nue Vessels, who shall meet any such British Ship at Sea, XVI. PROVIDED always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be deemed or construed to extend to Ships in the Service of His Majesty, -or of His Majesty's Postmaster General, East India Company, or to any Ship bound to the Fisheries at Newfoundland, or on the Coast of Labrador. - or of the XVII. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, by any Order or Direction to be issued by them from Time to Time for that Purpose, to exempt from the Operation of this Act, or of any of the Provisions herein contained, any Ship or Vessel carrying Passengers from Ireland to the British Possessions in North America; and that any such Ship or Vessel so exempted by any such Order or Direction, and complying with the Conditions of the same, shall not be subject to any of the Conditions and Forfeitures imposed by this Act touching any of the Matters to which any such Order or Direction shall apply. XVIII. AND be it further enacted, That-no Foreign Ship, carrying any Passenger or Passengers, shall sail from any Port or Place in the United Kingdom to or for any Port or Place out of Europe, and not being within the Streights of Gibraltar, with more Persons on board, including the Master and Crew, than One for every Five Tons Burthen of such Ship,- (unless special Permission shall be given for that Purpose by the Commissioners of His Passengers from sions in North America. Limitation of Persons on board Foreign Vessels. Regulations for British Ships to extend to certain Foreign Ships. Recovery of Limitation of every Person exceeding such Proportion, to be paid by the Master of such Ship or Vessel. XIX. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That during the Continuance of any Convention of Commerce and Navigation between His Majesty and any Foreign State, whereby the Privileges of British Ships shall be conceded to the Ships of such Foreign State, so much of this Act as relates to British Ships shall extend and be construed to extend to Ships belonging to such States, during the Existence of such Convention, and carrying more Passengers than other Foreign Ships are by this Act permitted to carry. XX. AND be it further enacted, That all Sums of Money, Penalties, and Forfeitures in this Act mentioned and contained, shall be calculated and paid and payable within Great Britain and Ireland in lawful Money of Great Britain; and that any Penalty or Forfeiture inflicted by this Act may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Court of Record at Westminster or Dublin, or in the Court of Exchequer, or in the Court of Session in Scotland, in the Name of His Majesty's Attorney General for England or Ireland, or His Majesty's Advocate for Scotland respectively, or in the Name of any Person or Persons whatsoever, wherein no Essoign, Protection, Privilege, Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed; and in every Action or Suit the Person against whom Judgment shall be given for any Penalty or Forfeiture under this Act, shall pay Double Costs of Suit; - and every such Action or Suit shall and may be brought at any Time within Three Years after the Offence committed, and not afterwards; and one Moiety of every Penalty to be recovered by virtue of this Act shall go and be applied to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of such Person or Persons as shall first sue for the same, after deducting Charges of Prosecution from the Whole. XXI. AND be it further enacted, That if any Action or Suit shall be brought or commenced against any Person or Persons for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the - special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if it shall appear to be so done, then and in every such Case the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuited, or discontinue his, her, or their Action, or if a Verdict shall pass against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, or upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Double Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have for Costs of Suit in any other Cases by Law. APPENDIX. 51° GEO. III. Cap. 47. AND AMERICAN TREATIES. An Act to carry into effect the Provisions of a Treaty of PORTUGUESE Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, concluded between His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal. [31st May 1811.] SECTION 2-Permits the Importation into the United Kingdom from any of the Territories or Dominions of the Crown of Portugal of Goods, the Produce - of any of those Territories or Dominions (1), in British or in Portuguese Ships: - and Sect. 3-On Payment of the lowest Duty payable on such Goods, when imported in British Ships from any Foreign Country. Sect. 4-Permits Elephants Teeth and Ivory to be imported from any of the Dominions of the Crown of Portugal in British or Portuguese Ships, although not the Produce of any Part of those Dominions. Sect. 12-Continues the Act in force during the Continuance of the Treaty with Portugal. [Signed at Rio de Janeiro, 19 Feb. 1810.] 59° GEO. III. Cap. 54. An Act to carry into effect a Convention of Commerce SECTION 3-Enacts that Goods and Effects imported in any Ship of the United States shall not be subject to the Auction Duty upon the First Sale of the same: Provided such Sale (1) The Produce of Asia, Africa, or America could not otherwise be |