any fuch Deals and Fir Timber from the additional Duties thereby impofed, fhall be and the fame is hereby repealed; and the faid Ar- Such Articles ticles fhall, from and after the First Day of July One thoufand eight fubject to Duty. hundred and eleven, be fubject and liable to the faid additional Duties impofed by the faid recited A&t. the Mines of III. And be it further enacted, That there fhall be paid and Drawback on allowed for and in refpect of fuch of the faid Deals and Timber on certain Deals and which the full Duties due by Law on the Importation thereof fhall Timber ufed in have been paid, and which Deals and Timber shall have been used and Devon or Coritemployed in any of the Mines of Tin, Lead or Copper, in the Coun- wall. ties of Devon or Cornwall, a Drawback of fo much of the Duties of Cuftoms fo paid on any fuch Deals above Séven Inches in Width, being Eight Feet in Length and not above Ten Feet in Length, and not exceeding One Inch and a Half in Thicknefs, and on any Fir Timber being Eight Inches fquare and not exceeding Ten Inches fquare, being of the Growth of Norway, and imported directly from thence, as fhall exceed the Amount of the Permanent and Temporary Duties of Cuftoms that were charged and payable on fuch Deals and Timber refpectively by an Act paffed in the Forty ninth 49 G. 3. c. 98. Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Aa for repealing the feveral Duties of Customs chargeable in Great Britain, Customs. and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof; which Drawback fhall Account of fuch be paid to the Owner of any fuch Mine, under the following Re- Deals and Timgulations; that is to fay, the Purfer, Agent or Captain of any fuch ber delivered to Mine in the faid Counties of Cornwall and Devon refpectively intending to claim the Drawback under this Act, fhall enter or cause to be entered in a Book, to be kept for that Purpose, an Account of the Quantity of fuch Deals and Timber used and employed in fuch Mine, ftating of whom fuch Deals and Timber were purchased, at what Port the fame were stated by the Vender to have been imported, and at the End of each Year he fhall deliver an Account thereof to the Collector of the Cuftoms of the Port where the Duty upon fuch Deals and Timber shall have been stated to have been paid. IV. And be it further enacted, That the Purfer, Agent or Captain Account veriof any fuch Mine fhall make Oath or Affirmation to the Truth of fied on Oath, &c. the Account fo delivered to the Collector of the Cuftoms, and fhall alfo, if required by the faid Customer or Collector, produce the Coft Book of any fuch Mine; and the Perfon or Perfons, or his or their Agent or Agents, who fhall have fupplied the faid Deals and Timber shall also make Oath or Affirmation to the Truth of his or their Accounts, and that the full Duties on fuch Deals and Timber were paid thereon; and the proper Officer of the Cuftoms being fatisfied that the Deals and Timber referred to in such Account were fupplied for the Ufe of fuch Mine, and the full Duties paid thereon, then and in every fuch Cafe a Debenture fhall be iffued for the Amount of the Drawback allowed by this Act, and the fame fhall be paid by the Collector of the Cuftoms who shall have received fuch Account, out of any Monies remaining in his Hands on Account of the Duties of Cuftoms. V. And be it further enacted, That if any Purfer, Agent or Cap- Delivering ina tain of fuch Mine fhall deliver any falfe Account of the Quantity of false Account. Deals and Timber ufed and employed, with an Intent to defraud His Majesty, his Heirs or Succeffors, fuch Purfer, Agent or Captain fhall, on being convicted of any fuch Offence, for the First Offence First Offence. K 4 forfeit Subfequent 50 G. 3. c. 77. $8. Application of A&t may be repealed, &c. Additional Duty on Linens imported. 49 G. 3. c. 98. forfeit the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and for every Second or further Offence the Sum of Four hundred Pounds, to be fued for within Three Months after the Delivery of the Account, and recovered in any of the Courts of Record at Westminster; and One Moiety of fuch Penalty fhall go and be applied to the Ufe of His Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiety to him or them who fhall fue or profecute for the fame. • VJ. And whereas the Duties granted by the faid recited Act · were directed to be paid into the Exchequer of Great Britain, and appropriated to the fame Ufes as the Temporary or War Duties impofed by an A&t made in the Forty ninth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majesty are directed to be applied: And whereas it is expedient that the Temporary or War Duties granted by the said Act of the laft Seffion of Parliament, and by this Act, fhould be applied towards defraying any Services voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament affembled;' Be it therefore enacted, That the faid laft mentioned Temporary or War Duties fhall be appropriated and applied, from time to time, to fuch Services as fhall be voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament affembled, for the Service of the Year One thoufand eight hundred and eleven, or fhall be voted by the faid Commons for the Service of any fubfequent Year; and the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury now or for the time being, or any Three or more of them, or the High Treafurer for the time being, are or is hereby authorized and empowered to iffue and apply the fame accordingly. VII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be varied, altered or repealed by any Act or Acts to be made in this prefent Seffion of Parliament, CA P. XLIV. An Act for impofing an additional Duty on Linen imported Customs fhould be impofed on foreign Linen imported into • Great Britain;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That, from and after the Thirtieth Day of June One thoufand eight hundred and eleven, there fhall be raised, levied, collected and paid unto His Majesty, his Heirs and Succeffors, an additional Duty of Customs on all Linen imported or brought into Great Britain from Parts beyond the Seas, of whatever Defcription the fame may be, equal in Amount to the Temporary or War Duty already charged and payable on the like Articles, according as the faid Duties are feverally and refpectively defcribed and fet forth in Figures as Temporary or War Duties in the Schedule marked (A) annexed to an Act paffed in the Forty ninth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ad for repealing the feveral Duties of Cuftoms chargeable in Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof: Pro in Warehouses. vided always, that the faid additional Duties fhall not be charged or Provifo for payable on any Linen which, having been imported into Great Bri- Linens fecured tain on or before the faid Thirtieth Day of June, fhall have been or may be fecured in Warehouses under the Authority of any Act of Parliament without Payment of Duty, notwithstanding fuch Linen may not be fo taken out of any fuch Warehouse, either to be used or confumed in Great Britain, or for the Purpose of being exported, until after the faid Thirtieth Day of June. of Customs, II. And be it further enacted, That fuch of the faid Duties as Duties under fhall arife in that Part of Great Britain called England, fhall be Commiffioners under the Management of the Commiffioners of the Customs in England for the time being; and fuch thereof as fhall arise in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland fhall be under the Management of the Commiffioners of the Cuftoms in Scotland for the time being. III. And be it further enacted, That the additional Duty of How levied. Customs hereby impofed fhall be managed, afcertained, raised, levied, collected, paid and recovered in fuch and the like manner as any Du ties of Customs of the like Nature are managed, afcertained, raifed, levied, collected, paid and recovered, and under and subject to the feveral Powers, Conditions, Rules, Regulations, Reftrictions, PeInalties and Forfeitures now in force in relation to or made for fecuring the Revenue of Cuftoms in Great Britain; and all Powers, Penalties, Fines and Forfeitures for any Offence whatever committed against or in breach of any Act or Acts of Parliament in force on and immediately before the paffing of this A&t, made for fecuring the Revenue of Cuftoms, or for the Regulation or Improvement thereof, and the feveral Claufes, Powers and Directions therein contained, shall be in full Force and Effect as to the faid Duties, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they were at large repeated and re-enacted in this A&t. IV. And be it further enacted, That all Monies from time to time Application of arifing from the faid Duties, the neceffary Charges of raifing and ac- Duties. counting for the fame refpectively excepted, fhall from time to time be paid into the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer at Westminster, and fhall be appropriated and applied in the fame manner as the Duties called Temporary or War Duties impofed by an Act paffed in the Forty ninth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, 49 G. 3. c. 98. intituled, An Ad for repealing the several Duties of Customs chargeable in Great Britain, and for granting new Duties in lieu thereof, are directed to be appropriated and applied. V. And be it further enacted, That this A&t may be varied, AA may be realtered or repealed during the present Seffion of Parliament. pealed, kc. VI. And be it further enacted, That the additional Duty charged Commenceby this Act fhall commence from and after the Thirtieth Day of ment, &c. June One thoufand eight hundred and eleven, and fhall continue to be levied, collected and paid during the Continuance of the prefent War, and for Six Months after the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace. CAP. 10 & 11. W. 3. C. 25. The Ship Rooms hereinmentioned no longer to be ufed as fuch, but may be difpofed of as Private Property. 49 G. 3. c. 27. Governor of CA P. XLV. An Act for taking away the public Ufe of certain Ships Rooms in the Town of Saint John, in the Ifland of Newfoundland; and for inftituting Surrogate Courts on the Coast of Labrador, and in certain Iflands adjacent thereto. [31st May 1811.] WJebu, in the land of Newfoundland, called Ships Rooms, HEREAS certain Spaces of Ground in the Town of Saint are liable, according to the ancient Custom there used, and conformably with the Provifions of an Act paffed in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of His Majefty King William the Third, intituled, An Act to encourage the Trade to Newfoundland, to be claimed by the Mafters of fishing Ships, for the Ufe of their Ships and Boats during the current fishing Seafon, which faid Spaces of Ground have not of late been employed for the Purposes of the Fishery : And whereas it would be more beneficial to the general Interests of the Trade and Fishery, if the faid Spaces of Ground were wholly exempted from fuch Claim, and were let out for building • Dwelling Houfes and Store Houfes, and for other Ufes neceflary to the Trade and Fishery: And whereas it has been proved, upon the Survey of Perfons refident in the Town of Saint John's, and well skilled in the Affairs of the Fishery, that there is Land at the • Western Extremity of the Harbour better fuited for drying, curing and husbanding of Fish than any of the Ships Rooms above mentioned;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, the following Ships Rooms, fituated in the Town of Saint John's; that is to say, the Ships Room, No. I. Rotten Row, or Pye Corner Ships Room, No. II.; Darkus's Ships Room, No. II.; Lady's Ships Room, No. II.; Gallows Hill Ships Room, No. III.; Burfheart Hill Ships Room, No. III.; Churchill Ships Room, No. IV.; Hudson's Ships Room, No. V.; Admiral's Ships Room, No. VI.; as the fame are laid down, diftinguifhed and named in a Plan of the Town and Harbour of Saint John's in Newfoundland, dated October One thousand eight hundred and four, and depofited in the Government House there, fhall no longer be deemed and taken to be Ships Rooms and occupied during the fishing Seafon as fuch, but it fhall be lawful for the fame to be granted, let and poffeffed as private Property, in like manner as any other Portions of Land in Newfoundland may be; any thing in the said A&t or the faid ancient Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And whereas it is expedient to provide for the better Adminiftration of Justice in fuch Parts of the Coaft of Labrador from the River St. John to Hudfon's Streights, and in the Island of Anticofti, and in all other smaller Islands as are re-annexed to the Government of Newfoundland by an Act paffed in the Forty ninth Year of His Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Ad for eftablishing Courts of Judicature in the land of Newfoundland and the Iflands adjacent; and for re-annexing Part of the Coast of Labrador and the Iflands lying on the faid Coast to the Government of Newfoundland; Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful lawful for the Governor of Newfoundland from time to time to may inftitute inftitute Surrogate Courts in the faid Parts and Places, with Power Surrogate and Authority to proceed in and to hear and determine Civil Suits Courts. arifing within the faid Ports and Places, and all other Suits and Complaints, in like manner as Surrogate Courts inftituted by virtue of the faid Act in the Island of Newfoundland. CA P. XLVI. An Act to authorise the Officers of the Customs to act for the [31st May 1811.] WHEREAS by an A&t paffed in the Forty fifth Year of His 45 G. 3. c. xo. prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ad to make further Provifion for the effectual Performance of Quarantine, certain Duties are required to be performed by the Superintendant of Quarantine, or his Deputy, but no Provifion is made for the Execution of the fame • in the Event of the Abfence of thofe Officers;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Autho rity of the fame, That every thing required in the faid A&t to be Principal Officer done and performed by the Superintendant of Quarantine, or his of Cultoms to Affiftant, may, in cafe of the Abfence or Sickness of fuch Super- act as Superintendant of intendant or Affiftant, be done and performed by the principal Officer Quarantine in of the Customs at the Port or Place, or by fuch Officer of the cafe of Abfence, Cuftoms as shall be authorized by the Commiffioners of the Customs, &c. or any Four or more of them, to act in that Behalf. An Act for carrying into Effect the Provifions of a Treaty of § 3 HEREAS according to an A&t paffed in the Twelfth Year 12 Car. 2. c. 18. of the Reign of His Majesty King Charles the Second, ⚫ intituled, An Ad for the encouraging and increafing of Shipping and Navigation, and other Statutes, no Goods or Commodities whatever, of the Growth, Production or Manufacture of America, can be imported into this Kingdom or the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, in any other than British-built Ships, owned by His Majetty's Subjects, navigated with a Mafter and Three Fourths of the Mariners British Subjects, and registered according to Law, on Forfeiture of all fuch Goods or Commodities, and of the Ship or • Veffel in which they are imported: And whereas the following Goods and Commodities; that is to fay, Mafts, Timber, Boards, Salt, Pitch, Tar, Rofin, Hemp, Flax, Raifins, Figs, Prunes, Olive Oil, Corn or Grain, Sugar, Pot Ashes, Wine, Vinegar, Aqua vita or Brandy, being the Growth, Production or Manufacture of Europe, are, by the faid recited A&t of the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His faid late Majefty King Charles the Second, and by fubfequent Acts, required to be imported into Great Britain in Ships or Veffels, which, before the First Day of May One thou • fand |