10 & 11 Vict. c. 14. incor

porated with
this Act.

Short Title of
Act.

Commissioners
of Greenwich
Hospital to be
Undertakers.
Limits of Act.

Tolls to be taken.

Tolls for weighing or measuring.

other Profits, Benefits, Advantages, and Appurtenances whatsoever to them belonging or appertaining, or that should come or accrue by the same, became vested in the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors, in trust for and as Part of the Estates and Property of the said Hospital: And 'whereas the said Commissioners have at considerable Expense ' erected on certain Ground, forming Part of the Estates and Property of the said Hospital, a commodious Market Place, with 'suitable Buildings, in which the said Markets are now carried on: And whereas the said Markets are of great Benefit and Advantage to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Greenwich, and it is expedient that the said Commissioners should be empowered to make proper Rules and Regulations for the better Manage'ment thereof:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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 "The Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847," shall be incorporated with and form Part of this Act, except so far as the same is inconsistent therewith or may be hereby varied or altered.

II. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament, and in Deeds, legal Instruments, and legal and other Proceedings, it shall be sufficient to use the Expression "The Greenwich Markets Act, 1849."

III. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital shall be the Undertakers for regulating and managing the Markets according to the Provisions of this Act and the Act incorporated herewith.

IV. And be it enacted, That the Limits within which this and the said incorporated Act shall be put in force shall be the said Parish of Greenwich.

V. And be it enacted, That immediately after the passing of this Act all Tolls, Pickage, Stallage, Rents, and Duties whatsoever which have been heretofore demanded by the said Commissioners under the Authority of the said recited Letters Patent, or by Custom or otherwise, and all Exemptions from the Payment of such Tolls, Pickage, Stallage, Rents, and Duties which have been heretofore claimed by any Person or Persons whomsoever, shall cease, and the same are hereby absolutely extinguished, and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners and their Successors from Time to Time to demand from any Person or Persons occupying or using any Stand, Stall, Shed, or Place in the Market Place or Buildings, or bringing into any such Market Place or Buildings any Poultry, or marketable Provisions, Goods, Wares, Merchandize, Articles, or Things specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed, such Stallage, Rents, and Tolls as the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time appoint, not exceeding the several Stallages, Rents, and Tolls specified in the said Schedule.

VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Person for the Time being appointed to attend the Weighing House or Place for weighing or measuring any Article sold in the Market Place and Buildings by Weight or Measure, or for weighing any Waggon or Cart, from Time to Time to demand such Tolls as the

said Commissioners or their Successors shall appoint, not exceeding in any Case the Amount specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed.

VII. And be it enacted, That with respect to any Bye Laws to Bye Laws to be made under the Authority of this Act and the Act incorporated be in Writing, herewith the same shall be reduced to Writing under the Hands and signed, &c. and Seals of the said Commissioners or their Successors, or any

Two or more of them.

VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Saving the Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prejudice Rights of the or derogate from the Estates, Rights, Interests, Privileges, Fran- City of London. chises, or Authorities of the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, or their Successors, or the Lord Mayor of the said City for the Time being, nor to prohibit, defeat, alter, or diminish any Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction which at the Time of passing this Act the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens, or the said Lord Mayor for the Time being, did or might lawfully claim, use, or exercise.

Churchwardens,

IX. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act Saving the contained shall be deemed, construed, or taken to alter, take away, Rights of the abridge, prejudice, or in any Manner interfere with the Rights, Overseers, &c. of Powers, Jurisdictions, and Authorities of the Churchwardens, the Parish of Overseers of the Poor, and Parishioners, or the Churchwardens, Greenwich. Overseers, and Governors and Directors of the Poor of the said Parish of Greenwich for the Time being acting under and by virtue of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His

late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for 9 G. 4. c. xliii. repealing an Act of the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Parish of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, and for repairing the Highways and cleansing the Streets thereof, and for making more effectual Provisions in lieu of the said Act, and also of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for lighting and watching the 4G. 4. c.lxx. Parish and Town of Greenwich in the County of Kent, and removing and preventing Nuisances therein.

X. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be a Public Act, and Public Act. judicially taken notice of as such.

SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.

TABLE OF TOLLS, RENTS, AND STALLAGES.

For every Stall, Bulk, Block, Tressel, or Station used by any
Person for exposing to Sale Meat, Fish, or any other live or dead
Victuals, Fruit, China, Glass, Earthenware, or other Goods, Articles,
Commodities, or Things, according to the Size or Dimensions of
the same; viz. for each Superficial Square Foot thereof:
If such Stall, Bulk, Block, Tressel, or Station be
within the covered Market Place :-
If taken by the Year, the Sum of

By the Half Year, the Sum of

By the Quarter, the Sum of

If otherwise taken, for each Market Day
or other Day, the Sum of

:

£ s. d.

040
0 2

0 1

0 0 1

For every Horse, Gelding, or Mare brought or £ s. d. offered for Sale, the Sum of

For every Colt, Filly, Mule, or Ass, the Sum of
For every Bull, Ox, Cow, Steer, or Heifer, the
Sum of

For every Calf, the Sum of

For every Score of Sheep or Lambs, and so in proportion for any less or greater Number, the Sum of

For every Head of Swine, the Sum of

For Poultry and Game, including Fowls, Chickens,
and Ducks, Wild Fowls, Pigeons, Rabbits,
Hares, Pheasants, Partridges, and other Game,
exposed for Sale, according to the Number
thereof; viz. :—

Not more than Half a Dozen, the Sum of
For each additional Half Dozen, the Sum

400

0

6 0 2

0 0 2
0 0 0/1/20

0 0 2

0 0 1

001

0 0 01

0 0

0 0

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The Stallage and the several Tolls and Rents before mentioned and specified to be payable and paid for in respect of the Occupation or Use of any Stall, Standing Place, Bench, Compartment, or Space of Ground, as well by the original Taker or Occupier thereof, for a Part or Portion of the Day, in case he shall not occupy the same the whole Day, as also by any subsequent Taker or Occupier of the same for the Residue of any Part or Portion of the same Day.

Certain Acts repealed from and after 1st January 1850.

8&9 Vict. c. 88.

CA P. XXIX.

An Act to amend the Laws in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation. [26th June 1849.]

W WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws now in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation: Be it enacted by the Queen'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 and after the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty the following Acts and Parts of Acts shall be repealed; (that is to say,) a certain Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation; and so much of a certain other Act passed in the said Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the registering of British Vessels, as limits the Privileges of Vessels registered at Malta, Gibraltar, and Heligoland; and so much thereof as provides that no Ship or Vessel shall be registered, except such as are wholly of the Build of some Part of the British Dominions ; and so much as relates to the Disqualification of Ships repaired in a Foreign Country; and so much as prevents British Ships which have been captured by or sold to Foreigners from becoming entitled to be again registered as British in case the same again become the Property of British Subjects; and so much of a certain other Act passed in the said Session of Parliament, intituled 8 & 9 Vict. c. 99. An Act to regulate the Trade of British Possessions abroad, as

8 & 9 Vict. c. 89.

Sec. 3.
Sec. 5.

Sec. 7.
Sec. 9.

Sec. 2.

Sec. 4.

Sec. 44.

provides that no Goods shall be imported into or exported from any of 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 denominated Free Ports; and so much thereof as provides for the Limitation of the Privileges allowed to Foreign Ships by the Law of Navigation in respect of Importations into the British Possessions in Asia, Africa, and America; and so much thereof as provides that no Vessel or Boat shall be admitted to be a British Vessel or Boat on any of the Inland Waters or Lakes of America, except such as shall have been built at some Place within the British Dominions, and shall not have been repaired at any Foreign Place to a greater Extent than in the said Act is mentioned; and so much of a certain other Act passed in the said Session of Parliament, intituled 8 & 9 Vict. c. 86. An Act for the general Regulation of the Customs, as prohibits the Importation of Train Oil, Blubber, Spermaceti Oil, Headmatter, Skins, Bones, and Fins, the Produce of Fish or Creatures living in the Sea, unless in Vessels which shall have been cleared out regularly with such Oil, Blubber, or other Produce on board from some Foreign Port; and so much thereof as prohibits the Importation of Tea, unless from the Cape of Good Hope, or from Places Eastward of the same to the Straits of Magellan; and so much of a certain Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her 7 & 8 Vict.c.112. present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the

s. 63.

s. 37.

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