[Ships' names.] A. B. [here insert the name of the salvors] against the said ship whereof was master, her tackle apparel and furniture, and the goods wares and merchandizes on board the same; and also against the said master, and the owners of the said ship and cargo [or, as the case may be, against certain goods and merchandizes lately laden on board the said ship, whereof was master; and also against the said master, and the owners (or if the owners alone oppear by themselves or agents, then leave out the master's name) of the said goods and merchandizes], in a cause of salvage. , in the year of our Lord in the county of [Masters' names.] On which day appeared personally the master, and for the owners of master and owners of the said master and owners, or, for the owners of the said goods and merchandizes, in the sum of pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, unto the said A. B. &c. to answer the salvage and expenses of the said ship and cargo, [or, as the case may be] on the said goods and merchandize, as shall hereafter be decreed by the said court, according to the tenor of the Act in that behalf made and provided; and unless they shall so do, they hereby consent that execution shall issue forth against them, their heirs, executors and administrators, goods and chattels, wheresoever the same shall be found, to the value of the sum aboveme-ntioned. This bill was duly taken acknowledged and received at the time and place above-written before me the undersigned Commissioner; and I do hereby further certify, that I do believe and consider the persons above mentioned sufficient security for the sum of pounds. W. X. Y. 2. [No. CIX.] 1 & 2 Geo. IV. c. 99.-An Act for the Appropriation of certain Proceeds arising from the Capture of Vessels and Cargoes, the Property of the Subjects of the Kings of Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, taken and seized in violation of the Conventions made with those States, and for granting Bounties upon Slaves captured in such Vessels, and also for granting Indemnity to the Captors of certain Vessels taken in the Prosecution of the Slave Trade.-[10th July 1821.] No. CIX. 1 & 2 Geo. IV. c. 99. c. 99. § 11. XI. AND every ship or vessel which shall have been or may be cap- 1 & 2 Geo. IV. tured by any ship or vessel belonging to His Majesty for being engaged in any illicit traffic in slaves, and which shall have been before this Act or which may hereafter be condemned as forfeited, shall be entitled to and have a certificate of registry as a British ship, and shall thereupon be deemed to be a British registered ship, and thereupon have all the privileges and advantages of British-built ships, and subject to the same provisions as ships condemned in any Court of Admiralty or ViceAdmiralty in any part of His Majesty's dominions for any offence in relation to the slave trade. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. Statutes relating to Importation of Goods, &c., previous to 12C.2. remaining unrepealed. Parts of certain Statutes relat ing to Impor tation, &c., shall be repeal ed; viz. Stat. de Mo. netâ Temp. Incerti. (vulgo 20 E. 1.) [No. CX.] 3 George IV. c. 41.-An Act to repeal divers ancient Statutes and Parts of Statutes, so far as they relate to the Importation and Exportation of Goods and Merchandize from and to Foreign Countries.—24th June 1822.] WHEREAS several statutes and Acts of Parliament or certain parts thereof respectively relating to the importation and exportation of goods and merchandize from foreign countries, and to the regulations and restrictions concerning such importation and exportation, made and passed at various times before the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, remain unrepealed, although the same are inconsistent with or rendered unnecessary by the Acts made since that time and now in force for the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation; and doubts may be entertained how far the said statutes or Acts or some parts thereof may or may not be or remain in force or effect; and for the preventing of any inconvenience which may arise from such doubts, it is expedient that the said statutes and Acts or so much thereof as relate to the importation and exportation of such goods and to the regulations and restrictions concerning the same should be expressly repealed and declared to be no longer in force or effect; Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act so much and such parts of the several statutes herein-after mentioned and recited relating to the importation of goods or to commerce or navigation as are herein-after specified and set forth, shall be repealed, that is to say;-So much of a Statute of uncertain date concerning money, whereby it is forbidden on the King's behalf, that none bring money into the country but only for his expences; and also, So much of the said statute as relates to any money so brought;-and also, So much of a statute made in the ninth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, whereby it is ordained and established, "That all merchants strangers and denizens and all other and every of them of what estate or condition soever they be, that shall buy or sell corn wines avoirdupois flesh fish and all other livings and victuals, wools, cloths, wares, merchandizes, and all other things vendible from whencesoever they come by foreigners or denizens at what place soever it be, city, borough, town, port of the sea, fair, market, or elsewhere within the realm, within franchise or without, may freely without interruption sell them to what persons it shall please thein as well to foreigners as to denizens, except always the enemies of our Lord the King, and his realm;"-and also, So much of the said statute whereby any damages are given, or any penalty or punishment or loss of franchise is imposed or inflicted, for any disturbance to any merchants contrary to the said statute;-and also so much of the said statute whereby it is ordained and established, "That no alien or denizen shall be troubled, but that he may freely buy such things aforesaid in the said places, and carry them where it pleaseth him ;"--and also, So much of a statute made in the eleventh year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is accorded, "That no man or woman of England, Ireland, Wales, or Scotland (the King Queen and their children only except,) shall wear no cloth other than is made in England, Ireland, Wales, or Scotland, upon pain of forfeiture of the same cloth, and further to be punished at the King's will;"-and also, so much of the said statute whereby it is accorded and established, "That no merchant foreign nor denizen nor none other shall bring or cause to be brought privily or openly by himself nor by other into the lands of England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, within the King's power, any cloths made in any other places than in the same upon the forfeiture of the said cloths, and fur14E.3. st.2.c.2. ther to be punished at the King's will;"-and also, So much of a statute General Free- made in the fourteenth year of the reign of the said King Edward the dom of Trade. 9 E. 3. st. 1.c.1. General Free dom of Trade to Aliens and Denizens. 11 E. 3. c. 2. 3. Importation of Foreign-made Cloths prohibited. No. CX. c. 41. 18 E. 3. st. 2. c.3. c. 2. confirm(vulgo st. 4.) ing and enlarging st. 9 E. 3. st. 1. c. 1. Wines from Aliens. 27 E. 3. st. 1. Forestalling Third, whereby it is granted or provided, "That all merchants denizens and foreigners, except those which be of the King's enmity, may without 3 Geo. IV. let safely come into the realm of England with their goods and merchandize;" and also, So much of a statute made in the eighteenth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is granted or provided, "That the sea be open to all manner of merchants to pass with their merchandize where it shall please thern;" -and also, So much of a statute made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of the said King all Merchants. The Sea open to Edward the Third, whereby it is recorded, "That the said herein-before 25 E. 3. st. 3. recited statute made in the ninth year of the said King Edward_the Third, in all points and articles contained in the same be holden kept and maintained; and that if any statute, charter, letters, patents, proclamation, or commandment, usage, allowance, or judgment be made to the contrary, the same shall be openly repealed void and holden for none; and moreover that every merchant or other of what condition he be, as well alien as denizen, that bring wines, flesh, fish, or other victuals, cloths woolfels avoirdupois or any other manner of merchandizes or chaffer to the city of London or other cities boroughs or good towns of England or ports of the sea, may freely and without challenge or impeachment of any sell them in gross or at retail or by parcels at his will, to all manner of people that will buy the same notwithstanding any franchises grants or custom used or any other thing done to the contrary;"-and also, So 27 E. 3. st. 1. much of a statute made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of the c. 6. said King Edward the Third, whereby it is ordained and established, Importation of "That all merchants Gascoins and other strangers may safely bring their wines into England, to what port that shall please them, and thereof Gascony by make their profits;"-and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute as relates to the buying or engrossing or forestalling of wines in Gascoigne, and as imposes any penalty or forfeiture in respect of such buying engrossing or forestalling;-and also, So much of the said lastmentioned statute as relates to the gauging of wines by the King's gauger or his deputy;-and also, So much of the statute or ordinance of the staples made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is ordained established or provided, "That all merchants strangers which be not of the King's enmity of what land or nation that they be, may safely and surely come and dwell in the realm of England and land of Wales where they will, and from thence return with their ships wares and all manner of merchandizes, and freely sell their merchandizes at the staple and elsewhere within the same realm and lands to any that will buy them;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is accorded and established, "That no manner of ship which is fraught towards England or elsewhere be compelled to come to any port of England, nor there to abide against the will of the masters and mariners of the same or of the merchants whose the goods be; and if such ships come of their own good will or be driven by tempests or other misfortune or mischief to any port in England, and the masters mariners and merchants of the same ships will sell or deliver part of their merchandizes with their good will, it shall be lawful for every man to buy such merchandize freely without impeachment in the port where such ships shall come, albeit the said merchandizes be not put to land to sell; so that the masters mariners and merchants after that they have sold that which pleaseth them of their said goods and paid thereof the customs, may freely depart and go with their ships and all the remnant of their goods whither it shall please them, without custom thereof to be paid;"-and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute as imposes any forfeiture upon disturbing or hindering such merchants;-and also, 31 E. 3. st. 1. So much of a statute made in the thirty-first year of the reign of the c. 5. said King Edward the Third, in the Parliament holden at Westminster on Guaging Wine. the Monday next after Easter week, as relates to the contents of tuns of wine and the gauging thereof;-and also so much of a statute made in 37 E. 3. c. 16. the thirty-seventh year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, confirming whereby the statutes of wines of the twenty-seventh year of the said 27 E. 3. N 2 cony. 27 E. 3.st.1.c.8. Gauging Wines. (Statute of the Staples.) 27 E. 3. st. 2. c. 2. Freedom of 28 E. 3. c. 13. (ad finem.) Merchants coming freely to any Ports. cc. 5. 6. No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. 38 E. 3. st. 1. c. 2. Freedom of Trade. 38 E. 3. st. 1. c. 8. Loss of Ship for 38 E. 3. st. 1. st. 1. cc. 5. 6. 7. Importation of Importation of Wines from Gascony by Aliens in English or Gascoigne Ships. 43 E. 3. c. 1. Purchase of Wools by Aliens or Denizens. 43 E. 3. c. 2. Freedom of King is confirmed or altered or amended;-and also, So much of a statute made in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it was ordained that all merchants as well aliens as denizens, may sell and buy all manner of merchandizes and freely carry them out of the realm;-and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute, whereby it is accorded and assented, "That no owner shall lose his ship for a small thing put within the ship not customed without his knowledge or privity;"-and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute, whereby it is assented, "That the statutes and ordinances made as to the merchandize of wines and of those that pass the sea to fetch wines in Gascoigne shall stand in force."—and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute, whereby it is granted or provided, "That the Gascoignes and all other aliens may come into the realm with their wines, and freely sell them without any disturbance or impeachment;" and whereby it is saved to the King, "That it may be lawful for him whensoever it shall seem meet to him and his good council, to ordain on this article in the manner as best shall seem to him for the profit of him and his Commons;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the forty-second year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is assented and accorded, "That no Englishman shall pass into Gascoigne to seek wines there, but they shall be brought into Englund by the Gascoignes and other aliens; and that all the ships of England and of Gascoigne that cometh into Gascoigne, shall be first freighted to bring wines into England before all other;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the forty-third year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, whereby it is ordained, “That all merchants aliens and denizens may freely go through England Ireland and Wales, and buy and sell wools woolfells and leather and all other merchandizes at their will without impeachment or disturbance;"-and also, So much of the said statute made in the forty-third year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, as relates to Englishmen Irishmen or Welshmen passing into Gascoigne to fetch wines there; and also, So much of a statute made at Gloucester in the second year of the reign of King Richard the Second, whereby it is ordained and established, "That all merchants aliens of what realms countries or seignories that they come, which be of the amity of the King and of his realm, may safely and surely come within the realm of England and in all cities, boroughs, ports of the sea, fairs, markets, or other places within the realm within franchise and without may abide with their goods and all merchandizes under the safe. guard and protection of the King as long as shall please them without disturbance or denying of any person; and that as well those mer. chants aliens as denizens whatsoever and every of them, that will buy and sell corn, fleshi, fish, and all manner other victuals and sustenance, and also all manner of spiceries, fruit, tea, and all manner of small warcs, as silk, gold wire or silver wire, coverchiefs, and other such small ware may freely and without denying or any manner of disturbance as well in the city of London as in all cities, boroughs, ports of the sea, fairs, markets, and other places within the realm sell and buy in gross or by parcels to whom and of whom they please, denizens or foreign, except the King's enemies; and except also that all manner of wines shall be sold by the said strangers in gross as in the said statute is mentioned; and as to all other great wares as cloth of gold and silver, silk, sendal napery, linen cloth, canvas, and other such great wares, and also all manner of other great merchandizes not above expressed whatsoever they be as well aliens as denizens as well in the city of London as in other cities, boroughs, ports of the sea, towns, fairs, markets, and elsewhere, through the said realm within franchise and without may sell the same in gross only to every person foreign or denizen that will buy the same freely and with out denying (except as in the said statute is excepted); notwithstanding any statutes, ordinances, charters, judgments, allowances, customs, and usages made or suffered to the contrary; which charters and franchises if any there be shall be utterly repealed as a thing made used or granted against the common profit in oppression of the people;"-and also, So No. CX. 3 Geo. IV. c. 41. 2 R. 2. st. 1. Genoa and the 4 R. 2. c. 1. Gauging Wine, &c. 5 R. 2. st. 1. c. 3. Subjects shall freight none but English Ships. 5 R. 2. st. 2. c. 1. Freedom of Trade for Merchants in Amity. much of the said last-mentioned statute whereby any damages are given or any penalty or punishment or loss of franchise is imposed or inflicted for any disturbance to any merchant contrary to the said provisions of the said statute;-and also, So much of the said last-mentioned statute whereby it is ordained or assented, "That all merchants of Genoa, Venice, Catalonia, Arragon, and of other realms lands and countries towards the west, being of the King's amity, that will bring to Hampton or elsewhere within the realm, carracks, ships, gallies, or other vessels charged or discharged, may there freely sell their merchandizes to whom they please and there recharge their vessels with wools, leather, woolfells, lead, tin, and other merchandizes of the staple, and freely carry them into their country towards the west under the regulations in the said statute mentioned and contained;"—and also, So much of a statute made in the fourth year of the reign of the said King Richard the Second, as relates to the guaging of all vessels of wine, honey, oil, and other liquors brought into the realm; --and also, So much of a statute made in the fifth year of the reign of the said King Richard the Second, in a Parliament holden on the morrow after All Souls, whereby it is assented and accorded, "That none of the King's liege people do ship any merchandize in going out or coming within the realm of England in any port or any where, but only in ships of the King's ligeance; and that every person of the said ligeance which do ship and merchandize in any other ships or vessels upon the sea than of the said ligeance shall forfeit to the King all his merchandizes shipped in other vessels or the value of the same;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the said fifth year of the reign of the said King Richard the Second, in the Parliament holden on the morrow of Saint John Port Latin, whereby it is accorded and assented, "That all manner of merchants strangers of whatsoever nation or country they be being of the amity of the King and of his realm shall be welcome and freely may come within the realm of England and elsewhere within the King's power as well within franchise as without and there to be conversant to merchandize and tarry as long as them liketh as those whom our said Lord the King taketh into his protection and safeguard with their goods merchandizes and all manner familiars; and that they and every of them with their merchandizes and all manner of goods be suffered to go and come without disturbance or impeachment of any;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the said King Richard the Second, whereby it is ordained and granted, "That the statute made in the fifth year of the said King Richard the Second (and herein-before recited), that none of the King's liege people do ship any merchandize but only in ships of the King's ligeance should only have place so long as ships of the said lige. ance in the parts where the said merchants shall happen to dwell be found able and sufficient; so that then they shall be bound to freight the same ships of the King's ligeance with their merchandizes before all other ships; and otherwise it shall be lawful to the said merchants to hire other ships convenient and there to freight them with their goods and merchandizes notwithstanding the said first statute;"-and also, So much of the said lastmentioned statute, whereby it is ordained and accorded, "That all manner of foreigners and aliens being of the amity of the King and his realm and coming within the city of London and other cities boroughs and towns within the realm with fish and all manner of other victuals there tarrying and going again to their own countries shall be under the safeguard and special protection of our Lord the King; and that there it shall be lawful for them and every to cut their fishes and victuals aforesaid in pieces and in part or in all at retale or in gross as to them best. shall seem to sell and make their profit;"-and also, So much of a statute made in the eleventh year of the reign of the said King Richard confirming the Second, whereby it is ordained and established, "That the said statutes of the ninth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of King Edward the Third (herein-before recited and as recited in the said statute of the eleventh year of King Richard the Second) shall be firmly holden, kept, maintained, and fully executed, in all the points and articles of the same notwithstanding any ordinance, statute, charter, letters, patents, franchise, 6 R. 2. st. 1. c.8. c. 3. to Cases found. 6 R. 2. st. 1. c. 10. Importation of 11 R. 2. c. 7. 9 E.3.st.1.c.1.: 25 E. 3. st. 3. (vulgo, st. 4. c. 2.) and Statutes to the contrary de clared void. |