ABRIDGMENT OF THE PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS, 8 VICTORIÆ-1845. CAP. I. AN ACT to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-five. By this ACT, the Commons grant, and it is Enacted, (18th March 1845.) 1. That there shall be applied, for the service of the year 1845, the sum of 8,000,000l. out of the Consolidated Fund. 11. The Treasury may cause 8,000,000l. of Exchequer bills to be made out in manner prescribed by 48 Geo. 3. c. 1, 4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 15, and 5 & 6 Vict. c. 66. III. The clauses, &c. in recited Acts extended to this Act. IV. Interest on Exchequer bills. v. Bank of England may advance 8,000,000%. on the credit of this Act, notwithstanding 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20. VI. Bills prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered to the Bank, as security for such advances. VII. Monies raised by bills to be applied to the services voted by the Commons. VIII. Exchequer bills made chargeable upon the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund. CAP. II. AN ACT to continue for Three Years the Stamp Duties granted by an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty to assimilate the Stamp Duties in Great Britain and Ireland, and to make Regulations for collecting and managing the same, until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-five. (18th March 1845.) CAP. III. AN ACT for the Appointment of Constables or other Officers for keeping the Peace near public Works in Scotland. (18th March 1845.) ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. Additional constables or officers may be appointed by the sheriff. 2. Expense thereof to be paid by the companies or parties carrying on such works. 3. Remuneration may be recovered by distress. 4. Act may be amended, &c. this session. VOL. XXIII.-STAT. B By this ACT, After reciting that great mischiefs have arisen by the violent and unlawful behaviour of labourers and others employed in the construction of railways and other public works in Scotland, by reason whereof the appointment of additional constables or officers for keeping the peace, and for the protection of the inhabitants, and security of the property, in the neighbourhood of such public works, is often necessary; and it is expedient that provision should be made for the appointment and payment of such additional constables or officers: It is Enacted, 1. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the sheriff of any county in which the works of any railway, canal, or other public work of a similar nature shall be in progress of construction, upon the application of the company or other parties carrying on any such public work, or of any two Justices of the Peace of the county, and usually acting in the district in or through which any such public work may be in the course of construction, to appoint from time to time such fit and proper persons as he may think fit to nominate for that purpose to be constables or peace officers in and for such county within the limits of such public works, and within a mile therefrom, during the construction of such public works; and every person so appointed shall make oath or solemn declaration, to be administered by such sheriff, duly to execute the office of constable or peace officer as hereinafter mentioned; and every person so appointed, and having made such oath or declaration, shall have full power to act as a constable or peace officer for the preservation of the peace, and for the security of persons and property against crimes and unlawful acts, within the limits of that part of the public works for which he shall be so appointed, and within a mile therefrom, and shall have, use, exercise, and enjoy all such powers, authorities, protections, and privileges in the execution of his office as belong by law to the office of constable or peace officer within the limits or district for which he is appointed to act, and shall, when required so to do, obey all orders and put in execution all warrants issued by the sheriff, and to be executed within such limits or district, or within any other part of the county; and it shall be lawful for the sheriff, when he shall think fit, to dismiss or remove any such constable or peace officer who may have been so appointed, and to appoint another fit and proper person in his stead; and upon every such dismissal or removal all the powers, authorities, protections, and privileges vested by virtue of such appointment in any person so dismissed or removed shall wholly cease and determine. II. That every person so appointed by any sheriff to act as constable or peace officer as aforesaid shall, during such time as he shall so act as constable or peace officer, receive from the company or other parties carrying on such public works a reasonable remuneration, not exceeding what is in use to be given to constables on duty within the same county; and the amount and the time and manner of payment of such remuneration shall be fixed and directed by the sheriff. III. That in all cases where the company or other parties carrying on any such public work shall refuse or neglect, during fourteen days next after demand thereof, to pay any such remuneration, or any part thereof, as shall by any sheriff as aforesaid have been directed to be paid, it shall be lawful for such sheriff forthwith to cause the same to be levied, together with the expenses of levying the same, by poinding and sale of the goods and effects of the company or other parties liable to pay such remuneration. IV. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present session of Parliament. CAP. IV. AN ACT to continue for Three Years the Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. (5th April 1845.) ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. The rates and duties granted by the recited Act continued for three years. 2. The several Acts continued in force. 3. Assessments under Schedules (A.) and (B.) for the year 1845 to be in force for three years. 4. Power to compound for duties under Schedule (D.) continued. 5. Act may be amended this session. By this ACT, the Commons grant, and it is Enacted, I. That the several rates and duties by the Act, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 35, granted shall be and the same are hereby continued, and shall be charged, raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto and for the use of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for the term of three years, to be computed from the 5th of April 1845, and until the assessments made or which ought to be made for the last year of the said term, or for any preceding year, shall be completed, collected, levied, and paid. II. That the said recited Act, and all and every other Act and Acts now in force in relation to the duties granted by the said recited Act, shall severally be continued and remain in full force, and be of the like effect in all respects, in relation to the duties hereby continued and granted, as if the said duties had been originally granted by the said recited Act for a period which did not expire before the end of the term for which the same are continued and granted by this Act; and all and every the powers, authorities, rules, regulations, directions, penalties, forfeitures, clauses, matters, and things contained in the said Acts, or any of them, and in force as aforesaid, shall severally and respectively be duly observed, practised, applied, and put in execution in relation to the said duties hereby continued and granted, as well during the term herein limited as after the expiration thereof, for assessing, levying, recovering, paying, deducting, and accounting for the said duties, and all arrears thereof, and for re-assessing the same in default of payment, and for the suing for, adjudging, and recovering any penalty which shall have been or may be incurred in relation to the said duties, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the same powers, authorities, rules, regulations, directions, penalties, forfeitures, clauses, matters, and things were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the body of this Act with reference to the said duties hereby granted. And after reciting that by the said recited Act it was enacted, that the first assessment of the duties chargeable under either of the Schedules (A.) or (B.) of the same Act should be and remain in force for the space of three years, which will expire after the 5th of April 1845;— It is Enacted, III. That the assessments of the same duties to be made for the year commencing from and after the said last-mentioned day shall in like manner be and remain in force for the space of three years, under and subject to the same rules, regulations, and conditions as are specified in the said recited Act with reference to the assessments made under the same Schedules for the period of three years in the said Act mentioned. And after reciting that the contracts entered into for compositions for the duties chargeable under Schedule (D.) of the said recited Act for the term thereby limited will expire after the 5th of April 1845, and it is expedient to renew and continue the powers of the Commissioners to enter into new contracts for such compositions for the term limited by this Act; It is Enacted, IV. That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for special purposes, in the said Act mentioned, to contract and agree for a composition for the said last-mentioned duties, with any person who may be desirous of compounding for the same, for the period of three years, to commence from the 5th of April 1845, under and subject to the conditions, rules, and regulations specified in the said Act with reference to the compositions thereby authorized to be made for the same duties for the term of three years in the said Act mentioned. v. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present session of Parliament. CAP. V. AN ACT for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom. (24th April 1845.) ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. Duties imposed by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 28. repealed.-Duties imposed in lieu thereof. 2. Power to Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to declare the sugars of other countries to be admissible as not being the produce of slave labour. 3. Certificates and declarations required. 4. Certificate required in respect of sugar from China, &c. 5. Certificate required in respect of such sugar if imported from British possessions abroad. 6. Her Majesty, by Order in Council, may declare the sugars of countries with which Her Majesty has treaties of reciprocity as to duties to be admissible at 28s. and 23s. 4d. per cwt. respectively. 7. If such treaty be conditional, Order in Council to state fulfilment of condition. 8. Her Majesty may allow importation of sugar and molasses, from British possessions within the East India Company's charter in which the importation of foreign sugar is prohibited at the lower rates of duty. 9. Such sugar and molasses to be entered at the lower rates of duty, upon the conditions on which Bengal sugar was admissible under 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 26. 10. Bounties on certain descriptions of refined sugar. 11. Collection of duties. 12. Commissioners of Customs to provide standard samples of white clayed, &c. sugar. 13. Orders in Council may be revoked. 14. Orders in Council to be published. 15. Copies of Order in Council to be laid before Parliament. 16. Act may be amended this session. By this ACT, the Commons grant, and it is Enacted, 1. That from and after the 14th of March 1845, the duties imposed on sugar and molasses by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 28, shall cease and be no longer payable; and that from and after the said 14th of March until the 5th of July 1846, in lieu thereof, there thall be charged the duties of Customs following; (that is to say,) On sugar and molasses the growth and produce of any British possession in America, or of any British Double refined sugar, or sugar equal in quality to double refined, for every hundred weight White clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal in quality to white clayed, not being refined, for £. s. d. 1 10 0.18 8 0 16 4 Brown sugar, being muscovado or clayed, or any other sugar, not being equal in quality to white clayed, Candy, brown, for every hundred weight 0 14 0 160 115 0 5 3 On sugar the growth and produce of any other British possession within the limits of the East India Company's charter, the duties following; (that is to say,) White clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal in quality to white clayed, not being refined, for Brown sugar, being muscovado or clayed, or any other sugar not being equal in quality to white clayed, for On sugar the growth and produce of China, Java, or Manilla, or of any foreign country the sugars of which Her White clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal in quality to white clayed, not being refined, Brown sugar, being muscovado or clayed, or any other sugar not being equal in quality to white clayed, Molasses, for every hundred weight On all other sugars and molasses, not otherwise charged with duty, the duties following; (that is to say,) Brown, or muscovado, or clayed sugar, not being refined, for every hundred weight And so in proportion for any greater or less quantity than a hundred weight. 119 0 18 8 180 1 3 4 089 880 3 3 0 II. That it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, and she is hereby empowered, from time to time, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare, with respect to any foreign conntry or countries, that it having appeared to Her Majesty, upon sufficient evidence, that the sugars of such country or countries are not the produce of slave labour, such sugars shall (from and after a day to be named in such order) be deemed and taken not to be the produce of slave labour; and from and after the day so to be named in such order the brown, muscovado, or clayed sugar (not being refined) of the country or countries mentioned in such order shall be admissible to entry for home consumption at the said respective duties of 17. 8s. or of 1l. 3s. 4d. per hundred weight respectively, in like manner as sugars the growth and produce of China, Java, or Manilla. III. That no sugar shall be admissible to entry for home consumption at the said duties of 14. 8s. or 11. 3s. 4d. per hundred weight respectively unless the master of the ship importing the same shall have delivered to the collector or comptroller at the port of importation such certificate or certificates as hereinafter are mentioned, nor unless such master shall also make and subscribe a declaration before such collector or comptroller that such certificate or certificates was or were received by him at the place where such sugar was taken on board, and that the sugar so imported is the same as is mentioned therein. IV. That in case such sugar shall be imported from China, Java, or Manilla, or from any other of the countries named in such Order in Council as herein before is mentioned, the certificate so to be given to the collector or comptroller at the port of importation shall be under the hand and seal of the British consul, vice-consul, consular agent, or other officer appointed in that behalf by Her Majesty, at the place where such sugar was taken on board, and shall certify that a declaration in writing had been made and signed before such consul, vice-consul, consular agent, or other officer, by the shipper of such sugar, that the same was really and bond fide the growth of the country in which the same was so taken on board, and shall also certify that such consul, vice-consul, consular agent, or other officer had examined the contents of such declaration, and believed the same to be true. v. That in case such sugar shall be imported from any British possession abroad the master of the vessel importing the same shall deliver to the collector or comptroller at the port of importation, firstly, a certificate under the hand and seal of the principal officer of Customs at the place where the same was taken on board, certifying that a declaration in writing had been made and signed before such principal officer by the shipper of such sugar, that the same was really and bona fide the growth of China, Java, or Manilla, or of some other of the countries named in such Order in Council as hereinbefore is mentioned, and had been imported thence into such British possession abroad as aforesaid, and also certifying that such principal officer of Customs had examined the contents of such declaration, and believed the same to be true; secondly, a certificate under the hand and seal of the British consul, vice-consul, consular agent, or other officer appointed in that behalf by Her Majesty (if any such there be), at the place whence such sugar shall have been imported into such British possession abroad, certifying that a declaration in writing had been made and signed before such consul, vice-consul, consular agent, or other officer, by the shipper of such sugar from such place, that the same was really and bona fide the produce of the country from whence the same shall have been so imported into such British possession abroad, and also certifying that such consul, vice-consul, consular agent, or other officer had examined the contents of such declaration, and believed the same to be true: Provided always, that in case such sugar, shall be imported into the United Kingdom from any British possession abroad, being part of the territories of the East India Company, the certificate and declaration hereby required to be given and received by the principal officer of Customs may be respectively given and received by any officer appointed for that purpose by the respective governments of such territories. VI. That with regard to sugar the growth of any foreign country between which country and Her Majesty there is now subsisting any treaty or convention binding Her Majesty to grant to such country, either conditionally or unconditionally, the privileges of the most favoured nation, or to permit, either conditionally or unconditionally, the produce of such country to be imported into the United Kingdom at the same duties as are imposed upon the like produce of any other country, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, and she is hereby empowered, from time to time, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare that from and after a day to be named in such order, brown, muscovado, or clayed sugars (not being refined) the growth of such country, in case such treaty shall continue to subsist, shall, if imported from such country, or from any British possession abroad, having been imported into such British possession from such country, be admitted to entry for consumption in the United Kingdom at the aforesaid respective rates of duty of 17. 8s. and 11. 3s. 4d. per hundred weight respectively, in like manner as sugars the growth and produce of China, Java, or Manilla; and from and after the day so to be named in such Order the sugars therein mentioned shall, if so imported as aforesaid, be so admitted accordingly, subject, nevertheless, to the production of the like certificates and the making of the like declaration as are hereinbefore required with respect to sugars the growth of China, Java, or Manilla. VII. That in case the privileges granted by any treaty to any foreign country, in respect of which any Order in Council shall be issued under the enactment lastly herein before contained, shall have been granted conditionally, such order shall expressly declare that such foreign country hath duly fulfilled the said conditions, and is entitled to the said privilege. VIII. Provided and enacted, That if at any time satisfactory proof shall have been laid before Her Majesty in Council that as respects any British possession within the limits of the East India Company's charter the importation of foreign sugar has been prohibited, it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, and she is hereby empowered, from time to time, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare that sugar and molasses the growth or produce of any such British possession may be imported from thence into the United Kingdom, and entered at the lower rates of duty hereinbefore imposed on sugar and molasses the growth or produce of British possessions within the limits of the East India Company's charter in which the importation of foreign sugar is prohibited; and from and after the publication of such order, whilst the same shall continue in force, the sugars and molasses therein mentioned may be so imported and entered accordingly. IX. Provided and enacted, That any sugars or molasses the produce of any British possession within the limits of the East India Company's charter in which the importation of foreign sugar is or shall be prohibited, which shall be entered for home use at the lower rates of duty hereinbefore imposed on sugar and molasses the produce of such possessions, shall be entered in the same and the like manner and under the same or the like conditions in and under which sugar the growth of the Presidency of Bengal might be entered for home use under the provisions of 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 26, intituled 'An Act for granting to His Majesty, until the 5th of July 1837, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the service of the year 1836,' at the lower rate of duty therein mentioned. x. That the respective bounties now payable on the exportation of certain descriptions of refined sugar from the United Kingdom, by 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 58, intituled 'An Act to grant certain Bounties and Allowances of Customs,' and also by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 33, intituled 'An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the 5th of July 1839, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the service of the year 1838,' and by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 28. shall, from and after the 14th of March 1845, cease and determine; and that in lieu thereof there shall be paid and allowed the following bounties; that is to say,) Upon double refined sugar, or sugar equal in quality to double refined, for every hundred weight. Upon other refined sugar, in loaf, complete and whole, or lumps duly refined, having been perfectly clarified and thoroughly dried in the stove, and being of an uniform whiteness throughout, or such sugar pounded, crashed, or broken, for every hundred weight Upon bastard or refined sugar, broken in pieces, or being ground or powdered sugar, pounded or broken, for every hundred weight 1 0 0 0 17 0 crashed or XI. That the several duties, bounties and allowances by this Act imposed and allowed shall be under the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs, and shall be ascertained, raised, levied, collected, paid, recovered, allowed, and applied, or appropriated under the provisions of 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 56, intituled An Act for granting Duties of Customs,' and of 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 58, intituled 'An Act to grant certain Bounties and Allowances of Customs,' and of any other Act or Acts in force relating to the Customs. XII. That the Commissioners of Customs shall forthwith provide samples of white clayed sugar, and of sugar rendered by any process equal in quality to white clayed sugar, with reference to colour, grain, and saccharine matter, which samples shall be deemed to be standard samples, for the purpose of comparing therewith such white clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal in quality to white clayed sugar, as from and after the 14th of March 1845, may be entered for home consumption; and such standard samples shall from time to time be renewed whenever the said Commissioners may deem it expedient; and no sugar shall, as regards the payment of duty, be deemed or taken to be white clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal in quality to white clayed, unless it shall, with reference to colour, grain, and saccharine matter, equal the standard samples so respectively provided by the said Commissioners. XIII. That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by an Order in Council, from time to time to revoke or alter any Order in Council previously made under the authority of this Act. |