of such public Works, is often necessary; and it is expedient 'that Provision should be made for the Appointment and Payment ⚫ of such additional Constables or Officers: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 it shall be lawful Additional for the Sheriff of any County in which the Works of any Railway, Constables or Officers may be Canal, or other public Work of a similar Nature shall be in pro- appointed by gress of Construction, upon the Application of the Company or the Sheriff. other Parties carrying on any such public Work, or of any Two Justices of the Peace of the County, and usually acting in the District in or through which any such public Work may be in the course of Construction, to appoint from Time to Time such fit and proper Persons as he may think fit to nominate for that Purpose to be Constables or Peace Officers in and for such County within the Limits of such public Works, and within a Mile therefrom, during the Construction of such public Works; and every Person so appointed shall make Oath or solemn Declaration, to be administered by such Sheriff, duly to execute the Office of Constable or Peace Officer as herein-after mentioned; and every Person sa appointed, and having made such Oath or Declaration, shall have full Power to act as a Constable or Peace Officer for the Preservation of the Peace, and for the Security of Persons and Property, against Crimes and unlawful Aets, within the Limits of that Part of the public Works for which he shall be so appointed, and within a Mile therefrom, and shall have, use, exercise, and enjoy all such Powers, Authorities, Protections, and Privileges in the Execution of his Office as belong by Law to the Office of Constable or Peace Officer within the Limits or District for which he is appointed to act, and shall, when required so to do, obey all Orders and put in execution all Warrants issued by the Sheriff, and to be executed within such Limits or District, or within any other Part of the County; and it shall be lawful for the Sheriff, when he shall think fit, to dismiss or remove any such Constable or Peace Officer who may have been so appointed, and to appoint another fit and proper Person in his Stead; and upon every such Dismissal or Removal all the Powers, Authorities, Protections, and Privileges vested by removed virtue of such Appointment in any Person so dismissed or shall wholly cease and determine." or Parties carrying on such II. And be it enacted, That every Person so appointed by any Expence thereof Sheriff to act as Constable or Peace Officer as aforesaid shall, to be paid by during such Time as he shall so act as Constable or Peace Officer, the Companies receive from the Company or other Parties carrying on such public Works a reasonable Remuneration, not exceeding what is in use Works. to be given to Constables on Duty within the same County; and the Amount, and the Time and Manner of Payment of such Remuneration shall be fixed and directed by the Sheriff. III. And be it enacted, That in all Cases where the Company Remuneration or other Parties carrying on any such public Work shall refuse or may be reconeglect, during Fourteen Days next after Demand thereof, to pay vered by Disany such Remuneration, or any Part thereof, as shall by any Sheriff tress. as aforesaid have been directed to be paid, it shall be lawful for such Sheriff forthwith to cause the same to be levied, together B 2 with Act may be amended, &c. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 35. The Rates and The several with the Expences of levying the same, by Poinding and Sale of the Goods and Effects of the Company or other Parties liable to pay such Remuneration. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. CA P. IV. An Act to continue for Three Years the Duties on Profits • Most Gracious Sovereign, WE HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Your Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for granting to Her Majesty Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices, until the Sixth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, certain Rates and Duties arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices were granted to Your Majesty for a Term therein limited, which will expire after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five: We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great 'Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising 'the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's public Expences, have freely and voluntarily resolved to continue the said Rates ' and Duties, and to grant the same to Your Majesty for the Period herein-after mentioned;' and do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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 several Rates and Duties by the said recited Act granted shall be and the same are hereby continued, and shall be charged, raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto and for the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the Term of Three Years, to be computed from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and until the Assessments made or which ought to be made for the last Year of the said Term, or for any preceding Year, shall be completed, collected, levied, and paid. II. And be it enacted, That the said recited Act, and all and Acts continued every other Act and Acts now in force in relation to the Duties granted by the said recited Act, shall severally be continued and remain in full Force, and be of the like Effect in all respects, in relation to the Duties hereby continued and granted, as if the said Duties had been originally granted by the said recited Act for a Period which did not expire before the End of the Term for which the same are continued and granted by this Act; and all and every the Powers, Authorities, Rules, Regulations, Directions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in the said Acts, or any of them, and in force as aforesaid, shall severally and respectively be duly observed, practised, applied, and put in execution in relation to the said Duties hereby continued and granted, as well during the Term herein limited as after the Expiration thereof, for assessing, levying, recovering, paying, deducting, 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. 1845 to be in 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 for the Year '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. IV. And whereas the Contracts entered into for Compositions * for the Duties chargeable under Schedule (D.) of the said recited Act for the Term thereby limited will expire after the Fifth 'Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and it is 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. CA P. V. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of Most Gracious Sovereign, WE B 3 Your Power to compound for Duties under Schedule (D.) continued. Act may be amended, &c. Duties imposed by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 28. repealed. Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and 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 On thousand eight hundred and forty-five the Duties imposed on Sugar and Molasses by an Act passed in the Session of Parliamen 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 King dom, 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 Ο 018 8 0 16 4 White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any White, for every Hundred Weight P 1 6 1 15 0 5 On Sugar the Growth and Produce of any other White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any 0003 1 19 to White Clayed, for every Hundred Weight - 0 18 8 On Sugar the Growth and Produce of China, Java, or Manilla, or of any Foreign Country the Sugars of which Her Majesty in Council shall have declared, or may hereafter declare, to be admissible as not being the Produce of Slave Labour, and which shall be imported into the United Kingdom either from the Country of its Growth or from some British Possession, having first been imported s. d. - 1 8 0 into such British Possession from the Country of £ its Growth, the Duties following; (that is to say,) White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process equal in Quality to White Clayed, not being refined, for every Hundred Weight Brown Sugar, being Muscovado or Clayed, or any other Sugar not being equal in Quality to White Clayed, for every Hundred Weight Molasses, for every Hundred Weight On all other Sugars and Molasses, not otherwise charged with Duty, the Duties following; (that is to say,) 1 3 4 49 0 8 9 Refined Sugar, for every Hundred Weight And so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity than a Power to Her Majesty, by cil, to declare Order in Coun II. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, and She is hereby empowered, from Time to Time, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare, with respect to any 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, Muscovado, 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. Slave Labour. 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 im- Certificate reported from China, Java, or Manilla, or from any other of the quired in respect Countries named in such Order in Council as herein-before is of Sugar from China, &c. 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 |