No. CXLII. 6 Geo. IV. c. 114. Application of Penalties under 5 G. 4. c. 113. The King may East India Com pany may carry Goods from In. dia to Colonies. Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, shall, in making and prosecuting any such seizures, have the benefit of all the provisions granted to persons authorized to make seizures under this Act. LXXII. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures created by the said Act passed in the fifth year of IIis present Majesty, whether pecuniary or specific, shall (except in cases specially provided for by the said Act), go and belong to such persons as are authorized by that Act to make seizures, in such shares, and shall and may be sued for and prosecuted, tried, recovered, distributed, and applied in such and the like manner, and by the same ways and means, and subject to the same rules and directions, as any penalties and forfeitures incurred in Great Britain and in the British possessions in America respectively now go and belong to, and may be sued, prosecuted, tried, recovered, and distributed respectively in Great Britain, or in the said possessions, under and by virtue of this Act. LXXIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, by any order or orders in council to be issued from time to time, to give such directions and make such regulations touching the trade and commerce to and from any British possessions on or near the continent of Europe, or within the Mediterranean sea, or in Africa, or within the limits of the East India Company's Charter (excepting the possessions of the said Company), as to His Majesty in council shall appear most expedient and salutary; and if any goods shall be imported or exported in any manner contrary to any such order of His Majesty in council, the same shall be forfeited, together with the ship importing or exporting the same. LXXIV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the East India Company to trade in and export from any place within the limits of their Charter, any goods for the purpose of being carried to some of His Majesty's possessions in America, and so to carry and to import the same into any of such possessions; and also to carry return cargoes from such possessions to any place within the limits of their Private Persons Charter, or to the United Kingdom; and that it shall be lawful for any of His Majesty's subjects, with the licence in writing granted by or under the authority of the said company, to lade in and export from any of the dominions of the Emperor of China any goods, and to lade in and export from any place within the limits of the said Company's Charter any tea, for the purpose of being carried to some of His Majesty's possessions in America, and also so to carry and to import the same into any of such possessions. may trade to China or in Tea, having Li- Production of Not to repeal LXXV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any person, being the shipper of any sugar, the produce of some British possession within the limits of the East India Company's Charter, to be exported from any place in such possession, to go before the collector or controller, or other chief officer of the customs, at such place, or if there be no such officer of the customs, to go before the principal officer of such place, or the judge or commercial resident of the district, and make and sign an affidavit before him, that such sugar was really and bona fide the produce of such British possession, to the best of his knowledge and belief; and such officer judge or resident is hereby authorized and required to administer such affidavit, and to grant a certificate thereof, setting forth in such certificate the name of the ship in which the sugar is to be exported, and the destination of the same. LXXVI. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act, or in any other Act passed in this present session of Parliament, shall extend to repeal or in any way alter or affect an Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the Trade to be carried on with the British Possessions in India by the Ships of Nations in Amity with His Majesty; nor to revoke alter or affect any regulations formed under the authority of that Act, and which were in force at the time of the commencement of this Act. LXXVII. And be it further enacted, That all ships built at any place within the limits of the East India Company's Charter, prior to the first of January one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and which then were and have continued ever since to be solely the property of His Majesty's subjects, shall be deemed to be British ships for all the purposes of trade within the said limits, including the Cape of Good Hope; any thing in this Act, or in any other Act or Acts passed in this present session of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding, British Ships within LXXVIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the shipper of any wine, the produce of the Cape of Good Hope, or of its dependencies, which is to be exported from thence, to go before the chief officer of the customs, and make and sign an affidavit before him, that such wine was really and bona fide the produce of the Cape of Good Hope, or of its dependencies; and such officer is hereby authorized and required to administer such affidavit, and to grant a certificate thereof, setting forth in such certificate the name of the ship in which the wine is to be exported, and the destination of the same. LXXIX. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any person who is about to export from any of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, to the United Kingdom, or to any of the British possessions in America, any goods of the growth or produce of any of those islands, or any goods manufactured from materials which were the growth or produce thereof, or of the United Kingdom, to go before any magistrate of the island from which the goods are to be exported, and make and sign before him an affidavit that such goods, describing the same, are of such growth or produce, or of such manufacture, and such magistrate shall administer and sign such affidavit; and thereupon the governor lieutenant governor or commander-in-chief of the island from which the goods are to be exported, shall, upon the delivery to him of such affidavit, grant a certificate under his hand of the proof contained in such affidavit, stating the ship in which and the port to which, in the United Kingdom or in any such possession, the goods are to be exported; and such certificate shall be the proper document to be produced at such ports respectively, in proof that the goods mentioned therein are of the growth produce or manufacture of such islands respectively. LXXX. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful to import into any of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, any tea, nor any tobacco, except from the United Kingdom; and if any tea or any tobacco shall be brought into any of the said islands, from other place than from the United Kingdom, or not having been duly entered and cleared in the United Kingdom, to be exported to such island, the same shall be forfeited. any LXXXI. And be it further enacted, That no brandy geneva or other spirits, except rum of the British plantations, shall be imported into or exported from the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, or either of them, or removed from any one to any other of the said islands, or coastwise from any one part to any other part of either of the said islands, or shall be shipped, in order to be so removed or carried, or shall be waterborne, for the purpose of being so shipped in any ship vessel or boat of less burthen than one hundred tons, nor in any cask or package of less size or content than forty gallons; nor any tobacco or snuff, in any ship vessel or boat of less burthen than one hundred tons, nor in any cask or package containing less than four hundred and fifty pounds weight (save and except any such spirits or loose tobacco as shall be for the use of the seamen belonging to and on board any such ship vessel or boat, not exceeding two gallons of the former, and five pounds weight of the latter, for each seaman; and also except such manufactured tobacco or snuff as shall have been duly exported as merchandize from Great Britain or Ireland), nor shall any wine be imported into or exported from the said islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, or either of them, or carried from any one of the said islands to any other thereof, or coastwise, * 2 L 2 No. CXLII, 6 Geo. IV. c. 114, Ships built prior to 1st January 1816, deemed certain Limits, Certificate of Production of Cape Wine. Certificate of Production of Tea and Tobacco may not be imported into Guernsey, &c., except from United Kingdom. Guernsey, &c., Tonnage of Ships and Package of Goods; viz. Spirits, 100 Tons and 40 Gallons. Tobacco 100 Tons and 450 lbs. Wine, 60 Tons and 20 Gallons. No. CXLII. 6 Geo. IV. c. 114. Not to extend Ten Tons, sup- Wine may be imported into Guernsey, &c. in Cases, &c. On Exportation of Wine in Bottles, Bond to be given. Penalty on Per One League of from any one part to any other part of the said islands, or be shipped, or waterborne for the purpose of being shipped in any ship vessel or boat of less burthen than sixty tons, or in any cask containing less than twenty gallons, or any package containing less than three dozen reputed quart bottles, or six dozen reputed pint bottles, on pain of forfeiture of all such foreign brandy, geneva, or other spirits, tobacco, snuff, or wine respectively, together with the casks or packages containing the same; and also every such ship vessel or boat, together with all the guns, furniture, and ammunition, tackle and apparel thereof. LXXXII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to subject to forfeiture or seizure, under any of the provisions of this Act, any boat not exceeding the burthen of ten tons, for having on board at any one time any foreign spirits of the quantity of ten gallons or under, in casks or packages of less size or content than forty gallons; or any tobacco snuff or tea, not exceeding fifty pounds weight of each, for the supply of the said island of Sark, such boat having a licence from the proper officer of customs at either of the islands of Guernsey or Jersey, and for the purpose of being employed in carrying commodities for the supply of the said island of Sark, which licence such officer of customs is hereby required to grant, without taking any fee or reward for the same: Provided always, that every such boat having on board at any one time any greater quantity of spirits than ten gallons, or any greater quantity of tobacco or snuff than fifty pounds weight of each of the said articles, unless such greater quantity of spirits tobacco or snuff, shall be in casks or packages of the size content or weight herein-before required, or having on board at any one time any greater quantity of tea than fifty pounds weight, shall be forfeited. LXXXIII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent the importation into, or exportation from, the said islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, or either of them, of any wine in bottles shipped in cases or casks only, each containing at least three dozen reputed quart bottles, or six dozen reputed pint bottles: Provided always, that before any such wine in bottles shall be shipped for exportation to or for Great Britain or Ireland, the master or other person having the charge or command of the ship vessel or boat, in or on board of which such wine shall be so intended to be exported, together with one other sufficient surety, shall give bond in the penalty of forty shillings per gallon, that the wine so shipped shall (the danger of the seas and enemies excepted) be duly entered and landed at the port or place in Great Britain or Ireland to or for which the same shall be declared at the time of giving such bond, (which bond and declaration the proper officer of His Majesty's customs is hereby authorized and empowered to take); and such officer is required to furnish the master, or other person having the charge or command of the ship vessel or boat in which any such wine may be, with a certificate specifying the number of such packages as aforesaid, and the quantity of wine contained in each, the date of the bond, and the name of the port or place to or for which the same shall be so declared; and such bond so given as aforesaid shall not be delivered up or cancelled until a certificate under the hand of the proper officer of the customs in Great Britain or Ireland, of the due landing of the wine mentioned therein, shall be produced to and left with the officer taking the said bond within three months after the date of such bond. LXXXIV. And be it further enacted, That every person who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat liable to forfeiture under any Act relating to the revenue of customs, for being found within one league of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, having on board or in any manner attached or affixed thereto, or having had on board, or in any manner attached or affixed thereto, or conveying, or having conveyed, in any manner, such goods or other things as subject such vessel or boat to forfeiture, or who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat from which any part of the cargo shall have been thrown overboard during chace, or staved or destroyed, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds. LXXXV. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person to re-export, from any of His Majesty's possessions abroad to any foreign place, any coals the produce of the United Kingdom; and that no such coals shall be shipped at any of such possessions, to be exported to any British place, until the exporter or the master of the exporting vessel shall have given bond, with one sufficient surety in double the value of the coals, that such coals shall not be landed at any foreign place. LXXXVI. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended altered or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present session of Par liament. [No. CXLIII.] 6 Geo. IV. c. 115.-An Act for regulating the Trade of the Isle of Man.-[5th July 1825.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the present session of Parliament, in No. CXLIII. 6 Geo. IV. c. 115. British Coals not to be reexported from British Possessions. Act may be altered this Session. tituled An Act to repeal the several Laws relating to the Customs, in 6 G. 4. c. 105. which it is declared, that the laws of the customs have become intricate by reason of the great number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long series of years; and it is therefore highly expedient, for the interests of commerce and the ends of justice, and also for affording covenience and facility to all persons who may be subject to the operation of those laws, or who may be authorized to act in execution thereof, that all the statutes now in force relating to the customs should be repealed, and that the purposes for which they have from time to time been made should be secured by new enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the various provisions contained in them: And whereas by the said Act the various Acts made for the regulation of the customs of the Isle of Man will be repealed: And whereas it is expedient to make provisions for the future regulations of the trade of the said isle after such repeal shall have effect, to the intent that the inhabitants of the said isle may import articles of foreign production sufficient for their own use and consumption, and may export the productions and manufactures of the said isle without risk to the revenue of the United Kingdom or injury to the trade thereof; 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 from and after the fifth day of January Commenceone thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this Act and every thing con- ment of Act. tained therein shall come into and be and become in full force and operation, for regulating the trade of the Isle of Man. II. And be it further enacted, That there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto His Majesty, his heirs and successors, the several duties of customs as the same are respectively set forth in figures in the table hereinafter contained, denominated "table of duties," upon importation into the Isle of Man, of the several goods wares and merchandize, according to the quantity or value thereof specified in such table, and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity or value of the same; (that is to say), TABLE OF DUTIES: A TABLE of the DUTIES of CUSTOMS payable on Goods Wares and Duties specified in Table payable on the Importation of Goods into the Isle of Man. Exemptions. Certain Goods in any Ship from any Place. British Goods in British Ships from United Kingdom. British Colonial United King dom. British Goods from United Kingdom to appear upon Cockets. the Goods enume Wood, from foreign parts; viz. Deal Boards the lb. .0 10 for every 100l. of the value thereof Goods wares and merchandize, imported from the United for 500 2 10 0 every 100% of the value thereof 15 00 Except the several goods wares and merchandize following, and which are to be imported into the Isle of Man, duty free; (that is to say), Flax, flax seed, raw or brown linen yarn, wood ashes, weed ashes, flesh of all sorts; also corn grain or meal of all sorts when importable; any of which goods wares or merchandize may be imported into the said isle from any place in any ship or vessel. Any sort of white or brown linen cloth, hemp, hemp seed, horses, black cattle, sheep, all utensils and instruments fit and necessary to be employed in manufactures in fisheries or in agriculture, bricks, tiles, all sorts of young trees, sea shells, lime, soapers' waste, packthread, small cordage for nets, salt, boards, timber, wood hoops, being the growth production or manufacture of the United Kingdom, and imported from thence in British ships. Iron in rods or bars, cotton, indigo, naval stores, and any sort of wood commonly called lumber, (viz. deals of all sorts, timber, balks of all sizes, barrel boards, clap boards, pipe boards, or pipe hold, white boards for shoemakers, broom and cant spars, bow staves, capravan, clap holt, ebony wood, headings for pipes and for hogsheads and for barrels, hoops for coopers, oars, pipe and hogshead staves, barrel staves, firkin staves, trunnels, speckled wood, sweet wood, small spars, oak plank and wain. scot), being of the growth production or manufacture of any British colony or plantation in America or the West Indies, and imported from the United Kingdom in British ships. III. And be it further enacted, That no goods shall be entered in the Isle of Man, as being the growth produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or as being imported from thence, except such goods as shall appear upon the cocket or cockets of the ship or vessel importing the same, to have been duly cleared at some port in the United Kingdom, to be exported to the said isle. IV. And be it further enacted, That the several sorts of goods enumerated in the following Schedule importable only under Licence. |