Spain. Apart from this consideration, they have no wish more warmly at heart than that the 2 countries should in commercial, as in other matters, be united by the closest ties of friendship and interest. The Undersigned, &c.

The Duke of Sotomayor.

ABERDEEN.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, relative to the duties to be paid on the Importation of Sugars, the growth of Mexico, the United States of America and Venezuela.-April 26, 1845.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of April, 1845. PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the 8th and 9th years of the reign of Her present Majesty [cap. 5], intituled "An Act for granting to Her Majesty, for a term to be limited, certain duties on sugar imported into the United Kingdom," it was enacted, that, from and after the 14th day of March, 1845, until the 5th day of July, 1846, there should be charged, amongst other duties of Customs, the following, that is to say:

On sugar, the growth and produce of China, Java, or Manilla, or of any foreign country, the sugars of which Her Majesty in Council should have declared, or might thereafter declare, to be admissible as not being the produce of slave labour, and which should be imported into the United Kingdom either from the country of its growth or from some British possession, having first been imported into such British possession from the country of its growth, the duties following, that is to say:

White clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal £ s. d. in quality to white clayed, not being refined, for every hundred weight

Brown sugar, being Muscovado or clayed, or any other sugar, not being equal in quality to white clayed, for every hundred weight

1 8 0

1 3 4

and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity than a hundred weight:

And by the said Act it was also enacted, that with regard to sugar, the growth of any foreign country, between which country and Her Majesty there was then subsisting any Treaty or Convention binding Her Majesty to grant to such country, either conditionally or unconditionally, the privileges of the most favoured nation, or to permit, either conditionally or unconditionally, the produce of such

country to be imported into the United Kingdom at the same duties as are imposed upon the like produce of any country, it should be lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare, that, from and after a day to be named in such Order, brown Muscovado, or clayed sugars (not being refined), the growth of such country, in case such Treaty should continue to subsist, should, if imported from such country, or from any British possession abroad, having been imported into such British possession from such country, be admitted to entry for consumption in The United Kingdom at the aforesaid respective rates of duty of 11. 8s. and 17. 3s. 4d. per hundred weight, respectively, in like manner as sugars the growth and produce of China, Java, and Manilla:

And whereas, amongst other Treaties and Conventions as aforesaid, a Treaty was, at the time of the passing of the said Act, and still is, subsisting between Her Majesty and the United States of America, which was signed on the 6th day of August, 1827,* extending and continuing in force the provisions of a certain other Treaty with the said United States of America, amongst which was an agreement that no higher or other duties should be imposed on the importation into the territories of His Britannic Majesty in Europe, of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said United States, than were or should be payable on the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country:

And whereas also a Treaty was, at the time of the passing of the said Act, and still is, subsisting between Her Majesty and the State of Venezuela, which was signed on the 29th day of October, 1834,t adopting and confirming certain Articles and provisions therein mentioned or referred to, amongst which was an agreement, that no other or higher duties should be charged on the importation of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of one country, into the territories or dominions of the other, than such as were or might be payable on the importation of the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country:

And whereas also a Treaty was, at the time of the passing of the said Act, and still is, subsisting between Her Majesty and the United States of Mexico, which was signed on the 26th day of December, 1826, containing, among other things, an agreement, that no other or higher duties should be charged on the importation into the dominions of His Britannic Majesty of any article of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Mexico, than were or might be payable on the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country:

And whereas application has been made on the part of the + Vol. XXII. Page 151.

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Government of the said United States of America, the State of Venezuela, and the United States of Mexico, respectively, claiming, under the said Treaties, the admission of sugars, the growth of the United States of America, the State of Venezuela, and the United States of Mexico, respectively, at the said respective duties of 17. 8s. and 17. 3s. 4d. per hundred weight:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered accordingly, that, from and after the 28th day of April, 1845, brown, Muscovado, or clayed sugars (not being refined), the growth of the United States of America, or of the State of Venezuela, or of the United States of Mexico, shall, if imported from the country of their growth or from any British possession abroad, having been imported into such British possession from the country of their growth, be admitted to entry for consumption into the United Kingdom, at the aforesaid respective rates of duty of 17. 8s. and 17. 3s. 4d. per cwt. respectively; subject, nevertheless, to the production of the like certificates, and the making of the like declaration, as are in the said Act required with respect to sugars, the growth of China, Java, or Manilla:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions accordingly. WM. L. BATHURST.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, exempting Sicilian Vessels, entering or clearing the Ports of Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, from Pilotage Dues.-August 8, 1845. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of August, 1845. PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the 4th year of the reign of His late Majesty King George IV [cap. 77], intituled "An Act to authorize His Majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the duties and drawbacks on goods imported or exported in foreign vessels, and to exempt certain foreign vessels from pilotage," it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, or by any Order or Orders in Council, in all cases in which British vessels of less burden than 60 tons are not required by law to take pilots, to exempt foreign vessels, being of less burden than 60 tons, from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding :

And whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed in the 6th year of the reign of His said late Majesty King George IV [cap, 125], intituled "An

Act for the amendment of the Law respecting Pilots and Pilotage, and also for the better preservation of Floating Lights, Buoys, and Beacons," it is enacted, that the several Acts therein recited, and all and every the clauses, provisions, powers, penalties, forfeitures, matters, and things relating as well to pilots appointed by the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, as to pilots of the Fellowship of Dover, Deal, or the Isle of Thanet, and to the pilotage by and regulation of all such pilots as aforesaid, and also as to the conduct of all persons in matters of pilotage within the jurisdiction of the said Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond and the liberty of the Cinque Ports, which are contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament theretofore made, shall be repealed:

And by the said Act now in recital it is enacted, that the master of any ship or vessel, not exceeding the burden of 60 tons, and having a British register, may lawfully pilot his own ship, so long as he shall pilot the same without the aid of any unlicensed pilot, or other persons than the ordinary crew of the ship:

And by the said Act now in recital it is further enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order in Council, to permit and authorize ships and vessels, not exceeding the burden of 60 tons, and not having a British register, to be piloted and conducted without having a duly licensed pilot on beard, upon the same terms and conditions as are by the said Act imposed on British ships and vessels not exceeding the like burden:

And by the said Act now in recital it is likewise enacted, that nothing therein contained shall extend to the taking away, abridging, defeating, or interrupting of any grants, liberties, franchises, or privileges theretofore granted by any charters or Acts of Parliament to the pilots of the Trinity House of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, or the Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or to alter or repeal any provisions contained in any Act of Parliament relating to the pilots of any ports or districts in relation to which particular provision shall have been made in any Act of Parliament as to the pilots or pilotage, or to the pilotage within the limits prescribed by any Act of Parliament relating to pilotage for such ports, or to the burden of vessels navigating to or from such ports:

And whereas Her Majesty is desirous of placing vessels belonging to the kingdom of the 2 Sicilies, being under 60 tons burden, when coming from, or departing for, any port of the said kingdom, or when coming from, or departing for, any other place in ballast, upon the same footing, with regard to exemption from pilotage, as vessels of like burden having a British register, and for that purpose to exercis the powers, so vested in her as hereinbefore is mentioned, in manner hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the

powers vested in her by the said recited Acts respectively, and of every other power authorizing Her Majesty in that behalf, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that, from and after the date of this Order, as respects the ports and places following, namely,

The port of Kingston.upon-Hull,

The port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,

And the ports or places being members thereof respectively,

And all other ports and places in respect of which the power by virtue of the said first hereinbefore recited Act is still subsisting, all vessels belonging to the kingdom of the 2 Sicilies arriving from, or departing for, any part of the said kingdom, if laden, or arriving from, or departing for, any place, if in ballast, and being of less burden than 60 tons, which shall enter into, or clear out from, any of the ports or places above named or described, shall be exempted from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any such port or place in all cases where British vessels, being of less burden than 60 tons, are not required by law to take pilots, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding:

And it is hereby further ordered, that, from and after the date of this Order, as respects all other ports and places in the United Kingdom, all such vessels as aforesaid, so arriving or departing as aforesaid, and being under the burden of 60 tons, which shall enter or clear out of any of such other ports or places, may be, and they are hereby authorized and permitted to be, piloted and conducted without having a duly licensed pilot on board, upon the same terms and conditions as by the said secondly hereinbefore recited Act are imposed upon British ships and vessels not exceeding the like burden:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein. accordingly.

C. C. GREVILLE.

ACT of the British Parliament, "for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation."

[8 & 9 Vict. cap. 88.] [August 4, 1845.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 3rd and 4th years of the reign of King William IV [cap. 54], intituled "An Act for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation," whereby the laws for the encouragement of British shipping and navigation were consolidated: and whereas since the passing of the said Act divers parts of Acts for the further amendment of the law in that respect have been found necessary, and it will be [1844-45.] 3 S