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Rh 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 Sugar 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 May of March One thousand eight hundred and ten, certain. Bounties and Drawbacks on the Exportation of Sugar from and for suspending tire 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 to 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 Two other Acts passed in the Fiftiteth and Fifty-first Years of His present Majesty, 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 Acts of the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Years of His present Majesty, 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 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 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 twelve, or the First Wednesday in January One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, 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 Mouths, 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 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 he paid or 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 respsct, 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).

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 or them, are authorized to suspend the Payment of the additional Duties of Customs of 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