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Rh Schedules to the said recited Acts passed in the Forty-ninth and Forty-fifth years of His present Majesty aforesaid respectively annexed mentioned, as corresponding to or with the Price of which such Notice in the London Gazette shall have been given as aforesaid, shall be paid of allowed until Notice of any other Average shall in like Manner appear in the London Gazette on any other of such Saturdays as before mentioned, and such Drawback or Bounty shall be paid or allowed in like Manner in every respect and subject and under and according to the like Rules and Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as any Drawbacks or Bounties were paid or allowed before the passing of the said first recited Act (except as any such Rules or Regulations are altered by the said recited Acts of the Forty-ninth and Forty-fifth Years aforesaid) and the whole of the granted by an Act passed in the Forty-first Year of the Reign Of His present Majesty, intituled. "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties of Customs on Timber, Sugar, Raisins, and Pepper, imported into and on Lead exported from Great Britain" upon Sugar imported into Great Britain by the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, and Warehoused according to Law, and sold at the Sales of the said Company after the Thirtieth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and one, shall, upon the Delivery thereof out of Warehouse for Exportation during the Time of any Drawbacks or Bounties being paid or*allowed under this Act in respect of British Plantation Sugar, be wholly drawn back under such Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as any former Drawbacks are paid and allowed; any Thing in an Act passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Reign Of His present Majesty contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

III. And, whereas 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 Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof,” the Lord High Treasurer or the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, Or any Three or more of them, are authorized to sus­pend the Payment of the additional Duties of Customs on Sugar, granted by the said last recited Act, either in the Whole or in Part, whenever the average Price of Sugar ascertained as directed by the last recited Act, and by another Act passed in the Forty-ninth Year of His Majesty, intituled,  "An Act for regulating the Mode in which the average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of the Duty thereon, is to be ascertained under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Forty-sixth Year of His present Majesty," shall be below the Prices mentioned in the said first recited Act of the Forty-ninth Year aforesaid: And whereas it is expedient, that, during the Period of such Suspension, the Countervailing Duties on Refined Sugar imported from Ireland into Great Britain, and the equivalent Drawback or Bounty on the Exportation Ireland of Refined Sugar of the Manufacture of Great Britain, and also the additional Bounty on the Exportation of Refined Sugar from Great Britain, other than to Ireland, imposed and allowed by the said last recited Act, should in like Manner be suspended; be it therefore further enacted,  That whenever the Lord High Treasurer, or the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury for the Time being, shall exercise the Power vested in them, and shall according to the Directions of the said Act, suspend the Payment of the .whole or Part of the Duties on Sugar thereby imposed, it shall be lawful for them and they are hereby authorized and required in like Manner and for the like Period, to suspend either the whole of the additional Countervailing Duties of Customs on Refined Sugar of the Manufacture of Ireland, imported from thence into Great Britain, and of the additional Drawback or Bounty on the Exportation to Ireland of Refined Sugar of the Manufacture of Great Britain, and of the additional Bounty on the Exportation of Refined Sugar from Great Britain other than to Ireland, imposed and allowed by the said last recited Act, or such Part thereof respectively as shall bear a just Proportion to the Amount of Duty so suspended.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the said recited Act of the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, and all the Powers, Provisions, Authorities, Regulations, Clauses, Matters and Things in the said Act contained, except as the same are varied or dtered by this Act, shall be and the same are hereby further continued from the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and eleven, and shall be and remain in full Force until the Fifteenth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twelve, for the Port of London, and until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twelve, for other Parts of Great Britain.

V. And whereas by ah Act passed in the Forty-seventh Year of His present Majesty, intituled,  "An Act to allow for Two Years, from and after the passing, of this Act, an additional Bounty on Double Refined Sugar, and to extend former Bounties On other Re“ fined Sugar, to such as shall be pounded, crashed, or broken; and to allow for One Year certain Bounties on British Plantation Raw sugar exported," a certain Bounty was allowed upon the Exportation of Double Refined Sugar, and also a Bounty was allowed upon the Exportation of Raw Sugar; and it was enacted, that so much of the said recited