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ABSTRACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED BY THE BRITISH 
LEGISLATURE. 
Passed in the 49th Year of the Reign of George Ill. 
(Not Annual, or of an Official nature.) 
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Y the 49th Geo. IIT. c. 21. the inter- 
est on ee ieely Bills, under 47th 
PET 5% oa igs GE 48th Geo. III. 
e.7; 48th Gel Ill. c. 97; and 48th 
Geo. Il. c. 114; carried to the Ex- 
chequer Office before March 20, 1809, 
shall be paid; and the holders of such 
Exchequer Bills shall receive certificates 
to the Bank entitling them to exchange 
the same for annuities at the rate either 
of 1031, 5s. in the 51. per cents. to com- 
mence from 5th of January, 1809, or 
Sil. 8s. i the said 5!. per cents. to- 
gether with 261. 5s. in the 4l. per cents. 
to commence from April 5, 1809, for 
every 100]. provided the amount of the 
Exchequer Bills exchanged shall not 
exceed 8,000,000; and such certificates 
are assignable until August 1, 1809. 
By 49th Geo. III. c. 24, all spout- 
wash which shall be fermented, or re- 
fermented, for the purpose of being dis- 
tilled into spirits shall be deemed to be 
new wort, or wash, and shall be charged 
with all the duties to which wort, or 
wash, brewed for extracting spirits may 
beliable; and all such spout-wash which 
shall be so fermented, or re fermented, 
shal! be liable to all the rules of former 
Acts. 
The Distillers having got into the Practice 
of re-fermenting and re-distilling Wash, 
after the same had been through the Still, 
to the great Injury of the Revenue, ae 
occasioned this new Regulation. 
By 49th Geo. III. c. 25, until the 25th 
of March, 1811, any person, or persons, 
may import me any port whatever in 
any foreign state, or from Malta or 
Gibraltar, any sort of unmanufactured 
tobacco in any British ship, or vessel, 
navigated according to law, of jn any 
ship, or vessel, belonging to any country 
in ainity with his Majesty, navigated in 
any manner whatever, subject to. the 
dutj.; payable on tobacco of the produce 
of the British pjautations, § 1. 
Tobacco imported, or exported, under 
this Act, shail be subject ta the same re- 
vulations as tobacco of the growth of 
the British plantations. § 2. 
Unmanufactured tobacco of the pro- 
duce of the East Indies, or South Ainc- 
Moxruiy Mac. No. 186. 
Geo, 
rica, may, by order in council, be per- 
mitted to be imported. §3. : 
By 49th Geo. III. c. 26, salted, or 
pickied salmon, or salted dry cod fish, 
having been taken and cured on the coast 
ef the Gulph of St. Laurence, the coast 
of the Bay of Bundy, the coast of Cape 
Breton, or the coast of Prince Edward’s 
Island, by British subjects, may be im- 
ported, and upon the same bounties as 
if fromthe Island of Newfoundland or 
coast of Labrador. 
By 49th Geo. III. c. 28, the clerks of 
the coroner and attorney of the Court of 
King’s Bench, who have been, or may 
hereafter be, regularly admitted as. such 
clerks, may be approved, sworn, and 
adinitted to practise, and may practise 
as attornies in the Court of King’s 
Bench, and also in any other of the 
Courts of Record, in the name, and with 
the consent, of such attorney thereof, 
such consent being in writing and signed 
‘by the clerk. 
By 49th Geo. III. c. 29, the Trish Trea- 
sury may pay to the trustees of the linen 
and hempen manufacturers 29,0001. to 
be applied in bounties for the encourages 
ment of the sowing of flax-seed of the 
growth of flax-seed of the present year; _ 
but no person is entitled to any part of 
the bounty for flax-seed sowed, unless 
such seed shall, on the 1st of January; 
1810, be in the possession of the purty, 
or. his representatwes,. who shall have 
raised the flax whereby such seed was pro- 
duced, wor unless such seed shall be cer- 
- tified by some inspector of the trustees, 
upon examination thereof, after the said 
1st of January, to be “sufficiently clean, 
sound, and fit for sowing. 
By 49th’ Geo. IIL. c. 35, benevolently’ 
and truly entitled da Act for the more 
convenient Payment of Pensions te Wi- 
dows of Officers of the Navy, TT 18 ENAGCT- 
Eb, that, from December 25, 1809, the 
Conrt of Assistants of. the Charity for 
the Relief of Widows of Officers of the 
Navy-may direct, the pensions to be paid 
to such widows at the place of their resi- 
dence in any part of his Majesty’s domi- 
nions, or in any foreign parts, by persons 
appointed by them to pay the same; and 
those widows may apply for their pen- 
kath sions, 
