10

ment and

Catalogue relating to each

Sale.

Auction, any Goods Furniture or Effects shall be expressed in some part Advertiseof every public Advertisement of every Sale by Auction to be made by him, and in the title page of every printed or written Catalogue of the Goods Furniture, or Effects so to be sold or exposed to sale; and if any Auctioneer or Auctioneers shall omit to insert the same, or shall insert any other than his real name, or any other place of abode than his real place of abode, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of

And be it further Enacted, That if any Auctioneer shall remove from the place of Abode set forth in the Licence authorizing and empowering him to act as an Auctioneer, he shall within the first Ten Days after such removal, give Notice thereof, and of the particular place of Abode to which he shall have so removed, to the Collector of Excise in the District or Division in which his then dwelling-house or place of residence is situate; and so in like manner on each successive removal, on pain forfeiting for the neglect or omission to give such Notice, the sum

of

of

Provided further, That nothing in this Act contained shall be held to extend to the Sale of Estates; nor to the selling or exposing to sale any Goods, Wares, Merchandize or Effects, in any House, Room or Place whatsoever, under any Order or Decree of His Majesty's Court of Chancery or Exchequer in England, or of the Court of Great Session in Wales, or of the Court of Session or Exchequer in Scotland respectively, or by order of His Majesty's Commissioners of Excise or Customs, or by the Commissioners of the Navy, Victualling or Ordnance Boards; nor to the selling or exposing to sale by Auction, in any Place whatever, any Goods, Wares or Merchandizes distrained for Rents, Taxes or Rates, or for nonpayment of Tithes, or under the authority of any Sheriff or Under Sheriff, for the benefit of the Creditors, under any Writ issuing out of any of His Majesty's Courts of Record; nor to the selling or exposing to Sale by Auction, in any place whatever, any Goods imported by way of Merchandize from any British Colony or Plantation in America, of the growth, produce or manufacture of the said Colonies or Plantations; nor to the selling or exposing to sale any Wheat, Barley, Rice, Oats, Pease, Beans or other Corn or Grain of any sort, Flour, Meal, Beef, Pork, Hams, Bacon, Cheese or Butter, imported into Great Britain; nor to the accustomed private sales of Books and Copyrights by Booksellers, called "Trade Sales;" nor to any Goods which shall at the time of their Sale, by way of Auction, be lodged or deposited, without payment of Duty, in any Warehouse, under the Regulations of an Act made in the 11 Forty-third year of His present Majesty, and of another Act made in the Forty-sixth year of the said Reign, or of either of them; nor to any Sale made under any Order in Council; nor to the Sale by Auction of any Ships, or their Tackle, Apparel, Stores or Furniture; nor to any Goods or Merchandize taken and condemned as Prize, and sold in this Kingdom by or for the Benefit of the Captors thereof; nor to any imported Merchandize whatever, provided the same shall be sold by way of Auction at the Port where the same shall be imported on account of the Importer 143. thereof;

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Every Auctioneer, on removing former place of Abode, to give Notice

from his

the first Ten Days to the Collector of Excise, and of the Place to removed; and

thereof within

which he is

so in like

manner on each successive removal.

Sales excepted from the

operation of

the Act.

Duties to form part of the Consolidated Fund.

Penalties how

to be recover

ed and applied.

thereof; nor to any Sale or Sales made by the East India Company or by any chartered Incorporation; nor to any wreck, or wrecked Cargoes; nor to any Sale or Sales by Auction of any Estates or Chattels belonging or which shall belong to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, which shall be made by Order of the Commissioners for the time being of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues; any thing herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

And be it further Enacted, That all the Monies arising from the Duties by this Act imposed (excepting the necessary Charges of raising and accounting for the same) shall from time to time be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and shall be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain.

And be it further Enacted, That all Fines Penalties or Forfeitures by this Act imposed, shall be sued for, recovered levied or mitigated, by such ways means or methods, as any Fine Penalty or Forfeiture may be sued for, recovered, levied or mitigated, by any Law or Laws of Excise, or by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland respectively; and that one Moiety of every such Fine Penalty or Forfeiture shall be to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to him her or them, who shall inform discover or sue for the same.

3 April 1818.

A

BILL

To explain Three Acts passed in the 46th, 47th, and 51st Years of His MAJESTY's Reign respectively, for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Note.-The Figures in the Margin denote the Number of the Folios in the written Copy.

2

Whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-sixth year of the Preamble,

reign

reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to prevent "the Importation of Slaves, by any of His Majesty's subjects, into

ce

any Islands, Colonies, Plantations or Territories belonging to. any Foreign Sovereign, State or Power, and also to render more “effectual a certain Order, made by His Majesty in Council on the "fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and five, f for "prohibiting the Importation of Slaves (except in certain cases) into any of the Settlements, Islands, Colonies or Plantations on the "Continent of America or in the West Indies, which have been, sur"rendered to His Majesty's arms during the present War, and to "prevent the fitting out of Foreign Slave Ships from British Ports:". And whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-seventh year of the. reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the Abolition "of the Slave Trade:" And whereas another Act was passed in the, Fifty-first year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An "Act for rendering more effectual an Act, made in the Forty-seventh " 'year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for the Abolition " of the Slave Trade:"

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sen as to

Some

And whereas Doubts have arisen as to whether some of the Settlements and Territories now belonging to His Majesty, situate on the

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Continent