68 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PEOCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



ACT OF JUNE 24,1822. 

 (3 Geo. IV Cap. 44.) 



An Act to regulate the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions In America 

 and the West Indies, and other Places in America and the West Indies. 



(24th June 1822.) 



Whereas divers Acts of Parliament have been from time to time 

 passed, for regulating the Importation and Exportation of certain 

 Articles into and from certain Territories, Islands and Ports, under 

 the Dominion of His Majesty, in America and the West Indies; and 

 it is expedient that the said several Acts should be repealed, and other 

 Provisions made in lieu thereof : Be it therefore enacted by the 

 King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent 

 of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this present 

 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from 

 and after the passing of this Act, an Act passed in the Twenty eighth 

 Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, in- 

 tituled An Act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His 

 Majesty's Colonies and Plantations^ in North America, and in tlie 

 West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United ^States 

 of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign 

 Islands in the West Indies ; also, an Act 



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shall be and the same are hereby repealed. 



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III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing 

 of this Act, it shall be lawful to import into any of the Ports enu- 

 merated in the Schedule annexed to this Act, marked (A.), from any 

 Foreign Country on the Continent of North or South America, or 

 from any Foreign Island in the West Indies, whether such Country 

 or Island as aforesaid shall be under the Dominion of any Foreign 

 European Sovereign or State, or otherwise, the Articles enumerated 

 in the Schedule annexed to this Act marked (B.), either in British 

 built Ships or Vessels owned and navigated according to Law, or in 

 any Ship or Vessel bona -fide the Built of and owned by the Inhabit- 

 ants of any Country or Place belonging to or under the Dominion 

 of the Sovereign or State of which the said Articles are the Growth, 

 Produce or Manufacture, such Ship or Vessel being navigated with a 

 Master and Three fourths of the Mariners at least belonging to such 

 Country or Place; or in any British built Ship or Vessel which has 

 been sold to and become the Property of the Subjects of any such 

 Sovereign or State, such Ship or Vessel last mentioned being also 

 navigated with a Master and Three fourths of the Mariners at least 

 belonging to such Country or Place : Provided always ? that no Arti- 

 cles enumerated in the said Schedule shall be imported in any Foreign 

 Ship or Vessel, or in any British built Ship or Vessel so sold as 

 aforesaid, unless shipped and brought directly from the Country or 

 Place of which they are the Growth, Produce or Manufacture. 



IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful to export 

 in any British built Ship or Vessel owned and navigated according 

 to Law, or in any Foreign Ship or Vessel as aforesaid, or in any 



