Act is itself repealed, such last repeal shall not revive the Act or provisions before repealed, unless words be added reviving such Act or provisions. VI. Wherever any Act shall be made repealing in whole or in part any former Act and substituting some provision or provisions instead of the provision or provisions repealed, such provision or provisions so repealed shall remain in force until the substituted provision or provisions shall come into operation by force of the last made Act. VII. Every Act made after the commencement of this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be dicially taken notice of as such, unless the contrary be expressly provided and declared by such Act. Dated at Montserrat this Fifteenth Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Fiftynine, and of Her Majesty's Reign the Twenty-second. Passed the Assembly this 7th Passed the Council this 31st Day of Decr., 1858. ] Day of Dec., 1858. By Command, RICHD. HENRY BLAKE, EDWIN D. BAYNES, Acting Cik. of Assembly. Col. Secy, and Clk. of Council. EDWARD B. DYETT, Speaker. Duly published and proclaimed this Eighteenth Day of Feb, ruary One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine. JAMES MEADE, Marshal, An Act to impose a duty upon certain Articles exported from this Island. RD E. RUSHWORTH. [L. S.) [Dated 9th March, 1859. W HEREAS it has become necessary in order to make suf VV ficient provision for the payment of the Expenses of this colony to impose a Duty upon certain Articles exported from this Island; We therefore, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Governor, the Council and Assembly of Montserrat, Do pray your Most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted as follows: I. That immediately after the passing and publication of this Act, there shall be raised, levied, and collected, and paid unto Her Majesty for the use of this Island upon the exportation of the several Articles enumerated, described, and included in Schedule A. to this Act annexed the several duties as the same are respectively set forth in words and figures in the said Schedule. II. That all duties payable under this Act shall be collected by and paid to the Treasurer of this Island for the time being for the use of the Colony. III That before any Goods liable to duty under this Act shall be shipped or water-borne to be shipped for exportation from this Island, the Exporter or his known Agent shall deliver to the Treasurer, or other proper Treasury Officer, a Bill of the Entry thereof fairly written in words at length containing the name of the Exporter and of the Ship or vessel, and of the Master, and of the place to which bound, and of the place within the Port of Plymouth where the Goods are to be laden, and the particulars of the quantity and quality of the Goods and the Packages containing the same, and the marks and numbers of the Packages; and such person shall at the same time pay down all duties due upon the Goods, and the Treasurer shall thereupon grant his Warrant for the lading of the same; and all Goods shipped, put off, water-borne or laden contrary to the the provisions of this Act shall be seized as forfeited by the Treasurer or other proper Treasury Officer. IV. That all Boats or Canoes made use of in putting off any Goods liable to forfeiture under this Act shall be forfeited, and all persons concerned in shipping, putting off, or lading of any such Goods shall be liable to and shall incur a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds Sterling, to be sued for, recovered and enforced in the same manner as if such penalty had been incurred for a breach of any of the provisions of “ The Tariff Act” of this Island. • 1 V. That all Goods and Boats seized as forfeited under this Act shall be dealt with in the same manner as if they had been seized as forfeited under the provisions of “The Tariff Act" aforesaid for any offence incurring forfeiture under that Act. VI. That all monies mentioned in this Act, or in the Schedule annexed are hereby declared to be Sterling Money of Great Britain. VII. That all persons authorised to make seizures under this Act against whom any Action shall be commenced or brought for any thing done in the exercise of their office under this Act shall have the benefit of all provisions in favour of persons authorised to make seizures by " The Tariff Act," in as full and ample a manner as if the same were herein word for word repeated and re-enacted. VIII. That this Act shall be and continue in force during the operation of " The Tariff Act," and no longer. Dated at Montserrat this ninth Day of March, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine, and in the Twenty-second Year of Her Majesty's Reign. Passedthe Assembly this 23rd Passed the Council this 23rd By Command, RICHÐ. HENRY BLAKE, EDWIN D. BAYNES, Acting Clk. of Assembly. Col. Secy. and Clk. of Council. EDWARD B. DYETT, Speaker. JAMES MEADE, Marshal. MONTSERRAT. Schedule A. ........... TABLE OF EXPORT DUTIES. Muscovado Sugar, per Hogshead................£0 10 0 Muscovado Sugar, per Tierce....................... 0 6 6 Muscovado Sugar, per Barrel..... Muscovado Sugar, for all other Packages, at 0 0 6 the rate per hundred weight.. Rum, per Puncheon...... 0 5 0 Rum in other Packages, for every 60 Gallons... Molasses, per Puncheon. Molasses in other Packages, for every 60) Gallons....... Horses, per head...... 0 10 0 Neat Cattle, per head..... 04 0 Wood, ner Cord..........., Qon |