Smuggling Act, 1808
SMUGGLING ACT 1808 | ||
C A P. LXXXIV. | ||
An Act for amending and rendering more effectual an Act, passed in the last Session of Parliament, to make more effectual Provision for the Prevention of Smuggling; and for regulating the Periods for cancelling and delivering up certain Bonds relating to the Revenue of Customs. [23d June 1808.] | ||
47 G. 3. Sess. 2. c. 56. | ||
§ a. | ||
§ a. | ||
Licences granted under recited Act to Vessels exceeding 30 Tons declared valid. | ||
‘Whereas an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to make more effectual Provision for the Prevention of Smuggling: And whereas it is expedient that some of the Provisions of the said Act should be amended, and that further Provisions should be made for the more effectual carrying the said Act into Execution, and that certain other Provisions contained in other Acts relating to the Revenue of Customs should be also amended: And whereas by the said recited Act certain Vessels therein described exceeding the Burthen of Fifty Tons, and rigged as Luggers, are made subject to Forfeiture: And whereas the Commissioners of the Customs in England and Scotland and Ireland respectively, did, after the passing of the said Act, grant Licences to the Owners of such Vessels who were defirous of navigating the same for the Purposes of the said Act mentioned, and other lawful Purposes, although the Provisions of the said Act applied only to Vessels not exceeding the Burthen of Fifty Tons; and it is expedient that all such Licences should be made valid: May it therefore please 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 the said Commissioners, and all Persons acting under their Authority and Direction, in granting any Licence shall be and they are hereby indemnified, and all such Licences are hereby declared and shall be deemed to be good and valid from the Period of granting thereof, and the Provisions of the said Act as to granting such Licence shall from the Day on which the said Act passed, extend and be construed to extend to all Vessels rigged and fitted as Luggers exceeding the Burthen of Fifty Tons by Admeasurement, and by the said Act before made liable to Forfeiture, and not to Vessels therein described under the Burthen of Fifty Tons; any Thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. |