Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-12-23

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execution Of the law, in FUTURE Tor the fssuinS anu
recording patents.
THE COLONIAL TRADE.
The following message was re4iSd from the
President of the United States, by the hands OF his
Private Secretary:
To the Senate and House of Representatives. %
the u. States:
|. WAsHINGToN, Dec. g, 1926.
/ transmit 10 Congress extracts OF \ letter, re-
| ceived, since the commencement OF their session,
from the Minister of the United States at London,
having relation the late discussions with the Co.
vcrnment 1t Great Britain, concerning the trade
between the United States and the British Colonies
in America.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Extract of despatch, No. l6, from MIR. Cal
latin to Mr.. Clay. dated
LONDON, 9th Der. 1926.
&c Mr. Canning, in his official note Of llth Sep
TENDER last, on the subject of the Colonial Intel
course, has the following observation respecting
| the provision Of the act Of Congress OF the LIST
March, 1923, which prevented British vessels en- =
teiing American ports except directly from the
British Yves, Indies, from clearing out for any OF
! those Colonies: " II must not be forgotten that
this enactment, founded professed!y the limi a
tons of The British OF Parliament Of 1922, is
continued fourteen months after the passing of the
British act Of 1925, by which the limitations were
done away. Since the 9th Of January, 1926, an
American ship trading to British West India
Colony may clear out from thence to any part OF
the word, the United Kingdom aud its dependen-
cies alone excepted. But the British ship in the
American port still remains subject to all the re-
! strictions of the American laws of 1928" Sc
Although did not know at the time what act OF
Parliament OF 1923, was alluded TO, could have
no doubt of the repeal Of the limitations of the act
of Parliament of 1928, and thus expressly sta ed,
and the fact is accordingly taken for granted in my
official answer to MIR. Canning of the 22d of Sep
| TENDER. Yet, on examining the various acts IF
Parliament, have found some difficulty to dis
cover by what act, in what manner, to what en-
text, and from what date, the said limitations had
been actually repealed.
The act OF 1922, which contains the limitations
alluded to, is that oil 9th June, 1922, Oath cha D.
OF 81 Geo. 4th,) entitled An act TO regulate the
trade between His Msjes,y's possessions in Anne
RIGA and the West Indies ard other places in
America and the West Indies;" and the lmita-
tons in question two. BY the Sd section,
goods imported in foreign ship, into the free ports
oil the British Colonies, must be shipped and
brought directly from the country place of which
they are the growth, produce, or manufacture
by the 4,h section, goods export ed from any of the
said Tree ports in foreign ships, must be exported
direct 10 the country or State TO which such shin
belongs. Although Mr.. Canning has useJ the word
Limitations in the plural number it is clear that he
intended 10 apply his observation " that the imi-
'ations were done away, TO the last IN en.ioned liz
imitation only. and not to the irst.''
The act of July. 1925, C h Geo 4th, chap.
il4,) entitled " An act to regulate the trade OF
the British possessions abroad" does not contain
any clausr repeating either of the limitations ST
! the act OF 24,h June, 1922. But the 4,h section
states that, by the Latc Of Navigation, foreign
ships are permitted 10 import into any of the British
possessions abroad, from the countries to which
they belong, goods the produce of those countries
and to export goods from such possessions to be
carried TO any foreign country whatever
The LdU Of .Nduig alton, referred TO as above,
must be the act, also OF olh July, 1928, (6ih Geo
18th, CHI. lO9, entitled " An &C, for the ENCOURAGE
meat of British shipping and navigation" Ii is
enacted by its first section, that the shall be in
iorce from the 9th Of January, 1926 and shall con-
st!tuie and be the LdtD of Navigation of the
BRITISH Empire. The 18th section provides, " that
| no goods shall be imported into any British DOS.
session, IN Asia, Africa America, in any foreign
ships unless they be ships of the country OF which
| the goods are the produce, and from which the
goods are imported.' The 4th and 10Th sections
provide against the Importation, in foreign ships
INTO the United Kingdom. or into any British DOS
session IN Asia, Africa, America of good.
carried from any such British possession. There
Is not IN the act any provision restricting the expor
talon OF goods, from any such b, ilish possession
IN ioi eisn ships to any foreign country whatever
i'ut the act does not expressly repeal any such
RESTRICTION previously In force, nor, indeed, any
former act Whatever. relating TO trade and nayiga
ZION. ihe preamble, which makes part of the fret
section, only states that the laws relating TO the
encouragement OF British navigation will be re-
peaIed, IN consequence of another act passed in
;he same session of Parliament, entitled &c An
act 10 repeaS the several laws relating to the Gus
toms
IhIs last mentioned act is that of iii Gen !tb
ch 100, passed also ON the 9th of July 1928
ih"uSh purporinS, from its title, toYepeaI ONLY
custom house laws, this repeals from and after
the oin day of July, 1926, so much and such parts
oil the several and respective statutes ,hereinafle,
mentioned and recited as relates to the trads and
navigation of the Kingdom, or to the importation
and expectation OF goods, Sc. &C. The statutes
thus therein sanctioned and repealed amount to
about tour hundred and fifty, including, as be :
eYc, all former acts relating to trade and nayiga-
ton, from l7h Richard 81 TO 5ih Geo. 4,b. cb
Ji The 10Th section specially repeals so much of
the navigation act 18th Charles I'd, CHI Is. a.re
mains unrepealed, and the 359b section repeals al
together the first aforementioned act of 9th June
iozE' 81 Geo. 18th, CHI. IL entitled An act TO
regulate ihe trade between his Majestys posses
SONS IN America and the West Indies and other
| places in America and the West Indies.''
From what pecedes, it follows first, that the
restriction which limits the impor,ations in ,orer,
vessels, OF goods into the British West Indie. and
American colonies, to vessels Of the country of
"hich the goods are the produce, and coming di-
fec' from such country, having been revived by
the navigation act Of 9Th July, 1925. il still in
ioice; secondly, that the restriction which Iirnited
'he expectations, In foreign vessels, of goods ex-
ported IRON the British West Indies and American
.o"'e9 10 ufect expectation to the country 10