STATUTES

OF

THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT

IN RELATION TO

COLONIAL TRADE.

CAP. XLIV.

AN ACT to regulate the trade between his Majesty's possessions in America and the West Indies, and other places in America and the West Indies. [24th June, 1822.]

articles into and

"WHEREAS divers acts of Parliament have been, from Sec. c. 119. § 5. time to time, passed, for regulating the importation and post. exportation of certain articles into and from certain Territories, Islands, and Ports, under the dominion of his Majesty, in America and the West Indies; and it is expe- Acts regulating dient that the said several acts should be repealed, and the importation other provisions made in lieu thereof :" Be it, therefore, and exportaenacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and tion of certain with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and from certain temporal and Commons, in this present Parliament as- Colonies in sembled, and by the authority of the same, That, fromand America and after the passing of this act, an act passed in the twenty-herein recited, eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George repealed; viz. the Third, entitled "An act for regulatiug the trade be- 28 G. 3. c. 6. tween the subjects of his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the West India Islands, and the countries belonging to the United States of America, and between his Majesty's said subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies;" also, an act, passed 28 G.3. c. 39. in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty

the West Indies

29 G. 3. c. 56.

30 G. 3. c. 8.

King George the Third, entitled "An act to allow the importation of rum, and other spirits, from his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, into the Province of Quebec, without payment of duty, under certain conditions and restrictions;" also, an act, passed in the 29 G. 3. c. 16. twenty-ninth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to enable his Majesty to authorize, in case of necessity, the importation of bread, flour, Indian corn, and live stock, from any of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, into the Province of Quebec, and all the countries bordering on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and the Islands within the said Gulf, and to the coast of Labrador;" also, another act, passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act for explaining and amending an act, passed in the last session of Parliament, entitled 'An act to regulate the trade between the subjects of his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the West India Islands, and the countries belonging to the United States of America, and between his Majesty's said subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies;'" also, an act, passed in the thirtieth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to amend two acts made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his present Majesty, the one entitled An act for regulating trade between the subjects of his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the West India Islands, and the countries belonging to the United States of America, and between his Majesty's said subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies;' and the other entitled An act to allow the importation of rum, or other spirits, from his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, into the Province of Quebec, without payment of duty, under certain conditions 31 G. 3. c. 38. and restrictions;" also, an act, passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled “An act to amend an act made in the twenty-eighth year of his present Majesty's reign, for regulating the trade between the subjects of his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America and in the West India Islands, and the countries belonging to the United States of America, and between his Majesty's said subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies ;" and, also, an act, made in the twenty-seventh year of his present Majesty's reign, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandise, in the ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay and Santa Lucia, in the Island of Jamaica, in the Port of Saint George, in the Island of

Grenada, in the Port of Rosea in the Island of Dominica, and in the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, under certain regulations and restrictions; also, an act, passed in the thirty- 33 G. 3. c. 50. third year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to amend an act, passed in the twenty-seventh year of his present Majesty's reign, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandise, in foreign ships, into and from certain ports and places in the West Indies; and for amending so much of an act made in the thirty-second year of the reign of his present Majesty, as relates to permitting the importa tion of sugar in the Bahama and Bermuda Islands, in foreign ships; and so much of two acts, made in the twenty-eighth and thirty-first years of his present Majesty's reign, as prohibits the importation of timber into any Island, under the dominion of his Majesty, in the West Indies, from any Foreign Colony or Plantation in the West Indies or South America; and so much of the said act, made in the twenty-eighth year of his present Majesty's reign, as prohibits the importation of pitch, tar, and turpentine, into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, from any country belonging to the United States of America;" also, an act, passed in the forty-fourth year of the 44 G. 3. c. 101. reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act for permitting, until the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seven, the exportation of salt from the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, the Port of Exuma, and the Port of Crooked Island, in the Bahama Islands, in ships belonging to the inhabitants of the United States of America, and coming in ballast;" also, an act, passed in the forty-fifth year of the reign of his said late 45 G. 3. c. 57. Majesty, entitled "An act to consolidate and extend the several laws now in force, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods and merchandise into and from certain ports in the West Indies ;" also, an act, pass

ed in the forty-sixth year of the reign of his said late Majes- 46 G. 3. c. 724. ty, entitled "An act for enabling his Majesty to permit the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities into and from the Port of Road Harbor in the Island of Tortola; also, an act, passed in the forty-eighth year 48 G. 3. c. 125: of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to permit the importation of rice, flour, and grain, from any Foreign Colonies on the continent of America, into certain ports in the West Indies, and to allow certain articles to be imported from the United States of America into the British Provinces in North America, for the purpose of exportation to the British Islands in the West Indies;"

49 G. 3. c. 22. also, an act, passed in the forty-ninth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities into and from the Port of Falmouth, in the Island 52 G. 3. c. 79. of Jamaica ;" also, an act, passed in the fifty-second year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to allow British Plantation sugar and coffee, imported into Bermuda in British ships, to be exported to the Territories of the United States of America in foreign ships or vessels, and to permit articles, the production of the said United States, to be imported into the said Island in foreign 52 G. 3. c. 99. ships or vessels; also, another act, passed in the said fiftysecond year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act for allowing certain articles to be imported into the Bahama Islands, and exported therefrom in foreign vessels, and for encouraging the exportation of salt from 53 G. 3. c. 37. the said Islands;" also, an act, passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled “An act to amend an act of the twenty-eighth year of his present Majesty, for allowing the importation of rum, or other Spirits, from his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies, into the Province of Quebec, without 53 G. 3. c. 50. payment of duty;" also, another act, passed in the fiftythird year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act for further allowing the importation and exportation of certain articles at the Island of Bermuda ;" also, an act, passed in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to revive and make perpetual certain acts for consolidating and extending the several laws in force, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain articles into and from certain 57 G. 3. c. 28. ports in the West Indies;" also, an act, passed in the fiftyseventh year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to extend the powers of two acts, for allowing British Plantation sugar and coffee, and other articles, imported into Bermuda in British ships, to be exported to America in foreign vessels, and to permit articles, the produce of America, to be imported into the said Island in foreign ships, to certain other articles ;" also, 57 G.3. c. 74. another act, passed in the said fifty-seventh year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to extend several acts for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods and merchandise to Porta Maria, in the Island of Jamaica, and to the Port of Bridge Town in the Island of Barbadoes;" also, an act, passed in the 58 G. 3. c. 19. fifty-eighth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled "An act to allow, for three years, and until six weeks after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament, the importation, into ports specially appoint

54 G. 3. c. 48.