356 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



215 No. 4. 1763: Extract from British Statute, 4 George III, 



Cap. 15 



AN Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in 

 America; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual an Act passed in 

 the sixth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, 

 (intituled, An Act for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His 

 Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America) ; for applying the Produce of such 

 Duties; and of the Duties to arise by virtue of the said Act, towards defray- 

 ing the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the said Colonies and 

 Plantations; for explaining an Act made in the twenty-fifth Year of the 

 Reign of King Charles the Second, (intituled, An Act for the Encouragement 

 of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the letter securing the Planta- 

 tion Trade) ; and for altering and disallowing several Drawbacks on Exports 

 from this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clandestine Convey- 

 ance of Goods to and from said Colonies and Plantations, and improving 

 and securing the Trade between the same and Great Britain. 



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" XXIII. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth 

 Year of the Iteign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for 

 encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation, and several 

 subsequent Acts of Parliament which are now in force, it is, amongst 

 other Things, directed, that for every Ship or Vessel that shall load 

 any Commodities, in those Acts particularly enumerated, at any 

 British Plantation, being the Growth, Product, or Manufacture 

 thereof, Bonds shall be given with one Surety, to the Value of one 

 thousand Pounds, if the Ship be of less Burthen than one hundred 

 Tons, and of the Sum of two thousand Pounds, if the Ship be of 

 greater Burthen, that the same Commodities shall be brought by such 

 Ship or Vessel to some other British Plantation, or to some Port in 

 Great Britain; notwithstanding w r hich, there is great Reason to ap- 

 prehend such Goods are frequently carried to Foreign Parts, and 

 landed there : And whereas great Quantities of Foreign Molasses and 

 Syrups are clandestinely run on shore in the British Colonies, to the 

 Prejudice of the Revenue, and the great Detriment of the Trade of 

 this Kingdom and its American Plantations : " To remedy which 

 Practices for the future, Be it further enacted by the Authority 

 aforesaid, That from and after the twenty-ninth Day of September 

 one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four. Bond and Security, in 

 the like Penalty, shall also be given to the Collector or other principal 

 Officer of the Customs at any Port or Place in any of the British 

 American Colonies or Plantations, with one Surety besides the Master 

 of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take on board there any 

 Goods not particularly enumerated in the said Acts, being the Prod- 

 uct or Manufacture of any of the said Colonies or Plantations, with 

 Condition, that, in case any Molasses or Syrups, being the Produce 

 of any of the Plantations not under the Dominion of his Majesty, his 

 Heirs or Successors, shall be laden on board such Ship or Vessel, 

 the same shall (the Danger of the Seas and Enemies excepted) be 

 brought, without Fraud or wilful Diminution, by the said Ship or 

 Vessel, to some of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, 

 or to some Port in Great Britain; and that the Master or other Per- 

 son having the Charge of such Ship or Vessel, shall, immediately 



Sections 33 to 38 inclusive of this Act are printed in the appendix to the 

 British Case at p. 531. 



