Forfeiture. Duties under Commissioners of Customs, Part of Duties may be retained for Expences of Government. Account kept by Receiver of Man. One Quart for each Seaman, or any Tobacco exceeding One Half of a Pound Weight for each Seaman, or any Tea exceeding One Pound Weight for the whole of the Seamen on board such Boat, all such Foreign Spirits, Tobacco and Tea respectively, together with the Casks or Packages containing the same, and also every such Vessel or Boat, together with all the Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle and Apparel thereof, shall be forfeited. XV. And be it further enacted, That the Duties of Customs shall be raised, levied, collected, paid, recovered and accounted for under the Authority and Direction, or under the Management and Controul of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and, except the necessary Charges of raising, collecting, levying, recovering and accounting for the same, the said Rates and Duties shall from time to time (subject to the Deductions hereinafter mentioned) be brought and paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer distinctly and apart from all other Branches of the Public Revenue, and shall go to and make Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Provided always, that any of the Collectors of Customs of the said Isle shall, and he and they is and are hereby authorized and required, agreeably to such Directions as shall from time to time be given for that Purpose by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, to retain such Sum or Sums of Money in his or their Hands as may be sufficient to defray the necessary Expences attending the Government of the said Isle of Man and the Administration of Justice there, and other Charges incurred in the said Isle, which have heretofore been or may hereafter be deemed fit and proper Charges to be deducted from and paid out of the Duties of Customs collected in the said Isle of Man, and also for the Purpose of defraying any Bounties that may be due by Law upon Herrings caught by the Inhabitants of the said Isle of Man; and upon the Amount of the said Expences, Charges and Bounties being ascertained, the said Commissioners are liereby authorized to direct the same to be paid out of the said Monies so retained, to such Person or Persons as may be entitled to receive the same. XVI. And be it further enacted, That there shall be provided and kept, by the Receiver General or Collector of the Duties of General of Isle Customs in the Isle of Man for the Time being, a Book or Books, in which the Duties of Customs arising and payable within the Isle of Man under this Act, or any Act or Acts at any Time in force relating to such Duties, shall be entered separate and under distinct Heads, specifying the respective Amount of the Duties of Customs on the several Articles licensed under this Act, and the Amount of Duties on Goods, Wares or Merchandize, paying Duties according to the Value thereof; or if any of the said Duties, or any Part or Proportion of any such Duties, shall at any Time hereafter be repealed, altered or varied, or if any former Duties of Customs have, since the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and ten, been repealed, altered or varied, then and in any such Case the Average Produce of the Duties or Proportion of Duties so repealed, altered or varied for the Three Years preceding the Fifth Day of January imme diately diately preceding such Repeal, Alteration or Variation of such Duties as aforesaid, shall be entered distinctly and separately in such Book or Books as aforesaid; and if any new Duties have been, since the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and ten, or shall be granted in lieu of any Duties so repealed, altered or varied, then and in such Case the Duties or such a Proportion thereof as shall be equal to any Duties so repealed, or to such Proportions of any such Duties as shall have been or shall be so altered or varied, shall also be entered distinctly and separately in such Book or Books. Receiver General to make out Quarterly Accounts, and transmit Duplicates to Treasury, to Auditor of Ex chequer, and to Duke of Atholl. XVII. And be it further enacted, That the Receiver General or Collector of the Duties of Customs in the said Island for the Time being shall, as soon after the Expiration of each Quarter of every Year (ending on the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, and the Tenth Day of October respectively, in each Year), as the same can be done, make out an Account of the gross Produce of the Duties of Customs, payable and arising within the said Island in the preceding Quarter, in such Form as shall be directed by the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three of them for the Time being; and shall transmit and certify a Duplicate of such Account to the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, and another Duplicate, so certified, to the Auditor for the Time being of the Exchequer, and another thereof to the most Noble John Duke of Atholl, or to the Person entitled for the Time being to any Annuity out of the said Consolidated Fund, to be calculated on any Amount of such Duties, under any Act or Acts now in force, or hereafter to be made, or to any Person or Persons appointed by him or them, by Writing under his or their Hand or Hands, to receive the same; and if any such Receiver General shall refuse or neglect to make out such Account, or to transmit such Duplicates as aforesaid, for the Space of One Month after the same can be done, such Receiver General shall forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, Penalty. and a further Sum of Two hundred Pounds for each and every Month succeeding such First Month for which he shall omit or neglect to make out such Account, or to send such Duplicates so certified as aforesaid, and to be recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts at Westminster, by Action, Bill, Plaint or Information, in which no Essoign or Wager of Law shall be allowed, or in any Court in the said Island; and every such Penalty shall go and be applied to the Use of the said John Duke of Atholl, or the Person or Persons for the Time being entitled to such Annuity as afore said. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, varied or repealed, by any Act or Acts to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CA P. CXVI. An Act for regulating Vessels carrying Passengers to Foreign Parts. W [5th July 1825.] Application thereof. Act may be altered, &c. this Session. ante. HEREAS an Act was passed in this present Session of c.105. § 1. Commencement of Act. What Number of Persons Bri tish Vessels, carrying Passengers, shall sail with with < 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 Interest 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 the Laws relating to the carrying of Passengers to Foreign Parts will be repealed; and it is expedient to make new Provisions in lieu thereof:' 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 thousand eight hundred and twenty six, this Act shall come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation for regulating Vessels carrying Passengers to Foreign Parts. II. And be it further enacted, That no British Ship carrying any Passenger or Passengers shall sail from any Port or Place in the United Kingdom to or for any Port or Place out of Europe, and not being within the Streights of Gibraltar, with more Persons on board, including the Master and Crew, than One for out a Licence. every Five Tons of her Burthen, without a Licence under the Hands and Seals of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds for every Person exceeding such Proportion, to be paid by the Master of such Ship: Provided always, that no such Licence shall be granted for any Ship to carry any greater Number of Persons, including the Master and Crew, than in the Proportion of One Person for every Two Tons of the Burthen of such Ship or Vessel, except as hereinafter provided in the Case of Ships sailing from Ireland to the British Possessions in North America: Provided also, that Two Children under Fourteen Years of Age, or Three Children under Seven Years of Age, shall in all Cases be computed as One Person, for the Purposes hereinbefore mentioned. Restriction as to Licence. How Children computed. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the Master of any Ship laden with Goods and Merchandize for Exportation, which shall sail from any Port or Place in the United Kingdom to or for any Port or Place out of Europe, and not being within the Streights of Gibraltar, to receive or take on board a greater Number of Persons, including the Master and Crew, computed as aforesaid, than in the Proportion of One Person for every Two Tons of such Ship remaining unladen with Goods and Merchandize, under the Penalty of Twenty Pounds for every Person exceeding such Proportion, to be paid by the Master of such Ship: Provided always, that every clear integral Space between the Deck and the Cargo of every Ship which shall have but One Deck, or between the Decks of any Ship having more Decks Decks than One, such Space being unoccupied with Goods or Merchandize, or with Stores, Provisions, Water or Baggage, and being Six Feet in Length, Two Feet Six Inches in Breadth, and being of the whole of the Height between Decks, or being Five Feet Six Inches in Height, if there be only One Deck, shall be deemed to be and shall be equivalent to Two Tons of such Ship remaining unladen. IV. And be it further enacted, That every British Ship shall Tonnage how be deemed to be of such Burthen as is set forth in the Certificate ascertained. of the Registry of such Ship, and the Burthen of every Foreign Ship shall be ascertained by Admeasurement, in the Manner directed by any Act now in force or hereafter to be made respecting the Admeasurement of British Ships for the Purpose of being registered. List of Persons on board to be delivered to Collector. Bond to be given that the worthy and properly stored, &c. Vessel is sea V. And be it further enacted, That the Master of every British Ship carrying Passengers as aforesaid, and having more Persons on board, including the Master and Crew, computed as aforesaid, than One for every Five Tons of the Burthen of such Ship, previously to his leaving the Port from whence he shall be bound shall deliver to the Collector and Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs at such Port a List, containing the full Number of the Crew, and also the Number of the Passengers, with their Names, Ages and Descriptions, and the Places to which they are to be respectively conveyed, for the Purpose of being registered at such Port; and if the Number of such Persons shall exceed Fifty, such Ship shall not be cleared out, unless the Owner or Owners, or the Master, shall have given Bond to His Majesty, with Two sufficient Sureties, such Bond to be without Stamp, and to be taken by and left in the Hands of the Collector or Comptroller of the Customs of the Port from whence such Ship shall be cleared out, in an Amount equal to the Sum of Twenty Pounds for each Passenger, whether Child or Adult, on board such Ship, with Condition that such Ship is seaworthy, and properly stored with Water and Provisions, and shall have for the Voyage a Surgeon, with a Medicine Chest properly stored with Medicines, as hereinafter provided; and that every such Passenger, if alive, Landing of shall be landed at the Port or Ports to which such Passenger Passengers. shall have contracted to be conveyed, unless landed elsewhere at his or her own Desire. VI. And be it further enacted, That if the Master of any Masters taking British Ship, having a Licence to carry Passengers in the Manner more Passenhereinbefore directed, shall take on board, or if he or the Owner gers than or Owners of any such Ship shall engage to take on board, allowed. any Person or Persons exceeding the Number mentioned and specified in such Licence, such Master, Owner or Owners, shall severally forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds for each and Penalty. every Person so taken or engaged to be taken beyond the Persons specified in such Licence. VII. And be it further enacted, That every such Ship, having Allowance of a Licence as aforesaid, shall be provided with such a Supply of Provisions. good and wholesome Water as will afford an Allowance of Five Pints of Water daily during the Voyage for every Person (including the Master and Crew), and computing Two Children under Ten Years of Age as One Person, which Supply of 6 GEO. IV. 3 P Water Master not giving the Allowance. Penalty. Passengers may Master reland Penalty. Water shall be stowed below the Lower Deck, if there be Two Decks, or Five Feet Six Inches at least below the Deck, if there be only One Deck; and every such Ship shall also be provided with such a Supply of Provisions as will afford an Allowance for every such Person, during the Voyage, of One Pound Weight of Bread or Biscuit, and One Pound Weight of Beef, or Three Quarters of a Pound Weight of Pork, daily, and also, Two Pounds Weight of Flour, and Three Pounds Weight of Oatmeal, er of Pease, or of Pearl Barley, and Half a Pound Weight of Butter, weekly; the said Allowance to commence on and be computed from the Day the Ship takes her Departure from the Port at which she shall be cleared outwards. VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Master of such Ship failing to give out the Allowance of Provisions and Water hereinbefore specified, if required to do so, shall forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds of lawful Money for each and every such Neglect or Omission. or IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if any Passenger who has entered into any Contract or Agreement for the Voyage on board any such Ship, shall signify to the Collector Comptroller, or other proper Officer of the Customs, or to any Justice of the Peace or other Magistrate, in the United Kingdom, that he or she is desirous of being relanded, and of not proceeding on any such Voyage, it shall and may be lawful to and for such Collector or Comptroller, or other proper Officer of the Customs, or for such Justice of the Peace or other Magistrate, and they are hereby empowered and required, to take such Passenger, together with his or her Baggage, out of the Ship, and to set such Passenger free from his or her Engagement, reserving to either Party any legal Claim which may arise in consequence thereof. X. And be it further enacted, That if after any such Ship shall ing Provisions. have been cleared out the Master of any such Ship shall unship or reland, or permit or suffer to be unshipped or relanded, any Water or Provisions, such Master shall forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds: Provided always, that if any Passenger shall be relanded, and shall not proceed, then it shall and may be lawful for such Master to unship or reland, under the Inspection of the proper Officers of the Customs, at the Port where such Passenger shall be relanded, a Quantity of Water and Provisions not exceeding the Proportion sufficient for the Allowance of every such Passenger so relânded. Exception. Bedding to be aired, and Vessel fumigated. Penalty. No British XI. And be it further enacted, That the Bedding of each and every Passenger on board any such Ship shall be aired by Exposure upon the Deck, when the Weather will permit, daily during the Voyage; and such Ship shall be fumigated with Vinegar at least Twice in every Week during the Voyage; and the Master of such Ship shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds for each Failure or Neglect in airing the said Bedding, or in fumigating the Ship. XII. And be it further enacted, That no British Ship having Vessel carrying a Licence to carry Passengers as aforesaid, carrying Fifty Persons or upwards, including the Master or Crew, computed as aforesaid, shall be cleared out at any Port of the United King 50 Persons cleared out dom, |