21 Geo. 3. c. 55.

5 Geo. 1.

sioners of excise are hereby directed to cause such officer to take care to see that the stamp be taken off from every parcel and piece of the said chocolate, and the officer shall take an account of the quantity of such cocoa nuts or chocolate, and shall make a return to the proper officer for that purpose.

Rule 2. No coffee shall be exported, but such only as shall be conc. 11. § 10. tained in the original package, or in some package containing the same quantity therein, or not less than 4 cwt. (a) and the same marks and numbers thereon with which it was first entered at the custom house, excepting such coffee as shall be exported to His Majesty's plantations or Ireland.

48 Geo. 3.

Rule 3. It shall be lawful to export from Great Britain any coffee c. 120. 5. in packages containing not less than one hundred pounds avoirdupois.

Isle of Man.

50 & 51

TITLE CXCIX.-Cloth.

[As to exporting Cloth to the Isle of Man, see TITLE 52.]

Rule 1. No woollen cloths shall be carried out of England before Edw. 3. c. 7. they be fulled; and no subsidy thereof shall be demanded nor paid, before that they be fulled.

7 Edw. 4. c. 3.

3 Hen. 7.

Rule 2. No person, denizen or stranger, shall carry, or cause to be carried, into any parts beyond the sea, any woollen yarn (b) or cloth not fulled, (c) but that the woollen yarn which shall be made in this realm shall be woven in the same realm; and also all cloth therein made shall be fulled, (d) and fully wrought within the said realm, before that any thereof be had and carried out of this realm; upon pain of forfeiture of the very value of all such yarn unwoven, and cloth not fulled, had or carried out of this realm.

Rule 3. No stranger nor denizen shall carry, or make to be carc. 11. § 1. ried, (e) out of this realm, any woollen cloths, but that they before be barbed, rowed, and shorn within the same realm, for the relief and setting on work of the poor commons, upon the pain and forfeiture limited in the statute of King Edward, made upon cloth carried out of this land (f) not fulled. But cloths called vesses, rays, sailing cloths, and other (g) cloths, commonly sold at 40s. and under, be not comprised in this present act.

§ 2.

8 Hen. 8. c. 7. § 1.

Rule 4. The above acts and ordinances may stand and continue in their full strength and virtue; and they from henceforth shall be duly put in execution according to the effect of the same, and of either of

shall be brought, enclosed, packed, and tied up with thread, in papers which shall each of them contain either 1 lb., or half a lb., or a quarter of a lb. of chocolate, and not more or less (at the election of the makers or proprietors); each of which papers so tied up shall, by the proper officer of excise, have such a mark, stamp, impression, or device affixed thereon, as shall be by the said commissioners from time to time devised or appointed for that purpose.

(a) Originally this was a temporary act, but it has been continued from time to time, and by 50 Geo. 3. c. 10. is made perpetual. It is the practice in London, both with the officers of customs and excise, to consider overtakers as original packages, and to allow them to be exported without regard to weight; but each overtaker is shipped in a separate package, means being taken to make the weight thereof come as near to the legal weight as possible. Order of the board of customs, dated 6th March, 1813.

(b) See TITLE 228.

(c) Untoked and unfulled. Rot. Parl.

(d) Toked. Rot. Parl. i. e. tucked, or passed through the tucking mill.
(e) i, e. cause to be carried.

(f) Realm.

(g) All.

them. And that every person that will sue for the same forfeitures 3 Hen. 8. be admitted to his action of debt, by bill or information in any of the . 7. King's courts of record, where the same may be determined after the course of the common law, and that the defendant in such behalf in no wise be admitted to wage his law, nor that any protection or essoin be in the same allowable.

Rule 5. Provided that cloths called vesses, rays, sailing cloths, (a) § 2. and other cloths, now commonly sold at four marks or under, be not comprised in this or any of the said acts, but may be conveyed out of this realm into the parts beyond the sea, not barbed, rowed, nor shorn.

Hen. 8. c. 3.

§ 13.

Rule 6. No person shall transport into any of the parts beyond the 14 & 15 sea, any manner of cloths or worsteds, before the same cloths be shorn, dyed, coloured, and calendered, upon pain of forfeiting the value thereof.

§2.

Rule 7. From henceforth for every nine cloths hereafter to be ship- s Eliz. c. 6. ped or carried into any of the parts beyond the seas, contrary to any statute heretofore made and now remaining in strength, by force of any licence hereafter to be granted, the party that shall ship and carry over the same shall ship and carry over also one like woollen cloth of like sort, length, breadth, and goodness, ready wrought and dressed; that is to say, rowed, barbed, first coursed, and shorn from the one end to the other, so that every tenth cloth, passing over the seas in form aforesaid, shall be dressed within this realm, before the same shall be shipped or transported over, upon pain to forfeit, for every such nine cloths so to be shipped or transported contrary to the meaning of this act, 10%.

Rule 8. Provided, that every such tenth cloth so to be transported § s. ready wrought shall not be accounted any of the cloths permitted to be transported by force of such licence, but that such person as shall have such licence may transport according to such licence the full number of cloths unwrought mentioned in the same licence, above the number of such tenth cloths which they shall be compelled to ship and carry over by force of this statute.

Rule 9. No person shall ship or carry into the parts beyond the seas, contrary to the form of any statute heretofore made, now remaining in force, any cloth commonly called Kentish cloth or Suffolk cloth, made or to be made in the counties of Kent or Suffolk, unwrought and undressed within this realm; that is to say, not rowed, barbed, first coursed, and shorn; upon pain to forfeit for every such cloth, commonly called Kentish or Suffolk cloth, made or to be made

(a) See TITLES 210 and 220.

8 Eliz. c. 6.

§ 5.

$6.

Ann. c. 9.

15 Cha. 2. c. 7. § 12. Foreign coin, &c.

59 Geo. 3.

c. 49. § 10. Gold and silver coin

may be exported.

Oaths on exportation of

or bullion,

$13.

in either of the said counties, so to be shipped or transported contrary to the form of this statute, 40s.

Rule 10. And no licence for transporting of any cloth shall be construed to extend to any such Kentish or Suffolk cloth, made or to be made in either of the said counties to be from henceforth transported.

Rule 11. And all the forfeitures appointed by this statute for transporting of cloths shall be the one moiety to the Queen's Majesty, and the other moiety to the master and wardens of the said company of cloth-workers, to the relief of the poor of the said company.

Rule 12. Any person may export out of Great Britain white woollen cloth manufactured therein.

TITLE CC.-Coals.

[The regulations touching the export and carrying coastwise of cinders, coals, and culm, being closely interwoven, it is judged proper to insert the whole under TITLE 229.]

out of

TITLE CCI.-Coin, &c.

Rule 1. It shall be lawful for any person whatsoever to export any port of England, in which there is a customer or collector, all sorts of foreign coin or bullion of gold or silver, first making entry thereof in such custom house respectively.

Rule 2. From July 2, 1819, it shall be lawful for any person to export the gold or silver coin of the realm to parts beyond the seas, and also to melt the gold and silver coin of the realm, and to manufacture or export or otherwise dispose of the gold or silver bullion produced thereby; and no person who shall export or melt such gold or silver coin, or who shall manufacture, export, or dispose of such bullion, shall be subject to any restriction, forfeiture, pain, penalty, incapacity, or disability whatever, for such melting, manufacturing, or exporting the same respectively.

Rule 3. Before any person shall transport or cause to be transmolten silver ported any molten silver whatever, oath shall be made before the wardens of the company of goldsmiths in London, or one of them, by the owner or owners of such molten silver, and likewise by one credible witness, that the same is lawful silver, and that no part thereof was, before the same was molten, clippings of the current coin of this realm, which oath the said wardens or any one of them are and is hereby required and authorized to administer, instead of the oath required by 6 & 7 Will. 3.; and before any person shall ship or cause to be ship ́ped or put on board any vessel whatsoever, any molten silver or bullion whatsoever, oath shall be made before the court of the lord mayor and

aldermen of the city of London, by the owner or owners of such molten 59 Geo. 3. silver or other bullion whatsoever, and likewise by two or more credi- c. 49. ble witnesses, that no part of such molten silver or bullion was, before the same was molten, clippings of the coin of this realm; which oath the said court of the said lord mayor and aldermen of the said city of London are hereby required and authorized to administer, instead of the oath required by 7 & 8 Will. 3.; and all the regulations in former acts shall continue in force with relation to the exportation of any molten silver or bullion whatsoever, which before the melting thereof was clippings of the coin of the realm, and in all other respects whatever, except only so far as the same are expressly repealed or altered by this act.

Will. 3.

c. 28. § 1.

plate, &c.

Rule 4. It shall be lawful to export such watches, sword-hilts, 9 & 10 wrought-plate, and other silver manufactures made within this kingdom, as shall be yearly allowed by the commissioners of customs. Watches, Rule 5. "And whereas great quantities of empty boxes, cases, sword-hilts, "and dial plates, for clocks and watches, have been exported without wrought "their movements, and in foreign parts made up with bad movements, "and thereon some London watch-makers' names engraven, and so "are sold abroad for English work; and also there have been the like "ill practices in England by divers persons, as well by some profess"ing the art of clock and watchmaking, as others ignorant therein, in "putting counterfeit names, as also the names of the most known "London watch-makers, on their bad clocks and watches, to the "great prejudice of the buyers, and the disreputation of the said art "at home and abroad:" for the preventing therefore of all such ill Box, case, or practices for the future, it is enacted, that no person whatsoever shall dial plate for export or send, or endeavour to export or send, out of England, any watch without outward or inward box, case, or dial plate of gold, silver, brass, or movement or other metal for clock or watch, without the movement in or with name, § 2. every such box, case, or dial plate, made up fit for use, with the clock or watch-maker's name engraven thereon; nor any person whatsoever shall make up, or cause to be made up, any clock or watch without engraving or putting, or causing to be engraven or put, his own name and place of abode or freedom, and no other name or place, on every clock or watch he shall so make up, or cause to be made up, under the penalty of forfeiting every such empty box, case, and dial-plate, clock and watch not made up and engraven as aforesaid, and also for each such offence the sum of 201. (a)

clock or

C.

Rule 6. So much of any act of parliament made in Great Britain, 20 Geo. 8. which prohibits the exporting, carrying, or conveying, of coin of gold & 8. § 1. or silver out of this realm into Ireland, is hereby repealed.

(a) By 25 Gen. 3. c. 64. § 4. the exporters of gold and silver watches shall mark or engrave in the inside of every case or box of each watch, enclosing the works thereof, the same numbers and figures which shall be respectively marked or engraved on the works of the watch which shall be enclosed in such case or box.

By a notice from the "office of the company of clock-makers of the city of "London," dated January 9, 1815, it appears, that the practice of placing the name of the maker upon the dial plate only, or upon the name plate, is not sufficient; but that the same must be engraved upon the movement of clocks and watches, conformably to the above act.

Ireland.

88 Geo. 3. c. 67. § 1.

Base cein.

43 Geo. 3.

c. 49. § 1. Export of molten silver

treasury li

cence.

Rule 7. "Whereas various base copper coins made to the resem"blance and similitude of the foreign copper coins, called tempes and 66 sous marques have been exported from this kingdom to the island of "Martinique in the West Indies, under the denomination of wrought copper and whereas base coin made to the similitude and resem"blance of the foreign gold and silver coins, called Johannes and "dollars, have been circulated in His Majesty's islands in the West "Indies, and in other His Majesty's colonies in America, to the great "injury of the inhabitants of the said islands and colonies:" for preventing the like and similar evils in future, it is enacted, that all copper coin whatsoever, not being the legal copper coin of this kingdom, and all counterfeit gold or silver coin made to the similitude or resemblance, or intended to resemble, any gold or silver coin, either of this kingdom, or of any other country, which shall, under any pretence, name, or description whatsoever, be exported or shipped, or laden or put on board any vessel or boat, for the purpose of being exported from this kingdom to the island of Martinique, or any of His Majesty's islands or colonies in the West Indies, or America, shall be forfeited, and the same shall and may be seized, sued for, prosecuted, and recovered, in such courts, and by such ways, and the produce thereof disposed of and applied in such manner, and to such purposes, as any forfeiture, incurred by any law respecting the revenue of customs, may now be seized, sued for, &c. either in this kingdom, or in any of His Majesty's islands in the West Indies respectively, as the case may happen to be.

Rule 8. Every person who shall so export or shall so ship, lay, or put on board any vessel or boat in order to be so exported, or shall cause or procure to be so exported, shipped, or put on board any vessel or boat, or shall have in his custody, in order to be so exported, any such coin, shall, for every such offence, forfeit 2001. and double the value of such coin, to be recovered by bill, suit, action, or information in any of His Majesty's courts of record at Westminster.

Rule 9. It shall be lawful for the lords commissioners of the treasury to authorize any person, or any body politic or corporate, to ship or export, or cause to be shipped or exported, from Great Britain, on or bullion by board any vessel whatsoever, any molten silver or bullion, by any licence given from time to time for that purpose, under their respective hands (such licences specifying the nature and quantities of such molten silver or bullion, and being entered in the books of the custom house of the port from whence such exportation shall be made before the shipping and exportation thereof, without any oath, certificate, or other document whatsoever, now requisite for the lawful shipping or exportation of any such molten silver or bullion; and it shall be lawful for any such person, or body politic or corporate, to whom any such licence shall be granted as aforesaid, to ship or export any such molten silver or bullion specified in any such licence, without any certificate now required by law; and no such molten silver or bullion, so shipped or exported under any such licence, shall be seizable, or seized or forfeited, for the want of any certificate: and the owners and proprietors thereof, and all commissioners and officers of customs, and all other persons, having any concern whatsoever in the shipping or exportation thereof, or in the permitting the same to be shipped or

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