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1138 Stores excepted; and it was thereby further enacted, that such Ships should not be liable to Forfei­ture, nor should any Persons whatever be liable to any Penalty or Forfeiture on account of any Importation of Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, in pursuance of the said Act, or of any Order or Orders of His Majesty in Council, which might be issued in virtue thereof: And whereas by an Act passed in the Forty-second Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for making perpetual so much of an Act made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as relates to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties of Rum shipped as Stores to be consumed on board Merchant Ships on their Voyages; and to continue several Laws relating to the permitting the Exportation of Tobacco Pipe Clay from Great Britain to the British Sugar Colonies in the West Indies, until the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and eight; to the giving further Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America, until the Twenty-ninth Day September One thousand eight hundred and twelve; to the regulating the Payment of the Duties on Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs and Mace; to the allowing the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador, until the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and eight; and to the allowing the Importation and Exportation of Goods from and to India and China, in Ships not of British-built, during the Continuance of the exclusive Trade to and from the East Indies, granted to the East India Company by an Act of the Thirty-third Year of His present Majesty's Reign," the said Act of the Thirty-fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign was further continued, during the Term granted to the said United,Company, by the said Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, of the Thirty-third Year of His Majesty's Reign; be it enacted, that the same, shall continue and be in Force until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, unless any Provision shall be made respecting the same in the next Session of Parliament;  and that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty during such Time, by any Order or Orders in Council to be made for that Purpose, to authorize any of His Majesty's Subjects to import into the said United Kingdom from the East Indies, and other Places within the Limits of the said Company's Charter, save and except the Dominions of the Emperor of China; paying the like Duties only as if such Importation were made in British Ships; and to export from the said United Kingdom to the East Indies, and Places aforesaid, save and except as aforesaid,Goods,Wares and Merchandize, except Tea, in all such Ships as above mentioned, subject to such Regulations and Conditions as His Majesty shall think fit; any Act, Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided always, that, all Ships which may have commenced their Voyage from India at any Time before the Expiration of One Year from the passing of this Act shall be deemed and taken to be equally entitled to the Benefit of the Pro­visions herein-before contained as if such Ships had arrived in any Port of the United Kingdom during the said Twelve Months.

XXXI. And be it further enacted, That such Ships shall not be liable to Forfeiture, nor shall any Persons whatever be liable to any Penalty or Forfeiture on account of any Importation or Exporta­tion of any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, in pursuance of this Act, or of any Order or Orders of His Majesty in Council which may be issued in virtue thereof.

XXXII. And whereas it is necessary to encourage the Fishery carried on to the Southward of the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, by extending the Limits now prescribed for the same; be it en­ acted, That it shall and may be lawful for any Ship or Vessel fitted and clearing out conformably to an Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the further encougeraging and regulating the Southern Whale Fisheries," to sail and pass for the Purpose aforesaid, in all the Seas to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, and in all the Seas to the Westward of the Streights of Magellan: Provided always, that no such Ship or Vessel shall sail or pass in any Seas further to the Northward than Eleven Degrees of South Latitude, and between the Sixty-fourth and One hundred and fiftieth Degrees of East Longitude from London, without a Licence from the said Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, specially authorizing such Ship or Vessel so to proceed: Provided also, that no such Ship or Vessel, the registered Measurement whereof shall be lesless [sic] than Three hundred and fifty Tons, shall sail or pass in any of the Seas to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, or to the Westward of the Streights of Magellan without a Licence from the said Board of Commissioners, specially authorizing the same;  Provided also, that it shall not be lawful for any such Ship or Vessel to go to, touch or stay at any Port or Place upon the Continent of Asia, from the River Indus to the said Town of Malacca inclusive, or any Island under the Go­vernment of the said Company to the North of the Equator, nor the said Company's Factory at Bencoolen or its Dependencies, nor the Dominions of the Emperor of China, without a Licence in Writing from the said Court of Director* of the said United Company specially authorizing the same. XXXIII.