Prison as aforesaid, to award to the Person so detaining any such Man or Men any sum not exceeding £20 for each Man so convicted and committed to Prison.

And whereas by an Act made in the 56th year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for, amongst other things, making more effectual provision for the prevention of Smuggling, and rewarding Officers and Persons making seizures and capturing Smuggling Vessels, certain rewards were allowed and made payable on the value at which the goods, wares, or merchandize therein mentioned, seized by any Officer or Officers, should be respectively estimated or fixed by the Commissioners of Customs or Excise respectively ordering and directing the prosecution: and whereas doubts have arisen whether such rewards allowed and made payable by the said last-recited Act as aforesaid, repealed or took away the rewards respectively granted and made payable by a certain Act made in the 28th year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for, amongst other things, amending several Laws relating to the Revenue of Customs; and by a certain other Act made in the 29th year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repealing the duties on Tobacco and Snuff, and for granting new duties in lieu thereof; and of another Act made in the 47th year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for making more effectual provision for the prevention of Smuggling, for or in respect of the seizure of any Vessel or Boat which by Law should be liable to be broken up after condemnation, and not be used in His Majesty's Service, or sold to be employed or used as a Privateer in the manner thereinmentioned, or which, on account of the built, construction, denomination, or description thereof, should be liable to forfeiture by any Act or Acts of Parliament, to be broken up, and which at the time of seizure should be found in ballast or light, such rewards being by the said Acts respectively made payable at and after certain rates, according to the tonnage of the Vessel or Boat seized and condemned; and it is expedient to remove such doubts; be it therefore declared and enacted, that the said rewards so granted and made payable by the said Act made in the 56th year aforesaid, do not repeal or take away, and shall not be deemed or construed to repeal or take, away the said tonnage rewards respectively granted by the said recited Acts of the 28th, 29th, and 47th years aforesaid; but that the said recited tonnage rewards respectively granted and made payable by the said. last-mentioned Acts shall be allowed, and payable and paid, in all cases to which the same respectively apply, in the same manner as if the said recited Act of the 56th year aforesaid, or a certain other Act made in the 57th year of the Reign of His said Majesty, for the amendment thereof, had not been made; any thing in the same or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

III. And whereas by an Act made in the 10th year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Ist., for, amongst other things, repealing certain duties therein-mentioned, payable upon Tea imported, and for granting certain Inland Duties in lieu thereof, it was enacted, that if any Person or Persons should import or bring any Tea which ought to be secured in such warehouse as therein aforesaid into Great Britain, and should not make due entry thereof and bring the same into such warehouse, the same should be and was thereby adjudged to be clandestinely run and unlawfully imported: and whereas it is expedient, for the prevention of the smuggling of Tea, to impose further penalties in that behalf; be it therefore further enacted, that if any Person or Persons shall import or bring into, or unship or land, in Great Britain, or within the limits of any of the Ports thereof, any Tea which ought by Law to be entered with the proper Officers of Customs and Excise respectively, and shall not make due entries thereof, so that the Duties of Customs and Excise granted and imposed in respect of Tea may be repectively secured and paid for, and in respect thereof, all such Tea so imported, brought, unshipped, or landed, shall be deemed and is hereby adjudged to be clandestinely run, and shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized by any Officer of Customs or Excise; and the Person or Persons so offending, or aiding or assisting therein, or removing, receiving, harbouring, or concealing any run Tea, shall, for each and every such offence, severally forfeit and lose the sum of £10 for every pound weight thereof, or the sum of £100 at the election of His Majesty's Attorney-General, or the Person or Persons who shall sue or prosecute for the same; and no such penalty shall be mitigated by any Justice or Justices below one-fourth part thereof; any thing in any other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

IV. And be it further enacted, that all fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed by this Act, and also by the lastmentioned Act made in the 57th year aforesaid, shall be sued for, recovered, levied, or mitigated by such ways, means, or methods as any fine, penalty, or forfeiture may be sued for, recovered, levied, or mitigated by any Law or Laws of Excise, or by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland respectively; and that, unless where otherwise specially directed, one moiety of every such fine, penalty, or forfeiture shall be to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other moiety to him, her, or them who shall discover, inform, or sue for the same.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to permit the Importation of certain Articles into His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, or on the Continent of South America; and also certain Articles into certain Ports in the West Indies;" from certain Foreign Possessions.* [58 Geo. III. Cap. 27.] [23rd May, 1818.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to allow the Importation of certain Articles into His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, or on the Continent of South America; be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful to import Tobacco, Rice, Grain, Peas, Beans, and Flour, into any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, or on the Continent of South America, for the supply of the Inhabitants thereof, in British-built Ships owned, registered, and navigated 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.

II. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to import Peas and Beans, being the growth or production of any of the Colonies 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, into any of the Ports in His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, enumerated in an Act passed in the 45th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled " An Act to consolidate and extend the several Laws now in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies ;" and in another Act, passed in the 46th Year of the Reign of His said Majesty, intituled "An Act for enabling His Majesty to permit the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Commodities into and from the Port of Road Harbour in the Island of Tortola ;" and likewise in another Act, passed in the 49th Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Commodities into and from the Port of Falmouth, in the Island of Jamaica;" and in another Act, passed in the 52nd Year of His said Majesty's Reign, intituled " An Act for allowing certain Articles to be imported into the Bahama Islands, and exported therefrom in Foreign Vessels, and for encouraging the Exportation of Salt from the said Islands;" and in another Act, passed in the 57th Year of the Reign of His said Majesty, intituled " An Act to extend several Acts for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain * Repealed by Act 3 Geo. 4. Cap. 44.

Goods and Merchandize to Porta Maria in the Island of Jamaica, and to the Port of Bridge Town in the Island of Barbadoes ;" in Vessels of the like description, and subject to the like Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as are required by the aforesaid Acts, permitting certain Articles to be imported into the Ports enumerated therein, and in Vessels of the like description, and subject to the like Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as are required in an Act passed in the 50th Year of His said Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for amending and continuing so amended until the 25th day of March, 1812, an Act of the 45th Year of His present Majesty, for consolidating and extending the several Laws in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandize into and from certain Ports in the West Indies;" which was afterwards continued, by an Act passed in the 52nd Year of His said Majesty's Reign, until the 25th day of March, 1814, and revived and made perpetual by another Act, passed in the 54th Year of the Reign of His said Majesty, intituled “ An Act to revive and make perpetual certain Acts for consolidating and extending the several Laws in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles into and from certain Ports in the West Indies."

SECRET RESOLUTION AND ACTS of the Congress of The United States, pussed in 1811 and 1813;-(Published by the Government of The United States, 5th January, 1818) and Correspondence, in 1810 and 1811, between Great Britain and The United States ;-relative to the occupation of the Floridas, by the American Forces.

(A.) Resolution and Acts of Congress.-1811, 1813.

[The injunction of secrecy under which the following Resolution and Laws were passed, having been long since removed by the enacting Authority, it is deemed unnecessary that they should be longer withheld from the public eye. They are now, therefore, published.— National Intelligencer, 5th January, 1818.]

BY AUTHORITY.

(1,)—Resolution of Congress. 15th January, 1811.

Taking into view the peculiar situation of Spain, and of her American Provinces; and considering the influence which the destiny of the Territory adjoining the Southern border of The United States may have upon their security, tranquillity, and commerce; Therefore,

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of The United States of America, in Congress assembled, that The United States, under the peculiar circumstances of the existing crisis, cannot, without serious inquietude, see any part of the said Territory pass into

he hands of any Foreign Power; and that a due regard to their own safety compels them to provide, under certain contingencies, for the temporary occupation of the said Territory; they at the same time declare that the said Territory shall, in their hands, remain subject to future Negotiation.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO. CLINTON,

Vice-President of The United States, and President of the Senate. January 15, 1811.-Approved,

JAMES MADISON.

(2.)-Act of Congress. 15th January, 1811.

AN Act to enable the President of The United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the Country lying East of the River Perdido, and South of the State of Georgia and the Mississippi Territory, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President of The United States be, and he is hereby authorised to take possession of, and occupy, all or any part of the Territory lying East of the River Perdido, and South of the State of Georgia and the Mississippi Territory, in case an arrangement has been, or shall be, made with the Local Authority of the said Territory, for delivering up the possession of the same, or any part thereof, to The United States, or in the event of an attempt to occupy the said Territory, or any part thereof, by any Foreign Government; and he may, for the purpose of taking possession, and occupying the Territory aforesaid, and in order to maintain therein the authority of The United States, employ any part of the Army and Navy of The United States, which he may deem ne

cessary.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, that 100,000 dollars be appropriated for defraying such expences as the President may deem necessary for obtaining possession as aforesaid, and the security of the said Territory, to be applied under the direction of the President, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

S. Be it further enacted, that in case possession of the Territory aforesaid shall be obtained by The United States, as aforesaid, that until other provision be made by Congress, the President be and he is hereby authorized, to establish, within the Territory aforesaid, a temporary Government, and the military,'civil, and judicial powers thereof shall be vested in such Person and Persous, and be exercised in such manner, as he may direct, for the protection and maintenance of the [1817-18.] 3 B