betwixt sun-rising and sun-setting, and from the last day of March until the first day of September, between the hours of 7 of the clock in the morning and 4 of the clock in the afternoon; nor shall any such goods be then put off or waterborne for exportation unless in the presence or with the authority of the proper officer of the customs, nor except from a legal quay appointed by his Majesty, or at some wharf, quay, or place appointed by the commissioners of his Majesty's customs for the shipping of such goods by sufferance.- 102. Penalty for exporting prohibited Goods.-If any goods liable to forfeiture for being shipped for exportation shall be shipped and exported without discovery by the officers of the customs, the person or persons who shall have caused such goods to be exported shall forfeit double the value of such goods. -103. PROHIBITIONS OUTWARDS. Prohibitions and Restrictions absolute or modified.-The several sorts of goods enumerated or described in the Table following (denominated "A Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Outwards") shall be either absolutely prohibited to be exported from the United Kingdom, or shall be exported only under the restrictions mentioned in such Table, according as the several sorts of such goods are respectively set forth therein; (that is to say,) A TABLE OF PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OUTWARDS. Clocks and watches; viz. any outward or inward box, case, or dial any metal inferior to silver, whether gilt, silvered, stained, or Tools and utensils; viz. any machine, engine, tool, press, paper, utensil, or instrument used in or proper for the preparing, working, pressing, or finishing of the woollen, cotton, linen, or silk manufactures of this kingdom, or any other goods wherein wool, cotton, linen, or silk is used, or any part of such machines, engines, tools, presses, paper, utensils, or instruments, or any model or plan thereof, or any part thereof; except wool cards or stock cards not worth above 4s. per pair, and spinners' cards not worth above 1s. 6d. per pair, used in the woollen manufactures. blocks, plates, engines, tools, or utensils commonly used in or A List of Goods which may be prohibited to be Military stores and naval stores, and any articles (except copper) proper for the preparing, working up, or finishing of the calico, cotton, muslin, or linen printing manufactures, or any part of such blocks, plates, engines, tools, or utensils. rollers, either plain, grooved, or of any other form or denomina. tion, of cast iron, wrought iron, or steel, for the rolling of iron or any sort of metals, and frames, beds, pillars, screws, pinions, and each and every implement, tool, or utensil thereunto beionging; rollers, slitters, frames, beds, pillars, and screws for slitting mills; presses of all sorts, in iron and steel, or other metals, which are used with a screw exceeding 11-2 inch in diameter, or any parts of these several articles, or any model of the before-nientioned utensils, or any part thereof; all sorts of utensils, engines, or machines used in the casting or boring of cannon or any sort of arullery, or any parts thereof, or any models of tools, utensils, engines, or machines used in such casting or boring, or any parts thereof; haud stamps, dog-head stamps, pulley stamps, hammers, and anvils for stamps; presses of all sorts called cutting-out presses, beds or punches to be used therewith, either in parts or pieces, or fitted together; scouring or shading engines; presses for horn buttons; dies for horn buttons; rolled metal, with silver thereon; parts of buttons not fitted up into buttons, or in an unfinished state; engines for chasing, stocks for casting buckles, buttons, and rings; die-sinking tools of all sorts; engines for making buttonshanks; laps of all sorts: tools for pinching of glass; engines for covering of whips; hars of metal covered with gold or silver, and burnishing stones, commonly called blood-stones, either in the rough state or finished for use; wire moulds for making paper; wheels of metal, stone, or wood, for cutting, roughing, smoothing, polishing, or engraving glass; purcellas, pincers, sheers, and pipes used in blowing glass; potters wheels and lathes, for plain, round, and engine turning; tools used by saddlers, harness-makers, and bridle-makers; viz. candle strainers, side strainers, point strainers, creasing irons, screw creasers, wheel irons, seat irons, pricking irons. bolster ing irons, clams, and head knives. frames for making wearing apparel. exported by Proclamation or Order in Council. or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores. Provisions, or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man. And if any goods shall be exported, or be waterborne to be exported, from the United Kingdom, contrary to any of the prohibitions or restrictions mentioned in such table in respect of such goods, the same shall be forfeited.-Q 104. The sections from 105. to 118., both inclusive, relate to the COASTING TRADE, and are given under that head. CONSTRUCTION IN GENERAL. Terms used in Acts.-Whenever the several terms or expressions following shall occur in this act, or in any other act relating to the customs, or to trade and navigation, the same shall be construed respectively in the manner herein-after directed; (that is to say,) the term "ship" shall be construed to mean ship or vessel generally, unless such term shall be used to distinguish a ship from sloops, brigantines, and other classes of vessels; and the term "master" of any ship shall be construed to mean the person having or taking the charge or command of such ship; the term "owners' and the term "owner" of any shall be construed alike to mean I owner, if there be only 1, and any or all the owners if there be more than 1; the term "mate" of any ship shall be construed to mean the person next in command of such ship to the master thereof; the term "seaman" shall be construed to mean alike seaman, mariner, sailor, or landsman, being one of the crew of any ship; the term "British possession" shall be construed to mean colony, plantation, island, territory, or settlement belonging to his Majesty; the term "his Majesty" shall be construed to mean his Majesty, his heirs, and successors; the term "East India Company" shall be construed to mean the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies; the term "limits of the East India Company's charter" shall be construed to mean all places and seas eastward of the Cape of Good Hope to the straits of Magellan; the term "collector and comptroller" shall be construed to mean the collector and comptroller of the customs of the port intended in the sentence; whenever mention is made of any public officer, the officer mentioned shall be deemed to be such officer for the time being; the term "warehouse" shall be construed to mean any place, whether house, shed, yard, timber pond, or other place in which goods entered to be warehoused upon importation may be lodged, kept, and secured without payment of duty, or although prohibited to be used in the United Kingdom; the term "king's warehouse" shall be construed to mean any place provided by the Crown for lodging goods therein for security of the customs.- 119. Malta in Europe.-The island of Malta and its dependencies shall be deemed to be in Europe. -120. GENERAL REGULATIONS. Weights, Measures Currency, and Management.-All duties, bounties, and drawbacks of customs shall be paid and received in every part of the United Kingdom and of the Isle of Man in British currency, and according to Imperial weights and measures; and in all cases where such duties, bounties, and drawbacks are imposed and allowed according to any specific quantity, or any specific value, the same shall be deemed to apply in the same proportion to any greater or less quantity or value; and all such duties, bounties, and drawbacks shall be under the management of the commissioners of the customs.◊ 121. Collector to take Bonds in respect of Goods relating to the Customs.-All bonds relating to the customs required to be given in respect of goods or ships shall be taken by the collector and comptroller for the use of his Majesty; and after the expiration of 3 years from the date thereof, or from the time, if any, limited therein for the performance of the condition thereof, every such bond upon which no prosecution or suit shall have been commenced shall be void, and may be cancelled and destroyed.— 122. Mode of ascertaining Strength of Foreign Spirits.-The mode of ascertaining the strengths and quantities of foreign spirits imported into the United Kingdom should at all times be exactly similar to the mode in practice for ascertaining the strengths and quantities of spirits made within the United Kingdom; be it therefore enacted, that the same instruments, and the same Tables and scales of graduation, and the same rules and methods, as the officers of the excise shall by any law in force for the time being be directed to use, adopt, and employ in trying and ascertaining the strengths and quantities of spirits made within the United Kingdom, for the purpose of computing and collecting the duties of excise payable thereon, shall be used, adopted, and employed by the officers of the customs in trying and ascertaining the strengths and quantities of spirits imported into the United Kingdom, for the purpose of computing and collecting the duties of customs payable thereon.- 123. Officers of Customs to take Sample of Goods.-It shall be lawful for the officers of the customs to take such samples of any goods as shall be necessary for ascertaining the amount of any duties payable on the same; and all such samples shall be disposed of and accounted for in such manner as the commissioners of his Majesty's customs shall direct. 124. Time of an Importation and of an Exportation defined.-If, upon the first levying or repealing of any duty, or upon the first granting or repealing of any drawback or bounty, or upon the first permitting or prohibiting of any importation or exportation, whether inwards, outwards, or coastwise, in the United Kingdom or in the Isle of Man, it shall become necessary to determine the precise time at which an importation or exportation of any goods made and completed shall be deemed to have had effect, such time, in respect of importation, shall be deemed to be the time at which the ship importing such goods had actually come within the limits of the port at which such ship shall in due course be reported, and such goods be discharged; and such time, in respect of exportation, shall be deemed to be the time at which the goods had been shipped on board the ship in which they had been exported; and if such question shall arise upon the arrival or departure of any ship, in respect of any charge or allowance upon such ship, exclusive of any cargo, the time of such arrival shall be deemed to be the time at which the report of such ship shall have been or ought to have been made; and the time of such departure shall be deemed to be the time of the last clearance of such ship with the collector and comptroller for the voyage upon which she had departed.-◊ 125. Return of Duties overpaid.-Although any duty of customs shall have been overpaid, or although, after any duty of customs shall have been charged and paid, it shall appear or be judicially established that the same had been charged under an erroneous construction of the law, it shall not be lawful to return any such overcharge after the expiration of 3 years from the date of such payment.- 126. Tonnage or Burden of Ships declared.-The tonnage or burden of every British ship within the meaning of this act shall be the tonnage set forth in the certificate of registry of such ship, and the tonnage or burden of every other ship shall, for the purposes of this act, be ascertained in the same manner as the tonnage of British ships is ascertained.- i27. Officers may refuse Master of British Ship, unless indorsed on Register.-It shall be lawful for the officers of customs at any port under British dominion where there shall be a collector and comptroller of the customs, to refuse to admit any person to do any act at such port as master of any British ship, unless his name shall be inserted in or have been indorsed upon the certificate of registry of such ship as being the master thereof, or until his name shall have been so indorsed by such collector and comptroller. 128. Falsifying Documents.-If any person shall counterfeit or falsify, or wilfully use when counterfeited or falsified, any entry, warrant, cocket, or transire, or other document for the unlading, lading, entering, reporting, or clearing of any ship or vessel, or for the landing or shipping of any goods, stores, baggage, or article whatever, or shall by any false statement procure any writing or document to be made for any of such purposes, every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of 2001. provided always, that this penalty shall not attach to any particular offence for which any other penalty shall be expressly imposed by any law in force for the time being.- 129. Authority of an Agent may be required. Whenever any person shall make any application to any officer of the customs to transact any business on behalf of any other person, it shall be lawful for such officer to require of the person so applying to produce a written authority from the person on whose behalf such application shall be made, and in default of the production of such authority, to refuse to transact such business.- 130. Persons falsifying Declaration liable to Penalty.-If any declaration required to be made by this act or by any other act relating to the customs (except declarations to the value of goods) be untrue in any particular, or if any person required by this act or by any other act relating to the customs to answer questions put to him by the officers of the customs, touching certain matters, shall not truly answer such questions, the person making such declaration or answering such questions shall, over and above any other penalty to which he may become subject, forfeit the sum of 100.- 131. Seizures. All goods, and all ships, vessels, and boats, which by this act or any act at any time in force relating to the customs shall be declared to be forfeited, shall and may be seized by any officer of the customs; and such forfeiture of any ship, vessel, or boat shall be deemed to include the guns, tackle, apparel, and furniture of the same; and such forfeiture of any goods shall be deemed to include the proper package in which the same are contained.- 132. Restoration of seized Goods, Ships, &c.-In case any goods, ships, vessels, or boats shall be seized as forfeited, or detained as under-valued, by virtue of any act of parliament relating to the customs, it shall be lawful for the commissioners of his Majesty's customs to order the same to be restored in such manner and on such terms and conditions as they shall think fit to direct; and if the proprietor of the same shall accept the terms and conditions prescribed by the said commissioners, he shall not have or maintain any action for recompence or damage on account of such seizure or detention; and the person making such seizure shall not proceed in any manner for condemnation.- 133. Remission of Forfeitures, &c.-If any ship shall have become liable to forfeiture on account of any goods laden therein, or unladen therefrom, or if the master of any ship shall have become liable to any penalty on account of any goods laden in such ship or unladen therefrom, and such goods shall be small in quantity or of trifling value, and it shall be made appear to the satisfaction of the commis sioners of his Majesty's customs that such goods had been laden or unladen contrary to the intention of the owners of such ship, or without the privity of the master thereof, as the case may be, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners to remit such forfeiture, and also to remit or mitigate such penalty as they shall see reason to acquit such master of all blame in respect of such offence, or more or less to attribute the commission of such offence to neglect of duty on his part as master of such ship; and every forfeiture and every penalty, or part thereof, so remitted, shall be null and void, and no suit or action shall be brought or maintained by any person whatever on account thereof.- 134. Ships not bringing to at Stations, Masters to forfeit.-If any ship coming up or departing out of any port in the United Kingdom or in the Isle of Man, shall not bring to at the proper stations in such port appointed by the commissioners of his Majesty's customs for the boarding or landing of officers of the customs, the master of such ship shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of 1004.- 135. Officers may be stationed in Ships in the Limits of any Port.--It shall be lawful for the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, and for the collector and comptroller of any port under their directions, to station officers on board any ship while within the limits of any port in the United Kingdom or in the Isle of Man; and the master of every ship on board of which any officer is so stationed shall provide every such officer sufficient room under the deck, in some part of the forecastle or steerage, for his bed or hammock, and in case of neglect or refusal so to do shall forfeit the sum of 1001.- 136. Power to charge Rent in King's Warehouse.-Whenever any goods shall be taken to and secured in any of the king's warehouses in the United Kingdom or in the Isle of Man, for security of the duties thereon, or to prevent the same from coming into home use, it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of his Majesty's customs to charge and demand and receive warehouse rent for such goods for all such time as the same shall remain in such warehouse, at the same rate as may be payable for the like goods when warehoused in any warehouse in which such goods may be warehoused without payment of duty: provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, or the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, by warrant or order under their hands respectively, from time to time to fix the amount of rent which shall be payable for any goods secured in any of the king's warehouses as aforesaid. 137. Power to sell Goods not cleared from King's Warehouse.-In case such goods shall not be duly cleared from the king's warehouse within 3 calendar months, (or sooner, if they be of a perishable nature,) it shall be lawful for the commissioners of his Majesty's customs to cause such goods to be publicly sold by auction, for home use or for exportation, as the case may be; and the produce of such sale shall be applied towards the payment of the duties, if sold for home use, and of the warehouse rent and all other charges; and the overplus (if any) shall be paid to the person authorised to receive the same: provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said commissioners to cause any of such goods to be destroyed as cannot be sold for a sum sufficient to pay such duties and charges, if sold for home use, or sufficient to pay such charges, if sold for exportation: provided also, that if such goods shall have been landed by the officers of the customs, and the freight of the same shall not have been paid, the produce of such sale shall be first applied to the payment of such freight.- 138. Power for his Majesty to appoint Ports and legal Quays.-It shall be lawful for his Majesty, by his commission out of the Court of Exchequer, from time to time to appoint any port, haven, or creek in the United Kingdom, or in the Isle of Man, and to set out the limits thereof, and to appoint the proper places within the same to be legal quays for the lading and unlading of goods, and to declare that any place which had been set out as a legal quay by such authority shall be no longer a legal quay, and to appoint any new place within any port to be a legal quay for the lading and unlading of goods: provided always, that all ports, havens, and creeks, and the respective limits thereof, and all legal quays, appointed and set out and existing as such at the commencement of this act under any law till then in force, shall continue to be such ports, havens, creeks, limits, and legal quays respectively as if the same had been appointed and set out under the authority of this act.- 139. Averment of Offence.-In any information or other proceeding for any offence against any act made or to be made relating to the customs, the averment that such offence was committed within the limits of any port shall be sufficient, without proof of such limits, unless the contrary be proved. - 140. Commissioners may appoint Sufferance Wharfs.-It shall be lawful for the commissioners of his Majesty's customs from time to time, by any order under their hands, to appoint places to be sufferance wharfs, for the lading and unlading of goods by sufferance, to be duly issued by them, or by the proper officers under their directions, in such manner and in such cases as they shall see fit. -141. No Ships engaged in the carriage of Letters to import or export Goods.-No ship or boat appointed and employed ordinarily for the carriage of letters shall import or export any goods without permission of the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, under the penalty of the forfeiture of 1007., to be paid by the master of such ship or boat.- 142. No Person deemed an Apprentice until Indenture enrolled with Collector.-No person shall be deemed to be an apprentice for the purposes of an act passed in the 4th year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled "An Act (4 Geo. 4. c. 25.) for regulating the Number of Apprentices to be taken on board British Merchant Vessels, and for preventing Desertion of Seamen," unless the indenture of such apprentice shall have been enrolled with the collector and comptroller of the port from which any such apprentice shall first go to sea after the date of such indenture, or in default of such enrolment, until the same shall have been enrolled at some port from which the ship in which such apprentice shall afterwards go to sea shall be cleared.- 143. Licensed Agents.—It shall not be lawful for any person to act as an agent for transacting any business at the Custom-house in the port of London which shall relate to the entry or clearance of any ship, or of any goods, or of any baggage, unless authorised so to do by licence of the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, who are hereby empowered to require bond to be given by every person to whom such licence shall be granted, with 1 sufficient surety, in the sum of 1,000, for the faithful and incorrupt conduct of such person and of his clerks acting for him: provided always, that such bond shall not be required of any person who shall be one of the sworn brokers of the city of London; and if any person shall act as such agent, not being so licensed, or if any person shall be in partnership in such agency with any person not so licensed, such person shall, in either case, for every such offence forfeit the sum of 1007.- 144. Treasury may revoke Licence.-It shall be lawful for the said commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, by any order under their hands, to revoke any such licence; and after a copy of such order shall have been delivered to such person or to his clerk, or left at his usual place of abode or business, such license shall be void.- 145. Not to extend to Clerks or Servants of Individuals, nor to Clerks in Long Room.-Nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent the clerk or servant of any person, or of any persons in co-partnership, from transacting any business at the Custom-house on account of such person or persons, without such licence; provided such clerk or servant shall not transact any such business as clerk, servant, or agent to any other person.- 146. Agent may appoint Clerks to act for him only.—It shall be lawful for any such agent or agents in co-partnership to appoint any person without licence to be his or their clerk in transacting such agency provided always, that no person shall be admitted to be such clerk to more than 1 agent or co-partnership of agents, nor until his name and residence, and the date of his appointment, shall have been indorsed on the licence of every such agent, and signed by him, and witnessed by the signature of the collector and comptroller of the customs, unless such person shall have been appointed with consent of the commissioners of his Majesty's customs before the commencement of this act.- 147. Treasury may extend Regulations to other Ports.-It shall be lawful for the said commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, by their warrant, to be published in the London or Dublin Gazette, to extend the regulations herein-before made relating to agents in the port of London to agents at any other port in Great Britain, or at any port in Ireland.- 148. (The commissioners of customs, agreeably to the powers given them to that effect by the 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 52. § 135. (see vol. ii. p. 17.), have appointed the undermentioned places, within the several ports of the United Kingdom, at which vessels coming into or departing out of such ports shall bring to, for the boarding or landing of customs officers. Every master of a vessel failing to comply with the provisions of said act in this respect forfeits 100%. Ports. London Aberdovey A little to the westward of the town, in the Orford haven, the entrance of the rivers Ore The piles on the eastern side of the river, Skern and watch-house, Appledore. In the roadstead opposite the town. In the bay off the tow, opposite the Bell At the entrance of the harbour, by the In the harbour. In the harbour. Milford Shields Newport (Wales) Padstow St. Michael's At the entrance of the harbour, near the pier Portsmouth head. Skern and watch house, Appledore. Hob Hole. Between Botestall Point, on the coast of the Stations for bringing-to. below the town, or as near as circumstances Barrow Hills, opposite Blackwater River, In the haven, opposite the town of Milford. Opposite the watch-house, at the entrance of Low Lights, North Shields. At the entrance of the harbour. In the stream, between the piers and the tide surveyor's watch-house." At the watch-house, 1 mile from the Cus tom heese. Hawker's Cove, within the harbour. Gwavas Lake. • St. Michael's Mount Roads. Within the line of the breakwater, viz. the At the entrance of the harbour, between Between Blockhouse Point and the north end of her Majesty's dork-yard. In the roadstead, within 1 mile of the Spil Bideford Langstone Boston Bridgewater Rochester Bridport Bristol Cardiff Colchester Corces (East) • Penrith Roads, a little to the eastward of the mouth of the river Taff. At Pwllcam, a little inside the bar or har. bour's mouth. Fisher's Cross. At the entrance of the river Wye. Dowpool, 6 miles from Hoylake. Cockbush Harbour. Blackney and Clay Harbour. Coln River, off Mersea Stone, Mersea Island. west about 2 1-2 miles. Between the mouth of the harbour and Sand- At the mouth of the harbour and Snaps Point. In the Downs, in open roadstead. Salcombe Deal. Dover. Folkstone Exeter Teignmouth • The outer harbour. In the harbour. At the Passage Way, Exmouth. In the harbour, off Kiln Quay and watch- Between the mouth of Faversham Creek and the Horse Sand in the East Swale. At the mouth of Milton Creek in the Swale. At the outfall, near the entrance of the harbour. Hull Roads. • Durgan Roads, just at the entrance of the Garden Greek Harwich Hull Ilfracombe Lole of Man Darby Haven Rainsey Lancaster Poulton Ulverston Leigh Liverpool Lyme Lynn In the harbour, between the Guard and Wal- Hull Roads, between the east end of the cita- In the harbour, between the Guard and Aberdeen In their respective bays. Glasson Dock, on the river Lune. At the entrance of the respective docks. . The basin within the pier or cobb of Lyme At the entrance of the ha bour. Sheerness. The outer channel, and in Stag's Hole, in the inner channel. In the open roadstead. In the open roadstead. Entrance of the harbour, opposite the light house, at the end of Vincent's Pier. Near the entrance of the harbour, in the western branch, opposite the customs watch-house and Kingston Wharf. Itchen buoy, or Bursledon buoy. Opposite the jetty, near the entrance of the harbour. Ninth buoy, or opposite Cleveland Port. In the bay, within 1-2 a mile of St. Ives pier. The same. At the entrance of the harbour, near the watch house on the South pier. In the harbour. Briton Ferry, near the entrance of Neath River, Falmouth harbour. Between the entrance of the harbour and Wells Quay. Weymouth Roads. The harbour. In the harbour, between the tongue and bulwark. In their respective harbours, At the light-houses about 3 miles below the Bawdsey Ferry, the entrance of the river Yarmouth Roads, between Nelson's monu- SCOTLAND. That part of Aberdeen Bay which falls within a line beginning at the easternmost point of the Girdle Ness, and running north 1 1.2 mile, to a point due east of the centre of the Broad Hill. The bay. Within the river Ythan, opposite to the vil lage Newburgh. Stonehaven Bay, within 800 yards of the entrance of the harbour. South Quay at Ayr. The Legal Quays. The harbour. The harbour. The harbour. The harbour. The harbour. Caroline Roads, 1 1-2 mile to the eastward of the harbour of Dundee, Entrance of the harbour. Entrance of the harbour. Alloa roadstead. Kincardine roadstead. From Gravel Point, to the eastward of the town of Greenock, in the county of Stations for bringing-to. Rothsay Bay, Iving and being within Boyany Oban Bay, in the county of Argyle, as lies Anstruther St. Andrew's Kirkwall Largo Bay. Entrance to their respective harbours. The Bay, or Kirkwall Roads, extending Between the Martello tower and chain pier In the harbour. In the harbour. Londonderry. Newry Sligo Killibegs New Ross. Stations for bringing to. The harbour of Stranraer, Thurso Bay, within Holburn Head to the IRELAND. At the entrance of the harbours of Castle Garmoyle Roads, in Belfast Lough. Port Rush Bay, outside the harbour. Between the Spit buoy and the town of Cove. Upper Cove, on the eastern side of the Within the entrance of the harbour, between North Crook, at the entrance of the Boyne. To the eastward, or under the shelter of, Tarbert's Roads, to the southward of Tarbert Island, in the county of Kerry. Greencastle, situate on the north side of Lough Foyle. Warren Point Roads. Rallyheury Bay or Audley's Town Bay. Oyster Island. Anchorage of Killibegs In the river, abreast of Ward Town-house. Moyne Pool. Killala Pool. Passage. The harbour. In the bay, opposite the Custom-house. Dungarvan. Westport Wexford [It was at first intended by the American editor to annex to the present article such information concerning the topics treated in it, and having relation to the United States, as might be desirable for those occasionally to refer to who consult a commercial dictionary. On proceeding to this task, however, it became manifest to him that the execution of his design was quite impracticable in any thing like reasonable bounds. Not to speak of copying the very words of the acts of Congress, or of the sections of acts of Congress, which prescribe the course in every case to be pursued by the importer or exporter of merchandise, a digest only of these enactments, after the manner of Gordon, would occupy altogether a disproportionate space in the present work. Indeed, the space occupied by the 9th book of this author, much of which contains matter that would have a claim for insertion here, amounts to no less than 200 closely printed octavo pages. For the reason which has been stated, the reader is referred for the information in question to Story's Laws of the United States, or to Gordon's Digest of those laws.-Am. Ed.] IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, the articles imported into and exported from a country. We have explained in another article (BALANCE OF TRADE), the mode in which the value of the imports and exports is officially determined by the Custom-house, and have shown the fallacy of the common notions as to the advantage of the exports exceeding the imports. The scale of prices according to which the official value of the imports and exports is determined having been fixed so far back as 1698, the account is of no use as showing their true value; but it is of material importance as showing the fluctuations in their quantity. We were anxious, had the means existed, to have given accounts of the various articles imported and exported at different periods during the last century, that the comparative increase or diminution of the trade in each might have been exhibited in one general view. Unluckily, however, no means exist for completing such an account. The Tables published by Sir Charles Whitworth, Mr. Macpherson, and others, specify only the aggregate value of the imports from and exports to particular countries, without specifying the articles or their value of which such imports and exports consisted. And on applying at the Custom-house, we found that the fire in 1814 had destroyed the records; so that there were no means of compiling any complete account of the value of the articles imported or exported previously to that period. We therefore have been obliged to confine ourselves, except as respects the period since 1815, to an attempt to exhibit the amount of the trade with each country for such periods as seemed best calculated to show its real progress. Those selected for this purpose, in the first of the following Tables, are periods of peace; for, during war, the com |