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don • (not by the East India Company, or from the West 

 Indies), may be landed and secured in approved warehouses, 

 without the duties being first paid. — 43d Geo. III. c. 132. 

 § 4. and 5. Table D. 



The Commissioners of the Customs for England and Scot- 

 land respectively shall, at the beginning of every session of 

 Parliament, lay before both Houses of Parliament, an ac- 

 count, in writing, of what number of vessels have been em- 

 ployed in the whale-fishery to Davis' Straits and the Green- 

 land , Seas, with their respective names and burthens, from 

 ■whence they were fitted out, and at what port in Great Bri- 

 tain they were discharged ; and also what quantity of oil or 

 blubber, or whale-fins, each ship or vessel shall have import- 

 ed.— 26th Geo. III. c. 41. § 19. 



One moiety of the penalties inflicted by this act shall be to 

 the use of his Majesty, and the other moiety to such Officer 

 or Officers of the Customs as shall sue for the same. — 26th Geo. 

 III. c. 41. § 20. 



If any action shall be commenced against any person or 

 persons for any thing done in pursuance of this act, they may 

 plead the general issue, and give this act and the special mat- 

 ter in evidence that the same was done by authority of this 

 act : And if it shall appear so to have been done, then the 

 jury shall find for the defendant or defendants ; and if the 

 plaintiff" shall be nonsuited. Sic. the defendant or defendants 

 shall recover treble costs. — 26th Geo. III. c. 41. § 21. 



* This indulgence may, by Order in Council, be extended to any other port. 

 -43d Geo. III. c. 132. § 10. 



