DUNDALK GALWAY.. LIMERICK LONDONDERRY NEW ROSS...... NEWRY.... SKIBBEREEN SLIGO .All Goods.* ..All Goods. .................All Goods, except Tobacco; Tobacco under bond for home use or for stores.* ...Biscuit direct; and all Goods removed under bond, including Tobacco for home use only. WATERFORD ..........All Goods. .All Goods, except Tobacco; Tobacco under bond for home use or stores.* ...All Goods.* .All Goods, except Tobacco; Tobacco under bond for home use or stores.* * No separate premises for Tea. COASTWISE. Trade by sea from one part of the United Kingdom to another, deemed coastwise.—All trade by sea from one part of the United Kingdom to any other part thereof shall be deemed to be a coasting trade, and all ships employed therein shall be deemed coasting ships, and if doubt shall at any time arise as to what, or to or from what parts of the coast shall be deemed a passage by sea, the Commissioners of the Treasury may determine the same.-16 and 17 Vict., cap. 107, s. 13. Foreign ships employed in the coasting trade to be subject to the same rules and regulations as British ships.-Every foreign ship employed in carrying goods or passengers coastwise from any part of the United Kingdom to another, or from the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, to the United Kingdom, or from the United Kingdom to any of the said islands, or from any of the said islands to any other of them, or from any part of any of the said islands to any other part of the same, shall be subject as to stores for the use of the crew, and in all other respects to the same laws, rules, and regulations to which British ships when so employed are now subject.—18 and 19 Vict., cap. 96, s. 13. Foreign ships employed in the coasting trade not to be subject to higher rates or dues than British ships.-No foreign ship employed in the coasting trade as aforesaid, nor any goods carried in any such ship, shall, during the time such ship is so employed, be subject to any higher or other rate of dock, pier, harbour, light, pilotage, tonnage, or other dues, duties, tolls, rates, or other charges whatsoever, or to any other rules as to the employment of pilots, or any other rules or restrictions whatsoever than British ships employed in like manner, or goods carried in such ships; nor shall any body corporate or person having or claiming any right or title to any such higher or other rates or charges as aforesaid, be entitled to any compensation in respect thereof under any law or statute relating thereto. -18 and 19 Vict., cap. 96, s. 14. Coasting ships confined to coasting voyage.-No goods shall be laden on board any ship in the United Kingdom to be carried coastwise, until all goods brought in such ship from parts beyond the seas shall have been unladen; and if any goods shall be taken into or put out of any coasting ship at sea or over the sea; or if any coasting ship shall touch at any place over the sea, or deviate from her voyage, unless forced by unavoidable circumstances; and in either case if the master shall not declare the same in writing to the Collector at the port where such ship shall afterwards first arrive, he shall forfeit £100.-16 and 17 Vict., cap. 107, s. 153. Times and places for landing and shipping.—If goods shall be unshipped from any ship arriving coastwise, or be shipped, or water-borne to be shipped on Sundays or holidays to be carried coastwise; or unless in the presence or with the authority of the proper officer of the Customs; or unless at the times and places appointed, the same shall be forfeited, and the master of the ship shall forfeit £50. -S. 154. Master to keep a cargo-book, and penalty for false entries. -The master shall keep a cargo-book, stating the names of the ship, the master, the port to which she belongs, and on each voyage, of the port to which she is bound, and at every port of lading an account of all goods taken on board, stating the descriptions of the packages, the quantities and descriptions of the goods, the names of the shippers and consignees, so far as such particulars are known, and at every port of discharge shall note the days on which any are delivered, and the times of departure; and such master shall produce such book on demand of any officer of Customs, who may make any remark therein; and if upon examination any package entered in the cargobook as containing foreign goods shall be found not to contain such goods, that package, with its contents, shall be forfeited, or if any package shall be found to contain foreign goods not entered in such book, such goods shall be forfeited; and if the master shall fail to keep such cargo-book, or to produce it, or if at any time there be found on board goods not entered in such book as laden, or any goods noted as delivered; or if any goods entered as laden, or any goods not noted as delivered be not on board, the master shall forfeit £20.-S. 155. Account previous to departure to be delivered to Collector, and Commissioners may grant general Transires.-Before any coasting ship shall depart from the port of lading, an account in duplicate,* signed by the master,† shall be delivered to the Collector of Customs; and he shall retain the duplicate and return the original, dated and signed by him; and such account shall be the clearance of the ship for the voyage, and the Transire or pass for the goods expressed therein, and if any such account be false, the master shall forfeit £20. Provided that the Commissioners of Customs, whenever it shall appear expedient, may permit general transires to be given for the lading and clearance, and for the entry and unlading of any coasting ship and goods.-S. 156. Notice of arrival-Excise goods and forfeiture.—Within 24 hours after the arrival of any coasting ship at the port of discharge, and before any goods be unladen, the Transire, with the name of the place where the lading is to be discharged noted thereon, shall be delivered to the Collector or Controller, who shall note thereon the date of delivery; and if any goods on board be subject to any duty of Excise, the same shall not be unladen without the *For Form of "Transire," see p. 55. On the shipment for removal coastwise from Ireland, of grain of all kinds, the quantity is to be inserted in the transire in quarters; and of flour and meal of all kinds, in tons and hundred-weights -G. O., No. 37, 1848. †To be signed by and not for the master.-G. O., No. 12, 1850. Transires must be signed by the Collector of Customs except at 1st and 2nd class ports, where the signature of the 2nd clerk in the Long Room, "pro Collector," may be admitted.-G. O., No. 69, 1850. The following articles are exempt from coast regulations on removal from one port in the United Kingdom to another, viz.: authority or permission of the proper officer of Excise; and if any goods shall be laden or unladen contrary hereto, the master shall forfeit £20; and if any goods shall be laden or unladen contrary to any Act relating to the Customs, such goods shall be forfeited.-S. 157. Officer may go on board and examine any coasting ship.Any officer of Customs may go on board and search any coasting ship, and examine all goods on board, and all goods then lading or unlading, and demand all documents which ought to be on board such ship; and the Collector of Customs may require that such documents shall be brought to him for inspection, and the master refusing to produce such documents on demand, or to bring the same to the said Collector when required, shall forfeit £20.S. 158. |