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given to the Seizor or Prosecutor, as His Majesty shall think fit to 

 order and direct by any Order or Orders of Council, or by any Proc- 

 lamation or Proclamations to be made for that Purpose. 



LXIX. And be it further enacted, That all Actions or Suits for 

 the Recovery of any of the Penalties or Forfeitures imposed by this 

 Act may be commenced or prosecuted at any Time within Three 

 Years after the Offence committed, by reason whereof such Penalty 

 or Forfeiture shall be incurred; any Law, Usage or Custom to the 

 contrary notwithstanding. 



LXX. And be it further enacted, That no Appeal shall be prose- 

 cuted from any Decree or Sentence of any of His Majesty's Courts 

 in America, touching any Penalty or Forfeiture imposed by this Act, 

 unless the Inhibition shall be applied for and decreed within Twelve 

 Months from the Time when such Decree or Sentence was pronounced. 



LXXI. And be it further enacted, That all persons authorized to 

 make Seizures under an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign 

 of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate 

 the Laws relating ' to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, shall, in mak- 

 ing and prosecuting any such Seizures, have the Benefit of all the 

 Provisions granted to Persons authorized to make Seizures under 

 this Act. 



LXXII. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and For- 

 feitures created by the said Act passed in the Fifth Year of His 

 present Majesty, whether pecuniary or specific, shall (except in Cases 

 specially provided for by the said Act), go and belong to such Per- 

 sons as are authorized by that Act to make Seizures, in such Shares, 

 and shall and may be sued for and prosecuted, tried, recovered, dis- 

 tributed and applied in such and the like Manner, and by the same 

 Ways and Means, and subject to the same Rules and Directions, as 

 any Penalties and Forfeitures incurred in Great Britain, and in the 

 British Possessions in America respectively now go and belong to, and 

 may be sued, prosecuted, tried, recovered and distributed, respectively 

 in Great Britain, or in the said Possessions, under and by virtue of 

 this Act. 



231 No. 12. 1833, August 28: Extract from British Statute, 3-4 

 WHMam IV, Cap. 69. 



An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad. 



[8th August, 1833.] 



WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His 

 late Majesty TZmzGeorge the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate 

 the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad, whereby the Laws of 

 Customs in relation to the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad 

 were consolidated and amended: And whereas since the passing of 

 the said Act divers Acts for the further Amendment of the Law have 

 been found necessary, and it will be of advantage to the Trade and 

 Commerce of the Country that the said Acts should be consolidated 

 into One Act : 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, 



