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1068 Officers of the Customs and of the Excise where that Revenue is concerned, clear and take from find out off such Warehouses, either for Exportation according to the Directions of the said recited Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty or for Consumption in Great Britain, all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize; and in Case such Owner or Proprietor shall fail or neglect so to do, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scotland respectively to cause all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize to be publicly sold, and after such Sale, the Produce thereof is first to be applied to or towards the Charges of Warehouse Room and other Charges that shall arise thereon, next the Duties of Customs and Excise, and the Overplus, if any, to be paid to the Owner or Proprietor, or such Other Person or Persons as may be authorised to receive the same: Provided always, that no Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, prohibited to be imported into this Kingdom and warehoused tinder the Authority of the said recited Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty be permitted to be cleared from the Warehouses for Home Consumption.

II. And whereas it is expedient that Goods, Wares, and Merchandize brought in as Prize, now remaining Warehouses, shall be cleared from thence within a limited Time; be it therefore enacted, That all Goods, Wares, and Merchandize brought in as Prize, and which are now remaining in Warehouses within Great Britain shall, and the same are hereby required to be cleared from thence within Two Years, to be computed from the passing of this Act, or on Failure thereof such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize shall and may be disposed of in the same manner as Prize Goods warehoused after the passing of this Act, which are not cleared from the Ware­houses within Three Years from the Time of Entry, are hereby directed to be disposed of.

III. And Whereas Goods, Wares, and Merchandize may, under particular Circumstances, be allowed to be warehoused without Payment of Duty, although not included in the Tables annexed to the Act of 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," and it is expedient that similar Provision should be made for clearing such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize from the Warehouses within a limited Time, be it therefore enacted, That no Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, which from and after the passing of this Act may be allowed to be landed and warehoused by the Authority of any Order in Council, or by Warrant of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, shall remain warehoused beyond the Period of Fifteen Months, to be computed from the Day on which such Goods shall be entered with the proper Officers of the Customs and Excise where that Revenue is concerned) unless any other Period shall be limited by such Order in Council or Warrant respectively, and in case any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, warehoused under such Authority as aforesaid, shall not be cleared and taken out of such Ware­houses in order to be exported within the said Period of Fifteen Months, except as aforesaid, the same shall and may be disposed of in the same Manner as is herein directed with respect to Goods, Wares, and Merchandize brought in as Prize, and which are not cleared within Three Years from the Day on which the same mall have been secured in Warehouses.

IV. And whereas it is expedient that Goods, Wares, and Merchandize now remaining in Warehouses Under and in pursuance of any special Authority, not limiting the Period of such Warehousing, should be cleared from thence within a limited Time; be it therefore enacted. That all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, now remaining in Warehouses shall, and the same are hereby required to be cleared from thence within Fifteen Months from the passing of this Act, or on Failure thereof the same shall and may be disposed of in the same Manner as Goods, Wares, and Merchandize warehoused by any special Authority after, the passing of this Act, which are not cleared from the Warehouses within Fifteen Months from the Time of the Entry, are hereby directed to be disposed of.

V. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any Goods, Wares, and Merchandize from remaining in Warehouses beyond the Period by this Act limited, without being as aforesaid; provided such Period shall be prolonged by the Authority of any Order in Council, or any Warrant of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them.