and registered according to Law, or in fuch Portugueze Ships or Veffels as are in this Act before mentioned and defcribed, and owned and navigated in the manner herein before alfo mentioned and defcribed, notwithstanding fuch Elephants' Teeth or Ivory may not be of the Produce of any of the Dominions of the Crown of Portugal; and fuch Elephants' Teeth or Ivory fo imported may be entered and landed on Payment of fuch Duties only as are due and payable on fuch Articles when imported in a British-built Ship or Veffel, owned, navigated and registered according to Law; any thing 12 Car. 2. c. 18. contained in an Act paffed in the Twelfth Year of King Charles the Second, intituled, An Ad for the encouraging and increafing of Shipping and Navigation, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. 31 G. 3. c. 38. in part repealed. Importation of Goods of Portugal in South America, into the Weft Indies. 20th Art. Treaty. V. And be it further enacted, That fo much of an Act paffed in the Thirty firft Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act to amend an A& made in the Twenty eighth Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, for regulating the Trade between the Subje&s of His Majefly's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the Weft India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's faid Subjects and the Foreign lands in the Weft Indies; and alfo an Act made in the Twenty feventh Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods, Wares and Merchandize in the Ports of Kington, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay and Santa I ucea in the land of Jamaica; in the Port of Saint George in the Island of Grenada; in the Port of Rofea in the Ifland of Dominica; and in the Port of Naflau in the Island of New Providence, one of the Bahama Iflands, under certain Regulations and Restrictions, as prohibits the Importation of Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Mafts, Yards, Bowfprits, Staves, Heading Boards, Timber, Shingles and Lumber of any Sort, Bread, Bifcuit, Flour, Peafe, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley and Grain of any Sort, being of the Growth or Production of any of the Territories or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal, from being imported directly from any fuch Territories or Dominions into any Island under the Dominion of His Majefty in the West Indies (in which Description the Bahama Islands and the Bermudas or Somer Islands are included) in Britif-built Ships or Veffels, fhall be, and the fame is hereby repealed. VI. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall be lawful for any Perfon or Perfons to import or bring into any of the faid Weft India Islands any of the faid Goods in Brib-built Ships or Veffels, owned, navigated and registered according to Law, and in no other Ships or Veifels whatever, such Goods being of the Growth or Production of fome of the Territories or Dominions belonging to the Crown of Portugal in South America, and imported into the faid Ilands directly from the faid Territories or Dominions; the faid recited Act or any other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. • VIÍ. And whereas by the Twentieth Article of the faid Treaty, it is ftipulated, that all Articles the Growth and Produce of • Brazil and all other Parts of the Portugueze Dominions, may be received and warehoufed in all the Ports of His Majefty's Dominions which fhall be by Law appointed to be wareliouting Ports ⚫ for Goods of Por- ⚫ for those Articles ;' Be it therefore enacted, That Sugar, Coffee, Cotton, Wool, the Growth or Produce of any of the Territories or Dominions of the Crown of Portugal, or any other Goods the Growth or Produce of the faid Territories or Dominions which are enumerated or defcribed in the Table marked (A.) annexed to an Act paffed in the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An Ad for permitting certain Goods imported into this Kingdom to be fecured in Warchoufes without Payment of Duty, and which may be secured fhall be legally imported according to the Provifions of this Act in Warehouses directly from the faid Territories or Dominions, fhall and may be before Payment fecured in the Warehouses belonging to the West India Dock Com- of Duty. pany, or in the Warehoufes belonging to the London Dock Company in the Port of London, or in fuch Warehouses at any of the other Ports of this Kingdom, as fhall have been or fhall be approved for the Reception of Goods of the like Denomination or Defcription when legally imported from the Weft Indies, without the Duties due on the Importation thereof being first paid, Application being made for that Purpose in the ufual and accustomed manner to the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Cuftoms in England, Scotland and Ireland respectively by the Owners, Proprietors or Confignees of such Goods; and all fuch Goods fo fecured in any of the faid Warehoufes refpectively fhall have the fame Benefits, and shall be subject. and liable to the fame Rules, Regulations, Conditions, Securities and Reftrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures to which Goods of the like Denomination or Defcription when fo imported and warehoused are now fubject and liable by any Act or Acts of Parliament in force at the time of paffing this Act. VIII. And be it further enacted, That all Goods, Wares or Merchandize fo imported into this Kingdom from any of the Territories or Dominions of the Crown of Portugal, fhall, upon the Exportation thereof from this Kingdom, be entitled to the fame Drawbacks as are allowed by Law upon the Exportation of Goods, Wares and Merchandize of the like Denomination or Defcription when exported from this Kingdom; and that there shall be allowed and paid the fame Drawbacks and Bounties on Goods, Wares and Merchandize exported from this Kingdom to the faid Territories or Dominions, as are al lowed by Law upon the Exportation of Goods, Wares and Merchandize of the like Denomination or Defcription to any of the Inlands, Plantations or Colonies belonging to the Crown of Great Britain in America. Goods fo imported entitled to Drawback on Exportation. tish. IX. And be it further enacted, That no higher or greater Duties Charges for or Impofts under the Denomination of Port Charges, Tonnage and Portuguese VofAnchorage Duties, fhall be paid or demanded on Behalf of His fels as for BriMajefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, in any of the Ports of the United Kingdom, for Ships or Veffels owned by the Subjects of the Crown of Portugal, than are by Law due and payable for Ships and Veffels owned by His Majesty's Subjects; any Law, Cuftom or Ufage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing Provifo for the in this A&t fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to repeal or in any Rights of the wife alter the Duties of Package, Scavage, Balliage or Portage, or City of Londɔn, any other Duties payable to the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens &c. of the City of London, or to the Lord Mayor of the faid City for the time being, or to any other City or Town Corporate within this Kingdom, or to any Subject or Subjects of His Majefty, or to repeal, Bonds for Tay ment of Differ ence between 48 G. 3. c. II. 48 G. 3. c. 109. Continuance,&c. or in any wife alter any special Privilege or Exemption to which any Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, is or are now entitled by Law, but the same fhall be continued as heretofore. X. And be it further enacted, That al! Bonds to His Majefty from the Importer or Importers, Proprietor or Proprietors, Confignee or Confignees of any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, the Growth, Production or Manufacture of any of the Territories or Dominions of the Crown of Portugal, entered into fince the Ratification of the faid Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, for Payment of the Difference between the High Duty on any fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize, and the Low Duty chargeable thereon, fhall, from and after the paffing of this Act, be vacated and discharged, and no further Duty fhall be demanded or paid upon the Articles for which any fuch Bond may have been given to His Majefty. XI. And be it further enacted, That Two Acts paffed in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, one, An Act for permitting the Importation of Goods from the Portuguefe Territories on the Continent of South America in Portuguese Ships; and the other, An Aa to regulate the Trade between Great Britain and the Portuguese Territories on the Continent of South America; shall be and the fame are hereby repealed. XII. And be it further enacted, That this A&t shall be in force during the Continuance of the faid Treaty with His Royal Highnefs the Prince Regent of Portugal; and fhall and may, if neceffary, be altered and varied during the prefent Seffion of Parliament. CA P. XLVIII. An Act to permit Rum and other Spirits, the Produce of the British Colonies in the Weft Indies, to be imported into Lower Canada from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the Iflands of Cape Breton, Prince Edward and Newfound[31st May 1811.] land. HEREAS it is expedient under certain Regulations to permit Rum and other Spirits, the Produce or Manufacture of His Majelty's Sugar Colonies in the Weft Indies to be imported into Lower Canada, from any of the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the Inland of Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Ifland, and the Ifland of Newfoundland, on Payment of the fame Rate of Duty as if the fame had been imported directly from any of His Majefty's faid Sugar Colonies in the West Indies ;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Importation of Authority of the fame, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, any Rum or other Spirits, being the Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majelly's Sugar Colonies in the Weft Indies, legally and directly imported into any or either of the faid Provinces or Islands in North America, from the faid Sugar Colonies, or from the Island of Bermuda, may be exported from any or either of the faid Provinces or Iflands to the Province of Lower Canada, and landed and admitted to an Entry upon the Payment of the fame Rate of Duty as Kum into Ca- if the fame had been imported directly from any of His Majefty's Sugar Colonies. II. And, to prevent the Importation of Foreign Rum and Spirits Regulations. into Lower Canada, under Pretence that the fame are the Produce or Manufacture of His Majefty's Sugar Colonies, be it enacted, That every Perfon or Perfons loading on board any Ship or Veffel in any of the faid Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the Island of Cape Breton, or Prince Edward's Island, or the Island of Newfoundland, any Rum or Spirits as of the Growth, Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majefty's Sugar Colonies, in order to be exported from thence to Lower Canada, fhall, before the clearing out of the faid Ship or Veffel, produce and deliver to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Loading Port, his or their Affidavit, or that of his or their Agent or Factor, figned and fworn to before fome Juftice of the Peace in the Province or Island where the fame fhall be shipped, expreffing in Words at Length and not in Figures, the Number and Content or Contents of the Casks or other Packages containing the Rum or other Spirits; also from what Colony or Plantation the fame were imported, by whom, and the time when fuch Importation took place, which Affidavit shall be attefted by the Hand of the faid Juftice of the Peace to have been fworn to in his Prefence, who is hereby required to do the fame without Fee or Reward; and the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs to whom fuch Affidavit fhall be delivered fhall thereupon grant to the Mafter or other Perfon having the Charge or Command of the Ship or Veffel in which the fame fhall be loaden, a Certificate under his Hand and Seal of Office (without Fee or Reward), of his having received fuch Affidavit pursuant to the Directions of this Act, and that it thereby appeared that fuch Rum or other Spirits was or were legally imported into the said Province or Island, as the cafe may be, as of the Produce or Manufacture of His Majefty's Sugar Colo nies, and fuch Certificate fhall exprefs the Number and Content or Contents of the Cafks or other Packages containing the Rum or other Spirits fo fhipped on board fuch Ship or Veffel. to certain Particulars delivered to Collector III. And be it further enacted, That upon the Arrival of fuch Certificate of Ship or Veffel at the Port of her Difcharge in the Province of Lower Affidavit made Canada, the Mafter or other Perfon having the Charge or Command of the faid Ship or Veffel, fhall, at the time of making the Report of his Cargo, deliver the faid Certificate to the Collector or other Prin- of Cuftoms, &, cipal Officer of the Cuftoms of fuch Port, and make Oath before him, which Oath fuch Officer is hereby authorized and required to administer, that the Rum or other Spirits fo reported, are the fame that are mentioned and referred to in the faid Certificate; and if any Rum or other Spirits fhall be imported or found on board any fuch Ship or Veffel for which no fuch Certificate fhall be produced, or which fhall not agree therewith, the fame fhall be deemed and taken to be foreign Rum and Spirits, and shall be subject and liable to the fame Duties, Reftrictions, Regulations, Penalties and Forfeitures in all refpects as Rum or other Spirits of the Produce or Manufacture of any foreign Colony or Plantation is or are fubject and liable to by Law. 51 GEO. III. L CAP. XLIX. 38 G. 3. c. 63. $9. of Customs may grant Licence for Ex portation of 300 Sheep Yearly. CA P. An Act for raifing the Sum of Twelve Millions by way of [31st May 1811.] Annuities. САР. An Act to allow a greater Number of Sheep to be carried from England to the Isle of Man, than are now permitted by Law. [31st May 1811.] THEREAS it has been found by Experience that the limited Number of live Sheep allowed by an A&t paffed in the Thirty eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the further Encouragement of the Trade and Manufactures of the le ↑ of Man; for improving the Revenue thereof; and for the more effectual Prevention of Smuggling to and from the faid Island, to be exported from England to the Isle of Man, under Licence from the Commiffioners of the Cultoms, is not fufficient for the Ufe of the faid Ifle; Be it enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and Commiffioners by the Authority of the fame, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall and may be lawful for the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Cuftoms in England, or any Three of them, to grant Licence in the manner in the faid recited Act prefcribed, to remain in force for One Month from the Date thereof, for the Exportation from the Port of Liverpool, or the Port of Whitehaven, into the Port of Douglas or Ramfey in the Isle of Man, any Number of live Sheep, not exceeding Three hundred in the whole, from the faid Ports of Liverpool and Whitehaven in any One Year; which Exportation fhall in every refpect be fubject and liable to the Provifions and Regulations of the faid Act, and alfo of the Act paffed in the 28 G. 3. c. 38. Twenty eighth Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Act to explain, amend and reduce into One Aa of Parliament, feveral Laws now in being for preventing the Exportation of live Sheep, Rams and Lambs, Wool, Woolfels, Mortlings, Shortlings, Yarn and Worfted Cruels, Coverlids, Waddings and other Manufactures or pretended Manufactures made of Wool flightly wrought up or otherwife put together, fo as the fame may be reduced to and made ufe of us Wool again, Mattraffes or Beds fluffed with Combed Wool, or Wool fit for combing, Fullers Earth, Fulling Clay and Tobacco Pipe Clay, from this Kingdom, and from the Ifles of Jerfey, Guerafey, Alderney, Sark and Man, into foreign Parts; and for rendering more effectual an Att passed in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An Act for the Winding of Wool. 50 G. 3. c. 101. CA P. LI. 'An Act for abolishing the Duties of the Prizage and Butlerage 13 • and |