1122 MISCELLANEOUS. 



reciting that, "by the Law of Navigation, Foreign Ships are per- 

 mitted 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 that it is expedient that such per- 

 mission should be subject to certain conditions;" it is, therefore, 

 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 

 Possessions, shall place the Commerce and Navigation of this Coun- 

 try, 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 priv- 

 ileges, to the Ships of any Foreign Country, although the conditions 

 aforesaid shall not in all respects be fulfilled by such Foreign 

 Country : " 



And whereas by a certain Order of His said late Majesty in 

 Council, bearing date the 27th day of July, 1826, after reciting, that 

 the conditions mentioned and referred to in the said Act of Parlia- 

 ment, had not in all respects been fulfilled by the Government of 

 the United States of America, and that, therefore, the privileges so 

 granted as aforesaid by the Law of Navigation to Foreign Ships, 

 could not lawfully be exercised or enjoyed by the Ships of The 

 United States aforesaid, unless His Majesty, by His Order in Council, 

 should grant the whole or any of such privileges to the Ships of The 

 United States aforesaid : His said Late Majesty did, in pursuance of 

 the powers in Him vested by the said Act, grant the privileges afore- 

 said to the Ships of the said United States; but did thereby provide 

 and declare, that such privileges should absolutely cease and deter- 

 mine in His Majesty's Possessions in the West Indies and South 

 America, and in certain other of His Majesty's Possessions Abroad, 

 upon and from certain days in the said Order for that purpose 

 appointed, and which are long since passed: 



And whereas, by a certain other Order of His said late Majesty 

 in Council, bearing date the 16th of July, 1827, the said last men- 

 tioned order was confirmed; and whereas, in pursuance of the Acts 

 of Parliament, in that behalf made and provided, His said late Maj- 

 esty, by a certain Order in Council, bearing elate the 21st day of July, 

 1823, and by the said Oi\!er in Council, bearing date the 27th clay of 

 July, 1826. was pleased to order, that there should be charged on all 

 Vessels of the said United States, which should enter any of the 

 Ports of His Majesty's Possessions in the West Indies or America, 

 with articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the said 

 States, certain Duties of Tonnage and of Customs therein particularly 

 specified : 



And whereas it hath been made to appear to His Majesty in Coun- 

 cil, that the restrictions heretofore imposed by the Laws of the United 

 States aforesaid, upon British Vessels, navigated between the said 

 States and His Majesty's Possessions in the West Indies and America, 

 have been repealed, and that the Discrimination Duties of Tonnage 

 and of Customs, heretofore imposed by the Laws of the said United 

 States, upon British Vessels and their Cargoes, entering the Ports 

 of the said States from His Majesty's said Possessions, have also been 



