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1056 51 GEORGII III. CAP. XIII.

An Act farther continuing until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twelve, certain Bounties and Drawbacks on the Exportation of Sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the Countervailing Duties and Bounties on Sugar, when the Duties imposed by an Act of the Forty-ninth Year of His present Majesty shall he suspended; and for continuing so much of an Act of the Twenty-seventh Year of His present Majesty as allows a Bounty upon Double Refined Sugar exported, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and so much y f the same Act as allows a Bounty on Raw Sugar exported, until the Twenty-fifth Day March One Thousand eight hundred and twelve.

[25th March 1811.]

HEREAS an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for discontinuing Certain Drawbacks.and Bounties on the Exportation of Sugar from Great Britain, and for allowing other Drawbacks and Bounties in lieu thereof, until the Fifteenth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and four And whereas an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, intituled, " An Act to amend Two Acts passed in the Forty-third And Forty-fifth Years of His present Majesty for regulating the Drawbacks and Bounties on the "Exportation of Sagar from Great Britain:" And whereas Three other Acts passed in the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth, Years of his present Majesty, for further continuing the said Act of the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty: And whereas another Act passed in the Forty, ninth Year of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for further continuing, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and ten, certain Bounties and Drawbacks on the Exportation of Sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the Countervailing Duties and Bounties on Sugar when the Duties imposed by an Act of the Forty-sixth Year of His present Majesty shall be suspended:" And whereas 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 Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof:" And whereas by another Act passed in, the Fiftieth Year of His Majesty, intituled,  "An Act for further continuing, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and eleven, certain Bounties and Drawbacks of the Exportation of Sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the Counterveiling puties and Bounties on Sugar when the Duties imposed by an Act of the Forty-sixth Year of His present Majesty shall be suspended;" the Drawbacks allowed by the said recited Act passed in the Forty-ninth Year aforesaid, and the Bounties allowed by the said recited Act of the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty were further continued; and it is expe­dient that the said Drawbacks and Bounties so continued by the said last recited Act should be further continued; 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 in the assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the several Drawbacks In the Schedule to the said last recited Act of the Forty-ninth Year aforesaid annexed, and the Bounties in the Schedule to the said recited Act of the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, annexed, shall be respectively paid and allowed in like Manner in every respect, and subject to and under, and according to the like Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, (except where any Alteration is made by this Act,) as the said Drawbacks and Bounties were respectively paid or allowed before the passing of this Act.

II. And be it further enacted, That if it shall appear by Notice in the London Gazette published on the Saturday which shall happen next, after the First Wednesday in May, the First Wednesday in September One thousand eight hundred and eleven, or the First Wednesday in January One thousand eight hundred and twelve, that the Average Prices of Brown or Muscovado Sugar taken in Manner directed by an Act made in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for regulating the Allowance of the Drawback and Payment of the Bounty on the Exportation of Sugar, and for permitting the Importation of Sugar and Coffee into the Bahama and Bermuda Islands in Foreign Ships," for the Four preceding Months computed to the Wednesday immediately preceding such Saturday aforesaid, shall not have exceeded Seventy Shillings for an Hundred Weight exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation into Great Britain, then and in every such Case the Drawback or Bounty in the