366 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



Plantation on or before the said twenty-ninth Day of September, one 

 thousand seven hundred and sixty-four; and if no Fees have been 

 received by any Comptroller of His Majesty's Customs for any Port 

 or Place within any Colony or Plantation, or if the Fees received by 

 such Comptroller before the said twenty-ninth Day of September, 

 one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, have not been equal to 

 one-third Part of the Fees received as aforesaid by the Collector of 

 his Majesty's Customs within the same Port or Place; it shall, from 

 and after the said fifth Day of July, one thousand seven hundred 

 and sixty-five, in every such Case, be lawful for such Comptroller of 

 his Majesty's Customs, to demand and receive for his Fees, for any 

 Entry or other Business done by him in the Execution of his Em- 

 ployment, from any Merchant or other Person a Sum equal to one- 

 third Part of the Fees received as aforesaid by such Collector for 

 the like Business; and every such Officer shall have and be intitled 

 to the same Remedy for Recovery of such Fees, as is or has been 

 heretofore allowed to any Collector or other Officer; any Law, Bye- 

 Law, or other Act of Assembly made in the said Plantations to the 

 contrary notwithstanding; and if any Collector, Comptroller, or 

 other Officer of his Majesty's Customs in America, appointed as afore- 

 said, shall exact, require, or receive, any other or greater Fees than 

 such as are herein before allowed to be taken, he shall, for the first 

 Offence, forfeit the sum of fifty Pounds; one Moiety of which Pen- 

 alty shall be to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, and the other 

 Moiety to the Person or Persons aggrieved thereby, who shall sue for 

 the same in the proper Court in such Colony or Plantation; and for 

 the second Offence, he shall forfeit his place, and be for ever after 

 incapable of executing any Office or Employment in the Customs. 



No. Q.1766: Extract from British Statute 6 George III, Cap. 52. 



An Act for repealing certain Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations, 

 granted by several Acts of Parliament; and also the Duties imposed by an 

 Act made in the last Session of Parliament upon certain East India Goods 

 exported from Great Britain; and for granting other Duties instead thereof; 

 and for further encouraging, regulating, and securing, several Branches of 

 the Trade of this Kingdom, and the British Dominions in America. 

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" XXX. And whereas by an Act made in the twelfth Year of the 

 Reign 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, enacted, That for every Ship or Vessel which 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 lesss 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 : " 

 Now, in order more effectually to prevent such Goods being privately 

 carried from any British Colony or Plantation in America into for- 



