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Rh Of all other Cocoa Nuts imported into the Sum of Three Shillings and Four-pence British Currency:

And so in Proportion for tiny greater or less Quantity:

Which Duties shall be in lieu, and full Satisfaction of all Duties payable upon the Importation of Cocoa Nuts under any Act or Acts of Parliament in Force in Ireland immediately before the passing of this Act; and that, from and after the passing of this Act, upon the Expor­tation of Cocoa Nuts from Ireland a. Drawback after the Bate of Two Shillings and Two pence for every Pound Weight Avoirdupois thereof shall be paid and allowed, in like Manner and under such Rules and Regulations as Drawbacks are payable in other Cases; and that upon the Exportation from Ireland (except to Great Britain) of any Chocolate made in Ireland of Cocoa Nuts which shall have been imported into Ireland, and for which the above Duties shall have been paid, and which shall be duly exported as Merchandize to Foreign Parts, there shall be paid and allowed a Bounty, in the Nature of a Drawback, of Two Shillings British Currency for every Pound Weight Avoirdupois of any such Chocolate.

51 GEORGII III. Cap.LIX. An Act for granting to His Majesty additional Duties of Excise on Wash and other Liquors used in the Distillation of Spirits and on Foreign Spirits imported. [10th June 1811.]

Most Gracious Sovereign, E Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the Supplies to defray Your Majesty's necessary Expences, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several additional Rates and Duties of Excise hereinafter mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid to, and to the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, over and above all Duties already imposed for or in respect thereof by any Act or Acts of Parliament, the several additional Duties of Excise hereinafter mentioned; {that is to say),

For all Rum, Brandy, Spirits, Aqua vitæ, or Strong Waters (except Rum the Produce of the British Plantations), imported into Great Britain, and for which the Duties chargeable thereon shall not have been paid on the Tenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and eleven, or imported after that Day, an additional Duty of Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum upon the Produce and Amount of the several Duties of Excise imposed for or in respect thereof by any Act or Acts of Parliament in Force immediately before the passing this Act.

51 GEORGII III. Cap. LXIV.

An Act to enable the East India Company to raise a further Sum of Money upon Bond, instead of increasing their Capital Stock; and to alter and amend an Act, passed in the Forty-seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, relative thereto. [10th June 1811.

HEREAS by an Act made in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to enable the East India Company to raise Money for further increasing their Capital Stock, and to extend the Provisions now existing respecting the present Stock