and to deliver him into the Custody of the Gaoler or Keeper of the said ; and we the said Justices do hereby authorize and require you the said E. F. the Gaoler or Keeper of the said to receive and take the said C. D. into your Custody, and him safely to keep until he shall duly pay the said Sum of Given under our Hands FORM of an Information against an Officer of Customs. County of to wit. our Lord }BE it remembered, That on the Day in the Year of A. B. Officer of the Customs, who is directed by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs to prefer this Information, gives us Esquires, Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, to understand and be informed, that C. D. Officer of the Customs on, &c. [here state the Offence] contrary, &c., whereby the said C. D. has forfeited the Sum of [The Forms of Conviction and Commitment, numbered 2 and 3, may be applied to this Case.] ANNO SEXTO GEORGII IV. REGIS. 171 CA P. CIX. An Act for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation. [5th July 1825.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 6 G. 4. c. 105. Laws relating to the Customs, in which it is declared, that the Laws of the Customs have become intricate by reason of the great Number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long Series of Years, and that it is therefore highly expedient for the Interest of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be subject to the Operation of those Laws, or who may be authorized to act in the Execution thereof, that all the Statutes now in force relating to the Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which they have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the various Provisions contained in them: And whereas the Laws relating to the Encouragement of British Navigation will thereby be repealed, and it is expedient to make Provisions in hieu thereof, for the due Encouragement of British Shipping and British Seamen, after such Repeal shall have Effect; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of January One Commencement thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this Act shall of Act. come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation, and shall constitute and be the Law of Navigation of Europe, enu of Produce. II. AND be it further enacted, That the several Sorts merated Goods of Goods herein-after enumerated, being the Produce of in British Ships, Europe; (that is to say), Masts, Timber, Boards, Salt, or Ships of Place, or Ships Pitch, Tar, Tallow, Rosin, Hemp, Flax, Currants, Raisins, Figs, Prunes, Olive Oil, Corn or Grain, Pot Ashes, Wine, Sugar, Vinegar, Brandy, and Tobacco, shall not be imported into the United Kingdom, to be used therein (1), -except in British Ships (2),—or in Ships of the Country (3) of which the Goods are the Produce (4), Ships of the Country from which the Goods are imported. (5) Goods of Asia, Africa, or America, may not be imported from Europe, except in certain Cases. Goods of Asia, Africa, or America, may not be imported in Foreign or in III. AND be it further enacted, That Goods, the Produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imported from Europe (6) into the United Kingdom, to be used therein (1), except the Goods herein-after mentioned; (that is to say), Goods, the Produce of Places in Asia or Africa - within the Straits of Gibraltar, or of the Dominions of the Emperor of Morocco, - imported from Places in Europe within the Straits of Gibraltar : - Goods, the Produce of Places within the Limits of the IV. AND be it further enacted, That Goods, the Produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imported into the United Kingdom, to be used therein (1), in Fo reign Ships, unless they be the Ships of the Country Ships, except in in Asia, Africa, or America, of which the Goods are the Produce, and from which they are imported (9), cept the Goods herein-after mentioned; (that is to say), certain Cases. (4) See $.5. (5) See Cap. 107. § 46. ex See also Ele (6) See Power to admit certain Articles from Guernsey and Jersey, (8) Bullion and Diamonds do not require Entry, Cap. 107. § 2. Goods, the Produce of the Dominions of the Grand Bullion. V. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, Manufacture That all manufactured Goods shall be deemed to be - the Produce of the Country of which they are the Manufacture. deemed Pro duce. VI. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall From Guernbe imported into the United Kingdom from the Islands of sey, &c. Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, British Ships. except in VII. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall Exports to Asia, be exported from the United Kingdom to any British &c. and to Possession in Asia, Africa, or America, nor to the Guernsey, &c. Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, — except in British Ships, VIII. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall Coastwise. be carried Coastwise, from one Part of the United Kingdom -to another, except in British Ships. (1) sey, &c IX. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall Between be carried from any of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Guernsey, Jer Alderney, Sark, or Man, to other of such Islands; nor from one Part of any such Islands to another Part of the same Island, except in British Ships.. X. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall be Between Bricarried from any British Possession in Asia, Africa, or to any other of such Possessions, nor from: -one Part of any of such Possessions to another Part (1) See Definition of Coasting Trade, Cap. 107. § 100. and 101. (2) See, Exception in favour of Ships built in India prior to 1st January tish Possessions in Asia, &c. |