On the Death, Resignation of Officer of Ex chequer, Stocks and Securities shall vest in Successor. Gardens not to be affected. 6o GEO. 4. for and on behalf of any Person or Persons interested in or entitled to the Benefit of the Money so paid to and received by the proper Officer of the said Courts respectively, or the Interest or Produce thereof, and upon reading the Certificate directed to be signed by the said Officer concerning the same as aforesaid, and receiving such further Satisfaction as they shall think necessary, to make and pronounce such Orders and Directions for paying the said Money, or any Part of the same, or for placing out such Part thereof as shall be Principal in the Public Funds, or upon Government or Real Securities, and for Payment of the Dividends or Interest thereof, or any Part thereof, to the respective Persons entitled to receive the same, or for laying out the Principal, or any Part thereof, in the Purchase of other Lands to be conveyed and settled to, for, and upon the same Uses, Trusts, Intents, and Purposes as the said Lands so taken stood settled at the Time of the Payment of such Money as aforesaid, as near as the same can be done, or otherwise concerning the disposing of the said Money, or any Part thereof, and the Interest of the same, or any Part thereof, for the Benefit of the Person or Persons respectively, or for appointing any Person or Persons to be Trustee or Trustees for all or any of such Purposes, as the said Courts respectively shall think just and reasonable. LI. AND be it further enacted, That upon the Death,. Removal, or Resignation of any such Officer of the said Courts of Exchequer, all Stocks and Securities vested in. him by virtue of this Act shall vest in the succeeding Officer of the Exchequer, for the Purposes herein-before mentioned, without any Assignment or Transfer; and all Monies paid in the said Banks respectively in pursuance of this Act, or remaining in the Hands of any such Officer, at his Death, Resignation, or Removal, and not vested in the Funds, or placed out on Securities as aforesaid, shall be paid over to the succeeding Officer, for the like Purpose for the Time being. LII. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to any Garden or Pleasure Ground, or to any Land immediately contiguous to and used as the Curtilage or Homestead of any Dwelling House. Commissioners LIII. AND be it further enacted, That every Order, Documents Document, Instrument, or Writing, relating to the Customs signed by Three or to the Law of Navigation, required by any Law at any of the Treasury Time in force to be under the Hands of the Commissioners to be deemed of His Majesty's Treasury, being signed by Three or more whole Commisof such Commissioners, shall be deemed to be an Order, sioners. Document, Instrument, or Writing under the Hands of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury accordingly. the Act of the LIV. AND be it further enacted, That this Act may Act may be be amended, varied, altered, or repealed by any Act to be altered this passed in the present Session of Parliament. Session. ANNO SEXTO GEORGII IV. REGIS. CAP. CVII. An Act for the General Regulation of the WHEREAS an Act was passed in the present Ses 6 G. 4. c. 105. sion of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several Laws relating to the Customs, in which it is declared, that the Laws of the Customs have become intricate, by reason of the great Number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long Series of Years; and it is therefore highly expedient, for the Interests of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be subject to the Operation of those Laws, or who may be authorized to act in the Execution thereof, that all the Statutes now in force relating to the Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which they have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the various Provisions contained in them: And whereas, by the said Act, all the Laws relating to the Customs will be repealed; and it is expedient to make Provisions for regulating the Customs after such Repeal shall have Effect: 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 Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hun- of Act. dred and twenty-six, this Act shall come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation, for the General Regulation of the Customs of the United Kingdom and of the Commencement INWARDS. General Provision. No Goods to be landed, nor Bulk broken, before Report and Entry. Times and Places of landing; and Care - II. AND whereas it is expedient that the Officers of Customs should have full Cognizance of all Ships coming into any Port in the United Kingdom, or in the Isle of Man, or approaching the Coasts thereof, and of all Goods on board, or which may have been on board such Ships, and also of all Goods unladen from any Ship in any Port or Place in the United Kingdom or in the Isle of Man; be it therefore enacted, THAT no Goods shall be unladen from any Ship arriving from Parts beyond the Seas, at any Port or Place in the United Kingdom, or in the Isle of Man, nor shall Bulk be broken after the Arrival of such Ship within Four Leagues of the Coasts thereof respectively, before due Report (1) of such Ship, and due Entry (2) of such Goods shall have been made, and Warrant granted in Manner herein-after directed; and that no Goods shall be so unladen except at such Times and Places (3), and in such Manner, and by such Persons, and under the Care of such Officers as is and are herein-after directed; and that all Goods not duly reported, or which shall be unladen contrary hereto, shall be forfeited (4); and if Bulk be broken contrary hereto, the Master of such Ship shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds; and if after the Arrival of any Ship within Four Leagues of the Coast of the United Kingdom, or of the Isle of Man, any Alteration be made in the Stowage of the Cargo of such Ship, so as to facilitate the unlading of any Part of such Cargo,- or if any Part be staved, destroyed, or thrown overboard, or any Package be opened, such Ship shall be deemed to have broken Bulk: PROVIDED always, that the several Articles herein-after enumerated may be without Entry. landed in the United Kingdom without Report, Entry, or Warrant; (that is to say), Diamonds and Bullion (5), Fresh Fish, British taken and imported in British Ships, Turbots and Lobsters fresh, however taken or imported. of Officers. Goods not reported or en tered, forfeited. If Bulk be illegally broken, Master to forfeit 100/. Certain Articles may be landed Manifest. III. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods (6) shall be imported into the United Kingdom, or into the (2) See § 16. (1) See § 8. (5) As to Navigation, see Cap. 109. § 2. 3. |