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liament relating to the revenue of customs to be restored to the pro- No. prietor or proprietors: And whereas another Act passed in the fifty-first XXXII. a. year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act to extend the Powers vested in the Commissioners of Customs, of restoring Vessels and 54 Geo. II. Goods seized, to Seizures made by virtue of any Acts relating to the Department of Customs: And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of the said Acts should be further extended and that the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury should be empowered to restore remit or mitigate any forfeiture fine or penalty incurred under any laws relating to the revenue of customs or excise or navigation and trade, either before or after the same shall have been adjudged in any court of law or by or before any commissioner of excise or justice or justices of the peace: 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 it Treasury emshall and may be lawful for the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury powered to reor any three or more of them by any order made for that purpose under store Seizures their hands to direct any ships goods or commodities whatever, seized as to the Proprieforfeited by virtue and in pursuance of any Act or Acts relating to the tors, and to mirevenue of customs or excise or any Act for the regulation of the trade tigate and remit and navigation of this kingdom, to be restored to the proprietor or pro- curred under prietors on the terms and conditions which shall be mentioned in any the Laws of such order; and it shall also be lawful for the said commissioners of his Customs and Majesty's Treasury or any three or more of them for the time being to Excise, mitigate or remit any penalty or forfeiture which shall have been incurred or any part of any such fine or penalty under any law or laws relating to his Majesty's revenue of customs or excise or any Act relating to the trade and navigation of this kingdom.

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II. And be it further enacted, That in any case wherein the said com- on such Condi missioners of his Majesty's Treasury shall exercise the powers hereby tions as the vested in them such goods or commodities shall be restored to the pro- Treasury think prietor or proprietors or such fines penalties or forfeitures or any parts thereof remitted or mitigated in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as to costs or otherwise as under the circumstances of the case shall appear to the said commissioners to be reasonable and as they the said commissioners or any three or more of them shall think fit to direct; and no person or persons shall be entitled to the benefit of any such order unless the terms and conditions therein contained shall be complied with.

[ No. XXXIII. ] 55 George III. c. 116.-An Act to make further Regulations for the Registry of Ships built in India.-[28th June 1815.]

[ No. XXXIV.] 58 George III. c. 7.-An Act to Indemnify all Persons who have been concerned in advising or carrying into Execution any Order or Orders for permitting the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Commodities in Foreign Bottoms into and out of certain of his Majesty's West India Islands.— [17th March 1818.]

[ No. XXXV. ] 58 George III. c. 15.-An Act to amend
an Act made in the Twenty-sixth Year of his present
Majesty, for the Encouragement of the Fisheries carried
on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, so far
as relates to the Oaths thereby required to be taken.-
[19th March 1818.]

No. XXXVI.

58 Geo. III. c. 19.

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11 & 12 W. 3. c. 7.

[ No. XXXVI. ] 58 George III. c. 19.-An Act to allow

for Three Years, and until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then next Session of Parliament, the Importation into Ports specially appointed by his Majesty, within the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, of the Articles therein enumerated, and the Re-exportation thereof from such Ports.-[8th May 1818.]

[ No. XXXVII. ] 58 George III. c. 20.-An Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea, and encouraging Attempts to find a Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole.-[8th May 1818.]

[No. XXXVIII. ] 58 George III. c. 26.—An Act to continue until the Fifth Day of July 1819, Two Acts made in the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Years of his present Majesty's Reign, for Regulating the Trade in Spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally, and to amend the same.-[23d May 1818.]

[ No. XXXIX. ] 58 George III. c. 27.-An Act to permit the Importation of certain Articles into his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, or on the Continent of South America, and also certain. Articles into certain Ports in the West Indies.-[23d May 1818.]

[ No. XL. ] 58 George III. c. 34.-An Act to repeal the several Bounties on the Exportation of Refined Sugar from any Part of the United Kingdom, and to allow other Bounties in lieu thereof, until the Fifth Day of July One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty, and for reducing the Size of the Packages in which Refined Sugar may be exported.-[23d May 1818.]

I No. XLI.] 58 George III. c. 38.-An Act to extend and render more effectual the present Regulations for the Relief of Seafaring Men and Boys, Subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Foreign Parts.-[28th May 1818.]

58 Geo. III. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third, intituled An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy, it is enacted, That in case any master of a merchant ship or vessel should after the nine-and-twentieth day of September one thousand seven hundred, during his being abroad, force any man on shore or wilfully leave him behind in any of his Majesty's plantations or elsewhere, or should refuse to bring home with him again

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all such of the men which he carried out with him as should be in a con- No. XLI. dition to return when he should be ready to proceed in his homewardbound voyage, every such master should, being therefore legally convicted, 58 Geo. III. suffer three months imprisonment without bail or mainprize; but no mode of prosecution is provided by the said Act in case of offences committed against the same: For remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the King's mot 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 Offences against the passing of this Act all offences committed against the said Act of the the recited Act eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third shall to be prosecuted and may be prosecuted by indictment or information at the suit of his by Indictment.. Majesty's Attorney General in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench at in the Court of Westminster; and that in such indictment or information the offence or King's Bench offences shall and may be alleged to have been committed at Westminster at Westminster, in the county of Middlesex; and that the said court shall be and the &c. same is hereby authorised to issue a commission or commissions for the examination of witnesses abroad, and that the depositions taken under such commission or commissions shall be received in evidence on the trial of such indictments and informations respectively.

II. And whereas by an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign 31 G. 2. c. 10. of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen employed in the Royal Navy, and for establishing a regular Method for the punctual, frequent and certain Payment of their Wages, and for enabling them more easily and readily to remit the same for the Support of their Wives and Families, and for preventing Frauds and Abuses attending such Payments, it is enacted, that every master or person having charge of a merchant ship or vessel that should arrive in foreign parts, and be homeward-bound from thence to any port in Great Britain, should take on board such and so many seafaring men or boys subjects of Great Britain, as should by shipwreck capture or other unavoidable accident be driven or cast away, or that should be discharged as unserviceable from any of the ships or vessels of the royal navy at foreign parts or places where governors ministers and consuls appointed by his Majesty his heirs or successors should reside, or where none such are resident where any two or more British merchants should reside as the said governors ministers consuls or merchants should direct not exceeding four for each one hundred tons of which his ship should consist; but no penalty or mode of prosecution is imposed or provided by the said Act in case of neglect or refusal to obey the directions therein contained: For remedy whereof be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Penalty on Act any master or person having the charge of any merchant ship or Masters of Vesvessel belonging to any of his Majesty's subjects that shall be or arrive in sels at Foreign any such foreign parts and be bound from thence to any port in the Ports refusing United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and who shall be re- to take on quired in writing under the hand or hands of any such governor minister board Seafaring consul or merchants to take on board any such seafaring man or boy Men being his men or boys being a subject or subjects of the said United Kingdom, not Majesty's Subexceeding the number mentioned in the said Act, for the purpose of carrying and conveying him or them to the said port in the said United Kingdom, and who shall neglect and refuse to take on board or to carry and convey him or them accordingly, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds for each and every such man or boy whom he shall so refuse or neglect to take on board and to carry and convey as aforesaid, to be recovered by information at the suit of his Majesty's Attorney General in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench or Exchequer at Westminster; and that in such information the offence or offences shall and may be alleged to have been committed at Westminster in the county of Middlesex, and that the court in which such information shall be brought shall be and the same is hereby authorised to issue a commission or commissions for the examination of witnesses abroad, and that the depositions taken under such commission or commissions shall be received in evidence on the trial of such information.

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be observed in case of leaving Seafaring Men at Foreign Ports on account of Sickness.

III. And be it further enacted, That if any master or other person having charge of any merchant ship or vessel belonging to any of his 58 Geo. III. Majesty's subjects shall leave any seafaring man or boy on shore at any foreign port or place on account of sickness or any other inability to proceed on the voyage, every such master or person having the charge of Regulations to such ship or vessel shall deliver to the governor minister or consul if any there, or if not then to two respectable merchants at such port or place, a true and just account of the wages due to such seafaring man or boy and pay the amount thereof either in money or by a bill upon the owner or owners of such ship or vessel to such governor minister consul or merchants as the case may be; and in default of his so doing or in case of the owner or owners not accepting and paying such bill when due, such owner or owners shall be liable to an action for the amount, with interest at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, to be brought in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster or Dublin or in his Majesty's court of Exchequer in Scotland at the suit of the holder or holders of such bill as for money had and received by such owner or owners to his or their use; but in case of payment of such wages being duly made as required by this Act, the same when received by the said governor minister consul or merchants, as the case may be, shall be applied by him or them towards the payment of any hospital expences of such seafaring man or boy as aforesaid (except the charges for his subsistence) and also towards the payment of the expences of clothing bedding or other necessaries that may be supplied to him, and the remainder (if any) shall be paid to such seafaring man or boy.

Penalty on Masters neglecting to deliver an Account of Wages due to such Seafaring Persons.

IV. And be it further enacted, That if any such master or other person having charge of any such ship or vessel and leaving any such seafaring man or boy on shore as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to deliver a just and true account of the wages due to such seafaring man or boy as aforesaid and to pay the amount thereof in money or by such bill as aforesaid; or shall deliver a false account of such wages or pay less than the full and true amount thereof in manner aforesaid; every such master or other person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered with full costs of suit by any person or persons who will sue for the same by action of debt bill plaint or information in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster, wherein no essoign protection wager of law or more than one imparlance shall be allowed; and that in such action bill plaint or information it shall be sufficient to allege that the offence or offences was or were committed at Westminster in the county of Middlesex; and that the court in which such action bill plaint or information is brought shall be and the same is hereby authorised to issue a commission or commissions for the examination of witnesses abroad, and that the depositions taken under such commission or commissions shall be received in evidence on the trial of such action bill plaint or information respectively.

[ No. XLII. J 58 George III. c. 56.—An Act to make perpetual an Act of the Forty-sixth Year of his present Majesty, for granting an additional Bounty on the Exportation of the Silk Manufactures of Great Britain.[1st June 1818.]

[ No. XLIII.] 58 George III. c. 61.-An Act for the better accommodating of his Majesty's Packets within the Harbour on the North Side of the Hill of Howth, and for the better Regulation of the Shipping therein.— [1st June 1818.]

[No. XLIV. ] 58 George III. c. 62.-An Act to continue No. XLIV. until the First Day of August One Thousand Eight Hun- 58 Geo. III. dred and Nineteen, Two Acts of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of Coals, Culm and Cinders to London and Westminster.-[1st June 1818.]

[No. XLV. ] 58 George III. c. 63.--An Act to revive and continue until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen an Act made in the Forty-ninth Year of his present Majesty, to permit the Importation of Tobacco from any place whatever.-[3d June 1818.]

[No. XLVI.] 58 George III. c. 72.-An Act for Improving and Completing the Harbour of Dunmore, in the County of Waterford, and rendering it a fit Situation for his Majesty's Packets.-[3d June 1818.]

[ No. XLVII. ] 58 George III. c. 76.—An Act to subject Foreigners to Arrest and Detention for Smuggling within certain Distances of any of the Dominions of his Majesty; for regulating Rewards to the seizing Officers, according to the Tonnage of Vessels or Boats seized and condemned; and for the further Prevention of the Importation of Tea, without making due Entry thereof with the Officers of Customs and Excise.-[5th June 1818.]

[No. XLVIII. ] 58 George III. c. 83.-An Act to amend and reduce into one Act the several Laws relating to the Manner in which the East India Company are required to hire Ships.-[5th June 1818.]

[ No. XLIX. ] 58 George III. c. 89.-An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of his present Majesty, as requires the Attendance of Magistrates on board Vessels carrying Passengers from the United Kingdom to his Majesty's Plantations or to Foreign Parts.-[5th June 1818.]

[No. L.] 58 George III. c. 94.-An Act to continue, until the Twenty-ninth Day of September One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen, and to amend an Act passed in Ireland in the Thirty-sixth Year of his present Majesty, for the Improvement and Extension of the Fisheries on the Coasts of Ireland.—[10th June 1818.]

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