were set forth in a table denominated A Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Inwards contained in the 6 Geo. IV. c. 107. intituled An Act for the general regulation of the customs. § 2. But it shall be lawful for the commissioners of the customs from time to time, and upon such security as they shall require, to grant their licence for any vessel belonging to the port of Dover to import such manufactures into that port direct from the port of Calais, although such vessel may not be of greater burthen than sixty tons. Entry of Silk Goods.—In the entry of all silk goods which are subject to duty according to the weight or to the value thereof at the option of the officers of the customs, the weight and the value of such goods shall be both stated, and such value shall be affirmed in like manner as the value of any goods charged to pay duty according to the value thereof is affirmed under the provisions of the said last-mentioned act for the regulation of the customs; and it shall be lawful for the officers of the customs to detain any such goods, and to take the same for the use of the crown, in like manner and upon the same terms as such officers may under the provisions of the said act detain and take any goods entered for payment of duty according to the value thereof as aforesaid. § 4. -- Drawbacks. And from and after the passing of this act, upon the exportation of silk goods, the drawbacks of the duties payable on the importation of thrown silks, set forth in figures in the table hereunto annexed, marked (B), shall be allowed. § 5. The drawbacks shall be allowed only in respect of exportations to be made by the persons in whose names the amount of duties to be drawn back had been paid, or to be made by any holder of any written order signed by any such persons, transferring the right of making such exportations and of receiving such drawbacks thereupon. § 6. The said drawback shall be allowed, although the manufactured silks in respect of which the same shall be claimed shall not have been made of the thrown silk in respect of which the amount of duties to be drawn back had been paid, and whether such amount of duties shall have been received under the authority of this or of any former act: provided, that the said drawback shall not be allowed unless such manufactured silks be shipped for exportation within two years after the payment of such duties. § 7. Seizures and Penalties.-Upon the seizure and condemnation of any such goods, for the breach of any law now made or hereafter to be made relating to the revenue of customs, or for the prevention of smuggling, there shall be paid to the officer seizing the same, in lieu of the rewards granted by any former act, the whole value of such goods, exclusive of the duty thereon: but such goods shall be sold for exportation only. § 8. And where any penalty shall have been recovered from any person in respect of any such goods, there shall be paid to the officer by whose means such penalty is recovered one moiety of the sum recovered. § 9. Organzine or Crape Silk, the lb. 030 Manufactures of Silk, or of Silk mixed with any other Mate rial, the produce of Europe, viz. Silk or Satin, Plain, the lb. or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, for every £100 of the value Silk or Satin, Figured or Brocaded, the lb. - or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, Gauze, Plain, the lb. -- or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, for every £100 of the value Gauze, Striped, Figured, or Brocaded, the lb. or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, for every £100 of the value Crape, Plain, the lb. or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, for every £100 of the value Crape, Figured, the lb. 0 10 0 1 4 0 0 1 or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, for every £100 of the value Velvet, Plain, the lb. or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, for every £100 of the value Velvet, Figured, the lb. or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, for every £100 of the value Ribbons, Embossed or Figured with Velvet, the lb. or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, --- and further, if mixed with Gold, Silver, or other Fancy Silk Net or Tricot, the lb. Plain Silk Lace or Net, called Tulle, the square yard Millinery of Silk, or of which the greater part of the Materials --- or, and at the option of the Officers of the Customs, Manufactures of Silk, or of Silk and any other Material, not Articles of Manufacture of Silk, or of Silk and any other Mate- TABLE (B). DRAWBACKS on the EXPORTATION of SILK Goods manufactured in the For every lb. of Stuffs or Ribbons of Silk, composed of Silk only, NATIONAL DEBT ANNUITIES. £. s. d. 0 3 6 012 007 CAP. 24.- An Act to enable the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to grant life annuities and annuities for terms of years. [22d May, 1829. Commissioners may grant Annuities. From and after the passing of this act it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, at such days and times as they shall appoint by notice in the London Gazette, to accept and receive from any person the transfer of any Bank Annuities or Long Annuities transferable at the Bank of England, or to receive any sum of money, as the consideration for the purchase of life annuities, or of annuities for a certain limited term of years, to be chargeable upon and payable out of the consolidated fund; and to sell and grant annuities, either on the continuance of single lives, or on the continuance of two lives and the life of the longest liver of them, or upon the joint continuance of two joint lives, such annuities to commence either immediately or at a period to be fixed at the time of granting any annuity; and also to sell and grant deferred annuities upon the continuance of a single life or joint lives; and also to sell and grant annuities to continue for any certain limited term of years, to commence either immediately or on any day to be named at the time of granting any such annuity; and also to sell and grant, generally, any immediate annuities, or any temporary annuities, or any deferred annuities, of whatsoever kind or denomination (save and except that no deferred annuities shall be granted for any certain limited term of years to commence from and after the death of any nominee), as are allowed by this act, in the manner and under the limitations and restrictions and regulations hereinafter expressed. § 1. Lives under Fifteen excepted, &c.-But no annuity shall be sold or granted by the said commissioners upon the life of any nominee, who, on the day when the contract for such annuity shall be made, shall be under the age of fifteen years and it shall be Jawful for the commissioners, or the comptroller general or assistant comptroller acting under them, to decline or refuse to sell and grant any annuity in such cases where there shall be, in the opinion of the said commissioners, or of the said comptroller general or assistant comptroller, sufficient grounds for refusing or declining so to do. § 2. Consideration for which Annuities may be granted.—It shall be lawful for the said commissioners to receive any amount, not less than one hundred pounds, of any Bank Annuities, or to receive any sum of money, or any amount of Long Annuities, equal in value to not less than one hundred pounds of Three per Cent Bank Annuities, according to the average price of such Annuities, from any person desirous of purchasing any annuity for lives or years of whatsoever kind under the regulations of this act, at and according to such rates as shall be specified in any table which shall be from time to time approved by the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them; and it shall also be lawful for the said commissioners to accept and receive from any person any sum of money by the year, at such time in each year as the said commissioners shall appoint, amounting to five pounds or upwards in money, for the purpose of enabling the person making such payment or transfer to purchase any of the beforementioned deferred annuities for lives, according to such regulations as the commissioners shall direct and approve. And all Bank Annuities and Long Annuities which shall be so transferred, and also all Bank Annuities which shall be purchased, shall from time to time be carried to the account of the said commissioners, and shall then be cancelled, and all interest or dividends on such annuities shall cease to be charged upon or to be issued out of the consolidated fund from the day upon which any such annuities shall be transferred to and placed in the names of the said commissioners. Provided always, that the several persons by whom any annuities for lives or years of whatsoever kind shall be purchased, or to whom any such annuities shall be assigned and transferred, shall (if the governor and company of the Bank shall require) respectively underwrite their acceptance thereof in the books of the said governor and company, by himself or herself, or by some other person duly authorized on their behalf. § 3. Nominees. Whenever any person shall be desirous of purchasing any life annuity of whatsoever kind, it shall be lawful for the person so desiring to purchase such annuity to name and appoint any other person, being of the age of fifteen years or upwards at the time of such nomination, and being a native of, and most usually resident within, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the continuance of whose life such annuity shall depend. But nothing herein shall be construed to prevent any person, whether a native or not of the United Kingdom, or not residing in the United Kingdom, from purchasing any life annuity of whatsoever kind under this act, to depend upon the continuance of the life of himself, herself, or themselves, as the nominee or nominees of such annuity. 5 4. Forms to be observed by Parties requiring Annuities: Declaration, Register of Baptism, &c.-Before any Bank Annuities or Long Annuities shall be transferred, or any money shall be paid, to the commissioners for the purchase of any life annuity, a declaration in such form as shall be directed or authorized by the said com G missioners, or by the comptroller general or assistant comptroller acting under the said commissioners, shall be signed by the person or one of the persons desirous of purchasing such annuity, or by some person on his behalf, stating the name of the person by whom or on whose behalf such annuity shall be purchased, and the name of the person on whose life such annuity is required to be granted, with such other particulars as the said commissioners, or the said comptroller general or assistant comptroller, shall direct; and such declaration shall be delivered to the said comptroller general or assistant comptroller or other officer acting under the said commissioners: and there shall also be produced to the said officer a copy of the register of the birth or baptism of the person desiring to purchase such annuity on his own life, or of any nominee on whose life any such annuity shall be purchased, certified as true under the hand of the minister of the parish or place where such register shall be kept, or in the absence of the minister, then a copy of such register, together with a certificate of the truth thereof (wherein such absence shall be specified) under the hands of the churchwardens or chapelwardens or overseers of such parish or place, or any two of them; and every such certificate, whether of the minister or churchwardens or chapelwardens or overseers, shall be attested by two or more credible witnesses; and to such certificate there shall also be annexed an affidavit of the said witnesses, or one of them, or his solemn affirmation (in case of Quakers), to be made before any justice of the peace, or before the comptroller general or assistant comptroller or other officer appointed by the said commissioners, that such witness did examine and compare the said copy of the register of birth or baptism with the register thereof, and did see such minister or churchwardens or chapelwardens or overseers sign the said certificate, and that the names of such witnesses are of their own proper handwriting; and to every such certificate shall also be annexed an affidavit or solemn affirmation made by the purchaser of the said annuity` (or by one of the purchasers in case there shall be two or more), or by some person on his behalf, before any justice of the peace or before such comptroller general or assistant comptroller or other officer of the said commissioners, that the person named and described in the copy or certificate of the register of birth or baptism produced to the said officer is the same person who is appointed to be such nominee. § 5. When Register does not contain the Date of Birth.-In all cases where any copy or certificate of any register, which shall be produced, shall purport to be a copy or certificate of the register of the baptism only, and not of the birth of any person, the age of such person shall be calculated from the date of such baptism, and the amount of the annuity to be purchased on the life of the person named in any such copy or certificate shall be estimated and ascertained in like manner in all respects as if such person had been born on the day expressed in such copy or certificate to be the date of his or her baptism. §6. |