of the reign of King George the Second, for the purpose among other things of allowing the importation of gum senega from any part of Europe, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted that it shall be lawful for any of his Majesty's subjects to import gum senega in British-built ships navigated according to law from any port or place in Europe; and so much and such part of the said Act is hereby repealed accordingly. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 42. Cotton Wool, XVI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of Repeal of this Act so much and such part of an Act passed in the sixth year of the 6 G. 3. c. 52. reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for $20. as to repealing certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations granted by Importation of several Acts of Parliament, and also the Duties imposed by an Act made in the from any Place, Last Session of Parliament upon certain East India Goods exported from in British Ships. Great Britain, and for granting other Duties instead thereof; and for further encouraging, regulating and securing several Branches of the Trade of this Kingdom and the British Dominions in America shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted that it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons to import and bring into Great Britain in British-built ships or vessels navigated according to law from any port or place whatsoever any sort of cotton wool; and so much and such part of the said recited Act is hereby repealed accordingly. XVII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of Repeal of this Act so much and such parts of an Act passed in the seventh year of 7 G. 3. c. 43. the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, for amending and § 2. as to imenforcing certain Acts for the more effectual preventing the fraudulent porting Camimportation and wearing of cambricks and French lawns shall be re- bricks in British pealed, whereby it is enacted that no cambrick or French lawn shall be Ships only. allowed to be imported into the Port of London from any parts beyond the seas except in British ships navigated according to law; and so much and such parts of the said recited Act is and are hereby repealed accordingly. Repeal of XVIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of 15 G. 3. c. 35. this Act an Act passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of his late Ma- though made jesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to permit the free Importa- perpetual by tion of Raw Goat Skins into this Kingdom for a limited Time, and which 31 G. 3. c. 43. by an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of his late Majesty as to ImportaKing George the Third was made perpetual, shall be and the same is tion of Raw hereby repealed; any thing in the said recited Act of the said thirty-first Goat-skins. year of his late Majesty's reign to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. XIX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of Repeal of § 1. this Act so much of an Act made in the nineteenth year of the reign of of 19 G. 3. his late Majesty King George the Third among other things for explaining so much of the said herein-before recited Act of the twelfth year of the manufactured reign of King Charles the Second, for the encouraging and increasing of Goods of Asia, shipping and navigation as relates to the importation of goods and com- &c. modities of the growth or production of Africa Asia or America manufactured in foreign parts, shall be repealed; whereby it is enacted that the said Act of the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second shall not extend or be construed to extend to permit any goods or commodities whatever of the growth or production of Africa Asia or America which shall be in any degree manufactured in foreign parts to be imported into Great Britain, except and unless the same shall be so manufactured in the country or place of which the goods and commodities are the growth and production or in the place where such goods and commodities can only be or are first shipped for transportation; and so much and such part of the said Act of the nineteenth year of his said late Majesty King George the Third is hereby repealed accordingly. c, 48. as to Importation of XX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Repeal of § 2. Act so much of the said last recited Act of the nineteenth year of his of 19 G. 3. c. 48. permitsaid late Majesty's reign shall be repealed, whereby or by construction whereof the importation of oil of cloves oil of cinnamon oil of mace and of Oil of Cinnating Importation oil of nutmegs into Great Britain is permitted; and so much of the said Act is hereby repealed accordingly. XXI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of 22 G. 3. c. 78. as to Import of Drugs, Wines, Timbers, &c. VOL. II. mon, &c. Repeal of No. CX. c. 42. this Act an Act passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of his late 8 Geo. IV. Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to permit Drugs the Product of Hungary or Gérmany to be imported from the Austrian Netherlands or any part of Germany upon Payment of the Single Duty; to allow the Importation of Hungary or German Wines and organzined Thrown Silk from the Austrian Netherlands or any part of Germany into Great Britain; and of Timber and other Goods from any part of Europe in Ships the Property of Subjects under the same Sovereign as the Country of which the Goods are the Growth Produce or Manufacture, shall be and the same is hereby repealed, except only so far as relates to organzined thrown silk. except as to Thrown Silk. Repeal of § 10. of 27 G. 3. c. 19. as to Im portation of enumerated European Goods in British Ships or Ships of the Country. Repeal of § 11. of 27 G. 3. c. 19. as to Im portation from Gibraltar of there from Morocco. XXII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of an Act passed in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to enforce and render more effectual several Acts passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and other Acts made for the Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation, shall be repealed; whereby it is enacted that any of the goods or commodities enumerated or described in the said Act of the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second for encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation being the growth production or manufacture of Europe may be imported under the conditions rules regulations and restrictions contained in the said Act of the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, and also in certain other Acts recited in the said Act of the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Third, either in ships and vessels which before the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six did truly and without fraud wholly belong to his Majesty's dominions or which are of the built of his Majesty's dominions and registered respectively according to law, or in ships or vessels the built of any countries or places in Europe belonging to or under the dominion of the Sovereign or State in Europe of which the said goods or commodities so enumerated or described as aforesaid are the growth production or manufacture respectively, or of such ports where the said commodities can only be or are most usually first shipped for transportation, such ships or vessels being navigated with a master and three-fourths of the mariners at the least belonging to such countries or places or ports respectively, and in none other ships or vessels whatever; and so much and such parts of the said recited Act of the said twenty-seventh year of his said late Majesty's reign is and are hereby repealed accordingly. XXIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of the said last recited Act of the twenty-seventh year of his said late Majesty's reign shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted that it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons whatever to Goods imported first day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six did truly import or bring from Gibraltar in any ship or vessel which before the and without fraud wholly belong to his Majesty's dominions or are of the built of his Majesty's dominions, navigated and registered according to law, any goods wares or merchandize being of the growth or production of the dominions of the Emperor of Morocco, and which shall have been imported into Gibraltar directly from any part of the said dominions not lying or being to the southward of the port of Mogadore in ships or vessels belonging to or of the built of his Majesty's dominions as before described, navigated and registered according to law, or in ships or vessels belonging to the subjects of the said Emperor of Morocco; and so much and such part of the said recited Act of the twenty-seventh year of his said late Majesty's reign is hereby repealed accordingly. Repeal of § 4. of 30 G. 3. c. 40. as to Importation of Manufactured Tobacco. XXIV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of an Act passed in the thirtieth year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for repealing the Duties on Tobacco and Snuff, and for granting new ‹ Duties in lieu thereof,' shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted that ́no tobacco (except tobacco of the growth production or manufacture of the plantations of Spain and Portugal and also except snuff) shall be imported No. CX. or brought from foreign parts either wholly or in part manufactured or in any state or degree of manufacture on pain of the forfeitures in the said Act mentioned; and so much and such part of the said Act is hereby repealed accordingly. 3 Geo. IV. c. 42. XXV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of an Act passed in the thirty-fifth year of the reign Repeal of so of his said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for much of allowing the Importation of Rape Seed, or other Seeds used for extracting Oil, 35 G. 3. c. 117. from any Country whatsoever, whenever the Price of British Middling Rape as provides that Seed shall be above a certain Limit, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted Rape Seed or provided that rape seed and all other seeds commonly made use of shall be imfor the purpose of extracting oil therefrom shall be imported in a British- ported in Bribuilt ship owned and navigated according to law: Provided always that tish-built Ships. nothing herein contained shall extend to allow the importation of any rape seed or other such seed in any ship whatsoever whenever the prices of middling British rape seed shall be below the price of twenty pounds per last. XXVI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of Repeal of so this Act so much and such part of an Act passed in the thirty-sixth much of § 2. year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled of 36 G. 3. An Act for allowing the Importation of Arrow Root from the British c. 113. as proPlantations, and also of Linseed Cakes and Rape Cakes from any Foreign vides that LinCountry in British-built Ships, owned navigated and registered according to seed Cakes Law, without Payment of Duty, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted or provided that linseed cake or rape cakes shall be imported from any ported in British Ships. foreign country whatever in any British ship or vessel owned navigated and registered according to law; and so much and such part of the said Act is hereby repealed accordingly. shall be im XXVII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of Repeal of this Act so much of an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of 5 G. 3. c. 30. his late Majesty King George the Third, made among other things for § 1. 2. as to more effectually supplying the export trade of this Kingdom to Africa Licences for with such coarse printed calicoes and other goods of the product or importing East manufacture of the East Indies or other places beyond the Cape of Good India Goods Hope as are prohibited to be worn and used in Great Britain, under or by for Export to virtue of which the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury are au- Africa. thorised to allow by licence certain goods in the said recited Act mentioned to be imported into Great Britain for the purpose of exportation to Africa under the conditions and regulations therein stated shall be and the same is hereby repealed. XXVIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing Repeal as to of this Act every clause provision and regulation with respect to licences Licences for granted by the commissioners of customs for the importation of nutmegs Importation of mace cloves and cinnamon contained in an Act made in the eighth year Spices under of the reign of her Majesty Queen Anne, among other things for granting 8 Anne, c.7. to her Majesty new duties of excise and upon several imported commo- § 13. dities; or in an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses 6 G. 1. c. 21. in the Public Revenues of Excise, Customs, Stamp Duties, Post Office, and $45. 46. House Money; or in an Act made in the eighth year of the reign of his 8 G. 1. c. 18. said Majesty King George the First, among other things for preventing 21. clandestine running of goods and the danger of infection thereby, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. XXIX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of Repeal of so this Act so much and such part of an Act passed in the forty-third year of much of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An 43 G. 3. c. 68. Act to repeal the Duties of Customs payable in Great Britain, and to grant § 29. as proother Duties in lieu thereof, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted or vides that Rusprovided, that tobacco of the growth or production of any of the terri- sian or Turkish tories or dominions belonging to the Emperor of Russia, or of any of the Tobacco shall territories or dominions belonging to the Ottoman or Turkish empire, shall be imported in British-built be imported directly from the atoresaid territories or dominions respectively in British-built ships, owned navigated and registered according to Ships. law; and so much and such part of the said Act is hereby repealed accordingly. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 42. Repeal of so much of 55 G. 3. c. 29. § 10. 11; and 57 G. 3. c. 4. as requires XXX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much and such parts of two Acts, the one passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to regulate the Trade between Malta and its Dependencies and his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and also between Malta and the United Kingdom; and the other passed in the fifty-seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to extend the Privileges of the Trade of Malta to the Port of Gibraltar shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted or provided that goods wares or merchandize being of the growth produce and manufacture of Raw Silk, or any country or place within the Streights or Levant Seas, or any raw silk Mohair Yarn of or mohair yarn being the growth or production of any place within the the Grand Sig- dominions of the Grand Signior within the Levant Seas, shall be imported from the Island of Malta or the dependencies thereof or from the port of Gibraltar in British-built ships owned registered and navigated according to law and in no other ship or vessel whatever; and so much and such parts of the said recited Acts is and are hereby repealed accordingly. Goods of the nior's Domi nions, to be im- 56 G. 3. c. 37. as to German Prunes. the Place of its Not to affect Penalties al under recited Acts. XXXI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to permit the Importation of Prunes the Produce of Germany, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. XXXII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much and such parts of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to allow the Importation of Tobacco from the East Indies and other Places, and for confining the Exportation of Tobacco from Great Britain and the Importation thereof into Ireland to Vessels of Seventy Tons Burthen and upwards, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for any person or persons to import unmanufactured tobacco from any place whatever, being the place of its growth, in any British ship or vessel owned registered and navigated according to law, or in any ship or vessel of the built of the country or place of which such tobacco is the growth and whereof the master and three-fourths of the mariners are at least of the said country or place, or in vessels which shall have been lawfully condemned as prize in such country or place and which shall be navigated as aforesaid; and so much and such parts of the said recited Act is and are hereby repealed accordingly. XXXIII. Provided always and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or ready incurred alter or in any way affect any forfeiture fine pain penalty or punishment which may have taken place or been incurred for any offence against any of the Acts hereby repealed at any time before the passing of this Act, and for or in respect of which any action suit indictment information or other proceeding may have been brought had found commenced or prosecuted at any time before the passing of this Act; any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. 3 Geo. IV. c. 43. [ No. CXI. ] 3 George IV. c. 43.—An Act for the Encouragement of Navigation and Commerce, by regulating the Importation of Goods and Merchandize, so far as relates to the Countries or Places from whence and the Ships in which such Importation shall be made.[24th June 1822.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the twelfth year of the reign of his Majesty King Charles the Second for the encouraging and increas12 Car. 2. c. 18. ing of shipping and navigation, on which the strength and safety of this kingdom do greatly depend: And whereas by an Act passed in the Par No. CXI. 3 Geo. IV. c. 43. liament of Ireland in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the further Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation, it was enacted, that the said recited Act passed in England in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, and every provision therein contained (so far as the same are not altered or repealed by the said Act of Parliament of Ire- Irish Act, land) should be of full force and effect within Ireland: And whereas 27 G. 3. c. 23. divers Acts have been from time to time passed for the further regulation of shipping navigation and commerce; and it is expedient that such of the provisions contained in the said several Acts as relate to the countries or places from whence and the ships in which goods and merchandize shall be imported into the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland should be revised and amended, and together with other regulations be declared and provided, so that the law by which such importation is to be regulated may be simplified and rendered more certain as well as more effectual in promoting the objects of the said several Acts, and in facilitating and extending the commerce of the realm: May it therefore please your Majesty, that for the establishing by law the several rules and provisions under which the importation of goods and merchandize into Great Britain shall be regulated so far as relates to the countries or places from whence and the ships in which such importations shall be made, it may be enacted; and be it 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 passing of this Act goods and Goods of Asia, merchandize being of the growth production or manufacture of Asia Africa or Africa or America shall be imported into the united kingdom of Great America shall be imported Britain and Ireland from any place whatever in British-built ships or vessels only, or in ships or vessels which by law are or may be entitled to the privileges of British-built ships, registered and navigated according to law, and not in any ship or vessel of any other country or place whatever, under penalty of the forfeiture of all such goods and merchandize, the growth production or manufacture of Asia Africa or America, as shall be imported from any place whatever in any ship or vessel not being a British-built ship or vessel, or not being entitled to the privileges of a British-built ship or vessel, registered and navigated according to law; except only in cases herein-after specially excepted or provided for. into the United Kingdom from any Place in British-built Ships only; except as other wise specially provided. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all goods and merchan- Such Foreign dize, the growth production or manufacture of Asia Africa or America, Goods shall be which shall be imported into the United Kingdom from any port or place imported from in Europe shall be so imported for exportation only, except in cases where Europe for Exit is by this Act otherwise specially provided. portation only, except otherwise provided. III. Provided also, and be it enacted, That from and after the passing Goods of any of this Act any goods or merchandize being of the growth production or Country or manufacture of any country or place in America or the West Indies being Place in Ameor having been a part of the dominions of the King of Spain, and which rica or the West Indies, goods or merchandize may at any time be lawfully imported into the United Kingdom in British-built ships, may be imported into the United belonging or Kingdom directly from the place of their growth production or manufac- having belonged to Spain, ture, or from those ports in such country or place where such goods or may be immerchandize can only be or have usually been first shipped for transporta- ported direct tion in ships or vessels of the built of the country or place of which such from the Place goods or merchandize may be the growth production or manufacture; or of Growth in in ships or vessels of the built of the port in such country or place where Ships of the such goods or merchandize can only be or have usually been first shipped Country. for transportation; and all which ships or vessels shall be wholly owned by the people of such country place or port, and navigated by the master and three-fourths of the mariners of such country place or port. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if it shall happen that If such Counany such country or place in America or the West Indies shall, before or tries are under at the time of the importation from thence into the United Kingdom of the Dominion of Spain, Goods may be imported from thence in Spanish Ships. |