994 APPENDIX TO BBITISH CASE. 



gallon out of the whole duty paid, or secured to be paid thereon, on 

 importation thereof. 



XXI. And be it further enacted, That the drawback on all such 

 wines, rum, brandy, or other distilled spirituous liquors so exported, 

 shall be paid to the exporters thereof, within one month next after 

 the same shall have been exported : that is to say, if the said duties 

 have been, prior thereto bona fide paid; but if not, then the security 

 given for the same shall be returned, or credit given on the back 

 thereof for the quantity so exported. And the said exporters are 

 also severally to give bond, with one sufficient surety, to the Treas- 

 urer of this Island, in double the amount of the drawback so claimed, 

 conditioned to deliver, within eighteen months after the time of such 

 exportation, (the dangers of the seas and enemies only excepted) a 

 certificate from the principal officer of his Majesty's Customs of the 

 Port to which the same shall or may be carried, or from some other 

 officer there duly authorised thereto, expressing such goods to have 

 been actually landed, together with a further certificate from the 

 said collector and receiver, or collectors and receivers, or either of 

 them, that the duties due and payable thereon have been truly paid, 

 or secured to be paid, before such exportation agreeable to the rates 

 prescribed and charged in and by this Act. And the said collector 

 and receiver, or collectors and receivers, or either of them, are hereby 

 permitted to take such certificates in payment of any duties to be 

 paid by the importers of any of the said liquors. And for the better 

 and more effectually preventing frauds herein, the following oath 

 shall be taken for the future, by all exporters of such liquors (and 

 which oath the said collector and receiver : or collectors and receivers, 

 are hereby respectively required to administer) in the presence of 

 the Master of the ship or vessel on board of which the same shall or 

 may be taken to the end that such master may not pretend to be 

 ignorant of any part of his duty, as directed and prescribed in and 

 by this Act, viz. 



YOU A. B. do swear, that the quantity of by you shipped for exportation 



on board the Master, bound for was bona fide imported in the 



Master, since the day of , and that the duties for the same have been 



paid, or secured to be paid, as by Jaw is required, and that the same is not in- 

 tended to be fraudulently relanded in or at any Port or place within this Island, 

 or any of the territories thereunto belonging. 



XXII. And be it further enacted, That if any wine, rum, brandy. 

 or other distilled spirituous liquors, shall be fraudulently relanded 

 in or at any Port or place in this Island, after the same shall have 

 been shipped for exportation, the same shall be forfeited, together 

 with the ship or vessel out of which such liquors shall have been so 

 fraudulently re-landed. 



XXIII. And be it further enacted, That no Naval Officer at any 

 of the ports in this island, shall give clearances or papers to the 

 Master of any ship or vessel outward bound, until he shall be certi- 

 fied by the said Collector and Receiver, or Collectors and Receivers, 

 or either of them, that the said Master has complied with the direc- 

 tions contained in this Act 



