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50 Georgii III. Cap. lxiv, lxxvii.

shall take place to the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port to which the Articles are intended to be removed, and upon their Arrival at such Port, due Entry shall be made thereof with the proper Officers of the Customs, specifying the Date of Importation, by whom entered Inwards, and the Port from whence removed, and the Name of the Ship, and to what Port or Place they are intended to be exported, and the Exporter or Exporters shall together with the Master and other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of the Ship or Vessel in which such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize are intended to be exported, and one other sufficient Surety, to be approved of by the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port of Exportation, enter into Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Treble the Value of the same, for the due Exportation of such Goods, Wares or Merchandize, and for producing a Certificate of the landing thereof at the Port or Place for which entered according to the Directions of the said Act of the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, provided that if upon the further Examination of the said Goods, Wares and Merchandize, the same or any Part thereof shall be found to be less in Quantity or Weight than when delivered from the Warehouse at the Port of Importation, the Exporter or Proprietor thereof shall immediately pay the full Duties of Customs and Excise upon the Deficiency previous to the Goods being allowed to be shipped for Exportation.

If Goods be not immediately shipped for Exportation, they may be warehoused, and Bond taken that they shall either be exported within a limited Time, or the Duty paid.IV. And be it further enacted, That if after the Arrival of such Goods, Wares, or Mer­chandize, at any other warehousing Port, the Proprietor thereof shall not have an Opportunity of shipping the Same for Exportation, it shall and may be lawful to lodge and deposit the Articles in any Warehouse approved under the Regulations of the said Acts passed in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, provided an Entry be made for that Pur­pose with the proper Officers of the Customs, and Bond given to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by the Proprietor or his Agent, and one sufficient Surety to be approved of by the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs in such Port, in Double the Amount of the full Duties due add payable on the Importation of such Goods, Wares and Merchandize, with Condition that the same shall either be duly exported, or that the full Duties of Customs due and payable on the Importation thereof shall be paid to the proper Officers within such Period of Time as was allowed for that Purpose at the Port where the same were first entered and warehoused; but if the Proprietor shall fail or neglect to make such Entry and give such Security, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of the Customs in England or Scotland respectively to cause all such Goods, Wares and Merchandize, which shall not be shipped for Exportation, to be disposed of the same Manner as Goods, Wares, and Merchandise are directed to be disposed of by the said Act of the Forty-third Year of the of His present Majesty.

Powers of recited Act. 43 G. 3. c. 132. relating to warehousing, &c. extended to this Act.V. And be it further Enacted, That whenever any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, removed from the Port of Importation to any other warehousing Port, are secured in Warehouses under the Authority of this Act, all and every the Provisions, Powers, Authorities, Penalties, Forfeitures, Regulations, Restrictions, Acts, Matters, and Things relating to the landing, ware­housing, keeping, inspecting, taking Account of or otherwise securing of Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, under the said Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and of the Duties due And payable thereon, shall, in so far as the same are applicable, and except where the same are altered or Varied by this Act, he from thenceforth construed to extend to the Goods, Wares, and Merchandize so removed from the original Port of Importation and secured, in Warehouses at any other warehousing Port, in like Manner in every Respect and as fully and amply, as if the said Provisions, Powers, Authorities, Penalties, Forfeitures, Regulations, Restrictions, Acts, Matters, and Things, had been repeated and re-enacted in this Act.


50 GEORGII III. Cap. LXXVII.

An Act for imposing additional Duties of Customs on certain Species of Wood imported into Great Britain.

[15th June 1810.]
Wood imported, by the East India Company exempted from additional Duties imposed by Act 50 G. 3. c. 77.IV.PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to charge any of the said Articles with the additional Dutieshereby