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tary so made, that the fame hath been so done, fhall be final and conclufive Evidence that the same hath been fo done, and fhall be received in all Cafes as fuch final and conclufive Evidence.

WH

CA P. LXIV.

der 43 G. 3.

c. 132.

An Act to permit the Removal of Goods, Wares and Merchan dize, from the Port in Great Britain where firft warehoused, to any other warehoufing Port for the Purpose of Exportation. [9th June 1810.] THEREAS it may be expedient to permit the Removal of Goods, Wares and Merchandize from the Port where firit warehoused to any other warehoufing Port within Great Britain for the Purpose of Exportation;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall and may be Goods fecured in lawful for the Importer, Proprietor or Confignee of any Goods, Warehoufe unWares or Merchandize which have been or may be lodged or depofited in any Warehouse or Warehouses in the Port of London, under the Regulations of an Act paffed in the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act for permitting certain Goods imported into Great Britain, to be fecured in Warehoufe without Payment of Duty, or which have been or may be lodged or depofited in any Warehoufe or Warehouses at any other Port of Great Britain, under the Regulations of an Act paffed in the Forty 45 G. 3. c. 87. fifth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Aa to authorize the Lords Commiffioners of His Majefly's Treafury to permit certain Articles to be warehoufed in different Ports in Great Britain, upon giving Security for the Payment of Duties upon the Articles therein mentioned, or of another Act paffed in the Forty fixth 46 G. 3. c. 137. Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act to extend the Provifions of an A& made in the Forty third Year of His prefent Majefly, for permitting certain Articles to be warehoufed in Great Britain, to other Articles not therein mentioned ; and to alter the Condition of the Bond directed to be given by an Act of the Twenty fourth Year of His prefent Majefly by the Maflers and Owners of

Veffels and Boats licensed by the Lords of the Admiralty, to remove may be removed any fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize from any of the faid Ports, to another Port either by Sea or Inland Navigation to any other Port of Great for Exportation. Britain, where the like Articles are by Law allowed to be fecured in Warehouses under the Regulations of the faid Acts or either of them, for the Purpofe of being exported from such Port, fubject to the Rules, Regulations and Restrictions hereafter mentioned; that

is to fay, before any fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize fhall be Conditions. taken from or delivered out of any fuch Warehouse or Warehouses as aforefaid, the Importer, Proprietor or Confignee shall and he is hereby required to give at leaft Twenty four Hours Notice in Writing to the Warehoufe-keeper or other proper Officer in whose Charge fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize may then remain, of his Intention fo to remove the fame, specifying in fuch Notice the particular Goods, Wares or Merchandize fo intended to be taken out of fuch Ware

house,

Officer to take Account.

Duty paid on
Deficiency.

Contents of
Package, &c.
marked.
Entry.

Bond for due
Delivery, &c.

Certificate of
Delivery.

Account of

Packa es tranfnitted by ColJector, &c. of one

Port to Collector, &c. of the other.

houfe, the Number, Marks and Defcriptions of each Package, and the Kind and Species of Goods, Wares or Merchandize therein contained, and in what Ship imported, and by whom entered Inwards, and thereupon the proper Officer fhall take a true and particular Account thereof by Weight, Gauge, Tale or otherwife, as the Cafe may require, and when by reafon of any Effect produced by Weather or from the Length of time, any fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize or any Part thereof may have been fo warehoused, the fame fhall be deficient of the actual Weight or Quantity ascertained and taken Account of at the time of the Importation thereof, then, and in fuch Cafe, the Importer, Proprietor or Confignee fhall, and he is hereby required to pay the proper Officers the full Duties of Cuftoms and Excife upon fuch Deficiency, previous to the Removal of fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize from the Warehouse.,

II. And be it further enacted, That the Contents fhall be marked on each and every Package intended to be removed, in diftinct and legible Characters, in all cafes where the fame fhall be practicable, and the Importer, Proprietor or Confignee shall make a due Entry of the Goods, Wares or Merchandize, with the proper Officer of the Customs and alfo of the Excife, in cafe the Articles are fubject to any Duty of Excife, fpecifying in fuch Entry the Name of the Ship or Veffel in which imported, and the Mafter thereof, when entered Inwards, and by whom, alfo the Number and Marks of the Packages, the Kind or Species of Goods, Wares or Merchandize, together with the Weight or Quantity contained in each, and to what Port the fame is intended to be removed for the Purpofe of being exported, and fuch Importer, Proprietor or Confignee, with One other fufficient Surety, fhall alfo enter into Bond to His Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, in Treble the Value of fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize, with Condition that the fame and every Part thereof shall be truly delivered, without Alteration or Diminution, into the Cuftody and Poffeffion of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port of Great Britain, to which the fame is intended to be conveyed and to be named and expreffed in fuch Bond, and to produce a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of fuch Collector and Comptroller or principal Officers, that the Goods have been fo delivered into their Cuftody and Poffeffion within Three Months from the Date of fuch Bond, fuch Certificate to be produced to the Commiffioners of the Cuftoms in England, in cafe the Goods are removed from the Port of London, and to the Commiffioners of the Customs in Scotland, if removed from Leith, and to the principal Officers of the Cuftoms, if fuch Removal takes place from any other Port of Great Britain.

III. And be it further enacted, That a particular Account of the Weight, Quantity and Species of the Goods, Wares or Merchan dize, with the Marks and Numbers of the Packages fhall be tranfmitted by the proper Officer or Officers of the Customs of the Port from which the Removal fhall take place, to the Collector and Comptroller of the Cuftoms at the Port to which the Articles are intended to be removed; and upon their Arrival at fuch Port, due Entry shall be made thereof with the proper Officers of the Cuftoms, fpecifying the Date of Importation, by whom entered Inwards, and the Port from whence removed, and the Name of the Ship, and to what Port or Place they are intended to be exported; and the Exporter or Expor ters fhall, together with the Mafter and other Perfon having or taking

the

the Charge or Command of the Ship or Veffel in which fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize are intended to be exported, and One other fufficient Surety, to be approved of by the Collector and Comp

troller of the Customs at the Port of Exportation, enter into Bond to Bond given for His Majesty, his Heirs and Succeffors, in Treble the Value of the Exportation. fame, for the due Exportation of fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize, and for producing a Certificate of the landing thereof at the Port or Place for which entered, according to the Directions of the

faid A&t of the Forty third Year of His prefent Majefty; Provided 43 G. 3. c. 132. that if upon the further Examination of the faid Goods, Wares and $13. Merchandize, the fame or any Part thereof fhall be found to be lefs in Quantity or Weight than when delivered from the Warehouse at the Port of Importation, the Exporter or Proprietor thereof fhall immediately pay the full Duties of Cuftoms and Excife upon the Deficiency, previous to the Goods being allowed to be shipped for Exportation.

In what Cafe if

Goods may be warehoufed,

IV. And be it further enacted, That if after the Arrival of fuch Goods, Wares or Merchandize, at any other warehoufing Port, the Proprietor thereof fhall not have an Opportunity of fhipping the fame for Exportation, it fhall and may be lawful to lodge and depofit the Articles in any Warehoufe approved under the Regulations of the faid Acts paffed in the Forty fifth and Forty fixth Years of the Reign of His prefent Majelly, provided an Entry be made for that Purpofe with the proper Oflicers of the Cuftoms, and Bond given to Bond for ExHis Majelty, his Heirs and Succeffors, by the Proprietor or his portation taken. Agent, and One fufficient Surety to be approved of by the Collector and Comptroller of the Cuftoms in fuch Port, in double the Amount of the full Duties due and payable on the Importation of fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize, with Condition that the fame fhall either be duly exported, or that the full Duties of Customs due and payable on the Importation thereof fhall be paid to the proper Officers within fuch Period of time as was allowed for that Purpose at the Port where the fame were first entered and warehoused; but if the Proprietor fhall fail or neglect to make fuch Entry and give fuch Security, it fhall and may be lawful for the Commiffioners of the Cuftoms in England or Scotland respectively to caufe all fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize, which fhall not be shipped for Exportation to be difpofed of in the fame manner as Goods, Wares and Merchandize are directed to be diipofed of by the said A&t of the Forty third 43 G. 8. c. 132. Year of the Keign of His prefent Majefty.

extended to this

V. And be it further enacted, That whenever any Goods, Wares Powers of or Merchandize, removed from the Port of Importation to any other 43 G. 3. c. 132. warehousing Port, are fecured in Warehouses under the Authority of relating to warethis Act, all and every the Provifions, Powers, Authorities, Penal- houfing, &c. ties, Forfeitures, Regulations, Reftrictions, Acts, Matters and Things Act relating to the landing, warehoufing, keeping, infpecting, taking Account of or otherwife fecuring of Goods, Wares and Merchandize, under the faid A&t of the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, and of the Duties due and payable thereon, fhall, in fo far as the fame are applicable, and except where the fame are altered or varied by this Act, be from thenceforth construed to extend to the Goods, Wares and Merchandize fo removed from the original Port of Importation and fecured in Warehoufes at any other warehoufing Port, in like manner in every refpect, and as fully and amply as

if

His Majefty may
appoint Com
mithioners to
tranfact the
Bufinefs of
Surveyor
General of Land

Revenue and
Surveyor
General of
Woods.

if the faid Provifions, Powers, Authorities, Penalties, Forfeitures, Regulations, Restrictions, Acts, Matters and Things had been repeated and re-enacted in this A&.

CA P. LXV.

An Act for uniting the Offices of Surveyor General of the
Land Revenues of the Crown, and Surveyor General of His
Majefty's Woods, Forefts, Parks and Chafes.

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[9th June 1810.]

WHEREAS in order to the better Survey and Manage

ment of the Honours, Caftles, Lordships, Manors, Forefts, Chafes, Parks, Meffuages, Lands, Tenements, Woods, Services, Revenues, Poffeffions and Hereditaments of His Majefty, it is expedient_that the Bufinefs hitherto severally tranfacted by the Surveyor General of Land Revenue of the Crown, and the Surveyor General of His Majefty's Woods, Forefts, Parks and Chafes, fhould be placed under the joint Management of certain Perfons, to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned; and His Majefty hath been graciously pleafed to fignify His Royal Intention to place the fame under fuch Management; but fuch His Majefty's gracious Intention cannot be in all Things carried into Effect without the Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament affembled and by the Authority of the fame, That in cafe His Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, fhall at any time hereafter be graciously pleased, by his or their Letters Patent, to nominate and appoint any Perfons not exceeding Three in Number, to be Commiffioners for executing the Office and Duties of His Majefty's Surveyor General of all and fingular His Majefty's Honours, Cattles, Lordships, Manors, Forefts, Chafes, Parks, Meffuages, Lands, Tenements, Woods, Services, Revenues, Poffeffions and Hereditaments whatfeever, within that Part of Great Britain called England, and the Principality and Dominion of Wales, as well within Liberties as without; and alfo the Office and Duties of Surveyor General of all and fingular His Majefty's Woods whatsoever in the North Parts of England beyond the River Trent, in the Survey, Ordering and Government of His Majefty's Court of Exchequer, then being or thereafter happening to be, and of all and fingular His Majefty's Woods what foever in the Parks, Forefts and Chafes, and in His Majefty's Lands of the ancient Inheritance of His Majefty's Crown, being in the North Parts of England beyond the River Trent aforefaid; and the Office and Duties of Surveyor General of all and fingular His Majefty's Woods whatsoever in the Parks, Forefts and Chafes, and in His Majefty's Lands of the ancient Inheritance of His Majesty's Crown, being in the Parts of England on this Side the River Trent aforefaid, in the Survey, Ordering and Government of the fame Court; the Bufinefs hitherto tranfacted, and the Powers exercised by the Surveyor General of the Land Revenue of the Crown, by whatsoever Name or Names of Office the faid Officer is or hath been called or denominated in any Letters Patent, A&t of Parliament, or

otherwife

otherwife howfoever; and alfo the Bufinefs hitherto tranfacted, and the Powers exercised by, and the Revenue under the Management of the Surveyors or Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks and Chafes, by whatsoever Name or Names of Office the faid laft mentioned Officers are or have been called or denominated in any Letters Patent, Act of Parliament, or otherwise howfoever, shall, from and immediately after fuch Appointment, be jointly conducted and managed by fuch Commiffioners, fo to be appointed as aforefaid, or by fuch other Commiffioners, not being lefs than Two nor more than Three at any one time, as fhall be hereafter from time to time named and appointed by His faid Majefly, his Heirs and Succeffors, in that Behalf; and fuch Commiffioners fo to be appointed, fhall be and be called "The Commiffioners of His Majefty's Woods, Description and "Forefts and Land Revenues ;" and that all Acts, Matters and Powers of Commillioners. Things to be done by the faid Commiffioners fo to be appointed as aforefaid, or by any Two of them, or (in Cafes where the fame fhall be fo ordered and directed by the Lord High Treafurer or any Three or more of the Commiffioners of the Treafury, according to the Power herein contained) by any One of them, fhall be as valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, as if the fame had been done by any fuch Surveyor General of the Land Revenue of the Crown in difcharge of his official Duties, or by any fuch Surveyors or Surveyor General of His Majefty's Woods, Forefts, Parks and Chafes, in difcharge of their official Duties, or of any of them; and that from and immediately after fuch Appointment, all Sales, Enfranchisements, Purchases, Exchanges, Conveyances, Surveys, Views, Estimates, Orders, Directions, Drafts on the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and all other Acts, Matters and Things whatfoever, which by virtue of any Law, Statute or Ufage in force or practice, immediately before the paffing of this Act, or by any Condition, Covenant or Claufe in any fubfifting Grant, Leafe or Demife contained, are or may be, or ought to be made, done, performed or given or exercised by or to the faid Surveyors or Surveyor General of the Land Revenue of the Crown, or by or to the faid Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods, Forefts, Parks and Chafes, may and fhall be made, done, performed and given by and to the faid Commiffioners for the time being, or Two of fuch Commiffioners, or (in Cafes wherein the same shall be so ordered and directed by the Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury, according to the Power herein contained) by or to One only of fuch Commiffioners; and fuch Commiffioners fhall have and exercise the fame Powers and Duties in all things, not hereby otherwife provided for, as the faid Surveyors General refpectively lawfully had and exercised or might exercife.

Treasury.

II. Provided always and be it further enacted, That the faid Com- Conmathioners miffioners so to be appointed as aforefaid, and every of them, fhall to obferve from time to time obferve, perform, fulfil and keep all and fingular Directions of the Orders, Rules, Inftructions and Directions, not being contrary to the Provifions of this Act, which from time to time fhall be made or given to them or any or either of them, by the Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury for the time being, touching or concerning the Exrcution and Difcharge of their faid Office, and the Arrangement and Divifion of the Bulinefs of the fame amongst the faid Commiflioners. III. Provided

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