FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 16, Foreign-Office, March 16, 1824. THE King has been pleased to appoint Henry Newman, Esq. to be His Majesty's Consul for the States of North and South Carolina; to reside at Charleston. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 20, At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of March 1824. PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to authorise His Majesty, under "certain circumstances, to regulate the duties and "drawbacks on goods imported or exported in "foreign vessels, and to exempt certain foreign "vessels from pilotage," His Majesty is autho rised, rised, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, or by any Order or Orders in Council, in all cases in which British vessels, of less burthen than sixty tons, are not required by law to take pilots, to exempt foreign vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding; His Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the date of this Order, all vessels belonging to the subjects of His Majesty the King of Denmark, and being of less burthen than sixty tons, which shall enter in or clear out from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, shall be, and they are hereby exempted from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any such port, in all cases where British vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, are not required by law to take pilots, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Jas. Buller. At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of March 1824, PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to authorise His Majesty, under cer "tain circumstances, to regulate the duties and "drawbacks on goods imported or exported in "foreign vessels, and to exempt certain foreign "vessels from pilotage," His Majesty is authorised, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, or by any Order or Orders in Council, in all cases in which British vessels, of less burthen than sixty tons, are not required by law to take pilots, to exempt foreign vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding; His Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the date of this Order, all yessels belonging to the inhabitants of Hamburgh, and being of less burthen than sixty tons, which shall enter in or clear out from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, shall be, and they are hereby exempted from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any such port, in all cases where British vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, are not required by law to take pilots, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Jas. Buller. 1824. G At At the Court at Carlton-House, the 10th of March 1824, PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the present session of Parliament, intituled An Act "to indemnify all persons concerned in advising, " issuing, or acting under a certain Order in Council for regulating the tonnage duties on "certain foreign vessels, and to amend an Act of "the last session of Parliament for authorising "His Majesty, under certain circumstances, to re"gulate the duties and drawbacks on goods im"ported or exported in any foreign vessels," His Majesty is authorised, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, or by His Majesty's Order or Orders in Council, to be published from time to time in the London Gazette (whenever it shall be deemed expedient), to levy and charge any additional or countervailing duty or duties of tonnage upon, or in respect of any vessels which shall enter any of the ports in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any of His Majesty's dominions, and which shall belong to any foreign country in which any duties of tonnage shall have been, or shall be levied npon, or in respect of British vessels entering the ports of such country, higher or greater than are levied or granted upon, or in respect of the vessels of such country; provided always that such additional or countervailing tonnage duties, so to be levied and charged as aforesaid, shall not be of greater amount than may be deemed fairly to countervail the difference of duty paid in such foreign country, upon or in respect of the tonnage of British vessels, more more than the duty there charged or granted upon or in respect of the vessels of such country. And whereas British vessels entering the ports of France from the ports of the United Kingdom are charged with a tonnage duty of 3 fcs. 75 cts., and 10 per cent. thereon, making in the whole 4 fcs. 12 cts. 5. per ton, from which duty French vessels arriving in the ports of France from this kingdom are exempt; His Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that, from and after the date of this Order, there shall be charged on all French vessels which shall enter any of the ports of the United Kingdom a duty of three shillings and six pence per ton, such duty to be levied, collected, recovered, and applied in such and the like manner as any duties of customs are now by law levied, recovered, and applied: And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. |