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those hereby specially enacted, to be paid on the various proceedings to be taken by virtue hereof.

21.

And be it Enacted, That all words in the present Act importing the Construction singular number shall equally comprehend a plurality of persons and things; and all words importing the masculine gender shall comprehend females as well as males; and this Act shall on all occasions be liberally construed, and so as best to promote the objects thereby intended.

of Act.

22.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be any Act to be passed during the present Session of Parliament

repealed, &c.

SCHEDULES

TO WHICH THE FOREGOING ACT REFERS.

SCHEDULE (A.)

IN HER MAJESTY'S CHANCERY.

NOTE for A. B. (insert name and designation).

THE said A. B. humbly prays, that a Charter [or Precept, or other deed, as the case may be] may be granted by Her Majesty [or the Prince of Scotland, as the case may be] in terms of the Draft herewith lodged, and marked as relative hereto.

FEES to be paid on the Revisal of every CHARTER or PRECEPT

A

BIL L

To grant certain Bounties and Allowances of
Customs.

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

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W

HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble: holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of King

c. 58.

WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to grant certain Bounties 3 & 4 Will, 4, and Allowances of Customs," whereby the laws of Customs in relation to Bounties and Allowances of Customs were consolidated : And whereas since the passing of the said Act divers parts of Acts for the further amendment of the law in that respect have been found necessary, and it will be of advantage to the trade and commerce of the country that the said Act and parts of Acts should be consolidated 10 into one Act; 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 from and after Commencethe passing of this Act, the same shall come into and be and con15 tinue in full force and operation for all the purposes mentioned therein, except where any other commencement is herein particularly directed.

And be it Enacted, That so long as the Duties due and payable upon the importation of Sugar shall be continued, there shall be allowed upon the exportation of Refined Sugar made in the United

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ment of Act.