When import land, or the Quebec, or tish coloni tions in No If under, per If at or above, But under, If at or above, When import other foreigt If under, per q If at or above, ! But under, F If at or above, į ...iffion: fuch thereof land, fhall be under the management of the commiffioners of the tively. cuftoms in Scotland for the time being. XIX. And, in order to promote and extend the commerce of the merchants of this kingdom in foreign corn, and to provide ftores, which may be always ready for the relief of his Majesty's fubjects in times of dearth, be it further enacted, That from and after the fifteenth From Nov. 15, day of November one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-one, in 1791, wheat, VOL. XXXVII. S &c. imported, cafe may be landed corn as the ficate from the XVII. And be it further enacted, That upon the importation On the iminto Great Britain of any corn, meal, or flour, as of the growth portation of or production of Ireland, or the province of Quebec, or the other growth of British colonies or plantations in North America, the mafter or Ireland, &c. other perfon having or taking the charge or command of the vef- the mafter to fel in or on board of which the fame fhall be imported or brought, bring a certi fhall bring with him a certificate or certificates from the chief officer of the officer or officers of the cuftoms in the port where fuch corn, port of shipmeal, or flour fhall be put on board, expreffing the quantity and ping, exprefffort of corn, meal, or flour put on board, and mentioned in the ing the quanbill or bills of lading, with the name or names, place or places of tity, &c. abode of the exporter or exporters, and the name or names, place or places of abode of fuch other perfon or perfons who shall have fworn that the corn, meal, or flour therein mentioned, is bona fide of the growth or production of Ireland, or the province of Quebec, or the other British colonies or plantations in North America respectively, and where and to whom configned; and the mafter or other perfon having or taking the charge or command of the vellel importing or bringing in the fame, fhall, on arrival in Great Britain, make oath before the collector or comptroller, or other chief officer of the customs at the port in Great Britain where fuch veffel fhall arrive, who are hereby authorised to adminifter the faid oath, that the corn, meal, or flour, imported or brought in fuch veffel, is the fame which is mentioned and contained in the faid certificate or certificates; on failure whereof, fuch corn, meal, or flour, fhall be deemed and taken not to be of the growth or production of Ireland, or the province of Quebec, or the other British colonies or plantations in North America, but fhall be confidered, to all intents and purposes, within the meaning of this act, as corn, meal, or flour, imported or brought into Great Britain from fome other foreign country. &c. and to be XVIII. And be it further enacted, That the feveral duties fo Duties in specified in the tables marked D and E, fhall (as the cafe may be) table D and be refpectively raised, levied, collected, anfwered, paid, recover-ed, &c. as the E, to be raifed, and that the fame fhall be applied, except as herein-after di- duties of cufrected, in fuch and the like manner, and by fuch and the like toms on imways, means, and methods, and to fuch and the like purposes, as any portation are of the duties of cuftoms upon goods, wares, or merchandise im- now raised, ported into Great Britain from foreign parts are now by law under the maraifed, levied, collected, anfwered, paid, recovered, and applied; nagement of and that fuch of the faid duties as fhall arife in that part of Great the commifBritain called England, fhall be under the management of the fioners of cuftoms in Engcommiffioners of the cuftoms in England for the time being, and land and Scotfuch thereof as fhall arife in that part of Great Britain called Scot- land refpec land, fhall be under the management of the commiffioners of the tively. cuftoms in Scotland for the time being. XIX. And, in order to promote and extend the commerce of the merchants of this kingdom in foreign corn, and to provide ftores, which may be always ready for the relief of his Majesty's fubjects in times of dearth, be it further enacted, That from and after the fifteenth From Nov. 15, day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, in 1791, wheat, VOL. XXXVII. S cafe &c. imported, may be landed and ware lations. without pay cafe any wheat, wheal-meal or flour, rye, peafe, beans, barley, ment of duty, beer or bigg, oats or oat-meal, Indian corn or maize, fhall be imhoufed under ported into any town or port having a collector and comptroller certain regu of the customs, or into any other port that shall be approved by his Majefty, with the advice of his privy council, the fame, upon due entry thereof, may be forthwith landed from on board the fhip or veffel in which the fame fhall be fo imported, in the prefence of the proper officer or officers of the customs, without payment of any duty whatever; provided that an exact account be taken of the quantity thereof, and entered in a book to be kept by the proper officer of the customs of the faid ports, and that the fame fhall, upon landing, be immediately lodged and fecured, under the joint locks of the King and the importer or proprietor thereof, in fuch warehouses as fhall be fit for that purpose, to be provided at the fole expence of the importer or proprietor thereof, with the approbation and under the care and inspection of the commiffioners of the customs in England and Scotland refpectively, or the collector and comptroller of the port, where fuch corn, meal, or flour, fhall be imported; and fuch corn, meal, or flour, refpectively, fhall be under the care of the faid commiffioners of the customs, or the collector and comptroller of the customs, for the port where the fame shall be so imported, with liberty for the proprietor or proprietors, or his or their fervants, to screen, turn, and take fuch other care of the fame as neceffity fhall require, in the prefence of fome officer or officers of the customs, to be appointed and paid for that purpose by fuch commiffioners of the cuftoms, or the collector and comptroller of the port; and fuch corn, meal, or flour refpectively fhall not be delivered or taken out of any fuch warehoufe but upon the following conditions; (that is to fay), If the fame, or any part thereof, fhall be delivered in order to be used or confumed in this kingdom, and not first to be carried coaftwife to fome other port of this kingdom, where foreign corn of the fame fort may be imported on the low duties, the perfon or perfons fo taking out the fame fhall first pay down, in ready money, fuch duties as fhall at the time of taking out the fame be due or payable for the like fort of corn, meal, or flour, imported into the fame port from any foreign country whatever; and alfo, in addition to fuch duties, the feveral and respective duties fpecified in table D, under the name of the first low duties; and fuch corn, meal, or flour, refpectively, fhall be measured out from the warehouses, and fhall in all other refpects be liable to the fame reftrictions and regulations as the fame respectively would have been liable to if the fame had not been warehoused in pursuance of this act; and if any of the faid corn, meal, or flour, fo warehoused as aforefaid, fhall be delivered or taken out for exportation to foreign parts, or to be carried coaftwife to any other ports of this kingdom where foreign corn of the fame fort may be imported on the low duties, the owner or exporter thereof, together with the mafter or perfon having the charge or command of the fhip or veffel in which fuch corn, meal, or flour, are intended to be exported, and alfo with one other fufficient furety, Conditions upon which fuch imported wheat, &c. may be taken out of warehouses. to to be approved of by the collector and comptroller of the customs at the port of exportation, fhall enter into bond to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, in treble the value thereof, with condition that no part of the fame fhall, if entered for exportation, be relanded in Great Britain, or, if entered to be carried coaftwife to any other port of this kingdom where foreign corn of the fame fort may be imported on the low duties, be landed at any other than fuch port, or at the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, or the islands of Faro or Ferro; which bond fhall be discharged by fuch certificate as is herein-before required with refpect to corn and other articles exported on bounty within the times there fpecified, as the cafe may happen to be; and fuch bonds may also be discharged, on proof made, to the fatisfaction of the commiffioners of the cuftoms in England and Scotland for the time being, refpectively, that fuch corn or other articles were taken by enemies, or perifhed in the fea. and not ware No corn, &c. XX. And be it further enacted, That foreign corn, meal, or Foreign corn flour of any fort, which fhall be imported, and which fhall not &c. imported have been warehoused, as aforefaid, or which fhall have been houfed, or warehoused, and afterwards delivered out to be used or confumed delivered from in this kingdom, or malt, meal, or flour made of fuch foreign warehouses corn, fhall not afterwards be exported from any port at fuch time for home confumption, not as British corn of the fame fort, or any of the articles aforefaid, to be exported are not allowed to be exported from the fame port. from any port when British corn is not permitted to be exported therefrom. XXI. And be it further enacted, That any fort of corn, meal, to be carried or flour, either foreign or British, or any malt made of fuch corn, coaftwife, fhall not be permitted to be carried coaftwife, or otherwife con- from any port veyed, from any port in Great Britain, where the exportation where the exthereof according to the regulations of this act, is not allowed at not allowed at portation is the time that the faid corn, malt, meal, or four, was actually the time of fhipped, and be landed or unfhipped at any other port of Great shipping, and Britain from whence the fame, according to the regulations of landed at any this act, may then be exported. port from whence the fame may be exported. XXII. And be it further enacted, That no debenture fhall be No debenture made out or granted for the allowance of any bounty on any to be made out out for bounty corn, malt, meal, flour, or biscuit, entered or fhipped for exportation from any port, during the time that foreign corn, meal, &c. fhipt on any corn, flour, or bifcuit, of the fame fort, fhall be allowed to be import- where it may ed into fuch port at the low duties. be imported at not ware XXIII. And be it further enacted, That if foreign corn of any the low duties. fort which fhall have been imported, and fhall not have been Foreign corn warehoused as aforefaid, or malt, bifcuit, meal, or flour made of houfed, or fuch foreign corn, fhall afterwards be exported to foreign parts, meal, &c. or loaded or laid on board any fhip, veffel, or boat in order to be made therefo exported contrary to the intentions of this act, the fame fhall from, if exbe forfeited, and alfo the fhip, veffel, or boat on board of which ported contrary to this the fame fhall be fo loaded or laid on board, together with her act, to be for guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, and apparel, and the fame feited with the fhall and may be feized by any officer or officers of the cuftoms: vefiel, &c, $ 2 and |