CORN. Prices at which Corn from the British Colonies in North America may be imported. When British Corn is below the Prices before mentioned, no Corn from North America to be imported. North Ameri can Corn may be imported and warehoused, according to the Laws now in force. Day of November, in each Year, shall have fallen below the Prices at which Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour may be, under the Provisions of this Act, allowed to be imported for Home Consumption, no such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour shall be allowed to be imported into the United Kingdom for Home Consumption, from any Place between the Rivers Eyder and Bidassoa, both inclusive, until a new Average shall be made up, and published in the London Gazette, for regulating the Importation into the United Kingdom for the succeeding Quarter. Sect. 6. AND be it further enacted, That such Corn, Meal, or Flour, being the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America, as may now by Law be imported into the United Kingdom, may hereafter respectively be imported for Home Consumption, without Payment of any Duty, whenever the Average Prices of British Corn, made up and published as now by Law required (1), shall respectively be at or above the Prices hereafter specified; that is to say, whenever the Price of Wheat shall be at or above Sixty-seven Shillings per Quarter; whenever the Price of Rye, Pease (2), and Beans shall be at or above Forty-four Shillings per Quarter; whenever the Price of Barley, Beer, or Bigg shall be at or above Thirty-three Shillings per Quarter; and whenever the Price of Oats shall be at or above Twentytwo Shillings per Quarter. Sect. 7. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That whenever the Prices of British Corn respectively shall be below the Prices herein specified, Corn, or Meal, or Flour made from any of the respective Sorts of Corn herein enumerated, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America, shall no longer be allowed to be imported into the United Kingdom for Home Consumption. Sect. 8. AND be it further enacted, That such Corn, Meal, or Flour, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America, as may now by Law be imported into the United Kingdom, shall at all Times be permitted to be imported into the United Kingdom, and warehoused according to the Laws now in force, without Payment of any Duty whatever; and be taken out of the Warehouse, and exported according to the Laws now in force, without Payment of any Duty whatever. (1) Repealed, and Manner altered by Act 1 & 2 Geo. 4. Cap. 87.; see § 25 and 26. Appendix. (2) Pease for Seed may be imported when prohibited as Corn, see Cap. 111. $14. Sect. 9. AND be it further enacted, That such Corn, Meal, or Flour so warehoused, may be taken out of Warehouse, and entered for Home Consumption in the United Kingdom, whenever Corn, Meal, or Flour, of the like Description, imported direct from any such Colony or Plantation, shall be admissible by Law for Home Consumption, but not otherwise. CORN. When Corn may be taken out of Warehouse. Reserving the Sect. 10. PROVIDED always, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or anywise alter the Duties of Package, Scavage, Baillage, or Portage, or any other Duties payable to the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, or to the Lord Mayor of the tions. said City for the Time being, or to any other City or Town Corporate within Great Britain, or any other special Privilege or Exemption to which any Person or Persons, Bodics Politic or Corporate, is or are now entitled by Law; but the same shall be continued as heretofore: Provided always, that nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or alter the Payments to be made to the Inspector of Corn Returns, as directed by an Act made in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, respecting Corn brought into the Port of London. former Acts extended to this Act. Sect. 11. AND be it further enacted, That every Act of Provisions of Parliament in force on and immediately before the passing of this Act, by which any Rules, Regulations, or Conditions were made, established, or directed, regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, Meal, and Flour, or for ascertaining the Average Prices, except where any Alteration is expressly made by this Act, and all Provisions, Clauses, Matters, and Things relating thereto, shall and are hereby declared to be and remain in full Force and Effect, and shall be applied to this Act, as fully and effectually as if they had been repeated and reenacted in this present Act. (1) 1° & 2° GEO. IV. Cap. 87. An Act to repeal certain Acts, passed in the Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Years of His late Majesty King George the Third, for regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour into and from Great Britain, and to make further Provisions in lieu thereof. [10th July 1821.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Thirty-first Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for 31 G. 3. c. 30. regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, and the Pay (1) See subsequent Acts, viz. 1 & 2 Geo 4. c. 87.; 3 Geo. 4. c. 60. ; 6 Geo. 4. c. 64. CORN. 33 G. 3. c. 65. ment of the Duty on Foreign Corn imported, and of the Bounty on British Corn exported: And whereas an Act was passed in the Thirty-third Year of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act made in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled 'An Act for regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, and the Payment of the Duty on Foreign Corn imported, and of the Bounty on British Corn ex'ported: And whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-fourth 44 G. 3. c. 109. Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Importation and Exportation of Corn, and the Bounties and Duties payable thereon: And whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His said late Majesty, inti tuled An Act to explain and amend an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, to regulate the Importation and Exportation of Corn, and the Bounties and Duties payable thereon: And whereas it is expedient that the said Acts should be repealed, and that new Provisions should be made in lieu thereof; 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, the said Acts shall be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided nevertheless, that all Acts or Parts of Acts, which shall have been repealed by virtue of any of the above-recited Acts, shall still be deemed and taken to be and remain repealed. 45 G. 3. c. 86. Recited Acts repealed. No Corn ground, except Wheat Meal, Wheat Flour, Oat Meal, nor any Malt, to be imported. Times of com. puting aggre. gate Averages to govern Importation. 55 G 3. c. 26. Sect. 2. AND be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, no Corn ground, except Wheat Meal, Wheat Flour, and Oat Meal, nor any Malt, shall be imported into Great Britain from Parts beyond the Seas, under Penalty of the Forfeiture thereof, together with the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be imported, with her Guns, Furniture, Ammunition, Tackle, and Apparel, and the same shall and may be seized by any Officer or Officers of the Customs. Sect. 25. AND whereas by an Act passed in the Fiftyfifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regu lating the Importation of Corn, certain Provisions were made for regulating the Price at which Foreign Corn, Meal, and Flour should thereafter be permitted to be imported into the United Kingdom, or be taken out of the Warehouse for Home Consumption; be it enacted, That the Average Prices of all British Corn, by which the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour for Home Consumption shall in future be regulated, shall be made up and computed at Four Quarterly Periods in each and every Year, in Manner following (that is to say), the said Receiver of Corn Returns shall, within Seven Days after the Fifteenth Day of February, the Fifteenth Day of May, the Fif teenth Day of August, and the Fifteenth Day of November in each Year, add together the total Quantities of each Sort of British Corn, and also the total Prices for which the same were sold, as shall appear from the Returas received by the said Receiver of Corn Returns in the Six last Weeks immediately preceding the said Fifteenth Day of February, Fifteenth Day of May, Fifteenth Day of August, and Fifteenth Day of November in each Year, and shall divide the said total Prices by the said total Quantities of each respective Sort of Corn, and the Sum produced thereby shall be deemed and taken to be the aggregate Average Price of each such Sort of Corn, in and for the Six Weeks immediately preceding the before-mentioned Periods respectively, by which the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, and Flour for Home Consumption, or the taking out the same from the Warehouse for Home Consumption, shall be governed and regulated in the United Kingdom. Sect. 26. AND be it further enacted, That the said Receiver of Corn Returns shall enter the said Accounts of the aggregate Average Prices of each Sort of British Corn in a Book, as soon as he shall have made up and computed the same in the Manner herein-before directed, and shall at the same Time cause the same to be published in the London Gazette, and shall transmit a Certificate thereof to the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs, at each of the several Ports in Great Britain, and to the Commissioners of Customs in Ireland, who are hereby required forthwith to transmit Copies. thereof to the Collectors or other Chief Officers of the Customs in the several Ports in Ireland; and the Importation of each Sort of Foreign Corn, Meal, and Flour for Home Consumption, in the United Kingdom, and the taking the same out of Warehouse for the Purpose of being so consumed, shall be governed and regulated by the said aggregate Average Prices, until new Average Prices shall, under the Provisions of the said above recited Act of the Fifty-fifth Year of His said late Majesty, or under the Provisions of this Act, be made up and computed, and a Certificate thereof be received by such Collectors or other Chief Officers. Sect. 27. AND be it further enacted, That whenever the Ports of the United Kingdom shall be shut against the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour for Home Consumption, the Ports in the Isle of Man, -[and in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark,] (1) shall in like Manner be shut against the Importation of such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour for Home Consumption; and that whenever any such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour shall be permitted to be imported into the Ports of the United Kingdom for Home Consumption, Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour, may in like Manner be imported (1) Repealed as to Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, see 3 G. 4. c. 60. $12, 13. CORN. Certificate of aggregate Average Prices to be transmit ted to Officers of Customs. Ports of Isle of Man, &c. to be shut and opened at same Time with English Ports. CORN. Certificates of to be transmit ted to Isle of Man, &c. into the Ports of the Isle of Man (and of the Islands of Guern sey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark,] (1)—for Home Consumption Sect. 28. AND in order that due Notice may be given of the Average Prices opening or shutting of the Ports of the United Kingdom, for the Purposes above stated; be it further enacted, That the Receiver of Corn Returns in London shall, and he is hereby required within Seven Days after the Fifteenth Day of November, the Fifteenth Day of February, the Fifteenth Day of May, and the Fifteenth Day of August in each and every Year, transmit to the Collectors or Chief Officers of the Customs in the Ports of the said Islands (1) respectively, - a Certificate of the Average Prices of British Corn, made up and computed in the Manner herein-before required; and such Collector or other Chief Officer shall cause the same to be put up in some conspicuous Place in the Custom House; and the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, and Flour into the Ports of the said Islands shall be governed and regulated by such Average Prices, until new Average Prices shall in like Manner be made up and transmitted to such Collectors or other Chief Officers, and be by them received. No Corn, &c. shall be taken out of Warehouse until Bond is entered into. Proprietor or Sect. 41. AND whereas, &c.; be it therefore enacted, That no Corn, Meal, or Flour shall be permitted to be taken out of the Warehouse or Warehouses in which the same shall have been warehoused, (2) until the Proprietor or Proprietors, Occupier or Occupiers of such Warehouse or Warehouses shall enter into Bond, with Two sufficient Sureties, to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of Two thousand Pounds, with Condition that no such Corn, Meal, or Flour shall be taken out of such Warehouse or Warehouses, otherwise than under the Regulations and Provisions now by Law in force. Sect. 42. AND be it further enacted, That the Proprietor or Proprietors, Occupier or Occupiers of any Warehouse or Warehouses, in which any Corn, Meal, or Flour, which shall hereafter be warehoused under the Regulations of the before recited Act, shall enter into Bond, with Two sufficient Sureties, to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of Two thousand Pounds, with Condition that no such Corn, Meal, or Flour, shall be taken out of such Warehouse, otherwise than under the Regulations and Provisions now by Law in force: Provided always, that Bond as herein-before required shall not have been already entered into by the Proprietor or Proprietors, Occupier or Occupiers of such Warehouse or Warehouses. (1) Repealed as to Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, see 3 G. 4. c. 60. $ 12, 13. (2) That is, prior to the passing of this Act. |