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Rh Act,it shall and may be lawful for the Importer, Proprietor, or Consignee of any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize which have been or may be lodged.or deposited in any Warehouse or 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 Warehouse without Payment of Duty, or which have been or may be lodged or deposited in any Warehouse or Warehouses at any other Port of Great Britain, 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 in Great Britain, upon giving Security for the Payment of Duties upon the Articles therein mentioned," or of another Act passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His 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 to alter the Condition of the Bond directed to be given by an Act of the Twenty-fourth Year of His present Majesty by the Masters and Owners of Vessels and Boats licensed by the Lords of the Admiralty," to remove any such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize from any of the said Ports, either by Sea or Inland Navigation to any other Port of Great Britain, where the like Articles are by Law allowed to be secured in Warehouses under the Regulations for of the said Acts or either of them, for the Purpose of being exported from such Port, subject to the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions hereafter mentioned; that is to say, before any such Conditions, Goods, Wares, or Merchandize shall be taken from or delivered out of any such Warehouse or Warehouses as aforesaid, the Importer, Proprietor, or Consignee shall and he is hereby required to give at least Twenty-four Hours Notice in Writing to the Warehouse-keeper or other proper Officer in whose Charge such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize may then remain, of his Intention so to remove the same, specifying in such Notice the particular Goods, Wares, or Merchandize so intended to be taken out of such Warehouse, the Number, Marks, and Descriptions of each Package, and the Kind and Species of Goods, Wares, or Merchandize therein contained and in what Ship imported, and by whom entered Inwards, and thereupon the proper Officer shall take a true and particular Account thereof by Weight, Gauge, Tale, or otherwise, as the Case may require, and when by Reason of any Effect produced by Weather or from the Length of Time,, any such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or any Part thereof, may have been so warehoused,, the same shall be deficient of the actual Weight or Quantity ascertained and taken Account of at the Time of the Importation thereof, then and in such Case the Importer, Proprietor, or Con­signee shall, and he is hereby required to pay the proper officers the full Duties of Customs and Excise upon such Deficiency, previous to the Removal of such Gooods, Wares, or Merchan­dize from the Warehouse.

II. And be it further enacted, That the Contents shall be marked on each and every Package intended to be removed, in distinct and legible Characters, in all Cases where the same shall be practicable, and the Importer, Proprietor, or Consignee shall make a due Entry of the Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, with the proper Officer of the Customs and also of the Excise, in case the Articles are subject to any Duty of Excise, specifying in such Entry the Name of the Ship or Vessel in which imported and the Master thereof, when entered Inwards and by whom, also the Number and Marks of the Packages, the Kind or Species of Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, together with the Weight or Quantity contained in each, and to what Port the same is intended to be removed for the Purpose of being exported, and such Importer, Proprietor,- or Consignee, with one other sufficient Surety; shall also enter into,Bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Treble,the Value of such Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, with Condition that the same and every Part thereof shall be truly delivered, without Alteration or Diminution, into the Custody and Possession of the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port of Great Britain, to which the same is intended to be conveyed and to be named and expressed in such Bond, and to produce a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of such Collector and Comptroller or principal Officers that the Goods have been so delivered into their Custody and" Possession within Three Months from the Date of such Bond, such Certificate to be produced to the Commissioners of the Customs in England, in case the Goods are removed from the Port of London, and to the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland, if removed from Leith, and to the principal Officers of the Customs if such Removal takes place from any other Port of Great Britain.

III. And be it further enacted, That ap articular Account of the Weight, Quality and Species of the Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, with the Marks and Numbers of the Packages, shall be transmitted by the proper Officer or Officers of the Customs of the Port from which the Removal