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of His Majesty's subjects, or other persons, arriving at Newfound- 

 land, or its dependencies, or on the banks of the said island, except 

 from Great Britain, or one of the British dominions in Europe, shall 

 be permitted to be landed or dried on the said Island of Newfound- 

 land, always excepting the rights granted by treaty to the subjects of 

 His Most Christian Majesty on that part of the Island of New- 

 foundland beginning at Cape Saint John, passing to the north and 

 descending by the western coast of the said island to the place called 

 Cape Raye. 



No. 2G.1802, May 7: Extract from British Statute, 42 Geo. Ill, 



Cap. 43. 



An Act for granting to His Majesty certain duties on Goods imported into and 

 exported from Great Britain and on the Tonnage of Ships and vessels enter- 

 ing Outwards or Inwards in any port of Great Britain to or from Foreign 

 Ports. 



[7th May 1808.] 

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XVII. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the twelfth 

 day of May One Thousand eight hundred and two, there shall be 

 raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto and for the Use of His 

 Majesty, his heirs, and successors, the several duties on ships and 

 vessels, according to the tonnage thereof, entering outwards or in- 

 wards at any port within Great Britain, to or from foreign parts, as 

 the same are respectively inserted, described, and set forth in figures 

 in the table hereunto annexed, marked D., except as in this Act is 

 provided. 



XVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this 

 Act shall extend, or be construed to extend, to charge with the duty 

 of tonnage by this Act imposed, any ship or vessel employed in the 

 fisheries on the coast of Great Britain, and not entering outwards for 

 foreign parts. 



XIX. And be it further enacted, That the several duties of ton- 

 nage hereby imposed on ships and vessels entering outwards or in- 

 wards, to or from foreign parts, shall be paid to the proper officer 

 appointed to receive the same, each and every voyage any such ship 

 or vessel shall so enter outwards or inwards at any port with Great 

 Britain; and that the tonnage of every such ship or vessel being 



British built, or British owned, shall be computed and taken 

 564 according to the register thereof, under the provisions of 



an Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty's 

 reign, intituled, An Act for the further increase and Encouragement 

 of Shipping and navigation-, and that the tonnage of every other 

 ship or vessel, in case of any doubt or dispute relative thereto, shall 

 be ascertained by Admeasurement, in the mode and manner pre- 

 scribed and directed by the said Act. 



XX. And be it further enacted. That no ship or vessel upon which 

 the tonnage duty by this Act imposed is due and payable, shall be 

 permitted to be cleared inwards in any port of Great ^Britain, unless 



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