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Rh 53 GEORGI II. Cap. LXXXIV. An Act for repealing the Duties payable on the Importation of Wine the Produce of the Cape of Good Hope, and its Dependencies, and charging other Duties in lieu thereof.[2d July 1813.]

HEREAS it is expedient that the Duties and Drawbacks of Customs and Excite respectively payable on the Importation into and Exportation from Great Britain of Wine the Produce of His Majesty's Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Territories and Dependencies thereof, should be repealed, and that other Duties and Drawbacks should be imposed and allowed in lieu thereof: Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the Duties. and Drawbacks of Customs and Excise respectively payable by Law upon Wine the Produce of His Majesty's Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Territories and Dependencies thereof, imported into Great Britain, do cease and determine, save and except in all Cases relating to the recovering or paying any Arrears thereof which may remain unpaid, or to any Fine, Penalty, or Forfeiture relating thereto which shall have been incurred at.any Time before or on the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and that from and after the said Day, in lieu and instead of the Duties hereby repealed, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the several Duties of Customs and Excise respectively on Wine the Produce of His Majesty's Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, or of the Territories and Dependencies thereof; imported into Great Britain,.as the same are respectively inserted, described, and set forth in Figures in the Tables hereunto annexed, marked (A.) and (B.) respectively; and that there shall be paid or allowed on the Exportation: of such Wine the several Drawbacks of the said Duties of Customs and Excise respectively, as the same are also respectively inserted, described, and set forth in Figures in the said Tables: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to compel the Importers, Proprietors, or Consignees of such Wine to pay the Duties upon the Importation and Landing thereof, in case such Importers, Proprietors, or Consignees shall ledge and secure the same under the joint Locks of the Crown and the Merchant in Warehouses in the Port of London under the Regulations of an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of the-Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for permitting certain Goods imported into Great Britain to be secured in Warehouses without Payment of Duty," or in Warehouses at the Out-Ports under the Regulations of an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to authorize the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to permit certain Articles to be warehoused in different Ports of Great Britain, upon giving Security for the Payment of Duties upon the Articles therein mentioned."

II. And be it further enacted, that the said Duties and no others shall be charged and payable on any of the said Wine, which, having been warehoused or otherwise secured under the Authority of any Act of Parliament without Payment of Duty, shall be taken out of any such Warehouse or Place wherein the same shall have been lodged or secured, for the Purpose of being used or consumed in Great Britain, after the said Fifth Day of July, notwithstanding the same may have been imported into Great Britain on or before the said Fifth Day of July.

V. And be it further enacted, That the Duties by this Act imposed shall apply and shall be deemed and taken to apply after the same Rate and in the same Proportion to any greater or less Quantity than a Tun of such Wine. Tables