ANNO SEXTO GEORGII IV. REGIS. CA P. CXIII. An Act to grant certain Bounties and Allowances HEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session WE 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may be authorized to act in the Execution thereof, that all the Statutes now in force relating to the Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which they have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the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contained in them: And whereas the Laws by which any Bounties or Allowances of Customs have been given, will thereby be repealed, and it is expedient to make Provisions for giving such Bounties and Allowances in certain Cases after such Repeal shall have Effect: Be it therefore enacted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 Commencement after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six this Act shall come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation for giving any Boun of Act. On Exportation of Goods enumerated in Schedule, the Bounties therein stated shall be paid. 6o GEO. 4. II. AND be it further enacted, That upon the Exportation from the United Kingdom of the several Sorts of Goods enumerated or described in the Schedule hereinafter contained, intituled, "A Schedule of Bounties of Customs Outwards," there shall be given the several Bounties set forth in Figures next after the several Sorts of Goods respectively therein expressed, and under the Conditions and Regulations herein-after directed. A Schedule of Bounties of Customs Outwards. Cordage or Spun Yarn, being Staple Cordages. d. Linen Plain; videlicet, 0 3 10 under the Value (3) of Five-pence per Yard; for every Yard, Eight-tenth Parts of 0 0 0 of the Value of Five-pence, and under Sixpence per Yard; for every Yard, Eighttenth Parts of 001 of the Value of Sixpence, and not exceeding One Shilling and Sixpence per Yard; for every Yard, Eight-tenth Parts of 0 0 1 upwards of One Yard in Breadth, and exceeding the Value of One Shilling and Sixpence per Running Yard, and not exceeding the Value of One Shilling and Sixpence per Square Yard; for every Square Yard, Eight-tenth Parts of checked and striped, of the Value of Seven-pence, and not exceeding One Shil (1) See Exporter's Oath, § 8. not less than Three Tons, § 10. 0 0 1 See Rigging made up, § 9. See Quantity, (2) Foreign Linen Cloth prohibited to be there imported, Cap.115. § 13. (3) As to Value, see § 7. Linen, &c. continued. ling and Sixpence per Yard; for every Yard, Note. One other Tenth Part of the afore- Sail Cloth made in the United Kingdom, fit for Sugar (2), till the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six; videlicet, Refined, made in the United Kingdom from Sugar, the Produce of the British Plantations or of the East Indies; videlicet, Bastards, or Refined Loaf Sugar broken in Pieces, or being ground or powdered Sugar, or such Sugar pounded, crashed, or broken, exported in a British Ship; for every Hundred Weight exported in a Ship not British (3); for every Hundred Weight 002 Other refined Sugar in Loaf, complete and whole, or Lumps duly refined, having been perfectly clarified and thoroughly dried in the Stove, and being of a uniform Whiteness throughout, or such Sugar pounded, crashed, or broken, and Sugar Candy, exported in a British Ship; for every Hundred Weight exported in a Ship not British; for every Hundred Weight Double Refined Sugar, additional Bounty for every Hundred Weight 1 10 0 19 0 2 6 0 2 4 6 08 0 III. AND be it further enacted, That the Exporter of any Goods, in respect of which any Bounty is claimed under this Act, or the Person in whose Name the same are entered Outwards, shall, at the Time of Entry and before (1) See Quantity, § 10. (3) For American Ships, see Act 59 Geo. 3. Foreign Ships in general, see Act 4 G. 4. Cap. 77. (2) See § 4, 5, and 6. Bond to be given for the due Exportation. Candy in Packages of Half Cwt., other Sugar 2 Cwt. Sugar crashed for Exportation. Different Sorts of crashed Sugar to be kept separate. - 6o GEO. 4. Cocket be granted (1), give Security by - Bond in Double the Value of the Goods, with One sufficient Surety, that the same shall be duly exported to the Place for which they are entered, or be otherwise accounted for to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of the Customs, and shall not be relanded (2) in the United Kingdom, or landed in the Isle of Man (3), or the Islands of Faro or Ferro,—and shall not be landed in Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, unless expressly entered to be exported to one of those Places. - IV. AND be it further enacted, That no Bounty shall be given upon the Exportation of any refined Sugar called Candy, unless it be properly refined and manufactured, and free from Dirt and Scum, and packed in Packages, each of which shall contain Half a Hundred Weight of such Candy at the least; nor upon any other refined Sugar, unless the same be packed in Packages, each of which shall contain Two Hundred Weight of such Sugar at the least. - V. AND be it further enacted, That if any Sugar in Lumps or Loaves is to be pounded, crashed, or broken, before the same be exported for the Bounty payable thereon, such Lumps or Loaves shall, after due Entry thereof, be lodged in some Warehouse, provided by the Exporter and approved by the Commissioners of the Customs for such Purpose, to be then first examined by the Officers of Customs while in such Lumps or Loaves, as if for immediate Shipment, and afterwards to be there pounded, crashed, or broken, and packed for Exportation, in the Presence of such Officers, and at the Expence of the Exporter; AND such Sugar shall be kept in such Warehouse, and be removed from thence for Shipment, and be shipped under the Care and in the Charge of the Searchers, in order that the Shipment and Exportation thereof may be duly certified by them upon the Debenture, according to the Quality ascertained by them of the same while in such Lumps or Loaves. VI. AND be it further enacted, That the different Sorts of such· Sugar shall be kept apart from each other, in (1) For General Regulations, see Cap. 107 § 81 to 90. (2) See also Cap. 108. § 45. (3) Except Quantity of Refined Sugar allowed by Licence to the Isle of Man, see Cap. 115. § 4. such Manner and in such distinct Rooms or Divisions of such Warehouse, as shall be directed and appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs; and if any Sort of such Sugar shall be found in any Part of such Warehouse appointed for the keeping of Sugar of a Sort superior in Quality thereto, the same shall be forfeited; AND if any Sort of such Sugar shall be brought to such Warehouse to be pounded, crashed, or broken, which shall be of a Quality inferior to the Sort of Sugar expressed in the Entry for the same, such-Sugar shall be forfeited. VII. AND be it further enacted, That if any Linen which is entered for Bounty, as being of the Value at least of Five-pence per Yard, or of Sixpence per Yard, or of Seven-pence per Yard, as the Case may be, shall upon Examination be found not to be worth Five-pence per Yard, or Sixpence per Yard, or Seven-pence per Yard, respectively, the same shall be forfeited; AND if any Linen which is entered for Bounty by the Square Yard shall upon Examination be found not to be worth more than One Shilling and Sixpence per Running Yard, the same shall be forfeited; AND if any Linen which or IT shall and the is entered for Bounty shall upon Examination be found to Linen entered for Bounty, if below the proper Value, to be forfeited; if above, may be Valuation. taken at the porter to Cordage and Exportation. Manufacture of VIII. AND be it further enacted, That before any Oath of ExBounty given by this Act on the Exportation of Cordage be paid, the Exporter of any Cordage in respect of which such Bounty is claimed shall make Oath upon the Debenture before the Collector or Comptroller, that the said Cordage was wrought up and manufactured in the United Kingdom, as he verily believes, from Foreign Rough Hemp, not the Growth or Production of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, nor of the East Indies or China, nor imported by the East India Company; and that the Duties due upon the Importation thereof were |