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"The term "Legislature," includes any person or persons who exercise legislative authority in the British Possession and where there are Local Legislatures as well as a Central Legislature, means the Central Legislature only.

3 "This Act shall be proclaimed in every British Possession by the Governor thereof, as soon as may be after he receives notice of this Act, and shall come into operation in that British Possession on the day of such Proclamation, which day is hereinafter referred to as the commencement of this act.

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4. "After the commencement of this Act the Legislature of a British Possession, by any Act or Ordinance, from time to time, may regulate the Coasting Trade of that British Possession, subject in every case to the following conditions: (1.) "The Act or Ordinance shall contain a suspending clause, providing that such Act or Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure thereon has been publicly signified in the British Possession in which it has been passed.

(2.) "The Act or Ordinance shall treat ail British Ships (including the Ships of any British Possession) in exactly the same manner as ships of the British Possession in which it is made.

(3.) "Where by treaty made before the passing of this Act Her Majesty has agreed to grant to any Ships of any foreign state any rights or privileges in respect of the Coasting Trade of any British Possession, such rights and privileges shall be enjoyed by such Ships for so long as Her Majesty has already agreed or may hereafter agree to grant the same, any thing in the Act or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.

(5.) "The following sections of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, are hereby repealed, namely:

"Section three hundred and twenty-eight as from the commencement of this Act;

"Section one hundred and sixty-three as from the date in the case of each British Possession at which either an Act or Ordinance with respect to the Coasting Trade within two years after the commencement of this Act in such British Possession comes into operation, or if there is no such Act or Ordinance, at which the said two years expire.

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

6. "It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, from time to time to declare, with respect to the British Possession mentioned in the Order, the description of persons who are to be Registrars of British Ships in that British Possession, and to revoke any Order so made.

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"After the date specified in the order, or, if no date is specified, after the date of the Proclamation of the Order in the British Possession, the Order shall have effect as if it were contained in section thirty of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

7. "In the construction of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and of the Acts amending the same, Canada shall be deemed be one British Possession.

8. "Where the Legislature of any British Possession provides for the examination of, and grant of certificates of competency to persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers on Board British Ships, and the Board of Trade reports to Her Majesty that they are satisfied that the examinations are so conducted as to be equally efficient as the examinations for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under the said Acts, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like manner, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council,

1. "To declare that the said certificates shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said Acts;

2" To declare that all or any of the provisions of the said Acts which relates to certificates of competency granted under those Acts shall apply to the certificates referred to in the said Order.

3. To impose such conditions and to make such regulations with respect. to the said certificates, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension thereof, as to Her Majesty may seem fit, and to impose penalties not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach of such conditions and regulations.

"Upon the publication in the London Gazette of any such Order in Council as last aforesaid, the provisions therein contained shall, from a date to be mentioned for the purpose in such order, take effect as if they had been contained in this Act.

"It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to revoke any order made under this section." Of all which all Our loving subjects are hereby required to. take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

In testimony, &c.

By command,

23rd October, 1869.

HECTOR L. LANGEVIN,
Secretary of State..

Customs.

Tuesday, 31st May, 1870.

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PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

N the recommendation of the Honorable the Minister of Customs, and in pursuance of the provisions of the 11th Section of the Act 31 Vic, cap. 6, intituled: "An Act respecting the Customs," His Excellency in Council has been pleased to Order, and it is hereby Ordered, that the following Regulations respecting the coasting trade of the Dominion, in amendment of the Regulation adopted by Order in Council of 28th July, 1868, shall be and the same are hereby adopted and established:

Ist. It having been enacted by Chap. 9, Sec. 22, 23rd Victoria, that the Governor may grant yearly Coasting Licences to British Vessels navigating the inland waters of Canada above Montreal, although such vessels may sometimes make voyages to Foreign Ports, it is hereby Ordered that the Bonds to be given by the Master or Owner of such vessel on taking out such Licence shall not contain the condition provided for in Section 3 of said Regulations, "that such Vessels or Boats shall not be employed in the Foreign Trade," but that it shall be a condition of such Bond, that whenever any such Vessel or Boat is employed in a voyage to or from a Foreign Port, the master or other proper officer thereof, shall report inwards and outwards, in all respects, as though he had not received such Coasting

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2nd. Representations having been made of serious inconvenience to the Master and Owners of Steam Vessels employed as regular passenger and freight packets, between the port of St. John in the Province of New-Brunswick, and the ports of Digby, Annapolis and Windsor, in the Province of Nova-Scotia, and also to the Mercantile Community of the said ports, in consequence of such Steam Vessels being obliged to report their cargoes each trip in detail, it is hereby further Ordered, that the Collector of Customs at the Port of St. John, may grant any such Steam Vessel, a yearly coasting licence, subject to the same conditions as provided in the case of Vessels trading between ports in the same Province, and the additional condition that the Master or other proper Officer of such Steam Vessel, shall be furnished with two cargo books to be used during alternate months, and that at the end of each month, he shall surrender the book used during that month to the Collector of the Port of St. John, and the said Collector shall return to him the other book with which he had been furnished, so that the record of the trade of each month, shall be in the Custom House, to be used for statistical purposes during the whole of the succeeding month.

WM. H. LEE, Clerk Privy Council.

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REFINING SUGAR IN BOND.-REGULATIONS.

INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT.

Quebec, 31st January, 1855.

OTICE is hereby given that HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL in

N Council, has been pleased to approve of the following Regulations for the

Refining of Sugar in Bond, under the authority of an Act passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to amend the Act imposing Duties of Customs."

By Command,

R. S. M. BOUCHETTE,
Commissioner of Customs.

REGULATIONS.

18 Vict. Chap. 5, Clause 8.

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of the Provincial Parliament holden in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act to amend the Acts imposing Duties of Customs," it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the proprietor or proprietors of any Sugar Refinery in the Province, being the Importer or Owner of any Sugar, Molasses or other Material from which Refined Sugar can be produced, to refine the same in Bond provided such refining be done under such Regulations as the Governor General in Council shall from time to time make and impose for that purpose; His Excellency the Governor General in Council has, in accordance with the authority contained in the said Act, been pleased to make and prescribe the following Regulations, viz:

1. That the Collector or other proper Officer of Customs at any Warehousing Port in this Province, may deliver without payment of Duty to the proprietor of any such Sugar Refinery, being also the importer or owner of any warehoused sugar, molasses or other material from which Refined Sugar can be produced, on proper entry being made of the same, any quantity of such sugar, molasses or other material, for the purpose of being refined in this Province, in such place and on such premises as shall be particularly described by such proprietor so being the importer or owner.

2. That such Sugar Refinery and the premises thereunto belonging, in accordance with the description to be given thereof as aforesaid shall, for the purposes

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purposes of refining sugar under the above mentioned Act, be deemed and considered as a Government Bonded Warehouse, and that none of the sugar, molasses or other material, so brought into the said Refinery or upon the said premises, shall be removed therefrom without a proper Ex-Warehouse Entry and due payment of all Duties on the same, if entered for home consumption, or upon due entry thereof for exportation under the usual Bonds; nor shall any of the Refined Sugar or other extract produced from the sugar, molasses or other material aforesaid, be removed from the said Refinery and premises without due entry as aforesaid, either for consumption, for removal or exportation, and payment of all Customs Duties legally due on the sugar, molasses or other material from which the said Refined Sugar shall have been manufactured, as the case may be.

3. That before the importer or owner of any sugar, molasses or other material aforesaid shall, for the purpose of refining the same as aforesaid, be entitled to obtain the delivery thereof, either ex-ship, upon their importation into this Province, to be carried immediately to the Sugar Refinery and premises aforesaid, or out of any of the Queen's Warehouses in which the same may be warehoused, he shall give bond with two sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs, at the Port where such sugar, molasses or other material are imported or warehoused, in a penalty of double the amount of the Duties payable on the same, with the condition that the whole amount of the Duties so payable upon the quantities of sugar molasses or other material so delivered upon arrival or out of wherehouse as aforesaid, for the purpose of being so refined in Bond, shall, within six months from the date of the Bond to be so entered into, be well and truly paid to the Collector of Customs aforesaid for the use of Her Majesty in this Province. And the said importer or owner shall, before he can obtain the delivery aforesaid, further enter into and execute to the Collector, for the uses of Her Majesty, as aforesaid, a general Bond, the said importer or owner, in the penal sum of £2,000 cy., and two approved sureties in the sum of £1,000 each, conditioned, that at no period shall the quantity of sugar raw or refined in the said Refinery or Warehouse be less than the quantity on which the Bond or Bonds for Duties herein before mentioned shall be outstanding and unpaid.

4. And for the purpose of further securing the due observance of the foregoing Regulations, the Collectors of Customs, the Surveyor or Warehouse Keeper or other approved officer of Customs, at the Port where the goods shall be so bonded, or at the Port nearest the said Sugar Refinery, shall at all proper times of the day, have free access to and upon the said Refinery and premises for the purpose of verifying the quantity of sugar, molasses or material aforesaid therein, and any reasonable expenses attending such Inspection shall be borne and defrayed by the importer or owner of the sugar, molasses or other material so undergoing refinement in bond.

R. S. M. BOUCHETTE.
Commissioner of Customs.