28 Geo. 3. c. 6.

not to be im

of any sort; bread, biscuit, flour, peas, beans, potatoes, wheat, rice, oats, barley, or grain of any sort, shall be imported into any island, Certain goods under the dominion of His Majesty, in the West Indies (in which ported from description the Bahama Islands and the Bermuda or Somers Islands Foreign West are included), from any island in the West Indies (a) under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, under the penalty of the forfeiture thereof, and of the vessel in which the same shall be imported, with her tackle, &c.

Indies.

Rule 2. Provided, that it shall be lawful, in case of public emergency or distress, for any of the governors, lieutenant governors, or commanders in chief for the time being, of any of the said islands in the West Indies, under the dominion of His Majesty, with the advice and consent of their respective councils, to authorize the importation of any of the said goods, for a limited time, from any island in the West Indies, under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, for the supply of the inhabitants of the said islands: and provided, that such goods so authorized to be imported, shall not be imported, except by British subjects, and in British-built ships, owned by His Majesty's subjects, and navigated according to law, under the penalty of the forfeiture above-mentioned.

Rule 3. In case any of the articles mentioned in the preceding act of 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. which shall have been imported from any island in the West Indies, under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, into any of the said islands in the West Indies under the dominion of His Majesty, shall after such importation be exported, or shall be shipped or laden on board any vessel, or shall be put on board any boat or other vessel, or shall be brought to any quay, wharf, or other place whatever, with intention to be shipped on board any vessel for exportation, then, not only the said articles, but also the said vessel or boat on board of which the same shall be shipped or laden, or intended to be shipped or laden, shall be forfeited, with her tackle, &c.

Rule 4. Before any articles which may be legally exported from the said islands in the West Indies under the dominion of His Majesty, and which are of the description of any of the articles hereinbefore described, whether in their unmanufactured or manufactured state, shall be shipped for exportation from any of the said islands, the exporter thereof shall make oath, before the collector of customs for the island from which such articles are to be so exported (who is hereby authorized to administer the same), that such articles, or any part of them, have not been so imported into the said island, under such authority as aforesaid, from any island in the West Indies under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state.

Rule 5. If any person whatever shall be convicted of taking a false oath, (b) touching any of the facts directed or required by this act to

ravens, clap-holt, ebony-wood, headings for pipes and for hogsheads and barrels, hoops for coopers, oars, pipe and hogshead-staves, barrel-staves, firkin-staves, trunnels, speckled-wood, sweet-wood, small spars, oak, plank, and wainscot.

(a) By 56 Geo. 3. c. 91. § 1. all the benefits, regulations, penalties, and forfeitures, in the above act, with respect to His Britannic Majesty's plantations in North America, and in the West India islands, and the countries belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's said subjects and the foreign islands in the West Indies, shall extend to the colonies of Demerara and Essequibo. [See Rule 7 of this title. See also TITLE 137.]

(b) See TITLE 24.

be testified on oath, such person so convicted shall be deemed guilty 29 Geo. 3. of perjury, and shall be liable to the pains and penalties to which . 56. persons are liable for wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall and may be prosecuted in any court of record in Great Britain, or in any of His Majesty's courts of judicature in the West Indies.

Rule 6. All the goods, and all vessels forfeited by this act, shall who may and may be seized by the commander of any of His Majesty's vessels seize, § 4. of war, or any commissioned warrant or petty officer specially authorized by him, or by any officer of customs; (a) and every forfeiture Recovery of and penalty incurred by this act shall and may respectively be sued for penalties. and recovered in such courts, and by such ways, and the produce thereof respectively disposed of and applied in such manner, and to such uses, as any forfeiture incurred by any law respecting the revenue of customs may now be sued for, or recovered, disposed of, and applied, either in this kingdom, or in any of His Majesty's islands in the West Indies respectively, as the case may happen to be.

Rule 7. It shall be lawful to import tobacco, rice, grain, peas, 58 Geo. 3. beans, and flour into any of His Majesty's plantations in the West c. 27. § 1. Indies, or on the continent of South America, for the supply of the inhabitants thereof, in British-built ships, owned, registered, and navigated according to law, from any colony or possession in the West Indies, or on the continent of America under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state.

Rule 8. It shall be lawful to import peas and beans, being the growth Peas and or production of any of the colonies or possessions in the West Indies, beans, § 2. or on the continent of America, belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, into any of the ports in His Majesty's plantations in the West Indies enumerated in 45 Geo. 3. c. 57-46 Geo. 3. c. 72—49 Geo. 3. c. 22.—52 Geo. 3. c. 99. and 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. [TITLE 134.] in vessels of the like description, and subject to the like regulations as are required by the aforesaid acts permitting certain articles to be imported into the ports enumerated therein, and in vessels of the like description, and subject to the like regulations, as are required in 50 Geo. 3. c. 21. [TITLE 134, Rule 1, in note.]

Intercourse

Rule 9. No British vessel shall, for any purpose or under any pre- 52 Geo. 3. tence whatever, sail from any place in the island of Jamaica to any c.35. § 1. place in the island of St. Domingo, nor from any place in the island with St. Doof St. Domingo to any place in the island of Jamaica, except as is mingo. hereinafter provided, under the penalty of the forfeiture of any such vessel, with her tackle, &c.

sels having touched at

Rule 10. No foreign vessel, whether laden or in ballast, shall come Foreign vesinto any port in the island of Jamaica, if such vessel shall have come from, or shall in the course of her voyage have touched at, any place st. Domingo, in the island of St. Domingo; and if any such foreign vessel shall § 2. land any person from on board the same, or shall continue in any port or harbour of the said island of Jamaica, for 48 hours after notice shall be given by the principal officer of customs resident at the port to depart therefrom, such foreign vessel shall be forfeited, together with her tackle, &c.

Rule 11. Nothing in this act contained shall extend to the prohibiting Part under of any intercourse which may be carried on by any law now in force be the Spanish tween the said island of Jamaica and any place in the said island of St. government,

(a) As to officers of army, navy, excise, &c. see TITLE 5, Rules 76, 83, 99, and 100.

52 Geo. 3. c. 35.

Ships of war,

$ 4.

Who may seize, 5.

Suits, &c.

How for

Domingo, which now is or shall be in the possession of, and under the dominion of, the Spanish government, while the same shall continue in and under such possession and dominion.

Rule 12. Nothing in this act contained shall extend to prevent any of His Majesty's vessels of war from sailing from any place in the said island of Jamaica to any place in the said island of St. Domingo, nor from any place in the said island of St. Domingo to any place in the said island of Jamaica.

Rule 13. All vessels and goods liable to forfeiture under the provisions of this act, shall and may be seized by the commander of any of His Majesty's ships or vessels of war, or any commissioned, warrant, or petty officer by him specially authorized, or by any officer of customs, and shall and may be sued for and prosecuted, in such manner, and by the same ways, means, and subject to the like rules, as any forfeitures incurred in the British plantations in America, by force of any act of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said plantations, may now be sued for in pursuance of 49 Geo. 3. c. 107. [TITLE 123.] and such vessels and goods shall be lodged in the custody of the officers mentioned in the said act, and shall be subject to the other provisions thereof, in like manner as if the same were herein repeated; and the commanders or officers of any vessels of war, and the officers of customs, in making and prosecuting any such seizures, shall have the benefit of all the provisions made by any act of parliament for the protection of officers seizing and prosecuting any vessels or goods for any offence against any act of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the British plantations in America.

Rule 14. The forfeitures incurred by this act shall go to such feitures dis persons, and in such proportions, as any forfeitures incurred in the posed of, 6. British plantations in America now go, and may now be distributed, under 4 Geo. 3. [TITLE 1.]

Restoration

Rule 15. [Commissioners of customs may restore seizures. The of seizures, powers given in this section are similar to those of 51 Geo. 3. c. 96. TITLE 6.]

45 Geo. 3..

c. 57. § 1. Certain articles may be imported.

TITLE CXXXIV.-Free Ports.

Rule 1. Wool, cotton wool, indigo, cochineal, drugs of all sorts, cocoa, logwood, fustick, and all sorts of wood for dyers' use, hides, skins, and tallow, beaver and all sorts of furs, tortoise shell, hard wood, or mill timber, mahogany, and all other woods for cabinet ware, horses, asses, mules, and cattle, being the growth or production of any of the plantations in America, or of any country on the continent of America, belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, and all coin and bullion, diamonds and precious stones, may be imported from any of the said countries into the several ports of Kingston, Savannah La Mar, Montego Bay, Santa Lucea, Antonio, and Saint Ann in Jamaica, Saint George in Grenada, Rosseau in Dominica, Saint John's in Antigua, San Josef in Trinidad, Scarborough in Tobago, Road Harbour in Tortola, Nassau in New Providence one of the Bahama islands, Pitt's Town in Portland Harbour in Crooked Island another of the Bahama islands, Kingston in Saint Vincent, and the principal port in the island of

Bermuda, in any vessel whatever, not having more than one (a) deck, 45 Geo. 3. and being owned and navigated by persons inhabiting any of the said c. 57. plantations in America, or countries on the continent of America, belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign

or state.

ported and

Rule 2. Tobacco, being the growth or production of any island How tobacco in the West Indies, or of any country on the continent of America, may be imbelonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign exported, § 2. or state, may be imported from any of the said islands or countries into any of the said ports hereinbefore enumerated, in the like foreign vessels, and be again exported from thence to any part of the United Kingdom, under the same regulations, and subject to the like penalties and forfeitures, as are in this act mentioned with regard to the goods hereinbefore enumerated.

Rule 3. Such tobacco shall, when imported into any part of the Duties on toUnited Kingdom from any of the said ports, pay the same duties of bacco, § 3. customs and excise, and none other, as tobacco, the growth or production of any of His Majesty's plantations in the West Indies, or of the territories of the United States of America, and be subject to the Regulations,

(a) By 50 Geo. 3. c. 21. it shall be lawful to import and export the articles in the above act mentioned, at the ports therein mentioned, under the regulations of the said act, in any foreign sloop, schooner, or other vessel, as therein described, although such sloop, schooner, or vessel shall have more than one deck.

By 47 Geo. 3. sess. 2. c. 34. such goods as by the above act of 45 Geo. 3. may be imported into, and exported from the port of San Josef in the island of Trinidad, may be imported into and exported from the port of Amsterdam in the island of Curaçoa in the West Indies, in the like vessels, under such regulations, and subject to such penalties and forfeitures for breach thereof, as are contained in the said act.

By 48 Geo. 3. c. 125. § 2. in addition to the articles enumerated in the above act of 45 Geo. 3. it shall be lawful to import, under the like authority, regulations, penalties, and forfeitures provided in the said act, the articles of rice, grain of all sorts, and flour, from any plantations in America, belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, into any of the free ports in plantations belonging to His Majesty in the West Indies, which are particularly named in the said act, or in the foregoing act of 47 Geo, 3. respecting the port of Amsterdam in the island of Curaçoa, in any foreign ship, schooner, or other foreign vessel whatever, not having more than one deck, and being manned and navigated by persons inhabiting any of the said plantations belonging to any foreign sovereign

or state.

By 49 Geo, 3. c. 22. § 1. all such goods as are by the above act of 45 Geo. 3. permitted to be imported into and exported from the ports in the island of Jamaica, mentioned in the said act, may be imported into and exported from the port of Falmouth in the said island, in the same sort of vessels, under the same regulations, and subjert to the like pena'ties and forfeitures for the breach thereof, as are provided in the said act, respecting the importation and exportation of goods into and from the ports mentioned in the said act.

By 57 Geo. 3. c. 74. such goods as by the above act of 45 Geo. 3. may be imported into and exported from the ports therein mentioned, and also rice, grain of all sorts, and flour, may be Iso imported into and exported from the port Maria on the north side of the island of Jamaica, and into and from the port of Bridgetown in the island of Barbadoes, in the West Indies, from and to any plantations in America, belonging to and under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, in the like vessels, under such regulations, and subject to such penalties and forfeitures for breach thereof, as are contained in the above acts of 45, 48, and 50 Geo. 3.

[As to European goods, see 52 Geo. 3. c. 100. under this title.]

* Originally a temporary act, but made perpetual by 54 Geo. 3. c. 48.

45 Geo. 3. c. 57.

How sugar and coffee may be imported, 54.

Sugar and coffee dutyfree, 5.

Sugar and

same regulations, and be liable to the same forfeitures and penalties for the breach thereof.

Rule 4. It shall be lawful to import into the said port of Nassau (a) in New Providence, and into Pitt's Town in Portland Harbour in Crooked Island, and into such other ports in the said Bahama islands, and into the principal port in the island of Bermuda, and into such port or ports in the islands called Caicos as shall be approved by His Majesty in council, sugar and coffee, the produce of any foreign plantation, in such foreign vessels, and subject to such regulations, as are prescribed in this act with respect to the goods hereinbefore enumerated.

Rule 5. Sugar and coffee which shall be imported into the port of Nassau in New Providence, or Pitt's Town in Crooked Island, or into such ports in the said Bahama islands, or into the principal port in the island of Bermuda, or into any such ports in the said islands called Caicos, as have been or may hereafter be approved by His Majesty in council, may be imported into and again exported from any of the said ports, without payment of any duties of customs whatsoever. Rule 6. On the importation of any sugar or coffee into any part of coffee not of the United Kingdom from the said port of Nassau, or Pitt's Town, or British plan- such other ports in the Bahama islands, or the island of Bermuda, or any such ports in the said islands called Caicos, such sugar or coffee shall respectively be deemed to be not of the British plantations, and shall pay duty of customs and excise as such, and may be warehoused in like manner, and shall be subject to the regulations of any act of parliament in force at the time of importation of such sugar or coffee, so far as they relate to sugar or coffee not of the British plantations.

tations, 6.

Foreign vessels, 7.

Rum, S.

Rule 7. No goods, except such as are hereinbefore enumerated, shall be imported in any foreign sloop, schooner, or vessel whatever, from any of the plantations in America, or any countries on the continent of America belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, into any of the before-mentioned ports, upon any pretence whatever, upon pain of forfeiting the same, together with the sloop, schooner, or vessel in which the same shall be imported, and the tackle, &c.; and in every such case the same shall and may be seized by any officer of customs or navy, who are or shall be authorized to make seizures in cases of forfeiture, (b) and shall and may be prosecuted in such manner as hereinafter directed.

Rule 8. It shall be lawful to export from any of the said ports to any of the plantations in America, or any countries on the continent of America, belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, in any sloop, schooner, or other vessel whatever, not having more than one deck, and being owned and navigated by persons inhabiting any such plantation, or country, rum of the produce of any British island, and also negroes (c) which shall have been brought into the said islands respectively in British-built ships, Other goods. Owned, navigated, and registered according to law; and all manner of

Negroes.

(a) As to Tortola, see 46 Geo. 3. c. 72. under this title.

(b) As to officers of army, excise, &c. see TITLE 5, Rules 76, 83, 99, and 100. (c) Slave trade abolished by 47 Geo. 3. sess. 1. c. 36.