Perfons farm ing the duties to have the and may be fued and profecuted in the name of his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, by and with the confent of his Majesty's attorney general in England, or advocate general in Scotland; and all actions, fuits, or informations, fued or profecuted for any penalty forfeited by virtue of this or the faid recited act, shall and may be fued and profecuted in the name of his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, or in the name of his Majefty's faid attorney general, or advocate general, refpectively, or by any person who shall profecute or fue for the fame, in the manner in the faid recited act directed: provided, That all actions, fuits, or informations, fued or profecuted in the name of any fuch farmer or farmers, fhall be held and deemed to be popular actions, fuits, or informations, respectively, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful for any person or perfons farming the faid rates and duties as aforefaid, to have and use the like remedies for the recovery thereof, against the perfons appointed to receive the fame, by extent or otherwife, which may as for duties be had or used for any duties payable directly to the King's mapayable to his jefty. fame remedies for reco very thereof Majefty. Duties to belong to the diftrict from whence the tickets are, iffued. Innkeepers, &c. within five miles of within the bills of mortality, to deliver to the XIII. And, in order to prevent difputes concerning the faid bereinbefore recited duties, in cafes where the fame may be collected in one diftritt, divifion, or collection, and the tickets may be delivered in a different diftrict, divifion, or collection; be it further enacted, That the faid duties fhall belong, and the tickets iffued thereupon fhall be returned and accounted for to the perfon or perfons refpectively who shall be the farmer or farmers of the feveral duties arifing within the district, divifion, or collection where fuch tickets fhall have iffued, and where the poftmafters, innkeepers, or other licensed persons iffuing the fame thall refide; and the gatekeepers at whofe gates fuch tickets fhall be delivered, fhall return the fame to the farmer of the rates and duties from whose district fuch ticket shall have iffued, at the time and in the manner the fame are directed to be returned to the feveral collectors by the said recited act. XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every poftmaster, innkeeper, or other perfon fo licensed as aforesaid, residing in the city of London or liberty of Westminthe head office fter, or within five miles of the head office for ftamps, or within for ftamps, or the bills of mortality, fhall bring in and deliver to the farmer or farmers fo appointed collector or collectors of the faid rates and duties, the accounts directed by the faid recited act to be delivered, and shall pay at fuch place in London or Weftminster, and farmers of the at fuch times, as fhall be appointed by publick notice in the duties the ac- London Gazette, by order of the commiffioners for managing the duties on ftamped vellum, parchment, and paper, the money quired by the due on fuch accounts; and all and every licensed perfon, not recited act, refiding within five miles of the head office of stamps, nor within the bills of mortality, fhall, at the times and at the places to be mentioned at the foot of the licence granted to him, her or them, counts re &c.; and travel farther and afterwards at the foot of every receipt given by the collector for the money paid on account of the faid duties, attend, and there deliver in and pafs his accounts, and pay the duty received by him, her, or them, to the perfon fo appointed collector but not to be thereof, under the penalty in the faid herein-before recited act compelled to directed: provided always, That no fuch licenfed perfon fhall than the be compelled to travel, for the payment of the faid duties, far- nearest marther than to the market town nearest to his or her habitation. ket town. XV. And be it further enacted, That no perfon or perfons Farmers of farming the faid rates and duties, and appointed collectors the duties thereof shall, in pursuance of fuch appointment, be difqualified members of may vote for from voting at any election or elections of members to ferve in parliament. parliament; any law or ftatute to the contrary thereof notwith standing. licensed to let XVI. Provided always, That no contract for letting the duties Duties not to herein mentioned to farm, fhall be made with any person or be farmed by perfons licensed to let horfes for the purpose of travelling poft, any perfon nor to any one for his or their use, or on his or their behalf, or horses. fo as that he or they shall have any intereft therein, or benefit therefrom, but that the fame (if fo made) fhall be utterly null and void; and that if any fuch contract fhall be affigned to any perfon or perfons as aforefaid, or to any other perfon or perfons for his or their use, so that he or they fhall have any interest therein, or benefit therefrom, that fuch affignment fhall also be utterly null and void. XVII. And be it further enacted, That if any perfon or perfons fhall at any time or times be fued, moletted, or profecuted for any thing by him or them done or executed in pursuance of this act, or of any claufe, matter, or thing herein contained, fuch perfon or perfons fhall or may plead the general iffue, and General iffue. give the special matter in evidence for his or their defence; and if upon the trial a verdict fhall pafs for the defendant or defendants, or the plaintiff or plaintiffs become nonfuited, then fuch defendant or defendant's fhall have treble cofts awarded to him or Treble cofts. them against fuch plaintiff or plaintiffs. An all for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, in the ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay and Santa Lucea in the island of Jamaica, in the port of Saint George in the island of Grenada, in the port of Roleau in the island of Dominica, and in the port of Nafsau in the island of New Providence one of the Bahama iflands, under certain regulations and reftrictions. WE 6 Geo. 3. C. 49. HEREAS by an act made and passed in the fixth year of Preamble, the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for reciting opening, and establishing certain ports in the island of Jamaica and Dominica; for the more free importation and exportation of certain goods and merchandizes; for granting certain duties to defray the expences of opening, maintaining, fecuring, and imVOL. XXXVI. Q proving 14 Geo. 3. C. 41; and 21 Geo. 3. c. 29. proving fuch ports; for afcertaining the duties to be paid upon the importation of goods from the faid island of Dominica into this kingdom; and for fecuring the duties upon goods imported from the faid ifland into any other British colony; and by two feveral acts, made and passed in the fourteenth and twenty-first years of the reign of his prefent Majefty, the several ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay and Santa Lucea in the island of Jamaica, are now open for the free importation of certain goods and merchandize: and whereas it is expedient that the faid acts should be repealed, in fo far as the fame in any wife relate to the importation or exportation of any goods, wares, or merchandize, to or from the aforefaid ports, or any of them, or to the admiffion of any ships or veffels into the faid ports, or any of them, or to any duties payable on fuch importation, exportation, or admiffion; and that those ports, together with the port of Saint George in the island of Grenada, and the port of Roseau in the island of Dominica, and the port of Naffau in the island of New Providence one of the Bahama islands, fhould be opened under proper regulations and reflrictions: may it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's moft excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the autho rity of the fame, That the faid feveral acts made and paffed in the faid fixth, fourteenth, and twenty-firft years of the reign of his prefent Majefty, fhall, from and after the first day of Sepfar as they re- tember one thousand feven hundred and eighty-feven, be, and late to the im- the fame are hereby repealed, in fo far as the fame in any wife portation and relate to the importation or exportation of any goods, wares, or exportation of goods to merchandize, to or from the aforesaid ports, or any of them; or or from the to the admiffion of any fhips or veffels into the faid ports, or any of them, or to any duties payable on fuch importation, exportation, or admiffior.. From Sept. 1, 1787, the re cited acts to be repealed, as ports therein mentioned, &c.; enumerated, in America belonging to a foreign European ftate, II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, and from that That, from and after the faid first day of September, wool, cotday, the ar- ton-wool, indigo, cochineal, drugs of all forts, cocoa, logwood, ticles herein fuftic, and all forts of wood for dyers ufe, hides, fkins, and talof the growth low, beaver, and all forts of furs, tortoife-fhell, hardwood, or of any colony mill timber, mahogany, and all other woods for cabinet ware, horses, affes, mules, and cattle being the growth or production of any of the colonies or plantations in America, belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European fovereign or state, and all coin and bullion, diamonds, or precious stones, may be imported from any of the faid colonies or plantations into the feveral ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay and Santa Lucea in the island of Jamaica, the port of Saint George in one-decked the island of Grenada, the port of Refeau in the island of Domiforeign Euro- nica, and the port of Naffau in the island of New Providence one pean veffels, of the Bahama islands, in any foreign floop, fchooner, or other not exceeding veffel whatever, not having more than one deck, and not exceeding the burthen of feventy tons, and being owned and navigated by the subjects of any foreign European fovereign or may be imported into the ports herein mentioned, in 70 tons bur then. y ftate; ftate; any law, cuftom, or ufage, to the contrary notwithstand ing. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That, from and after the faid first day of September, no goods, If any articles wares, or merchandize, except fuch as are herein-before enu- not herein enumerated merated, shall be imported in any fuch foreign floop, fchooner, fhould be imor veffel, whatever, from any of the colonies or plantations in ported into America belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign Eu- any of the said ropean fovereign or state, into any of the before-mentioned ports, and the vefports, they upon any pretence whatever, upon pain of forfeiting the fame, fels, &c. to be together with the loop, fchooner, or veffel in which the fame forfeited. fhall be imported, and the guns, tackle, apparel, and furniture of fuch floop, fchooner, or veffel; and in every fuch cafe the fame fhall and may be feized by any officer or officers of his Majefty's cuftoms or navy, who are or fhall be authorized or impowered to make feizures in cafes of forfeiture, and shall and may be profecuted in such manner as herein-after is directed. IV. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it shall and may be lawful, from and after the faid firft day of September, to export from any of the faid ports to any of the colonies or plantations in America belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European fovereign or ftate, in any floop, fchooner, or other veffel whatever, owned and may be ex-` navigated by the fubjects of any foreign European fovereign or ported from the faid ports state, not having more than one deck, and not exceeding the to fuch foburthen of feventy tons, rum of the produce of any British reign colonies ifland, and alfo negroes which fhall have been brought into the in America, in faid iflands refpectively in British-built fhips, owned, navigated, one-decked and registered according to law, and all manner of goods, wares, pean veffels, or merchandize which (hall have been legally imported into the not exceeding faid iflands refpectively, except mafts, yards, or bowfprits, pitch, 70 tons burtar, turpentine and tobacco; and alfo except fuch iron as shall then. have been brought from the British colonies or plantations in America; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Rum, negroes and goods legally import ed, except mafts, &c. foreign Euro goods to be V. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any doubt fhall arife whether fuch The legality goods, wares, or merchandize, intended to be fo exported, fhall of the impor have been legally imported into the faid iflands of Famaica, Gretation of fuch nada, Dominica, and New Providence respectively, the legality of proved before fuch importation fhall be made appear to the fatisfaction of the exportation. collector and comptroller, or other principal officer of the cuftoms at the port of exportation, before fuch goods, wares, or merchandize thall be fuffered to be shipped for exportation. VI. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That, from and after the faid first day of September, all The articles wool, cotton wool, indigo, cochineal, drugs of all forts, cocoa, herein enulogwood, fuftic, and all forts of wood for dyers ufe, hides, fkins, merated may and tallow, beaver, and all forts of furs, tortoife-thell, ma- from Jamaica, be exported hogany, and all other woods for cabinet ware, of the growth or &c. to Great production of any of the colonies or plantations in America, be- Britain or Ireland, under longing 02 the regula tions of 12 longing to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or ftate, fhall be allowed to be exported from the faid Car. 2. c. 18; iflands of Jamaica, Grenada, Dominica and New Providence re22 and 23 Car. 2. c. 26; fpectively, to Great Britain or Ireland, under the rules, regulaand 20 Geo. 3. tions, reftrictions, fecurities, penalties and forfeitures, particu C. IO. &c. of Eu minica, or Ba larly mentioned and provided in an act of parliament, made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the encouraging and encreasing of shipping and navigation; and in another act of parliament, made in the twentyfecond and twenty-third years of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act to prevent the planting of tobacco in England, and for regulating the plantation trade; and in another act of parliament, made in the twentieth year of his present Majefty's reign, intituled, An act to allow the trade between Ireland and the British colonies and plantations in America and the Weft Indies, and the British fettlements on the coaft of Africa, to be carried on in like manner as it is now carried on between Great Britain and the faid colonies and fettlements; or in any of the faid acts, with refpect to the goods, wares, or merchandize therein enumerated or described. VII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforeIf any goods faid, That, from and after the said first day of September, no of the growth, goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or rope, the Eaft manufacture of Europe, or the Eaft Indies, or other places beIndies, &c. be yond the Cape of Good Hope, fhall, upon any pretence whatever, exported from be exported from the islands of Grenada or Dominica, or from Grenada, Do- the Bahama islands, to any other British colony or plantation in America, or the West Indies, upon pain of forfeiting fuch goods British colony or commodities, together with the fhip or veffel in which the in America, or fame fhall be fo exported, and the guns, tackle, apparel and the Weft In- furniture, of fuch fhip or veffel; and in every fuch case the same shall and may be feized by any officer or officers of the the veffels, &c. cuftoms or navy, who are or fhall be authorized and impowered to make seizures in cafes of forfeiture; and fhall and may be profecuted in fuch manner as herein-after is directed. hama, to any forfeited, with No duty or fee to be taken entry of fo- VIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That no duty of gunpowder, nor any fee or reward whatever, fhall be demanded, taken, or received, by any officer or officers whatever in the faid iflands of Jamaica, Grenada, Dominica and New Providence refpe&tively, for any entry, coquet, clearance or passport, for any foreign thip or veffel, or for any goods, wares or merchandize, imported into or exported from the faid iflands refpectively, in fuch foreign fhips or veffels, under the like pains and penalties as are inflicted upon officers exacting or receiving greater fees than are allowed by an act made in the fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for more effectually fecuring and encouraging the trade of his Majefty's American dominions; for repealing the inland duty on coffee impofed by an act made in the thirty-fecond year of his late majesty King George the Second, and for granting an inland duty en all coffee imported, (except coffee of the growth of the British demi |