Gambar halaman
PDF
ePub

for which a certificate fhall be produced upon the importation thereof, to the collector or other principal officer of the customs at the port of importation, under the hand and seal of office of the collector, or other principal officer of the customs at the port of exportation in Dominica, certifying that the said duty hath been there paid for fuch melaffes or fyrups; any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

to Africa ex

: VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, From and afThat from and after the first day of Auguft, one thousand seven ter Aug. hundred and fixty fix, there fhall be also raised, levied, collect- 1766, an additional fubfied, and paid, unto his Majefty, his heirs, and fucceffors, for dy to be paid and upon all wrought filks, bengalls, and ftuffs mixed with filk for filk Eaft or herba of the manufacture of Perfia, China, or Eaft India; and India goods; upon all callicoes printed, dyed, painted, or ftained there, which and upon callicoes publickfhall have been publickly fold in Great Britain on or before the ly fold inGreat first day of June, one thoufand feven hundred and fixty fix; ex- Britain before cept for fuch of the aforefaid goods as fhall be exported to Afri-1 June, 1766; ca, as herein after mentioned; a further and additional fubfidy thofe exported of twelve pence for every twenty fhillings of the true and real value of fuch goods, to be afcertained by the oath or affirma- per cent. ad cepted; viz. 51. tion of the owner or proprietor thereof, before the collector of valorem, upon his Majesty's cuftoms for the port where fuch goods fhall be the oath of warehoused; provided the faid fubfidy fhall be paid down to if paid by 1 fuch collector in ready money, without any deduction or allow- Sept. 1766; ance whatsoever, on or before the first day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fixty fix; but if the owner or pro- if otherwise, prietor of fuch goods fhall not chufe to pay down the faid fubfidy according to for fuch goods before that time, then the fame fhall be paid thereof at the the grofs price down in ready money to the collector of the customs for the publick fales. port where fuch goods fhall be fecured, according to the grofs price or value of fuch goods at which the fame were fold at the publick legal fales thereof in this kingdom, without any deduction or allowance whatsoever, before fuch goods fhall be taken out of any warehouse wherein the fame fhall be fecured in this kingdom.

the owner,

VII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, Duty not to That this act fhall not extend to charge fuch of the before men- extend to tioned goods with this duty, which have been fold as aforefaid goods fold before June, before the faid first day of June, one thousand feven hundred 1766, and and fixty fix, as fhall be hereafter exported from this kingdom which shall be to Africa.

exported to

VIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority afore. Africa. faid, That there shall be also raised, levied, collected, and paid, Additional unto his Majesty, his heirs, and fucceffors, for and upon all duties upon wrought filks, bengalls, and ftuffs mixed with filk or herba of fuch faid goods fold at the manufacture of Perfia, China, or Eaft India, and upon all the company's callicoe printed, dyed, painted, or stained there, which thall be fales after publickly fold in Great Britain after the faid first day of June, 1 June, 1766; one thousand seven hundred and fixty fix, over and above any other duty now payable for the fame, the like fum of twelve pence for every twenty fhillings of the true and real value of

T 3

fuch

to be paid by the India com

pany;

pursuant to

ast 2 & 3 An.

Duty at other

fales to be paid by the proprietor,

Drawback allowed upon exportation

of certain In. dia goods to Africa.

Enumeration of the faid goods.

The faid

goods to be Jubject to the ufual regulations,

fuch goods, according to the grofs price at which the fame fhall be fold at the public legal fales thereof in this kingdom; which faid fubfidy fhall be paid and fecured by the united company of merchants of England trading to the Eaft Indies for fuch of the faid goods as fhall be fo fold at the faid company's fales, in the fame manner and form, and by the fame rules and regulations, as the duties now payable upon unrated Eaft India goods are paid and fecured by the faid united company, by virtue of an act made in the fecond and third years of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An a& for granting to her Majefty an additional fubfidy of tonnage and poundage for three years; and for laying a further duty upon French wines condemned as lawful prize;_ and for afcertaining the values of unrated goods imported from the Eaft Indies: and for fuch of the faid goods as thall, after the faid first day of June, be fold at any other public legal fale in this king. dom, the faid fubfidy shall be paid down in ready money to the collector of the customs at the port where fuch goods fhall be fold, without any deduction or allowance whatfoever by the purchaser or proprietor of fuch goods; and the said subfidy shall not be afterwards repaid or drawn back upon the exportation of the fame goods, except to Africa, as is herein after mentioned. IX. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That for fuch of the faid goods herein after mentioned, and no other, which fhall be fold as aforefaid at the fales of the faid united company, after the faid firft day of June, one thousand seven hundred and fixty fix, and fhall be exported from this kingdom to Africa, the exporter fhall be repaid a drawback or allowance of the duty paid in pursuance of this act, of twelve pence for every twenty fhillings of the value of fuch goods according to the respective rates and values herein after expreffed; that is to fay,

Alleijars, the piece, twelve fhillings; bejutapants, the piece, twenty fhillings; byrampants, the piece, fifteen fhillings; blue long cloth, the piece, forty fhillings; brawles, the piece, four fhillings; callaway pores, the piece, fifteen fhillings; cufhtaes, the piece, twelve fhillings; coopes, the piece, twelve fhillings; chints, the piece, fifteen fhillings; chelloes, the piece, fixteen fhillings; cotton romals, the piece, ten fhillings; Guinea ftuffs, the piece, four fhillings; nicamees fmall, the piece, twelve fhillings; nicamees large, the piece, fixteen fhillings; neganepants, the piece, twenty fhillings; photaes, the piece, fifteen hillings; faftra gundies, the piece, twenty fhillings; tapícils, the piece, fixteen fhillings.

And fuch goods fhall, in all other refpects, be liable to the fame fecurities, regulations, restrictions, penalties, and forfeitures, as the fame goods are now liable to by law.

X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Duties from and after the faid first day of Auguft, one thousand seven cambricks and hundred and fixty fix, there fhall be alfo raised, levied, collect

upon

ed,

[ocr errors]

1

America.

ed, and paid, unto his Majefty, his heirs, and fucceffors, for French lawns and upon every piece of foreign linen cloth called cambrick, three exported to hillings; and for and upon every piece of French lawns, three fhillings; which shall be respectively shipped for exportation from Great Britain to any colony or plantation in America, that now is, or hereafter may be, under the dominion of his Majefty, his heirs, and fucceffors; which faid duties fhall be alfo paid down in ready money to the collector of the customs, without any allowance or deduction whatsoever, by the owner or proprietor of such goods, before the fame fhall be taken out of any warehouse or warehouses, wherein the fame shall be secured in this kingdom.

XI. And it is hereby declared and enacted, That every piece How the said of cambrick and French lawns intended to be charged with the duties are to be ascertained. duty herein before mentioned, shall contain thirteen ells each, and shall pay duty for the fame in that proportion for any greater or lefs quantity, according to the fum herein before charged upon each piece of fuch goods refpectively.

XII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority afore- Duties on faid, That the aforefaid rates and duties charged by this act melaffes and on melaffes and fyrups, coffee and pimento, imported into any taken as fterfyrups, to be British American colony or plantation, fhall be deemed and taken ling money to be fterling money of Great Britain, and be received to the amount of the value which fuch nominal fums bear in Great Britain; and that fuch monies may be received and taken ac- at 5s. 6 d. per cording to the proportion and value of five fhillings and fix pence oz. in filver. the ounce in filver: and that the faid rates and duties shall be Method of leraffed, levied, and collected, paid, and recovered, in the fame vying and remanner and form, and by fuch rules, ways, and means, and faid duties. covering the under fuch penalties and forfeitures, as any other duties now payable to his Majesty upon goods imported into the faid colonies or plantations, are or may be raised, levied, collected, paid, and recovered, by any act or acts of parliament now in force, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the feveral claufes, powers, directions, penalties, and forfeitures, relating thereto, were particularly repeated and again enacted in the body of this prefent act: and that all the monies that fhall arife Duties to be by the faid duties (except the neceffary charges of raifing, col- paid into the exchequer, lecting, levying, recovering, anfwering, paying, and accounting and referved for, the fame) fhall be paid into the receipt of his Majefty's ex- for the future chequer, and shall be entered separate and apart from all other difpofition of monies paid or payable to his Majefty, his heirs, or fucceffors, parliament. and fhall be there referved to be from time to time difpofed of by parliament, towards defraying the neceffary expences of defending, protecting, and fecuring, the British colonies and plantions in America.

XIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority afore- Duties on East faid, That the monies arifing by the several rates and duties India goods to by this act impofed upon wrought filks, bengalls, and ftuffs be paid into mixed with filk or herba, of the manufacture of Perfia, China, the exchequer, or Eaft India, and upon callicoes printed, dyed, painted, or

T4

ftained

[ocr errors]

stained there, except the necessary charges of raifing, collecting, recovering, paying, and accounting for, the fame; fhall, from time to time, be paid into the receipt of his Majesty's exchequer, diftinctly and apart from all other branches of the publick revenue; and fhall be carried to, and made part of, the fund commonly called The finking fund, towards making good the annuities payable in refpect of certain navy, victualling, and tranfport bills, charged upon the faid fund by an act made in refpect of na- the laft feffion of parliament. vy bills, &c.

and carried

into the finking fund, to wards paying

annuities in

Condition of

XIV. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority abonds upon forefaid, That from and after the first day of Auguft, one thouexportation of fand seven hundred and fixty fix, upon the entry of any camcambricks, or bricks or French lawns for exportation to any place beyond the French lawns, feas, except to fome British colony or plantation in America, the to places beyond feas, bond which is now by law required to be given for the due exother than the portation of such goods fhall be, with further condition not to British planta- reland the fame in any part of the British dominions in America. tions. XV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared No duty to be by the authority aforéfaid, That no duty whatsoever shall be paid for British coffee, or paid for any British coffee or pimento, which, from and after pimento, im- the faid first day of November, one thousand feven hundred and fixty fix, fhall be imported or brought into any British colony or plantation in America; provided the fame fhall, upon landing into any Britifh American thereof, be immediately depofited in warehouses provided at the Colony, fole expence of the importer or proprietor of fuch coffee and provided the pimento, with the privity and approbation, and under the care fame be ware- and infpection, of the collector and comptroller, or other prin

ported after Nov. 1766,

housed,

cipal officer of the customs, at the port or place where fuch goods fhall be imported, and fhall be fecured under the separate and shipped Jocks of fuch officers, and the proprietor; and shall, within the for exporta fpace of twelve calendar months from the landing and waretion within 12 houfing the fame, be shipped directly from thence for exportamonths; tion, either to Great Britain, or to fome other British colony or plantation in America, under the like fecurities and restrictions as are now required by law for the fame.

nor for any foreign fu gars, coffee,

or indico;

XVI. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the faid first day of November, one thousand feven hundred and fixty fix, no duty whatfoever fhall be paid for any foreign fugars, nor for any foreign coffee or indico, which, from and after the faid first day of November, one thousand feven hundred and fixty fix, fhall be imported or brought into any British colony or plantation on the continent provided the of America; provided fuch goods fhall, upon landing thereof, fame be ware- be immediately depofited and fecured in fuch warehouses, and houfed, in the manner herein before mentioned; and thall, within the and shipped fpace of twelve calendar months from the landing and waretion within 12 houfing the fame, be shipped from thence for exportation, as months, under herein after is expreffed; that is to fay, Upon condition that the conditions fuch fugars fhall be exported either directly to Great Britain, or and regula to fome other part of Europe to the fouthward of Cape Finisterre, tions here ex under the like fecurities, regulations, and restrictions, penalties, preifed,

and

and forfeitures, as British fugars may be fo carried and exported from any British colony or plantation in America, by virtue of any law now in force; and provided alfo, that fuch foreign indico fhall be exported to Great Britain only under the like fecurities, regulations, and reftrictions, penalties, and forfeitures, as are particularly mentioned and expreffed in any act of parliament now in force, with refpect to indico of the growth or produce of any British colony or plantation; and provided that, before fuch foreign coffee fhall be taken out of fuch warehouse for exportation, the exporter fhall become bound with fufficient fecurity in the penalty of five pounds for every hundred weight of fuch coffee, that the fame, and every part thereof, thall be really and truly exported, according to the entry, and not brought back again or relanded in any part of the British dominions in America; which bond the collector and comptroller, or other principal officers of the cuftoms at the port from whence fuch foreign coffee fhall be intended to be exported, are hereby authorized and required to take, in the name, and to the ufe, of his Majefty, his heirs, and fucceffors; and the faid bond, with refpect to fuch coffee as fhall be ex- Condition of ported to Great Britain, Ireland, or to any other place under the be given in dominion of his Majesty, his heirs, or fucceffors, where cuftom- thele cafes. houfe officers are or may be established, fhall be with further condition, to return a certificate within eighteen kalendar months from the date of fuch bond from the collector and comptroller, or other principal officer of the cuftoms, at fuch port or place, that fuch coffee has been there landed accordingly; and with refpect to fuch coffee as fhall be exported to any place not under the dominion of his Majefty, or where no fuch officers are appointed, fuch bond fhall continue in force for two years from the date thereof; and in cafe no fraud fhall appear within that time, it shall be lawful for the commiffioners of his Majefty's customs in England, or any four or more of them, to direct the faid bond to be cancelled and delivered up.

the bonds to

XVII. And it is hereby further enacted, That if the import- If fuch wareer or proprietor of any fuch goods as fhall be warehoused as a- houfed goods forefaid, fhall not pay the duties due for the fame, nor export thall not be fuch goods within twelve calendar months as aforefaid, it fhall exported withbe lawful for the collector and comptroller, or other principal nor the duties officer of the cuftoms, at the port or place where fuch goods paid; fhall be fecured, to caufe the fame to be publickly fold to the the custombest advantage; and the money arifing by fuch fale fhall be, in the fame house may fell the first place, applied in discharge of the duties due and paya- and apply the ble for fuch goods, and the charges attending the expence of monies in diffuch fale; and the furplus of the money fo arifing by fuch fale charge of the (if any) after payment of the said duties, and charges, fhall be paid to the importer or proprietor who fo landed and warehoufed fuch goods, or to fuch other perfon as fhall be duly authorized to receive the fame.

duties and

charges, &c.

XVIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority Licence given aforefaid, That from and after the faid first day of November, to import du one ty-free, cotton

« SebelumnyaLanjutkan »