SCHEDULE (B.) A SCHEDULE of Duties payable on Articles imported into His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, or Islands in America or the Wine, imported in Bottles, viz.- the Tun of 252 Gallons the Tun of 252 Gallons Portugal Wine the Tun of 252 Gallons the Tun of 252 Gallons Wine not otherwise the Tun of 252 Gallons enumerated imposed upon such Wines respectively, a fur- Value thereof in which such Wine may be imported For every 1001. of the true and real Value Meal thereof for every 1,000 Lumber, viz. Yellow or White Pine all other Descriptions Mill Timber, the like Shingles, for every 1,000, not exceeding 12 Inches in length per 1,000 Feet O 7 OOO for every 1,000, exceeding 12 Inches Staves, Oak, Red or White for every 1,000 Wood Hoops for every 1,000 For every 1001. of the true and real Value Almonds thereof 7 10 0 SCHEDULE (B.)-continued. £ s. d. Schedule (B.) continued. Currants Capers Cascasoo Cantharides Cumminseed Coral Cork Cinnabar Dates Essence of Bergamot of Lemon of Rosemary dry, and preserved in Sugar For every 1001. of Brandy Mastic the true and real 7 10 0 Honey building Nuts of all Kinds Oil of Olives of Almonds £ 8. d. Opium Pickles, in Jars and Bottles Diamonds) 7 10 0 Raisins Rhubarb Rice Sausages Senna Scm mony Sarsaparilla Saffron Safflower Sponges Vermillion Vermicelli Wine, not in Bottles, except For every 1001. of the true and real Value thereof Wine imported into New. foundland Whetstones THE NEW REGISTRY ACT. No. V. An Act for the Registering of Vessels.-4 Geo. 4. c. 41. WHEREAS the wealth and strength of this kingdom, and the prosperity and safety of every part of the British empire, greatly depend on the encouragement given to shipping and navigation; and whereas divers acts have from time to time been passed for the purpose of confining to ships wholly built in his Majesty's dominions the advantages which were formerly given by the Legislature to ships owned and navigated by his Majesty's subjects, and for that purpose divers regulations have from time to time been made, for the registering of and the transferring of the property in such ships ; which regulations have been found in some respects inelfectual, and in others inconvenient: and whereas the object of the Legislature in passing the said several acts may be more effectually attained by repealing the same, and by comprising and consolidating in one act the several provisions contained therein, but varied and altered in some respects: 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 thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, so much of Repeal of former laws relat- an act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late ing to registry Majesty King William the Third, intituled “An Act for preventing of vessels. Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade," as relates in any 7 & 8 W. 3. c. way to the registering of ships and vessels; and also so much of an act 22. passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George 15 G. 2. c. 31. the Second, intituled “ An Act for further regulating the Plantation Trade, and for relief of Merchants importing Prize Goods from America, and for preventing collusive Captures there; and for obliging the claimers of Vessels seized for Exportation of Wool, or any unlawful Importation, to give security for costs; and for allowing East India Goods to be taken out of Warehouses in order to be cleaned and refreshed,” as relates in any way to the proof to be given that the ship or vessel belongs to British subjects, before the same is permitted to trade; and as relates to the liberty to be given to trade where the certificate of the registry hath been lost; and as relates to the registering of a ship or vessel de novo; and also the whole of an act of parliament passed in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of 26 G. 3. c. 60. his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled“ An Act for the further Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation ;” and also so much of an act passed in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his late 27 G. 3. c. 19. Majesty King George the Third, intituled “ An Act to enforce and render more effectual several Acts passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and other Acts made for the Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation,” as relates in any way to the registering of ships or vessels; and also so much of an act passed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, |