Goods liable to Duties on Deficiencies entered to be taken from the Warehouse Samples may be taken Goods may be sorted and re-packed, &c. to be cleared in Two Years 39 40 41 12 78 ! ANNO SEXTO GEORGII IV. REGIS. CA P. CXIV. An Act to regulate the Trade of the British W HEREAS 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 it is therefore highly expedient, for the Interests of Commerce and the Euds 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may be authorized to act in the Execution thereof, that all the Statutes now in force relating to the Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which they have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the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And whereas by the said Act all the Laws of the Customs relating to the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad will be repealed; and it is expedient to make Provisions for the future Regulation of the Trade of those Possessions after such Repeal shall have effect: Be it therefore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 come of this Act. into and be and continue in full Force and Operation, for the regulating of the Trade of the British Possessions Importation and Exportation of Goods confined to Free Ports. II. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall be imported into, nor shall any Goods, except the Produce of the Fisheries in British Ships, be exported from any of the British Possessions in America (1) by Sea, from or to any Place-other than the United Kingdom, or some other of such Possessions, except into or from the several Ports in such Possessions, called "Free Ports," enumerated or described in the Table following; (that is to say), His Majesty Basseterre Charles Town Plymouth Saint Kitt's. III. PROVIDED always, That if His Majesty shall may extend the deem it expedient to extend the Provisions of this Act to Privileges of this Act to other any Port or Ports not enumerated in the said Table, Ports not herein enumerated. (1) In which the West Indies are included, see the Table. it (2) See such as are appointed to be Free Warehousing Ports, § 33.; also Power to His Majesty to appoint others, § 43. shall be lawful for His Majesty by Order in Council to extend the Provisions of this Act to such Port or Ports; and from and after the Day mentioned in such Order in Council, all the Privileges and Advantages of this Act, and all the Provisions, Penalties, and Forfeitures therein contained, shall extend and be deemed and construed to extend to any such Port or Ports respectively, as fully as if the same had been inserted and enumerated in the said Table at the Time of passing this Act: PROVIDED also, that nothing herein-before contained shall extend to prohibit the Exportation of the Produce of the Fisheries from any Ports or Places in any of the said Possessions in British Ships, nor to prohibit the Importation or Exportation of Goods into or from any Ports or Places in Newfoundland or Labrador in British Ships. THAT the Privi IV. AND whereas by the Law of Navigation - Foreign Ships are permitted (1) to import into any of the British from the Countries to which they Possessions Abroad, belong, Goods the Produce of those Countries, and to export Goods from such Possessions to be carried to any Foreign Country whatever: And whereas it is expedient that such Permission should be subject to certain Conditions; be it therefore enacted, leges thereby granted to Foreign Ships shall be limited to the Ships of those Countries which, having Colonial Possessions, shall grant the like Privileges of trading with those Possessions to British Ships, or which, not having Colonial Possessions, shall place the Commerce and Navigation of this Country, and of its Possessions Abroad, upon the Footing of the most favoured Nation, unless His Majesty by His Order in Council shall in any Case deem it expedient to grant the Whole or any of such Privileges to the Ships of any Foreign Country, although the Conditions aforesaid shall not in all respects be fulfilled by such Foreign Country. 4 affect G. 4. c. 77. and 5 G. 4. c. 1. V. AND be it further enacted, That nothing contained This Act not in this Act, or any other Act passed in the present Session to of Parliament, shall extend to repeal or in any way repeal or in any way alter or affect an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize His Majesty, under certain Circumstances, to regulate the Duties (1) Or rather not forbidden, and all former Laws being repealed. See sions and other Places in Ame rica, to be deemed Ships and Drawbacks on Goods imported or exported in Foreign Vessels, and to exempt certain Foreign Vessels from Pilotage; nor to repeal or in any way alter or affect an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, among other Things, to amend the last-mentioned Act, and that all Trade and Intercourse between the British Possessions and all Foreign Countries shall be subject to the Powers granted to His Majesty by those Acts. (1) Foreign Ships VI. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, trading between That-until the Expiration of Ten Years, to be computed British Posses- from the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, every Foreign Ship which previous to that Day had been engaged in Trade between of the Place to any of the British Possessions in America, and other Places in America, shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a Ship of the Country (2) or Place to which she had then belonged, if still belonging thereto; thing in the Law of Navigation to the contrary notwithstanding. which they belong, until 24 June 1832. Goods prohibit any VII. AND be it further enacted, That the several Sorts ed or restricted of Goods enumerated or described in the Table following, to be imported into Colonies. denominated "A Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions," are hereby prohibited to be imported or brought, either by Sea or by Inland Carriage or Navigation, into the British Possessions in America, or into the Island of Mauritius, or shall be so imported or brought only under the Restrictions mentioned in such Table, according as the several Sorts of such Goods are set forth therein; (that is to say), A TABLE OF PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS. Gunpowder, Arms, Ammunitions or Utensils of War, Beef, fresh or salted (3), } except into Newfoundland. Pork (4), Prohibited to be imported, except from the United (1) See Appendix. (2) For Qualification of a Ship of a particular Country, see Cap. 109. $ 15. (3) This does not include dried Beef to which Salt has not been used. (4) Hams and Bacon are not so deemed. |