930 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



That no Customer. Collector of his Majesty's Customs, Comptroller, 

 Receiver of Entries of Ships, Surveyor, or Searcher. Waiter, or other 

 Officer whatsoever, of or concerning the said Customs for the time 

 being, or their or any of their Deputies or Clerks, at any Port, Har- 

 bour, Road, Creek, Haven, or Place, within either of the said King- 

 doms of Great Britain and Ireland, where any such Ship or other 

 Vessel, liable as aforesaid, shall set sail or arrive, shall at any Time 

 hereafter give or make out. or cause, permit, or suffer, to be given 

 or made out, any Docket or other Discharge whatsoever; or receive 

 or take any Entry or Docket, or give any Certificate, Return Bills, 

 or other Discharge whatsoever, respectively; or j>ermit any goods or 

 stores to be laid on Land, or discharged or shipped out from or on 

 any of the said ships or other vessels; or suffer any ship or other 

 vessel, either British, Irish, or Stranger, liable or subject to the pay- 

 ment of any of the said Tolls or Duties', to pass by or from them 

 or any of them, until a Receipt, Ticket, or Note be produced, under 

 the Hand of the Collector to be authorised by the said Corporation, 

 their Successors or Assigns, to collect the said Tolls or Duties at such 

 Port or other place where such ship or other vessel shall set forth 

 or arrive, testifying the payment of the said Tolls or Duties for or 

 in respect of such ship or other vessel. 



III. Provided always nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted 

 and declared. That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be 

 construed, deemed, or taken to extend, to charge or make liable any 

 Person or Persons with or to the payment of any of the said Tolls or 

 Duties, any longer than the said Light-house shall continue to be 

 supported, and a Light exhibited thereon during the night season, 

 or for or in respect of any ship or vessel taking in or loading any 

 Coals or Culm, in any place lying in Bride's Bay, and carrying the 

 same to any Port or Place within the Principality of Wales, or in 

 carrying Lime-stones from one port or place to another. 



IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 certain letters Patent, under the Seal of His Majesty's Exchequer at 

 Westminster, bearing Date the fifth day of August, in the fifteenth 

 year of the reign of his present Majesty, containing a Grant unto 

 John Phillips, of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, of 

 the said Rocks called The Smalls; also Liberty, License, Power, and 

 Authority, of erecting, supporting, and maintaining, a Light-house 

 or Light-houses, Beacon or Beacons, in or upon the said Rocks, and 

 to collect and take certain Duties, in the same Letters Patent men- 

 tioned, for the term of fifty years from the date thereof; and all the 

 estate, right, title, term of years, powers, and authorities derived, or 

 which can or may be claimed, or pretended to be derived, under or 

 by virtue of the same Letters Patent, and every matter, clause, and 

 thing therein contained, shall, and the same are hereby enacted and 

 declared to be, from and immediately after the passing of this pres- 

 ent Act, null, void, and of none effect, to all intents and purposes 

 whatsoever. 



V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the 

 said Rocks called The Smalls shall, and the same are hereby enacted 

 and declared to be. by virtue of this present Act, from and imme- 

 diately after the passing thereof, vested in the said Master, Wardens, 

 and Assistants, and their successors and assigns for ever, for the 

 purpose of erecting, supporting, and maintaining the said Light- 



