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NAVIGATION ACT.

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A BILL
-To explain and amend the several Acts for the encouraging and
increasing of Shiyping and Navigation, and to regulate the
Importation of Goods and Merchandize into Great Britain,
so far as relates to the Countries from whence, and the Ships
hi which, such Importatton shall be made.
Whereas an Act was passed in the 12th year of the reign of
his Majesty King Charles the Second, for the encouraging and
increasing of Shipping and Navigation, on which the strength
and safety of this Kingdom do greatly depend :
And whereas divers Acts have been from time to time passed
for the further regulation of shipping, navigation' and com-
merce in Great Britain ; and it is expedient that suchof the pro-
visions contained in the said several Acts as relate to the coun-
tries from whence, and the ships in which, goods and meichan-
dize shall be imported into Great Britain should be revised and
amended, and that certain of the said provisions should be re-
pealed, in order that the same may, together with other regula-
tions, be declared consolidated and comprised in one Act, so
:that the late by which such importation is to be regulated may
be simplified *and rendered more certain, as well as more effec-
tual, in promoting the objects of the said several Acts, and in
facilitating. and extending the commerce of the realm :
May it therefore please your Majesty,
That it may be enacted; and be it enacted, by the King's.
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre-
sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,.
that from and after the so` ranch of the said recited Act,
passed in the 12th year of the reign of his Majesty King Charles
the Second, intituled, " An Act for the encouraging and in-
creasing -of Shipping and Navigation," shall be repealed,
whereby it is enacted, that no goodsor commodities whatsoever,
of the growth, production or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or
America, be imported into England, Ireland, or Wales, islands'
of Guernsey or Jersey, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
any other ship or • ships, .vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in
such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the -peo-
ple of England or Ireland, dominion of Wales, or town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, or the lands, islands, plantations, or ter-
ritories in Asia, Africa, -or America to his Majesty belonging,
and whereof the master and three-fourths of the mariners at
least are English, under the penalty in the said Act mentioned ;
and so much and such parts of the said recited Act. is hereby re-
pealed accordingly, so lafonly aslelates to goods and merchan-
dize imported into Great Britain.

2. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
so much.of the said recited Act of the twelfth
year of the reign of King Charles the Second, for"the encourag-
ing and increasing of shipping and navigation, shall be re-
pealed, whereby it is enacted, that no goods or commodities that
are of foreign ,oroWth, production or manufacture, and which
are to be brought into England, Ireland, Wales, the islands of
Guernsey and Jersey, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
English-built shipping, or other 'shipping belonging to some of
the aforesaid places, and navigated by English mariners, shall be
shipped or brought from any other place or places, country or
countries, but only from those of the said growth, production, or
manufacture, or from those ports where the said goods and com-
modities can only be, or are, or usually have been, first shipped
for transportation, and from none other places or countries, un-
der the penalty in the said Act mentioned; and so much and
such part of the said recited Act is hereby repealed accordingly,
so far only as relates to goods and commodities imported into
Great Britain.

3. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
so much of the said recited Act of the twelfth
year of the reign of King Charles the Second, for the encourag-
ing and increasing of Shipping and Navigation, shall be repeal-
ed, whereby it is enacted, that no goods or commodities of the
growth, production and manufacture of Muscovy, or of any of
the countries, dominions or territories to the Great Duke or Em-
peror of Muscovy-or Russia belonging, and no sort of masts,
timber or boards, no Foreign salt, pitch, tar, rosin, hemp or flax,
raisins, figs,prtmes„ olive oils, no sorts of corn or grain, sugar,
pot-ashes, wines, vinegar, or spirits called aqua vitae or brandy
wine, shall be imported into England,' Ireland, Wales, or town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in any ship or ships, vessel or vessels
whatsoever, but in such as do truly and without fraud belong
to the people thereof, or some of them, as the true owners or
proprietors thereof, and whereof the master and three-fourths
of the mariners at least are English ; and that no currants nor'
commodities of the growth, production or manufacture of any
of the countries, islands, dominions, or territories to the Otto-
man or Turkish Empire belonging, shall be imported into any
of the aforementioned places in any ship or vessel but which is
of English-built and navigated as aforesaid, and no other, ex-
cept only such foreign ships and vessels as are of the built of
that country or place of which the said goods are the growth,
prodoctive or manufacture respectively, or of such port where
the said goods can only be or more usually are first shipped for
transportation, . and whereof the-master and three-fourths of
the mariners at least are of the said country or place, under the
penalty in the said Act mentioned; and so much and such
part of the said recited Act is hereby repealed accordingly, so
tar only as relates to goods and commodities imported into Great
Britain.
4. And be it further enacted, that from after the
so much and such parts of the said recited Act
of the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, for'
the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation,
shall be repealed, as relate to the importation into Great Britain
of any of the commodities of-the Streights or Levant Seas, or to
the importation into Great Britain of all sorts of goods or com-
modities of the growth, production, or manufacture of the plan-
tations or dominions of Spain or Portugal respectively, from
any of the ports of Spain or Portugal, or Western Indies, coin_
monly called Azores, or Madeira or Canary Islands ; and so
much and such parts of the said. Acts is and are hereby repeal-
ed accordingly.
5. And be it further enacted, that from after the
so much of an Act, passed in the thirteenth
and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Second,
intituled, " An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating
Abuses in his Majesty's Customs," shall be repealed, whereby
it is enacted and declared, that no sort of wines (other than
Rhenish), no sort of spicery, grocery, tobacco, pot-ashes, pitch,
tar, salt, rosin, deal boards, fir, timber, or olive oil, shall be
imported into England, Wales, or Berwick, from the Nether-
landsh or ts • Go
re
vr ne as nas y,
whatsoever,upon any
u upon pretence
penaltywhatsoever,
of the in any sort
loss of all
of
the- said goods, as• also of the ships and furniture; and so
much of the said recited Act is hereby repealed accordingly.
6. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
so,much of the said recited Act of the thir-
teenth-and fourteenth years of the reign of- King Charles the

Second, shall be renealed, whereby it is enacted, that no fo-
reign built ship shall enjoy the privilege of a ship belonging to
England or Ireland, fat:newel owned or manned by English
(except such ships only a.s shall' be taken at sea by letters of
mart or reprisal, and condemnation made in the Court of Ad-
miralty as lawful prize), but that all such ships shall be deem-
ed as alien ships ; and so much of the said recited Act is here-
by repealed accordingly.
7. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
an Act, passed in the second year of the
reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled, " An Act
for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown Silk," shall
be and the same is hereby repealed.
8. And be it further enacted, that from and after the •
so much of an Act, passed in the' first' year
of the reign of Queen Anne, intituledz " An Act for granting
an asi to her Majesty by divers Subsidies, and a Land Tax,"
shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted, that it shall and may
be lawful to import from Hamburgh wines of the growth of
Hungary, and the same is hereby repealed accordingly. •
9. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
• an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign
of Queen Anne, intituled, " An Act for the Importation of
Cochineal from any port in Spain during the present War, and
six months longer," and which, by an Act passed in the twelfth
year of the reign of the said Queen Anne, was Made perpe-
tual, shall. be .and is the same. hereby repealed ; any thing
in the said recited Act of the said twelfth year to the contrary
notwithstanding.
10. And be it further enacted, .that from and after the said
• an Act, made in the sixth year of the
reign Of King George the First, intituled, " An Act for pro-
hibiting the Importation of Raw Silk and Mohair Yarn, of the
product or manufacture of Asia, from any ports or places in the
Streiglits or Levant Seas, except such. ports and places as are
within the dominion of the Grand Signiori" shall be and the
same is hereby repealed.
11. And lie it further enacted, that from and after the
an Act, passed in the sixth year of the reign
of King George the First, intituled, " An Act to repeal so much
of the Act, intituled, An Act fbr preventing Frauds and re-
gulating Abuses in his Majesty's Customs,' passed in the thir-
teenth and fourteenth years of King Charles the Second, as
relates lo the prohibiting the Importation of Deal Boards and
Fir Timber from Germany," shall be, and the same is hereby
repealed.
12. And be it-further enacted„that from and after the
• • an Act passed in the thirteenth year of the reign
of King George the First, intituled, " An Act for the free Im.
portation of Cochineal, during the time therein limited ;" and
also an Act, passed in the seventh year of the reign of King
George the Second, for the revival of the said last mentioned
Act of the thirteenth year of the reign of King George the First,
and also for the free importation of indigo; and which said last
recited Act was, by an Act passed in the first and second years
of the reign of his present Majesty, revived and continued until
the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-four, shall be repealed ; and the said 'recited Acts, of
the thirteenth year of King George the First, and of the seventh
year of the reign of King George the Second; are -hereby re,
pealed accordingly, and shall cease and 'determine; any thing
in the said recited Act, passed in the first and second years of
the reign of his present Majesty, to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding.
15. And be it further enacted, that from and after the

an Act, passed in the' sixth year of the feign of
King George the Second, intituled, •" An Act for the free im-
portation and exportation of diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds,
and all other jewels and precious stones," shall be and the same
is hereby repealed.
14. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
an Act, passed in the fourteenth year
,of the
reign of King George the Second, intituled, " An Act for open-1
ing a trade to and from Persia, through Russia ;" and also an
Act made in the twenty-third year of the reign of the said King
George the ISecond,intuttled, It An Act for permitting raw silk,
of the growth or produCe of Persia, purchased in' Russia, to be
imported into this Kingdom from any port or place belonging
to the empire of Russia," shall be and the said several Acts are
hereby repealed.
15. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
so much and such part of an Act, passed in the
twenty-fifth year of the reign of his Majesty King .George the
Second, for the purpose, among other things, of allowmg the
importation of gum Senegal from any part of ,Eur Ope, hail be
repealed, whereby it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for any of
his :Majesty's subjects to import gum Senegal .in Bntish built
ships, navigated according to law, from any port or pldeein
Europe ; and so much and such parts of the said Act is hereby
.repealed accordingly. •
16. And be it further enacted, that from and after the

so much and such part of an Act, passed in the
.sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the
Third, intituled, " An Act for repealing certain duties in the
British colonies and plantations,, granted by several Ads of
Parliament; and also the duties imposed by an Act, made 'in
the last Session of Parliament, upon certain East India goods
exported from Great Britain, and for granting other duties in-
stead thereof ; and for further encouraging, regulating, and se-
curing several branches of the trade of this kingdom'
end the
-British dominions in America," shall be iepealed whereby it
is enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any per-
son or persons to import and bring into Great Britain in
British built ships or vessels, navigated according to law, from
any port or place whatsoever, any sort of cotton wool ; and so
mucli and such:part of the said recited Act is hereby repealed
accordingly.
17. And be it further enacted, that so. much and such parts
of an Act,.passed in the seventh year of the reign of his late Nta-
jesty King George the Third, for amending and enforcing cer-
tain Acts for the more effectual preventing the fraudulent im-
portation and wearing of canabricks and .French lawns, shall be
repealed, whereby it is enacted, that no cambrick or French
lawn shall be allowed to be imported into the port of London
from any parts beyond the seas, except in British ships navi-'
gated according to law ; and so much and such parts of the
said recited Act is and are hereby repealed accordingly.
10. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
an Act passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of his late Ma-
jesty King George 111. intituled, " An Act to permit the free
importation of raw goat skins into this kingdom for a limited
time," and which by an Act, passed in the thirty-first yeas of
the reign of his late Majesty King George 111. *as made per-
petual, shall be and the same is hereby repealed ; any thing in
the said recited Act of the said thirty-first year of his late 'ilia-
jesty's reign to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
19. And be it further enacted, that from and after the
so much of an Act made in the nineteenth year of the reign of
his late Majesty King George the Third, among other things,
" for explaining so much of the said hereinbefore recited Act of
the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, for
the encouraging. and increasing of shipping and navigation, as
relates to the importation of goods and commodities of the
growth or production of Africa, Asia, or America, manufac-
tured in Foreign parts," shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted,
that the said Act of the twelfth-year of the reign of King Charles
the Second shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to permit
any goods or commodities whatever of the growth or production.
of Africa, Asia or America, which shall be in any degree ma-
nufactured in Foreign parts, to be imported into Great Britain,
except and unless the same shall be co manufactured in the
country, or place of which the goods and commodities are the
growth and production, or in the place where such goods and
commodities can only be or are first shipped for transportation ;
and so much and such part of the said Act of the nineteenth
year of his said late Majesty King George the Third, is hereby
repealed accordingly.
[To be Continued.]

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