special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if it shall appear to be so done, then and in every such Case the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuited, or discontinue his, her, or their Action, or if a Verdict shall pass against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, or upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Double Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have for Costs of Suit in any other Cases by Law.

APPENDIX.

51° GEO. III. Cap. 47.

AND

An Act to carry into effect the Provisions of a Treaty of PORTUGUESE
Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, concluded between
His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent AMERICAN
of Portugal.

[31st May 1811.]

SECTION 2-Permits the Importation into the United Kingdom-from any of the Territories or Dominions of the Crown of Portugal of Goods the Produce of any of those Territories or Dominions (1), in British or in Portuguese Ships: -and

Sect. 3-On Payment of the lowest Duty payable on such Goods, when imported in British Ships from any Foreign Country.

Sect. 4-Permits Elephants Teeth and Ivory to be imported from any of the Dominions of the Crown of Portugal in British or Portuguese Ships, although not the Produce of any Part of those Dominions.

Sect. 12-Continues the Act in force during the Continuance of the Treaty with Portugal. [Signed at Rio de Janeiro, 19 Feb. 1810.]

59° GEO. III. Cap. 54.

An Act to carry into effect a Convention of Commerce
concluded between His Majesty and the United States
of America, and a Treaty with the Prince Regent
of Portugal.
[2d July 1819.]

SECTION 3-Enacts that Goods and Effects imported in any Ship of the United States shall not be subject to the Auc tion Duty upon the First Sale of the same :- Provided such Sale

(1) The Produce of Asia, Africa, or America could not otherwise be

TREATIES.

PORTUGUESE be on Account of the original Importer, by whom the Goods were entered at the Custom House, and within Twelve Months after the Importation.

AND AMERICAN TREATIES.

Sect. 5-Enacts that the same Bounties shall be allowed on Goods exported in Ships of the United States as in British Ships.

Sect. 6-Permits Ships of the United States to clear out with Cargoes from the United Kingdom for the principal Settle ments in India, viz. Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Prince of Wales Island, in like Manner as British Ships. (1)

Sect. 8-Enacts, that no higher or other Rates or Duties, under the Denomination of Light Duties, Pilotage, Ballast, Buoyage, and Beaconage Rates, Harbour Duties, and other Dues payable by Law, Charter, special Privilege, or Grant shall be levied on Ships of the United States, or on Portuguese Ships entering or touching at any Port in the United Kingdom, or of His Majesty's Territories in Europe, than on British Ships.

Sects. 9 and 10-Provide for the Reimbursement of Parties entitled to claim such Rates, Duties, or Dues.

Sect. 12-Continues the Act in force during the Continuance of the Convention with the United States of America, [dated 20th October 1818,] and the Treaty with Portugal, [dated 19th Feb. 1810,] respectively.

CORN.

Corn may at all

Times be imported and warehoused.

55° GEO. III. Cap. 26.

An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regulating the
Importation of Corn.
[23d March 1815.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws now in force relating to the Importation of and Trade in Corn: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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, all Corn, Meal, or Flour, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any Foreign Country, which may now by Law be imported into the United Kingdom, shall and may at all Times be allowed to be brought to the said

(1) See Exports to British Possessions in Asia, Africa, and America, confined to British Ships, Cap. 109. § 7.

United Kingdom, and to be warehoused there, under the Regulations and Provisions of the Laws now in force relating to Corn, without Payment of any Duty whatever; and that such Corn, Meal, and Flour so warehoused, may at all Times be taken out of Warehouse, under the Regulations and Provisions now by Law in force, and be exported according to such Laws, without Payment of any Duty whatever.

CORN.

Corn may be taken out of

Warehouse for Home

Sect. 2. AND be it further enacted, That such Corn, Meal, or Flour may be taken out of Warehouse, and be entered for Home Consumption in the said United Kingdom, under and subject to the Regulations and Provisions now in force, without Consumption. Payment of any Duty whatever, whenever Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour of the same Sort, shall or may by Law be admissible into the said United Kingdom for Home Consumption.

Sect. 3. AND be it further enacted, That such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour shall and may be permitted to be imported into the said United Kingdom, for Home Consumption, under and subject to the Provisions and Regulations now in force, without Payment of any Duty whatever, whenever the Average Prices of the several Sorts of British Corn, made up and published in the Manner now by Law required, shall be at or above the Prices hereafter mentioned; (that is to say), whenever Wheat shall be at or above the Price of Eighty Shillings per Quarter; whenever Rye, Fease, and Beans shall be at or above the Price of Fifty-three Shillings per Quarter; whenever Barley, Beer, or Bigg, shall be at or above the Price of Forty Shillings per Quarter; and whenever Oats shall be at or above the Price of Twenty-seven Shillings per Quarter.

Prices at which

Corn may be imported for

Home Con

sumption.

Corn is below the Prices before mentioned,

Sect. 4. AND be it further enacted, That whenever the When British Average Prices of British Corn so made up and published shall respectively be below the Prices herein-before stated, no Foreign Corn, or Meal or Flour made from any of the respective Sorts of Foreign Corn herein-before enumerated, shall be allowed to be imported into the United Kingdom for the Purpose of Home Consumption, or taken out of Warehouse for that Purpose.

Sect. 5. AND be it further enacted, That the Average Price of the several Sorts of British Corn, by which the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour into the United Kingdom shall be regulated and governed, shall continue to be made up and published in the Manner now required by Law: but that if it shall hereafter at any Time after the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour shall be permitted, under the Provisions of this Act, appear that the Average Prices of the different Sorts of British Corn respectively, in the Six Weeks immediately succeeding the Fifteenth Day of February, the Fifteenth Day of May, the Fifteenth Day of August, and the Fifteenth

no Corn to be imported or taken out of Warehouse.

Times for taking the Average Prices

of British Corn.