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6th GEORGII IV. CHAP. 68.

IX. And whereas by an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for preventing 4. G. 3 c. 24. Frauds and Abuses in relation to the sending and receiving Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage, reciting that forasmuch as it had been usual for the Clerks in the Offices of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and also for certain Officers in the Office of His Majesty's Postmaster General, to frank printed Votes and Proceedings in Parliament, and printed Newspapers, to be sent by the Post, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for such Clerks and Offices as aforesaid, being thereunto licenced by His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or His Majesty's Postmaster General respectively, to continue to frank such printed Votes and Proceedings in Parliament, and printed Newspapers, in such Manner as they had theretofore been accustomed to frank the same: And whereas the Emoluments arising from the Privilege of franking Newspapers to the Colonies, now enjoyed by certain Officers in the Office of His Majesty's Postmaster General, by virtue of the said in part recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third and the Powers therein contained, will be reduced by the Operation and Effect of this Act: And whereas it is just Compensation to be and reasonable that a Compensation should be made to the said Officers made to the Officers as a Recompence for the Loss of such Privileges; be it therefore fur- ving the Privilege of ther enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of franking Papers to His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Colonies, for ReIreland, or any Three of them, by warrant under their Hands, to au- luments. thorize and direct the Postmaster General to make such Compensation to the said Officers as the said Commissioners shall think reasonable, which Compensation shall be charged upon and payable out of the Revenue of the General Post Office.

in the Post Office ha

So much of 42 G 3,

Newspapers, sent by

side by the Member of

X. And whereas by An Act passed in the Forty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to c 63 as requires that authorize the sending and receiving of Letters and Packets, Votes, Proceed the Post free should ings in Parliament, and printed Newspapers by the Post, free from the Duty be signed on the Out. of Postage, by the Members of the Two Houses of Parliament of the United Parliament, &c. reKingdom, and by certain Public Officers therein named; and for reducing pealed. the Postage on such Votes, Proceedings, and Newspapers when sent by any other Persons; it was amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for every Member of both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom, and certain Clerks of the Two Houses of Parliament therein particularly mentioned, to send by the Post within the said United Kingdom any printed Votes, Proceedings in Parliament, or printed Newspapers, free from the Duty of Postage, so as the same be sent without, Covers, or in Covers open at the Sides, which should be signed on the Outside thereof by the Hand of any Member of Parliament, or either of the said respective Clerks, in such Manner as had been theretofore practised; and also, that it should be lawful to and for each and every Member of both the said Two Houses of Parliament, and for each any every

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Limitation of Actions.

pleaded.

6th GEORGII IV. CHAP. 73.

of the said respective Clerks, to authorize printed Votes, Proceedings in Parliament, and printed Newspapers, to be sent by the Post free from the Duty of Postage, addressed to him at such Place and Places within the said United Kingdom as he should have previously given Notice in Writing to the Postmaster General either at London or Dublin: And whereas it is expedient that certain Parts of the said last mentioned Act should be repealed: Be it therefore further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, so much of the said last mentioned Act as requires that Newspapers, to be sent by Post free from the Duty of Postage, should be signed on the Outside thereofy the Hand of any Member of Parliament or the respective Clerks of the Two Houses of Parliament, and that Newspapers should be addressed to any such Member or any such Clerk at such Place and Places within the said United Kingdom as he shall have previously given Notice in Writing to the Postmaster General either at London or Dublin, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

XI. And be it further enacted, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, the same shall be commenced within Twelve Months after the Fact committed, and not afterwards; and the Defendant or Defendants in such Action shall and may plead the General Issue, and give General Issue may be this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if it shall appear so to be d ne, or that such Action or Suit shall be commenced after the Time before limited for bringing the same, that then the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and upon a Verdict for the Defendant, or if the Plantiff or Plantiffs shall be non-suited, or discontinue his, her, or their Action or Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if upon Demurrer, Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have in any other Cases by Law.

Treble Costs.

*

ANNO SEXTO.

GEORGII IV. REGIS.

CHAP. LXXIII.

An Act for further regulating the Trade of His Majesty's Possessions in America and the West Indies, and for the warehousing of Goods therein.

[27th June 1825.)

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His course with America. present Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Trade between His Majes

3G 4. c. 44. Inter

course with Europe.

ty's Possessions in America and other Places in America and the West Indies, whereby it is enacted, that it shall be lawful to Import into any of the Ports in His Majesty's said Possessions, enumerated in a Schedule to the said Act annexed (marked A), and therein denominated "Free Ports," from any Foreign Country on the Continent of North or South America, or from any Foreign Island in the West Indies, the Articles enumerated in another Schedule to the said Act annexed (marked B), subject nevertheless to the several Duties of Customs set forth in another Schedule to the said Act annexed (marked C.), and that it shall be lawful so to import the same in certain Foreign Ships or Vessels therein mentioned, as well as in British Ships or Vessels; And whereas another Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His 3G 4. c. 45. Interpresent Majesty, intituled an Act to regulate the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions in America and the West Indies, and other Parts of the World, whereby it is enacted, that it shall be lawful to import in any British Ship or Vessel, owned or navigated according to Law, from any Port in Europe or Africa, or from Gibraltar, the Island of Malta, or the Dependencies thereof, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey Alderney or Sark, into any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, or Islands in America or the West Indies, the Articles enumerated or described in a Schedule thereunto annexed (marked A.), subject nevertheless, on Importation, to certain Duties of Customs set forth in another Schedule thereunto annexed (marked B): And whereas it is expedient to permit all Goods (except as hereinafter excepted) to be imported from any of the said Places into any of the said Free Ports, and to charge the same with the like Duties from whichever of the said Places the same may be imported; and also to permit any of such Goods to be so imported in Ships of the Country of which the Goods are the Produce, as well as in British Ships, but to confine all such Importations to the said Free Ports; 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, Certain Schedules of That the several Schedules (marked B. and C. respectively) to the first imposed by recited recited Act annexed, and the several Schedules (marked A. and B re- Acts, or by 4 G. 4 spectively) to the second recited Act annexed, and also that all Duties imposed by either of the said Acts, or by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of His said Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of the Parliament, for regulating the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions in America and the West Indies, and other Parts of the World, Excent shall, from and after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be repealed, and the same are hereby repealed accordingly, except so far as the same relate in any way to the Island of Newfoundland.

c. 2. repealed;

as

foundland.

to New

All Goods may be

II And be it further enacted, That from and after the Fifth Day of imported from Ame January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, it shall be lawful

rica, Europe, or Africa, &c;

subject to Powers in

and 5 G. 4. c. 1.

to Import into any of the said Free Ports, except in Newfoundland, any Goods (except as herein after excepted) from any Foreign Place in America, or in Europe, or in Asia, within the Mediterranean Sea, and from any Place in Africa, and from Gibraltar, and from the Islands of Malta, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, provided such Importations be Acts, 4 G. 4. c. 77. made in British Ships, or in Ships of the Country of which the Goods are the Produce; subject nevertheless to the Powers given to His Majesty by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of His Reign, intituled An Act to authorize His Majesty under certain Circumstances to regulate the Duties and Drawbacks on Goods imported or exported in Foreign Vessels, and to Articles prohibited. exempt certain Foreign Vessels from Pilotage, and by another Act passed in the Fifth Year of His Reign, to amend the same: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to permit the Importation of Gunpowder, Arms, Ammunition, or Utensils of War, dried or salted Fish, salted Beef, Pork or Bacon, Whale Oil, Blubber or Fins, Books which are prohibited to be imported into the United Kingdom, base or counterfeit Coin, or any Goods the Produce or Manufacture of any Place within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter, into any of His Majesty's Possessions in America or the West Indies, nor Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, Sugar, Molasses, or Rum of Foreign Production, into any of the said Possessions in South America or the West Indies, or into Newfoundland.

Foreign Coffee, &c. may be imported into North America.

New Duties according to the Schedule.

III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful to Import any Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, Sugar, Molasses, and Rum of Foreign Production, into any of the British Possessions in North America, except Newfoundland, any thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that all Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, Sugar, Molasses, and Rum, (although the same may be of the British Flantations,) having been imported into any of the British Possessions in North America, except Newfoundland, shall, upon subsequent Importation from thence into any of the British Possessions in South America or the West Indies, or into Newfoundland, or into the United Kingdom, be deemed to be of Foreign Production, and shall be liable on such Importations respectively to the same Duties or the same Forfeitures as Articles of the like Description, being of Foreign Production, would be liable to, unless the same shall have been warehoused under the Provisions of this Act, and exported from the Warehouse direct to such other British Possession, or to Newfoundland, or to the United Kingdom, as the Case may be.

IV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in lieu of the Duties hereby made to cease and determine, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, upon Importation of the several Articles enumerated or described in the Schedule of Duties to this Act annexed, into any of the said Possessions in

America or the West Indies, except Newfoundland, from any Foreign Place in America, or from Europe, or from Asia within the Mediterranean Sea, or from any Place in Africa, the several Duties of Customs as the same are respectively set forth in Figures in the said Schedule: Provided always, that no greater Proportion of such Duties shall be charged upon of any previous Du any Article subject also to Duty under any other Act heretofore and still ties. in force, or under any Colonial Law, than the Amount, if any, by which the Duty charged by this Act shall exceed such other Duty or Duties.

Abating the Amount

under

Acts.

V. And be it further enacted, That the Duties imposed by this Act shall Dules to be levied be levied, raised, applied, and abated under the same Management, and merowers of forin the same Manner, and by the same Powers and Means, and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures, as the Duties imposed by the Two Acts herein-before first mentioned would be levied, raised, applied, and abated under the Provisions of those Acts respectively, except so far as the same may be altered by this Act.

Exportation to Eu

Tope &c in Ships of the Place of Destina.

VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful to export from any of the said Free Ports, except in Newfoundland, to any Foreign Country in Europe or Africa, or in Asta within the Mediterranean Sea, in ca. any Ship belonging to such Country, any Goods, being of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of such Possessions, and any Goods which have been legally imported into the same.

Trade with Countries

VII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majes. Power to prohibit ty, His Heirs and Successors, by Order in Council, from Time to Time, not granting similar when and as often as it shall be judged expedient, to prohibit the Trade Privileges. and Intercourse authorized by this Act with any Country in Europe having Possessions in America or the West Indies, if it shall appear that the Privileges granted by this Act to Foreign Ships or Vessels are not allowed by such Country to Brush Ships or Vessels in Trade or Intercourse with the Possessions of such Country in America or the West Indies.

VII. And be it further enacted, That so much of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to make more effectual Provision for permitting Goods imported to be secured in Warehouses or other Places, without Payment of Duty on the First Entry thereof, as enacts that certain Goods and Merchandize. mentioned in a Schedule (marked B.) to that Act annexed, Warehoused under the Provisions of that Act, shall not be exported from the Warehouse to any British Colony, Plantation. Territory or Dominion in America or the West Indies, nor be imported into any such British Colony or Plantation, unless and until all Duties, as well of Customs as Excise, payable in Great Britain or heland respectively on such Goods and Merchandize for Home Consumption, sh I have been paid, shall be repealed, and the same is hereby repealed accordingly.

4G. 4. c. 24 as related

to Goods in Schedule

(B) warenoused and Possessions in Ame rica, repealed.

exported to Briti h