
 a Manifest to be 
 delivered to tlie 
 Master by the 
 Officer of the 
 Customs. 
 
 3 
 
398 
 
 and the Port to which such Ship truly belongs, and a 
 true Account of all the Tobacco so laden on board, with 
 the Number of Hogsheads, Casks, Chests, and Casei; 
 containing the same, and the Weight of the Tobacco 
 contained in each such Hogshead, &c. together with 
 the Marks and Numbers set thereon, with the Tare c4 
 each such Hogshead, &c. and such Weight of the To- 
 bacco and Tare shall also be marked on each sucli 
 Hogshead. 29 Geo. 3. c. 68. § 17. 
 
 Scarborough 
 a iree Port, 
 
 Xobago. 
 
 Certain Articles allowed to be imported into and ex- 
 ported from the Port of Scarborougli in Foreign Ships, 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 the 
 
 rom I hi.' 
 Mail ; 
 
 IsIp .if 
 
 XoDlg anu 3lniplement0, 
 
 1. Any of His Majesty's Subjects residing in the Isle 
 ■or tiic Fishery of Man may lade there and transport directly to any 
 viny be imported p^^^ ^f Aiuerica where the Fishery is carried on, on 
 
 board any Ship which may lawfully trade or fish there, 
 any Hooks, Lines, Netting, or other Tools or Imple- 
 ments necessary for and used in the Fishery by the Crews 
 of such Ships carrying out the same, and the Ci aft be- 
 longing to and employed by such Ships; such Hooks, &c. 
 being the Mnnutacture of Great Britain, Ireland, or the 
 Isle of Man. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31 § 5. 
 
 2. The Master of such Ship shall produce to the 
 proper Officer «f the Customs in the Colony or Planta- 
 tion where he shall arrive, a Certificate under the Hand 
 and Seal of t:he Collector or other principal Officer of the 
 Customs in the Port where he shall have fitted out, that 
 Oath hath been riuide before him by the Shipper of such 
 Hooks, 6lc. that the same are of the Manufacture of 
 Great Britain or Ireland, or of the Isle of Man, and that 
 the Articles (specitying the Quantities and Particulars of 
 each Sort) are to be used in the Fishery by the Crew of 
 the Phip carrying out the same, and by the Craft belong- 
 ing to and to be employed by such Ship in the said 
 
 i=nt;iy, iiiivi iuT iiu utut;i X uipuftv: \Vi;iiL;jocvcJ" ; wiiicii 
 
 Oath and Certificate such Collector cr other Officer is 
 required to administer and grant (without Fee or Re- 
 ward) ; 
 
 upon .1 Certifi- 
 cate being pro- 
 c'viced from the 
 OSicers there, ns 
 to the Manutai-- 
 tiire. 
 
Xoois am implements, |c- 
 
 wird) ; and on Failure of producing such Certificate, or 
 if any such Hooks, &c. are used or dispased of ior any 
 other Purpose, the same and the Ship shall be seized and 
 forfeited in the same Manner as if this Act had not been 
 made. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. ^6. 
 
 399 
 
 r.nd c:;ported 
 from fkence to 
 the United 
 
 SToitotsc ^Dcu. 
 
 1. The Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- ^layi^eim-oned 
 tions in America, or of any Country on the Continent of ports"in 7in\gn 
 America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any V"s;eis ; 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported 
 
 from thence into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Vessel, 
 being owned and navigated by Persons inliabiting anv of 
 the said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries. 4-5 Geo. 3. 
 c.57. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57Geo.3.c.74. 
 See Frek Ports. 
 
 2. The Production of any of the Colonies or Planta- 
 tions in America, or Countries on the Continent of 
 America, belonging to or under the Dominion of anv 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, having been im- 
 ported into the Free Ports, may be exported from the 
 !;aid Ports to any Part of the United Kingdom under the 
 Rules, &c. of 12 Car. 2. c. 18., 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26., 
 and 20 Geo. 3, c.l8. with respect to Goods therein enume- 
 rated. — 45 Geo. 3. c.57. 49 Geo, 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. 
 c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. 
 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 Xortola. 
 
 The Port of Road Harbour, One of the Free Ports Road Harbour a 
 for the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles ^'^'^'^ P""^- 
 in Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57- 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 XrintSati, 
 
 1. The Port of San Josef, One of the Free Ports for San Josef a Fretr 
 the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles in ^°"* 
 Foreign Ships. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 h 
 
 
 .-^^' ^^ % Sv-^^ 
 
 iS,fA.r « 
 
 
 " Bahamas and 
 
 Bermuda." 
 
400 
 
 May be im- 
 ported from the 
 United States in 
 Foreign Ships. 
 
 JUegetaWes, 
 
 The Produce of the United States of America, may 
 be imported from the said States into certain Ports in 
 Bermuda, enumerated in the Acts 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. and 
 5S Geo. 3. c. 50. in Ships of the Description therein 
 stated, and under the like Regulations, Penalties, and 
 Forfeitures. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. 
 Sec United States. 
 
 Impouation 
 allowed from 
 Malta or Gib- 
 rnltar. 
 
 JUermflion, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, to any of His Ma- 
 jesty'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 accoi'ding 
 to Law. 55 Geo. 3. e. 29. §5.9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta, 
 
 No Goods to be 
 imported from 
 the United Siates 
 except Tobacco, 
 &c. by British 
 Subjects and in 
 British Ships. 
 
 except aiio 
 Household Fur- 
 niture, &c. by 
 Persons intend- 
 ing to settle in 
 the Colonies. 
 
 1. No Goods shall be imported from any of the Ter- 
 ritories belonging to the United States into His Majesty's 
 West India Islands (in which the Bahama and Bermuda 
 or Somers Islands are included), or into the Colonies of 
 Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province of 
 Guiana, on Forfeiture thereof and the Ship, except To- 
 bacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, 
 Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, 
 JShingies, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, 
 Sheep, Hogy, Poultry, Live Stock of any Sort, Bread, 
 Biscuit, Flour, Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, 
 Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, such Commodities 
 being the Growth or Production of the Territories of the 
 said States; but the said Articles shall not be so im- 
 ported, except by Bi'itish Subjects and in British-built 
 Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 feiture thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 1, 2. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 2. Except also Household Furniture, Utensils of Hus- 
 bandry, and Clothing, by Subjects of the said States who 
 shall come from thence, together with tlieir Families, to 
 the Bahama or Bermuda Islands, or to the Province of 
 
 6 Quebec, 
 
:a, or 
 
 UniteD States. 
 
 Quebec, Nova Scotia, or any of the Territories belonging 
 to His Majesty in North America, for the Purpose of re- 
 siding and settling there, having iirst obtametl a Licence 
 for that Purpose from the Governor, or in his Absence 
 the Lieutenant Governor, of the said Islands, Provinces, 
 or Territories respectively; provided such Household 
 Furniture, &c. are imported in British Ships owned by 
 His Majesty's Subjects, and navigated according to Law, 
 and shall not in the whole exceed the Value of £50 for. 
 every White Person that shall belong to the Family, and 
 40s. for every Negro brought by such White Person. 
 30 Geo, 3. c,27. § 1. 
 See Settlers. 
 
 3. Any of the said Articles (enumerated in No. 1.) the 
 Growth or Production of the LFnited States, may be im- 
 ported from thence into Saint Geoi'ge or Hamilton in 
 Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship belonging to any 
 Country in Amity with His Majesty, and exported (torn 
 the said Ports to any of His Majesty's Islands or Domi- 
 nions in the West Indies, in British-built Ships, owned 
 and navigated according to Law. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. §2, 3. 
 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § I. 
 
 4. In addition to the Articles enumerated in the Acts 
 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. and 53 Geo. 3. c. 50., it shall be lawful 
 to import from the United States into tlie Ports men- 
 tioned in the said Acts, and in Ships of the Description 
 therein stated, and under the like Regulations, Penalties, 
 and Forfeitures, Fruit and Vegetables being the Produce 
 of the said States ; and in addition to the Articles per- 
 mitted to be exported by the said Acts, to export from 
 Bermuda to the said States, in such Vessels and under 
 such Regulations as aforesaid, Rum and Molasses, the 
 Produce of any British Colony in the West Indies, which 
 shall have been legally imported into Bermuda in any 
 British Ship. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. §1. 
 
 5. 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 ; and all Cocoa Nuts 
 or Ginger which shall be exported, shall be liable to the 
 >>ame Duties to which the same are now liable if exported 
 to any British Colony or Plantation in America ; and the 
 isaid Duties shall be raised, recovered, and applied in the 
 
 D d same 
 
 401 
 
 Articles enume- 
 rated in No. I. 
 may be imported 
 into Bermuda in 
 Foreign Ships ^ 
 :iiid exported in 
 British ; 
 
 also the Importa- 
 tion of Fruit and 
 Vegetables in the 
 like Ships, and 
 Exportation of 
 Rum and Mo- 
 lasses in British. 
 
 Articles allowed 
 to be exported 
 from the West 
 India Islands to 
 the United Statc.i 
 in British Ships. 
 
 
 f I 
 
 I'.'l 
 
402 
 
 \^ lifcic on T.f.-' 
 poriation of 
 Goods to a 
 British Colony, a 
 Bond is required, 
 the like Bond 
 ."hall be given on 
 Ejqjortation to 
 the United 
 States. 
 
 .jugar, Ac. niiiy 
 be exported from 
 Bermuda to the 
 said States in 
 foreign Ships. 
 
 Foreign Ships 
 may come to the 
 Turks Islands to 
 be there Uden 
 vi'ah Salt. 
 
 same Manner as the Duties on Cocoa Nuts or Ginger ex- 
 ported to any British Colony or Plantation in America ; 
 provided that no Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, 
 Ginger, or Pimento, nor any other Commodities (except 
 Salt from Turks Islands, being Part of the Bahama Islands) 
 .shall be so exported other than by British Subjects, and 
 in British-built Vessels, owned and navigated according 
 to Law, on Forfeiture thereof and the Vessel. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. 6. § 3. 
 
 See CooDS, enumerated and non-enumerated. 
 
 6. Where on Exportation of any Goods to any British 
 Colony or Plantation in America, a Bond is required for 
 the due Landing such Goods, and a Certificate is required 
 to discharge such Bond, (see "Sugar," and other enu- 
 merated Articles, and « Goods, non-enumerated,") 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 ot 
 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 any Officer who may be appointed by 
 the United States for the Purpose of granting such Cer- 
 tificate; and if there shall not be any Officer appointed . 
 then such Bond shall be discharged upon a Certificatf 
 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 have been 
 landed, and that Oath hath been made before such Ma- 
 gistrate by the Master of the Vessel, that the Goods werf 
 duly landed. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 4. 
 
 7. Any Sugar, Coffee, Rum, and Molasses, the Pro- 
 duce of any British Colony in the West Indies, imported 
 into Bermuda in any British Ship, maybe exported fron 
 the Port of Saint George or from the Port of Hamilton 
 in the said Island, to any Part of tlie Territories of the 
 United States, in any Foreign Vessel belonging to any 
 Country in Amity with His Majesty, above the Burtheiy 
 of 60 Tons. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 1- 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. 
 57 Geo. 8. c. 28. 
 
 8 . Any Ship laelonging to the Inhabitants of the United 
 States, coming in Ballast and not otherwise, may enter 
 the Ports of the Islands called " Turks Islands" for the 
 Purpose of being there laden with Salt, provided the 
 Master shall, immediately after the Arriy.al of such Shi»! 
 in any Port of the said Islands, make a true Entry of hi> 
 
 Ship, 
 
 ^S' 
 
 
^mtth mans. 
 
 403 
 
 SWp upon Oath before the Collector or other Principal 
 SitLw 2n^ P-t declaring of what Count^shTi 
 built, how manned, who was the Master during the Vov- 
 age, and who are the Owners thereof, and thf Purn^ 
 for which he enters the said Port, ino dTthatsuch S^ 
 
 oZr^7IS- 1 ^''''^ «"^ Examination of reprS 
 Officers of ftis Majesty's Customs; and such MasterXll 
 
 ^n^^ersraiird^^'^^^^^AQ"-^^^^^^^ 
 
 Xr Prinlnl ?fr"d«d of him by such Collector or 
 
 TolIt'Dufv'If^ fA^°' 'h'rj^'' «^ H^^ Majesty, a To„„.ge Duty 
 
 npn^oT V ^ ^'' t^^ ^"^^ °^ Two Shillings and Six- '» >>« paW. ^ 
 pence Sterling payable in Dollars at the Rate of F ve 
 Shilhngsand Sixpence per Ounce, for every To„ eir^ 
 then of every such Ship; and the Tonnage shall be 
 ascertained by Admeasurement made by such Officer t 
 
 of His' mSv^C 'T ^'^^ ^^^T ^^ ^^' C^mSSne" 
 or fn p -^ ^ Customs m England for the Time beine 
 
 "uch Cn" "' T' "f *^r'7*"' 1^ Officer shalladmeS 
 •such Ship according to the following Method ; viz. 
 
 ^ZV T^ i- "^ °^^' '^^ Stern of the Ship, and 
 
 * aZ^'^'P'^'^T' ^^'^^^» «"^h Line and ^he 
 ^ Mark'^^r °^ '^^ Stern Post at the Load Water 
 « Phn^k **!^"."^e««"re from the Top of the said 
 
 1: lumb Lme in a parallel Direction with the Water 
 
 ^ T'or/w^f^'^r'f ^°^"* immediately over the 
 Load Water Mark, at the Fore part of the main 
 
 * abr;n"'f'''''".^ ^^°" ^"^^ Measurement t1^^ 
 above Distance, the Remainder will be the Ship'* 
 
 ; extreme Length; from which is to be dXcted 
 
 * of W J" f ^"^ u ^""^^y ^°°t «^ t^e Load Draught 
 
 c 5 .f S^ Ship's Breadth for the Rake for- 
 ward, the Remainder shall be esteemed the iust 
 
 - Br A"l'^fu^''\'°^."^*^« Tonnage ; and^tt 
 Breadth shall be taken from Outside & Outside of 
 the Plank m the broadest Part of the Vessel, either 
 above or below the Main Wales, exclusive of aU 
 Manner of Sheathing or Doubling that may be 
 
 Z^^t T" ^P^^ "^ '^' Veslel; then Ll! 
 t^ply the Length of the Keel for Tonna^re bv th. 
 
 . ' ViITaH, '" ?^^."'..^"^ *^*t P^-oduct by"Half the 
 Breadth, and dividing by 94, the Quotient shall 
 be deemed the true Contents of the Tonnage.' 
 
 J. c 
 
 (i. §7. 
 
 
 Dd 
 
 10. Tl 
 
 le 
 
404 
 
 Receipt and 
 Appro[)riaiion. 
 
 Wl...t Anides 
 allowed to be 
 exported from 
 the Turks 
 Iblaiidi. 
 
 American Ships 
 may enter cer 
 tain Ports in the 
 Bahamas to he 
 there laden with 
 Salt. 
 
 No Goods to be 
 imported from 
 thence into Nova 
 Scotia, &c. ex- 
 cept Pitch, Tar, 
 and furpentiiie. 
 
 Wlnitth ^tdte0* 
 
 1 0. The Amount of the Tonnage Duty so ascertained 
 shiill be paid into the Hands of the Collector of His Ma- 
 jesty's Customs at the Port or Place wherein he shall he 
 appointed to reside, in any of the said Islands, before 
 any Salt shall be loaden ; and such Duty shall be under 
 the Management of the Commissioners of His Majesty's 
 Customs, and be collected and recovered in the like Man- 
 ner, and by the like Rules, and under such Penalties and 
 Forfeitures, as any other Duties now payable to His Ma- 
 jesty 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; and such 
 Duty shall be subject to the Payment of the Salaries of 
 the Officers, and other incidental Charges of the Port, 
 and the Residue paid to the Receiver General of the 
 Customs in England, to be by him paid into the Ex- 
 chequer under the Head of Consolidated Customs. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §8. 
 
 1 1 . No Goods shall be exported fiom Turks Islands 
 to any of His Majesty's Dominions in America or the 
 West Indies, or Ittid on board any Ship in the said 
 Islands for that Purpose, except Salt; and no Goods 
 shall be exported from the said Islands to Great Britain 
 or Ireland, or laid on 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 the 
 Forfeiture of such Goods, and of the Ship on board of 
 which the same shall be so exported or laid on board. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 9. 
 
 12. Until 25th March 1819, any Ship belonging to 
 the United 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, 
 subject to the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions of 
 the 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. respecting Vessels coming for the 
 same Pui'pose to Turks Islands. 57 Geo. 3. c. 42. § 1- 
 
 1 3. 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 Newfound- 
 
 Governments, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship, 
 except Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, the Production of 
 the said Territories, and which may be imported from 
 
 thence 
 
 P 
 
 S 
 
f- 
 
 ^nim .States. 
 
 405 
 
 Except also 
 Sr.iiuliiig, Sec, ill 
 cise of Emer- 
 
 thencc into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, by British 
 Subjects, in British built Ships, owned and navigated 
 according to Law. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §12. 33 Geo. 3. 
 u. 50. § 14. 
 
 14. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Go- 
 vernor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Ghief ^ ^^^^ j,^ j. 
 of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, Cape Breton or Saint gf^^cy.byA'mho 
 John's, with the Advice and Consent of their respective '"y of '^e 
 Councils, 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 of any 
 Sort, for a limited Time, from any of the Territories of 
 the United States, for the Supply of the Inhabitants of 
 the said Provinces and Islands ; but such Scantling, &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 the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. 
 c. 6. §13. 
 
 15. His Majesty in Council, by Order to be issued and Bread, &c. 
 and published, or by Warrant under His Sign Manual, j"t^Newround 
 may empower the Governor of Newfoundland to authorize, supply of tL 
 in case of Necessity, the Importation of Bread, Flour, inhabitants and 
 Indian Corn, and Live Stock, from any of the Territories ^'''^"'^^"^ 
 belonging to the United States, for the Supply of tlie 
 Inhabitants and Fishermen for the then ensuing Sea- 
 son only; provided that such Bread, &c. shall not be so 
 imported, 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, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 feiture thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 13. 
 
 16. Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or Tn« Articles 
 Commanders in Chief of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, 5""™"*"'' '" 
 or Cape Breton or Saint John's, with the Advice and imported from 
 Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the the United States 
 Importation of the Articles enumerated in 28 Geo.'S. c. 6. J°J^^e."f«'-"- 
 (Tobacco, &c. see No. 1.), for a limited Time, from any 
 of the Territories of the United States, for the Purpose 
 of being re-exported to any other of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. § 1 . 
 
 17- No Goods shall be imported frorri ths Tjjiifr^ No Goods to bs 
 States by Sea or Coastwise into Quebec, or the Countries "PP^^^!^ '"^'^"^ 
 
 T^ J ,, thence mto 
 
 
 Dd3 
 
 or 
 
 Quebec j 
 
4()H 
 
 except Bread, 
 &c. for the 
 Supply of the 
 Persons carrying 
 on the Fiahety: 
 
 also Neat Cattle, 
 &c. for the 
 Supply of the 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 Not to be 
 brought from 
 theucc into 
 Canada, except 
 tlie Produce of 
 the States. 
 
 By whom Goods 
 and Vessels may 
 be stized. 
 
 or Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River 
 Saint Lawrence from the Sea, on Forfeiture thereof and 
 the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 14. 
 
 18. His Maje.'»ty in Council, by Order to be issued and 
 published, may authorize, in case of Necessity, the im- 
 porting of Bread, Flour, Indian Corn, and Live Stock, 
 as well into 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 be- 
 longing to the United Sates, for the Supply of the Per- 
 sons cn)ployed in carrying on the Fisheries; but such 
 Articles shall not be so imported, except in conformity 
 to such Regulations and Restrictions as shall be specified 
 in such Order, and by British Subjects in British built 
 Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 feiture thereof and the Ship. 29 Geo. 3. c. 16. § 1. 
 
 19. In case of public Emergency and Distress, the 
 Governor of Quebec, or Lieutenant Governor, or Com- 
 mander in Chief, with the Con-ent of the Council of the 
 Province, may authorize the Importation by Sea or 
 Coastwise into Quebec, or into the Countries or the 
 Islands within the Government thereof, or up the River 
 Saint Lawrence from the Sea, of Neat Cattle, Sheep, 
 Hogs, Poultry, or Live Stock of any Sort, JBread, Bis- 
 cuit, 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, for the Supply 
 of the Inhabitants of the said Province and Countries ; 
 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. SOGeo. 3. c. 8 §1. 
 
 20. No Goods, except of the Produce or Manufacture 
 of the Territories of the United States, shall be brought 
 from the said Territories by Inland Navigation or Land 
 Carriage into the Provinces of Lower or Upper Canada, 
 on Forfeiture of the Goods or the Value thereof; with 
 the Vessel or Carriage in which the same shall be brought, 
 t» be recovered and distributed in like manner as h 
 directed'in any Act in the Case of Offences being com- 
 mitted against the Laws of Customs in K!s Majesty's 
 Plantations in AmeriQa. 52 Geo. 8. c. 55. § 1. 
 
 21 . The UooUs and Vessels forfeited by the ^e Acts may 
 be seized by the Conmianders of any of His Majesty's 
 
 Ships 
 
Ships or Vessels of War, or by any CommiHsioned Wai^ 
 rant, or Petty Officer specially authorize<l by them, or 
 by aiiy Officers oF His Majesty's CustoniB. 28 Goo. '2. 
 C.6. 29G0O.2. c. 16. 29 Geo.2. c.Sfi. 30Geo.8. c.8. 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 ?!liten0tl0 of ^ufShanbxV' 
 
 See " Settlers." 
 
 JKHages of fteamen, see « seamen.* 
 
 The Production of the British Pluntatiijis in America, Koi to be cx,)ori- 
 shall not be shipped or conveyed from any of tJii; said t'l.imicKNto 
 Plantations to any Place, unless to some other Plantation *T'""'"'^'="«- 
 bclonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, S!"l"'ci '"' ' 
 there to be laid on Shore. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. §18, 19. Ireland. 
 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 1 1. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 13. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. $ 27. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. §. 6. 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 3. 39 & to Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 56 Geo. S. 
 c. 91. §4. 8. 
 
 For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to 
 secure the Landing in the Plantations, or in Great 
 Britain or Ireland, 
 
 See Sugar, No. 1. to 11. 
 
 miittQtonts, 
 
 May be exported from Malta or any of the Depend- imputation 
 encies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Ma- ''''"'*^*^'' *^'^'" 
 jesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to S"ti7 
 Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colo- 
 nies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, 
 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 67 Geo. 3. c. 4. 
 
 m 
 
 Winu 
 
 1. Of the Madeiras, or of the Western Islands or M'y be im- 
 Azores, may be there laden for Exportation direc* to the T"^'^ ^"'"'^ ''^^ 
 
 British Colonip« in A mi^rJpn IKPorO r •^ «^ Madeiras or 
 
 /> T«L r. '"i "rTVr -•- ,-ar, ^, c. ,. xjv. Western IsLiiidi. 
 
 „ ^A he Produce of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, 
 -^ ' J • -- • ce of Europe South of 
 
 Dd 4- 
 
 Cape 
 
408 
 
 Vessels from the 
 British Colonies 
 in North Ame- 
 rica, arriving 
 with the Produce 
 thereof at Places 
 in Europe South 
 of Cape Finis- 
 terre, may import 
 from thence 
 Wine the Pro- 
 duce of Europe. 
 
 What Duties 
 liable to. 
 
 On Exportation 
 from Nova 
 Scotia or New 
 Brunswick, Oath 
 to be made that 
 the Cargo is the 
 Produce of the 
 Provinces, or 
 of the British 
 Fisheries, and 
 Certificate tiiere- 
 ofto be produced. 
 
 C-.'^'taiu Articles 
 may be exported 
 fiJiii Canada 
 wiiiiout such 
 
 Cape Finistetre for Exportation dii*ect to any of the Ports 
 herein aaer 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 Shel- 
 burn in Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Town in Prince 
 Edward's Island, on board any British Ship, owned, 
 navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall 
 have arrived at any such Port or Place of Europe with 
 Articles the Growth or Produce of the said Colonies, or 
 with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects car- 
 rying on the Fisheries from any of the said Colonies, or 
 fi'om any Part of the United Kingdom, or with Wheat, 
 Flour, Peas, Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, 
 White Oak Staves and Heading, dressed or undressed. 
 Hoops, Pine Plank or Boards, from the Province of 
 Canada, whether such Goods are the Produce of Canada, 
 or brought into the Province by Land or Inland Navi- 
 gation. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2. 
 
 3. Upon the Importation of such Wine into any of the 
 said Ports, the same shall be snjyect to the Payment of the 
 like Duties, as if imported into the said Ports of Great 
 Britain, end no other Duties. (See No. 10.) — 51 Geo. 3. 
 c. 97. § 3. 
 
 4, The Person exporting any Cargo from Nova otia 
 or New Brunswick, for any Port of Europe South of 
 Cape Finisterre, shall make Oath at the Port of Ship, 
 ment before the Chief Officer of the Customs, or the 
 Naval Officer in Command, that the Cargo so shipped is 
 the Growth and Produce of the said Provinces, or the 
 Produce of the British Fisheries in North America, taken 
 and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the 
 Fishery from the said Colonies; and such Officer of 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 Eu /C to which 
 such Cargo shall be consigned, or to whi such Vessel 
 shall go for the Delivery of the Cargo ; ana the Master 
 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 Certificate of the Officer whose Name it bears, 
 and was duly signed by him. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 4. 
 
 K I net Vjaivani^c A'vr\r-h..f ivk^w .^v^^t TUTL^^ 
 
 Beans, Oats, Barley, Indian Corn, Rye, White 
 Staves and Headim?, dressed or undj 
 
 n 
 
 XCUB, 
 
 W 
 
 img, 
 
 edj Hoops, 
 Pine 
 
or 
 
 SQItne. 
 
 Pine Plank and Boards, from Canada, shall not be 1-6- 
 quired to make Oath that the Articles are the Produce 
 of Canada; and the Master 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 olt Canada, or brought into Canada con- 
 formably to the Regulations estabhshed 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 Naval Officer shall grant, 
 upon satisfactory Proof being made upon Oath or other, 
 wise ; 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. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 5. 
 
 6. Before the Shipment of any Pickled Fish or Dry 
 Fish, for Exportation from Canada to any Port of 
 Europe within the Limits aforesaid, the Person a whose 
 Possession the same has contmued 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, 
 taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on 
 the said Fisheries from some of the said Colonies or 
 Plantations ; and on such Oath being taken, the Officer 
 of the Customs or Naval Officer shall grant Certificate 
 thereof, signed with his Hand, which Certificate the 
 Master shall be required to produce at the Port of De- 
 livery in Europe, and shall make Oath of the Authenticity 
 of such Certificate. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 6. 
 
 7. Any Ship or Goods subject to Forfeiture under this 
 Act may be seized by any Officer of the Customs in- the 
 said Colonies, or by the Commander of any of His Ma- 
 jesty's Ships of War, and the same may be prosecuted, 
 recovered, and divided in the same Manner, and by the 
 jarne Rules and Regulations (as far as the same are appli- 
 cable), as any other Forfeiture imposed by any Act made 
 for the Security of the Revenue, or for the Regulation 
 or Improvement thereof, or for the Regulation of Trade 
 or Navigation, may be prosecuted, &c. in the British 
 Colonies, si Geo. 3. c. 97. § 7. 
 
 8. May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- 
 dencies thereof; or from Gibraltar, direct 
 
 409 
 
 Oath, on pro- 
 ducini; a Certifi- 
 cate of the reguk 
 lar Importation 
 by L'lnd or 
 Inland Naviga- 
 tion. 
 
 Oath to be made 
 before shipping 
 Pickled or Dry 
 Fish from 
 Canada, that it 
 is the Produce 
 of the British 
 Fisheries. 
 
 By whom Ship 
 and Goods may 
 be seized and 
 prosecuted. 
 
 any or riii 
 Majesty' 
 
 Importation 
 allowed from 
 Malu or 
 
410 
 
 Gibralt«r, on 
 the same Duties 
 as from Madeira. 
 
 tiud from the 
 Netherlands, if 
 intended as Sup- 
 plies for the 
 I^ates of Dutch 
 Proprietors in 
 Guiana. 
 
 Duties upon 
 Importation. 
 
 In what manner 
 to be paid. 
 
 mint. 
 
 Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or 
 to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Co- 
 lonies or Plantations in North America, in British-built 
 Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law; 
 and upoii the Importation thereof into such Colonies 
 shall be subject to the Payment of such Duties, and no 
 other, as are payable on Madeira Wine when imported 
 into any of the said Colonies or Plantations from Madeira. 
 (See No. 10.)—5S Geo. S. c. 29. § S. 9. 57 Geo. 8. 
 c. 4<. 
 
 See Gibraltar. 
 Malta. 
 
 9. Intended as a Medicine and necessary Article of 
 Supply for the Estates of Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, 
 Berbice, or Essequibo in the Province of Guiana, not 
 exceeding what may be necessary for the Purposes of 
 such Supply, may be imported into the said Colonies 
 frtmi the Netherlands, on board Du'xh Ships, and shall 
 be liable to the Duty of 10s. per Ton, and no more. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. §3,4. , 
 
 S^e Guiana. 
 
 10. There shall be i)aid unto His Majesty upon all 
 W'nes (except French) imported into any Colony or 
 Plantation in America, under the Dominion of His 
 Majesty, the Duties following ; that is to say, 
 
 For every Ton of Wine of the Growth of the Madeiras, 
 or of any other Island or Place from whcaice such Wine 
 may be lawfully imported, and which shall be so imported 
 from such Island or Place, the Sum of jfi?. 
 
 For every Ton of Portugal, Spanish, or any other 
 Wine (except French Wine), imported from Great 
 Britain or Ireland, the Sum of 10s. and aftei- those 
 Rates for any greater or less Quantity. 4 Geo. 3. 
 c. 15. $1. 39 &40 Geo. 8. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 11. The Duties shall be paid in the same Manner and 
 Form, and by such Ways and Means, and under sucji 
 Penalties and Forfeitures, (mot otherwise altered by this 
 Act) as are mentioned in 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. (see " Sugar") 
 wi<^ respect to the Duties thereby granted; and all 
 Powers, Penalties, Provisions, and Clauses therein con- 
 tained (except xvhere any Alteration is made by this 
 Act) shall be practised and put in Execution for' the 
 .cvying anvi answering tuc Duties hereby granted. 
 4 Geo, 3. c. 15. §7. 
 
 12. If 
 
3. 
 
 411 
 
 If' not paid the 
 Wine may be 
 sold. 
 
 If not worth the 
 Duty and 
 Charges, the 
 Wine may be 
 destroyed. 
 
 Appropriation of 
 the Duties, 
 
 mint 
 
 12. If the Importer shall refuse to pay the Duties, 
 the Collector or other proper Officer of the Customs shall 
 secure the Wine, to be publicly sold within Twenty Days 
 after such Refusal, and at such Time and Place as such 
 Officer shall by Four Days public Notice appoint; and 
 the Money arising by the Sale shall be applied, first in 
 Payment of the Duties, with the Charges occasioned 
 by the Sale, and the Overplus, if any, shall be paid to 
 the Importer or other Person authorized to receive the 
 same. 4 Geo. 3. c. IS. ^ 7. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 3. 
 
 13. If the Money offered for such Wine shall not be 
 sufficient to discharge the Duty and Charges, then the 
 Collector or other proper Officer shall cause the Wine 
 to be spilt or otherwise destroyed, and shall return the 
 Casks, or other Package' wherein the same was contained, 
 to such Importer. 4. Geo. 3. c. 15. § 8. 56 Geo. 3. 
 e. 91. § 3. 
 
 14. The Monies arising by the said Duties (except the 
 necessary Charges of raising, recovwing, and accounting 
 for the same) shall be paid into the Exchequer separate 
 and apart from all other Monies, and shall be there re- 
 served to be disposed of by Parliament, towards defray- 
 ing the necessary Expences of protecting and securing 
 the British Colonies and Plantations in America. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. IS. § 10. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 3. 
 
 15. All Sums granted by these Acts 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 Britain, and may be received according to 
 the Proportion and Value of Five Shillings and Sixpence 
 the Ounce in Silver. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 41. 56 Geo. 3, 
 c.9l.§3. 
 
 1. Every Person examined as a Witness on any In- To deiivci ihcir 
 quiry directed by the Commissioners of the Customs in Testimony ou 
 England, or any Four of them, to be made in America ^atlioniu- 
 or the West Indies, relative to His Majesty's Revenue of TyZ Com"mt 
 Customs ©r other Duties there, or to the Conduct of the sioners of the 
 Officers employed in the Collection thereof, by or before ^"''°'"'- 
 say Collccior and Comptroiier of the Cusloius, or hy qr 
 before such other Persons as shall be appointed by the 
 Commissioners or any Four of them, shall deliver his 
 
 Testimony 
 
 m 
 
 To be deemed 
 Sterling Money. 
 
412 
 
 False Oaths 
 deemed Perjury, 
 
 Not to be ex- 
 ported, unless to 
 some other 
 Plantation, or to 
 Great Britain or 
 Ireland. 
 
 Bon * to be given 
 that I^umber 
 shall not be- 
 landed in any 
 Part of Europe 
 except Great 
 Britain or Ire- 
 land. 
 
 Testimony on Oath, to be administered by the said Offlcei* 
 or Persons so appointed before whom he shall be exa- 
 mined. 49 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 1. 
 
 2. Any Person who shall be convicted of making a 
 false Oath touching any of the Facts required by this Act 
 to be testified on Oath, or of giving false Evidence on 
 his, her, or their Examination on Oath, by or before any 
 Collector and Comptroller of the Customs of any Port 
 in the West Indies or America, or such other Person ap 
 pointed as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of Peijury, 
 and liable to the Pains and Penalties to which Persons 
 are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury. 49 Geo. 3. 
 C.46. §2. 
 
 1 . No Masts, Yards, or Bowsprits, of the Production 
 or Manufacture of the British Plantations in America, 
 shall be shipped or conveyed from any of the said Plant- 
 ations to any Place, unless to some other Plantation be- 
 longing to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland, 
 there to be laid on Shore. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 18, 19. 
 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 11. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 13. 
 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. §27. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. $ 6. 20 Geo. 3. 
 c. 10. § 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 56 Geo. 3. 
 c.91. §4. 8. 
 
 For the other Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, 
 to secure the landing in the Plantations, or in 
 Great Britain or Ireland, 
 
 &e Sugar, No. 1. to U. 
 2. No Wood commonly called " Lumber," 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, Ebony Wood, 
 Headings for Pipes, Hogsheads and Barrels, Hoops for 
 Coopers, Oars, Pipe and Hogshead Staves, Barrel Staves, 
 Firkin Staves, Trunnels, Speckled Wood, Sweet Wood, 
 Small Spars, Oak Plank, and Wainscots, of the Pro- 
 duction or Manufacture of any of the British Colonies or 
 Plantations in America, shall be there laden until Bond 
 be given with One Surety, besides the Master of the 
 Ship, to the Collector or other »^rinci"al Officer of the 
 Customs at the loading Port, in a Penalty of Double the 
 Value of the Goods, with Condition that the same shall 
 
 1 2 not 
 
»■ 
 
 not be landed in any Part of Europe except Great Britain 
 or Ireland; which Bond shall be discharged in the Man- 
 ner hereafter mentioned ; that is to say, for such Goods as 
 shall be entered for or landed in Great Britain or Ire- 
 land, the Condition of the Bond shall be, to bring a Cer- 
 tificate in discharge thereof within Eighteen Months from 
 the Date of the Bond, and within Six Months for such 
 Goods as shall be entered for or landed in any of the 
 British Colonies or Plantations in America; which Cer- 
 tificate shall be under the Hands and Seals of the Col- 
 lector or other Principal Officer of the Customs resident 
 at the Port where such Goods shall be landed, testifying 
 the landing thereof; and for such Goods as shall be 
 entered for 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 Magis- 
 trate, or under the Hands and Seals of Two known British 
 Merchants residing there; or such Bond may be dis- 
 charged by Proof upon Oath, made by credible Persons, 
 that the Goods were taken by Enemies or perished in the 
 Seas. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 28. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 3. 
 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 3. Any of the said Lumber may be exported to the 
 Madeiras, or the Western Isles called the Azores, or to 
 any Part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finisterre, 
 upon Bond being given in the Penalty directed by 
 4 Geo. 3. 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 that a 
 Certificate testifying the landing shall be produced within 
 Eighteen Months to the Collector or other Principal 
 Officer where Bond shall have been gi\ n, 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 British Merchants where such 
 Goods shall be lande(' ; and upon producing such Certi- 
 ficate, or Proof upon Oath by Two credible Persons that 
 the Gt)ods were taken by Enemies, or perished in the 
 Seas, the Bond shall be discharged. 5 Geo. 3. c.45. §22. 
 20Geo. 3. c. 10.§3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 
 
 4. Any Fustic or Dying Wood of the Growth of any 
 of the British Colonies or Plantations, may be exported 
 direct io Malta, or the Dependencies thereof^ or to 
 ' Gibraltar, 
 
 413 
 
 May be landed 
 at the Madeiras 
 or Western Isles, 
 or any Part of 
 Europe South of 
 Cape Finisterre. 
 
 Dying Wood 
 may be exported 
 to VTalra or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
4 
 
 414 
 
 ■» 
 
 Duty payable on 
 Logwood if Bond 
 not given to land 
 in Great Britain 
 
 or I/eland. 
 
 To be deemed 
 Sterling Money. 
 
 To be levied by 
 the Commission- 
 
 ers. 
 
 Officers may ac- 
 cepts Proportion 
 of tbe Commo- 
 dity. 
 
 Bond to be given 
 although Duty 
 paid. 
 
 See GlBRALTAB. 
 
 Malta. 
 5. If any Ship shall take on board any Logwood: 
 Fusfc, or other Dying Wood, and Bond sLlK 
 
 Z^IT fj'^^W^^^^ (the Dangers cf the Seas ex- 
 cepted), there shaU be paid to His Majesty the D,^« 
 hereafter mentioned ; that is to say, ^ ^ 
 
 For Logwood the Cwt. containing ll2lbs. £5*. \ 
 
 mg 112 lbs. Sixpence. 
 
 ConL^.^ ''''"y'^^'''^ P^^^, ^^ such Places, and to such 
 Collectors and Officers a. shaU be appointed to receive 
 the same, before the Lading thereof. 45Car.2. c.^Z. 
 
 Ort.^l^"''''/^?^.^ deemed Sterling Money of 
 Great Britain, and shaJl be collected and paid to the 
 Amount of the V^lue which such nomin^u^ fbe^r in 
 Great Britain, and shall be received according to the 
 
 Ounce in Silver, and (the necessary Charges of raisimr 
 c^fnt^TfL' Vr '^'^P^^^ shall be pailinto the R^ 
 
 TLl 7,I:tr'' ' ^- ^- ^' ^- - ^^- § *• 
 
 vJl'K^^t^^f'"^''^^^^ ber^anaged and the Duty le- 
 ^n^ ^3;^^^ Commissioners of the Customs in I .gLd, 
 
 sury!^ TsC:^\'!V'^%^, Commissioners of the W- 
 
 nnf ■ J" ""Z^ ''"^ Person liable to pay the Duty shall 
 no^ have Money to pay the same, the Officers shall ac- 
 
 Sr' ?'^.''^'"'t^^"**^' ^"^^ « Proportion of the 
 Commodity to be shipped as shall amount to theValue 
 thereof according to the current Rate of the Commodity 
 m such Plantation. 25 Car. 2. c. 7. S 4 ^ 
 
 9. Notwithstanding the Payment 'of the Duty, no 
 Logwood shall be shipped until the Security requirS by 
 12 Car. 2. c. 18. and 22 & 23 Car. 2. c. 26. has been 
 
 «»der //le Djrec<eo« of the Commissioners of Public Record butit 
 
 given 
 
^ «; 
 
 grven to carry the ««rtie to Great Britain or Ireland, of 
 ^e of H., MaW. PlantadanB, on Eorfeiturc of the 
 
 nr L^.."^ • '^'^^ Bye-laws, Usages or Customs, in force 
 or practice m any of the said PlSntations, in any wise re 
 pugnant to the before-mentioned Acts, so fax astCrekte 
 to he said Plantations, or which are an v ways repu^«^? 
 
 ^L^X"^' -S ™ ^ '"** Law shaU relate to and 
 
 7 & 8 W ;. T 22 §T""' "' '"'^'' "'"' "^' '"^• 
 
 11. If the Goods shall be loaden before the Duties are 
 
 £hoi ^yj''^ /«"«» assisting or otherwise concerned, or to 
 
 whose Hands the same shaU knowingly come after the 
 
 Loachilg, shall for every Offence forfeif kbT the Value 
 
 hi r/^ J? ^""^^ computed according to the best Price 
 the Commodity bears at the Place where the Offence is 
 committed, and all the Boats made use ofshaU be for! 
 
 4 Geo. 3 0. ?n s"?'"^ ^^ ""^ ^®''' ""^ '^^ ^"''°™'- 
 TT ^^" TiY'l* Logwood, Fustic, or other Wood for Dyers' 
 Use, Mahogany, and Woods for Cabinet Ware, the 
 Growth of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America! 
 oi of any Country on the Continent of America belong- 
 ing to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European 
 
 Sovereign or State, may be exported from 4of the F^ 
 Ports to any Part of the United Kingdom, u Jder the R^ 
 gulations. Restrictions, Securities, Penalties, and Fo^ 
 feitures provided in 12 Car. 2. c. 18. 22 & 23 Car. 2, 
 c. 26., and 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. with respect to the Goods 
 therem enumerated. 45 Geo, 3. c. 57. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 ornf ; ^t ^^^^^^^ ^I^""^^ hereafter mentioned may be 
 exported from Canada m a British^^built Ship, owJed! 
 navigated, and registered according to Law, to any Port 
 of Europe South of Cape FinisteS-e, without any Oath 
 b«ng required at the Port of Shipment of their*^ being 
 the Growth or Produce of the Province, or any Ce,^ 
 ficate being required of the Country from whence they 
 came i that is to say. White Oak Staves and Heading 
 ?!t Sir "^^r^«d, Hoops, Pine Plank and Board? 
 and the Master of any British-built Ship laden with any' 
 ot thejaid Articles, shaU only be reouir^ to t,r«d.-. /. 
 oucii Fort oi Eumn^ within the Lir 
 
 415 
 
 Laws and Cus- 
 toms in the 
 Plantations 
 repugnant to the 
 I-aws of Great 
 Britain, null and 
 void. 
 
 Penalty on Per- 
 sons concerned in 
 the Loading 
 without Payment 
 of Duty, or to 
 whose Hands the 
 Goods shall 
 come. 
 
 Logwood, &c. 
 "lay be exported 
 from the Free 
 Ports to the 
 United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 Lumber may be 
 exported from 
 Canada to Ports 
 of Europe South 
 of Cape Finis- 
 terre without 
 Oath that they 
 are the Produce 
 of the Province. 
 
 Europf 
 
 aforesaid, a Certi- 
 ficate 
 
% 
 
 4- 
 
 416 
 
 Masts, &c. may 
 be importpd into 
 West India 
 Islands and 
 Guiana from the 
 United Sutes in 
 British Ships ; 
 
 and into Ber- 
 inuda in Forei,^ 
 Ships, 
 
 Not to be im- 
 ported from 
 Colonies under 
 Foreign Eu- 
 ropean States. 
 
 Eicept in case 
 of Distress, by 
 Authority tJ the 
 
 ficate 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 conform- 
 ably to the Regulations established by Law in the Pro- 
 vince (if any) by Land or Inland Navigation, from 
 Countries bordering thereon, and which Certificate such 
 Officer of the Customs or Naval Officer is required to 
 grant, upon satisfactory Proof being made, upon Oath or 
 otherwise ; and the Authenticity of such Certificate shall 
 be sworn to by the Master of such Vessel, at the Port of 
 Delivery in Europe. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 5. 
 
 See Canada. ' ' • 
 
 14. Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, 
 Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, the Pro- 
 duction of any of the Territories of the United States, 
 may be imported from any of the said Terrililries into 
 any of His Majesty's West India Islands (in which De- 
 scription the Bahama Islands or the Bermuda or Somers 
 Islands are included), or into Demerara, Berbice, or 
 Essequibo in the Province of Guiana ; but not to be so 
 imported except by British Subjects, and in British-built 
 Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 feiture thereof and the Ship, 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 1. 
 56Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. 
 
 15. Any of the said Articles, being the Production of 
 the said Territories, may be imported from thence into 
 St. George or Hamilton in Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship 
 belonging to any Kingdom or State 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. 52 Geo. 3. c.79. § 2, 3. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 1. 
 
 16. No Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading 
 Boards, Timber, Shingles, or Lumber of any Sort, shall 
 be imported into His Majesty's West India Islands (in- 
 cluding the Bahama and the Bermuda or Somer* Islands), 
 or into Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, from any 
 Island in the West Indies, or Colony or PlSntation 
 on the Continent of South America, under the Domi- 
 nion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, on 
 Forfeiture thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 2. c. 6. §10. 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 1. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. ^1. 
 
 17. In case of public Emergency or Distress, any of 
 iViij Licutcnaiit Govej^iors, or 
 
 ..1,- r> 
 
 lilt; vjruvci 
 
 1 ,. 
 
 in 
 
moofK 
 
 41? 
 
 in Chief of any of the Islands in the West Indies under Oovernor,for 
 theDommion of His Majesty, or the Governors, &c *•>« Supply of the 
 of Denierara, Berbice, or Essequibo, with the Advice and ^"*'''''"'""- 
 Consent of their respective Councils, may authorize the 
 Importation of any of the said Articles, for alimited Time, 
 from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony or Planta- 
 tion on the Continent of South America, belonging to 
 any Foreign. European Sovereign or State, for the Sup- 
 ply of the Inhabitants ; but such Articles shall not be so 
 imported, except by British Subjects, in British-built 
 Vessels, owned and navigated according to Law, on For- 
 feiture thereof and the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c.6. §11 
 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 2. 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 18. Any Person may import, in British-built Ships, Bully Tree, &c. 
 owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, into T^ p ™P«««'I, 
 the Islands under the Dominion of His Majesty in the Ri!:'^.^^ 
 West Indies, irom any Colony or Plantation on the 
 Continent of .South America under the Dominion of any 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, or from Porto 
 Rico m the West Indies, the following Species of Tim- 
 ber, viz. Bully Tree, Purple Heart, Green Heart, Black 
 Heart, Mastic, Wallabaw, Yellow Saunders, Locusts, 
 or Bastard Mahogany, being the Growth or Production 
 of any of the said Colonies or Plantations. 33 Geo. 3. 
 c. 50. § 13. 
 
 19. During the Continuance of the Treaty with Por- Masts, &c. m.-,y 
 tugal, any Person may import into any of the West ^uJ^T^^'"''' 
 India Islands (including the Bahama and the Bermuda clnier'"''' 
 or Somers Islands), or Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, 
 or Essequibo, any Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves' 
 Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any 
 ^rt, being the Production of some of the Territories or 
 Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South 
 America; such Article being imported into the said 
 Islands or Colonies directly from the said Territories 
 or Dominions, in British-built Ships, owned and navi- 
 gated according to Law. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. S 5. 
 56 Geo. 3. C.91. §5. 
 
 20. No Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Sicfn': 
 Boards, Timber, Shingles, or Lumber of any Sort, which ' 
 
 shall have been imported from any Island in the West 
 
 ,."jl\/'^.?^"'"^y "" i^^ Continent of South America, 
 nn-^i tuc Dominion ofiiiiy l^bieign Luropean Sovereign •--m"'i'=", 
 or State, into any of His Majesty's West India Islands, '"■^""^^tobemada 
 or Demerara, Berbice, or Essequibo, for the Supply of t^^-^'^rZ'l 
 
 E e the Supplies. 
 
 J not to 
 be exported, and 
 Ijcfor" shipping 
 ti' ■•';:.• Articles 
 th tiiMy lawfully 
 \>^ exported. 
 
418 
 
 False Oatlis 
 deemed Perjury, 
 
 Scantling, Sec. 
 may be imported 
 from the United 
 States into Nova 
 Scctia, &c. for 
 th.e Sujiply of tliu 
 hihabitants in 
 case of Distress ; 
 
 er for Re-ex- 
 portation to 
 other Colonies. 
 
 Hrantling, &Ci 
 niiiy i)e imported 
 iu Foieign Sliifs 
 
 the Inhabitants, (see No. 17.) shall be exported from tiny 
 pf the said Islands or Colonies, or put on board any Ves- 
 sel or Boat, or brought to any Quay with Intent to be so 
 exported, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Ship or Boat 
 in which laden ; and before the shipping of any Masts, 
 &c. whether manufactured or unmanufactured, that may 
 lawiully be exported, the Exporter shall make Oath 
 before the Collector of the Customs, that no Part thereof 
 had been so imported, under such Authority as aforesaid, 
 from any Island in the West Indies or Colony on the 
 Continent of South America under the Dominion of any 
 Foreign l^uropean Sovereign or State 29 Geo. 3. c.56. 
 $1,2. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. §3,4. 56 Geo.3. c 91. § 1. 
 
 21. If any Person shall 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 Per- 
 jury, 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 Record in Great Britain, 
 or in any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the 
 West Indies. 29Geo.3. c.56. § 3. 31 Geo.3. c. 38. § 5. 
 
 22. In case of public Emergency or Distress, the Go- 
 vernors, Lieutenant Governors, or Commanders in Chief 
 of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, and Saint 
 John, with the Advice and Consent of their respective 
 Councils, may authorize the Importation of Scantling, 
 Planks, Staves, Heading Boards, Shingles, Hoops, and 
 squared I'imber, for a limited Time, from any of the 
 Territories of the United States, for the Supply ^of the 
 Inhabitants of the said Provinces and Islands ; but such 
 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. 
 28 Geo.3. c. 6. § 13. 
 
 23. Any of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, or 
 Commanders in Chief of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 
 Cape Breton, or Saint John's, with the Advice of their 
 respective Councils, may authorize the Importation of 
 the said Articles, for a limited Time, from any of the 
 Territories of the United States, for the Purpose of Re- 
 exportation to any other of His Majesty's Colonies or 
 Plantations. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. § 1. 
 
 24. Any Rritish-built Vessel- owned and naviirated ac- 
 cording to Law, or any Vessel belonging to the Subjects 
 of any Sovereign or State in Amity with His Majesty, 
 
 9 may 
 
SZHOOfi* 419 
 
 may import into such Ports as shall be specially appointed into Poitt to be 
 for that Purpose by His Majesty, within the Province of woved of by 
 Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, the Followin^r Articles; SilasSor" 
 videlicet, Scantling, Planks, Staves, Headuig-boards, New Bruuswkk. 
 Shingles, and Hooks; provided that none of the said -' 
 
 Articles shall be imported in Foreign Vessels, unless of 
 the Growth or Produce of the Country to which the 
 Vessel importing the same shall beltiig; antl any of the 
 mid Articles may be re exported, either to the United 
 Kingdom, or any other of His Majesty's Possessions, in 
 any British built Vessel, owned and natigated according 
 to Law. .58 Geo. 3. c. 19. §1,2, 3. 
 
 25. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Conn- Subject to such 
 cil, may make such Rules and Regulations for the Im- ^"''^^ " "'» 
 portation and Exportatioji of the said Goods at the said tStir''"'* 
 Ports, with such Penajties and Forfeitures for the Breach 
 thereof, as shall seem fit and necessary to His Majesty, 
 by and with the Advice aforesaid. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 6. 
 
 c^u ^H^r ^*=^^''^'^ continue in force during the Space Limitation of rtie 
 ot llirec Years from and after the passing of the same*, A«. 
 and until Six Weeks^ after the Commencement of the 
 then next Session of Parliament. 58 Geo. 3. c. 19. § 7. 
 
 27. The Goods and Ships forfeited by these Acts may By whom Goods 
 be seized by the Commanders of Ships of War, or any and ships may b« 
 Commissioned, Warrant, or Petty Officer specially autho- '""''* 
 
 rized by them, or by any Officer of the Customs. 
 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. 
 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. 
 
 28. Logwood, Fustic, or Wood for Dyers' Use, Logwood, &c. 
 Hard Wood or Mill Timber, Logwood, Maho«ranv, or ""'y ^^ imiKjrted 
 Wood for Cabinet Ware, being the Growth Sr Pro- 'Cffn^i^ign 
 ducUon of any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, ships. 
 
 or of any Country on the Contine^nt of America, be- 
 longing to or under the Dominion of any Foreign 
 European Sovereign or State, may be imported from 
 thence into the Free Ports in any Foreign Ships, being 
 owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the 
 said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 
 See Fuee Ports. 
 29. For the Conditions upon which Ships landing Lmnber landed 
 Lumber at any of the British Sugar Colonics in thi '''^^^"sar 
 West Imhes, are allowed to import Spirits without Pay- '' 
 
 mcnt of Duty into certain Colonics in North Amei 
 ^Se^ Spirits 
 53 Geo. 3. 
 
 Geo. 3. c. 39. § 1, 2. 30 Geo. 3. c. 8. § 2. 
 
 57. § 1 
 
 * Sth Matj 1818. 
 E e 2 
 
 30. Mill 
 
42(y 
 
 Importation of 
 Mill Timber 
 and Box Wood 
 allowed from 
 Malta or 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Of the British 
 Plantations not 
 to be exported 
 to any Place 
 whatever ; 
 
 esccpt VVool to 
 the United King- 
 dom. 
 
 Penalty upon 
 Officers taking 
 Entries or sign- 
 ing Documents 
 for the Exporta- 
 tion. 
 
 SO. Mill Timber or Box Wood may be exported -from 
 Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof; or from 
 Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonic* 
 or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermu" 
 dt^ or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in 
 North America, in British-built Ships, owned, navigated, 
 and registered according to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. 9. 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 4.. § I. — Al^e Gibraltar. Malta. 
 
 mool 9 mooUtn fl©anMfatture0. 
 
 1. No Wool, Woolfells, Shortlings, Mortlings, 
 Wool Flocks, Worsted, Buy, or Woollen Yarn, 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 Flocks 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 Plantations, 
 or to any other Place whatever, on Forfeiture thereof, 
 and .£500 by the Offender ; and every Shij), Vessel, or 
 Boat, wherein any of the said Commodities shall be 
 shipped, shall be forfeited; and the Master and Mariners 
 thereof, or any Persons knowing such Offence and 
 assisting therein, shall forfeit d4iO; and all Governors 
 and Commanders in Chief oF the Plantations, and OflB- 
 cers of the Customs, or other Branches of Revenue there, 
 shall take effectual Care that the Act be duly put in 
 Execution. 10 & 11 W. 3. c. 10. § 1, 2. 
 
 2. But until 25th March 1819, it shall be lawful to 
 export from any Place within the British Plantations in 
 America to the United Kingdom, any Wool, the Pro- 
 duct of any of the said Plantations. 46 Geo. 3. c. 17. §3. 
 49 Geo. 3. c. 18. § 1. 
 
 3. If any Officer employed in the Management of the 
 Revenue of Customs shall take or suffer to be taken any 
 Entiy outward, or sign any Cocket, Warrant, or Suffer- 
 ance for the shipping and exporting any such Goods as 
 aforesaid, into any Kingdom, State, or Dominion whatso- 
 ever, (except as aforesaid), or shall wittingly or willingly 
 permit, contrive, or suffer the same to be done, contrary 
 to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, such Officer 
 sooirendmg in tne signmg sucii uocKet, VV arrant, or C)Ui- 
 ferance, or passing such Entry, or anywise connivinir 
 thereat, shall for every such Offence forfeit his Office and 
 £500. 10 & 11 W. 3. c. 10. § 11. 
 
 4. If 
 
4. If any Action shall be commenced against any Per- 
 son for what he shall do in pursuance of this Act, such 
 Person may file a common Bail, or enter into a common 
 Appearance, and plead the general Issue, and give this 
 Act and the special Matter in Evidence; and if the Pro- 
 secutor shall become nonsuit, or suffer Discontinuance, or 
 If a Verdict pass against him, or if, upon Demurrer, Judg- 
 ment pass against him, the Defendant shall recover treble 
 Cosf5 and Damages. 10 & 1 1 W. 3. c. 10. Us. 
 
 5. Wool the Growth of any of the Colonies or Plan- 
 tations in America, or of any Country on the Continent 
 ot America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any 
 Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported 
 from any of the ^aid Countries into the Free Ports "in any 
 foreign Ship owned and navigated by Persons inha- 
 biting any of the said Colonies, Plantations, or Countries. 
 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3 c OQ 
 57 Geo. 3. c. 7^.-See Free Ports. 
 
 6. Wool theGrowth ofanyofthe Colonies or Plantations 
 n America, or Countries on the Continent of America be- 
 longing to or under the Dominion of any Foreign Euro- 
 pean Sovereign or State, having been imported into the 
 b ree^ Ports, may be exported from any of the said Ports to 
 any 1 art of the United Kingdom, under the Rules, &c. of 
 12Car.2. c.l8 22& 23Car. 2.C.26. and 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. 
 with respect to Goods therein enumerated. 45 Geo. 3 c 57 
 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 7^. 
 See Free Ports. 
 
 1.1 he Superior or Supreme Court of Justice having 
 
 mriln? V-; "V T^- ^^^'^^ ^^*«"y ^^ Plantation! 
 "^^l^^^^yiT^^^^'^^^^nceto empower the Officers 
 of His Majesty s Customs to enter any House, Ware- 
 home, Shop, Cellar, or other Place in the said Colonies 
 or Plantations, to search for and seize prohibited or un- 
 custometl Goods. 7 Geo. 3. c. 46. § 10. 
 
 2. Persons against whom any Action 'shall be com- 
 
 rrf Zu^'l '*''"^. r*^""^ ^" pursuance of this Act, 
 may plead the General Issue, an'd give this Act and the 
 special Matter in Evidence; and if it shall appear so to 
 
 «nTT.rpt"':iu" J"^y .^»>^" find for the Defendant; 
 and if^theJPlaintifFbe nonsmted, or discontinue his Action 
 
 Tu T ^."^'"°«"*^ ^^^"" "ave appeared, or if Judgment 
 
 thp PI • .fr?^"^^''/"/ ^^'^'''' «^ Demurrer alainst 
 the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall be entitled to Treble 
 Costs. 7 Geo. 3. c.46. §11. 
 
 ©ari)0* See « Wood.'' 
 
 421 
 
 Actions against 
 Otficen. 
 
 Wool may be im. 
 ported into the 
 Free Porti in 
 Foreign Ves»el«i 
 
 aid exported 
 from thence to 
 the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 May lie granted 
 by the Supreme 
 Court of Justice. 
 
 Oeneral Issue 
 may be pleaded, 
 and Treble ';osts 
 allowed. 
 
( 422 ) 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Ship TT 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 Con- 
 sideration of the Monthly or other Wages against each 
 respective Seaman or Mariner's Name hereunto set, they 
 severally shall and will perform the above-mentioned 
 Voyage ; and the said Master doth hereby agree with 
 and hire the said Seamen and Mariners 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 be- 
 longing, as become good and faithful Seamen and Ma- 
 riners ; 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, and,' 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 he Voyage is ended and 
 the Ship discharged of her Cargo, without Leave 
 first obtained of the Master, Captain, or Commanding 
 Officer on board; and in default tliereof they fiooly 
 agree to be liable to the Penalties mentioned in the 
 Act of Parliament, made in the Second Year of the Reign 
 of King George the Second, intituled An Act for the bet- 
 ter Regulation and Government of Seamen in the Mer- 
 chants Service ; and the Act made in the Thirty-seventh 
 Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for 
 preventmg the Desertion of Seamen from British Merchant 
 Ships trading to His Majesty's Colonics and Plantations 
 m the West Indies : And it is fiji'ther sTPed bv the Par- 
 ties to these Presents^ That Twenty- four Hours Absence 
 6 without 
 
 am 
 
 I 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 without Leave shall be deemed a total Desertion, and 
 render such Seamen and Mariners liable to the Forfe tare, 
 and Penalties contained in the Act above recited: that 
 Shan thtr^' ''"'"' '^°""^"'^' "'"^h the said Maste 
 mpn of i "^'T^T '°,^''"" ^°" *he effectual Govern- 
 V.V.n? n^-'^/ u^'''^^ suppressing Immorality and 
 IZt o^ltp^' strictly complied with, undc'r the 
 Penalty of the Person or Persons disobeying forfeit- 
 
 evfrv 'th" '^'u\ "'"'^ ^^^^^^ ^'^ «^^^' togefher wTth 
 every Thng belonging to him or them on board the 
 
 " Seamt'' ^"'p'' " 'TY' '^'■''^' That no Officer 
 oi feeaman, or Person belonging to the said Shin 
 
 shall demand or be entitled to hisVages or any S 
 
 thereof, untd the Arrival of the s.M Ship at the 
 
 above-mentioned Port of Discharge, and her Carl T 
 
 hvered, not less than Twenty Dayl in case the SeTant 
 
 not employed in the Delivery : And it is hereby further 
 
 ^reed between the Master and Officers of the said Ship' 
 
 that whatever Apparel, Furniture, and Stores, each of 
 
 them may receive into their Charge, belonging to the 
 
 case any Thmg shall be lost or damaged through their 
 
 .^cLor" %^»^"ffif"^y' it shall fe made gfod by 
 such Officer or Seaman by whose Means it may happen to 
 the Master and Owner of the said Ship: AnJwEas it 
 .s customary for the Officers and Seamen on The Sh p'. 
 Return Home in the River, and during the Time their 
 Cargoes are delivering, to go on Shore each St to 
 leep greatly to the Prejudiced such Ship and Freighter^ 
 be It further agreed by the said Parties, tharS; 
 Officer nor Seaman shall, on any Pretence whatsoever be 
 entitled to such Indulgence, but shall do thetDulybv 
 Day m Discharge of the Cargo, and keep sucli Watch 
 
 L^t'r '^'' ^^''''' "^ Co^-Kler of^the Lid slip 
 .hall tinnk necessary, in order for the Preservation of ?he 
 above: And whereas it often happens that Part of the 
 Cargo IS embezzled after being delivered into Lighters and 
 as such Losses are made good by the Owners off he S ip 
 Offi... '<'''''" agreed By these Presents, that whatem" 
 Officer or Seaman the Master shall think proper to appoin 
 .hall take Charge of the Cargo in the Lighters, and 1 
 
 Char geUrsr "^'^^t' ?""^^^ ^"^ '^^^^ "^ ^^^ 
 tTfF ^ V^ ' Husband, or his Representative, or 
 
 see the same safely weighed at the King's Beam and Tn 
 conseouennp nf th^iv f ...,p p: j.ij... ... 9.J^^^^ '_^"° i" 
 
 ^ ...ic * .aeihv, sucn v^mcer or fcieaman 
 
 shall 
 
 423 
 
-,* 
 
 424 
 
 k'. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 ;^ shiifl be entitled to Two Shillings and Sixpence each 
 Lighter, exclusive of their Monthly Pay; and sliould it 
 so hapjien that Lighter.^ are detained a considerable 
 Time at the Quay before they can be unloaded, such 
 Officer and Seaman so appointed shall in that Case be 
 be entitled to Two Shillings and Sixpence for eveiy 
 Twenty-tour Hours, exclusive of their said Monthly 
 Pay ; that each Seaman and Mariner who shall well and 
 truly perform the above-mentioned Voyage (provided al- 
 ways that there be no Plunderage, Embezzlement, or 
 other unlawful Acts committed on the said Vessel's Cargo 
 or Stores) shall be entitled to their W^ages or Hire that 
 may become due to him, pursuant to this Agrcenient ; 
 that for the due Performance of each and every the 
 above-mentioned Articles and Agreements, and Acknow- 
 ledgement of their being voluntary and without Compul- 
 sion, or any other clandestine Means being used, the said 
 Parties having hereto subscribed their Names, the Day 
 and Month set opposite to their respective Names. 
 
 ■"■■?5"./.<?. 
 
 Place 
 
 mid 
 
 Tinme of 
 
 Entry. 
 
 Men's 
 Names. 
 
 Quality. 
 
 WitU' ss 
 to each 
 Man's 
 Signing. 
 
 P:y in the 
 River. 
 
 Wages per 
 Month, or by 
 the Run for 
 the Voyage. 
 
 Whole 
 
 Wages. 
 
 Whc.'e. 
 
 Half. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 THE END. 
 
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