Fruit and vegetables, fresh Herrings taken and caught by the inhabitants of the Any sort of craft, food, and victuals, except spirits, and and necessary for the British fisheries in America, > Duty free. Rice and Indian corn and lumber, the produce of any For every £100 of 15 0 0 And if any of the goods hereinbefore mentioned shall be imported through the United Kingdom, (having been warehoused therein, and exported from the warehouse, or the duties thereon, if there paid, having been drawn back,) one-tenth of the duties herein imposed shall be remitted in respect of such goods. And if any of the goods herein before mentioned shall be imported through the United Kingdom, (not from the warehouse,) but after all duties of importation for home use therein shall have been paid thereon in the said United Kingdom, and not drawn back, such goods shall be free of all duties herein imposed. CHAP. CXIV. AN ACT to regulate the Trade of the British possessions abroad. [5th July, 1825.] 6 Geo. 4, ch. 105. WHEREAS an act was passed in the present session of Parliament, entitled "An Act to repeal the several 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 it 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may be authorized to act in the execution thereof, that all the statutes now in force relating to the customs should be repealed, and that the purposes for which they have, from time to time, been made should be secured by new enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously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And whereas by the said act all the laws of the customs relating to the trade of the British possessions abroad will be repealed: and it is expedient to make provisions for the future regulation of the trade of those possessions after such repeal shall have effect: Be it therefore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 mentof this act. and after the fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this act shall come into and be and continue in full force and operation, for the regulating of the trade of the British possessions abroad. Commence II. And be it further enacted, That no goods shall be Importation & imported into, nor shall any goods, except the produce of exportation of goods confined the Fisheries in British ships, be exported from any of to free ports. the British possessions in America by sea, from or to any place other than the United Kingdom, or some other of such possessions, except into or from the several ports in such possessions, called "Free Ports," enumerated or described in the table following; (that is to say :) His Majesty III. Provided always, that, if his Majesty shall deem may extend the it expedient to extend the provisions of this act to any privileges of this act to other port or ports not enumerated in the said table, it shall be ports not here- lawful for his Majesty, by order in Council, to extend the in enumerated. provisions of this act to such port or ports, and from and Privileges possessions after the day mentioned in such order in Council, all the privileges and advantages of this act, and all the provisions, penalties, and forfeitures, therein contained, shall extend, and be deemed and construed to extend, to any such port or ports respectively, as fully as if the same had been inserted and enumerated in the said table at the time of passing this act: Provided. also, that nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to prohibit the exportation of the produce of the Fisheries from any ports or places in any of the said possessions in British ships, nor to prohibit the importation or exportation of goods, into or from any ports or places in Newfoundland or Labrador in British ships. IV. And whereas, by the law of navigation, foreign granted to for- ships are permitted to import into any of the British possessions abroad. from the countries to which they belong, ited to the ships of those coungoods, the produce of those countries, and to export goods trieswhich hav- from such possessions, to be carried to any foreign couning colonial try whatever: And whereas, it is expedient that such pershall grant the mission should be subject to certain conditions; be it like privileges therefore enacted. That the privileges thereby granted to to British ships, foreign ships, shall be limited to the ships of those countries, which, having colonial possessions, shall grant the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British ships, or which, not having colonial possessions, shall place the commerce and navigation of this country, and &c. of its possessions abroad, upon the footing of the most favored nation, unless his Majesty, by his order in Council, shall, in any case, deem it expedient to grant the whole, or any, of such privileges, to the ships of any foreign country, although the conditions aforesaid shall not, in all respects, be fulfilled by such foreign country. affect 4 G. 4 c. V. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained This act not to in this act, or any other act passed in the present session 77. and 5 G. 4 of Parliament, shall extend to repeal, or in any way alter c. 50. or affect an act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his present majesty, entitled "An act to authorize his majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the duties and drawbacks on goods imported or exported in foreign vessels, and to exempt certain foreign vessels from pilotage; nor to repeal, or in any way alter or affect, an act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his present majesty, among other things, to amend the last mentioned act, and that all trade and intercourse between the British possessions and all foreign countries, shall be subject to the powers granted to his majesty by those acts. VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That, until the expiration of ten years, to be computed from the Foreign ships twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred tween British trading be and twenty-two, every foreign ship, which, previous to possessions and that day, had been engaged in trade between any of other places in America, to be the British possessions in America, and other places in deemed ships America, shall, for the purposes of this act. be deemed of the place to to be a ship of the country or place to which she had then which they bebelonged, if still belonging thereto; any thing in the law long, until 24th of navigation to the contrary notwithstanding. June, 1832. VII. And be it further enacted, That the several sorts Goods prohibof goods enumerated or described in the table following, ited or restrictdenominated A Table of Prohibitions and Restric-ed to be imported into cotions," are hereby prohibited to be imported or brought, fonies. either by sea, or by inland carriage, or navigation, into the British possessions in America, or into the island of Mauritius, or shall be so imported or brought only under the restrictions mentioned in such table, according as the several sorts of such goods are set forth therein; (that is to say :) A Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions. Gunpowder, Arms, Ammunitions, or utensils of war, Beef, fresh or salted, except into Newfoundland. Pork, |