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in Council to extend the Provisions of this Act to such Port or Ports : 

 and from and after the Day mentioned in such Order in Council, all 

 the Privileges and Advantages of this A.ct, and all the Provisions, 

 Penalties and Forfeitures therein contained, shall extend and be 

 deemed and construed to extend to any such Port or Ports respec- 

 tively, as fully as if the same had been inserted and enumerated in 

 the said Table at the Time of passing this Act: Provided also, that 

 nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to prohibit the Expor- 

 tation of the Produce of the Fisheries from any Ports or Places in 

 any of the said Possessions in British Ships, nor to prohibit the Im- 

 portation or Exportation of Goods into or from any Ports or Places 

 in Newfoundland or Labrador in British Ships. 



" IV. And Whereas by the Law of Navigation Foreign Ships are 

 permitted to import into any of the British Possessions abroad, from 

 the Countries to which they belong, Goods the Produce of those 

 Countries, and to export Goods from such Possessions to be carried to 

 any Foreign Country whatever: And Whereas it is expedient that 

 such permission should be subject to certain Conditions ;" Be it there- 

 fore enacted, That the Privileges thereby granted to Foreign Ships 

 shall be limited to the Ships of those Countries which, having 

 Colonial Possessions, shall grant the like Privileges of trading with 

 those Possessions to British Ships, or which, not having Colonial Pos- 

 sessions, shall place the Commerce and Navigation of this Country, 

 and of its Possessions abroad, upon the Footing of the most favoured 

 Nation, unless His Majesty by His Order in Council shall in any Case 

 deem it expedient to grant the Whole or any of such Privileges to the 

 Ships of any Foreign Country, although the Conditions aforesaid 

 shall not in all respects be fulfilled by such Foreign Country. 



V. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in this Act. 

 or any other Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, shall 

 extend to repeal or in any way alter or affect an Act passed in the 

 Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act 

 to authorize His Majesty, under certain Circumstances, to regulate 

 the Duties and Drawbacks on Goods imported or exported in Foreign 

 Vessels, and to exempt certain Foreign Vessels from Pilotage; nor to 

 repeal or in any way alter or affect an Act passed in the Fifth Year 

 of the Reign of His present Majesty, among other Things, to amend 

 the last-mentioned Act, and that all Trade and Intercourse between 

 the British Possessions and all Foreign Countries shall be subject to 

 the Powers granted to His Majesty bv those Acts. 



VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That until the 

 Expiration of Ten Years, to be computed from the Twenty fourth 

 Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, every For- 

 eign Ship which previous to that day had been engaged in Trade be- 

 tween any of the British Possessions in America, and other places in 

 America, shall, for the Purposes of this Act. be deemed to be a Ship 

 of the Country or Place to which she had then belonged, if still be- 

 longing thereto ; any Thing in the Law of Navigation to the contrary 

 notwithstanding. 



VII. And be it further enacted. That the several Sorts of Goods 

 enumerated or described in the Table following, denominated "A 

 Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions," are hereby prohibited to be 

 imported or brought, either by Sea or by Inland Carriage or Naviga- 

 tion, into the British Possessions in America, or into the Island of 



