ascertained by a Jury.

Verdict of, final.

Exception.

Jury, in ascertaining Com pensation for

Premises, to . settle Propor tion to be paid to Lessees, &c.

properly qualified according to Law, to appear before the Lords or Lord of Justiciary at the next Circuit, if the same shall not happen sooner than Twenty one Days after such Application, otherwise at the next succeeding Circuit; and the Compensation as aforesaid for the Land, Messuages, Tenements, Hereditaments. and Premises shall, at such Circuit, be ascertained by a Jury drawn from the Jury summoned as aforesaid, in such Manner as Juries are drawn in Scotland under the Direction of the said Lords or Lord of Justiciary as aforesaid; and the Verdict of such last mentioned Juries shall be final and conclusive, without being subject to Review or Challenge of any kind, unless the Court that shall have allowed such Inquiry shall think fit, on any Application made within Four Days after the Commencement of the succeeding Term or Session, if in Scotland, to order any new Trial in relation thereto.

XLVI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Jury impannelled before any Justice of the Peace, Magistrate, Deputy Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, or before any Judge of Assize or Nisi Prius, to ascertain the Compensation to be paid for any Lands under this Act, and they are hereby required to ascertain and settle the Proportion to be paid out of such Compensation to any Person or Persons having any Interest as Lessecs or Tenants at Will or otherwise, in any such Lands, and the Proportion to be paid out of such Compensation shall be returned on the Verdict: Provided also, that where any such Inquiry before any Judge of Assize or Nisi Prius, or Lords or Lord of Justiciary, shall be had on the Application of any such Lessee or Tenant at Will, or other Person having any inferior Interest in any such Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Hereditaments or Premises, who may have been dissatisfied with the Proportion of Compensation settled by the Jury to be paid in respect of such Interest, it shall not be lawful for the Jury in any such Case to alter the Amount of the entire Compensation awarded by any former Verdict to be paid for such Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Hereditaments or Premises, but only the Proportion thereof to be paid to the Person or Persons having separate Interests therein; and it shall not be lawful for any Jury, on any Inquiry had before settled Propor- any Judge of Assize or Nisi Prius, or Lords or Lord of Justiciary, as to any Compensation on the Application of the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, in any Case in which the whole Compensation awarded by the former Jury is confirmed by the Jury on such Inquiry, to alter the Proportion that shall have been settled by any such former Jury, as to any separate Interest in any such Lands, Tenements, Messuages, Hereditaments or Premises.

not to alter

tions.

Security for Costs. 4

Upon deliver

ing up Lands

XLVII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Court or Judge, or Lord Ordinary, making any such Rule or Order, to require that the Party, on whose Application the same shall be made, shall give such Security as shall to such Court, Judge or Lord Ordinary seem proper, for Payment of Costs, under such Circumstances as shall be specified in any Rule or Order made for that Purpose.

XLVIII. And be it further enacted, That in all Cases where any Lands shall be taken under the Provisions of this Act, for

any

vice to be re

any Term of Years or for such Period only as the Public Service to Owners, all shall require, it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or Erections for Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any other Person the Public Seror Persons so authorized as aforesaid, at any Time before the moved, making Possession of any Lands which shall have been taken for the Pur- Compensation poses aforesaid shall be delivered up to the Owner or Owners to the Owners. thereof, or other Person or Persons acting on his, her or their Behalf, to take down and remove all such Buildings or other Erections which shall or may have been built or erected thercon for the Public Service, and to carry away the Materials thereof; making such Compensation to the Owner or Owners of such Lands, or other Person or Persons acting on his, her or their Behalf, for the Damage or Injury which may have been done thereto, or to the Soil thereof, by the Erection of any such Buildings, or removing and carrying away the same, or otherwise, in consequence of the same having been occupied for the Public Service, as the said Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or such other Person or Persons authorized as aforesaid shall think reasonable, and as shall be agreed upon in that Behalf; and if such Owner or Owners or other Person or Persons acting on his, her or their Behalf, shall not be willing to accept the Compensation so offered, it shall be lawful for the said Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or other Person or Persons so authorized as aforesaid, to apply to and require Two Justices of the Peace of the County, Riding, Stewartry, City or Place, to settle and ascertain the Compensation which ought to be made for such Damage or Injury as aforesaid; and such Justice shall settle and ascertain the same accordingly, and shall grant a Certificate thereof; and the Amount of such Compensation, so settled and ascertained and certified, shall forthwith be paid by Warrant of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto : Provided always, Proviso forthat nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed Agreements, to extend, to alter, prejudice or affect any Agreement which hath been or shall or may be entered into, by any such Person or Persons authorized as aforesaid, with any Owner or Owners of any such Lands, or other Person or Persons acting on his, her or their Behalf, in relation to any such Buildings Erections, but every such Agreement shall remain valid and effectual in like Manner as if this Act had not passed.

or

citated Persons

XLIX. And be it further enacted, That in all Cases where Purchase any Money shall have been or shall be agreed, or shall have been Money belongor shall be found by the Verdict of any Jury, to be paid or given ing to incapafor the Use or Possession of any Lands, Messuages, Tenements, &c. paid to Hereditaments or Premises taken by virtue of this Act, belong- Oficer of Exing to any Person or Persons under any Disability or Incapa- chequer for city, or not having the absolute Interest therein, the same shall their Use. be paid by Warrant of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three of them, into the Hands of the proper Officer of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, Edinburgh or Dublin respectively for the Time being, for receiving the Manies belonging to the Suitors of the said Court respectively, for the Use and Benefit of such Person or Persons;

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and

Money paid

into the Bank

Barons of Ex

chequer, &c. on

Petition of Parties interested, to order Application of Money.

On Death, &c. of Officer of

and such Officer is hereby authorized and required to receive or accept and to give a Discharge for such Money; and upon the Acceptation or Receipt thereof to sign a Certificate to the Barons or Judges of the said Courts of Exchequer respectively, under his Hand, purporting and signifying that such Money or other Consideration was received or accepted by and paid to him in pursuance of this Act, for the Use and Benefit of such Person or Persons who shall be named and described in such Certificate, and the said Certificate shall be filed or deposited in the said Court of Exchequer at Westminster, Edinburgh or Dublin respectively; and a true Copy thereof, signed by such Officer of such Court, shall and may be read and allowed as Evidence for the Furposes hereinafter mentioned; and such Officer of such Court is hereby required, upon Receipt of any such Sum or Sums of Money as aforesaid, to pay the same into the Bank of England or Bank of Scotland, or Royal Bank of Scotland or Bank of Ireland, as the Case may require; and immediately upon the filing or depositing of such Certificate the said Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Hereditaments or Premises, shall be vested in or to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors.

L. And be it further enacted, That the Barons or Judges of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, and the Barons or Judges of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Edinburgh or Dublin, of the Decree of the Coif, for the Time being respectively, or any Two or more of them, shall be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, in a summary Way, upon Motion or by Petition for and on behalf of any Person or Persons interested in or entitled to the Benefit of the Money so paid to and received by the proper Officer of the said Courts respectively, or the Interest or Produce thereof, and upon reading the Certificate directed to be signed by the said Officer concerning the same as aforesaid, and receiving such further Satisfaction as they shall think necessary, to make and pronounce such Orders and Directions. for paying the said Money, or any Part of the same, or for placing out such Part thereof as shall be Principal in the Public Funds, or upon Government or Real Securities, and for Payment of the Dividends or Interest thereof, or any Part thereof, to the respective Persons entitled to receive the same, or for laying out the Principal, or any Part thereof, in the Purchase of other Lands to be conveyed and settled to, for and upon the same Uses, Trusts, Intents and Purposes as the said Lands so taken stood settled at the Time of the Payment of such Money as aforesaid, as near as the same can be done or otherwise concerning the disposing of the said Money or any Part thereof, and the Interest of the same, or any Part thereof for the Benefit of the Person or Persons respectively, or for appointing any Person or Persons to be Trustee or Trustees for all or any of such Purposes, as the said Courts respectively shall think just and reasonable.

LI. And be it further enacted, That upon the Death, Removal or Resignation of any such Officer of the said Courts of ExExchequer, Se- chequer, all Stocks and Securities vested in him by virtue of this Act shall vest in the succeeding Officer of the Exchequer, for the Purposes hereinbefore mentioned, without any Assignment

curities to vest in Successor.

or Transfer; and all Monies paid in the said Banks respectively
in
pursuance of this Act, or remaining in the Hands of any such
Officer at his Death, Resignation or Removal, and not vested in the
Funds or placed out on Securities as aforesaid, shall be paid over
to the succeeding Officer for the like Purpose for the Time being.
LII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in
this Act contained shall be construed to extend to any Garden or
Pleasure Gound, or to any Land immediately contiguous to and
used as the Curtilage or Homestead of any Dwelling House.

of Treasury

of the whole.

LIII. And be it further enacted, That every Order, Document, Documents Instrument or Writing relating to the Customs or to the Law of signed by Three Navigation, required by any Law at any Time in force to be under Commissioners the Hands of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, being deemed the Act signed by Three or more of such Commissioners, shall be deemed to be an Order, Document, Instrument or Writing under the Hands of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury accordingly. LIV. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended, varied, altered or repealed, by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament.

Act may be altered, &c.

this Session.

CA P. CVII.

An Act for the General Regulation of the Customs.

WE

[5th July 1825.]

HEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session of Par- c.105. Ante, $ 1. liament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 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 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 au'thorized 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 Customs will be repealed; and it is expedient to 'make Provisions for regulating the Customs 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 Commencefrom and after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight ment of Act. hundred and twenty six, this Act shall come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation, for the General Regulation of

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the Customs of the United Kingdom and of the Isle of Man.

INWARDS.

General

Provision.

II. And Whereas it is expedient that the Officers of Customs 'should have full Cognizance of all Ships coming into any Port in the United Kingdom or in the Isle of Man, or approaching the Coasts thereof, and of all Goods on board, or which may have 'been on board such Ships, and also of all Goods unladen from No Goods 'any landed, nor

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INWARDS.

General Provision.

Bulk broken,

before Report and Entry.

Times and Places of landing.

Goods not reported or entered, forfeited. Bulk illegally broken, Penalty.

Certain Articles landed without Entry.

Manifest.

All British

Ships, and all
Ships with To-

bacco, to have
Manifests.

Particulars of
Manifest.

Proviso as to
Manifests for
Tobacco.

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any Ship in any Port or Place in the United Kingdom or in the Isle of Man ;' Be it therefore enacted, That no Goods shall be unladen from any Ship arriving from Parts beyond the Seas, at any Port or Place in the United Kingdom, or in the Isle of Man, nor shall Bulk be broken after the Arrival of such Ship within Four Leagues of the Coasts thereof respectively, before due Report of such Ship, and due Entry of such Goods shall have been made, and Warrant granted in Manner hereinafter directed; and that no Goods shall be so unladen except at such Times and Places, and in such Manner, and by such Persons, and under the Care of such Officers as is and are hereinafter directed; and that all Goods not duly reported, or which shall be unladen contrary hereto, shall be forfeited; and if Bulk be broken contrary hereto, the Master of such Ship shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds; and if after the Arrival of any Ship within Four Leagues of the Coast of the United Kingdom or of the Isle of Man, any Alteration be made in the Stowage of the Cargo of such Ship, so as to facilitate the unlading of any Part of such Cargo, or if any Part be staved, destroyed or thrown overboard, or any Package be opened, such Ship shall be deemed to have broken Bulk: Provided always, that the several Articles hereinafter enumerated may be landed in the United Kingdom without Report, Entry or Warrant; (that is to say,) Diamonds and Bullion, fresh Fish, British taken and imported in British Ships, Turbots and Lobsters fresh, however taken or imported.

ÎII. And be it further enacted, That no Goods shall be imported into the United Kingdom or into the Isle of Man, from Parts beyond the Seas, in any British Ship, nor any Tobacco in any Ship, unless the Master shall have on board a Manifest of such Goods, or of such Tobacco, made out and dated and signed by him at the Place or respective Places where the same or the different Parts of the same was or were taken on board, and authenticated in the Manner hereinafter provided; and every such Manifest shall set forth the Name and the Tonnage of the Ship, the Name of the Master, and of the Place to which the Ship belongs, and of the Place or Places where the Goods were taken on board respectively, and of the Place or Places for which they are destined respectively; and shall contain a particular Account and Description of all the Packages on board, with the Marks and Numbers thereon, and the Sorts of Goods and different Kinds of each Sort contained therein, to the best of the Master's Knowledge, and of the Particulars of such Goods as are stowed loose; and the Names of the respective Shippers and Consignees, as far as the same can be known to the Master; and to such particular Account shall be subjoined a general Account or Recapitulation of the total Number of the Packages of each Sort, describing the same by their usual Names or by such Descriptions as the same can best be known by, and the different Goods therein, and also the total Quantities of the different Goods stowed loose: Provided always, that every Manifest for Tobacco shall be a separate Manifest, distinct from any Manifest for any other Goods, and shall, without fail, contain the particular Weight of Tobacco in each Hogshead, Cask, Chest or Case, with the Tare of the same; and if such Tobacco be the Produce of the Dominions of the Grand Seignor, then the Num

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