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prohibitions, by accepting from persons styling 
themselves Commercial Agents of the enemy, 
Fesident at neutral ports, certain documents, 
termed ‘¢ Certificates of Origin,” being Cer- 
tificates obtained at the ports of shipment, 
declaring that the articles of the cargo are 
not of the produce or manufacture of his Ma- 
jesty’s dominions, or to that effect: 
And whereas this expedient has been di- 
rected by France, and submitted to by such 
merchants, as part of the new system of war- 
fare directed against the trade of this king- 
dom, and as the most effectual instrument of 
accomplishing the same, and it is therefore 
essentially necessary to resist it: 
His Majesty is therefore pleased, by and 
with the advice of his Privy Council, to or- 
der, and it is hereby ordered, that if any 
vessel, after reasonable time shall have been 
afforded for receiving notice of this his Ma- 
jésty’s Order at the port or place from which 
such vessel shall have cleared out, shall be 
found carrying any such certificate or docu- 
ment as aforesaid, or any document referring 
to, or authenticating the same, such vessel 
shall be adjudged lawful prize to the captor, 
together with the goods laden therein, be- 
longing to the person or persons, by whom, 
or on whose behalf, any such document was 
put on board. 
And the Right Honourable the Lords Com- 
missioners of his Majesty’s Treasury, his Ma- 
jesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, the 
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and 
the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty, 
and Courts of Vice-Admiralty, are to take 
the necessary measures herein, as to them 
shall respectively appertain. 
At the Court of the Queen’s Palace, 
the 1ith of November, 1807, Present, 
the King’s Most Excellent Majesty in 
Council. 
Whereas articles of the growth and manu- 
facture of Foreign Countries cannot by law 
be imported into this Country, except in Bri- 
tish ships, or in ships belonging to the Coun- 
tries of which such articles are the growth 
and manufacture, without an order in council 
specially authorizing the same: 
His Majesty. taking into consideration the 
Order of this day’s date, respecting the trade 
to be carried on to and from the ports of the 
enemy, and deeming it expedient that any _ 
vessel belonging to any Country in alliance 
or at amity with his Majesty, may be per- 
mitted to import into this Country articles of 
the produce or manufacture of Countries at 
war with his Majesty : 
His Majesty, by ard with the advice of » 
his Privy Council, is therefore pleased to 
order, and it is hereby ordered, that ail goods, 
wares, or merchandizes, specified and included 
in the schedule of an Act, passed in the forty- 
third year of his present Majesty’s reign, inti- 
State of Public Affairs in November. 
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tuled, ‘* An Act to repeal the duties of customs 
payable in Great Britain, and to grant other 
duties in lieu thereof,” may be imported from 
any port or place belonging to any State not 
at amity with his Majesty, in ships belong- 
ing to any State at amity with his Majesty, 
subject to the payment of such duties, and 
liable to such drawbacks as are now esta- 
blished by law upon the importation of the» 
said goods, wares, or merchandize, in ships 
navigated according to law; and with respect 
to such of the said goods, wares, or merchan- 
dize, as are authorised to be warehoused un- 
der the provisions of an Act, passed in the 
forty-third year of his present Majesty’s 
reign, intituled, “ An Act for permitting 
certain goods imported into Great Britain, to 
be secured in warehouses without payment 
of duty,” subject to all the regulations of the 
said last-mentioned Act; and with respect to 
all articles which are prohibited by law from 
being imported into this Country, it is or- | 
dered that the same shall be reported for 
€xportation to any Country in amity or abli- 
ance with his Majesty. . 
And his Majesty is further pleased, by and 
with the advice of his Privy Council, to or- 
der, and it is hereby ordered, That all vessels 
which shall arrive at any port of the United 
Kingdom, or at the port of Gibraltar or 
Malta, in consequence of having been warned 
pursuant to the aforesaid Order, or in conse- 
quence of receiving information, in any other 
manner, of the said Order, subsequent to 
their having taken on board any part of their 
cargoes, whether previous or subsequent to 
their sailing, shall be permitted to report 
their cargoes for exportation, and shall be 
allowed to proceed upon their voyages to 
their original ports of destination (if not un- 
lawful before the issuing of the said Order,) 
or to any port at amity with his Majesty, 
upon receiving a certificate from the Collec- 
tor or Comptroller of the Customs at the port 
at which they should so enter, (which cer- 
tificate the said Collectors and Comptrollers 
of the Customs are hereby authorized and 
required to give,) setting forth that such 
vessels came into such port in consequence of 
being so warned, or of receiving such infor- 
mation as afcresaid; and that they were per- 
mitted to sail from such port under the regu- 
lations which his Majesty has been pleased 
to establish in respect to such vessels. But 
in czse any vessel so arriving shall prefer to 
import her cargo, then such vessel shall be 
allowed to enter and import the same, upon 
such terms and conditions as the said cargo 
might have been imported upon, according to 
law, in case the said vessel had sailed after 
having received notice of the said Order, and 
in conformity thereto. 
And it is further ordered, that all vessels — 
which shall arrive at any porc of the United 
Kingdom, or at Gibraltar or Malta, in con-_ 
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