ANNO SEPTIMO GEORGII IV. REGIS. CA P. LXXI. An Act to empower His Majesty to admit Foreign Corn for Home Consumption, under certain Limitations, until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, or for Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then next ensuing Session of Parliament, if Parliament shall not then be sitting. [1st June 1826.] WHEREAS it may become expedient, for a Time to be limited, to admit a further Quantity of Corn or Flour for Home Consumption, in addition to the Foreign Corn, Grain, Meal, or Flour, which had been warehoused, or reported inwards to be warehoused, on or before the Second Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six: 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 at any Time after the End of the present Session of Parliament, and until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, or for Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then next ensuing Session of Parliament, if Parliament shall not then be sitting, it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Orders to be by Him issued by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, to admit to Entry for Home Consumption any Quantity of warehoused Wheat or Wheat Flour not Corn. His Majesty, by Order in Council, may admit ware housed Wheat or Wheat Flour for Home Consumption, on Payment of such Duty as shall be therein declared. Corn. Limitation as to Time. Duty declared by such Order 7° GEO. 4. exceeding Five hundred thousand Quarters in the Whole, on Payment of such Duty as shall be declared in any such Order to be payable upon the Entry of the same: Provided always, that no such Order in Council shall continue in force for more than Two Calendar Months from the Day of the Date thereof; and provided also, that no such Order shall extend to admit to Entry any Wheat or Wheat Flour which had been warehoused, or reported inwards to be warehoused, before the said Second Day of May. II. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That the Duty so to be declared in any such Order shall not in any Case exceed the Duty which would have been payable on the Entry of such Wheat or Flour, if the same had been admissible for Home Consumption, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Law's now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn; and the Duty so declared to be payable, shall be levied and paid in like Manner as any Duty payable under the said Act would be levied and paid if such Corn or Flour were entered for Home Con sumption under the Authority of the said Act. |