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How Duties collected and disposed of.
50 G. 3. c. 95.
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VII. And be it further enacted, That the several Duties by this Act granted on Ships and Vessels passing any Light House on the Coast of Ireland, or passing the said Floating Light on the Kish Bank on the South Side of the Bay of Dublin, shall be paid to and collected by the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Customs, or to some Person to be appointed by the said Corporation, for the Purpose of receiving the same in such Port of the United Kingdom into which any Ship or Vessel passing any such Light House or Light Houses shall arrive next after the passing of such Light House or Light Houses respectively; and that the Collectors of His Majesty’s Customs, Comptrollers, Receivers of Entries, Surveyors or Searchers, Waiters, and all other Officers of the Customs whatever, or their respective Deputies or Clerks at any of the Ports, Harbours or Places of the United Kingdom, shall not, after the Commencement of the said Duties, take or receive any Entry or Cocket or other Discharge or Clearance, or take any Report outwards, for any Ship or Vessel liable or subject to the said Duties, until the said Duties shall be paid pursuant to the Directions of this Act to the respective Collectors of Customs, or to the Persons appointed by the said Corporation to collect the said Duties, nor until the Master or Owner of any Ship or Vessel subject to the Payment of the said Duties shall show and produce a Receipt for such Duties accordingly to the Officer required to take or receive any such Entry, Cocket, Discharge, Clearance or Report outwards aforesaid; and that the said Duties in respect of Light Houses shall from time to time be accounted for by the Collectors and Receivers thereof, and shall be by such Collectors paid into the Receipt of His Majesty’s Exchequer in Ireland, for the Use of the said Corporation, for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin, and shall be issued from time to time by the said Commissioners for excuting the Office of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, to the said Corporation under the Authority of this Act; and the said Duties when so paid over to the said Corporation (except the Duty in respect of a Floating Light on the Kish Bank in Dublin Bay, which shall be applied to the Maintenance of such Light when the same shall be erected) shall by the said Corporation be applied to the Purposes of an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to enable the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin, to erect, maintain and repair Light Houses round the Coasts of Ireland, and to raise a Fund for desraying the Charge thereof, in manner and under the Regulations in the said recited Act mentioned and contained, and that the Duty by this Act imposed on every Entry, Cocket or Warrant in any Port in Ireland, shall be levied, collected and received by the Officers of Customs, and paid over to the said Corporation in such and the like manner as the Duties granted on such Entries by the said recited Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, are directed to be levied, collected and received by such Officers and paid over to the said Corporation; and that the additional Duties or Charges by this Act granted for Ballast delivered or taken on board Ships, and the additional Duties by this Act imposed in respect of Ships coming into the Harbour of Dublin, shall be collected and levied in like manner, and under the like Powers and Authorities as other Duties of the like Nature may by Law be collected and levied by the said Corporation; and that the said additional Duties and Charges in respect of Ballast shall be applied towards the defraying the Expences of obtaining and delivering the same, and that the Surplus of the said Duties and Charges after such Expences shall be desrayed, and also the additional Duties by this Act imposed in respect of the Tonnage of Ships coming into the Harbour of Dublin; and also so much of the said Duty of One Shilling and Six Pence on every Entry, Cocket or Warrant as aforesaid, as shall be payable or paid within the Port of Dublin, shall, by the said Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin, be applied towards the erecting a Light on the Kish Bank on the South Side of Dublin Bay, for the better Preservation of the Ships and Vessels against the Dangers resulting from the said Kish Bank to Ships and Vessels entering into, going out of or passing by the said Harbour, and passing up and down Saint George’s Channei, and towards erecting a Light House on the Hill of Howth in a more convenient and useful Situation for Mariners than the one now erected is placed in.
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