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To continue and amend an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, for permitting Wheat to be delivered from the Warehouse or the Vessel Duty free, upon the previous Substitution of an equivalent Quantity of Flour or Biscuit in the Warehouse.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

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c. 92.

HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble: held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her pre- 5 & 6 Vict. sent Majesty, intituled, "An Act to permit, until the Thirty-first day of August One thousand eight hundred and Forty-five, Wheat to be delivered from the Warehouse or the Vessel Duty free upon the previous Substitution of an equivalent Quantity of Flour or Biscuit in the Warehouse :" And whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be further continued for the term hereinafter specified: BUT it is necessary that the same should be amended in certain respects;

BE it therefore 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the Authority of the same, THAT the said Act, except so far as the same, or any part thereof, is hereby altered or 15 repealed, shall continue in force until the Thirty-first day of August One thousand eight hundred and Forty eight, and from thence until the End of the next Session of Parliament.

AND whereas it is enacted by the said Act, that persons having deposited in any Warehouse in the manner required by the said Act

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any quantity of fine Wheat Flour or Biscuit, or being holders of certain
certificates in the said Act mentioned, shall be entitled to enter Duty
free from any Vessel certain quantities of Wheat: AND whereas doubts
have arisen as to the period within which such entry ought to be made,
and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed, and that the 5
same period should be allowed for entering Wheat Duty free from any
vessel as is now allowed for entering Wheat from the Warehouse;
BE it therefore Enacted, That any person being entitled, under the
provisions of the said Act, to enter any Wheat Duty free from any
vessel, may enter such Wheat Duty free from such vessel at any time 10
or times and at such time or times only at which it would be lawful,
under the provisions of the said Act, for such person to enter such
Wheat if the same were in any Warehouse.

And be it Enacted, That the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs shall forthwith provide samples of the several kinds of Biscuit in the said Act mentioned, and such samples shall be deemed standard samples for the purpose of comparing therewith any Biscuit tendered to be deposited as being Captains' Biscuit, or Biscuit of the standard supplied to Her Majesty's Navy, or common Ship's Biscuit, and the said Commissioners shall from time to time renew such standard samples as they may deem it expedient.

And be it Enacted, That so much of the said Act as relates to the forfeiture in certain cases of parcels or packages tendered to be deposited under the provisions thereof, and to the imposition of penalties upon persons tendering the same for the purpose of being deposited, shall be repealed.

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And be it Enacted, That if any parcel or package being or containing any other article than Flour, or any other Flour than fine Wheat Flour in sound condition, is tendered to be deposited under the provisions of the said Act, as being or containing Flour, or if any parcel 30 or package being or containing any other article than Biscuit, is tendered to be deposited under the provisions of the said Act, as being or containing Biscuit, or if any parcel or package being or containing Biscuit of an inferior quality, to the standard sample of any one of the several kinds of Biscuit in the said Act mentioned, or 35 being or containing Biscuit not in sound condition, is tendered to be deposited under the provisions of the said Act, as being or containing Biscuit of that kind, such parcel or package, and the contents thereof, shall be forfeited; and any person so tendering any such parcel or package to be deposited as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 40 Five Pounds for every Hundred Pounds weight of the Wheat for which such parcel or package was tendered to be substituted; and

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such forfeitures and penalties, and any other forfeitures imposed by the said Act, shall be recovered and dealt with in all respects as forfeitures and penalties under any law relating to the Customs are recovered and dealt with.

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And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be any Act to be passed during the present Session of Parliament.

amended, &c. this Session.

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For the better collecting Borough and Watch
Rates in certain Places.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

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HEREAS by an Act passed in the sixth year of the Preamble: reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An Act to provide for 5 & 6 W. 4, the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales," authority was given to the Councils of Boroughs in certain cases to 5 levy Borough Rates, and also Watch Rates, for the purposes of the said Act: And whereas the powers and directions given by the said Act and certain other Acts relating thereto, for the levying, assessing and collecting such Borough Rates and Watch Rates, are found to be insufficient for that purpose; 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 in every case in which any parish or place liable to support its own poor, or any extra-parochial place, shall lie partly within and partly 15 without any such borough, and the Council of such Borough hath appointed, or hereafter shall appoint, One or more persons to act as Overseer or Overseers within that part of such parish or place, or those parts of such parishes or places, which is or are within the same Borough, for making, levying and collecting Borough 20 Rates or Watch Rates made or hereafter to be made therein, the person or persons so appointed shall be empowered to levy and raise, by an equal rate or assessment upon all the property within each of the parts of parishes or places respectively, for which he or they shall be so appointed, which, if such part were a parish maintaining its own poor,

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