Society shall

continue to be paid, unless the Patron and President

shall think fit to vary the

same.

Proviso.

2.

Term of Act.

3. Public Act.

4. Act may be

amended, &c.

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the Lord High Admiral, or the First Commissioner for executing
the office of Lord High Admiral for the time being, as Patron of the
said Society, and the Secretary of the Admiralty for the time being
as President of the said Society, shall deem it expedient at any
time or times to increase or reduce the same; in which case it shall
be lawful for the Lord High Admiral, or the said First Commissioner,
and the said Secretary, and they are hereby authorized and empowered
to increase or reduce at any time, and from time to time, by writing
under their respective hands, as the exigencies of the case may seem
to them requisite, the amount of the Annuity now or hereafter payable 10
by the said Society to widows or other claimants, provided that the
amount of the Annuities be not thereby rendered less than Two-thirds
of the amount which is now paid, and also to increase or reduce the
rates of Premium which now are or shall be paid to the said Society for
or in respect of any Annuity, so that the amount of the Premium shall 15
not exceed the rates established by the said Order in Council: Pro-
vided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall render it
obligatory on any person to commence or continue the payment of
the full or reduced amount of any such premiums of insurance as
aforesaid.

And be it Enacted, That this Act shall take effect and continue in force for Ten Years from the passing thereof, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

And be it Enacted, That this Act shall be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament.

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A

BILL

To amend the Laws in force for the Encouragement of
British Shipping and Navigation.

[Note. The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

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Preamble.

Y.

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws now in force for the encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation; 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 from and after the First day of January One thousand eight hundred and Forty-nine, the following Acts and parts of Acts shall be repealed; (that is to say), a certain Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of Her present 8 & 9 Vict. Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of British Ship

Certain Acts repealed from and after January 1,

1849.

c. 88.

c. 89. sec. 3.

sec. 5.

ping and Navigation ;" and so much of a certain other Act passed in the said Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for the Registering of British Vessels," as limits the privileges of vessels registered at 15 Malta, Gibraltar and Heligoland; and so much thereof as provides 8 & 9 Vict., that no ship or vessel shall be registered, except such as are wholly of the build of some part of the British dominions, and so much as relates to the disqualification of ships repaired in a foreign country; and so much as prevents British ships which have been captured by or sold to foreigners from becoming entitled to be again registered as British, in case the same again become the property of British subjects; and so much of a certain other Act passed in the said Session 8 & 9 Vict., of Parliament, intituled, "An Act to regulate the Trade of the British

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sec. 7.

sec. 9.

c. 93, sec. 2.

sec. 4.

sec. 44.

8 & 9 Vict., c. 86, s. 63.

7 & 8 Vict., c. 112, s. 37.

Possessions Abroad," as provides that no goods shall be imported into or exported from any of the British possessions in America by sea from or to any place other than the United Kingdom, or some other of such possessions, except into or from the several ports denominated free ports; and so much thereof as provides for the 5 limitation of the privileges granted to foreign ships by the law of navigation in respect of importations into the British possessions in Asia, Africa and America; and so much thereof as provides that no vessel or boat shall be admitted to be a British vessel or boat on any of the inland waters or lakes of America, except such as shall have 10 been built at some place within the British dominions, and shall not have been repaired at any foreign place to a greater extent than in the said Act is mentioned; and so much of a certain other Act passed in the said Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for the general Regulation of the Customs," as prohibits the importation of train oil, 15 blubber, spermaceti oil, head-matter, skins, 'bones and fins, the produce of fish or creatures living in the sea, of foreign taking, unless in vessels which shall have been cleared out regularly with such oil, blubber or other produce on board from some foreign port; and so much thereof as prohibits the importation of tea, unless from the 20 Cape of Good Hope, or from places eastward of the same to the Straits of Magellan; and so much of a certain Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen, and for keeping a 25 Register of Seamen," as provides that the master or owner of every ship belonging to any subject of Her Majesty, and of the burthen of Eighty Tons or upwards (except pleasure yachts), shall have on board at the time of her proceeding from any port of the United Kingdom, and at all times when absent from the United Kingdom, or navigating 30 the seas, one apprentice or more in a certain proportion to the number of tons of his ship's admeasurement, and that if any such master or owner shall neglect to have on board his ship the number of apprentices thereby required, together with their respective registered indentures, assignments and register tickets, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of 35 Ten Pounds in respect of each apprentice, indenture, assignment or register-ticket so wanting or deficient; and so much as is now in 4 Geo. 4, c. 80. force of a certain Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the fourth year of the reign of King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to consolidate and amend the several Laws now in force 40 with respect to Trade from and to Places within the Limits of the Charter of the East India Company, and to make further Provisions with respect to such Trade, and to amend an Act of the present Session of Parliament for the registering of Vessels so far as it relates to Vessels registered in India;" and also the following Acts and parts of Acts: so much of a certain Act passed in the

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