pute shall arise as to the Quality of any Hemp imported into any of the Out Ports in England, Samples thereof fhall be taken and fent up to the Commiffioners of the Customs in London; and into the Out Ports in Scotland, to the Commiffioners of the Customs at Edinburgh, in fuch Manner as the respective Commiffioners shall direct, in order to be infpected and adjudged there as before mentioned.

&c. fuch

fice, and

for

SIO. AND be it further enacted by the Officer deAuthority aforefaid, That no Fee, Gra-manding any tuity, or Reward, fhall be demanded, ta- examining, ken, or received, by any Officer of his Hemp, fhall Majesty's Cuftoms, for examining, view-forfeit his Ofing, or delivering fuch Hemp, with respect L. 1oo. to the Premium or Reward allowed by this Act; or for the figning any of the Certificates in Order to the receiving fuch Premium or Reward, or for paying the fame; and any fuch Officer demanding or taking fuch Fee or Reward fhall, for fuch Offence, forfeit his Office; and fuch Officer fhall also be incapable of ferving his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and fhall forfeit the Sum of One Hundred Pounds.

Irish Hemp,

Premium has

11. 7mo, AND be it further enacted Exporters of by the Authority aforefaid, That if any for which a fuch Hemp of the Growth or Produce of been paid, Ireland, fhall, after the Twenty-fourth fhall repay the fame (befides Day of June, One thousand feven hun-other Duties) dred at the Port of exportation;

dred and feventy-nine, be exported from Great Britain, that then, and in every fuch Cafe, the Perfon or Perfons fo exporting the fame, fhall, before the Entry thereof, pay in to the Collector of the Cuftoms at the Port where the fame fhall be exported, or to the chief Officer of the Customs there, the full Sum which is by this Act allowed as a Premium on all fuch Hemp as he intends to export, over and above any Duty the fame is or may by Law be fubject to pay at Exportation by any Act Provided always, That the faid Collector, or chief Officer of the Cuftoms, upon receiving fuch Premium from the Exporter of fuch Hemp as aforefaid, fhall charge himself with the Money fo received, or with the faid Premium, and the Commiffioners of his Majesty's Customs are to take particular Care that the fame be duly brought to the Account of his Majefty, by fuch Collector or Chief Officer as aforefaid.

on Penalty of§ 12. 8vo, AND be it further enacted forfeiting fuch by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Hemp, and Perfon or Perfons, their Agents or Affigns, Value thereof. fhall be found fraudulently to export fuch

double the

Hemp, without paying fuch Premium to the Collector or chief Officer of the Cu→ ftoms in Manner aforefaid, fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall forfeit and lofe all fuch Hemp, and double the Value thereof;

one

one Moiety whereof fhall be to the Use of his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiety to the Informer or Prosecutor, to be profecuted in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, respectively, wherein no Effoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance shall be allowed.

ther the Hemp

duce of Ire

to lie on the

13. 9n0, PROVIDED always, That if in cafe of any Doubt or Dispute shall arife, whether Difpute whethe Hemp, or any Part thereof, fo to be be the Proexported, is of the Growth, Product, or land, the Manufacture of Ireland, or of foreign Onus probandi Growth, Product, or Manufacture, the owner. Onus probandi fhall lie on the Owner or Claimer thereof, and not on the Informer or Profecutor; any Law, Custom, or Ufage to the contrary notwithstanding.

reign Hemp

and demand

fame.

$14. 1omo, AND be it further enacted Penalty on by the Authority aforefaid, That if the importing fo Master or Owner of any Ship or Veffel fhall as Irish Hemp, clandeftinely import or receive in fuch Ship ing a Preor Veffel, to be imported into Great Britain, mium for the any Hemp, knowing the fame to be foreign' Hemp, and fhall demand or receive for any fuch foreign Hemp, the Reward or Premium hereby granted, fuch Master and Owner fhall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds, to be fued for and recovered in Manner as aforefaid; and the Ship or Veffel in which fuch foreign Hemp

fhall

fhall be fo fraudulently imported, with all her Guns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, fhall be forfeited to the King's Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors.

N° XXVIII.

N° XXVIII.

Anno vicefimo primo

GEORGII III. Regis.

Chap. 40.

An ACT for extending the Provifions of Three Acts, made in the Twenty-ninth Year of his late Majefty, and in the Tenth and Nineteenth Years of his prefent Majefy's Reign, for granting a Bounty on certain Species of British and Irish LINENS exported, to British and Irish Linens, British Callicoes and Cottons, or Cotton mixed with Linen, printed, painted, or ftained, in Great Britain, and to Buckrams and Tillettings, exported during the Time therein limited; and for taking off the Duties payable upon the Importation of that Species of Blue called Smalts.

$1. WHEREAS by an Act made in the Preamble. Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, (intituled, An Act for granting a Recital of an Bounty upon certain Species of British and Act 29 Irish Linens exported, and taking off the Duties on the Importation of foreign raw Linen Yarns

L1

Geo. II.