Articles imported for the Supply of the Inhabitants, not to be exported; and before ship ping Articles of the like Sort, Proof to be made that they were not imported for such Supply. America, or from the Free Ports, and except certain Articles from Trinidado and Porto Rico, 28 Geo. 3. c.6. § 10, 11. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38, § 1. 33 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 13. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 2. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 5. See FREE PORTS. UNITED STATES. 6. None of the Articles enumerated in 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. (See No. 1.) which have been imported from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, into the Bahama, Bermuda, or Somers Islands, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, shall be exported from the said Islands, or put on board any Vessel or Boat, or brought to any Quay, with intent to be so exported, on Forfeiture thereof, and of the Vessel or Boat In which laden; and before shipping any Article of the like Denomination or Description, whether in a manufactured or unmanufactured State, that may lawfully be exported from the said Islands, the Exporter shall make Oath that the same or any Part thereof had not been imported, for the Supply of the Inhabitants, from any Island in the West Indies, or Colony on the Continent of South America, under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. § 1, 2. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. §3, 4. 7. If any Person shall be convicted of taking a false deemed Perjury. Oath touching any of the Facts required to be testified on Oath, such Person shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and be liable to the Pains and Penalties to which Persons are liable for wilful and corrupt Perjury, and may be prcsecuted in any Court of Record in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the West Indies. 29 Geo. 3. c. 56. § 3. 31 Geo. 3. c. 38. § 5. False Oaths American. Ships laden with Salt 8. Any Ship belonging to the Inhabitants of the said in Ballast may be United States of America, coming in Ballast and not otherwise, may enter the Ports of Turks Island, for the Purpose of being there laden with Salt only. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. $5. in Turks Island. Masters to report and answer Questions respecting the Voyage. 9. The Master of such Ship shall, immediately after the Arrival in any Port in the said Islands, make a just and true Entry of his Ship upon Oath before the Collector or other principal Officer, declaring of what Country she is built, how manned, who was the Master during_the Voyage, and who are the Owners thereof, and the Purpose for which he enters the Port, in order that such Ship may undergo the Search and Examination of the proper Officers 3. Officers of the Customs; and such Master shall truly answer upon Oath to such Questions concerning the same as shall be demanded of him by such Collector or other principal Officer, upon Forfeiture of £100. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 6. 10. There shall be paid, for the Use of His Majesty, a Tonnage Duty of 2s. 6d. Sterling in Dollars, at the Rate of 5s. 6d. per Ounce, for every Ton of every such Ship, and the Tonnage shall be ascertained by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs or any Four of them, who shall admeasure such Ship according to the following Method, viz. Drop a Plumb Line over the Stern of the Ship, and Ship's extreme Length, from which is to be de- 66 manner of Sheathing or Doubling that may be "wrought upon the Side of the Ship; then mul"tiply the Length of the Keel for Tonnage by the "Breadth so taken, and that Product by half the “Breadth, and dividing by 94, the Quotient shall "be deemed the true Contents of the Tonnage." 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 7. of the Duty. 11. The Tonnage Duty shall be paid to the Collector Receipt and of the Customs, at the Port where he shall be appointed Appropriation to reside, before any Salt shall be laid on board, and such Duty shall be under the Management of the said Commissioners, and be paid and recovered in the like manner and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as any other Duties payable to His Majesty on Goods imported into any of the Plantations, Colonies, or Territories belonging Only certain Articles may be exported from the Turks Islands. American Ships may enter in Ballast certain with Salt. Articles which may be imported into certain Ports in Ships owned and navigated by to or under the Dominion of His Majesty in America or the West Indies are paid and recovered, and shall be subject to the Payment of the Salaries of the Officers and other incidental Charges of the Port; and the Residue shall be remitted to the Receiver General of the Customs in England, to be paid into the Exchequer under the Head of Consolidated Customs. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. § 8. 12. No Goods shall be exported from Turks Island to any Part of His Majesty's Dominions in America or the West Indies, or be laden or laid on board any Ship for that Purpose, except Salt; and no Goods shall be exported from the said Islands to Great Britain or Ireland, or laid on board any Ship for that Purpose, except Salt, and except such Goods as may be imported into Great Britain or Ireland from all other Countries free of Duties, under the Forfeiture of such Goods as shall be so exported or laden, and also of the Ship. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. §9. 13. Until 25th March 1819, any Ship helonging to the United States coming in Ballast, and not otherwise, may Ports to be laden enter the Port of Nassau in New Providence, the Ports of Exuma and Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, for the Purpose of being there laden with Salt only, subject to the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions provided by the 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. respecting Vessels coming for the same Purpose to Turks Island. 57 Geo. 3. c. 42. § 1. 14. Wool, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Cochineal, Drugs, Cocoa, Logwood, Fustic, Woods for Dyers Use, Hides, Skins, Tallow, Furs, Tortoise Shell, Hardwood or Mill Timber, Mahogany Wood for Cabinet Ware, Horses, Asses, Mules, Cattle, Corn, Bullion, Diamonds, Precious Stones, Rice, Grain, and Flour, may be imported into New Providence, Crooked Island, Bermuda, and the Bahamas, in any Foreign Ship, being owned and navigated by Persons inhabiting any of the Colonies, Plantations, or Countries on the Continent of America, belonging to or under the Dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. 47 Geo. 3. c. 34. 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. 49 Geo. 3. c. 22. 52 Geo. 3. c. 99. 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. Inhabitants of Certain Ports See FREE PORTS. 15. Sugar and Coffee of any Foreign Colony or Plantfor the Import- ation may be imported into Nassau in New Providence, ation of Sugar Pitt's Pitt's Town, or Crooked Island, and into such Ports in and Coffee in the Bahama Islands, the principal Port in Bermuda, Foreign Ships, and such Ports in the Caicos as shall be approved by ation thereof. and the ExportHis Majesty, in such Foreign Ships, and subject to such Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as are prescribed in this Act with respect to the Goods therein enumerated; and such Sugar and Coffee may be so imported and exported without Payment of any Duty of Customs. 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. § 4, 5. See FREE PORTS. Other Articles which may hamas. be 16. Any Ship described in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57. may come in Ballast, or import into any Port of the Bahama imported into Islands where there is a Custom-house, the Articles enu- and exported merated in the said Act, and may export the Articles from the Baallowed by the said Act to be so exported in Foreign Ships, and may also export Salt, subject to the Duty of Tonnage, and under the Regulations of 28 Geo.3. c.6.52 Geo. 3. c. 99. § 1. See FREE PORTS. SALT. Bond. 17. Any British Ship owned and navigated according Exportation of to Law may export from any Port of the Bahama Islands Salt without any Quantity of Salt, without entering into the Bond and Security required by 6 Geo. 3. c. 52.-52 Geo. 3. c. 99. § 2. See GOODS NON-ENUMERATED. 18. Spirits, being the Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, legally imported into Bermuda, may be exported to the Province of Lower Canada, and admitted to Entry on Payment of the same Duty as if imported directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, and under the Conditions and Restrictions of 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. without Payment of Duty, in the same Manner as if such Spirits had been imported directly from the said Sugar Colonies. 49 Geo. 3. c. 16. § 1. See SPIRITS. Exportation of Bermuda to Colonies to 19. Such Spirits legally imported into Nova Scotia, From North New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Island, American or Newfoundland, from Bermuda, may be exported to Canada. Lower Canada, and admitted to Entry upon Payment of the same Duty as if imported directly from any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies under the Regulations of this Act. 51 Geo. 3. c. 48. § 1. See SPIRITS. to certain North 20. Such Spirits legally imported into Bermuda from From Bermuda His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, may American C 2 be Colonies. be exported to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Island or Newfoundland, and admitted to Entry upon the same Duty as if imported directly from any of His Majesty's said Sugar Colonies, and under the Conditions and Restrictions contained in 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. without Payment of Duty, in the same Manner as if imported directly from the said Sugar Colonies. 51 Geo. 3. c. 62. § 1, 2. See SPIRITS. 21. Sugar, Coffee, Rum, and Melasses, the Produce of any British Colony in the West Indies, imported into Bermuda in any British Ship, may be exported from the Port of St. George, or the Port of Hamilton in Bermuda, to the Territories of the United States, in any Foreign Ship belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, above the Burthen of 60 Tons. 52 Geo. 3. c 79. § 1. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 1. 57 Geo. 3. c. 28. § 1. 22. Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards, and Plank Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and Live Stock of any Sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Pease, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any Sort, the Growth or Producion of the Territories belonging to the United States, legally imported into St. George, or Hamilton in Bermuda, may be exported from the said Ports by any of His Majesty's Subjects to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British-built Ships, owned and navigated according to Law. 52 Geo. 3. c. 79. § 3. 53 Geo. 3. c. 50. § 1. 23. Any Article the Production or Manufacture of Bermuda, or which has been legally imported into Bermuda, may on certain Conditions be exported direct to Malta, or the Dependencies thereof, or to Gibraltar. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 8. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. See GIBRALTAR. MALTA. 24. Certain Articles enumerated in the Schedule marked (B.) of 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. may be exported from Malta, or any of the Dependencies thereof, or from Gibraltar, direct to Bermuda, under the Regulations and Restrictions therein mentioned. 55 Geo. 3. c. 29. §9. 57 Geo. 3. c. 4. § 1. See GIBRALtar. The |