House of Correction is hereby required to receive such Offender and to obey, such Warrant in all respects as if such House of Correction was within the Jurisdiction of the said Justices. Smuggling. Cases without X. And be it further enacted, That wherever any Person Authorizing Magistrates to shall have been detained and taken before any Justice of the proceed to ConPeace for unshipping, or for aiding, assisting, or being con- viction of Smugcerned in the unshipping, of any Spirits or Tobacco liable to glers in certain Forfeiture, under any Act relating to the Customs or Excise, an Order from or for carrying, conveying, or concealing, or for aiding, assist- the Board of ing, or being concerned in the carrying, conveying, or conceal- Customs. ing, of any such Spirits or Tobacco, and it shall appear to such Justice that the Quantity of Spirits in respect of which such Person has been so detained does not exceed One Gallon, or that the Quantity of Tobacco in respect of which such Person has been so detained does not exceed Six Pounds Weight, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice and he is hereby authorized to proceed summarily upon the Case without any Information, and although no Direction shall have been given by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and to convict such Person of such Offence, and to adjudge that such Person shall, in lieu of any other Penalty, forfeit any Sum of Money not exceeding Five Pounds, and in default of Payment of such Sum of Money to commit such Person to any of His Majesty's Gaols for any Time not exceeding One Month. tuted in Cases tances of the XI. And whereas by another Act passed in the Third and Prosecutions Fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled not to be insti• An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling, Spirits found on board where Spirits, Vessels within certain Distances of the Coast of the United Tobacco, or Snuff are found Kingdom, not being in Casks or Packages containing Forty on board VesGallons at the least, or any Tobacco or Snuff, not being in a sels in legal Cask or Package containing Four hundred and fifty Pounds Packages within 'Weight at least, are made liable to Forfeiture, and the Persons certain Disfound or discovered to have been on board such Vessels to Coast of the • Detention and Prosecution on account thereof;' be it there- United Kingdom. fore enacted, That in all Cases where Casks or Packages containing Spirits, Tobacco, or Snuff, found on board Vessels within 3&4W.4. c. 53. any such Distances, are of such Size or Dimensions as may be legally imported into the United Kingdom, no such Forfeiture, Detention, and Prosecution shall take place, but that in all other respects the Forfeitures, Detentions, and Prosecutions set forth in the said Act shall attach and be in force as if this Act had not been made. XII. And whereas one other Act was passed in the said Duties. • Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, Table of new 'intituled An Act for granting Duties of Customs, and it is Duties. expedient to amend the same in the Manner herein-after men- 3&4 W.4. c. 56. tioned; be it therefore enacted, That instead of the Duties imposed by the said last-mentioned Act and set forth in a Table thereunto annexed, denominated "A Table of Duties of Customs Inwards," the several Duties set forth in Figures in the Table herein-after contained, and denominated "Table of New Duties, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six," shall, in respect of Duties. of such Goods as are mentioned therein, be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto His Majesty, in like Manner as if such Duties had been imposed in and by the said Act, and had been set forth in the said Table thereunto annexed; (that is to say,) TABLE OF NEW DUTIES, 1836. Chicory, or any other Vegetable Matter applicable Raw or kiln-dried Roasted or ground Clinkers, called Dutch Clinkers Drugs, not particularly enumerated or with Duty in this or any other Act the Cwt. Ebony, the Produce of or imported from any Foreign Country Feathers; viz. Ostrich, undressed the 1007. of Value 10 0 0 the 1001. of Value 5 0 0 the 1,000 0 10 0 charged 0 2 0 the Ton Ginger, preserved; the Produce of or imported from any Foreign Country Horns and Horn Tips Lignum Vitæ Mahogany, imported from any Foreign Maps or Charts, or Parts thereof, viz'. Plain Coloured Marmalade, the Produce of or imported from any Nickel; viz. Arsenate of Nickel, in Lumps or Nickel, metallic, refined, and Oxide of Nickel Olive Wood, the Produce of or imported from any Foreign Country Opium Orange Flower Water 9000 0 10 0 5 1 0 1 0 0 60 06 0 16 0 0 Plate, old, not battered up, having been in the pri- | vate Use of the Importer while residing abroad, and intended for his private Use in this Kingdom, viz'. Silver Gold Quinine, Sulphate of Rags, viz. old Woollen Rags Rice, rough and in the Husk, imported from the West Coast of Africa the Quarter the Ton the Cwt. 6900 100 the Ton the lb. 0 0 0 the lb. Succades, the Produce of or imported from any Sweet Wood, the Produce of or imported from any Teak Wood imported from any British Possession within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter the Load Horse, or the Cwt. the lb. the Gallon Wax; viz. Bees Wax unbleached, the Produce of the West Coast of Africa, and imported from thence the Cwt. XIII. And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year Repealing of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled certain Duties • An Act to repeal the Provisions of former Acts granting exclusive imposed by • Privileges of Trade to the South Sea Company, and to indemnify 55 G.3. c. 57. the said Company for the Loss of such Privileges, certain Duties of Customs on Goods imported from Places within the Limits ' of the exclusive Trade of that Company, and also certain • Duties of Tonnage on Vessels trading between those Limits and the United Kingdom, were imposed: And whereas it is expe'dient to repeal the said Duties;' be it therefore enacted, That the said Duties shall be and the same are hereby repealed, save and except such of the same as shall have become due prior to the passing of this Act. Possessions Abroad. Packages for XIV. And whereas by one other of the said Acts, intituled 'An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad, no Tobacco is permitted to be imported into or exported from the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, or either Importation of them, or removed from any one to any other of the said and Exportation C Islands, of Se gars into Possessions or from the Islands of Jersey, &c. Certain Exports from Guernsey and Jersey permitted. Duplicate thereof to be delivered also. ⚫ Islands, or Coastwise from any one Part to any other Part of ❝ either of the said Islands, unless in a Cask or Package containing Four hundred and fifty Pounds Weight;' be it enacted, That the said Restriction shall not extend to any Segars in Packages of not less than One hundred Pounds Weight. XV. And whereas it is expedient to allow any Sort of Craft, • Food, Victuals (except Spirits), and any Sort of Clothing and Implements and Materials fit and necessary for the British Fisheries in America, to be imported in British Ships into any Port or Place in the British Possessions in North America at or from whence the said Fisheries are carried on, although such Port or Place be not a free Port;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful to import from the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey in British Ships into such Places in America the Articles before enumerated and described; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. 6 XVI. And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act the Bill of Entry; Person entering any Goods is required to deliver to the Col'lector or Comptroller, or other proper Officer, a Bill of the Entry thereof, containing the several Particulars set forth in the said Act;' be it enacted, That such Person shall also deliver at the same Time One or more Duplicates of such Bill, in which all Sums and Numbers may be expressed in Figures, and the Particulars to be contained in such Bill of Entry shall be written and arranged in such Form and Manner, and the Number of such Duplicates shall be such as the Collector and Comptroller shall require. 7 G. 2. c. 15. 26 G. 3. c. 86. 53 G. 3. c. 159. CAP. LXI. An Act to assimilate the Law of Ireland to that of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act to settle how far Owners of Ships shall be ' answerable for the Acts of the Master or Mariners: And whereas another Act was passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign ' of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the Seventh Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to settle how far Owners of • Ships shall be answerable for Acts of the Master or Mariners,' and for giving further Relief to the Owners of Ships: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fifty-third Year of the, Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled 'An Act to limit the Responsibility of Ship Owners in certain Cases: And whereas Doubts have existed whether the said Two first-mentioned Acts apply to that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland: And whereas it is expedient that all the said several herein-before recited Acts should be deemed and taken to apply to Ireland:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent 8 6 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 Provisions of from and after the passing of this Act the Provisions of the said recited Acts several herein-before recited Acts and of each of them shall be deemed and taken to extend and apply to that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. extended to Ireland. II. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed Public Act. and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and other Persons whomsoever CAP. LXII. An Act for continuing, until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, the several Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads in Great Britain which will expire with the present or the next Session of Parliament. [13th August 1836.] WHEREAS it is expedient that the several Acts for making, amending, and repairing the Turnpike Roads in Great Britain which will expire on the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven should be continued for a limited Time:' 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 all and every Act and Acts of Parliament for Turnpike Acts making, amending, and repairing any Turnpike Roads in Great further conBritain which will expire on the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven shall be and the same is and are hereby continued until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, or if Parliament shall then be sitting until the End of the then Session of Parliament. tinued. c. xvi. II. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act con- Act not to extained shall extend or be construed to extend to an Act passed tend to 54 G. 3. in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act of His present Majesty, for repairing the Road from Woodbridge to Eye in the County of Suffolk, and for repairing certain other Roads to communicate therewith. CAP. LXIII. An Act to facilitate, until the Nineteenth Day of WHEREAS in and by an Act made and passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Law's 5&6 W. 4. c.50. relating to Highways in that Part of Great Britain called Eng land, certain Statutes relating to Highways in that Part of [No. 27. Price 2d.] |