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Rh Things in the said Act contained, shall be and the same are hereby further continued from the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and ten, and shall be and remain in full Force until the Fifteenth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and eleven for the Port of London, and until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and eleven for other Parts of Great Britain; and that this Act may be altered, varied, or repealed by Act or Acts to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

50 GEORGII III. Cap. XXVI.

An Act for granting a Duty on Foreign plain Linen taken out of Warehouse and exported to Foreign Parts

HEREAS it is expedient that Plain Linen of all Sorts (except Sail Cloth) imported into Great Britain, and secured in Warehouses according to Law without payment of Duty, should on the Exportation thereof from any such Warehouse for Foreign Parts be charged with a Duty of Customs according to the Value thereof; be it therefore enacted, By the Kings, Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in the present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, upon Linen Plain of all Sorts (except Sail Cloth) which shall have been or may be so lodged and secured in any Warehouse 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 any Warehouse at any other Port of Great Britain, under the Regulations of an Act passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His said present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to extend the Provisions, of an Act made in the Forty-third Year, of His present Majesty, for permitting certain Articles to be warehoused in Great Britain, to other Articles not therein mentioned, and for other Purposes," and which shall be exported from any such Warehouse for Foreign Parts, for every One hundred Pounds of the true and real Value of such Linen the Sum of Fifteen Pounds, and so in Proportion for any greater or less Value, to be ascertained by the Declaration of the Exporter or Exporters of such linnen, or of his known. Agent or Factor, in the Manner and Form, and under all the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, and subject to the same penalties and Forfeitures as are made and provided for ascertaining,, raising, and collecting the Duties to be paid according to the Value therebf, by an Act passed in the Forty-ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled,"An Act for repealing the several Duties of Customs chargeable in and for granting other Duties in lien thereof,"

II. And be it further enacted. That the Duties hereby granted shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of the Customs in and respectively for the Time being, and shall be appropriated and applied as the Duties Upon Goods, Wares, and Merchandize charged according to the Value thereof, are directed to be appropriated and applied by the said recited Act of the Forty-ninth Year of His present Majesty.

50 GEORGII III. Cap. XXXVIII.

An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act passed in the Forty-Eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to permit certain Goods mported into Ireland to be warehoused or secured without the Duties due, on Importation thereof being first paid" and to amend the same.

ND be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for any original Importer, Proprietor, or Consignee, of any White, or Clayed,