GOODS WHICH MAY BE PROHIBITED,

OR ARE SUBJECT TO

RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTATION. (1)

(Under the Act, 8 & 9 Vict. cap. 86, except where otherwise stated.)

ANIMALS. By an order in Council, her Majesty may, to prevent infection or contagious disorders, prohibit the importation of sheep, cattle, horses, or other animals, or subject them to quarantine, or cause them to be destroyed.-11 and 12 Vict. cap. 105.

CARDS.-Foreign Playing Cards not having the name and place of residence of the maker printed or marked on one card of every pack and on every wrapper, or if any of such cards or wrapper shall be printed or marked in any way with the name of any maker of cards duly licensed within the United Kingdom, such cards shall not be entered to be warehoused. And all foreign cards, wrappers, &c., not printed as aforesaid, or on any of which shall be printed or marked the name of any such licensed maker of cards shall be forfeited.-9 Geo. IV. cap. 18.

(1) All goods subject to restrictions as to package upon the importation thereof into the United Kingdom, shall be subject to the same restrictions when such goods are brought into the United Kingdom for exportation in the ship in which they are so brought; and all goods so brought contrary to such restrictions, whether reported for exportation in the same ship or not, shall be forfeited.-9 and 10 Vict. cap. 102, s. 5.

EAST INDIA GOODS :-viz., Goods of places within the limits of the East India Company's Charter, can be imported into the following approved ports only, viz. :

:

Exeter,

And such other ports as shall be approved by the Lords of the Treasury, and be declared by Order in Council, fit and proper for such importation.

FISH of foreign taking, except anchovies, eels, turbots and lobsters, unless in vessels cleared out regularly with such fish on board from a foreign port.

GLOVES of LEATHER can only be imported in packages, each of which shall contain 100 dozen pairs at least, and in ships of 60 tons burden or upwards.

HIDES, SKINS, HORNS, HOOFS, or any other part of Cattle or Beast may, by an Order in Council be prohibited.

MALT, unless imported for exportation only.

SILK :—viz., Manufactures of Silk, being the manufactures of Europe, unless imported into the ports of London, Liverpool, Hull, Southampton, Leith, (), or ports appointed by the Lords of the Treasury, or into the port of Dublin direct from Bordeaux, or into the ports of Dover and Folkstone, direct from Calais or Boulogne, unless in ships of 60 tons burden or upwards.

SPIRITS, not being perfumed or Medicinal Spirits, shall not be imported unless in ships of 60 tons burden at least, nor unless in casks, or other vessels capable of containing liquids, each of such casks, or other vessels, being of the size or content of 20 gallons at the least, or in glass bottles, or stone bottles, not exceeding the size of quart bottles, (2) and being really part of the cargo of the ship in

1850 1330.

(2) Geneva may be imported in glass bottles, containing not more than three pints in each of such bottles.-9 and 10 Vict. cap. 102, s. 4.

which the same are imported, and included in the manifest, or other papers, enumerating or describing the cargo.

TEA, shall be imported only into the following ports, viz.:

TOBACCO and SNUFF, shall not be imported, unless specially reported, and imported, in a ship of the burden of 120

tons or upwards; and into the following ports, viz.:

Or into such other ports as may hereafter be appointed for such purpose by the Lords of the Treasury.

TOBACCO and SNUFF shall not be imported, unless in hogsheads, casks, chests, or cases, (2) containing 300 lbs. weight at least, not being separated or divided in any manner, within the cask or package, except,

Tobacco of the dominions of the Turkish Empire; which may be packed in inward bags or packages, or separated or divided in any manner, provided the outward package be a hogshead, cask, chest, or case, containing at least 300 lbs. net weight.

(1) G. O. 4.

(2) Tobacco, the produce of the Philippine Islands, may be imported direct from Manilla in bales or packages, containing 300lbs. weight.-13 and 14 Vict. eap. 95, s. 13.

TOBACCO, continued:

-Tobacco and Snuff from the East Indies, unless in hogsheads, casks, chests, or cases, (') each of which shall contain at least 100 lbs net weight.

-Negrohead Tobacco, unless the produce of, and imported from, the United States of America, in packages of not less than 150 lbs. net weight.

CIGARS, unless in packages (2) of 100 lbs. net at least. CIGARILLOS or Cigarettos, unless in packages of 75 lbs. -Tobacco from Malta, or any Tobacco the produce of Porto Rico, Mexico, South America (3) Saint Domingo, Cuba, or the British Possessions in America, (*) and imported direct from any of those places in packages, unless in packages each containing at least 80 lbs. net weight. -13 and 14 Vict. cap. 95, s. 10; 8 and 9 Vict. cap. 86, s. 63; and 12 and 13 Vict. cap. 90, s. 3.

And if any goods shall be imported contrary to the prohibitions and restrictions before mentioned, the same shall be forfeited. (5)-8 and 9 Vict. cap. 86, s. 63.

TOBACCO, CIGARS, or SNUFF.-The master of every ship arriving from any place whatever, at any port in the United Kingdom, shall report, according to the best of his knowledge, the general denomination of the contents of every package of such goods, or forfeit 1007.-9 and 10 Vict. cap. 102.

All Manufactured Goods shall be deemed to be the produce of the country of which they are the manufacture.-13 and 14 Vict. cap. 95, s. 6.

(1) Also Tobacco imported direct from Turkey or Egypt.-G. O. 64 and T830' TT Tobacco from the British possessions in the East Indies may be im ported in bales, of not less than 100 lbs. weight.-G. O. TIT

(2) The importation of cigars in internal boxes is allowed, by T. O. 9th Sept., and G. O. 13th Sept., 1839.

(3) Tobacco, the produce of South America, Cuba, &c., may be imported from the United States in packages of 80 lbs. weight each; from places in Europe, in packages not less than 300 lbs. weight.-G.O..

(4) Also from the west coast of Africa.-G. O. TIT.

(5) Tobacco for private use, in packages under the legal size, may be admitted by special leave of the Board, provided it be for the use of the person to whom it is consigned, and be inserted in the manifest and report, the application and proof being made by such person, and not by an agent.-B. M. 1st Nov., 1826.

Samples of Tobacco under the legal weight, imported with the packages to which they belong, and labelled to correspond therewith, may be entered and weighed with the respective packages, provided they be duly reported as samples.-G. O.

ENTRY

OF

GOODS INWARDS (1).

(8 and 9 Vict. cap. 86.)

4th August, 1845.

Report and Entry. That the officers of Customs might have full cognizance of all ships coming into any port in the United Kingdom, and of all goods on board, or which may have been on board, it is enacted that no goods shall be unladen from any ship arriving from foreign parts, nor shall bulk be broken before due report of such ship, and due entry of such goods, shall have been made, and warrant granted; and that no goods shall be so unladen, except at such times and places as are directed; and all goods not duly reported, or which shall be unladen contrary hereto, shall be forfeited; and if bulk be broken contrary hereto, the master shall forfeit the sum of 1007.; and if, after the arrival of any ship within four leagues of the coast of the United Kingdom, any alteration be made in the stowage of the cargo, so as to facilitate the unlading of any part of such cargo, or if any part be staved, destroyed, or thrown overboard, or any package be opened, such ship shall be deemed to have broken bulk.-S. 2.

Manifest.-No goods shall be imported in a British ship unless the master shall have on board a manifest of such goods, made out and dated and signed by him at the place where the goods were taken on board; the manifest to set forth the name and the tonnage of the ship, the name of the master and of the place to which the ship belongs, and to contain a particular account and description of all the packages on board, their marks and numbers, and of the sorts of goods, and different kinds of each sort, to the best of the master's knowledge.-S. 3.

Manifest wanting-penalty.-If any goods shall be imported without such manifest, or if any goods specified thereon be not on board, the master shall forfeit 1007.-S. 5.

(1) Forms of entry of various descriptions will be found in pages following "The Waterside Practice."