Act may be amended, &c. forty-five, and it is expedient to renew and continue the Powers of the Commissioners to enter into new Contracts for such Compositions for the Term limited by this Act;' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for special Purposes, in the said Act mentioned, to contract and agree for a Composition for the said last-mentioned Duties, with any Person who may be desirous of compounding for the same, for the Period of Three Years, to commence from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, under and subject to the Conditions, Rules, and Regulations specified in the said Act with reference to the Compositions thereby authorized to be made for the same Duties for the Term of Three Years in the said Act mentioned. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. Duties imposed by 7&8 Vict. Duties im posed in lieu thereof. CAP. V. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Most Gracious Sovereign, Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's public Expences, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Duties herein-after mentioned; and therefore do most humbly beseech 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 from and after the Fourteenth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-five the Duties imposed on Sugar and Molasses by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, shall cease and be no longer payable; and that from and after the said Fourteenth Day of March until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in lieu thereof, there shall be charged the Duties of Customs following; (that is to say,) On Sugar and Molasses the Growth and Produce of any British Possession in America, or of any White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by Brown Sugar, being Muscovado or Clayed, White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by Brown Sugar, being Muscovado or Clayed, On Sugar the Growth and Produce of China, any Process equal in Quality to White Brown Sugar, being Muscovado or Clayed, Molasses, for every Hundred Weight Power to Her Order in Coun cil, to declare the Sugars of other Countries as not being the to be admissible Produce of Certificates and Declarations required. Certificate required in from China, &c. On all other Sugars and Molasses, not otherwise Refined Sugar, for every Hundred Weight being refined, for every Hundred Weight And so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity than at II. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, and She is hereby empowered, from Time to Time, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare, with respect to any Foreign Country or Countries, that it having appeared to Her Majesty, upon sufficient Evidence, that the Sugars of such Country or Countries are not the Produce of Slave Labour, such Sugars shall (from and after a Day to be named in such Order) be deemed and taken not to be the Produce of Slave Labour; and from and after the Day so to be named in such Order the Brown, Muscovado, or Clayed Sugar (not being refined) of the Country or Countries mentioned in such Order shall be admissible to Entry for Home Consumption at the said respective Duties of One Pound Eight Shillings or of One Pound Three Shillings and Fourpence per Hundred Weight respectively, in like Manner as Sugars the Growth and Produce of China, Java, or Manilla. III. And be it enacted, That no Sugar shall be admissible to Entry for Home Consumption at the said Duties of One Pound Eight Shillings or One Pound Three Shillings and Four-pence per Hundred Weight respectively unless the Master of the Ship importing the same shall have delivered to the Collector or Comptroller at the Port of Importation such Certificate or Certificates as herein-after are mentioned, nor unless such Master shall also make and subscribe a Declaration before such Collector or Comptroller that such Certificate or Certificates was or were received by him at the Place where such Sugar was taken on board, and that the Sugar so imported is the same as is mentioned therein. IV. And be it enacted, That in case such Sugar shall be imported from China, Java, or Manilla, or from any other of respect of Sugar the Countries named in such Order in Council as herein-before is mentioned, the Certificate so to be given to the Collector or Comptroller at the Port of Importation shall be under the Hand and Seal of the British Consul, Vice Consul, Consular Agent, or other Officer appointed in that Behalf by Her Majesty, at the Place where such Sugar was taken on board, and shall certify that a Declaration in Writing had been made and signed before such Consul, Vice Consul, Consular Agent, or other Officer, by the Shipper of such Sugar, that the same was really and bona fide the Growth of the Country in which the same was so taken on board, and shall also certify that such Consul, Vice Consul, Consular Agent, or other Officer had examined the Contents of such Declaration, and believed the same to be true. respect of such Sugar if im ported from sessions abroad. V. And be it enacted, That in case such Sugar shall be Certificate reimported from any British Possession abroad the Master of the quired in Vessel importing the same shall deliver to the Collector or Comptroller at the Port of Importation, firstly, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the principal Officer of Customs at the Place where the same was taken on board, certifying that a Declaration in Writing had been made and signed before such principal Officer by the Shipper of such Sugar, that the same was really and bona fide the Growth of China, Java, or Manilla, or of some other of the Countries named in such Order in Council as herein-before is mentioned, and had been imported thence into such British Possession abroad as aforesaid, and also certifying that such principal Officer of Customs had examined the Contents of such Declaration, and believed the same to be true; secondly, a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the British Consul, Vice Consul, Consular Agent, or other Officer appointed in that Behalf by Her Majesty, (if any such there be,) at the Place whence such Sugar shall have been imported into such British Possession abroad, certifying that a Declaration in Writing had been made and signed before such Consul, Vice Consul, Consular Agent, or other Officer, by the Shipper of such Sugar from such Place, that the same was really and bona fide the Produce of the Country from whence the same same shall have been so imported into such British Possession abroad, and also certifying that such Consul, Vice Consul, Consular Agent, or other Officer had examined the Contents of such Declaration, and believed the same to be true: Provided always, that in case such Sugar shall be imported into the United Kingdom from any British Possession abroad, being Part of the Territories of the East India Company, the Certificate and Declaration hereby required to be given and received by the principal Officer of Customs may be respectively given and received by any Officer appointed for that Purpose by the respective Governments of such Territories. which Her VI. And be it enacted, That with regard to Sugar the Her Majesty, Growth of any Foreign Country between which Country and by Order in Council, may Her Majesty there is now subsisting any Treaty or Convention declare the binding Her Majesty to grant to such Country, either condi- Sugars of tionally or unconditionally, the Privileges of the most favoured Countries with Nation, or to permit, either conditionally or unconditionally, Majesty has the Produce of such Country to be imported into the United Treaties of Re· Kingdom at the same Duties as are imposed upon the like Pro- ciprocity as to duce of any other Country, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, admissible at and She is hereby empowered, from Time to Time, by any 28s. and 23s.4d. Order or Orders in Council, to declare that from and after a per Cwt. Day to be named in such Order, Brown, Muscovado, or Clayed Sugars (not being refined) the Growth of such Country, in case such Treaty shall continue to subsist, shall, if imported from such Duties to be respectively. If such Treaty be conditional, 8 VICT. such Country, or from any British Possession abroad, having been imported into such British Possession from such Country, be admitted to Entry for Consumption in the United Kingdom at the aforesaid respective Rates of Duty of One Pound Eight Shillings and One Pound Three Shillings and Four-pence per Hundred Weight respectively, in like Manner as Sugars the Growth and Produce of China, Java, or Manilla; and from after the Day so to be named in such Order the Sugars therein mentioned shall, if so imported as aforesaid, be so admitted accordingly, subject, nevertheless, to the Production of the like Certificates and the making of the like Declaration as are herein-before required with respect to Sugars the Growth of China, Java, or Manilla. VII. And be it enacted, That in case the Privileges granted Order in Coun. by any Treaty to any Foreign Country, in respect of which any Order in Council shall be issued under the Enactment lastly herein-before contained, shall have been granted conditionally, such Order shall expressly declare that such Foreign Country hath duly fulfilled the said Conditions, and is entitled to the said Privilege. cil to state Fulfilment of Condition. Her Majesty may allow ImSugar and Mo portation of lasses from British Possesthe East India sions within Company's which the Im- the lower Rates of Duty. Such Sugar and Molasses to be entered at the Conditions on which Bengal Sugar was admissible under 6 & 7 W.4. c. 26. VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if at any Time satisfactory Proof shall have been laid before Her Majesty in Council that as respects any British Possession within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter the Importation of Foreign Sugar has been prohibited, it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, and She is hereby empowered, from Time to Time, by any Örder or Orders in Council, to declare that Sugar and Molasses the Growth or Produce of any such British Possession may be imported from thence into the United Kingdom, and entered at the lower Rates of Duty herein-before imposed on Sugar and Molasses the Growth or Produce of British Possessions within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter in which the Importation of Foreign Sugar is prohibited; and from and after the Publication of such Order, whilst the same shall continue in force, the Sugars and Molasses therein mentioned may be so imported and entered accordingly. IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That any Sugars or Molasses the Produce of any British Possession within the lower Rates of Limits of the East India Company's Charter in which the ImDuty, upon the portation of Foreign Sugar is or shall be prohibited, which shall be entered for Home Use at the lower Rates of Duty hereinbefore imposed on Sugar and Molasses the Produce of such Possessions, shall be entered in the same and the like Manner and under the same or the like Conditions in and under which Sugar the Growth of the Presidency of Bengal might be entered for Home Use under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service |