COASTWISE.

Coals, Culm, and Cinders, viz.

brought by the Grand Junction or Padding-
ton Canals nearer to London than the
Stone or Post at or near the North-east
Point in Grove Park, in the County of
Hertford, or brought down the River
Thames nearer to London than the City's
Stone placed on the West Side of Staines
Bridge, in the County of Middlesex, the
Ton

and a further Duty of 1s. 3d. the Ton pay-
able to the proper Officer of Customs, in
lieu of the Duty called Orphans' Duty,
and of all other Rates, Dues, and Duties
payable to the Corporation of London
upon Coal, Culm, and Cinders imported.
into the Port of London, to be paid over to
the said Corporation at the End of every
Quarter.

Coals, viz.

shipped to be carried Coastwise from the
Port of Newcastle upon-Tyne to any other
Port in the United Kingdom, the Chal-
dron, Imperial Measure

Small Coals which have been screened
through a Screen or Riddle, the Bars of
which not being in any Part thereof more
than Three Eighths of an Inch asunder, or
such Coals mixed with Ashes, shipped to
be sent Coastwise from the Ports of New-
castle or Sunderland, to any Port in Eng-
land or Wales, the Chaldron, Imperial
Measure

not subject to the Duty imposed upon
Coals brought Coastwise. (1)

Coals and Culm carried from Ellenfoot to Bank

End, in the County of Cumberland, or
from any other Creek or Place between
Ellenfoot and Bank End aforesaid, pro-
vided Bond be entered into, with a general
Condition for the due landing of such
Coals within the said Limits; COALS
and Culm carried on the Monmouthshire
Canal, or on any of the Railways or Tram
Roads connected therewith, and after-
wards carried from any Port or Place to
the Eastward of the Islands called The
Homes, to any other Port or Place in or
upon the River Severn; also to the East-

(1) Except there be any larger Coals in the Ship, see § 16.

COASTWISE.

Duty.

Drawback.

Coals, &c.-continued.

ward of The Homes, without passing to
the Westward of the said Islands, except
in going to the Port of Bridgewater, and
without touching at any Place to the
Westward of the said Islands;- COALS
Culm, and Cinders carried from any Part
of the Lancaster Canal, or any of the
Branches thereof, or from any Port or
Place within the Hundred of Lonsdale, in
the County of Lancaster, into the Ulver-
stone Canal, across or along the Bay or
Estuary separating the Two Canals;
COALS, Culm, Cinders, or Coked Coals,
burnt from Pit Coal on which the proper
Duties shall have been paid, being again
brought Coastwise from any Port or Place
in Great Britain to any other Port or Place
in England or Wales

Slates, brought Coastwise from one Port to another
Port in Great Britain, viz.
delivered by Tale, viz.

Doubles, not exceeding 13 Inches in
Length, or 7 Inches in Breadth, the
1,000

Ladies, exceeding 13 Inches in Length
and 7 Inches in Breadth, and not
exceeding 16 Inches in Length, and
8 Inches in Breadth, the 1,000
Countesses, exceeding 16 Inches in
Length and 8 Inches in Breadth,
and not exceeding 20 Inches in
Length and 10 Inches in Breadth,
the 1,000
Duchesses, exceeding 20 Inches in
Length and 10 Inches in Breadth,
and not exceeding 24 Inches in
Length and 12 Inches in Breadth,
the 1,000

delivered by Weight, viz.

Queen or Size Rag Slates, the Ton
Imperial or Milled Slates, the Ton
Slab Slates, the Ton
Block Slates, the Ton

Westmorland Rag Slates, the Ton
Slate or Slates not otherwise enu-
merated or described, for every
1001. of the Value thereof

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session

of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 6 G. 4. c. 105. Laws relating to the Customs; in 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 that it is therefore highly expedient for the Interests of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be subject to the Operation of those Laws, or who may be authorized to act in the 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 all the Laws relating to the warehousing of Goods will be repealed, and it is expedient to make Regulations for the lodging and securing in Warehouses or other Places of such Goods as may be imported into the United Kingdom to be so lodged and secured after such Repeal shall have Effect; 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 One Commencement thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this Act shall come of Act. into and be and continue in full Force and Operation for

Treasury to appoint warehousing Ports.

to appoint Warehouses ; and require

Bond.

the Warehousing of Goods imported into the United King. dom, without Payment of Duty (1) upon the first Entry thereof, or notwithstanding that such Goods may be prohibited (2) to be imported into the United Kingdom to be used therein.

II. AND be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, by their Warrant from Time to Time to appoint (3) the- Ports in the United Kingdom which shall be warehousing Ports Commissioners for the Purposes of this Act; AND that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs,subject to the Authority and Directions of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, — by their Order from Time to Time to appoint in what-Warehouses or Places of special Security (4)—or of ordinary Security, — as the Case may require, in such Ports, and in what different Parts or Divisions of such Warehouses or Places, and in what Manner (5) - any Goods, — and what sorts of Goods, may and may only be warehoused and kept and secured without Payment of any Duty upon the first Entry thereof, or for Exportation only, in Cases wherein the same may be prohibited to be imported for Home Use ; - AND also in such Order to direct in what Cases (if any) Security by Bond (6), in manner hereinafter provided, shall be required in respect of any Warehouse so appointed by them.

Warehouse of

III. AND be it further enacted, That whenever any special Security. Warehouse shall have been approved of by the said Commissioners, as being a Warehouse of special Security, it shall be stated, in their Order of Appointment, that such Warehouse is appointed as a - Warehouse of special -Security: PROVIDED always, that all Warehouses connected with Wharfs for the landing of the Goods to be lodged therein, and enclosed together with such Wharfs within Walls, such as are or shall be required by any

Warehouses

connected with Wharfs, and

within Walls.

·(1) As to Duties, see Cap. 111. § 11; and as to Stores of Ships, Cap. 107. $33.

(2) As to Goods prohibited for Home Use, see Cap. 107. § 53. and Cap. 109. § 21.

(3) See Power to revoke or alter, § 6.

(4) See § 3. See also Deficiencies, § 37.

Publication, § 7.

(5) See Stowage, § 10. See concealing Goods, or opening Warehouse,

§ 11.

(6) See Bond, § 8.