The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1865]

aid of the Services for

1809, and fubfequent Years.

Limitation of
Actions,

Defendant may plead

General Iffue.

or War Duties," (the neceffary Charges of raifing and accounting for the fame excepted.) fhall from Time to Time be paid into the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer diftinctly and apart from all other Branches of the Publick Revenues, and that there fhall be provided and kept in the Office of the Auditor of the faid Receipt of the Exchequer, a Book or Books in which all the Monies arifing from the faid refpective Duties, and paid into the faid Receipt as aforefaid, shall be entered feparate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to His Majetty, His Heirs and Succeffors, upon any Account whatever, and the faid Monics fo paid into the faid Receipt (subject to the Appropriation directed by the faid laft recited Act of the Forty-feventh Year aforefaid, with respect to the Duties therein mentioned and hereby repealed, as is herein before mentioned) fhall, from Time to Time, as the fame fhall be paid into the faid Receipt, be iffued and applied to fuch Services as fhall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this prefent Seffion of Parliament, for the Service of the Year One thoufand eight hundred and nine, or fhall be voted for the Service of any fubfequent Year, and the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, are hereby authorized to iffie and apply the fame accordingly.

LIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Action or Suit fhall be brought or commenced against any Perfon or Perfons for any Three Months. Thing done in purfuance of this Act, fuch Action or Suit shall be commenced within Three Calendar Months next after the Fat com. mitted, and not afterwards, and fhall be laid in the County or Place where the Caufe of Complaint did arife, and not elsewhere; and the Defendant or Defendants in every fuch Action or Suit may plead the General Iffue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and if the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Deferdants in any fuch A&tion or Suit, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fhall be nonfuited, or difcontinue his, her, or their Action or Suit after the Defendant or Defendants fhall have appeared; or if upon Demurrer Judgment fhall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants fhall have Treble Cofts, and have the like Remedy for the fame as any Defendant had in other Cafes to recover Cofts by Law.

Treble Cofts.

"A may be altered or repealed this Seffion. § 54.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE and TABLES to which this A&t refers.

SCHEDULE (A.)

A SCHEDULE of the DUTIES of CUSTOMS payable on the IMPORTATION into Great Britain of certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandize therein enumerated or described, and of the Drawbacks to be allowed on the Exportation thereof from Great Britain;

ALSO,

Of the Duties of Cuftoms payable on the EXPORTATION of Goods, Wares, and Merchandize from Great Britain;

LIKEWISE,

Of the Duties of Customs payable on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize brought or carried COASTWISE or from one Port or Place to any other Port or Place within Great Britain, and of the Drawbacks to be allowed on the Exportation thereof from Great Britain;

AND ALSO,

Of the TONNAGE DUTIES of Customs payable on Ships or Veffels entering Inwards or Outwards in Great Britain, from or to Foreign Parts.