Value which such nominal Sums bear in Great Britain, according to the Proportion and Value of 5s. 6d. the Ounce in Silver, and shall be collected, paid, and recovered by such Rules, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as any other Duties payable to His Majesty upon Goods imported into the said Colonies or Plantations are or may be collected, paid, and recovered by any Acts of Parliament now in force; and all the Monies that shall arise by the said Duties (except the necessary Charges of collecting, recovering, paying, and accounting for the same) shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and entered separate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to His Majesty, and shall be disposed of by Parliament towards defraying the necessary Expences of defending and securing the British Colonies and Plantations in America. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 12. Exportation to Colony, no Duty 42. But no Duty shall be paid for any British Coffee British Coffee imported or brought into any British Colony or Planta- warehoused for tion in America, if deposited in Warehouses provided at Great Britain, the sole Expence of the Importer or Proprietor of such Ireland, or some Coffee, with the Privity and Approbation and under other British the Care and Inspection of the Collector and Comp- to be charged. troller or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Place where such Coffee shall be imported, and secured under the separate Locks of such Officers and the Proprietor, and, within Twelve Calendar Months from the landing and warehousing the same, shall be shipped directly from thence for Exportation to Great Britain or to Ireland, or some other British Colony or Plantation in America, under the Securities and Restrictions required by Law. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 15. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. housed on Im Colonies on the America, and on Exportation thereof Bond to be given. Continent of 43. No Duty shall be paid for any Foreign Coffee Foreign Coffee imported or brought into any British Colony or Planta- may be waretion on the Continent of America, if deposited in Ware- portation into houses provided at the sole Expence of the Importer or Proprietor of such Coffee, with the Privity and Approbation and under the Care and Inspection of the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Place where such Coffee shall be imported, and shall also be secured under the separate Locks of such Officers and Proprietor, and within Twelve Calendar Months from the landing and warehousing the same, shall be shipped for Exportation as herein-after is expressed; If Duties not paid or the Goods exported, they may be sold by the Officers. Cocoa of Foreign Foreign Veffels. expressed; that is to say, before such Foreign Coffee shall be taken out of such Warehouse for Exportation, the Exporter shall become bound with sufficient Security, in the Penalty of £5 for every Hundred Weight of such Coffee, that the same shall be exported according to the Entry, and not relanded in any Part of the British Dominions in America; which Bond the Collector and Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at the Port from whence such Foreign Coffee shall be intended to be exported, are required to take to the Use of His Majesty; and the said Bond, with respect to such Coffee as shall be exported to Great Britain, Ireland, or to any other Place under the Dominion of His Majesty where Custom-house Officers are or may be established, shall be with further Condition to return a Certificate, within Eighteen Calendar Months from the Date of such Bond, from the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the Customs at such Place, that such Coffee has been there landed accordingly; and with respect to such Coffee as shall be exported to any Place not under the Dominion of His Majesty, or where no such Officers are appointed, such Bond shall continue in force for Two Years from the Date thereof; and in case no Fraud shall appear within that Time, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England, or any Four or more of them, to direct the said Bond to be cancelled and delivered up. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 16. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. 44. If the Importer or Proprietor of any such Foreign Coffee warehoused as aforesaid shall not pay the Duties nor export the Goods within Twelve Calendar Months, the Collector and Comptroller or other Principal Officer of the Customs may cause the same to be publicly sold, and the Money arising by such Sale shall be in the first place applied in Discharge of the Duties and Charges attending the Sale, and the Surplus (if any) after Payment of the said Duties and Charges, shall be paid to the Importer or Proprietor, or to such other Person as shall be duly authorized to receive the same. 6 Geo. 3. c. 52. §17. 45. Cocoa, the Production of any of the Colonies in America, or of any Country on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported from any of the said Colonies or Countries into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Vessel owned and navigated by Persons in habiting habiting any of the said Colonies in America, or Countries on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 1. See FREE PORTS, 46. Coffee, the Production of any Foreign Colony or Plantation, may be imported into Nassau in New Providence, Pitt's Town in Crooked Island, or into such Ports in the Bahama Islands, or into the principal Port of Bermuda, or into such Ports in the Caicos as have been or may hereafter be approved by His Majesty, in such Foreign Vessels, and subject to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as are prescribed in this Act with respect to the Goods herein enumerated; and such Coffee may be so imported and again exported without Payment of any Duty of Customs. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 4, 5. See FREE PORTS. 47. His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, may permit the Importation into Road Harbour in the Island of Tortola, one of the Virgin Islands, and the Exportation from thence into Great Britain, of Foreign Coffee, in the same Manner, and subject to the same Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are provided in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. respecting Importation and Exportation of Coffee from Nassau, and further subject to such Rules, &c. as shall be directed by His Majesty. 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. § 1. See FREE PORTS. Coffee of Foreign Colonies may be imported in Foreign Vessels into Ports to be approved by His Majesty, and exported without Payment of Duty: also into and from Tortola, Rules, &c. and such other as His Majesty may direct: under the same and into and there is a Custom-house. 48. Any Foreign Vessel described in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. from any Part of may come in Ballast, or import into any Part of the the Bahama Bahama Islands where there is a Custom-house, any Islands where Coffee allowed in the said Act to be imported into certain Ports therein mentioned in Foreign Vessels, and may also export such Coffee conformably with the Regulations of the said Act. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. § 1. See FREE PORTS. Coin. 1. Copper Coin, not being the legal Copper Coin of Counterfeit, not this Kingdom, and counterfeit Gold or Silver Coin to be exported made to the Similitude or Resemblance, or intended to tain to the resemble, any Gold or Silver Coin of this Kingdom, or British Colonies. of any other Country, which shall under any Description be exported or put on board any Vessel or Boat for the Purpose Penalty on the Exporters or Persons having such Coin in their Custody. Importation allowed into the Free Ports in Purpose of being exported from Great Britain to any of His Majesty's Islands or Colonies in the West Indies or America, shall be forfeited, and may be prosecuted and recovered in such Courts, and by the like Means, and the Froduce thereof disposed of and applied in the like manner, and to such Uses, as any Forfeiture incurred by any Law respecting the Revenue may now be prosecuted or recovered, disposed of, and applied in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies. 38 Geo. 3. c. 67. § 1. 2. Every Person who shall export, or put on board any Vessel or Boat in order to be so exported, or shall cause or procure to be so exported or put on board any Vessel or Boat, or who shall have in his Custody in order to be so exported, any such Coin, shall forfeit £200, and Double the Value of such Coin, to be recovered by Action or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster. 38 Geo. 3. c. 67. § 2. 3. All Coin may be imported from any of the Colonies or Plantations in America, or from any Country on Foreign Vessels, the Continent of America belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into the Free Ports, in any Foreign Vessel owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the said Colonies or Plantations or Countries. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 49 Geo.3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. Must be landed in some other British Planta Britain or freland. See FREE PORTS. Copper Dre, Of the Production of the British Plantations in America, shall not be shipped or conveyed from any of the tion, or in Great said Plantations to any Place, unless to some other Plantation belonging to His Majesty, or to Great Britain or Ireland. 12 Car. 2. c. 18. § 18, 19. 23 Car. 2. c. 26. § 11. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 22. § 13. 8 Ann. c. 13. § 23. 8 Geo. 1. c. 18. 4 Geo. 3. c. 15. § 24. 27. 15 Geo. 3. c. 31. § 6. 20 Geo. 3. c. 10. § 1. 3. 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67. Art. 6. Importation 22 & For the Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, to secure the Landing in the Plantations or in Great Britain or Ireland, (See " Ashes, Pot and Pearl.") Coral, May be exported from Malta or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to any of His Majesty's 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. § 1. See GIBRALTAR. MALTA. Cork. Vessels from British Colonies rica, arriving with the Produce thereof at Places of Cape Finisin Europe South in North Ame port from thence Cork the Pro duce of Europe. 1. The Produce of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, may be shipped and laden in any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, for Exportation direct to any of the Ports herein-after mentioned; (that is to say), Saint John's in New Brunswick, Saint John's in Newfoundland, Quebec in Canada, Sydney in Cape Breton, Halifax and Shelburn in Nova Scotia, and terre, may imCharlotte Town in Prince Edward's Island, all in North America, on board of any British Ship owned, navigated, and registered according to Law, which shall have arrived at any Port or Place of Europe South of Cape Finisterre with Articles of the Growth or Produce of the said Colonies or Plantations, or with Fish taken and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the Fisheries from any of the said Colonies or Plantations, or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or with any of the Goods hereinafter mentioned, from Canada, whether such Goods shall be the Produce of Canada, or shall have been brought into the Province by Land or Inland Navigation. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 2. 2. Upon the Importation of Cork into any of the said What Duties Ports, the same shall be subject to the Payment of such liable to. Duties as Goods of the like Denomination are liable to upon being imported into any of the said Ports from Great Britain. 51 Geo. 3. c. 97. § 3. Scotia or New Produce of the 3. The Person exporting any Cargo from any Port in On Exportation the Provinces of Nova Scotia or of New Brunswick, for from Nova any Port of Europe South of Cape Finisterre, shall make Brunswick, Oath Oath at the Port of Shipment before the Chief Officer to be made that of the Customs, or before the Naval Officer in Command the Cargo is the at such Port, that the Cargo so shipped is the Growth Province, or of and Produce of the Province, or the Produce of the the British British Fisheries in North America, really taken and Fisheries; and cured by His Majesty's Subjects carrying on the said thereof to be Fisheries from some of the Colonies or Plantations; and produced. 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