The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-13 00:00:00

PORTATION OF CORN

Whereas an Act was passed in the session of ParHamm
held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled " Au Act to amend the Laws for the Im'
portation of Corn."

And whereas it is expedient that the duties now payable
upon the importation and entry for home consumption in
the United Kingdom and in the Isle of Man respectively, of
corn, grain, meal, and flour, should be altered, and that the
Act hereinbefore recited should be amended as hereinafter is
expressed ;
Be it therefore enacted, by tke Queen's most excellent
Majes'y, by and with the advice and cot:sent of the Lords,
spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
that from and after the passing of this Act, in lieu of the
duties now payable_ upon the entry for home consump-
tion in the United Kingdom,' and upon the importation
into the Isle of Man of corn, grain, meal, and flour, there
shall be levied and paid unto her Majesty, her heirs and succes-
sors, on all corn, grain, meal, and flour, already or hereafter
to be imported into the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man
from parts beyond the seas, and entered for home consump-
tion after the passing of this Act, the duties set forth in the
schedule to this Act annexed, until the Ist day of February,
which will be in the year of our Lord 1849, and on, from,
and after the said Ist day of February, 1849, the following
duties, viz.:— _ _

Upon all wheat, barley, beer or bigg, oats, rye, pease, and
beans, for every quarter, ls., and so in proportion for a less
quantity.
Upon all wheat meal and flour, barley meal, oat meal, rye
meal, and flour, pea meal and bean meal—for every cwt. 46d.,
and so in proportion for a less quantity._

And be it enacted, that the several duties hereby imposed
and leviable in the United Kingdom, shall be levied, col-
lected, paid, and applied in such and the same manner in all
respects as that in which theduties imposed by an Act passed
in the session of Parliament, held in the eighth and ninth
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An
Act for granting Duties of Customs,"are directed to be levied,
collected, paid, and applied.
Acd be it enacted, that the several duties hereby imposed
and leviable in the Isle of Man shall be levied, collected, paid,
and applied in such and the same manner, in all respects, as
that in winch the duties imposed by an Act passed in the
session of Parliament, held in the eighth and ninth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act fur
Regulating the Trade with the Isle of Man," are directed to
be levied, collected, paid, and applied.
And be it enacted, that the average prices, both weekly
and aggregate, of all British corn, shall continue to be made
up, computed, and published, and the certificates of the
aggregate average prices shall continue to be transmitted at
the times and in the manner required by the said herein-
before-recited Act for amending the laws for the importation
of corn; and the rate and amount of the duties set forth in
the schedule to this Act shall be regulated and governed,
according to the scale in the said schedule contained, by the.
aggregate average prices so to be made up, computed, pub-
lished, and transmitted, in the same manner as the rate and
amount of the duties imposed by the said hereinbefore-re-
cited Act are by that Act directed to be regulated and
gOverned; and at each of the several ports in the United
Kingdom su.d in the Isle of Man, the aggregate average
prices, the certificate of which shall have been last received
previously to the passing of this Act by the collector or other
chief officer of Customs at such port as by the said herein-
before-recited Act is directed, shall be taken to be the aggre-
gate average price by which the duties hereby imposed shall
be governed and regulated at such port, until the certificate
of some other aggregate average price shall have been re-
ceived by the collector or other chief officer of Customs at
such port.
And be it enacted, that so much of the said Act herein-
before recited as prohibits the importation into the United
Kingdom for consumption there of any corn ground, shall be
repealed.
And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or re-
pealed by any Act to be passed in the present session of Par-
liament.