portation, that the Wheat is the same that was sworn to in the Deposition he produces: Provided always, that this Oath shall not be required in respect to any Wheat which shall have been shipped within Three Months after the passing of this Act. 56° GEO. 3. Cap. 127. An Act to reduce the Duty on the Exportation from Great Sect. 1. COALS to be screened through a Riddle or Screen, the Bars of which not being in any Part more than Threeeighths of an Inch asunder, and stamped in manner hereinafter directed. Sect. 2. FITTER'S Certificate (1) to state that the Coals have passed through such Screen. Sect. 3. OWNERS of Mines to provide Screens at their Expence, which are to be stamped as the Commissioners of the Customs shall direct, but the Stamps are to be provided and affixed at the Expence of Mine Owners. Sect. 4. IF the Coals shall not have been duly screened the Person signing the Fitter's Certificate and the Person entering or shipping the Coals, shall forfeit Ten Pounds for every Chaldron, Newcastle Measure. Sect. 5. OFFICER of Customs may attend the Screening of the Coals, or require that they shall be re-screened, CORN. SMALL COALS. 59° GEO. 3. Cap. 69. WARLIKE An Act to prevent the Enlisting or Engagement of His Sect. 5. AND be it further enacted, That in case any Ship or Vessel in any Port or Place within His Majesty's Dominions shall have on board any such Person or Persons who shall have been enlisted or entered to serve, or shall have engaged or agreed or been procured to enlist or enter or serve, or who shall be departing from His Majesty's Dominions for the Purpose and with the Intent of enlisting or entering to serve, or Vessels with Persons on board engaged in Foreign Service, may be detained at any Port in His Majesty's Do minions. WARLIKE EQUIPMENT. Oath to be made as to Facts and Circumstances. Penalty on taking on board Act, 50l. for each Person. to be employed, or of serving or being engaged or employed in the Service of any Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People, or of any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government in or over any Foreign Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People, either as an Officer, Soldier, Sailor, or Marine, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for any of the principal Officers of His Majesty's Customs where any such Officers of the Customs shall be, and in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions in which there are no Officers of His Majesty's Customs, for any Governor or Persons having the Chief Civil Command, upon Information on Oath given before them respectively, which Oath they are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to administer, that such Person or Persons as aforesaid is or are on board such Ship or Vessel, to detain and prevent any such Ship or Vessel, or to cause such Ship or Vessel to be detained and prevented, from proceeding to Sea on her Voyage with such Persons as aforesaid on board: Provided nevertheless, that no principal Officer, Governor, or Person shall act as aforesaid, upon such Information upon Oath as aforesaid, unless the Party so informing shall not only have deposed in such Information that the Person or Persons on board such Ship or Vessel hath or have been enlisted or entered to serve, or hath or have engaged or agreed or been procured to enlist or enter or serve, or is or are departing as aforesaid, for the Purpose and with the Intent of enlisting or entering to serve or to be employed, or of serving, or being engaged or employed in such Service as aforesaid, but shall also have set forth in such Information upon Oath, the Facts or Circumstances upon which he forms his Knowledge or Belief, enabling him to give such Information upon Oath; and that all and every Person and Persons convicted of wilfully false swearing in any such Information upon Oath, shall be deemed guilty of and suffer the Penalties on Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury. Sect. 6. AND be it further enacted, That if any Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel, in any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions contrary to this beyond the Seas, shall knowingly and willingly take on board, or if such Master or other Person having the Command of any such Ship or Vessel, or any Owner or Owners of any such Ship or Vessel, shall knowingly engage to take on board any Person or Persons who shall have been enlisted or entered to serve, or shall have engaged or agreed or been procured to enlist or enter or serve, or who shall be departing from His Majesty's Dominions for the Purpose and with the Intent of enlisting or entering to serve, or to be employed, or of serving, or being engaged or employed in any Naval or Military Service, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, such Master or Owner or other Person as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds for each and every such Person so taken or engaged to be taken on board; and moreover every such Ship or Vessel so having on board, conveying, carrying, or transporting any such Person or Persons, shall and may be seized and detained by the Collector, Comptroller, Surveyor, or other Officer of the Customs, until such Penalty or Penalties shall be satisfied and paid, or until such Master or Person, or the Owner or Owners of such Ship or Vessel, shall give good and sufficient Bail, by Recognizance before One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the Payment of such Penalty or Penalties. WARLIKE EQUIPMENT. Penalty on Persons fitting out armed Vessels to aid Sect. 7. AND be it further enacted, That if any Person, within any Part of the United Kingdom, or in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas, shall, without the Leave and Licence of His Majesty for that Purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any Ship or Vessel, with Intent or in order that such Ship or Vessel shall be employed in the Service of any Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any Foreign Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People, or of any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to exercise any Powers of Government in or over any Foreign State, Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People, as a Transport or Store Ship, or with Intent to cruise or commit Hostilities against any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the Subjects or Citizens of any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government in any Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or Country, or against the Inhabitants of any Foreign Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or Country, with whom His Majesty shall not then be at War; or shall, within the United or issuing ComKingdom, or any of His Majesty's Dominions, or in any Settle- missions for ment, Colony, Territory, Island, or Place belonging or subject Ships. to His Majesty, issue or deliver any Commission for any Ship or Vessel, to the Intent that such Ship or Vessel shall be employed as aforesaid, every such Person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor, and shall, upon Conviction thereof, upon any Information or Indictment, be punished by Fine and Imprisonment, or either of them, at the Discretion of the Court in which such Offender shall be convicted; and every such Ship or Vessel, with the Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, together with all the Materials, Arms, Ammunition, and Stores which may belong to or be on board of any such Ship or Vessel, shall be forfeited; and it shall be lawful for any Officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any Officer of WARLIKE Seizures for any Forfeiture incurred under any of the Laws EQUIPMENT. of Customs or Excise, or the Laws of Trade and Navigation, to seize such Ships and Vessels aforesaid, and in such Places and in such Manner in which the Officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise and the Officers of His Majesty's Navy are empowered respectively to make Seizures under the Laws of Customs and Excise, or under the Laws of Trade and Navigation; and that every such Ship and Vessel, with the Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, together with all the Materials, Arms, Ammunition, and Stores which may belong to or be on board of such Ship or Vessel, may be prosecuted and condemned in the like Manner and in such Courts as Ships or Vessels may be prosecuted and condemned for any Breach of the Laws made for the Protection of the Revenues of Customs and Excise, or of the Laws of Trade and Navigation. Penalty for aiding the warlike Equipment of Vessels of Foreign States, &c. Offences committed out of the Kingdom may be tried at Wesminster. any Sect. 8. AND be it further enacted, That if any Person in Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas, without the Leave and Licence of His Majesty for that Purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, shall, by adding to the Number of the Guns of such Vessel, or by changing those on board for other Guns, or by the Addition of any Equipment for War, increase or augment, or procure to be increased or augmented, or shall be knowingly concerned in increasing or augmenting the warlike Force of any Ship or Vessel of War, or Cruizer, or other armed Vessel, which at the Time of her Arrival in any Part of the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's Dominions, was a Ship of War, Cruizer, or Armed Vessel in the Service of any Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to exercise any Powers of Government in or over any Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People belonging to the Subjects of any such Prince, State, or Potentate, or to the Inhabitants of any Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or Country under the Controul of any Person or Persons so exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government, every such Person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor, and shall, upon being convicted thereof, upon any Information or Indictment, be punished by Fine and Imprisonment, or either of them, at the Discretion of the Court before which such Offender shall be convicted. Sect. 9. AND be it further enacted, That Offences made punishable by the Provisions of this Act, committed out of the United Kingdom, may be prosecuted and tried in His Majesty's Court of King's Bench at Westminster, and the Venue in such Case laid at Westminster in the County of Middlesex. 40 GEO. 4. Cap. 77. An Act to authorize His Majesty, under certain Circum- RECIPROCITY stances, to regulate the Duties and Drawbacks on Goods (1) imported or exported in Foreign Vessels; and to exempt certain Foreign Vessels from Pilotage. [18th July 1823.] - THAT WHEREAS, &c.: Be it therefore enacted, &c.: from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, or by His Majesty's Order or Orders in Council, to be published from Time to Time in the London Gazette, to authorize the — Importation into (2) or Exportation from the United Kingdom, or from any other of His Majesty's Dominions, of any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, which may be legally imported or exported, in Foreign Vessels, upon Payment of such and the like Duties only, and with the like Drawbacks, Bounties (3), and Allowances, as are charged or granted upon similar Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, when imported or exported in British Vessels; PROVIDED always, that before any such Order or Orders shall be issued, satisfactory Proof shall have been laid before His Majesty and His Privy Council, that Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into or exported from the Foreign Country in whose Favour such Remission of Duties, or such Drawbacks, Bounties, or Allowances shall be granted, are charged with the same Duties, and are allowed the same Drawbacks, Bounties, or Allowances, when imported into or exported from such Foreign Country in British Vessels, as are levied or allowed on similar Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, when imported or exported Vessels of such Country. in Sect. 2. AND be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, or by His Majesty's Order or Orders in Council as aforesaid, whenever it shall be deemed expedient, to levy and charge any additional Duty or Duties of Customs, or to withhold the Payment of any Drawbacks, Bounties, or Allow ances, upon any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, exported from the United Kingdom, or imported into or imported into, or exported from any of His Majesty's Dominions, in Vessels belonging to any Foreign Country, in which higher Duties shall have been levied, or smaller Drawbacks, Bounties, or Allowances granted, upon Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, when imported into or exported from such Foreign British Vessels, than are levied or granted upon Country in (1) The same Principle extended to Tonnage of Ships, see following Act G. 4. c. 1. (2) See also 6 G. 4. c. 111. § 5. (3) See Bounty on Sugar, Cap. 113. § 2. may be levied on Goods imported in Vessels belonging to Countries where higher Duties are imposed on Goods imported in British Vessels, than when imported in Vessels of the Country. |