CORN. Prohibitions on Produce of the the Duties pay able under 55 G. 3. c. 26. and also under 6o GEO. IV. Cap. 64. An Act to alter for One Year, and until the End of the WHEREAS it is expedient to permit, for a Time to be limited, the Importation of Wheat the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, on the Payment of a certain Duty; 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 for One Year from and after the passing of this Act, and further until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, all Prohibitions and Restrictions upon the Importation of Wheat the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, and all Duties payable on the Importation of such Wheat under an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn; and also an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn; or any other Act or Acts in force immediately before the passing of this Act, shall be and are hereby suspended; and that for One Year from and after the passing of this Act, and further until the End of the then next Session of Parlia ment, any Wheat, the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, shall and may be imported into the United Kingdom, whatever the Average Prices of British Wheat may be; any thing in the said Acts or any of them to the contrary notwithstanding; and that from and after the paid on the Im- passing of this Act, in lieu and instead of all former Duties payable on such Wheat, there shall be levied and paid, during the Period aforesaid, upon the Importation of any such Wheat, the Sum of Five Shillings for every Quarter thereof. 3 G. 4. c. 60. &c. suspended for a limited Time. Instead of former Duties there shall be portation 5s. per Quarter. Regulations to be observed on of such Wheat. Sect. 2. AND be it further enacted, That no Wheat shall be shipped from any Port in the British Possessions in North the Importation America, until the Owner or Proprietor thereof shall have made Oath before the Collector or Comptroller of the Port of Shipment, that such Wheat was the Produce of some British Possession in North America, naming the same; and that before, any Wheat shall be entered in the United Kingdom as being the Produce of the British Possessions in North America, the Master of the Ship importing the same shall produce a Copy of the Deposition made, signed by the Collector or Comptroller before whom it was made, at the Port of Shipment, and make Oath before the Collector or Comptroller of the Port of Im portation, that the Wheat is the same that was sworn to in the Deposition he produces: Provided always, that this Oath shall not be required in respect to any Wheat which shall have been shipped within Three Months after the passing of this Act. 56° GEO. 3. Cap. 127. An Act to reduce the Duty on the Exportation from Great Sect. 1. COALS to be screened through a Riddle or Screen, the Bars of which not being in any Part more than Threeeighths of an Inch asunder, and stamped in manner hereinafter directed. Sect. 2. FITTER'S Certificate (1) to state that the Coals have passed through such Screen. Sect. 3. OWNERS of Mines to provide Screens at their Expence, which are to be stamped as the Commissioners of the Customs shall direct, but the Stamps are to be provided and affixed at the Expence of Mine Owners. Sect. 4. IF the Coals shall not have been duly screenedthe Person signing the Fitter's Certificate and the Person entering or shipping the Coals, shall forfeit Ten Pounds for every Chaldron, Newcastle Measure. Sect. 5. OFFICER of Customs may attend the Screening of the Coals, or require that they shall be re-screened. CORN. SMALL COALS. 59° GEO. 3. Cap. 69. WARLIKE An Act to prevent the Enlisting or Engagement of His Sect. 5. AND be it further enacted, That in case any Ship or Vessel in any Port or Place within His Majesty's Dominions shall have on board any such Person or Persons who shall have been enlisted or entered to serve, or shall have engaged or agreed or been procured to enlist or enter or serve, or who shall be departing from His Majesty's Dominions for the Purpose and with the Intent of enlisting or entering to serve, or Vessels with Persons on board engaged in Foreign Service, may be detained at any Port in His Majesty's Dominions. WARLIKE EQUIPMENT. to be employed, or of serving or being engaged or employed in the Service of any Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People, or of any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government in or over any Foreign Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People, either as an Officer, Soldier, Sailor, or Marine, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for any of the principal Officers of His Majesty's Customs where any such Officers of the Customs shall be, and in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions in which there are no Officers of His Majesty's Customs, for any Governor or Persons having the Chief Civil Command, upon Information on Oath given before them respectively, which Oath they are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to administer, that such Person or Persons as aforesaid is or are on board such Ship or Vessel, to detain and prevent any such Ship or Vessel, or to cause such Ship or Vessel to be detained and prevented, from proceeding to Sea on her Voyage with such Persons as aforesaid on board: Provided nevertheless, that no principal Officer, Governor, or Person shall act as Facts and Cir- aforesaid, upon such Information upon Oath as aforesaid, unless the Party so informing shall not only have deposed in such Information that the Person or Persons on board such Ship or Vessel hath or have been enlisted or entered to serve, or hath or have engaged or agreed or been procured to enlist or enter or serve, or is or are departing as aforesaid, for the Purpose and with the Intent of enlisting or entering to serve or to be employed, or of serving, or being engaged or employed in such Service as aforesaid, but shall also have set forth in such Information upon Oath, the Facts or Circumstances upon which he forms his Knowledge or Belief, enabling him to give such Information upon Oath; and that all and every Person and Persons convicted of wilfully false swearing in any such Information upon Oath, shall be deemed guilty of and suffer the Penalties on Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury. Oath to be made as to cumstances. Penalty on Sect. 6. AND be it further enacted, That if any Master or Masters of other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of any Ships, &c. taking on board Ship or Vessel, in any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Persons enlisted Britain and Ireland, or in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions contrary to this beyond the Seas, shall knowingly and willingly take on board, or if such Master or other Person having the Command of any such Ship or Vessel, or any Owner or Owners of any such Ship or Vessel, shall knowingly engage to take on board any Person Act, 501. for each Person. or Persons who shall have been enlisted or entered to serve. or shall have engaged or agreed or been procured to enlist or enter or serve, or who shall be departing from His Majesty's Dominions for the Purpose and with the Intent of enlisting or entering to serve, or to be employed, or of serving, or being engaged or employed in any Naval or Military Service, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, such Master or Owner or |