THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS ABROAD. Prohibited Goods not to be shipped from the Channel Isles to the United Kingdom.-If in the Channel Islands any goods, the importation of which into the United Kingdom is prohibited or any goods in any packages, or in any manner in which the same cannot be legally imported into the United Kingdom, shall be shipped or brought to any wharf or other place to be shipped on board any ship clearing for the United Kingdom, such goods shall be forfeited; and any person knowingly concerned therein, shall forfeit 1007., or treble the value of the goods.-18 & 19 Vict. cap. 96, s. 20. Reward to Officers for seizures in the Channel Islands.Where any seizures of tobacco or spirits shall be made in the Channel Islands, or within one league of the coast thereof, by any officer of customs, or person employed for the prevention of smuggling; it shall be lawful for the commissioners of the customs to allow to such officer or person, such reward beyond the sum directed by the 184th section of the "Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," as the said commissioners may deem advisable, not exceeding the sum of £5.—S. 21. Spirits from and to the Channel Islands, in ships of less than 50 tons, and casks of 20 gallons, forfeited. Exceptions.-No spirits (except rum of the British plantations) shall be imported into, or exported from, the Channel Islands, or be removed from one to another of the said islands, or be carried coastwise from one part to another thereof, or shall be shipped in any ship of less burden than 50 tons, nor in any cask or other vessel of less contents than 20 gallons; and all spirits imported or exported, &c. contrary hereto, shall be forfeited, together with the ship, and any boat carrying the same. But nothing herein contained shall extend to spirits imported in any such ship in glass bottles as part of the cargo, nor to spirits really intended for the use of the seamen and passengers during their voyage, and not more in quantity than is necessary for that purpose; nor to any warehoused goods exported from the United Kingdom in ships of not less than 40 tons burden, being regular traders to those islands; nor to any boat of less burden than 10 tons, for having on board at any one time foreign spirits of the quantity of 10 gallons or under; such boat having a licence for the purpose of being employed in carrying goods for the Island of Sark, which licence such officer of Customs is hereby required to grant without fee or reward; but if any such boat shall have on board at any one time a greater quantity of spirits than 10 gallons, unless in casks or packages of the size and contents of 20 gallons at the least, such spirits and boat shall be forfeited.—Š. 19. Tobacco may be imported into Channel Islands in packages of the same weight as may be imported into the United Kingdom.-No tobacco, cigars, or snuff shall be imported into the Channel Islands, or be carried from one to another of the said islands, or from one to another part thereof, unless in ships of not less than 50 tons burden, except from the United Kingdom, in ships of not less than 40 tons burden, regularly trading from thence to those islands, nor unless in packages of the same weight as may be imported into the United Kingdom, nor unless the provisions under which such goods may be imported into the United Kingdom are complied with.-S. 18. Certificate of production of goods in Guernsey, &c.-Any person about to export from the Channel Islands to the United Kingdom, or to any of the B. P. in America or the Mauritius, goods the growth or produce of those islands; or goods manufactured from materials which were the growth or produce thereof; or of the United Kingdom; or of materials duty-free in the United Kingdom; or whereupon the duty has been there paid, and not drawn back, may go before any magistrate of such island, and make declaration that the goods are of such growth, produce, or manufacture, and the magistrate shall sign the declaration; and thereupon the governor of the island, upon the delivery of such declaration, shall grant a certificate of the proof contained in such declaration, stating the ship in which, and the port to which, the goods are to be exported.-16 & 17 Vict. cap. 107, s. 180. Ships not to sail from Channel Islands without Clearance -Forfeiture.-No ship or boat belonging wholly or in part to Her Majesty's subjects shall sail from the Channel Islands without a clearance, whether in ballast or having a cargo; and if with cargo, the master shall give bond in double the value thereof for its due landing at the port for which such ship or boat clears; and every such ship or boat not having such clearance, or which, having a clearance for her cargo, shall be found light, or to have discharged any part thereof before arrival at her destination, shall be forfeited.-S. 205. Absolute prohibitions into the B. P. in America and the Mauritius.-Gunpowder, ammunition, arms, or utensils of war, except from the United Kingdom or any B. P., and base or counterfeit coin. Restrictions.-Rum may be imported into B. P. in the West Indies, South America, and the Mauritius, in certain cases. —Rum, the produce of any B. P. within the limits of the E. I. Co's. charter (except as hereinafter provided,) or being of foreign produce, is prohibited to be brought into any B. P. in South America, the West Indies, (the Bahama or Bermuda Islands not included,) (') or into the Mauritius, except to be warehoused for exportation only; and may also by Order in Council be prohibited to be imported into the Bahama and Bermuda Islands. But it shall be lawful to import into any B. P. in the West Indies, and South America, and into the Mauritius, Rum the produce of any B. P. within the limits of the E. I. Co.'s charter into which the importation of rum, the produce of a foreign country, or of a B. P. into which foreign Rum may be imported, has been prohibited; but no such Rum shall be so entered unless the master of the importing ship deliver a certificate of origin, that it was the produce of the district, and that the importation of foreign Rum, or Rum the growth of a B. P. into which foreign Rum can be legally imported, is prohibited; and the master shall make declaration that such certificate was received by him at the place where the goods were taken on board, and that they are the goods therein-mentioned.-S. 159. Rum though British, deemed foreign in certain cases.Rum (although the same may be of British plantations) exported from any of the B. P. in America into which like goods of foreign production may be imported, upon subsequent importation from thence into the B. P. in America or the Mauritius into which such goods, being of foreign production, cannot be legally imported, or into the United Kingdom, shall be deemed of foreign production, unless the same shall have been duly warehoused, and exported direct to such other B. P., or to the United Kingdom.—S. 162. Coasting Trade of the British Possessions.-No goods or passengers shall be carried from one part to another of any B. P. in Asia, Africa, or America, except in British ships. (2) -S. 163. Captains of ships not to sail without Certificate from clearing (1) The islands in the bay of Honduras, called "The Bay Islands," to be excluded to the same extent.-18 & 19 Vict. cap. 122, s. 17. (2) Whereas an address has been presented to her Majesty by the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope, praying her Majesty to authorise and permit the conveyance of goods and passengers from one part of that colony to any other part of the same in other than British vessels. Now, therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to her, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the day of the date of this order, goods and passengers may be conveyed from any one part of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope to any part thereof in other than British ships. (Signed) At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of December, 1855, C. GREVILLE. |