om canoe.

Restricting the XVIII. And whereas it is necessary that more efficient prohours in which Goods may be land- vision should be made to prevent illicit traffic by means of Boats ported in any boat and Canoes and to secure the payment of the Duties on Goods

imported in the same: Be it therefore enacted, That all Goods liable to Duty which shall be brought into this Island in any Boat or Canoe before the Hour of Eight o'Clock in the Morning or after the Hour of Four o'Clock in the Afternoon shall, unless otherwise permitted by the Treasurer or other Treasury Officer, be taken to and deposited in such place of security as the Treasurer shall appoint, there to remain until the same shall be entered and the Duties thereon duly paid and satisfied, together with the charges of taking and securing the same, and if such Goods be not immediately taken to and deposited in such place of security as aforesaid, or if any Goods so deposited shall

be illegally removed, the same shall be forfeited. Penalty on landing XIX. And be it enacted, That if any Goods brought to this of such Goods from such boat or canoe Island in any Boat or Canoe shall be landed or unladen confrom the Treasurer. trary to the provisions herein contained, such Goods, together

with the Boat or Canoe in which they were brought, shall be

forfeited. Goods if not entered XX. And be it enacted, That if any Goods imported in any from the period of Boat or Canoe and deposited in a place of security as aforesaid ele in becerito police shall not be entered within Five Days from the time of their

being so deposited, the Treasurer shall cause the same to be sold in accordance with the directions contained in the Thirteenth Clause of this Act, and the proceeds shall be applied in the first place to the payment of the Duties under this Act, and of the charges thereon, and the overplus (if any) shall be paid to the person authorized to receive the same.

without permission to

within five days

sold

or taking off any Goods or Passen

No Goods to be XXI. And be it enacted, That no Goods shall be landed thane at the Port of elsewhere than at the Port of Plymouth without previous per

n mission from the Treasurer, and the landi such Goods previous permission from the Treasurer. shall be subject to such Regulations as the Treasurer, from time

to time, with the consent of the Officer Administering the Government of this Island shall make and appoint, and if any Goods shall be landed contrary thereto, the same shall be forfeited.

XXII. And be it enacted, That if any Boat shall carry off e l'assen. to, or land from, any Vessel arriving at any of the out bays of

t-bay this Island any Passenger or Goods before the Master of such from the Treasurer. Vessel shall have obtained permission from the Treasurer of the

said Island to land or take off any Passenger or Goods at such out-bay, such Boat shall be forfeited, and every person employing and employed in such Boat shall be liable to a Penalty not

exceeding Twenty Pounds. an Goods and all XXIII. And be it enacted, That all Goods and all Ships, forfeiture may be Vessels, and Boats, and all Carriages and all Cattle liable to

without permission

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forfeiture under this Act, shall and may be seized and secured seized and secured

by the Treasurer or by the Treasurer or by any other Officer appointed under the other Treasury Ofiprovisions of this Act, or by any Constable or other person em- leis appointed ployed for that purpose by the Treasurer, and the said Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to grant such authority from time to time by any writing under his hand to any number of persons he shall see fit and the same authority at pleasure to revoke.

obstructing &c.,

XXIV. And be it enacted, That every person who shall in Ponalty on persons any way hinder, oppose, molest, o: obstruct the said Treasurer, or other Officer of the Treasury, or Constable or person employed by the Treasurer under the authority of the preceding Clause in the exercise of such his Duty and Office, or any person acting in aid or assistance, shall, for every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding One Hundred Pounds.

XXV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Authority given to Treasurer of this Island or for any Officer of the Treasury to boardu Vessels raro go on board any Ship or other Vessel arriving at any Port, Bay, riving at any port or

'out-bay in this Isor Roadstead in this Island, and to rummage and search all parts land. of such Ship or other Vessel, and also to go on board any Ship or other Vessel hovering within One League of any of the Coasts thereof, and in either case freely to stay on board such Ship or other Vessel so long as she shall remain in such Port, Bay, or Roadstead, or within such distance, and if such Ship or other Vessel be found elsewhere and shall continue so hovers ing for the space of Twenty Four Hours after the Master shall have been required to depart, it shall be lawful for the Treasurer or for any other Officer of the Treasury to bring such Ship or other Vessel into Port, and to search and examine her Cargo, and to examine the Master on Oath touching the Cargo and Voyage, and if the Master shall not truly answer the questions which shall be demanded of him on such examination, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

XXVI. And be it enacted, That no Provisions or Stores im- Table of esemni ported into this Island for the use of Her Majesty's Land or tions Marine Forces, and no Bullion, Diamonds, Fruit not being dried or preserved, Vegetables, Ice, Fresh Meat, Fresh Fish, Poultry, Personal Baggage of Passengers, Printed Books, Coins, Gold, Silver and Copper unmanufactured, Maps, Charts, Plants, Shrubs, Seeds for planting, Trees for planting, Rabbits, Turtle, Pitch Pine Lumber, White Pine Lumber and Spruce Pine Lumber, Cypress and other Shingles, shall be subject to any Duty herein imposed.

XXVII. And be it enacted, That if the Master of any Ship or Vessel Boat or Canoe shall notify to the Treasurer that he when the Master of does not know to whom any part of the Cargo of such Ship or able to state to whom Vessel Boat or Canoe is consigned, or that the Consignee of are consiguel

such Goods has failed to make due Entry of the same, and that such Goods retard the unlading or lading of the said Ship, Boat, or Canoe, or that the Ship or Vessel is with the exception of the unlading of such Goods ready to proceed on her voyage, it shall be lawful for the Treasurer and he is hereby required to land and convey such Goods to his Office or to some other place of security, and to detain them until due Entry shall be made thereof, and the Duty thereon and all charges and expenses (including Warehouse Rent) which may have been incurred in so conveying and securing the same, be paid; and if perfect Entry of the said Goods shall not be made within Thirty Days after they shall have been lodged in the Office of the Treasurer or other place of security, such Goods shall be dealt with as

Goods illegally imported. Regulations re

XXVIII. And be it enacted, That no Master or other perspecting passengers son in charge of a Ship, Vessel, Boat, or Canoe, arriving at this

Island shall land any Passenger's Baggage without permission from the Treasurer or other Treasury Officer, and all Baggage after the landing thereof shall be carried to the Office of the Treasurer (unless the Treasurer or other Treasury Officer shall dispense therewith) and deposited in such place of security as the Treasurer shall appoint, there to remain until such Baggage shall have been examined by the Treasurer or other Treasury Officer, and such Baggage shall be examined at all reasonable hours and with as little delay as possible, in the presence of the Owner if he should so require and give his attendance.

denying having

Penalty on persons XXIX. And be it enacted, That if any Passenger or other Goods liable to duty person on board of any Ship, Vessel, Boat, or Canoe shall, upon about them.

being questioned by the Treasurer or other Treasury Officer, whether he or she has any Goods subject to Duty in his or her Baggage deny the same, and any such Goods after such denial be discovered in his or her Baggage, or in his or her possession, such Goods shall be forfeited, and such person shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

sion except accom

Penalty on Master XXX. And be it enacted, That if any Master of any Ship or baggage to be land Vessel Boat or Canoe shall land

permit to be landed any ed wiihont permis- Baggage whatever without the permission of the Treasurer or panied by the owner. other Officer of the Treasury, unless the same shall be accom

panied by the Owner Passenger, he shall be subject to a Penalty of Twenty Pounds, and if the Owner or person in charge of any Baggage shall neglect to take the same to the Office of the Treasurer to be examined, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of Ten Pounds.

XXXI. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act containthe landing ofn ed shall be extended or be construed to extend to prohibit the Goods from the Royal Mail Compa- landing from any of the Steam Ships of the Royal Mail Steam

Packet Company of any Goods consigned to any person in this

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Island provided all such Goods. be immediately deposited in such place as the Treasurer shall appoint, to the end that the same may be examined, and the Duties payable thereon ascertained and paid.

XXXII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Oficer Administerfor the Officer Administering the Government, by notice in may appoinen wares writing under his hand, to appoint, from time to time, a suita- house or warehouses ble Warehouse or suitable Warehouses within the Town of of Goods, Plymouth for the Warehousing and securing of Goods therein for the purposes of this Act, and also what rates shall be charged

and to declare what for the Warehouse Rent of the. Goods placed in such Ware- rates shall be charghouse or Warehouses, and also by: like notice to revoke or confor warehouse alter any such appointment or declaration or rates as aforesaid.

rent.

XXXIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Importer may wareImporter of Goods into this Island to Warehouse the same in house Goods with

out payment of duty. the Warehouse or Warehouses so appointed without payment of any Duty on the first Entry thereof ; subject, nevertheless, to the Rules and Regulations hereinafter contained.

"XXXIV. And be it enacted, That upon the Entry of Goods The Importer of to be Warehoused, the Importer of-such Goods, instead of pay- Goods to be wareing down the Duties thereon, shall give Bond with two good and sufficient Sureties to be approved by the Treasurer in treble .... the amount of Duties payable on such Goods, with condition for the safe depositing of such Goods in the Warehouse mentioned in such Entry, and for the payment of all Duties due upon such Goods or for the exportation thereof according to the first account taken of such Goods upon the landing of the same, and with further condition that no part thereof shall be taken out of such Warehouse until cleared from thence upon due Entry and payment of Duty, or upon due Entry for Exportation, and with further condition that tho whole of such Goods shall be so cleared from such Warehouse and the Duties upon any deficiency of the quantity according to such first account, shall be paid within One Year from the date of the first Entry thereof, and if after such Bond shall have been given the Goods or any part thereof shall be sold and disposed of, or that the Original Bonder shall be no longer interested or have any con- . trol over the same, it shall be lawful for the Treasurer to admit fresh Security to be given by the Bond of the new Proprietor or . other person having control over such Goods, with his sufficient. .. : Sureties, and to cancel the Bond given by the Original Bonder of such Goods, or to exonerate him to the extent of the fresh Security so given.

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XXXV. And be it enacted, That all Goods Warehoused Goods stored in the shall be stored in such parts or division of the Warehouse and

shall be opened and visited only at such times and by and in the presence of such Officer, and under such Rules and Regulations as the Treasurer shall direct, and that all such Goods shall after being landed be carried to the Warehouse, or shall, after being taken out of the Warehouse for Exportation, be carried to be shipped under such Rules and Regulations as the Treasurer shall frame and establish.

Samples may be taken of the Goods.

XXXVI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Treasurer, under such Regulations as he shall see fit, to permit moderate samples to be taken of any Goods so Warehoused, without Entry, and without payment of Duty, except as the same shall eventually become payable as a deficiency of the original quantity.

Treasurer may per XXXVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the mit Owner of Goods M to pack, separate, - Treasurer, under such Regulations as he shall see fit, to permit &c., gay warehoused the Proprietor or other person having control of any Goods so · Goods,

Warehoused, to sort, separate, and pack, and re-pack any such

Goods, and to make such lawful alteration thereon, or arrange7. hom m ents and assortments thereof, as may be necessary for the

preservation of such Goods, or in order to the sale, shipment, or and to destroy legal disposal of the same, and also to permit any part of such be de indeparted Goods so separated to be destroyed, but without prejudice to dice to be claims the claim for Duty upon the whole original quantity of such

Goods: Provided always that it shall be lawful for any person which packages may to abandon any whole Packages to the Treasurer for the Duties, duty.

without being liable to any Duty upon the same.

for duty,

be abandoned for

shall be cleared ei-
ther for exportation WC!

Goods warehonsed - XXXVIII. And be it enacted, That all Goods which have

redie- been so Warehoused shall be duly cleared either for Exportation 0.. consumption or Consumption in this Island within One Year from the date within one year from the first cntry. of the first Entry for the Warehousing thereof, and if any such

Goods be not so cleared it shall be lawful for the Treasurer to cause the same to be sold, and the produce thereof shall be applied first to the payment of the Duties, next of the Warehouse Rent and other charges, and the overplus (if any) shall be paid

to the Proprietor of such Goods. . . Importer of mare- XXXIX. And be it enacted, That upon the Entry Outboused Goods to wards of any Goods to be exported from the Warehouse, the the same shall be person entering the same shall give Security by Bond in double landed at the place for which they are the Duties of Importation on the quantity of such Goods with

Two sufficient Şureties to be approved by the Treasurer that the same shall be landed at the place for which they are Entered Outward, or to be otherwise accounted for to the satisfaction of the Treasurer. .

entered.

Drawback Temitted XL. And be it enacted, That upon the Exportation from Which Aus ad malo. this Island of any Goods upon which an ad valorem Duty of retu daty of 6 per Six per centrem shall have been imposed and paid upon the