Allowances to be payable Twelve Weeks of Duty. of Paste-board, or Printer or Stainer of Stained Paper claiming the Allowance, a Certificate in such Form and with such Particulars as the Commissioners of Excise shall direct, setting forth that such Stationer, Maker of Paste-board, or Printer or Stainer of Stained Paper is entitled to the Allowance on the Number of Pounds or Hundred Weight weighed and ascertained by such Officer or Supervisor to be paid to such Stationer, Maker of Paste-board, or Printer or Stainer of Stained Paper by the Commissioners or Collector of Excise, and the Officer or Supervisor giving such Certificate shall take into his Custody and Possession all the Certificates produced to him, and shall dispose of the same in such Manner as the Commissioners of Excise shall direct. 6 XV. And whereas the Duties on Paper are not payable by the Makers of Paper until several Weeks after the same are charged, whereby a Loss may arise to the Revenue if all such after the Charge Allowances were to be paid immediately after the Tenth Day of October;' be it therefore enacted, That the Officers and Supervisors of Excise in making out the said Certificates given for the receiving of the said Allowances shall specify therein the Time when the Paper, Paste-board, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Button-board, Mill-board, or Scale-board in respect of which such Allowance shall be claimed respectively shall have been charged with Duty, and also the Time when each Amount of Allowance shall be payable, such Time being not less than Twelve Weeks after the Date of the Charge of Duty; and if any Maker of Paper who shall have sent out any Paper, Paste-board, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Button-board, Mill-board, or Scale-board, with Certificate as aforesaid, shall fail to pay the Duty charged thereon, so that the same shall be lost to His Majesty, the Stationer, Maker of Paste-board, or Printer or Stainer of Stained Paper to whom such Paper, Paste-board, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Button-board, Mill-board, or Scale-board shall have been sent shall not be entitled to receive the Allowance thereon. Penalty on fraudulently obtaining or attempting to obtain the Allowance. XVI. And be it further enacted, That if any Stationer, Maker of Paste-board, or Printer or Stainer of Stained Paper shall receive any Paper, Paste-board, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Button-board, Mill-board, or Scale-board under any false or untrue Certificate, or shall produce to any Officer of Excise any false or untrue Certificate, or any Paper, Pasteboard, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Buttonboard, Mill-board, or Scale-board not entitled to the Allowance, in order to claim an Allowance thereon, or shall by any Deceit, Art, or Contrivance fraudulently obtain or attempt to obtain any Allowance to which such Party shall not be entitled, or to a greater Amount than he ought to receive, every such Stationer, Maker of Paste-board, or Printer or Stainer of Stained Paper shall forfeit all the Paper, Paste-board, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Button-board, Mill-board, or Scale-board produced by him, with all Allowances claimed by him, and Five hundred Pounds. XVII. And Scale-board, of ner manufac XVII. And be it further enacted, That all Paper, Glazed All Paper, Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Button-board, Mill- Glazed Paper, board, Paste-board, and Scale-board (except Scale-board made Sheathing Paper, Buttonfrom Wood), of whatever Materials made, and whether made board, Millby the Materials being reduced to Pulp and moulded or by board, Pastebeing pressed or otherwise manufactured, shall be deemed and board, and taken to be Paper, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button whatever MaPaper, Button-board, Mill-board, Paste-board, and Scale-board terials and in within the Meaning of this Act and the Acts for securing the whatever ManDuties of Excise on Paper, and shall be charged with Duty tured, to be accordingly; and the Makers thereof shall and are hereby de- subject to Duty. clared to be subject and liable to all the Laws, Enactments, Rules, and Regulations, Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures, in force to which Makers of Paper, Glazed Paper, Sheathing Paper, Button Paper, Button-board, Mill-board, Paste-board, and Scale-board are subject and liable under the Laws of Excise; Proviso. Provided always, that until the Eleventh Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight nothing herein contained shall extend to subject to a Duty or to any Regulations of the Excise on any Goods, Wares, or Articles manufactured under a Patent bearing Date the Fourteenth Day of February in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty granted to Thomas Robertson Williams Esquire late of Norfolk Street, Strand, for securing to the said Thomas Robertson Williams and his Assigns the Benefit of an Invention, as set forth in the said Patent, of a new Combination of fibrous Materials, forming by means of Machinery artificial Skins which may be applied to the Purposes for which Skins, Leather, Vellum, and Parchment are used, and which Patent is now by Assignment vested in Charles Stanbridge and William Forbes Marshall of the Parish of St. Luke's in the County of Middlesex. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be Act may be repealed, altered, or amended by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. LIII. An Act for enabling His Majesty to grant Admiralty Jurisdiction to the Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales's Island, Singapore, and Malacca. [13th August 1836.] WHEREAS it is expedient that His Majesty's Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales's Island, Singapore, and altered this Session. • Malacca should have Jurisdiction as a Court of Admiralty;' 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, Admiralty and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful Jurisdiction existing at Fort for His Majesty, by Charter or Letters Patent under the Great William exSeal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to tended to grant and commit to the said Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales's Island, Singapore, and Malacca, Powers and Authorities for the Exercise of Admiralty Jurisdiction to the same Extent Princeof Wales's Island, &c. By whom the Warrant to be countersigned. Repeal of so much of the Acts 4 G. 3. c. 24. 9 G. 3. c. 35. in all respects as His Majesty's Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal is now by virtue of any Charter or Acts of Parliament authorized to exercise any Admiralty Jurisdiction. II. And be it further enacted, That when it shall please His Majesty to issue any Charter or Letters Patent by virtue of this Act, the Warrant for such Charter or Letters Patent shall be countersigned by the President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, and by no other Person. CAP. LIV. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Conveyance of Newspapers by the Post. [13th August 1836.] WHEREAS the Laws now in force relating to the Conveyance of Newspapers by the Post are contained in ⚫ various Acts of Parliament passed in a Series of Years, and it is expedient that the same should be consolidated and 'amended:' 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 so much of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in relation to the sending and receiving of Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage; and of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for discontinuing upon the Exportation of Iron · imported in Foreign Ships the Drawback of such Part of the Duties payable thereon as exceeds the Duties payable upon Iron imported in British Ships; to prohibit the Exportation of Pig and Bar Iron and certain Naval Stores, unless the Pre-emption thereof be offered to the Commissioners of the Navy; to repeal so much of an Act made in the Sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign as discontinued the Drawback upon Foreign rough Hemp exported; for providing a Compensation to the Clerks in the Office of the Principal Secretaries of State for the Advantages such Clerks enjoyed before the Commencement of an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for preventing Frauds and Abuses in relation to the sending and receiving Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage, and to explain and amend the said Act; and of an Act passed in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for establishing certain Regulations concerning the Postage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets by the Post between Great Britain and Ireland; and of an Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of 35 G. 3. c. 55. the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for further regulating the sending and receiving Letters free from the Duty of Postage; for allowing Non-commissioned Officers, Seamen, and private Men in the Navy and Army whilst on Service to send and receive Letters at a low Rate of Postage; and for permitting Patterns and Samples of Goods to be transmitted by the Post at an easier Rate than is now allowed by Law; and of an Act passed 24 G. 3. c. 6. in the Forty-second Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to authorize the sending and receiving 42 G. 3. c. 63. of Letters and Packets, Votes, Proceedings in Parliament, and printed Newspapers by the Post free from the Duty of Postage by the Members of the Two Houses in Parliament of the United Kingdom, and by certain Public Officers therein named, and for reducing the Postage on such Votes, Proceedings, and Newspapers when sent by any other Persons; and of an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for granting certain additional Rates and Duties in Great 45 G. 3. c.11. Britain on the Conveyance of Letters; and of an Act passed in and the Fifty-ninth Year of King George the Third, intituled An Act 59 G.3. c.111. to repeal so much of an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of His present Majesty as relates to the Postage and Conveyance of Letters to and from the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and the East Indies, and to make other Regulations respecting the Postage of such Letters and Packets, and other Letters and Packets sent by the Post; and of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate the Conveyance of printed Votes and 6 G. 4. c. 68. Proceedings in Parliament, and printed Newspapers, by Packet Boats between Great Britain and Ireland and the British Colonies, and also in the United Kingdom; and of an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Duties 7&8 G.4. c. 21. of Postage in Great Britain and Ireland; and of an Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Conveyance of printed 4&5W.4.c.44. Newspapers by Post between the United Kingdom, the British Colonies, and Foreign Parts; and of an Act passed in the Fifth 5&6 W.4.c.25. and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled as relates to the An Act to extend the Accommodation by the Post to and from Conveyance of Newspapers by Foreign Parts, and for other Purposes relating to the Post Office, the Post. as relates to the Conveyance of Newspapers by the Post, shall from and after the passing of this Act be repealed, except so far as the same may repeal the Whole or any Part of any other Acts, and except so far as respects any Sums of Money, Arrears of Duties, Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures, Matters, or Things which at any Time before the passing of this Act shall have become due or owing or recoverable, or been had, made, or done under or by virtue or in pursuance of any of the said Acts herein-before referred to, or any of the Powers or Authorities therein contained; and all which Sums of Money, Arrears of Duties, Fines, Penalties, Matters, and Things shall and may be had, sued for, recovered, received, and dealt with as if this Act had not been passed; any thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. Exceptions. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing Newspapers of this Act all printed Newspapers liable to the Stamp Duty and sent by the duly stamped shall and may be sent by the General Post to and General Post from any Post Towns and Places within the United Kingdom U. K. to go free of the Duty of Postage. within the free. III. And Newspapers sent by the General Post and delivered by the Penny or Two-penny Post, and vice versâ, to go free. Newspapers and may be sent within Post Towns at the like Rate. Newspapers sent from the United King to go free. III. And be it further enacted, That every printed Newsliable to the Stamp Duty and duly stamped addressed to paper any Person within the United Kingdom, originally sent by the General Post from one Post Town to another Post Town within the United Kingdom, and directed to Places beyond the Delivery of the General Post, and afterwards delivered by the Penny or Two-penny Post of any City, Town, or Place to which the same shall be sent, and also every such Newspaper originally sent by the Penny or Two-penny Post of any City, Town, or Place within the United Kingdom, and afterwards passing through the General Post from one Post Town to another Post Town within the United Kingdom, shall be delivered to the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be addressed, within the said United Kingdom, free from all Duty of Postage whatsoever, as well in respect of the said General as of the said Penny or Two-penny Post. IV. And whereas it is expedient to authorize the Convey'ance of Newspapers by the Two-penny Post at a reduced Rate ' of Postage;' be it therefore further enacted, That all printed Newspapers liable to the Stamp Duty and duly stamped which shall not have passed or be intended to pass through the General Post, shall and may be sent by the Penny or Two-penny Post of any City, Town, or Place within the United Kingdom at the Rate of One Penny each; and that all printed Newspapers liable to the Stamp Duty and duly stamped, put into the Post Office or any General Post Receiving-house of any Post Town or Place within the United Kingdom, addressed to any Person within the Limits of the same Town or Place or the Suburbs thereof, shall and may be sent and conveyed within such Town or Place at the like Rate of One Penny each; and the said respective Rates shall and may be demanded, had, received, and taken by the Postmaster General, his Deputy and Deputies, to and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, accordingly. V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty's Postmaster General, and his dom by Packets Deputy and Deputies, in the United Kingdom, to receive at any to the Colonies Post Office printed Newspapers liable to the Stamp Duty and duly stamped for Conveyance by Packet Boats from the United Kingdom to any of His Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the Seas, and to forward and convey the same accordingly free of the Duty of Postage; and for His Majesty's Postmaster Newspaperssent by Packets from General and his Deputy and Deputies, in His Majesty's Colothe Colonies to nies and Possessions beyond the Seas, to receive Newspapers printed and published within such Colonies or Possessions for Conveyance by Packet Boats to the United Kingdom, and to deliver the same by the Post within the United Kingdom free of the Duty of Postage. the United Kingdom to go free. Newspapers may be sent from one Colony to another Colony, via the VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful to and for His Majesty's Postmaster General, and his Deputy and Deputies, in any of His Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the Seas, to receive Newspapers printed and published within |