6 said late Majesty, intituled An Act for amending and continuing so amended, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twelve, an Act of the Forty fifth Year of His present Majesty, for consolidating and extending the several Laws in force for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandise into and from certain Ports in the West Indies, which by a subsequent Act was continued until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and by one other Act was revived and made perpetual: And Whereas it is expedient to permit the Importation of Coffee, the Produce of any Colony or Plantation in 'America belonging to and under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into the said Port of Bridgetown Foreign Plant- in the Island of Barbadoes:' 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 Coffee, the Produce of any Colony or Plantation in America belonging to and under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, may be imported into the Port of Bridgetown, in the Island of Barbadoes, in the West Indies, from any Colony or Plantation in America belonging to and under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, in the like Ships and Vessels, under such Rules, Regulations, Restrictions and Conditions, and subject to such Penalties and Forfeitures for Breach thereof, as are contained, described and provided in the aforesaid Acts. ation Coffee may be imported into Bridgetown in Barbadoes, according to the said Acts. 6 WHE CAP. XXXIII. An Act to amend and continue, until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, several Laws relating to the Encouragement of the Greenland Whale Fisheries, to the allowing Vessels employed in the said Fisheries to complete their full Number of Men at certain Ports. [8th July 1820.] HEREAS the Laws hereinafter mentioned have by Experience been found useful and beneficial, and it is 'expedient that the same should be further continued:' 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 an Act made in the Twenty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the further Support and Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, which was to be in force for Five Years from the Twenty fifth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and eighty six; and also so much of an Act made in the Twenty ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for further encouraging and regulating the Newfoundland, 50 G. 3. c. 11. Greenland and Southern Whale Fisheries, as relates to the Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights; which by 26 G. 3. c. 41. and so much of 29 relates to the 29 G. 3. c. 53. Fisheries, and continued by 32 G. 3. c. 22. 42 G.3. c. 22. 44 G. 3. c. 23. 46 G. 3. c. 29. 48 G. 3. c. 20. 55 G. 3. c. 39. and 60 G. 5.& an tinued till an Act made in the Thirty second Year of the Reign of His said 1 G. 4 c. 12. late Majesty were amended and continued until the Twenty fifth further conDay of December One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight; Dec. 31, 1823. and which were by several subsequent Acts further continued; and by Two Acts passed in the Forty second and Forty fourth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, were amended and further continued; and by several Acts of the Forty sixth, Forty eighth, Fiftieth and Fifty fifth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, and by an Act of the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, were further continued until the Twenty fifth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be further continued until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty three. II. And be it further enacted, That an Act made in the Forty sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for allowing, until the Signature of Preliminary Articles of Peace, Vessels employed in the Greenland Whale Fishery to complete their full Number of Men at certain Ports, which by an Act made in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty and an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, was revived and continued until the Twenty fifth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be further continued until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty three. 46 G. 5. c. 9. as revived and continued by 55 G. 5. c. 59. and 60 G. 3. & 1 G.4. c. 12. further con Dec. 31, 1823. tinued till fitting III. And Whereas by the Act passed in the Twenty sixth 26 G. 3. c. 41. Year of the Reign of His late Majesty it is enacted, that every § 1. British Ship, before she proceeds in her Voyage to the Greenland Seas or Davis's Streights, should be visited by the proper Officer or Officers of the Customs belonging to such Port, who Commissioners 'should examine into such Ship or Vessel, and take an account of Customs may of the Tonnage thereof by Admeasurement, and should certify lector, &c. of empower Col⚫ such his or their Visitation to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Port where 'Customs; and if it should appear, by the Certificate of such Ships are Officer or Officers, that such Vessel hath on board such a out for Fisher• Number of Men, Provisions, Boats, Fishing Lines, and Instru- ies to grant ⚫ments used in such Fishery as mentioned in the said Act, then proceed on and in all such Cases it should be lawful for any Three or Voyage, on Of more of the Commissioners of the Customs in England and ficer reporting Scotland respectively, for the time being, on receiving such Cer- that Regulatificates, to give and grant full Licence and Authority to such tions have been Vessel to proceed in the said Voyage: And Whereas Inconve- complied with. 'nience has been found, particularly in Tide Harbours, from the Delay that must necessarily take place between the Visitation of the Officer on board of the Ship for the Mustering of the Crew, Examination of Provisions, Boats, Fishing Lines, and Instruments ' used in such Fishery, the Report of such Officer or Officers to the Commissioners of the Customs, and the Return of the Licence from such Commissioners;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for Three or more of the Commissioners of the Customs in England and Scotland respectively, and they are hereby required, to authorise the Collector or Comptroller, or Chief Officer of the Customs of the Port where any Ship for carrying on the Fishery in the Greenland Seas or Davis's Streights is fitting out, to give and grant a full and suffi K 3 cient Licences to cient Licence for such Ship to proceed on her Voyage as soon as the proper Officer or Officers shall have visited such Ship, and reported to such Collector, Comptroller or Chief Officer, that the Number of Men, Provisions, Boats, Fishing Lines and Instruments, and all other Requisites required by the said Act of the Twenty sixth Year of His late Majesty aforesaid, are on board such Vessel, and have been duly complied with, in such and the like Manner and as effectually as the Commissioners respectively could have done on receiving such Reports; any thing contained in any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. 56 G. 5. c. 91."' $3. Recited Act continued. When Vessels not of Nether land Built, Proof given that they have been before CAP. XXXIV. An Act for further continuing, until the First Day of Ja- WHEREAS an Act passed in the Fifty sixth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to regulate the Trade of the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo; to allow the Importation into and Exportation from such Colonies of certain Articles by Dutch Proprietors of the European Dominions of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands; and to repeal an Act of the Fifty fourth Year of His ' present Majesty, for permitting a Trade between the United Provinces and certain Colonies in His Majesty's Possession; in which it is among other Things enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the Subjects of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands to import into and export from the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo, certain Articles therein described, in any Ships being the Property of such Subjects, wherever built, and without any Restriction or Limitation as to the Mariners navigating the same, for the Space of Five Years, commencing from the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixteen: And Whereas it is expedient that the Permission to employ 'such Vessels in the Trade above described should be further 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 the Provisions contained in the said recited Act be and the same are hereby continued for and during the Term of Five Years from the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, subject to the Rules and Restrictions therein contained; provided that the Master or other Person having the Charge or Command of any Vessel not being of the Built of the Dominions of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, in which any such Importation or Exportation shall be made, shall, previous to the Entry of the same, produce to the proper proper Officer of His Majesty's Customs in the said Colonies re- this Act emspectively, satisfactory Proof that such Vessel had been employed ployed in the in such Trade previous to the passing of this Act. WH CA P. XXXV. Trade. Recital of Or der of Court of Exchequer at Westminster, 17th July, 1747, as to securing the Suitors Money; An Act for the better securing Monies and Effects paid into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, on account of the Suitors of the said Court, and for the Appointment of an Accountant General and Two Masters of the said Court; and for other Purposes. [8th July 1820.] HEREAS His Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster did, on the Seventeenth Day of July One thousand seven hundred and forty seven, make an Order touching the Money belonging to the Suitors of that Court, whereby after reciting that His Majesty's Remembrancer of the said Court and his Deputy had informed the said Court, that there were 'standing in the Name of the said Deputy, in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and in the Books of the South Sea Company, divers Sums in certain Stocks and Annuities of the said Companies respectively, which had 'been purchased with the Money of the Suitors of the said Court, ' or were belonging to them, and that no Declaration of Trust had 'been or could be made in relation thereto, in the Books of the ⚫ said several Companies, without an Order of the said Court for that Purpose; it was ordered, that the said Deputy Remembrancer should cause the said Sum to be transferred in the Books of the said Companies into his Name, as Deputy Re'membrancer of the said Court, in Trust to attend the Orders of the said Court in the several Causes to which the same respectively belonged; and that for the future all other Sums of Stock or Annuities, or any other transferrable Securities for the Benefit of or belonging to the Suitors of the said Court, should be in like Manner transferred in Trust to attend the Orders of the said Court, to be made in the several Causes to which the same should respectively belong; and that the said Deputy Remembrancer should from time to time receive the Dividends or Interests to arise on all the said Securities, in order to apply the same for the Benefit of the Suitors, pursuant to the Orders of ⚫ the said Court; and by the said Order, certain other Regulations ⚫ were made for the Conduct of the said Deputy Remembrancer in the Sale and Transfer of such Stocks and Securities, and the Receipt of the Dividends and Interest thereon: And Whereas and that Ef⚫ several Effects of the Suitors of the said Court were and from fects, &c. of time to time have been delivered into the Bank of England and elsewhere, and divers Stocks, Funds and Annuities were and have been transferred from time to time in the Books of the Bank of England, South Sea Company, and East India Company, into the Name of the Deputy Remembrancer of the said Court for the time being, and are now standing in the said Books in the Name of Abel Moysey Esquire, the present Deputy Remembrancer of the said Court; but no Declaration of Trust relating thereto has been made in the Books of the said several 'Companies, K 4 Suitors disposed of under recited Order. No Money, &c. to be paid to Remembrancer (Exception) after the pass ing of this Act. An Accountant General of the said Court to be appointed by the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Style of such also to be One Accounts to be kept as Ac counts are kept in the Court of Chancery, &c. ་ Companies, according to the said Order, and large Sums of Money or Securities for Money belonging to the said Suitors, are now in the Hands, Custody or Power of the said Abel Moysey; and it is expedient that a fit and proper Person should be appointed to be Accountant General of the said Court, in whose Name all Effects, Stocks, Funds, Annuities and Securities be'longing to the said Suitors, might become and be from time to 'time securely vested for the Use of the said Suitors, and who might keep the Account of the Funds of the said Suitors, but who should have no Power to dispose of or otherwise intermeddle with such Funds, further or otherwise than as hereinafter directed: 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 from and after the passing of this Act, no Sum or Sums of Money, Stocks, Funds or Securities whatsoever, belonging to the Suitors of the said Court, shall be paid or transferred to or become vested in the Deputy Remembrancer of the said Court, or the King's Remembrancer or his Deputy for the time being, otherwise than as hereinafter is directed; any thing in the said recited Order, or any Law, Usage or Custom of the said Court to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. II. And, to the end that the Accounts between the Suitors of the said Court of Exchequer and the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and every other Body Politic or Corporate or Company whom it may concern, may be more regularly and plainly kept, and the State of such Accounts be at all times seen and known, be it enacted, That as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, there shall be appointed by the Lord Chief Baron of the said Court of Exchequer, by Writing under his Hand and Seal, to be duly enrolled among the Records of the said Court, One Person who shall act and do all Matters and Things relating to the delivering, securing and investing of the Money and Effects of the Suitors of the said Court, and the Payment, selling, and transferring of the same, and the keeping the Accounts with the Bank of England, or any other Body Politic or Corporate, or Company, and other Matters relating thereto; which said Officer so to be appointed shall be called "The Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer," and such Person shall also be one of the Masters of the said Court, and shall hold such Offices during his good Behaviour in the said Offices; and Accounts shall be raised and kept causewise in the Books of the Bank of England, and of every other Body Politic or Corporate or Company whom it may concern, to be respectively intituled "The Account of A. B. the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer," for and on behalf of the Suitors of the said Court, in like Manner as such Accounts are kept between the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery and the Bank of England, or any other Body Politic or Corporate or Company; and all such Rules, Methods, and Directions as by this Act are prescribed to the Suitors of the said Court of Exchequer, or to the said Accountant General of the said Court, or to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any other Body Politic or Corporate 7 |