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53 Georgii III. Cap. lv.
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continue until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twelve, and-to amend several Acts for granting certain Rates and Duties, and.for allowing. certain Drawbacks and Bounties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into and exported from Ireland; and to grant to His Majesty until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twelve, certain new and additional Duties on the Importation, and-to allow Drawbacks on the Exportation of certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, into and from Ireland:" And whereas by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, all the several Acts herein-before recited were continued and are in Force until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and it is expedient that all the said recited Acts, and also the several Rates and Duties granted and the Drawbacks and Bounties allowed by them, or any of them, should be further continued. in Manner herein-after mentioned; be it therefore-enacted, by the King'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 Rates and granted by recited Acts further continued, &c.Duties granted, and the Drawbacks and Bounties allowed by the said recited Acts, or any of them, until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall respectively continue and be in Force throughout Ireland, upon and from and after the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, (except the Rates, Duties, and Drawbacks, upon the several Articles upon which new and other Rates, Duties, and Drawbacks are by any of the said Acts or by this Act granted, imposed, or allowed, and except, such Drawbacks and Bounties on the Exportation of Sugar of the British Plantations, and on Refined Sugar, under the said recited Acts, or any of them, as are provided for by an Act, made in the Forty-seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, 47 G. 3. c. 19. "An Act to provide more effectually for regulating the Drawbacks and Bounties on the Exportation of Sugar from Ireland, and for allowing British Plantation Sugar to be warehoused in Ireland, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and eight;" which said last recited Act, by an Act passed in this present Session of Parliament, is continued until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and. fourteen), and that the said recited Acts (except as aforesaid, and except also as they are altered or repealed by each other, or by this Act, or by any other Act) and all the Powers and Provisions, Articles, Clauses, Matters, and Things, contained in the said recited Acts, or any of them, shall be observed and complied with, during the Term hereby granted, as fully and effectually, as if the said Duties, Drawbacks; and Bounties, and the said Powers, Provisions, Articles, Clauses, Matters, and Things, had been by the said recited Acts, or any of them, extended to the Term hereby granted, and as if the Term hereby granted had made Part of the said recited Acts, or any of them; and that the several Articles, in respect whereof.any Rate or Duty is granted or imposed or continued, or any Drawback or Bounty is allowed by the said recited Acts, or any of them, until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall respectively be and remain liable to the Rates and Duties, and shall be entitled to the Drawbacks and Bounties (except as aforesaid) allowed in respect thereof, under the Regulations and Provisions of the said recited Acts, upon, from, and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.

Additional Duties specified in Schedule to be paid on Importation of Goods, &c.II. And whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies granted to Your Majesty, and for the Support of Your Majesty's Government, have resolved to grant to Your Majesty the several new Duties herein-after mentioned, upon certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandize imported into Ireland, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it therefore enacted, That.from and after the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred. and thirteen, and during the. Continuance of this Act, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Ready Money (except as herein-after is provided), without any Discount whatever, upon the Importation of the several Goods, Wares, and Merchandize mentioned and set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed, imported into Ireland, the several Duties inserted, described, and set-forth in-Figures in the said Schedule; and that there also shall be paid and allowed the several Drawbacks in respect of the said Duties as the same are respectively inserted, described, and set forth in Figures.in the said Schedule; and that the said Duties in the said Schedule specified shall be in Addition to all Duties aud Drawbacks payable in Ireland upon the Importation.and Exportation of Goods, Wares, and Merchandize of the like Sorts, under or:by virtue of any Act-or Acts-of Parliament in Force in Ireland immediately before the passing of this Act.

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