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. for the Year III. And whereas by the said recited Act it was enacted, that Assessments 'the first Assessment of the Duties chargeable under either of under Schedules ⚫ the Schedules (A.) or (B.) of the same Act should be and remain (A.) & (B.) ' in force for the Space of Three Years, which will expire after 1845 to be in 'the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty- force for Three 'five; be it enacted, That the Assessments of the same Duties Years. 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. tinued. IV. And whereas the Contracts entered into for Compositions Power to comfor the Duties chargeable under Schedule (D.) of the said recited pound for Du Act for the Term thereby limited will expire after the Fifth ties under ScheDay of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and it dule (D.) conis expedient to renew and continue the Powers of the Commis⚫sioners to enter into new Contracts for such Compositions for the ⚫ Term limited by this Act;' be it enacted, 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 lastmentioned Duties, with any Person who may be desirous of compounding for the same, for the Period of Three Years, to commence from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, 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. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of Most Gracious Sovereign, B 3 Your Act may be amended, &c. Duties imposed Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by th Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice an Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, ir this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fourteenth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-five the Duties imposed on Sugar and Molasses by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and Duties imposed forty-four, shall cease and be no longer payable; and that from in lieu thereof. and after the said Fourteenth Day of March until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in lieu thereof, there shall be charged the Duties of Customs following; (that is to say,) On Sugar and Molasses the Growth and Produce of Double Refined Sugar, or Sugar equal in Quality £ s. d. 1 O 0 18 8 1 0 16 4 White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any White, for every Hundred Weight 1 6 1 15 0 5 On Sugar the Growth and Produce of any other 8003 1 19 White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any On Sugar the Growth and Produce of China, Java, into such British Possession from the Country of £ On all other Sugars and Molasses, not otherwise Refined Sugar, for every Hundred Weight being refined, for every Hundred Weight s. d. 18 0 10 - 8 8 0 1 3 9 5 12 8 8 And so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity than a Order in Coun II. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Her Power to Her Majesty, and She is hereby empowered, from Time to Time, by Majesty, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare, with respect to any cil, to declare Foreign Country or Countries, that it having appeared to Her the Sugars of Majesty, upon sufficient Evidence, that the Sugars of such Country other Countries or Countries are not the Produce of Slave Labour, such Sugars to be admissible shall (from and after a Day to be named in such Order) be deemed as not being and taken not to be the Produce of Slave Labour; and from and the Produce of after the Day so to be named in such Order the Brown, Musco- Slave Labour. vado, 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 One Pound Eight Shillings or of One Pound Three Shillings and Four-pence per Hundred Weight respectively, in like Manner as Sugars the Growth and Produce of China, Java, or Manilla. III. And be it enacted, That no Sugar shall be admissible to Certificates and Entry for Home Consumption at the said Duties of One Pound Declarations Eight Shillings or One Pound Three Shillings and Four-pence per required. 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 herein-after 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. And be it enacted, 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 Decla B 4 ration Certificate required in respect of Sugar from China, &c. Certificate re quired in respect of such Sugar if imported from British Posses sions abroad. Her Majesty, by Order in Council, may declare the Sugars of Coun tries with which Her Majesty has Treaties of Reciprocity as to Duties to be admissible at 28s. and 238.4d. per Cwt. respectively. ration 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 bonâ 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. And be it enacted, 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 herein-before 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 bonâ 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. And be it enacted, 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 Sugar (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 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 One Pound Eight Shillings and One Pound Three Shillings and Four-pence 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 herein-before required with respect to Sugars the Growth of China, Java, or Manilla. conditional. VII. And be it enacted, That in case the Privileges granted by As to such any Treaty to any Foreign Country, in respect of which any Order Treaty being 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. allowed at the VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if at any Time Importation of satisfactory Proof shall have been laid before Her Majesty in Sugar and MoCouncil that as respects any British Possession within the Limits lasses may be of the East India Company's Charter the Importation of Foreign lower Duty Sugar has been prohibited, it shall and may be lawful for Her from British Majesty, and She is hereby empowered, from Time to Time, by Possessions any Order or Orders in Council, to declare that Sugar and within the ComMolasses the Growth or Produce of any such British Possession pany's Charter may be imported from thence into the United Kingdom, and entered at the lower Rates of Duty herein-before 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 always, and be it 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 herein-before 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 an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, at the lower Rate of Duty therein mentioned. in which Foreign Sugar is prohibited. Such Sugar and Molasses to be entered at the lower Rates of Conditions on Duty, upon the which Bengal Sugar was admissible under 6&7W. 4. c.26. X. And be it enacted, That the respective Bounties now pay- Bounties on able on the Exportation of certain Descriptions of Refined Sugar certain Descripfrom the United Kingdom, by an Act passed in the Session of tions of Refined Sugar. Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to grant certain Boun- 3&4W.4.c.58. |
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