any other Act by which His Majesty may be defrauded, or whereby any Goods prohibited shall be suffered to pass either inwards or outwards, or the Forfeitures and Penalties inflicted by any Act relating to the Customs in America may be evaded, every such Officer shall forfeit £500, and be rendered incapable of serving His Majesty in any Office or Employment, Civil or Military; and if any Person shall give, offer or promise to give, any Bribe or Reward to any Officer of the Customs, to do, conceal, or connive at any Act whereby any of the Provisions relating to the Customs in America may be évaded or broken, such Person shall (whether the Offer, Proposal, or Promise be accepted or performed or not) forfeit £500. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 38. the Prosecution 24. If any Officer of the Customs shall seize any East and upon OffiIndia Goods, and by Fraud or Collusion shall desist from cers delaying or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, he of East India shall forfeit £500, and be incapable of holding any Goods; Office or Employment under His Majesty. 7 Geo. 1. c. 21. § 9. landed without a Warrant. 25. If any Officer of the Customs in any of His or of Sugar, Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, shall Indigo, or Wine seize any Sugar, Indigo, or Wine, for having been landed without Payment of Duty, or without a Warrant signed by the proper Officer, and by Fraud or Collusion desist from or delay the Prosecution thereof to Condemnation, he shall forfeit £50, and be incapable of holding any Office under His Majesty. 6 Geo. 2. c. 13. § 3. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. $1.7. Senna, Malta or May be exported from Malta or any of the Depen- Importation dencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His allowed from. Majesty's Sugar Colonies or Plantations in America, or to Newfoundland, Bermuda, or any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in North America, in Britishbuilt Ships, owned, navigated, and registered according to Law. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5.9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. Settlers. 1. If any Person being a Subject of the Territories Subjects of the belonging to the United States shall come from thence T4 together United States, with their Fami settle in the Bahamas or in the Colonies of North America, may import Household Furniture, &c. Duty-free. lies, coming to together with his Family to any of the Bahama or Bermuda or Somers Islands, or to any Part of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or any of the Territories belonging to His Majesty in North America, for the Purpose of residing and settling there; any such Person obtaining a Licence from the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor of the said Islands, Colonies, or Provinces, may import into the same in British Ships, owned and navigated according to Law, any Household Furniture, Utensils of Husbandry, or Clothing, free of Duty, not exceeding in the whole the Value of Fifty Pounds for every White Person that shall belong to such Family, and the Value of Forty Shillings for every Negro brought by such White Person; and if any Dispute shall arise as to the Value of such Household Furniture, &c. the same shall be determined by the Arbitration of Three British Merchants at the Port where imported; One of such British Merchants to be appointed by the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, One by the Collector of the Customs, and One by the Person so coming with his Family. 30 Geo. 3. c. 27. § 1. Sale of such niture, &c. 2. All Bargains for the Sale of any Household FurniHousehold Fur- ture, &c. so imported, which shall be made within Twelve Calendar Months after the Importation of the same (except in Cases of the Bankruptcy or Death of the Owner thereof) shall be void. 30 Geo. 3. c.27. §2. Certain Persons to take and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance. 3. Every White Person so coming to reside, if above the Age of Fourteen Years, shall immediately after the Arrival take and subscribe the Oath of Alleigance to His Majesty, before the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Chief Magistrate at the Place where such Person shall arrive, and at the same Time swear that it is his Intention to reside and settle in such Island or Province; for which Oath such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Chief Magistrate shall receive the same Fee as is payable by Law on administering the Oath of Allegiance. 30 Geo. 3. c. 27. §3. Sheep. See "Cattle." of a British-built herein mention 1. No Ship Foreign-built (except condemned as The Privileges Prize in any Court of Admiralty, or condemned as for- and Advantages feited in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any or a BritishCourt of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty in any Part of owned Ship, to be His Majesty's Dominions, for any Offence relating to the confined to Ships Slave Trade), nor any Ship built or rebuilt upon any ed. Foreign-made Keel or Bottom in the Manner heretofore allowed, although owned by British Subjects and navigated according to Law, shall be entitled to any of the Privileges of a British-built or a British-owned Ship, which Privileges shall be confined to such Ships only as are wholly of the Built of Great Britain, Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man, or of the British Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories in Asia, Africa, or America; but not to prohibit such Foreignbuilt Ships as, before the 1st of May 1786, did wholly belong to any of the People of Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man, or of any of the aforesaid Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories, as the right Owners thereof, navigated according to Law, and registered in manner hereinafter directed, from continuing to enjoy the Privileges they have hitherto enjoyed, or from importing or exporting such Goods as may now be legally imported or exported by such Ships into and from such Places as are now by Law allowed, and under such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions as have heretofore been made touching such Foreign-built Ships, and subject to such Duties as have been imposed on any Goods imported or exported as aforesaid in such Foreign-built Ships; and not to deprive any Ship which before the passing of this Act hath been built or rebuilt upon any Foreign-made Keel or Bottom, and which before the said 1st May 1786 was duly registered as a British Ship, from continuing to enjoy any Privilege to which such Ship is now by any Law or Usage entitled; nor to prevent any such Ship, which shall have been begun to be repaired or rebuilt before the said 1st May 1786, from being registered according to this Act, by an Order under the Hands of the Commissioners of the Customs in England, or any Four of them, or of the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland or any Three of them, which Order the said Commissioners are empowered to grant, if it shall be made appear to their Satisfaction, upon Oath, that such Ship was stranded by by the Act of Providence, and not with a fraudulent Intent, and was at the Time of being so stranded the sole Property of Foreigners, or that such Ship was a Droit of Admiralty, and it be in like manner ascertained to the Satisfaction of such Commissioners, that the said Ship, from the Damage received by being so stranded, was rendered unfit to proceed to Sea, without undergoing a thorough Repair in this Kingdom, and that she was necessarily sold for the Benefit of the Foreign Owners, or, being a Droit of Admiralty, was sold under the Authority of an Order or Commission from the Court of Admiralty, and that she was fairly and openly purchased by a British Subject, and being the sole Property of such British Subject, that she hath been so much repaired, that Two Thirds of her at least are of Britishbuilt. 26 Geo. 3. c. 60. § 1. 54 Geo. 3. c. 59. § 1. 2. No British-built Ship which has been captured by the Enemy, and which shall not have been registered de novo before 1st October 1788, nor any British-built Ship which shall hereafter be captured by the Enemy, shall be registered as a British Ship, or enjoy any of the Privileges belonging to a British-built Ship; but although owned by a British Subject shall be deemed Foreignbuilt. 48 Geo. 3. c. 70. 3. But every British-built Ship recaptured from the Enemy by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or by any Ship having Letters of Marque and Reprisal, or by any Ship of War belonging to any State in Alliance with His Majesty, may be registered, and shall be deemed to have the Privileges of a British-built Ship, the same as if it had not been captured by the Enemy. 49 Geo. 3. c. 41. 4. No Ship shall be deemed or taken to be Britishbuilt, or enjoy the Privileges thereunto belonging, which shall be rebuilt or repaired in any Foreign Port or Place, if such Repairs shall exceed 15s. for every Ton according to the Admeasurement thereof, unless such Repairs shall be necessary by reason of extraordinary Damage sustained during the Absence of such Ship from His Majesty's Dominions, to enable her to perform the Voyage in which she shall be then engaged, and to return in Safety to some Place of the said Dominions; and before such tified. such Ship shall be repaired so as to exceed the Sum aforesaid, the Master shall report the State and Condition thereof upon Oath, or (being a Quaker) upon Affirmation, to the British Consul or Chief British Officer, if there shall be such Consul or Officer at the Port where it shall be necessary to repair such Ship, and shall cause her to be surveyed by Two fit and proper Persons, to be approved of by such Consul or Chief British Officer, and shall deliver to such Consul or Chief Particulars of British Officer, in Writing, the Particulars of the Damage sustained to be the Damage sustained, and shall verify upon Oath, or being a Quaker delivered to the upon Affirmation, (to be administered by such Consul Consul or Chief British Officer, or Chief British Officer), the Particulars and Amount and the Necesof the Repairs, and that the same were become necessity of the Resary in consequence of Damage sustained during the pairs to be cerVoyage to that Port, to enable such Ship to prosecute the Voyage then intended, and to return to some Place of His Majesty's Dominions, which the Consul or Chief British Officer is required to certify under his Hand and Seal; and if there shall not be any British Consul or Chief British Officer resident at or near the Place where such Repairs may be necessary, then such Survey shall be made by Two fit and proper Persons, to be approved of by Two known British Merchants residing at or near such Place; and the Master shall produce to such Merchants Vouchers of the Particulars and the Amount of the Repairs, whose Certificate of the same shall be of the like Force and Effect as that of the British Consul or Chief British Officer; and in case any Ship shall be repaired in any Foreign Place, the Master thereof shall make Proof upon Oath, or (if a Quaker) by Affirmation, before the Collector or Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the Customs in the Port of His Majesty's Dominions where the said Ship may first arrive (if required by them so to do, and which Oath or Affirmation the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer, or either of them, is empowered to administer), describing the Nature and Amount of the Expence of such Repairs; and if such Expence shall appear to exceed 15s. for every Ton of the Admeasurement, and the said Master shall neglect or refuse to deliver to such Collector and Comptroller or Principal Officer of the Customs, or to one of them, the Certificate so required, the |