Résultat des Recettes et des Dépenses des Services Spéciaux portés pour (Etat F.)-TABLEAU du Service Départmental, pour l'Exercice 1844. (Exécution de la loi du 10 Mai 1838. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, declaring that Peru is entitled by Treaty to certain Privileges of Trade and Navigation in British Ports.-December 23, 1845. At the Court at Windsor, the 23rd day of December, 1845, PRESENT, THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 8th and 9th years of the reign of Her present Majesty [cap. 90,] intituled "An Act for granting duties of Customs," a certain Order in Council was made and published, on the 8th day of August, 1845,* declaring what are the foreign Powers with which such Treaties, as in the said recited Act are mentioned, are existing: And whereas a Treaty is now existing between Her Majesty and the Republic of Peru, but the said Republic was omitted in the enumeration of the foreign Powers contained in the said Order of the 8th day of August: And whereas it is expedient that such omission should now be supplied: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in Her by the said recited Act of the 8th and 9th years of Her Majesty's reign, doth hereby declare, that a Treaty is now subsisting between Her Majesty and the said Republic of Peru. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein. accordingly. C. C. GREVILLE. ACT of the British Parliament, "for granting to Her Majesty, until the 5th of July, 1846, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom." [8 Vict. cap. 5.] MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, [April 24, 1845.] WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament * Page 885. assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray your Majesty's public expenses, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty the duties hereinafter mentioned, and therefore do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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 14th day of March, 1845, the duties imposed on sugar and molasses by an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of Her present Majesty [cap. 28], intituled "An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the 5th day of July, 1845, certain duties on sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the year 1844," shall cease and be no longer payable; and that from and after the said 14th day of March until the 5th day of July, 1846, in lieu thereof, there shall be charged the duties of Customs following (that is to say): On sugar and molasses the growth and produce of any British possession in America, or of any British possession within the limits of the East India Company's charter into which the importation of foreign sugar is prohibited, and imported from thence, the duties. following (that is to say): Double refined sugar, or sugar equal in quality to Other refined sugar White clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any Brown sugar, being Muscovado or clayed, or any Candy, brown, for every cwt. Candy, white, for every cwt. £ s. d. Од Clayed molasses, for every cwt. On sugar the growth and produce of any other British Brown sugar, being Muscovado or clayed, or any 1 1 9 0 18 8 On sugar the growth and produce of China, Java, or White clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any £ s. d. .. 1 8 0 Brown sugar, being Muscovado or clayed, or any Molasses, for every cwt. On all other sugars and molasses, not otherwise charged with duty, the duties following (that is to say): Refined sugar, for every cwt. Brown, or Muscovado, or clayed sugar, not being refined, for every cwt. Molasses, for every cwt. Candy, brown, for every cwt. Candy, white, for every cwt. 0 8 9 0 And so in proportion for any greater or less quantity than a cwt. II. And be it enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, and she is hereby empowered, from time to time, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare, with respect to any foreign country or countries, that it having appeared to Her Majesty, upon sufficient evidence, that the sugars of such country or countries are not the produce of slave-labour, such sugars shall (from and after a day to be named in such Order) be deemed and taken not to be the produce of slave-labour; and from and after the day so to be named in such Order the brown Muscovado or clayed sugar (not being refined) of the country or countries mentioned in such Order shall be admissible to entry for home consumption at the said respective duties of 17. 88. or of 17. 3s. 4d. per cwt. respectively, in like manner as sugars the growth and produce of China, Java, or Manilla. III. And be it enacted, that no sugar shall be admissible to entry for home consumption at the said duties of 17. 8s. or 1l. 3s. 4d. per cwt. respectively, unless the master of the ship importing the same shall have delivered to the collector or comptroller at the port of importation such certificate or certificates as hereinafter are men tioned, nor unless such master shall also make and subscribe a declaration before such collector or comptroller that such certificate or certificates was or were received by him at the place where such sugar was taken on board, and that the sugar so imported is the same as is mentioned therein. IV. And be it enacted, that in case such sugar shall be imported from China, Java, or Manilla, or from any other of the countries named in such Order in Council as herein before is mentioned, the certificate so to be given to the collector or comptroller at the port of importation shall be under the hand and seal of the British Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or other officer appointed in that behalf by Her Majesty, at the place where such sugar was taken on board, and shall certify that a declaration in writing had been made and signed before such Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or other officer, by the shipper of such sugar, that the same was really and bona fide the growth of the country in which the same was so taken on board, and shall also certify that such Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or other officer had examined the contents of such declaration, and believed the same to be true. V. And be it enacted, that in case such sugar shall be imported from any British possession abroad, the master of the vessel importing the same shall deliver to the collector or comptroller at the port of importation, 1stly, a certificate under the hand and seal of the principal officer of Customs at the place where the same was taken on board, certifying that a declaration in writing had been made and signed before such principal officer by the shipper of such sugar, that the same was really and bond fide the growth of China, Java, or Manilla, or of some other of the countries named in such Order in Council as hereinbefore is mentioned, and had been imported thence into such British possession abroad as aforesaid, and also certifying that such principal officer of Customs had examined the contents of such declaration, and believed the same to be true; 2ndly, a certificate under the hand and seal of the British Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or other officer appointed in that behalf by Her Majesty, (if any such there be,) at the place whence such sugar shall have been imported into such British possession abroad, certifying that a declaration in writing had been made and signed before such Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or other officer, by the shipper of such sugar from such place, that the same was really and bonâ fide the produce of the country from whence the same shall have been so imported into such British possession abroad, and also certifying that such Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or other officer had examined the contents of such declaration, and believed the same to be true provided always, that in case such sugar shall be imported |