merchants at the port of lading. Upon importation into the port of Douglas of any such goods, the license for the same License when to must be delivered up to the Collector or Comptroller of be delivered up. that Port.-3 and 4 Wm. 1V. c. 60. § 4. Applications for import licenses must be made in writing, and delivered to the Collector or Comptroller of Douglas, between 5th Applications for May, and 5th July, in each year, specifying the date, Licenses how to name, residence, and occupation of the applicant, the be made. description and quantity of each article for which the license is required. Counterfeiting or falsifying license, penalty 5007-§ 5 & 9. or of any Foreign Goods imported by license into the Isle of Man, may not be re-exported, nor may such Goods be carried Coastwise Re-exportation, from one part of the said isle to another, except in carrying Coastwise vessels of 50 tons burthen at the least, and in the of License Goods. same packages in which such goods were imported into the said Isle, and Wine except in such packages or in bottles.3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 60. § 10. Goods which are the growth, produce, or manufacture country, cannot be exported from the Isle of Man to any part of the United Kingdom. Goods of the produce or manufacture of the Isle of Man, may be imported into the United Kingdom from the said Isle, without payment of any duty (otherwise than any countervailing duty of excise*, or any coast duty payable on the like goods), but the exemption from duty is not to extend to any manufactures of the said Island, made from materials the produce of any Foreign country; except manufactures of Linen and Cotton, made in and imported from the Isle of Man.-3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 52. § 40. 3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 60. § 11. Importations into the United Kingof Man. dom from the Isle Certificate of production to be produced. Is. Before any goods shall be shipped in the Isle of Man for exportation to the United Kingdom, as being the produce or manufac ture of that Island, proof must be made by the written declaration of some competent person, to the satisfaction of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the port of shipment, that such goods, describing and identifying the same, are the produce or the manufacture, as the case may be, of the said island; and in such declaration shall be stated the name of the person by whom such goods are intended to be eutered and shipped, and such person at the time of the entry (not being more than one month after the date of such declaration) shall make and subscribe a declaration before such Collector and Comptroller, that the goods to be shipped in virtue of the entry, are the same as are mentioned in such declaration. The Collector and Comptroller on demand, to give to the master of the vessel a certificate of such proof of produce or manufacture having been made, and such certificate shall be received at the port of importation in the United Governor, &c. Kingdom, instead of that of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Com Certificate of Collector and Comptroller, instead of * See the Inland Duties of Excise payable in the United Kingdom, in page 161. mander-in-chief of the said island, as heretofore required.—3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 60. § 15. Schedule of Goods Prohibited to be Imported into the Isle of Man. GooDs, the produce or manufacture of places within the limits of the East India Company's charter; except from the United Kingdom. CARDS, called Playing Cards; unless in Packs, each containing an ace of Spades duly Stamped and Marked for use in the Isle of Man, or in the United Kingdom, COTTON YARN, Cotton Cloth, Linen Cloth, Glass Manufactures, Woollen Manufactures, unless bonâ fide laden in and imported directly from the United Kingdom. British Distilled Spirits: SPIRITS of greater strength than one to nine over hydrometer proof, except Spirits the produce of the British Possessions in America, or of the Cape of Good Hope. All Goods prohibited to be imported into the United Kingdom to be used or consumed therein, on account of the sort or description of the same.-3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 60. § 13. Cattle and Cattle and Sheep may be imported into Great Britain from the Isle of Man, and admitted to entry in the same manner, as they were usually admitted previously to the 5 Jan. 1826 *.Treas. Order, 7 June, 1826. This order has been extended to Swine and Pork, the produce of and imported from the said Isle.-Treas. Order, 1 Dec. 1826. Swine and Pork. Limiting the quantity of Spirits, Tea, and Tobacco, for use of Sea men, in decked If any decked vessel, bound from the Isle of Man to any port of Great Britain or Ireland, shall have on board, for the use of the seamen, any Spirits exceeding half a gallon for each seaman, or any Tobacco exceeding one pound weight for each seaman, or any Tea exceeding two pounds weight for the whole of the seamen on board such vessel; or if any open boat, bound as aforesaid, shall have on board, for the use of the seamen, more than one quart of Spirits for each seaman, or more than half a pound weight of Tobacco for each seaman, or more than one pound weight of tea for the whole of the seamen on board such boat, all such articles respectively, with their packages, and also every such vessel or boat, together with her guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, and apparel, shall be forfeited.-3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 60. § 14. vessels or in open boats. * See Ellis's Laws of the Customs for 1823, under the head of "Isle of Man." AN ABSTRACT OF THE LAWS RELATING TO THE TRADE WITH THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS ABROAD. (3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 59 and 101; 4 and 5 Wm. IV. c. 89.) No goods shall be imported into, or any goods (except the produce of the fisheries in British Ships) be exported from any of the British possessious in America by Sea, from or to any place other than the United Kingdom, or some other of such possessions, except into or from the several ports in such possessions, called "Free Ports*:" LIST OF FREE PORTSt. Kingston, Savannah Le Mar, Montego Bay, Santa Lucia, Antonio, Saint Ann, Falmouth, Jamaica. Saint George. Roseau Saint John's San Josef.. Road Harbour. Nassau.... Kingston Port Saint George and Port Hamilton... Saint John's, Saint Andrew's, and Welch Pool, Anguilla Halifax, Pictou Quebec.. Saint John's George Town.. New Amsterdam. Castries..... Basseterre.. Charles Town Plymouth. Sydney Charlotte Town .... Grenada. Dominica. Antigua. Trinidad. Tobago. New Providence. Crooked Island. Saint Vincent. Barbadoes. New Brunswick. Anguilla. Newfoundland. Demerara. Berbice. Saint Lucia. Nevis. P. Edward's Island. 6 Geo. IV. c. 114. § 2. That is to say, possessing" freedom of trade with foreign countries." + See List of Free Ports, at the Cape of Good Hope, in page 218. Order in Council, 1 April, 1835. And if any goods shall be imported into any port or place in the said possessions, other than the " Free Ports" aforesaid; such goods shall be forfeited.-3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 59. § 2. on love in ebook, don, to ge Nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to prohibit the importation or exportation of goods into, or from any ports orplac in Newfoundland or Labrador, in British Ships. § 3. Newfoundland and Labrador. LIST OF FREE WAREHOUSING PORTS* Kingston, and Montego Bay Kingston Halifax, Pictou, Liverpoolt, and Yarmouth+ Nassau..... Port of Bisseterre. Port of St. George' Port of Road Harbour. San Josef.. Jamaica, v Grenada. Saint John's, and St. Andrew's and Welch Pool,] Bridge Town... Sydney Charlestown Port Louis.. Ca tries.... Free Ports Trinidad. Canada. R2 $650 * And whereas there are in the said possessions many places situated on rivers and in bays at which it may be necessary to establish ports for particular and limited purposes only; be it there fore enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, in any Order in Council made for the appointment of any free port, to limit and confine such appointments respectively, to any and such purposes only as shall be expressed in such Order.-3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 59. § 4. The Collectors and Comptrollers of the said ports respectively, may appoint warehouses from time to time, for the free ware Appointment housing of goods therein, and also declare what sort of of warehouses, goods may be so warehoused; and the importers of any such goods may warehouse the same in the warehouses so appointed, without payment of any duty on the first entry thereof.— 3 § 36 & 37. Upon the arrival of any goods at may be entered wer port in the Canadas, they be delivered the proper officer of the Cus toms at such port, to be warehoused at some warefrontier ports in the housing port in the Canadas, and may be by such officer to be passed on to such wareFor a list of free warehousing ports at the Cape of Good Hope, see page 218. For the Warehousing of Goods brought by land or inland Navigation, and of goods imported by Sea in British Ships.ns Com betoging ylab nose servLI Order in Council, 1 April, 1835. Order in Council, 30 Sept., 1835. ་ housing port, under bond to his satisfaction, for the due arrival and warehousing of such goods at such port.-§ 38. Goods warehoused at any warehousing port in any of the British possessions in America, may (on being duly entered) be delivered by the proper Officer of Customs, without payment of any duty, (except for any deficiency thereof), for the purpose of removal to another warehousing port in the same possession, under bond to the satisfaction of such officer, for the due arrival and re-warehousing of such goods at such port-§ 45. Removal of warehoused goods, to another port in same possession. Goods from Mauritius to be treated as West India goods. All goods, the growth, produce, or mauufacture of the Island of Mauritius, and all goods which shall have been imported into the Island of Mauritius, and which shall be imported into any part of the United Kingdom, or into any of his Majesty's possessions, shall be liable to the payment of the same duties, and be subject to the same regulations, as the like goods the growth, produce, or manufacture of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, or having been imported into such islands, and imported from thence into the United Kingdom, or into any such possessions respectively, would on such importation be liable to the payment of, or would be subject unto; and upon the exportation of any goods from the United Kingdom to the Island of Mauritius, they shall be liable to the same duties, and entitled to the same drawbacks, as would be charged and allowed on the like goods exported from the United Kingdom to His Majesty's islauds in the West Indies; and all goods imported into, or exported from the Island of Mauritius, from or to any place, other than the United Kingdom, shall be liable to the same Duties and Regulations, as the like goods would be liable to, upon importation or exportation into or from his Majesty's islands in the West Indies; and all ships and vessels whatever, arriving at or departing from the Island of Mauritius, shall be liable to the payment of the same duties, and subject to the same regulations, as they would be liable to, if arriving at or departing from any of his Majesty's islands in the West Indies.-3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 59. § 49. Vessels arriving at and departing from Mauritius. the of the Nether Dutch Proprietors in Demerara, It shall be lawful for any of the subjects of the King lands, being Dutch Proprietors, in the colonies of Demerara and Essequibo, and of Berbice, to import in Dutch ships, from the Netherlands into the said Colonies, all the usual articles of supply for their estates therein; and also Wine imported for the purposes of medicine only, and which shall be liable to a duty of ten shillings per ton, and no more; and Essequibo, and Ber- in case seizure be Removing to a different possession, is deemed exporting. + On a question relating to the removal of Tea from Newfoundland to another British Possession in America, the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade gave it as their opinion: That the whole of those Possessions should be considered as one place in the view of the law upon the subject; and consequently the Tea, having been duly imported into any part of that place, is virtually imported into the whole, and is therefore free to be carried to any other part.-Min. 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