such Certificates as shall be granted by them, or by any Officer or Officers within the Limits of their Commission, in pursuance of this Act.

ceedings in Suits to be

stayed.

XLVIII. AND be it further enacted, That it shall and Governors of Colonies, &c. may be lawful for any Governor (1), Lieutenant Governor, may cause Proor Commander in Chief of any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories, and they are hereby respectively authorized and required, if any Suit, Information, Libel, or other Prosecution or Proceeding of any Nature or Kind whatever shall have been commenced, or shall hereafter be commenced in any Court whatever in any of the said Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories respectively, touching the Force and Effect of any Register granted to any Ship or Vessel, upon a Representation made to any such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, to cause all Proceedings thereon to be stayed, if he shall see just Cause so to do, until His Majesty's Pleasure shall be known and certified to him by His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Majesty's Privy Council; AND such Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief is hereby required to transmit to One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to be laid before His Majesty in Council, an authenticated Copy of the Proceedings in every such Case, together with his Reasons for causing the same to be stayed, and such Documents (properly verified) as he may judge necessary for the Information of His Majesty.

XLIX. AND be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall falsely make Oath to any of the Matters herein-before required to be so verified, such Person or Persons shall suffer the like Pains and Penalties as are incurred by Persons committing wilful and corrupt Perjury;

Punishing Persons making false Oath;

ANĎ that if any Person or Persons shall counterfeit, or falsifying any erase, alter, or falsify any Certificate or other Instrument Document. in Writing required or directed to be obtained, granted,

or produced by this Act, or shall knowingly or wilfully

make use of any Certificate or other Instrument so coun

terfeited, erased, altered, or falsified, -or shall wilfully Granting false grant such Certificate or other Instrument in Writing, Documents.

How Penalties

are to be recovered.

and Officers Shares.

Act may be altered this Session.

knowing it to be false, such Person or Persons shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds.

L. AND be it further enacted, That all the Penalties (1) and Forfeitures inflicted and incurred by this Act shall and may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in such -Courts, and be disposed of in such Manner, and by such Ways, Means, and Methods, as any Penalties or Forfeitures inflicted or which may be incurred for any Of fences committed against the Laws of Customs may now legally be sued for, prosecuted, recovered, and disposed of; AND that the Officer or Officers concerned in Seizures or Prosecutions under this Act shall be entitled to and receive the same Share of the Produce arising from such Seizures, as in the Case of Seizures for unlawful Importation, and to such Share of the Produce arising from any pecuniary Fine or Penalty for any Offence against this Act, as any Officer or Officers is or are now by any Law or Regulation entitled to upon Prosecutions for pecuniary Penalties.

LI. AND be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, varied, or repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

(1) See Jurisdiction, Cap. 108.

ANNO SEXTO

GEORGII IV. REGIS.

CAP. CXI.

An Act for granting Duties of Customs.

[5th July 1825.]

HEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session

WHEREAS

of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 6 G. 4. c. 105. Laws relating to the Customs, in which it is declared that the Laws of the Customs have become intricate by reason of the great Number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long Series of Years, and is therefore highly expedient for the Interests of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be subject to the Operation of those Laws, or who may be authorized to act in Execution thereof, that all the Statutes now in force relating to the Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which they have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the various Provisions contained in them: And whereas by the said Act all the Acts and Parts of Acts by which the Duties of Customs have been granted will be repealed, and all Duties of Customs will thereby be made to cease and determine; and it is expedient to make Provision for granting other Duties of Customs in lieu thereof: Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the CommenceFifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and ment of Act. twenty-six, this Act shall come into and be and continue

in full Force and Operation for granting Duties of Cus

toms.

II. AND be it further enacted, That in lieu and instead of all other Duties of Customs

(except the Duties

Instead of all other Duties of Customs (ex

Duties and

Drawbacks to

upon Corn (1), Grain, Meal, or Flour) - there shall be raised, levied, collected and paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, upon Goods, Wares, and Merchandize imported into or exported from the United Kingdom, or carried Coastwise from one Port or Place in the United Kingdom to another Port or Place in the same, THE several Duties of Customs, and there shall be allowed the several Drawbacks, as the same are respectively inserted, described, and set forth in Figures in the Tables to this Act annexed, and denominated respectively," TABLE of Duties of Customs Inwards," "TABLE of Duties of Customs Outwards," and "TABLE of Duties of Customs Coastwise."

III. AND be it further enacted, That the Amount of Drawbacks granted, allowed, and made payable upon Goods, Wares, and Merchandize exported from or used or consumed in Great Britain or Ireland, under or by virtue of any Act or Acts in force in Great Britain or Ireland on or immediately before the said Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, shall remain and continue payable with respect to such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize as, having paid the Duties imposed upon the Importation thereof by any Act or Acts in force on or immediately before the said Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six,shall, from and after the said Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be exported from or so used or consumed in Great Britain or Ireland respectively: PROVIDED always, that no Drawback shall be allowed for any Ashes used in bleaching Linen, nor for any Brimstone used for the making of Oil of Vitriol, which shall not have been so used respectively on or before the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, nor unless such Drawback be duly claimed on or before the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

IV. AND be it further enacted, That the Duties and Drawbacks by this Act imposed and allowed shall be under Management of the Management of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and shall be ascertained, raised, levied, col

be under the

the Commis

sioners of Cus

toms.

(1) For Duties on Corn, see Appendix.

lected, paid, and recovered and allowed, and applied or appropriated, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the general Regulation of the Customs.

Reciprocal Du

ties to be levied on Foreign

V. AND be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, by His Order in Council, from Time to Time to Merchandize, order and direct that there shall be levied and collected &c. any additional Duty not exceeding One-fifth of the Amount of any existing Duty upon all or any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any Country -which shall levy higher or other Duties upon any Article the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Dominions, than upon the like Article the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any other Foreign Country; and in like Manner to impose such additional Duties upon all or any Goods, when imported in the Ships (1) of any Country which shall levy higher or other Duties upon any Goods when imported in British Ships than when imported in the National Ships of such Country, or which shall levy higher or other Tonnage or Port or other Duties upon British Ships than upon such National Ships, or which shall not place the Commerce or Navigation of this Kingdom upon the Footing of the most favoured Nation in the Ports of such Country; AND either to prohibit the Importation of any Manufactured Article, the Produce of such Country, in the Event of the Export of the Raw Material of which such Article is wholly or in part made being prohibited from such Country to the British Dominions, or to impose an additional Duty, not exceeding One-fifth as aforesaid, upon such Manufactured Article; AND also to impose such additional Duty in the Event of such Raw Material being subject to any Duty upon being exported from the said Country to any of His Majesty's Dominions:AND all Duties imposed by any such Order shall be deemed to be Duties imposed by this Act.

VI. AND be it further enacted, That upon the Expor- Drawback on tation from the United Kingdom of any Foreign - Rice the Exportation or Paddy, which shall have been cleaned therein, and which of Foreign Rice shall have paid the Duties payable on the Importation

(1) See also 4 Geo. 4. Cap. 77. Appendix.

or Paddy;