From any Person exposing for Sale any Article, £ s. d. Matter, or Thing not herein specifically charged, and not occupying any Stall, Bulk, Block, Tressel, or Station, nor any defined Compartment or Space on the Surface of the Ground:- If the Spot on which such Person shall stand be For any Basket, Hamper, Parcel, or If the Spot be not situate within the covered For any Basket, Hamper, Parcel, or 0 0 11 For every Horse, Gelding, or Mare brought or For every Calf, the Sum of For every Score of Sheep or Lambs, and so in For every Head of Swine, the Sum of 62 0 0 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. CAP. XXIX. An Act to amend the Laws in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation. [26th June 1849.] and after 1st HEREAS 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and by the Authority of the same, That from Certain Acts and after the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred repealed from and fifty the following Acts and Parts of Acts shall be repealed; January 1850. (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 8&9 Vict. c. 88. of British Shipping and Navigation; and so much of a certain other Act passed in the said Session of Parliament, intituled An 8&9 Vict. c. 89. Act for the registering of British Vessels, as limits the Privi- Sec. 3. leges of Vessels registered at Malta, Gibraltar, and Heligoland; Sec. 5. 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 An Act to regulate 8&9 Vict. c. 93. the Trade of British Possessions abroad, as provides that no Sec. 2. 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 Limita- Sec. 4. Sec. 7. Sec. 9. Sec. 44. tion of the Privileges allowed to Foreign Ships by the Law of Navigation in respect of Importations into the British Pos sessions 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 8 & 9 Vict. c. 86. said Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the general Regulation of the Customs, as prohibits the Importation of Train Oil, Blubber, Spermaceti Oil, Head-matter, 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 present Majesty, inti7 & 8 Vict.c.112. tuled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to s. 63. s. 37. " Merchant Seamen, and for keeping a Register of Seamen, as provides that the Master or Owner of every Ship belonging to any Subject of Her Majesty, and of the Burden of Eighty Tons or upwards, (except Pleasure Yachts,) shall have on board at the Time of her proceeding from any Port of the United Kingdom, and at all Times when absent from the United Kingdom, or navigating the Seas, One Apprentice or more in a certain Proportion to the Number of Tons of his Ship's Admeasurement, and that if any such Master or Owner shall neglect to have on board his Ship the Number of Apprentices thereby required, together with their respective registered Indentures, Assignments, and Register Tickets, he shall, forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Pounds in respect of each Apprentice, Indenture, Assignment, or Register Ticket so wanting or deficient; also an Act passed in the Thirty-seventh Year of the 97 G. 3. c. 117. Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the Trade to be carried on with the British Possessions, in India by the Ships of Nations in Amity with His Majesty); and so much of a certain Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the several Laws now in force with respect to Trade from and to Places within the Limits of the Charter of the East India Company, and to make further Provisions with respect to such Trade, and to amend an Act of the present Session of Parliament for the registering of Vessels, so far as it relates to Vessels registered in India, as enacts that no Asiatic Sailors, Lascars, or Natives of any of the Territories, Countries, Islands, or Places within the Limits of the Charter of the East India Company, shall at any Time be deemed or taken to be British Seamen within the Intent and Meaning of any Act or Acts of Parliament relating 4 G. 4. c. 80. s. 20. to 1 to the Navigation of British Ships by Subjects of Her Majesty; and also the following Acts and Parts of Acts; so much of a certain Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to authorize His Majesty, 4G. 4. c. 77. under certain Circumstances, to regulate the Duties and Drawbacks on Goods imported or exported in Foreign Vessels, and to exempt certain Foreign Vessels from Pilotage, as relates to the Regulation of Duties and Drawbacks; also an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to indemnify all Persons concerned in advising, 5G. 4. c. l. issuing, or acting under a certain Order in Council for regulating the Tonnage Duties on certain Foreign Vessels, and to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament for authorizing His Majesty, under certain Circumstances, to regulate the Duties and Drawbacks on Goods imported or exported in any Foreign Vessels; also so much of an 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 granting Duties of Customs, as 8&9 Vict. c. 90. empowers Her Majesty in Council in certain Cases to direct $.8. that additional Duties shall be levied on Articles the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of Foreign Countries, or upon Goods: imported in the Ships of Foreign Countries, or to prohibit the Importation of manufactured Articles the Produce of Foreign Countries; also so much of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for 5&6 Vict. c. 14. the Importation of Corn, as enables Her Majesty, under certain s.8. Circumstances to prohibit the Importation of Corn, Grain, Meal, or Flour from the Dominions of certain Foreign Powers; and the said several Acts and Parts of Acts before mentioned are hereby accordingly repealed, except so far as the said Acts or any of them repeal any former Act or Acts, or any Part of such Act or Acts, and except so far as relates to any Penalty or Forfeiture which shall have been incurred under the said Act or Acts hereby repealed or any of them, or to any Offence which shall have been committed contrary to such Act or Acts or any of them.}} II. And be it enacted, That no Goods or Passengers shall be Coasting Trade. carried Coastwise from one Part of the United Kingdom to another, or from the United Kingdom to the Isle of Man, or of United King. Coasting Trade from the Isle of Man to the United Kingdom, except in British dom and Isle Ships. of Man. lands. III. And be it enacted, That no Goods or Passengers shall Trade with the be imported into the United Kingdom from any of the Islands Channel Isof Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, nor shall any Goods or Passengers be exported from the United Kingdom to any of the said Islands, nor shall any Goods or Passengers be carried from any of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man to any other of the said Islands, nor from one Part of any of the said Islands to another Part of the same Island, except in British Ships. M 3 IV. And Coasting Trade of the British Possessions. Queen in Council may regulate Coasting Trade of Colonies on IV. And be it enacted, That no Goods or Passengers shall be carried from one Part of any British Possession in Asia, Africa, or America to another Part of the same Possession, except in British Ships. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if the Legislature or proper legislative Authority of any such British Possession shall present an Address to Her Majesty, praying Her Majesty to authorize or permit the Conveyance of Goods or their Address. Passengers from one Part of such Possession to another Part thereof in other than British Ships, or if the Legislatures of any Two or more Possessions, which for the Purposes of this Act Her Majesty in Council shall declare to be neighbouring Possessions, shall present Addresses or a joint Address to Her Majesty, praying Her Majesty to place the Trade between them on the Footing of a Coasting Trade, or of otherwise regulating the same, so far as relates to the Vessels in which it is to be carried on, it shall thereupon be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, so to authorize the Conveyance of such Goods or Passengers, or so to regulate the Trade between such neighbouring Possessions, as the Case may be, in such Terms and under such Conditions, in either Case, as to Her Majesty may seem good. Coasting Trade of India to be regulated by Governor General in Council. British Ships. No Ship British unless registered and navi gated as such. VI. And with regard to the Coasting Trade of India, be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor General of India in Council to make any Regulations authorizing or permitting the Conveyance of Goods or Passengers from one Part of the Possessions of the East India Company to another Part thereof in other than British Ships, subject to such Restrictions or Regulations as he may think necessary; and such Regulations shall be of equal Force and Effect with any Laws and Regulations which the said Governor General in Council is now or may hereafter be authorized to make, and shall be subject to Disallowance and Repeal in like Manner as any other Laws or Regulations made by the said Governor General in Council under the Laws from Time to Time in force for the Government of the British Territories in India, and shall be transmitted to England, and be laid before both Houses of Parliament, in the same Manner as any other Laws or Regulations which the Governor General in Council is now or may hereafter be empowered to make. VII. And be it enacted, That no Ship shall be admitted to be a British Ship unless duly registered and navigated as such; and that every British registered Ship (so long as the Registry of such Ship shall be in force, or the Certificate of such Registry retained for the Use of such Ship,) shall be navigated during the whole of every Voyage (whether with a Cargo or in Ballast) in every Part of the World by a Master who is a British Subject, and by a Crew whereof Three Fourths at least are British Seamen; and if such Ship be employed in a Coasting Voyage from one Part of the United Kingdom to another, or in a Voyage between the United King dom |