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allowance thereof shall be made known to such Chief
Superintendent for the time being.
And it is further ordered, that a record shall be duly
made and preserved of all the proceedings, judgments, and
sentences of the said Court, which record shall be retained
in the custody of an officer of the said Court, to be by the
Chief Superintendent specially charged with the perform-
ance of that duty.
And the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, one
of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, is to give
the necessary directions herein accordingly.
C C. GREVILLE.

At the Court at Brighton, the 9th day of December, 1833,

PRISENT,

The King's most excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas, by a certain Act of Parliament, made and
passed in the 3d and 4th year of his Majesty's reign,
intituled " An Act to regulate the Trade to China," it is
amongst other things enacted, that it shall and may he
lawful for his Majesty, by any such Order or Orders as to
his Majesty in Council shall appear expedient and salutary,
to give to the Supet intendents in the said Act mentioned,
or any one of them, powers and authorities over and in
respect of the trade and commerce of his Majesty's subjects
within any part of the dominions of the Emperor of
China ; and to make and issue directions and regulations
touching the said trade and commerce, and for the govern-
ment of his Majesty's subjects within the said dominions.
And it is hereby further enacted, that it shall and may
he lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of Privy
Council, by any Order or Orders to be issued from time
to time, to impose and to empower such persons as his
Majesty in Council shall think fit, to collect and levy from
or on account of any ship or vessel belonging to any of
the subjects of his Majesty entering any port or place
where the said Superintendents, or any of them, shall be
stationed, such duty on tonnage and goods as shall be
from time to time specified in such Order or Orders, not
exceeding in respect of tonnage, the sum of five shillings
for every ton, and not exceeding in respect of goods, the
sum of ten shillings for every one hundred pounds or the
value of the same.
And it is hereby enacted that the fund arising from
the collection of such duties shall he appropriated in
such manner as his Majesty in Council shall direct to-
wards defraying the expense of the establishment•, by
the said Act authorised, within the said dominions ; now,
therefore, in pursuance of the said Act, and in execution
of the powers thereby in his Majesty in Council in that
behalf vested, it is hereby ordered by his Majesty, by
and with the advice of his Privy Council, that it shall
he lawful for the superintendents, appointed by virtue of
the said Act of Parliament, for the time being, and for
any person or persons duly authorised by them respec-
tively, to recover and receive from all masters or other
chief officer., or commanders, of all ships and vessels
belonging to any of his Majesty's subjects which may
enter the port of Canton, or may be trading to that port,
the sum or sums of money following, that is to say, in
respect to tonnage the sum of two shillings fer every ton
a. per register of such ships and vessels, and so in pro-
portion for any fractional part of a ton ; and in respect of
goods imported and exported, except bullion, at and after
the rate of seven shillings for evety one hundred pounds
of the value of the same.
And it is further ordered, that the value of the goods
composing the inward cargoes of such ships or vessels,
shall be fixed by the current market prices of such goods
at Canton aforesaid, exclusive of the import duty, and
that the value of the goods composing the out ward cargoes
of such ships or vessels shall be estimatil by the current
market prices at Canton aforesaid, of the articles com-
posing the same at the period of shipment, exclusive of the
export duties.
And it is further ordered, that if any difference of opinion
should arise as to the market price aforesaid, the time shall
be determined and fixed by two indifferent British mer-
chants or subjects residing at the place, one to he chosen
and appointed by the said Superintendents, or by the per-
son or persons authorised by them respectively, and the
other by the master of the vessel, or by the con-
signee or shipper of the cargo, which two persons,
previously to their entering into the consideration of
the subject referred to them, shall appoint a third per-
son, being also a British merchant or subject, residing
at the place, to be the umpire, in the event of their dis-
agreeing upon the point referred to them ; and in case the
two persons so chosen shall not agree and award the
same within seven days after such appointment, then such
third person, so previously chosen and appointed, shall
decide and determine the said current market price, within
the space of three days after the expiration of the seven
days, unless it shall be otherwise mutually agreed upon
between the said Superintendents or person or persons
authorized by them respectively, and the consignee or
shipper of the cargo, and such sum shall be paid in
either case as shall be agreeable to this order.
And it is further ordered, that all masters, com-
manders, or other chief officers of all British ships and
vessels trading to or from the port of Canton afores iid,
and unloading or delivering the ship or vessel, or any
of the cargo there, shall within forty-eight hours after
the arrival of such ship or vessel, deliver to the said
Superintendents, or to the person or persons authorised by
them for that purpose respectively, a true manifest in
writing, upon oath, specifying the particulars of the
whole cargo of such ship or vessel, so to be unloaded or
delivered, or of such part thereof as shall be unloaded or
delivered there, and to whom consigned ; and likewise
twenty-four hours before the said masters, commanders,
or other chief officers, require the outward clearances or
passports for their said ships or vessels, they shall deliver
to the said Superintendents, or to the person or persons
authorised by them for that purpose respectively, a true
manifest in writing, upon oath, specifying the particulars
of the whole cargo of such ship or vessel laden there, or of
such part thereof as shall have been laden or received on
board such ship or vessel in the said port of Canton,
which oaths the said Superintendents, or person or per-
sons authorised by them respectively, are and is hereby
empowered and required to administer gratis upon requet.
And it is further ordered, that al bills of lading of such
ships or vessels shall specify to pay the said moneys accord-
ingly under the denomination of " Contribution as by
China Trade Act, and the Order i❑ Council thereupon
issued ;" and the persons paying the same shall be reim-
bursed by the persons to whom the said goods shall be
consigned, or who shall receive the same, or by their re-
spective freighters ; and in case the master or commander
of such ship or vessel shall neglect to specify the payment
of the said moneys in the bill or hills of lading, as afores iid,
he shall be answerable fer the same.

And it is further ordered, that for the better securing
and collecting the payment of the said moneys herein di-
rected to be levied for the purposes aforesaid, the said
Superintendents, or the person or persons authorised by
them, shall, and they are hereby respectively authorised
and required, to detain the clearances outward and all
other papers of all such British ships or vessels as aforesaid,
and not to give or deliver any despatch or passport for any
such ship or vess.l until payment be made as required.
And it is hereby further ordered, that no such British
ship shall he admitted to entry, at any port in any part of
his Majesty's dominions, unless the master shall produce
to the proper Officer of the Customs, or other proper
officer, the said clearances so to be given on departure from
the port of Canton, or from any other port at which such
duties as aforesaid ought to have been paid.
And it is further ordered, that all moneys to be raised
or received by the authority of the said Act, and of this
present order, shall be appropriated towards defraying the
expenses of the said superintendents and of their establish-
ment, and of the officers subordinate to them at C inton.
And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of
his Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Vis-
count Palmerston, one of his Majesty's principal Secreta-
ries of State, and the Commissioners for the Affairs of
India, are to give the necessary directions het ein as may to
them respectively appertain. C. C. GREVILLE.

We are informed that 17 persons died of ab
solute intoxication after drinking the whisky driven ashore
at Ballybunnion, from the wreck of the City of Limerick
schooner.

It was well said by an old Puritan, " I find
diligence the best preservative from temptation : for when
Satan comes to me with his proposals, I say to him, I
cannot attend to thee now, lam so busy." Bishop Hall
used to say, " Our idle days are the Devil's busy ones."
SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT.—(We
have no personal knowledge of the arrangements as to
this monument ; but the following is the substance of a
note sent us by a correspondent.)--" Are you aware that
the management of the affair of Sir Walter Scott's memo-
rial has been removed from the hands of the committee
who had tho trouble of collecting the funds, and com-
mitted to a new selection of individuals, among whom
there are only four who have ever attended the meetings,
or taken any personal trouble in the matter') An inten-
tion is said to exist of employing Britton to make a Nor-
man Cross. If this is done, it seems probable that the
work will never be completed ; and at any rate that no
fund will be left to repair the fragi'e structure. Now the
money collected would suffice to erect a noble obelisk of
Scotch granite, exceeding in its dimensions any thing simi-
lar in the world, which would remain uninjured for ages,
without requiring fora:yr expenditure."-- Scotsman.