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the river Indus and the town of Malacca, until after such ship
or vessel shall have been admitted to entry at some one of the
principal settlements of the said United Company, without a
special licence in writing from the Court of Directors of the
said United Company.
Provided also, and be it further enacted, That when and as
often as any application shall be made to the said. Court of Di-
rectors for a license specially authorising any ship or vessel to
proceed to any place or places upon-the continent of Asia, from
the river Indus to the said town of Malacca inclusive, or in any
island under the governinent of the said Company, lying to the
north of the equator, except the said Company's principal settle-
ments,or to the said Company's factory of Bencoolen or its de-
pendencies, the said Court of Directors shall, within days
from the receipt thereof, unless they shall think fit to com-
ply therewith, transmit the same to the said Board of Commis-'
sioners for the Affairs of India, together with any representa-
tion which .the said Court may think proper to make upon
the subject of such application ; and in case the said Board of
Commissioners shall think fit to direct the said Court of Direc.:
tors to issue any such licence or licences, the said Court of Diree-.
tors shall and they are hereby required forth with to issu e the same,
upon such terms and conditions as the said Board of Commis-'
sioners shall from time to time think fit: Provided always, that in
all cases in which the said Board of Commissioners shall direct
the said Court of Directors to issue any such licence which they
Shall have declined to issut. without such direction, the special
circumstances inducing them to give such directions shall be
recorded in the books of the said Board.

Provided always, and he it further enacted, That none of the
. restrictions imposed by this Act on ships and vessels peoceed-
ing to the countries and places within the limits of the said
Company's Charter, shall extend or be construed to extend to
ships and vessels going to or from New Holland.
And be it further enacted, That so much of the said Act of
the fifty-third year of his said late Majesty's reign, as imposes
restrictions on ships or vessels fitted and clearing out conform-
, ably to the said Act of the thirty-fifth year of his said late Ma-
; jesty's reign, for encouraging and regulating the Southern
Whale Fisheries, shall be and the same is hereby repealed ;
but ships and vessels clearing out, conformably to the said Act
of the thirty-fifth year of his said late Majesty's reign, shall be
subject to such and the same restrictions as the ships and ves-
sels of his Majesty's subjects, generally engaged in trade
under the authority of this Act, are hereby made subject to.
And be it further enacted, That all goods and commodities
imported, under the authority of this Act, into the island of
Malta or its dependencies, or into the port of Gibraltar, or
into any possession of his Majesty in the West Indies or
America, from any ports or places within the limits of the said
Company's Charter, may he re-exported from the said island
port or places to the United Kingdom, and imported into any
of the ports, where such goods and commodities may lawfully
be imported in like manner, and subject to all such regulations
and provisions, as if such goods and commodities were im-
ported directly from the place of their growth, production, or
manufacture; any thing in an Act passed in the twelfth year
of the reign of his Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled,
" An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and
" Navigation," or in any other Act, to the contrary notwith-
standing.
Provided also, and be it further enacted, That it shall not be
lawful for any ship or vessel engaged in trade under the autho-
rity of this Act, other than the ships of the said United Com-
pany, to clear out from any port or place belonging. to his Ma-
jesty, or to any Prince, state, or country, in amity with his
Majesty, where any Consul or Vice-consul of his Majesty shall
be resident, far any port or place under the government of his
Majesty, or of the said Company, situate more to the north-
ward than degrees of south latitude, anti between the
and the degrees of east longitude from London, until the
master, or other person having the command of such ship or
vessel, shall have made out and exhibited to the Collector of
the Customs, or other person duly appointed, or to his Ma-
jesty's Consul or Vice-consul resident at such port or place
of clearance (as the case may be), upon oath, (which oath such
Consul or Vice-consul is hereby authorized to administer).
a true and perfect list, in such form as shall from time to time
be settled by the Court of Directors of the said Company, with
the approbation of the Board of Commissioners for the affairs
of India, specifying and setting forth the names, capacities, and
descriptions, of all persons embarked, or intended to be em-
barked, on board such ship or vessel, and all arms on board, or
intended to be put on board, the same ; and when and as soon
as any such vessel shall have been admitted to entry at any such
port or place within the limits afbresaid, the master and other
person having the command of such ship or vessel shall, in like
manner, ma)se out and exhibit to the principal officer of the
customs, or other person thereunto authorized, upon oath,
(which oath such officer or other person is hereby authorized to
administer), a true and perfect list, in form to be settled as
aforesaid, specifying the names, capacities, and descriptions of
all persons on board, or who shall have been on board such ship
or vessel, from the time of the sailing thereof to the time of ar-
rival, and of all arms on 'board, or which shall during that
time have been on board such ship or vessel, and the se-
veral times and places at which such of the said persons as may
have died or left such ship or vessel, or such of the said arms
as may have been disposed of, have been disposed of.
And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained
shall in anywise affect the power vested in his Majesty in Coun.
cil, by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intitu-
led, An Act to continue until the sth day of July, 1825, an
Act of the 57th year of his late Majesty, for regulating the
Trade and Commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope,
and for regulating the Trade of the Island of Mauritius :"
Provided also, that nothing herein before contained shall
extend or be construed to extend to affect the duties imposed,
or the regulations, restrictions, and provisions contained, in
an Act passed in the 54th year of his said late Majesty's '
reign, intituled, " An Act to repeal the Duties of Customs
payable on Goods, Wares and Merchandize imported into
Great Britain, from any port or place within the limits of
the Charter granted to the United Company of Merchants
of England trading to the East Indies, and to grant other
Duties in lieu thereof, and to establish further regulations
for the better security of the Revenue on Goods so im.
ported, and to alter the periods of making up and presenting
certain accounts of the said Company to Parliament, to con.
tinue in force until the-10th day of April, 1819;" or in an Act
passed in the 54th year of his said late Majesty's reign, in.
tituled, " An Act to grant, until the 10th day of April, 1819,
certain Duties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported
into Ireland, from any port or place within the limits of the
Charter granted to the United Company of Merchants of
England trailing to the East Indies, and establish further
Regulations for the better Security of the Revenue on Goods so
imported ;" or in another Act passed in the 55th year of the
reign of his said late Majesty, intituled, " An Act to make
further provision respecting the Duties payable upon East
India Goods, and to allow Bond to be given for payment
of such duties upon such goods when imported by private
traders.;" or in another Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the
reign of his said late Majesty, intituled, " an Act to continue,
until the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-one, several Acts of the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth years
of his present Majesty, respecting the duties of Customs pay-
able on merchandize imported into Great Britain from any place
within the limits of the Charter panted to the United Company
of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies ;" or in
another Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign.of his
said late Majesty, intituled, an Act to repeal the seve-
ral duties of Customs chargeable in Great Britain, and
to grant other duties in lieu thereof :" or in another
Act passed in the first and second years of the reign of
his present Majesty, intituled, " An Act to continue, until
the first day of July, 1824, several Acts of his late Ma-
jesty, respecting the Duties of Customs payable on Merchin-
dize imported into Great Britain and Ireland from any place
within the limits of the East India Company's Charter, and to
increase the Duties payable on the Importation of Stigar from
the East Indies, until the 25th day of March, 1823, in Great
Britain, and until the lit day of July, 1824, in Ireland."
Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in
this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to
repeal any of the provisions of the said first recited' Act of the
fifty-third year of his said late Majesty's reign, concerning the
resort of persons to the East 'lndies, or other places within the
limits of the Company's Charter, or to permit any persons en-
gaged in trade under the authority of this Act to reside at any
place on the continent!of Asia between the river Indus and the •
town of Malacca, or at the said Company's factory of Bencoo-
len or its dependencies, •or at any place within' the dominions
of the Emperor 'of China, without the permission of the said
Company.
Provided always, and be it further enacted and declared,
That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be con-
strued to extend to repeal or affect any of the powers, provi-
sions, clauses, matters, or things, contained in an Act of the
said Parliament of Great Britain, passed in 'the thirty-third i