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53 Georgii III. Cap. cv, cxi, cx
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to put a stop to such fraudulent Practices; be it therefore enacted, That if any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize which are or may be prohibited to be exported, shall be laden or shipped or put on board any Vessel or Boat with the Intent to be laden or shipped for Exportation, or shall . be brought to any Quay, Wharf, or other Place in Great Britain, in order to be laden or put on board any Ship, Vessel, or Boat for the Purpose of being exported; or if any Goods; Wares, of Merchandize which are, prohibited ta' be exported shall be found in any Package produced to the Officers of the Customs as containing Goods not so prohibited, then in each, and every such Case not only all such prohibited Goods, but also: all other. Goods, Wares, and Merchandize packed therewith, shall be forfeited and lost,-and shall and may he seized by any Officer or Officers of the Customs.


53 GEORGE III. Cap. CXI.

An Act for the more easy Manning of Ships and Vessels employed in the Southern Whale Fishery.

[10th July 1813.]

52 G. 3. c. 105. repealed.WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made for giving further Facility to the. manning of Ships and Vessels employed in the Southern Whale Fishery than is given by an Act passed in the Fifty-second Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for the more easy manning of Vessels employed in the Southern Whale Fishery;" be it 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this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act shall be, and the same is hereby repealed,

Vessels on the Master's taking the Oath of Allegiance, &c, required by 35 G. 3. c.92, not, to lose the Benefit of the Fishing Voyage, though other Oaths have not been taken.II. And be it further enacted, That no Ship.or Vessel employed in the said Fishery, the Master of which shall have taken the Oath, or made the Declaration of Fidelity and Allegiance to His Majesty, required by an Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for further encouraging and regulating the Southern Whale Fisheries, shall lose the Benefit of any Fishing Voyage by reason that the Master shall not have taken the Oath, or made the Declaration of his having already established, or of its being his Intention to establish himself and Family in Great Britain, or by reason that all or any of the Foreign Protestants eneployed as Mariners in navigating such Ship or Vessel shall not have taken any of the Oaths, or made any of the Declarations required by the 'said Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled ** An Act for fyrther encouraging and regulating the Southern Whale Fisheries,"


53 GEORGE III. Cap, CXV.

An Act to insure the proper and careful Manufacturing of Fire Arms in England; and for making Provision for proving the Barrels of such Fire Arms.
[10th July 1813.]

Not to extend to Scotland or Ireland, to Arms for Military Service, or for East India Company. III.PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted and declared, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend to that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland, or to that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, (except as to the forging Marks as in this Act after mentioned), or to the proving of any Barrels used in the manufacturing of any Musquet, Pistol, or other Fire Arms, for the Use of His Majesty's Forces, or for the Honourable East India Company.