Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-12-21

are the produce, and from wnlCn the goods are
imported The 4th and 10th sections pro-
vide against the importation, in foreign ships,
into the United Kingdom, or into any British
possession in Asia, Africa, or America, o! goods
carried from any such British possesslon,-
There is not in the &C, any provision restrict
ing the expectation OF goods, from any such
British possession, in foreign ships, to any TO-
reign country whatever But the act does not
expressly repeal any such restriction previously
in force, nor, indeed, any former act whatever,
relating to trade and navigation ne pfea'h-
BILE, which makes part of the first section, only
states that the laws relating to The encourage
ment of British navigation will be repealed In
coseouence Of another act, passed IN the same
session of Parliament, entitled IAN ACT 10 re-
peal the several laws relating to the customs.
This last mentioned act is that OF 9th Geo.
Atb. oh. 1885, passed also on the 5th OF July, 1873
Though purporting, from its title, to repeal
only custom house laws, this act repeats, from
and after the 5th day OF July, 1926, SO mnch
and such parts of the several and respective
statutes hereinafter mentioned and reclted, as
relates to the trade and navigation oil the King
dom, or TO the importation and expectation OF
Goods SC. SC. The statutes thus therein sane
toned and repealed, amount 10 about Tour hun
dred and fifty, inc ludlng, as believe, all former
Richard Cd, TO 5th Geo 4th, CHI. ga. The 10th
section specially repeals SO much Of the navi-
cation act 18th Charles Cd, CHI. 10, as remains
unrepealed, and the S59th section repeats alto
pe,her the first aforementioned act OF Oath
June, 1922, Esd Geo 4th, CHI. 49, entitled IAN
act 10 regulate the trade between his Maesly's
POSSESSIONS in America and the West Indies
and other places in America and the West In
dies
From what precedes, it follows, first, that the
restriction which limits the rmportations, in
foreign vessels, Of goods into the British West
Indies aud American colonies, TO vessels Of the
country Of which the goods are the produce, and
coming direct from such country, having been
revived by the navigation act OF 5th OF July,
1925, is slillin force secondly, that the restric
ton which limited the explorations, in foreign
vessels, of goods exported from the British
West Indies and American colonies 10 a direct
expectation to the country to which such yes
sci did belong, is SO far repealed. as that such
expectations, in such vessels, may be made TO
any country whatever, Great Britain and It's de-
Tendencies only excepted.
But il would seem that that repeal took place
from the 5th of July, 1926, only; and Mr.. Can
ming having stated that i, had taken place from
the 5th of January, 1926, l have addresseda
private letter TO Mr.. planta, acting Secretary Of
Stale during MIR. Canning's absence, asking an
explanation of thai apparent discrepancy, to
which, however, not much importance can be
attached.
From the tenor of your instructions Of 10Th
June, and 9Th of August, 1926, IL appears that,
even 10 the last date, you were under an impress
sion that both the limitations OF the act OF Par
lament Of Oath June, 1922, on the Indirect or
circuiIous intercourse with the British Colo
nes, were still in force. This, considering the
manner in which the repeal Of the Limitation
in question has been effected. is not matter Of
surprise: and there was another circumstance
calculated to strengthen that opinion.
II appears from your instructions ofthe 10Th
| June last, that the two acts Of Parliament on
that subject which had reached you, or attract
ed your notice, were the act Of 5th July, 1925,
Goth Geo. 4th, CHI ll4,) to regulate the trade Of
the BRUSH Possessions abroad, and act Of
| 27th June, 1925, Goth Geo. 4, CHI 49, entitled,
Gan act for further regulating the trade Of His
I"Majesty's Possessions in America, and the
"West Indies, and for the warehousing of goods
"the REIN By the sixth section Of the last
mentioned act, the permission 10 export in TO-
reign vessels, goods from any o. the British
Colonial free ports, TO any foreign country, Ia
ken in the most extensive sense Of which it is
susceptible, applies only 10 countries in Europe,
Africa, or Asia, within the Medi,erranea an Sea,
and to ships belonging TO such countries 1t
does no, extend TO America, and does not en-
brace American ships-and ii was, therefore,
natural inference, that the 4th section of the
act of 5th July, 1925, Goth Geo 4,h, CHI. ll4,)
when stating that foreign ships were permitted
to export goods from the British Possessions
abroad, to any foreign country whatever, re-
ferred to the last mentioned sixth section Of the
act of 9Th June, 1925, and had no reference to
American ships II is proper here TO add, that
this act of27,h June, 1925, has since been re-
pealed, not by the act above mentioned, of 5lh
July, s25, Goth Geo. Attn, ch lo5,)"To repeal
the several laws relating TO the Customs" bu,
by subsequent act of Goth May, lS26,( & Geo.
4th, CHI. 48
1t seems to me that the intricacy Of these
veral acts of Parliament, and the difficulty Of
understanding their precise meaning, might
have been considered by the Government of
Great Britain as suffc lent reason why that Of
the United States might not have been dispos-
ed 10 accept the conditions on which, by those
acts, the intercourse was opened with the Bril-
fish Colonies, without having previously, a,
least, come 10 an understanding Of their true